Schumacher Packaging Group took over packaging manufacturer Jaffabox Ltd, based in Birmingham, England, on 5 November 2019.

Yeovil-based corrugated packaging maker Ablebox will open a new 72,000 sq ft factory in Henstridge after a £7 million investment, with a high-speed corrugator built in China. The plant is expected to create 50 jobs and produce over 100 million square metres of corrugated board a year.

ABB secured a contract to supply HVDC Light converter systems connecting the Dogger Bank offshore wind project, developed by Equinor and SSE Renewables, to the UK transmission network. Aibel will deliver two offshore converter platforms. The report is dated 30 October 2019.

Worley announced the acquisition of 3sun Group, a UK-based offshore wind installation, inspection and maintenance specialist with about 250 staff, headquartered in Great Yarmouth, to join its Integrated Solutions business.

Linde agreed to form a joint venture with ITM Power to implement large-scale hydrogen electrolysis projects, targeting metals, glass, electronics, refinery, chemical and steel industries. The announcement was made on October 23, 2019.

Linde acquired a minority stake in ITM Power plc, a British maker of PEM electrolyzers for hydrogen production, completed on October 22, 2019. The stake was announced on October 23, 2019.

CBS Packaging installed a new 2.5m BHS corrugator at its Birmingham plant as part of its continuing investment programme, reported October 18, 2019.

Following a formal tender, Scottish Water awarded Rotork UK a framework agreement making it sole supplier of new valve actuators for Scottish Water and its partners during the AMP 6 cycle. The agreement complements an existing servicing framework.

Hoppecke Industrial Batteries was selected to supply batteries for the safety systems of EDF's Hinkley Point C nuclear power station under construction in north Somerset, England. The announcement was made on 17 October 2019.

Coca-Cola European Partners plans to open a £24m canning production line at its Wakefield, UK facility, part of a £49m investment there in 2019, to produce lightweight cans from 330ml to 500ml.

McLaren Packaging and Swanline Group's joint venture CorrBoard Bioenergy has invested GBP 5.5 million in a renewable energy plant fuelled by organic waste. It will supply heat and power to CorrBoard UK's corrugated board production in Scunthorpe.

Pressure Technologies, a subsidiary of Chesterfield Special Cylinders, won a contract worth over £3 million to supply nitrogen storage cylinders to EDF Energy's Torness, Heysham and Hartlepool nuclear stations, with delivery by mid-2020.

Irish packaging firm Zeus announced its €12 million acquisition of two UK companies, paper and polythene distributor Smith Bateson and food services packaging business Van Der Windt. The combined turnover of the two is €39.5 million.

Macclesfield-based Franchise Brands acquired WPL Group Holdings and its subsidiaries Willow Pumps and Willow Drainage for £12.5m, with an initial consideration of £5m. The business supplies, installs and services water pumps.

Coca-Cola European Partners opened a new GBP 16 million production line for lightweight cans at its Sidcup, UK site, alongside a GBP 39 million automated storage and retrieval warehouse, totaling GBP 55 million.

LDC supported a secondary buyout of ELE Advanced Technologies, a Lancashire maker of aerospace and gas turbine components, in October 2019 to fund organic growth and capacity investment. The company later moved to a larger facility in Nelson, Lancashire, adding 40% production capacity.

UK corrugated packaging maker Durham Box redesigned the mixed 12-can selection pack for North Yorkshire brewer BAD Co using its EFI Nozomi C18000 digital press. The project cut production lead-time by two weeks.

Lontra opened the first purpose-built advanced manufacturing centre in Napton, Warwickshire, in partnership with Shield Group Engineering, as the first phase of a planned expansion of compressor manufacturing.

Torishima Service Solutions Europe (TSSE), the European arm of Torishima Pump Manufacturing, has leased a 2,550 sq m unit at Clyde Gateway East Business Park in Glasgow as its new European headquarters, bringing 50 engineering jobs. The move was announced on 26 September 2019 on a 15-year lease.

Saica Pack installed a multi-million pound three-in-one flexo folder gluer from Bobst at its Thatcham site to produce corrugated boxes. The machine handles high-graphics printing of up to six colours.

Macfarlane Group announced its acquisition of Leyland Packaging Company (Lancs) Limited. The article gives no value, location or further details.

Aegg is preparing to open its first major UK warehouse near Eye, Suffolk later in 2019, with a 60,000 sq ft facility and a planned plastic food packaging plant. GBP 3.1 million is being invested, creating 50 new jobs.

Aegg is opening a new warehouse and manufacturing plant at Eye in north Suffolk, with total investment of £6.1 million and 50 jobs created. Phase 2 will add a facility for rigid recyclable plastic food packaging.

Unipart Logistics signed a contract with Jaguar Land Rover to continue packing services at its two plants in central England through the end of 2022. The work covers around 100 employees and about 800,000 parts per month.

Kensa Heat Pumps has started construction of a new 900 sqm manufacturing and office facility on its existing site at the former Mount Wellington Mine in Cornwall. The privately funded expansion is expected to provide 150 jobs at capacity.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority found in its Phase 1 investigation that Liqui-Box's proposed takeover of DS Smith's rigid and flexible packaging business could reduce competition in Bag-in-Box packaging. The parties must address the concerns or face an in-depth Phase 2 investigation.

Tri-Wall Europe's UK arm has secured more than £700,000 of government funding towards a £1.18m project to set worldwide standards for transporting lithium-ion batteries, with a focus on eliminating thermal runaway. The company's UK headquarters and factory are in Monmouth, Wales.

Trelleborg's Industrial Solutions unit acquired Signum Technology, a Wiltshire engineering group making flow control and LNG transfer systems, with annual sales of about SEK 410 million. The deal was consolidated from July 10, 2019.

Print-Leeds won a £2m contract to become the sole wet glue label supplier for all of Marston's Beer Company's bottled beer labels, following a competitive tender. The win follows a £5m investment programme over the past two years.

Ross Controls announced it acquired Pneumatrol effective 31 July 2019, adding it to the ROSS group of companies.

Sulzer Ltd acquired Alba Power, a Scottish aero-derivative gas turbine service provider, in Q3 2019 as part of expanding its aftermarket service business.

Smurfit Kappa is seeking planning permission to extend its Mold corrugated packaging plant in Flintshire by more than 14,000 square metres, raising capacity by over 80 per cent and adding around 50 jobs. Comments were being invited as of August 2019.

Berry Global completed its acquisition of RPC Group Plc for a purchase price of about $6.5 billion, creating a global plastic packaging leader with over 290 locations and about 48,000 employees.

Amcor signed a binding agreement to sell three former Bemis flexible packaging plants in the UK and Ireland to investment firm Kohlberg & Company for US$394 million cash, a divestment required by the European Commission. The plants generate about US$170 million annual sales.

Italian packager AMB has acquired TDX (Europe), a provider of PET, RPET and laminated rigid films, including its product design, prototype and tooling business. The deal expands AMB's European footprint, with the combined group having four sites in Europe and 430 employees.

Therser UK Ltd, a Stoke-on-Trent kiln manufacturer, won a major contract from Churchill China to manufacture and install a new 48-metre fast-fire tunnel kiln in Stoke-on-Trent.

Print-Leeds, a label printer in Leeds, UK, won sole supplier status for wet-glue labels for Marston's Beer Company after a competitive tender. The three-year contract is worth approximately $2.5m per year.

Baker Hughes, a GE company, opened its upgraded Centre of Excellence campus in Montrose, Scotland, in a GBP 31 million investment supported by a GBP 4.9 million Scottish Enterprise grant. The site handles engineering, manufacturing, testing and assembly of subsea deepwater equipment.

Whitham Mills Engineering has secured an order to supply a fully automatic cardboard baler (GB1108FSS) with a bin tipping solution and bale roller track to Weetabix's Northamptonshire food processing site, with a two-year warranty.

Packaging supplier Cepac partnered with UK craft brewer ShinDigger Brewing Co to create sustainable corrugated packaging for its full range of 12-pack beer cans. The new packs replaced a tray and shrinkwrap combination and appeared in shops from late spring 2019.

Swindon firm Emagination Store has won a £15 million global contract from Mondelez to supply personalised Heroes chocolate tins. Roses, Green & Blacks and Toblerone lines are planned later.

T-T Flow, the valve division of T-T, supplied metal seat gate valves and pressure-reducing control valves for Severn Trent Water's Birmingham Resilience Project, a £300 million alternative water supply pipeline and pumping station scheme.

Plexus Holdings formed a majority-owned joint venture, Plexus Pressure Control, with BEL Valves, a subsidiary of British Engines Group, to supply xmas trees and wellhead annulus outlet valves. The unit will operate from Plexus's Dyce facility in Aberdeen.

UK corrugated packaging maker Durham Box has purchased an EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED inkjet press to improve print quality and productivity. Installation is scheduled for summer 2019.

Haulier Jack Richards & Son has secured a three-year contract to provide nationwide transport for Jiffy Packaging, which has its head office and production facility in Winsford, Cheshire, going live at the start of May 2019. The haulier bought several DAF XF trucks to service it.

Cepac developed a shelf-ready, recyclable corrugated pack replacing tray and shrinkwrap for ShinDigger Brewing's 12-pack 440ml cans, which reached shops from late spring 2019. The design removes shrink tunnel heat requirements and speeds pack assembly.

KPS Capital Partners has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Glasgow-based Howden, a maker of air and gas handling equipment, from Colfax Corporation for an enterprise value of $1.80 billion. Howden will become an independent company.

Watson Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, recently invested £20m in a new factory for its Aflex Hose brand in the UK. It expects up to 200 new jobs over the next 10 years.

Emerson has been awarded a five-year contract by BP to provide predictive maintenance and operational support for the Clair Ridge platform and Glen Lyon FPSO in the North Sea.

Nexen Lift Trucks announced an £8.5m investment in its Lowestoft, UK headquarters and manufacturing facility, including a 48,000 sq. ft. extension that will double output and create 40 jobs.