Grainger & Worrall's GBP 6 million investment plan includes two new melting towers at its Bridgnorth headquarters, a larger third CT scanner raising throughput capacity by 50%, and the opening of US company GW Inc.

Saica Group announced a £50M+ investment to build a new purpose-built corrugated packaging plant in Livingston, West Lothian, replacing its Edinburgh and Milngavie sites. The site is due for completion by the end of 2021.

Pitreavie Group plans a new £3.8m corrugated box manufacturing facility in Cumbernauld, Scotland.

Somerset-based thermoformed packaging firm Kingsmoor Packaging has started the year with fully refurbished design, pattern and tooling facilities.

Coca-Cola European Partners is opening a new £20 million Bag-in-Box production line at its Edmonton factory in North London, bringing its 2019 GB investment to £150 million.

Greencroft Bottling invested over £2 million in the UK's first large-scale wine canning line at its County Durham plant, working with Ardagh Group Metal Beverage Europe. The line runs at 17,000 cans per hour.

CBS Packaging installed a new 2.5m BHS corrugator at its Birmingham plant as part of its continuing investment programme, reported October 18, 2019.

LDC supported a secondary buyout of ELE Advanced Technologies, a Lancashire maker of aerospace and gas turbine components, in October 2019 to fund organic growth and capacity investment. The company later moved to a larger facility in Nelson, Lancashire, adding 40% production capacity.

Saica Pack installed a multi-million pound three-in-one flexo folder gluer from Bobst at its Thatcham site to produce corrugated boxes. The machine handles high-graphics printing of up to six colours.

Tri-Wall Europe's UK arm has secured more than £700,000 of government funding towards a £1.18m project to set worldwide standards for transporting lithium-ion batteries, with a focus on eliminating thermal runaway. The company's UK headquarters and factory are in Monmouth, Wales.

UK corrugated packaging maker Durham Box has purchased an EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED inkjet press to improve print quality and productivity. Installation is scheduled for summer 2019.

Watson Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, recently invested £20m in a new factory for its Aflex Hose brand in the UK. It expects up to 200 new jobs over the next 10 years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Belgium's VPK Packaging Group acquired a 30% stake in CorrBoard UK, the Scunthorpe corrugated sheet consortium, from Corrugated Synergies International, and also made a capital increase. The investment aims to advance sheet production volume.

Private equity investor LDC backed the management buyout of Stuart Turner, a UK water pump and pressure solutions business, to fund buy-and-build growth in commercial pumps. Existing shareholders are exiting; the deal value was not disclosed.

Weedon Corrugated Products has invested in a Fosber dry end for its in-house corrugator to boost sheet board production.

Weidmann Whiteley, a paper manufacturer in Pool-in-Wharfedale near Leeds, invested £275,000 in upgrading its paper presses and created four jobs. The upgrade helped it win a £2.5m North America contract, and it received £27,500 from the Leeds City Region LEP.

Plastics supplier ActionPlas has invested over GBP 1 million in new premises, staff and machinery to support its growth plans.

ChargePoint Technology invested in a new 5-axis machine, automated washing plant and coordinate measuring machine at its Liverpool headquarters, as part of a wider £1 million investment to speed production of containment valves up to 350mm.

Diamond Box, a UK corrugated packaging manufacturer in West Bromwich, secured an £8m finance package from Bibby Financial Services to buy a dual-print corrugated printing press.

Group HES is investing £150,000 in special purpose machinery to end-form large bore high pressure pipes up to 10 inches, and will become a UK base for the Parker Pipework Centre.

Printing and Packaging Co Ltd of Hinckley, Leicester has bought a Rapida 106 seven-colour double coater press from Koenig & Bauer to add capacity and coating options. The press is due to be installed at the end of March 2017.

A consortium led by Lontra has received a £1.5 million Energy Catalyst grant from Innovate UK to apply its Blade Compressor as turbo compounding to improve fuel efficiency of 1MW power generation engines. The project takes the technology through concept to hardware and testing.

Smurfit Kappa's Tannochside plant in Scotland has introduced C&T Channel Matrix's Corrugate creasing matrix on its high-speed bottling line. The plant produces packaging for distilleries, food producers and pharmaceutical customers.