Smurfit Kappa is expanding its Mold Business Park plant in Flintshire with a 14,500 sq m extension, part of a EUR 40 million investment, to become the largest integrated corrugated plant in the UK. Caddick Construction was awarded the build, due for completion in summer 2022.

Laser, coding and ink technology specialist Needham Group has announced expansion plans of £30m based on revenue growth forecasts.

Glass packaging maker Beatson Clark is investing £1m to expand its on-site recycling plant in South Yorkshire and install more efficient equipment.

Britvic will invest £26.9 million to install a fourth canning line at its Rugby factory, adding about 18% site capacity and creating at least 20 jobs, with the line fully running in 2022.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners invested £28m in a new high-speed canning line at its Sidcup plant, capable of 2,000 cans per minute, creating 19 jobs. The line is set to open in June 2022.

Corrugated packaging manufacturer Durham Box has expanded its factory and invested in equipment and manpower after a period of growth. No amount was disclosed.

Siemens Gamesa will expand its Hull wind turbine blade plant at Alexandra Dock, creating 200 direct jobs in a £186 million investment. The UK Government will provide grant funding from its £160 million Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Support scheme.

Smulders Projects UK will invest £70 million to increase production of wind turbine transition pieces at its Wallsend site in North Tyneside, creating or safeguarding 325 direct jobs, backed by UK government support.

Molson Coors has invested £25m in a new hard seltzer canning line and upgrades to beer and cider packaging at its Burton-upon-Trent brewery. Installation is due to begin in late 2021, with first cans expected in late spring 2022.

Berry BPI, a subsidiary of Berry Global, installed a wash plant and recycling facility at its Heanor, Derbyshire factory. The system can recycle flexible and rigid plastics and adds around 1,200 tonnes of recycling capacity a year.

Westons Cider began operating a new canning line at its Herefordshire mill in May 2021, producing 12,500 cans per hour, as part of a £3 million investment.

ALLpaQ Packaging has expanded its Widnes operations by leasing unit two at Speke Approach, adding 30,000 sq ft of production and manufacturing space on a five-year lease.

Smurfit Kappa has approved a €40 million investment to expand capacity at its Mold plant in North Wales, making it the largest box factory in the UK. The investment includes equipment expected to cut CO2 emissions per tonne by 15%.

Contract packer Framptons has installed the UK's first SIG Combidome carton bottle filler line, the first SIG Combidome installation for plant-based beverages in Europe. The line offers three filling volumes.

PFF Group invested over £2m in custom-built machines from Hanbury-Autogil and hired 100 staff at its Washington, Tyne and Wear site to make disposable polythene aprons under a UK Department of Health and Social Care contract for 360 million aprons. The announcement is dated 5 January 2021.

Oldham-based Ribble Packaging completed a £3.5 million investment project including a warehouse extension and new corrugator and fanfold stacker machinery, raising line speeds and capacity. The project ran from February to early September 2020.

Trans-Continental Marketing invested over 3 million pounds to increase capacity at its UK manufacturing sites, completing an 18-metre roof extension to accommodate a new extrusion line, reported on 6 November 2020.

Boxes and Packaging has installed a new Dong Fang Topra AD1628 2.8m two-colour printer die-cutter at its Leicester site, replacing an older machine to add production capacity for corrugated packaging.

Wipak UK, a flexible packaging maker, is investing more than £5 million in new conversion equipment at its Welshpool site, with about 50 new jobs expected. The machinery is due to be operating by summer 2021.

Nestlé Waters is investing around £31 million in its Buxton factory in the UK, including a £26 million warehouse extension of about 14,000 square metres and a £5 million pipeline from a second nearby spring. Both projects are expected to be completed in spring 2021.

Soft drinks maker Clearly Drinks plans a multimillion-pound brownfield canning facility at its Sunderland headquarters, backed by private equity firm NorthEdge. The line, supplied by BW Integrated Systems, is expected to produce 160 million cans per year and operate from March.

Coveris has invested about £3.5m to add a second re-equipped factory to its Amberley Labels business, installing two new MPS label presses at its Boston, Lincolnshire site. The site will be rebranded Amberley Labels Boston in September.

Sharp invested £1 million to expand its Rhymney, Wales facility into commercial primary and secondary packaging, adding packaging rooms, blistering equipment and automated cartoners. Commercial blister production at the site was set to begin in June 2020.

Progroup and Krystals are expanding their Ellesmere Port site in England to create a packaging park, with 20 million pounds invested over about 16,000 square metres. Completion is expected in the second half of 2020. The announcement is dated June 4, 2020.

Flexipol, a UK manufacturer of sacks, bags, liners and pouches, has invested in all three of its manufacturing sites, adding 25% capacity as it integrates with sister brands Synpac and Palagan within Synnovia.

Oliver Valves has bought three units totalling 17,387 sq ft on the Parkgate Industrial Estate in Knutsford to expand its instrumentation, sub-sea and pipeline valve range. Completion of the new buildings is scheduled for September 2020.

Suntory Beverage & Food has invested €15.6 million (£13 million) in a new high-speed glass bottling line at its Lucozade Ribena Suntory site in Coleford, UK. The line fills 55,000 bottles an hour and was reported as opened on 2020-03-05.

Cullen Packaging is installing two Expertfold 165 folder-gluer machines from Bobst at its Glasgow corrugated packaging plant, alongside a 20,000 sq ft extension. The machines are expected to be installed by the third quarter of 2020.

Coca-Cola HBC has set aside £9.3 million of capital expenditure for a second canning line at its Knockmore Hill plant in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, with capacity of 4.8 million cans a week. The line will support production of Sleek Cans and Monster Energy products.

Lucozade Ribena Suntory launched a new high-speed bottling line at its Coleford factory, filling 55,000 bottles an hour with 40% less energy and water per bottle. The GBP 13m investment by Suntory Beverage & Food was first announced a year earlier.

Oliver Valvetek is constructing three new factory and office buildings on Parkgate Industrial Estate in Knutsford, UK, raising its holdings there from eight to 11 units, with completion due September 2020.

Glossop Cartons plans to expand its Stockport production facility by over 50% following a six-figure funding package from Lloyds Bank, reported December 13, 2019.

Smurfit Kappa applied in July to extend its corrugated packaging plant on Mold Business Park in Flintshire by more than 14,000 square metres. The company says the expansion would secure 170 existing jobs and create around 50 new ones, making Mold its largest UK production site.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.