Cepac completed a £2 million expansion of its Rawcliffe site in East Yorkshire, increasing site capacity by more than 20 per cent. The works add equipment for stitched UN-approved boxes for hazardous goods.

Wavin opened a 86,111 sq ft expansion of its plastic pipe factory in Chippenham, Wiltshire, funded by a multimillion-pound investment from its Mexican parent Mexichem. The expansion is intended to add job opportunities at the site.

DS Smith Corrugated Packaging Ltd was recorded as the award winner of a UK government packaging and soft consumables supply contract worth £9.5 million, published via Contracts Finder on 27 April 2018.

Bristol Water has awarded SUEZ a contract to implement the Aquadvanced Energy network optimiser across its entire water distribution network, controlling pumps, valves and treatment plants. The implementation is to be completed by September 2019.

Weedon PSC completed a major restructuring of its factory at Hednesford, Staffordshire, to improve efficiency and increase capacity for e-commerce. The update was published on April 4, 2018.

Food processor Quorn has signed a £1m contract with logistics firm InBond to store packaging, ingredients and flavourings and deliver up to 45 products daily to its Stokesley headquarters. InBond is adding 40,000 sq ft at its Portrack warehouse in Stockton and creating four new jobs.

The UK Competition & Markets Authority accepted Refresco's undertakings to sell Cott's Nelson plant, so the $1.25bn Refresco-Cott merger will not be referred for an in-depth investigation.

Sunmagic Juices bought Cott's aseptic PET bottling facility in Nelson, Lancashire, as a remedy required by the UK competition authority for the Refresco-Cott merger. The plant is the only UK Cott site using a preservative-free aseptic process.

Warehousing firm InBond signed a £1.25m long-term contract with food manufacturer Quorn, expanding its Portrack facility in Stockton by 40,000 sq ft and creating four new jobs, reported on 28 March 2018.

Lontra, with partner Shield Engineering Group, will build a high-tech onshore factory in Warwickshire to make its Blade industrial compressor, creating 75 jobs by 2020. About £65 million will be invested by 2021.

Tower Growth Management acquired Nottingham-based packaging firm Visual Packaging for an undisclosed sum, planning to grow its turnover from £2.6m to £3.3m with biodegradable plastic packaging.

Westgate Global built a flexible wall enclosure extending Amcor's heated adhesive curing area at its Evesham site, UK, to meet increased production demand.

Eurotunnel awarded GE Power's Grid Solutions a contract to supply a STATCOM system for the Channel Tunnel catenary traction system, to be sited in Folkestone, Kent and expected complete by end 2019.

Flowtech Fluidpower completed its £10.2m acquisition of Balu Ltd and its subsidiaries Beaumanor and Derek Lane, UK fluid power importers and distributors, funded by a share placing raising £11m. The deal was completed on 20 March 2018.

AMPO POYAM VALVES secured a contract to supply cryogenic valves for the Power, Capture and Compression project of the Net Zero Teesside initiative in North-East England, developed by a BP and Equinor joint venture. Deliveries are scheduled from September 2026 to 2027. Announced on 22 September 2026.

Berlin Packaging, with Bruni Glass, has acquired H. Erben Ltd., a Hadleigh, England-based supplier of closures, containers and packaging equipment, adding operations in South Africa and California.

Bedford Pumps will supply four high flow and two low flow suspended bowl pumps for the Prioress Mill River Water Extraction Pumping Station near Usk, Wales, under a contract with Skanska and Arcadis for Welsh Water.

Atlas Copco acquired Walker Filtration Ltd, a family-owned British manufacturer of compressed air, gas and vacuum treatment equipment based in northeast England with about 220 employees. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Drallim Industries expects National Grid Gas to place an order for rotary selector valves and 200 new slam shut cabinets within weeks, with an expected contract value of over £1.2 million. The valves passed -40°C tests after ball valves in existing cabinets failed in the field.

Siemens Gamesa has been awarded exclusivity by Orsted to supply and service SG 8.0-167 DD offshore wind turbines totaling 1,386 MW for the Hornsea Project Two wind farm 89 km off England, operational from 2022.

Terumo Corporation approved a £33 million investment in its subsidiary Vascutek to expand its headquarters and manufacturing facility at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, adding cleanrooms and a sterilization suite. The first phase starts April 2018 and completes in 2021.

Swedish business Duni bought Worcestershire-based disposable food and beverage packaging firm Biopac for an undisclosed fee, reported on 12 February 2018.

Britvic has invested £100m in three new high-speed can lines at its Rugby manufacturing site, creating 80 jobs and producing 6,000 cans per minute, as part of a £240m three-year GB investment programme.

EnerMech has acquired the UK trade and assets of the valves division of Denholm Oilfield Services, known as Denholm Valvecare, for an undisclosed sum. The UK valves business is expected to generate about £7 million revenue this year and about 25 staff transfer to EnerMech.

Netto UK specified eleven semi-automatic pre-stretch pallet wrappers from Unitech Orion Packaging in a deal worth close to GBP 70,000, with eight units for Pontefract and three for Daventry. The case study does not give an exact date.

Engineering firm Lontra has committed to build a manufacturing facility in Warwickshire, UK, for its Blade industrial compressors, investing £65m by 2021 across this and a further site, backed by Shield Group Engineering, with 75 jobs to be created by 2020 and the first part opening later in 2018.

Tricel Group, headquartered in Kerry, Ireland, has acquired Action Pumps Ltd, extending its operations and market share within the UK water industry. The announcement is dated January 18, 2018.

Oceaneering International won a Statoil contract to supply about 39 km of dynamic and static control umbilicals for the Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea, to be made at its Rosyth, Scotland facility with delivery in early 2021.

US process equipment maker Duravant acquired UK-based weighing and filling machine manufacturer Ohlson Packaging to expand its product portfolio.

Sunderland-based Pakway, which turns waste plastic bottles into packaging sheet, plans to double its capacity, with a second production line arriving in April 2018 and full capacity expected by end-2018.

Aegg is investing 2 million pounds in a new 60,000 sq ft UK food packaging manufacturing facility in Eye, Suffolk, making PS, PET and PP food pots and bowls, with first production planned for 2018.

Kemostal Process Technology AB won an order from leading oil companies from Singapore and the UK for a two-storey compressor module to handle gas on a floating storage offloading vessel at a new North Sea gas field. The order was won in 2017 and reported in January 2018.

UK packaging producer Cepac will supply a curved corrugated Arcwise gift pack for Swedish distiller Hernö Gin, holding a bottle of gin and two tonics. The design was made with SCA's Arcwise team.

Bombardier's Belfast operation secured a contract to develop and produce a new thrust reverser nacelle component for Airbus's Pratt & Whitney-powered A320neo family. The work is run by its Aerostructures and Engineering Services division.

Glasdon UK Ltd was awarded a GBP 50 million framework contract by Scotland Excel to supply recycling and refuse containers, bins and sacks to Scottish local authorities.

Robinson Packaging is planning to expand in the UK after a funding package deal with HSBC; the amount was not disclosed.

Longacre Group announced the acquisition of Pyroban and Pyropress, makers of explosion protection equipment, from Caterpillar Inc. Brian Quarendon joins as CEO to carry out the carve-out and drive growth.

Italian packaging producer Sirap-Gema agreed to buy rigid plastic food packaging maker Kama Europe, trading as Pactiv, from Reynolds Group Holdings, with completion expected mid-January 2018. Kama Europe has a plant in Sedgefield employing 110.

Multinational packaging company NNZ agreed to acquire Levy Brothers & Knowles (LBK), a UK flexible packaging supplier with bases in Liverpool and Glasgow. The deal was advised by Benchmark International and significantly increases NNZ's share of agricultural and industrial packaging markets.

Federal-Mogul Powertrain completed the acquisition of UK-based Controlled Power Technologies, a developer of 12V and 48V electric motor generators for hybridisation and electrification. The unit will operate as Federal-Mogul Controlled Power; financial terms were not disclosed.

Invertek Drives is constructing a 5,500 square metre production facility at Welshpool, Powys, Wales, to raise drive output to more than 400,000 units per year, with completion due next year.

Northern Ireland food manufacturer Davison Canners received a GBP 3.1 million financing package from HSBC, added new product lines and created 50 jobs, and won new contracts from Booths and Aldi.

J A Harrison officially opened a £2.8 million gasket and seal manufacturing facility on the Greengate Industrial Estate in Middleton, Oldham, which has already created 12 jobs and is expected to create 30 more over three years.

Progroup has broken ground on a GBP 75 million corrugated cardboard factory in Ellesmere Port, UK, to replace Prowell's current site, with Peel Logistics Property supporting the development; it is due to be fully operational in Q4 2018.

Babcock DSG, part of Babcock International Group, placed a single-lot GBP 94,000 contract with Schoeller Allibert for the supply of tote boxes and lids, running from October 2017 to February 2018 in Telford.

McLaren Packaging is investing £3 million in a new 20,000 sq ft manufacturing, design and testing centre at Broadleys Business Park in Stirling for subsidiary Blue Box Design. Construction began in October 2017, with completion scheduled for April 2018 and 18 new jobs planned.

Prowell, part of Germany's Progroup, received unanimous planning approval in Ellesmere Port for a two-phase corrugated board plant on Lees Lane, to be developed by Peel Investments. The first phase is expected to bring investment of around £120m, with groundbreaking planned for early November 2017.

CPM Holdings acquired Manchester-based Proline Engineering, a supplier of high-speed conveyance solutions and services for the metal packaging industry, which will join Greenbank Technology in CPM's metal packaging platform.

Wartsila is relocating its valve manufacturing operations to a new 5,570 square metre engineering and production facility in the Humber Enterprise Park in Brough, England. The move is expected to be completed before the end of 2017.

Dubai-based Hotpack Packaging Industries completed a property deal in Wrexham, Wales, for its UK headquarters and manufacturing plant, and plans to create 200 to 250 jobs. The company had earlier announced a GBP 50 million investment.