Constantia Flexibles acquired FFP Packaging Solutions, a Northampton flexible packaging maker with over 100 staff, for an undisclosed sum. It is Constantia's first consumer packaging plant in the UK.

Britvic officially opened a new canning line at its Rugby factory after investing £26.9 million and creating 20 new jobs. The line produces around 120,000 cans per hour and raises site capacity by about 20%.

Atlas Copco Ltd has acquired Glaston Compressor Services Ltd, which will continue to operate as a standalone company within Atlas Copco Compressors UK under the Glaston name.

Norway's Aibel won a contract to build two HVDC converter platforms for Ørsted's Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK North Sea, which Heerema Marine Contractors will transport and install. Hitachi Energy will supply the converter systems. The announcement followed a Contract for Difference awarded to Ørsted on July 7, 2022.

Trebor Developments completed the pre-sale of a 625,000 sq ft freehold turnkey site at Delta Park, Peterborough to Crown Holdings for a build-to-suit aluminium beverage can plant, with total capital value over £150 million. Main contractor ISG began work in June 2022 with completion expected in summer 2023.

Hitachi Rail invested £8.5 million to build welding and painting facilities at its Newton Aycliffe factory, enabling complete fabrication of train carriage shells in the UK. Atlas Copco's distributor Wearside Pneumatics designed and installed the compressed air and argon pipework.

Menzies Distribution secured a multi-year extension of its distribution contract with aluminium packaging maker Ball Beverage Packaging UK, including 30 new longer semi-trailers over the next 12 months.

Hitachi Energy won an order from Ørsted to supply two HVDC Light converter systems connecting the 2.85 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm off the UK east coast, delivered with partner Aibel. The announcement is dated July 14, 2022.

Valmet will deliver a new shipping carton paperboard production line, PM3, to Eren Paper's former UPM Shotton mill in Wales-UK, with about 650,000 tons annual capacity. Start-up is scheduled for Q2 2024; the order value was not disclosed.

Craig International won a five-year contract with two-year options to provide consolidated procurement and maintenance, repair and operations equipment supply to INEOS Forties Pipeline System, potentially worth more than £20 million. Supply supports the Grangemouth base, and services are run from Aberdeen.

JDR Cable Systems reached final agreement under the UK government's OWMIS scheme for financial support for its £130m subsea cable factory in Cambois near Blyth, Northumberland. Construction starts in summer 2022 with opening planned for 2024 and 171 jobs expected.

Irish packaging group Zeus Packaging Group acquired UK companies Swanline Group and BoxMart in a deal worth more than €25 million, with combined annual revenue of €30 million.

Packaging distributor Zeus has acquired UK packaging companies Swanline Group and its sister company BoxMart in a deal worth more than €25 million.

Caddick Construction completed a multimillion-pound design and build expansion of Alpla's Warrington manufacturing facility in Golborne, including a bridge link and a warehouse extension to its logistics hub, announced 31 May 2022.

Sartorius is expanding its UK presence with a new 58,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Havant, Hampshire, to produce downstream processing equipment for injectable drug manufacture.

Sulzer will supply two MD200-400 feedwater pumps for the 840 MW Keadby 2 combined cycle gas turbine plant in Lincolnshire, built by SSE with Siemens turbines, scheduled to start operation in 2022.

Atlas Copco AB plans to acquire Geveke B.V. and LEWA GmbH, a maker of dosing and process pumps. The companies notified the Dutch competition authority ACM on 12 May 2022.

Worcestershire contract filler Project 7 won a contract from parent company FUCHS to fill and package a Silkolene one-litre motorcycle engine oil in flexible pouches. The product is set to reach retail shelves in 2022.

TricorBraun has acquired UK glass packaging providers Continental Bottle Company and its affiliate DiBro for an undisclosed fee, strengthening its European presence.

Vidrala is investing £75 million in a national distribution hub for the UK and European beverages industry, to be used by parent subsidiary Encirc, as reported in May 2022.

Encirc, part of Vidrala, extended its partnership with Britvic to manufacture and fill Robinsons 500ml glass cordial bottles at its Elton, Cheshire site for at least three years, announced May 2022.

Valmet will supply an OCC line, stock preparation equipment and a high-speed container board machine with automation systems to Eren Paper's Shotton Mill in the UK. Start-up of the new PM3 line is scheduled for Q2 2024; the order value is not disclosed.

Smurfit Kappa UK Limited acquired Atlas Packaging, an independent corrugated packaging provider based in Barnstaple, North Devon. The business serves shelf-ready packaging, gift boxing and e-commerce customers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Shipham Valves, a East Yorkshire valve maker now independent after leaving Wärtsilä, completed a spring 2022 investment programme buying eight new machines and pressure testing equipment.

Bristol printer Philtone fitted a Compact Foilers CF10000 PM cold foiling system to its five-colour Speedmaster XL106 press to produce foil-finished carton board packaging for a contract win.

Leidos Supply awarded packaging and soft consumables supply contracts to DS Smith (£28.5M) and MacLellan Rubber (£830K) for a two-plus-two-year term from 1 April 2022, worth £29.33M in total for the UK Ministry of Defence logistics programme.

Ardagh Metal Packaging submitted a full planning application for a $200 million beverage can plant at Global Point, Newtownabbey near Belfast, expected to create about 160 direct jobs. The plant is planned to be operational in 2023.

Better All Round, PulPac and PA Consulting announced a strategic alliance to bring formed fibre packaging to the UK as a replacement for single-use plastic. Waste from Better All Round's subsidiary Consuma Paper Products will be used to make the packaging.

YRG Group, a UK packaging design and reprographics company, announced the acquisition of Spera, an Irish and UK print and packaging origination firm operating in Ireland, the UK and Asia. The deal supports YRG's push into the corrugated industry.

Diageo will invest £40.5m to expand packaging capacity at its Belfast and Runcorn sites, including a canning line producing 72,000 cans per hour in Belfast. Construction starts immediately, with capacity expected online in 2023.

The Samuel Grant Group has acquired Clingfoil, a Stockport-based distributor and manufacturer of protective packaging and stretch film with £7m annual sales, keeping its 21 staff.

PacTec EPS Ltd was recorded as the award winner of Packaging Lot 3 FC0002 ID4219, a packaging services procurement run by the CTM Portal for the NDA Shared Services Alliance, valued at about £59,500.

US packaging distributor TricorBraun has acquired UK rigid packaging maker Neville and More, which supplies glass, plastic and aluminum packaging. Financial terms were not disclosed, and all staff will remain.

Avingtrans subsidiary Booth Industries, Bolton, won a contract worth about £6 million to supply specialist doors for a UK Government agency in the nuclear market.

Medica Packaging, a UK folding carton and leaflet maker based in Crewe, has acquired F.G. Curtis plc of Redhill, Surrey, a folding carton manufacturer serving cosmetics and beauty markets. The deal was financed with support from Harwood Capital and Shawbrook Bank, and the Curtis business keeps its management and trading names.

Crown Holdings announced it will build a new beverage can facility in Peterborough, United Kingdom, with construction starting Q2 2022 and first production in Q2 2023, employing 280 people.

Ball Corporation is building a new aluminium beverage can plant of 56,000 square metres at Segro Park Kettering Gateway, UK, expected to produce about 1 billion cans in its first year and create 200 local jobs.

Lisburn coffee roaster Pure Roast Coffee secured its first contract with a major GB retailer, worth £1 million, to supply filter coffee, whole bean and String & Tag coffee bags. The company said the investment created 10 jobs.

Wilkins Group has started work on a multimillion-pound, 50,000 sq ft extension of its Nottinghamshire headquarters to increase food packaging production capacity. The firm expects turnover to rise 20 per cent and says the extension could eventually create significant new jobs.

Italian hydraulic component maker OMFB Group acquired UK dealer Commercial Vehicle Hydraulics Limited, which becomes CVH-OMFB Ltd, after 30 years of partnership. OMFB Group reported EUR 80 million turnover in 2021.

Thailand's Boon Rawd Brewery has signed a deal with Shepherd Neame to brew Singha beer at its Faversham brewery in Kent, UK, for the first time, with production already underway.

Epiris is acquiring Stuart Turner, a UK maker of brass pumps and water boosting systems based in Henley-on-Thames. Barings acted as sole lender of the secured credit facilities for the deal, announced February 2, 2022.

HP acquired Choose Packaging, an Edinburgh developer of zero-plastic paper bottles, for an undisclosed fee. HP will integrate Choose into its Personalization & 3D Printing business.

VPI Immingham awarded Worley a front-end engineering and design contract for a post-combustion carbon capture retrofit at its 1240 MW combined heat and power plant in Immingham, part of the Humber Zero project.

NI Water awarded contracts worth an estimated £40 million for mechanical installation, repair and maintenance to TES NI Ltd and FIN Maintenance Ltd, with an initial three-year term plus two one-year extensions.

Transmission Dynamics, owned by JR Dynamics, announced a £4.2m expansion including a new Future Innovation Hub with office and manufacturing facilities in Cramlington, Northumberland, expected to bring 50 jobs.

Murphy has been awarded a contract worth more than £100 million by National Grid to expand the Grain LNG facility on the Isle of Grain, Kent. The work covers three gas compressors, two submerged combustion vaporisers and two export tank pumps, with completion scheduled for mid-2025.

J Murphy & Sons was selected by National Grid Ventures as delivery partner for the Main Site Works of Grain LNG's Capacity 25 expansion. The work includes boil-off gas compressors, submerged combustion vaporisers and export tank pumps, with commissioning planned for early 2025.

Andritz received an order from Holmen Iggesund Paperboard to supply a primary effluent and sludge treatment line for its Workington mill in the UK. Start-up is scheduled for 1Q 2023.

Andritz will supply a primary effluent and sludge treatment line for Holmen Iggesund Paperboard's Workington mill in the UK, with start-up scheduled for Q1 2023. The contract value was not disclosed.