Cook Compression held the grand opening of its new 26,000 sq. ft. facility in Ellesmere Port, UK, on April 19, which also houses new laser cutting machinery for compressor valve internals.

Cashco, a portfolio company of May River Capital, has acquired 3B Controls, a UK manufacturer of pressure and vacuum relief valves and tank safety equipment, based in Widnes, England. The deal adds UK production and service capacity. No deal value was disclosed.

Momentum Group acquired Actuated Solutions Limited (ASL), a UK manufacturer of valve actuation systems. Valve World reports the deal values ASL at £15 million.

Driveline Solutions, part of Axel Johnson International, acquired Flowfit, a Ludlow-based UK distributor and manufacturer of hydraulic components and systems. Flowfit has a sales office in Wellingborough and 42 employees.

Kingswood Capital Management completed the acquisition of Coveris' paper business unit, which will now operate as Paranova Print and Packaging in the United Kingdom.

Saica Flex Deeside has announced a £2.2 million (€2.5 million) investment in a fully automatic coating machine at its Deeside site. The coater offers about four times the previous coating capacity and enables linerless label products.

Fluiconnecto UK Ltd, part of the Manuli Ryco group's Service Division, acquired the whole business of Hydraulink Limited, a 24/7 on-site mobile hose replacement provider in Scotland. The deal includes its customer base, operating assets and a trade counter in Glasgow.

Leidos Supply, the UK MoD logistics delivery partner, recorded three awards for the Packaging and Soft Consumables supply contract, including £13.2m to DS Smith Packaging, £7.4m to MaxPack Group and £2.4m to Joseph Gleave & Son. The notice was published on 30 March 2026.

The Scottish Government's Marine Directorate awarded a £6,163 contract to Design Air (Scotland) Ltd to supply a rotary screw air compressor for the MPV Minna, published 15 March 2026.

ProMach acquired Lako Tool & Manufacturing, strengthening its flexible packaging capabilities in the consumer-packaged goods sector.

Swedish industrial group Dacke Industri has acquired Rotork Midland Ltd, renamed Midland Flow Ltd, and Italian business Rotork Instruments from Rotork Plc. Midland Flow makes solenoid valves, actuators and control systems, with about 44 employees and turnover of about £7.5 million.

A planned UK government tender covers spares, repairs, technical support and post-design services for submarine valves and actuators, with estimated value of £65 million excluding VAT. Contract dates are estimated from October 2027 to September 2029, with a possible extension to 2031.

Packaging businesses Hazel 4D, Acopia's transit packaging division and Kwikpac have combined to form Orkka Limited, offering consultancy, consumables, machinery and operational support across the UK, Europe and the US. BDO's M&A team advised on the deal.

Panam Valves will supply its instrumentation fittings products to R&G Fluid Power Group, a UK group of hydraulics and industrial businesses, under a new strategic partnership announced March 5, 2026.

Sellafield Ltd awarded LTi Metaltech a contract worth more than GBP45 million to manufacture and supply containers for the Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant, with delivery over a development phase followed by 10 years of volume production.

Sellafield Ltd has awarded a £45 million contract to UK fabricator LTi Metaltech to supply containment products for the Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant used for plutonium repackaging.

Swedish industrial group Teqnion acquired all shares in Cambs Compressor Engineering Limited, a Cambridgeshire-based specialist in compressed air systems and services, with immediate effect. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Rubix has completed its acquisition of ERIKS UK & Ireland, an industrial distributor with a specialist flow technology offer including hoses, valves and sealing products.

CBS Packaging announced the acquisition of a new 120,000 square foot facility in Walsall, West Midlands, to support a planned plant expansion scheduled for mid-2026.

Menzies Distribution (MDS) will manage nationwide customer deliveries from Weedon Packaging's Manchester facility after a successful trial. Weedon Packaging is part of the Zeus Packaging Group.

Pioneer Pump and the wider Franklin Electric Group announced on Monday, February 9, 2026 that they had completed the acquisition of Geoquip Water Solutions and Hydrodif Products to expand their UK water market presence. The deal aligns product portfolios, operations and technical expertise.

Sellafield Limited appointed a single supplier to manufacture stainless steel and polymer SRP containers and consumables for nuclear material storage under contract C14801. The published total value range is £31.7M to £91.7M, and the award notice was published on February 6, 2026.

Unibloc Hygienic Technologies has completed the acquisition of Metaltech Precision Engineers, a UK CNC machining specialist that already machines components for its hygienic pumps. The deal adds in-house machining capacity.

Freudenberg Flow Technologies acquired Aberdeen-based Balmoral Comtec, a supplier of buoyancy, cable protection and thermal insulation for offshore oil, gas and wind, effective May 19, 2026. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Nova Paper & Packaging B.V., part of Eren Holding, has acquired BM Packaging Ltd, a corrugated packaging manufacturer with two sites in Huddersfield. Managing Director Chris Latham remains in position.

VPK Group agreed with the shareholders of UK corrugated cardboard maker Ribble Packaging to increase its equity stake from 30% to 50%, creating joint control and expanding its fanfold production network in Europe.

Rubix UK Ltd was awarded Lot 1 (valves and fittings) of the Centre for Process Innovation's engineering spares framework, worth GBP 500,000 excluding VAT, for contract dates from 22 December 2025 to 21 December 2029.

Pioneer Pump, a division of Franklin Electric, has acquired Ipswich water treatment firm Geoquip Water Solutions and fittings maker Hydrodif Products for an undisclosed sum. The deal was completed on December 17 and the 17 employees of the two firms joined the new owners.

Nexus Packaging plans a second expansion phase at its Glasgow blow moulding facility, adding 1,858 sq m of storage and four new machines, with completion expected in 2027.

Honeycomb paperboard pallet maker Pallite Group secured a £1.6 million export finance facility from KBC Bank, backed by UK Export Finance. The working capital will support growth in overseas markets.

Synchronicity Care Ltd (CDD Services) awarded Burlodge Ltd a 24-month contract worth £226,604 for polypropylene food containers, film and free-on-loan sealing machines, starting 4 December 2025.

Re:Water agreed a five-year, eight-figure partnership under which Ball Corporation will supply tens of millions of recycled aluminium bottles to support the brand's expansion in retail and hospitality.

Three family-run UK hauliers formed a joint national solution to run VPK Group's multi-year UK storage and distribution contract for packaging movements from its three main manufacturing sites.

US canmaker Ball Corporation signed a five-year, eight-figure agreement to supply aluminium drinks bottles to UK premium water brand Re:Water. The article is dated 25 November 2025.

UK premium water brand Re:Water signed a five-year, multi-million agreement under which Ball Corporation will supply tens of millions of recycled aluminium bottles. The article is dated 25 November 2025.

AUMA Actuators Ltd was awarded Primary Supplier status on a new long-term framework agreement with Severn Trent for supply, maintenance and support of electric actuators for AMP8.

Harrison Packaging commissioned a custom Koenig & Bauer Duran folder gluer at its Stockton on Tees site, able to handle both solid carton board and micro flute board. The investment brought a UK automotive packaging contract back from mainland Europe.

Tranter was awarded a contract by Technip Energies to supply 40 large stainless steel plate and frame heat exchangers for the NZT Power gas-fired carbon capture plant at Teesside, UK. The plant will capture up to two million tonnes of CO2 a year.

Menzies Distribution Solutions was awarded the contract to manage warehouse operations, inbound raw materials and national distribution at Ball Corporation's Kettering aluminium can facility in the UK.

Wales-based baking case manufacturer Chevler has secured a major new US customer and is now shipping monthly containers of crimped baking cases across the Atlantic.

Corrugated packaging maker Reedbut Group has moved into a new 94,000 square-foot facility in Milton Keynes, UK, boosting production capacity and storage for up to 4,700 pallets.

Sellafield Limited published a contract award notice on October 17, 2025 for the C24615 Early Legacy Boxes and Lids procurement, covering box bodies and lids for nuclear legacy waste. The awarded supplier is not named in the extract.

Ireland-based Zeus Packaging Group announced its takeover of British fibre-based packaging manufacturer Simpac, founded in 1903.

Carlsberg Britvic is investing £20 million in a new soft drinks canning line and building extension at its Rugby factory, creating 34 new jobs. The line lifts the site's output from 560,000 to 610,000 cans an hour. Announced 8 October 2025.

Xylem will deploy smart metering, software and network solutions for Anglian Water across its service area in the east of England under a $90 million contract. Revenue recognition is expected over five years, beginning late in 2020.

Sizewell C has awarded Arabelle Solutions, part of EDF Group, a contract to supply and install two complete steam turbine islands for the Suffolk nuclear station. The contract was announced on 3 October 2025 and no value was disclosed.

Biffa has completed the acquisition of Esterform, merging it with its PET recycling operations into a combined business trading as Esterpet. Esterform makes PET preforms and bottles at sites in West Yorkshire and Worcestershire.

DS Smith has redesigned Carlsberg Britvic's OTOR4 soft drinks packaging as the OTOR8 bag-in-box, allowing 25% more boxes per pallet. The change is the first stage of a wider supply chain partnership and is expected to save over 50 tonnes of CO2 in transport emissions.

Alkhorayef Petroleum Company acquired GRC Technologies LLC, a UK maker of precision downhole gauges and well instrumentation, through a carve-out from Sercel. GRC becomes a wholly owned subsidiary and will keep operating under its own brand.

Carlsberg Britvic is partnering with DS Smith to upgrade its beverage packaging to the new OTOR8 bag-in-box design, aiming to cut emissions, reduce weight and improve supply chain efficiency. The partnership was reported on 28 September 2025.