Atlantic Pumps is moving to a new 1.25-acre site on Carrwood Road in Chesterfield, UK, consolidating its Chesterfield and Sheffield operations into a manufacturing and research hub. The move follows growth and has already created several new jobs.

Pharmaceutical packaging firm Origin has opened a new warehouse in Scunthorpe, about three times the size of its previous 25,000 sq ft site in Melton. The facility has capacity for 4,900 pallet spaces and is currently rented.

Esterpet, set up by Esterform management, secured £9m of asset finance from Shawbrook Bank to buy two Starlinger rPET production lines at Sherburn-in-Elmet, Leeds, each capable of over 13,000 tonnes a year.

IMI Truflo Marine, part of IMI Critical Engineering, agreed a 15-year lease on a new 57,000 sq ft manufacturing and design headquarters at Birmingham's Advanced Manufacturing Hub, developed by Barberry Industrial, with construction possibly starting before year-end and completion expected in Q3 2021.

Progroup and Krystals have started operating a new £20 million packaging park in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, combining Progroup's corrugated board plant with Krystals' packaging production on one site.

Progroup and Krystals have started operating a joint packaging park in Ellesmere Port near Liverpool, linking Progroup's corrugator with Krystals' packaging production. Progroup's investment in the corrugated board plant and packaging park totals more than £90 million.

BioPure Technology, owned by Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group, will build a 120,000 sq ft fluid-path component factory at Dunsbury Park in Portsmouth, creating 120 jobs, with work starting later in summer 2020.

Progroup and Krystals Premier Packaging will invest £20m (€22m) to create a packaging park at Progroup's sheetfeeding site in Ellesmere Port, UK. Progroup will invest in site infrastructure and Krystals in a new production facility.

GMI Construction Group has completed a new 118,000 sq ft purpose-built manufacturing plant in Huddersfield for Aflex Hose, a maker of PTFE-lined flexible hoses. The project is valued at GBP 18 million.

Millitec Food Systems Ltd has invested £1.2 million in a new 20,000 sq ft factory in Draycott, Derbyshire, which will create around 40 new jobs. The site makes food production equipment and supports its planned expansion.

Biffa has opened a £27.5m ($35.8m) PET bottle recycling facility in Seaham, England, capable of processing 57,000 metric tons of PET per year and creating 100 full-time jobs.

Parvalux Electric Motors plans to build a new 13,000 m2 factory and headquarters in Poole, consolidating three existing sites. It has bought a 3.54ha site on Cabot Lane, with construction due to start later in 2020 and occupation in 2021.

Pitreavie Group is opening a £3.8 million corrugated box manufacturing facility of 57,000 sq ft in Westfield, near Cumbernauld, with operations starting in March 2020 and 35 new jobs.

Flexible packaging specialist ePac UK is holding a grand opening of its new Silverstone site in Northamptonshire on December 4, 2019, as announced November 18, 2019.

Yeovil-based corrugated packaging maker Ablebox will open a new 72,000 sq ft factory in Henstridge after a £7 million investment, with a high-speed corrugator built in China. The plant is expected to create 50 jobs and produce over 100 million square metres of corrugated board a year.

McLaren Packaging and Swanline Group's joint venture CorrBoard Bioenergy has invested GBP 5.5 million in a renewable energy plant fuelled by organic waste. It will supply heat and power to CorrBoard UK's corrugated board production in Scunthorpe.

Lontra opened the first purpose-built advanced manufacturing centre in Napton, Warwickshire, in partnership with Shield Group Engineering, as the first phase of a planned expansion of compressor manufacturing.

Torishima Service Solutions Europe (TSSE), the European arm of Torishima Pump Manufacturing, has leased a 2,550 sq m unit at Clyde Gateway East Business Park in Glasgow as its new European headquarters, bringing 50 engineering jobs. The move was announced on 26 September 2019 on a 15-year lease.

Aegg is preparing to open its first major UK warehouse near Eye, Suffolk later in 2019, with a 60,000 sq ft facility and a planned plastic food packaging plant. GBP 3.1 million is being invested, creating 50 new jobs.

Aegg is opening a new warehouse and manufacturing plant at Eye in north Suffolk, with total investment of £6.1 million and 50 jobs created. Phase 2 will add a facility for rigid recyclable plastic food packaging.

GMI Construction Group was awarded the contract to build a 118,000 sq ft manufacturing plant for Aflex Hose at Bradley Business Park in Huddersfield. The plant will consolidate five Yorkshire sites, boost capacity by 70% and create up to 200 jobs.

Remous Print has started building a new smart factory on a business park in Sherborne, Dorset, with a near-£1 million investment. It will consolidate the company's three current sites under one roof, with a planned move around September or October 2019.

Biffa has received planning approval from Durham County Council for a £15m plastics recycling plant at Foxcover Distribution Park near Seaham, creating around 70 jobs. Construction is expected to start in Summer 2019.

GE Healthcare opened a biotechnology manufacturing center at the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst campus in Stevenage, UK, which will produce a fiber-based biopharmaceutical purification platform from the first half of 2019.

Prowell is building a new corrugated sheet board plant with a £75 million ($96.2 million) investment in Ellesmere Port, England. Construction began in November 2017, with production expected in Q4 2018 and about 45 jobs created.

German cardboard maker Progroup invested £74 million in a new 327,000 sq ft corrugated sheet plant in Ellesmere Port, UK, replacing its existing site and creating 51 jobs. Construction completes in December 2018.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wartsila Valves, formerly Shipham Valves, is relocating its entire manufacturing operations from Hawthorn Avenue to a 60,000 sq ft premises at Humber Enterprise Park in Hull to allow for expansion.

Aquatronic Group Management's Aquatech Pressmain and Renzland Powergates have moved into a new £1.4m factory, Renzland House, in Copford, Colchester, creating five new jobs. The group makes water pumps, pressurisation units and gates.

Prowel plans a new manufacturing plant next to junction 10 of the M53 near Ellesmere, designed by UMC Architects, to produce up to 235,000 tonnes per year of corrugated board sheets. The article reports a £65m investment, although its headline cites £25m.

Mono Pumps built a new manufacturing facility in Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester, with a reported project value of GBP 500,000. Fletchers Engineering installed the gas, water, steam and pipework services, and the project took three months.

Progroup subsidiary Prowell has applied for planning permission for a two-phase corrugated board plant at Lees Lane, Ellesmere Port, with first-phase investment around £120m backed by a EUR 75 million commitment.