ANDRITZ received an order from Holmen Iggesund Paperboard to supply a primary effluent and sludge treatment line for its Workington, UK mill. Start-up is scheduled for the first quarter of 2023.

Molson Coors' Burton brewery in the UK has received a new high-speed filler for its canning line as part of a £25m investment by the company.

Tri-Wall has completed its acquisition of the remaining stake in Rosewood Group, gaining 100% ownership in October 2021, and has rebranded all Rosewood sites under its name in the UK. The deal expands Tri-Wall's UK footprint to six sites.

Portsmouth City Council completed a 120,000 sq ft warehouse at Dunsbury Park in Havant for BioPure Technologies, a fluid-path component manufacturer in the Watson-Marlow group. The facility is expected to create more than 120 engineering and manufacturing jobs.

Bilfinger UK and Global E&C, through the newly formed Torus BGP joint venture, won a major contract from CNR International covering operations, maintenance and engineering for the Ninian South, Ninian Central and Tiffany platforms in the UK North Sea. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Stoford and Logicor let the newly completed 108,091 sq ft L108 warehouse at Liberty Park, Widnes, to an international packaging company on a ten-year lease for sustainable packaging production.

Crane ChemPharma & Energy, a business of Crane Co, broke ground on a new Saunders valves factory in Cwmbran, UK, dedicated to Saunders products, with opening planned for 2022.

Siemens Mobility awarded Knorr-Bremse a long-term contract to remotely monitor and upgrade HVAC systems on 172 Class 444 and Class 450 trains for South Western Railway in the UK, with completion scheduled for Q1 2022.

Caddick Construction has been appointed to deliver a 14,500 sq m factory extension for Smurfit Kappa at Mold Business Park in Flintshire, North Wales, part of a €40 million investment, with completion expected in summer 2022.

Cavendish Nuclear has won a circa £20 million contract to design, manufacture, install and commission a Drum Handling Facility at Dounreay to package intermediate level waste, over a five-year timeframe.

Industrial Flow Solutions has acquired Clearwater Controls Ltd, a UK provider of intelligent pump-monitoring and anti-ragging solutions. The deal was reported on December 1, 2021.

Smurfit Kappa is expanding its Mold Business Park plant in Flintshire with a 14,500 sq m extension, part of a EUR 40 million investment, to become the largest integrated corrugated plant in the UK. Caddick Construction was awarded the build, due for completion in summer 2022.

AMP, part of the Ardagh Group, will build a beverage can-making plant at Global Point in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, representing an investment of about $200 million. Operations are expected to start in 2023.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging secured planning permission to build a second factory on its Glasgow site, scheduled for summer 2023, raising annual output to about 900 million moulded pulp and corrugated packaging pieces.

Laser, coding and ink technology specialist Needham Group has announced expansion plans of £30m based on revenue growth forecasts.

Glass packaging maker Beatson Clark is investing £1m to expand its on-site recycling plant in South Yorkshire and install more efficient equipment.

Packaging firm Coveris invested £500,000 in new hi-tech equipment at its Hartlepool plant to produce branded tamper-evident bags for Covid-19 test kits, creating 20 new jobs.

Ardagh Metal Packaging has revealed plans for a beverage can plant in the UK to add capacity, announced with its third-quarter results. No further details were given in the article.

Lontra is opening a £17 million smart factory in Doncaster to make energy-saving compressors, with South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority providing grant and loan support of over £7 million and over 300 new jobs expected.

The Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner approved a contract for seven compressors for the county fire service, awarded to Bauer after a request for quotation. The contract is worth £133,525.23 and was decided on 14 October 2021.

Heinz rolled out its Eco-Friendly Sleeve Multipack in the UK, a paperboard sleeve for canned products made with WestRock's PEFC-certified CarrierKote paperboard.

Eren Paper, a subsidiary of Turkey's Modern Karton and Eren Holding, completed its acquisition of the Shotton Paper Mill in North Wales on 30 September 2021. Planned containerboard production is expected to make the UK a net exporter and create over 600 new jobs.

Britvic will invest £26.9 million to install a fourth canning line at its Rugby factory, adding about 18% site capacity and creating at least 20 jobs, with the line fully running in 2022.

Haskel Hydrogen Systems received a multimillion-dollar investment from parent Ingersoll Rand to treble the capacity of its Sunderland site and fund international expansion. The amount was not disclosed.

United Caps held a grand opening for its Dinnington factory in Rotherham, England, which has produced dairy and beverage closures since 2020, including tethered closures, in a 5,000 square meter facility expandable to 20,000 square meters.

Heinz rolled out a recyclable paperboard sleeve for its UK multipack cans, made with WestRock CarrierKote paperboard, as part of a three-year GBP 25 million investment at its Kitt Green factory near Wigan. The sleeve is available in major UK retailers from September 2021.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners invested £28m in a new high-speed canning line at its Sidcup plant, capable of 2,000 cans per minute, creating 19 jobs. The line is set to open in June 2022.

Robinson, a UK custom packaging manufacturer, is supplying a custom 500ml recyclable PET bottle to fragrance brand My Fabulosa, with a dedicated production cell to meet rapid demand growth.

Whitehouse Industries Limited sold Flotronic Pumps Limited, a diaphragm pump maker, to US corporation Unibloc, backed by May River Capital; Lodders advised the seller.

Unibloc Pump of Kennesaw, Georgia announced the acquisition of Flotronic Pumps Ltd, a UK maker of air-operated double diaphragm pumps. Terms were not disclosed, and Flotronic will keep its name under Unibloc ownership.

Severn delivered two compressor anti-surge control valves for an FPSO project in the UK Central North Sea for an unnamed operator, three days ahead of the 16-week schedule.

Northumbrian Water Group awarded a five-year contract worth £2,331,087 to Crane Ltd, trading as Viking Johnson, for couplings, flange adaptors, repair clamps and studded adaptors. The award was dated 6 September 2021.

UK packing supplier Invopak bought a warehousing facility in Warwickshire for £3.4 million as part of a diversification strategy. The deal was reported on 2 September 2021.

Party Decor signed a contract with a major distributor of Chinese products to exclusively produce flower boxes at its UK headquarters, previously imported from China, worth at least £750,000 a year for a minimum of two years.

Party Decor has taken delivery of a Konica Minolta PKG-675i inkjet printer to support its new cardboard products business, which makes shipping and decorative boxes.

ANDRITZ received an order from First Hydro Company to supply six spherical valves for the Dinorwig pumped storage plant in North Wales, with the first two to be installed in mid-2023 and the other four in mid-2025.

NIBE Industrier signed an agreement to acquire 50% of Go Geothermal Ltd, a UK heat pump distributor based in Newton Aycliffe, with the remaining shares to follow within five years. The purchase price was not disclosed.

A management buy-out of Medica Packaging Ltd, a UK folding carton maker, was completed from Sullivan Street Partners, supported by Harwood Private Equity.

Graphic Packaging installed its QuikFlex machine at Coca-Cola HBC's Lisburn plant in Northern Ireland to produce paperboard cartons for 10- to 24-can multipacks, replacing plastic shrink wrap.

Corrugated packaging manufacturer Durham Box has expanded its factory and invested in equipment and manpower after a period of growth. No amount was disclosed.

US packaging firm Novolex has acquired Vegware, an Edinburgh-based maker of compostable foodservice packaging, for an undisclosed sum. Vegware will keep its brand within Novolex's Eco-Products portfolio.

Siemens Gamesa will expand its Hull wind turbine blade plant at Alexandra Dock, creating 200 direct jobs in a £186 million investment. The UK Government will provide grant funding from its £160 million Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Support scheme.

Colloide Engineering will supply, install and commission two chemical dosing systems for Southern Water's Otterbourne Water Supply Works near Winchester, as part of the M&E package led by GTBV Joint Venture.

Parker-Hannifin agreed to buy all of Meggitt PLC, the Coventry-based aerospace and defense motion and control company, for about GBP 6.3 billion in cash. The deal remains subject to regulatory clearances and Meggitt shareholder approval.

ANDRITZ received an order from First Hydro Company to supply six 2,500 mm spherical valves for the Dinorwig pumped storage plant in Llanberis, North Wales, with installations in 2023 and 2025.

SIG partnered with contract packer Framptons to install a new combidome filling machine, the first of its kind in the UK, so Framptons can produce Lilk's plant-based beverages in SIG's carton bottle.

Leicester-based 3T Logistics and Technology Group was selected by PFF Group, a UK food packaging manufacturer, to provide a new transport management system for supplying packaging to UK supermarkets and food manufacturers.

Contract packer Framptons became the first company in Europe to use SIG's combidome filling machine to produce plant-based milk cartons for start-up brand Lilk. The launch was reported on July 17, 2021.

T-T Pumps was contracted to supply DN150 recoil non-slam check valves from stock for South West Water's sewer upgrade at Fowey, Cornwall. The project was completed in February and March 2021.

Avingtrans, through Metalcraft, HTFH and HT, will supply remote maintenance pumps to Doosan Babcock for a leading UK nuclear energy company's Sellafield plant under a two-year goods supply agreement worth £4.4m.