Hydraproducts acquired the business and assets of Fluidlink Hydraulics Ltd of Devizes, a manufacturer of bespoke hydraulic power packs, announced 21 April 2020.

LDC sold its stake in Stuart Turner, a UK water-boosting and pressurisation equipment maker, to Epiris in December 2021.

With LDC support, Stuart Turner, a UK water pump and pressure solutions maker, acquired Mikrofill Systems in March 2021. The article describes the acquisition as part of a buy-and-build strategy.

Oilgear acquired the intellectual property rights for the Andrew Fraser mono-radial piston pump range in April 2020, and also gained manufacturing and test capability at its Leeds base in West Yorkshire.

Millitec Food Systems Ltd has invested £1.2 million in a new 20,000 sq ft factory in Draycott, Derbyshire, which will create around 40 new jobs. The site makes food production equipment and supports its planned expansion.

Cullen, a UK corrugate packaging maker, is replacing its multi-point gluers with two Bobst Expertfold 165 folder-gluers at its Glasgow site, expected in place by Q3 2020.

United Utilities awarded framework contracts to Technolog Ltd, HWM-Water Ltd and I2O Water Ltd for pressure management valve controllers and data systems during AMP7, with an initial requirement of 733 controllers. The award was reported on March 23, 2020.

Grainger & Worrall's GBP 6 million investment plan includes two new melting towers at its Bridgnorth headquarters, a larger third CT scanner raising throughput capacity by 50%, and the opening of US company GW Inc.

Grainger & Worrall has appointed Mark Powell to a newly created role of director, foundry operations, aligned with its roll-out of a GBP 6 million efficiency investment plan.

Wienerberger procured Atlas Copco compressors, vacuum pumps and controls for its Windmill Lane brick factory in the UK, an upgrade estimated to save around £38,000 per year in energy costs.

CM Downton, part of EV Cargo, won a three-year contract to transport packaging products from two Smurfit Kappa manufacturing sites in the south-west of England. The announcement was made on 9 March 2020.

GF Piping Systems signed a strategic partnership with Oxford Flow Limited, a UK startup, granting an exclusive license for its pressure-regulating valve in the water utility segment. GF will acquire a 23% minority stake in two steps until 2021; financial terms were not disclosed.

Oliver Valves has bought three units totalling 17,387 sq ft on the Parkgate Industrial Estate in Knutsford to expand its instrumentation, sub-sea and pipeline valve range. Completion of the new buildings is scheduled for September 2020.

Schumacher Packaging, the German family-run corrugated packaging group, has acquired Jaffabox, a UK family-managed corrugated board packaging manufacturer. The Amyes family will continue to run Jaffabox.

Suntory Beverage & Food has invested €15.6 million (£13 million) in a new high-speed glass bottling line at its Lucozade Ribena Suntory site in Coleford, UK. The line fills 55,000 bottles an hour and was reported as opened on 2020-03-05.

Thames Water Utilities has issued a contract award notice for supply, installation and preventative maintenance of compressors and boosters across its region. The initial term is three years, extendable to eight, and the winning supplier is not named in the text.

Cullen Packaging is installing two Expertfold 165 folder-gluer machines from Bobst at its Glasgow corrugated packaging plant, alongside a 20,000 sq ft extension. The machines are expected to be installed by the third quarter of 2020.

Germany- and France-based CDL Omni-Pac, backed by Motion Equity Partners and Arkéa Capital, acquired Scunthorpe-based Moulded Fibre Products, the UK's leading recyclable pulp packaging manufacturer.

Procter & Gamble signed a five-year contract with UK recycling company Viridor to buy recycled high-density polyethylene for its European Ariel laundry packaging, enough to make about 200 million bottles.

Coca-Cola HBC has set aside £9.3 million of capital expenditure for a second canning line at its Knockmore Hill plant in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, with capacity of 4.8 million cans a week. The line will support production of Sleek Cans and Monster Energy products.

Lucozade Ribena Suntory launched a new high-speed bottling line at its Coleford factory, filling 55,000 bottles an hour with 40% less energy and water per bottle. The GBP 13m investment by Suntory Beverage & Food was first announced a year earlier.

Saica Group announced a £50M+ investment to build a new purpose-built corrugated packaging plant in Livingston, West Lothian, replacing its Edinburgh and Milngavie sites. The site is due for completion by the end of 2021.

Oliver Valvetek is constructing three new factory and office buildings on Parkgate Industrial Estate in Knutsford, UK, raising its holdings there from eight to 11 units, with completion due September 2020.

Pitreavie Group plans a new £3.8m corrugated box manufacturing facility in Cumbernauld, Scotland.

Biffa has opened a £27.5m ($35.8m) PET bottle recycling facility in Seaham, England, capable of processing 57,000 metric tons of PET per year and creating 100 full-time jobs.

Parvalux Electric Motors plans to build a new 13,000 m2 factory and headquarters in Poole, consolidating three existing sites. It has bought a 3.54ha site on Cabot Lane, with construction due to start later in 2020 and occupation in 2021.

OEM International AB acquired Zoedale Ltd in the UK, a group with annual sales of GBP 3 million whose brands include ASCO, Valpes, Omal, Bernard Controls and Peter Paul, which make valves and actuators. The deal was announced on 31 January 2020.

Pitreavie Group is opening a £3.8 million corrugated box manufacturing facility of 57,000 sq ft in Westfield, near Cumbernauld, with operations starting in March 2020 and 35 new jobs.

Somerset-based thermoformed packaging firm Kingsmoor Packaging has started the year with fully refurbished design, pattern and tooling facilities.

Corrugated packaging supplier Sandland Packaging has come under new ownership through a Buy-In Management Buyout, following a reported £5m investment.

Berry BPI Packaging Solutions' Hereford site renewed its contract with Bibby Distribution after nine years of on-time-in-full deliveries of shrink-wrap.

SSE Renewables appointed Petrofac as preferred supplier of substations for the 1,075MW Seagreen offshore wind farm off the Angus coast in Scotland. Petrofac will design, supply and install the onshore and offshore HVAC substations, supporting up to 100 jobs. The announcement was made on January 16, 2020.

Trelleborg's Industrial Solutions business area has acquired engineering group Signum Technology and its subsidiaries Gall Thomson, KLAW LNG, KLAW Products and Vee Bee Filtration. Signum makes safety-critical flow control products such as marine breakaway couplings and LNG transfer safety solutions.

Manchester-based Weedon Corrugating Products ordered RMM Dasong B flute corrugating rolls from Jarshire to replace existing equipment, with delivery due in February or March 2020.

i2i Europe, part of the Weedon Group, was appointed for an initial two years to update the Co-op's own-brand corrugated store delivery packaging and retail ready packaging. The work includes reducing packaging and replacing single-trip plastic with paper-based materials.

Hayward Tyler was awarded a contract to supply and manufacture eight valves for MASWEP in West Cumbria, valued at GBP 941,186. The contract was published on 7 January 2020 with a start date of 8 January 2020.

Coca-Cola European Partners is opening a new £20 million Bag-in-Box production line at its Edmonton factory in North London, bringing its 2019 GB investment to £150 million.

US energy services investor SCF Partners, via subsidiary Buchan 2, is acquiring Peterhead-based Score Group, a valve and gas turbine component supplier, for £120.5 million.

Inflexion has agreed to acquire Aspen Pumps, a specialist condensate pump manufacturer, from 3i Group in a deal announced in December 2019. Aspen has over 200 employees and exports to more than 100 countries.

3i agreed to sell its investment in Aspen Pumps, a global condensate removal pump maker, to Inflexion Private Equity for proceeds of about GBP 208 million. The announcement was made on December 18, 2019.

Glossop Cartons plans to expand its Stockport production facility by over 50% following a six-figure funding package from Lloyds Bank, reported December 13, 2019.

EV Cargo's Jigsaw won a contract to import and distribute glass bottles from Al Tajir's Dubai plant into the UK, with about 200 containers monthly via Bristol, Southampton and Felixstowe. The integrated solution is run with Allport Cargo Services and CM Downton.

UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council awarded Edwards Ltd. a £25,986 single-tender supply contract for a dry scroll pump for STFC RAL, with the contract running from 11 December 2019 to 14 January 2020.

Ringtons automated coffee production at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne factory with PFM Packaging Machinery, boosting output. The reported date is December 2, 2019.

EDF Renewables awarded Saipem an EPCI contract to build the 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm off the Fife coast in Scotland, covering 54 turbine jackets and 2 substation jackets. Offshore installation will be carried out by the crane vessel Saipem 7000.

Durham County Council awarded Automatic Flare Systems a contract to design, supply, install and commission a containerised air compressor for the leachate collection system at Todhills Closed Landfill Site, with a total value of £26,650. The contract runs from December 2019 to March 2026.

Greencroft Bottling invested over £2 million in the UK's first large-scale wine canning line at its County Durham plant, working with Ardagh Group Metal Beverage Europe. The line runs at 17,000 cans per hour.

US packaging firm Sonoco acquired Thermoform Engineered Quality (TEQ) and Stevenage-based Plastique Holdings from ESCO Technologies for about £145 million ($187 million).

Flexible packaging specialist ePac UK is holding a grand opening of its new Silverstone site in Northamptonshire on December 4, 2019, as announced November 18, 2019.

Smurfit Kappa applied in July to extend its corrugated packaging plant on Mold Business Park in Flintshire by more than 14,000 square metres. The company says the expansion would secure 170 existing jobs and create around 50 new ones, making Mold its largest UK production site.