Danfoss began work on a new 1500 square metre plant beside Artemis Intelligent Power's base in Loanhead near Edinburgh, to make digital hydraulic pumps and motors for off-highway vehicles. The project will create more than 30 jobs initially, with up to 200 more later.

Fluor Corporation was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction of a combined heat and power cogeneration project at Valero's Pembroke Refinery in Wales. The project includes a 45 MVA natural gas-fired combustion turbine generator system.

Fluor Corporation was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract for Valero's combined heat and power cogeneration project at its Pembroke Refinery in Wales, announced October 30, 2018. The contract value was undisclosed.

Huhtamaki and Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth, UK partnered to recycle paper coffee cups using bins at the outlet centre, with cups recycled into new paper products.

Danfoss acquired the majority of Artemis Intelligent Power, an Edinburgh hydraulic R&D firm, to gain its Digital Displacement technology. Artemis will become a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with Danfoss as majority shareholder.

According to sources, Weir has launched the sale of its flow control pumps and valves business, which could be valued at more than 300 million pounds ($389 million), with first-round bids due November 9 and Goldman Sachs handling the sale.

European Springs & Pressings, a Lesjöfors company, bought a new site of about 2,000 square metres in Penryn, Cornwall, to serve its industrial spring business. It is planned to be fully operational from Q4 2018 with over 20 staff.

Swatragh-based Crossland Tankers won an order from Diageo Ireland to supply ten 30,000-litre stainless steel bulk beer tankers for transporting beer from the Guinness brewery in Dublin. The tankers were built at Crossland's Swatragh base and enter service this month.

Netherlands-based PortionPack acquired CustomPack, a Telford food packaging company, for an undisclosed fee.

Northumberland-based Avid Technology won six new contracts worth a total of £50 million a year with international automotive firms, including a supercar maker, a tier one supplier and OEMs, for electric and hybrid powertrain systems.

Equipos Nucleares (Ensa) was awarded a contract by Framatome to manufacture two pressurizers and fourteen tanks and support rings for the two units of Hinkley Point C in the United Kingdom.

RPC is in preliminary talks with two major private equity firms over a possible sale of the plastic packaging company.

RPC Group, a European plastic packaging maker, confirmed it is holding discussions with private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Bain Capital about a possible sale of the company.

Weedon Corrugated Products of Audenshaw, Manchester, installed a new three-colour flexo casemaker from JC Machinery to boost shelf-ready packaging output. Group investment in the company has exceeded £1.5 million in recent months.

Hayward Tyler, a unit of Avingtrans, has secured a contract for submarine pumps in the UK. The article gives no contract value or further details.

Solidus Solutions has acquired a majority interest in Northern Paper Board, a UK manufacturer of solid board boxes and corrugated octabin solutions for the food processing industry.

Servelec Controls, using HIMA safety systems, won the control and safety systems for two National Grid compressor station upgrade projects at Huntington and Peterborough, working with contractor Costain.

Flexible plastics firm STM Packaging has entered administration following declining business.

RPC bpi recycled products has acquired PLASgran, a UK rigid plastics recycler, in a £34.5 million deal.

Thomas Dudley Ltd is constructing a brand-new foundry in Tipton alongside its existing foundry, with an investment of over £10 million that includes a Disamatic D3-Z-425 moulding line increasing capacity by 50%.

Ardagh Group has completed converting its Rugby, UK beverage can plant from steel to aluminium, adding to its two other UK aluminium can plants at Wrexham and Rugby.

United Caps is investing EUR 20 million in a new factory in Dinnington, Rotherham, its first UK facility, creating 20 jobs. The plant will make plastic caps and closures for beverage and dairy packaging, with production expected to begin at the end of 2019.

Bedford Pumps Ltd won the third and final order to supply 15 water pumps for Severn Trent Water's Birmingham Resilience scheme, worth £1.2 million across three schemes, announced in August 2018.

United Caps has announced the location of its proposed new €20 million plant in Rotherham to manufacture beverage and dairy closures.

gabo Systemtechnik is expanding into the United Kingdom by founding a new subsidiary, gabocom Ltd, to serve the UK fibre broadband market.

Coster Group will end operations at its Stevenage, UK plant by September 30, with activity transferred to Barlborough and some product lines moved to Zwolle, Netherlands. Staff were offered relocation to Barlborough.

Coster Group is expanding its Barlborough, UK valve production site by 4,000 square meters to a total of 8,500 square meters, adding an injection moulding department and an assembly department. Production from the Stevenage plant will move to Barlborough and Zwolle, with Stevenage ceasing operations by September 30.

Haskel's Sunderland, UK plant will produce its new hydraulically-driven H-Drive gas booster for the global market, as announced on 2018-07-05.

Rosh Engineering bought a 1,100 square metre factory on the banks of the River Tyne at Blaydon for a half-million-pound investment. The site will extend its repair, refurbishment, testing and installation services.

Rosh Engineering won a five-year framework contract with Northern Powergrid to repair and refurbish power transformers. It is the company's third such framework contract in 18 months. The announcement was dated 3 July 2018.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy confirmed the official signing of an order for 165 SG 8.0-167 DD wind turbines for Ørsted's 1,386 MW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm. The order follows an exclusivity agreement announced in February 2018.

The UK Environment Agency awarded Selwood a place on a new six-year framework to supply static, towable and electric submersible pumps. The initial three-year contract starts in June with a three-year extension option.

Groupe Guillin's UK subsidiary Sharpak Bridgwater signed an exclusive agreement to acquire Etimex Primary Packaging's British CPET packaging production and sales business, with a closing expected by end of September 2018. The business has annual revenue of about EUR 6 million.

Packaging maker Faerch Plast joined Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, Tesco and waste firm Viridor in a circular-economy project to recycle black plastic into new food-grade packaging. Recycling starts in July 2018 at Viridor's Rochester facility in Kent, with an initial target of 120 tonnes per month.

Luxembourg-headquartered United Caps plans to invest about €20 million to build its first UK factory in Dinnington, South Yorkshire, making beverage and dairy closures. Production is expected to start at the end of 2019.

Servelec Controls was awarded several contracts via Costain to develop integrated control and safety systems for two new National Grid compressor stations at Huntingdon and Peterborough.

St. Johns Packaging purchased a Comexi Nexus Dual laminator, installed in Ilkeston, Derbyshire in Q1 2021.

St. Johns Packaging completed the acquisition of an Amcor Flexibles unit serving the UK bakery market, announced June 30, 2020.

Transcend Packaging, a packaging firm in Ebbw Vale, Wales, was one of two suppliers to win a contract from McDonald's to supply paper straws for all UK and Irish outlets. The company expects to hire 30 extra staff and begin production in August 2018.

Logson Group, the UK's largest independent corrugated packaging supplier, acquired the Cardboard Box Company, an independent sheet plant in Accrington, Lancashire, with turnover above GBP 17 million and 90 employees. The deal value was not disclosed.

Evesham food maker Kanes Foods won a three-year contract worth £50 million to supply ready-to-eat salad bowls to a leading UK supermarket.

RWC has acquired John Guest Holdings Ltd, a UK maker of plastic push-to-connect fittings and pipe with three UK manufacturing facilities. The deal was announced on 4 June 2018 and no value was stated.

Cramlington-based AVID Technology has secured part of a £20.8m R&D project with Jaguar Land Rover and five other partners, backed by the Advanced Propulsion Centre, to develop hybrid electric vehicle electronics and componentry.

Vallourec subsidiary Valinox Nucléaire signed a contract with Framatome to make more than 47,500 tubes for the eight steam generators of the two new EPR units at Hinkley Point C in England. Production will begin in 2018 at Montbard, France.

Tees Components won a contract from Cammell Laird shipyard to supply four White Gill 360° azimuth thrusters for the new polar research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough, being built at Cammell Laird in Merseyside. The article gives no contract value.

Dutch keg maker Lightweight Containers took a 10-year lease on a 62,000 sq ft unit at Foxcover Industrial Estate in Seaham, County Durham, expecting around 35 jobs within two years and production from July.

Fraikin won a six-year full-service contract hire agreement worth £3.3 million to supply and maintain 41 DAF trucks for Macfarlane Packaging, which delivers packaging across the UK. The deal includes driver CPC training.

SATO UK has invested £7 million in a new production facility adjacent to its existing site in Harwich, UK. The announcement was reported on 22 May 2018.

Fusion Flexibles has invested about £300,000 in a Durr Regenerative Thermal Oxidiser at its Leicester facility to reduce VOC emissions from printing presses. The system could also help double printing capacity.

Leamington Spa corrugated sheet plant The Box Factory has announced a £4 million investment. The company employs 70 people and operates 120,000 sq ft of manufacturing and storage space.