JBT Corporation signed a definitive agreement to acquire Proseal uk Limited, a tray sealing technology provider headquartered in Adlington, UK, for £220 million before adjustments, with closing expected in Q2 2019.

MegaGroup Trade Holding B.V. acquired Anchor Pumps, a large UK pump specialist, which will help it grow in the UK and abroad. The announcement is listed on MegaGroup's news page dated 25 April 2019.

YPO awarded a single-lot packaging materials and consumables contract to Allgroup LLP and Samuel Grant (Leeds) Limited, running from April 2019 to March 2025 in Yorkshire and The Humber, with a stated value of GBP 3 to 3.5 million.

Sandvik Mining & Rock Technology has made significant investments in its Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone plant since moving production there in 2014, including a 2017 expansion of its shot blasting area.

Newsprinters, part of News UK, awarded Menzies Distribution a five-year contract for primary trunking and bulk distribution of newspapers from its UK sites. News UK also signed a five-year retail delivery deal with Menzies from July 2019.

Smith Anderson, a Kirkcaldy paper bag maker, signed three-year supply contracts with McDonald's and Burger King worth in excess of GBP 50 million, starting January 2019.

Wincanton was appointed to manage Britvic's new automated warehouse in Rugby, Warwickshire, which went live in March, with the contract extending their relationship to 2025. The facility has 33,000 pallet positions.

GMI Construction Group was awarded the contract to build a 118,000 sq ft manufacturing plant for Aflex Hose at Bradley Business Park in Huddersfield. The plant will consolidate five Yorkshire sites, boost capacity by 70% and create up to 200 jobs.

Germany's Klingele Group has acquired 50% of UK sheet-feeder Onboard Corrugated Limited and Onboard Investments Limited, which will become subsidiaries of the newly formed Klingele Onboard (Holdings) Limited.

Futamura Group has begun receiving 2,500 tonnes of South American wood pulp through the Port of Silloth under a new contract with ABP, supplying its Wigton plant in Cumbria, UK.

Fairport Containers won a tender to refurbish and rebrand nearly 70,000 SUEZ waste containers across the UK. The firm added more than 45 staff and 22 vehicles for the project.

C-Automation agreed to buy the drilling services business of Aberdeen-based Proserv, which will trade as C-Automation Services. Financial terms were undisclosed and the two firms will partner on shared products and services.

Berry Global has agreed to acquire UK packaging firm RPC Group for £5 billion ($6.6 billion) in cash and refinancing, with completion expected in Q3 2019.

Interventek has committed about £750,000 to support business growth in 2019 and beyond, including six new staff and a new technology development and test centre.

Kensa Heat Pumps and Kensa Contracting will fulfil a GBP 7.5 million order to install ground source heat pumps in over 700 dwellings for Together Housing across Lancashire and Yorkshire over three years.

Velocity, part of the Reece Group in Newcastle, has received a contract to build 16 Velocity Patching machines for a UK company, creating 16 new jobs at its factory.

Kensa Heat Pumps and Kensa Contracting will install ground source heat pumps in over 700 Together Housing dwellings across Lancashire and Yorkshire under a £7.5 million order over three years.

Babcock International secured a UK Ministry of Defence contract to supply, repair and support hydraulic equipment for Royal Navy surface ships and submarines. The five-year contract includes an option for a two-year extension.

Bibby Distribution won a new contract to transport horticultural boxes for cardboard manufacturer Jardin Corrugated using high-cube trailers and additional fleet capacity. The contract was reported on 1 March 2019.

Duplomatic Motion Solutions, sponsored by Alcedo SGR, completed the purchase of hydraulic technologies provider Hydreco from Clyde Blowers Capital, which had owned it since 2008. Hydreco's sales were over £25.6m.

First Reserve agreed to buy Weir Flow Control, a maker of engineered valves and pumps, from The Weir Group PLC in a £275 million deal. Closing is expected in the second quarter of 2019, subject to antitrust approvals.

CBS Packaging, based in West Bromwich, bought assets of corrugated packaging firm Charapak from administrators Duff & Phelps for an undisclosed fee. The Derbyshire business had entered administration on 28 January 2019.

Snack brand Propercorn is moving its packaging supply from an Italian supplier to Amcor's Evesham site in the UK, effective from about April 2019, to avoid post-Brexit port disruption. The switch is expected to make packaging slightly more expensive.

Interflex Group has invested £1.5 million in new equipment at its Sunderland factory, which makes flexible packaging for bakery and snack food, to increase capacity by about 20%.

ABP Humber won a two-year contract with Belgium-based VPK Packaging Group to handle 35,000 tonnes of paper reels per year at the Hull Container Terminal, starting from weekly shipments from Ghent.

Packaging manufacturer Duo UK received a multi-million pound funding package from HSBC UK to buy an Italian-made co-extruder for its Manchester factory, scaling up production by up to 20% and stock capacity by 30%. The company expects to create 5 new jobs over the next 12 months.

Remous Print has started building a new smart factory on a business park in Sherborne, Dorset, with a near-£1 million investment. It will consolidate the company's three current sites under one roof, with a planned move around September or October 2019.

Komori UK agreed to supply most of the products in its K-Supply consumables range, including inks, chemistry, blankets and wash rolls, to Remous Print under an initial 12-month contract for its Komori LS-529 H-UV press in Sherborne, Dorset.

Biffa has received planning approval from Durham County Council for a £15m plastics recycling plant at Foxcover Distribution Park near Seaham, creating around 70 jobs. Construction is expected to start in Summer 2019.

McLaren Packaging has acquired Port Glasgow-based Moelle Interlok Packaging from administration through newly formed Interlok Divisions. The report is dated 5 February 2019.

Cawingredients has applied to extend its Leeming Bar site with a 9,038 sq m warehouse, which planning officers recommend for approval as an exceptional case. The extension would add 40 to 50 staff.

A partnership of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Weir Engineering Services was awarded a contract by Nuclear New Build to design, manufacture and test 34 pumps of five models for Hinkley Point C in Somerset, UK.

Apollo Global Management agreed to buy RPC Group Plc, a British container and packaging maker, for 782 pence per share in cash, valued at 3.32 billion pounds ($4.3 billion). RPC announced the deal on 23 January 2019.

Suntory Beverage & Food is investing £13m in Lucozade Ribena Suntory to install a new high-speed bottle filler at its Coleford, Gloucestershire factory, producing 1.3 million bottles a day.

Danfoss announced it acquired a majority stake in Artemis Intelligent Power, an Edinburgh-based R&D firm specializing in hydraulic systems, gaining its Digital Displacement technology and establishing Edinburgh as a centre of excellence.

Atlas Holdings, a private investment and equity firm, acquired Saxco International, a UK provider of packaging solutions for the wine, spirits, craft beer and food markets.

Wincanton was appointed under two five-year contracts to provide transport, warehousing and co-packing services for The Weetabix Food Company, including operating four warehouses and a nationwide transport network.

Erlson Precision Components invested in a new 5X building at its Precision Investment Castings site in Altrincham, Cheshire, which began compressor wheel production about nine months later. The group plans to expand capacity further in 2020.

The Lenvale Group acquired the manufacturing assets of Kes Reclamation and will trade them as Kes Packaging.

Packaging manufacturer Duo UK is investing £1.5m in new machinery for its Manchester factory, including an Italian-made co-extruder, to raise productivity and boost stock capacity by 30%. The investment is expected to create five new jobs.

Centre for Process Innovation in the UK awarded Valve and Fitting Solutions a framework contract worth EUR 500,000 for valves, fittings, maintenance and spare parts, as one of multiple suppliers.

Graphic Packaging International won a contract to make half a million zero-plastic KFC food buckets for the 2018 Big Bash League in Australia, produced exclusively at its Winsford, UK plant.

Manchester-based packaging firm Law Print created refreshed bag packaging for Symply's Canagan pet food brand, handling materials, manufacturing and supply chain logistics. The article is dated 10 December 2018.

MHI Vestas signed a firm order to supply 100 V164-9.5 MW turbines for the 950 MW Moray East offshore wind farm in Scotland's Moray Firth, including a 15-year service agreement. The order followed financial close on December 6, 2018.

RPC Group plc ended merger talks with Bain Capital and gave Apollo Global Management more time to make a firm takeover offer for the European plastics packager.

GE Healthcare opened a biotechnology manufacturing center at the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst campus in Stevenage, UK, which will produce a fiber-based biopharmaceutical purification platform from the first half of 2019.

Prowell is building a new corrugated sheet board plant with a £75 million ($96.2 million) investment in Ellesmere Port, England. Construction began in November 2017, with production expected in Q4 2018 and about 45 jobs created.

German cardboard maker Progroup invested £74 million in a new 327,000 sq ft corrugated sheet plant in Ellesmere Port, UK, replacing its existing site and creating 51 jobs. Construction completes in December 2018.

Coral Products PLC's Haydock Mouldings division received a further £795,000 order under a supply contract for plastic totes for a customer's UK fulfilment centres, expected to continue into the fourth quarter to April 2019.

Reflex Group acquired UK packaging maker Fusion Flexibles and its subsidiary Mercury Packaging for an undisclosed sum after the firms entered administration.