Bulk container maker WERiT opened its expanded Irlam site after an £8m investment adding a 3,000 m2 warehouse, office complex and blow-moulding machinery. The investment created nine jobs, with more recruitment planned.

Domin has completed a 40% expansion of its Domin Technology Centre in Bristol to produce tens of thousands of servo valves per year. The announcement was dated 17 September 2025.

Cepac is starting the first phase of its 36-month Rotherham 2 project, with over £53 million for infrastructure, equipment and new jobs at its Meadows Road site in Rotherham.

Kingsland Drinks has engaged MM Packaging, based in Deeside, to produce Fully Enclosed Cases from FSC-certified cartonboard for its multipacks of canned wines and ready-to-drink cocktails.

Reedbut Group, a UK corrugated packaging maker, has moved into a 94,000 sq ft facility on Bransworth Avenue in Milton Keynes. The site adds production and storage capacity for up to 4,700 pallet spaces.

Genuit Group, the parent of Polypipe, has acquired UK pump maker Salamander Pumps, previously part of Davidson Holdings, following a September 2025 acquisition.

John Crane is delivering six Type 28XP dry gas seals for centrifugal compressors at a new CO2 compression facility in North Wales, part of a carbon capture and storage project.

United Utilities Water awarded Waterfront Fluid Controls Ltd a direct contract worth £1,250,000 to supply and install eight cast iron penstocks at Great Sankey, UK.

Bunzl UK & Ireland and Huhtamaki agreed an exclusive deal for Bunzl to distribute Huhtamaki's Taste Boxes in the UK and Ireland, running until October 2025. The paper containers use a plant-protein Morro Coating developed by Xampla.

Pitreavie Packaging has invested over £1 million at its Cumbernauld production site, adding a high-speed multi-point gluer, new skilled operator roles and expanded storage. A new adjacent storage facility is also being developed.

Severn Trent Water awarded Atlas Copco Limited a contract worth £1,640,000 to supply diesel self-priming solids handling pumps and spares, for a period running to 2031. The tender notice was published on 11 August 2025, though the page lists an award date of 14 May 2026.

Sabert Corporation has announced its acquisition of Colpac Limited, strengthening its presence in the UK, Irish and European markets for paperboard packaging.

Torishima Service Solutions Europe acquired KRG Specialist Engineering Services, a Coatbridge, Scotland precision sub-contract machining company, to add machining capabilities for its parent Torishima Pump Mfg.

Team Leidos, delivering for the UK Ministry of Defence, awarded a four-year packaging and soft consumables framework with a notional ceiling of £73 million to MaxPack, DS Smith Packaging and Joseph Gleave and Son. The notice's award date conflicts with its publication date.

ePac has installed an HP Indigo 200K digital press at its Sheffield production site, its first such press in Europe. Installation was completed in April 2025 to add capacity for flexible packaging such as pouches.

Baker Hughes has been awarded a contract by Saipem to supply three CO2 centrifugal compressor trains with electric motors and gearboxes for Eni's Liverpool Bay carbon capture and storage project in the UK.

Baker Hughes was awarded a contract by Saipem to supply three electric-driven CO2 centrifugal compressor trains and a Lufkin Gears gearbox for Eni's Liverpool Bay carbon capture and storage project. The compressors will be installed at Saipem's Point of Ayr facility in north Wales. The announcement was made June 30, 2025.

Diamond Box, a UK sheet plant business with annual revenues near £50m, has been acquired by Nova Paper, a Dutch entity owned by Eren Group.

Allpack Packaging (Allgroup LLP) was awarded a published £5,500,000 contract by YPO for packaging materials, machines and consumables, announced 17 June 2025.

UK central purchasing body YPO published a contract award notice on 17 June 2025 for its 001278 packaging materials and consumables framework, with six lots and two suppliers per lot.

The Encore Group has acquired Heritage Envelopes, a UK envelope manufacturer, for an undisclosed fee. The deal was announced on 11 June 2025.

Zeus Group has acquired Empire Tapes, a UK-based manufacturer of specialist adhesive tapes. The announcement was made on 5 June 2025.

Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation awarded its 84-month packaging materials and consumables contract, split into six lots, to Arrow County Supplies, Maxpack Group, Priory Business Group, Kite Packaging, Allpack Packaging and Victoria Grant in Wakefield, UK.

Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation awarded a packaging materials, machines and consumables supply contract to six suppliers, including Allpack Packaging, Arrow County Supplies, Kite Packaging Group and Maxpack, running from 2025 to 2032.

Newcastle-based BEL Valves has secured a £5 million order to supply 11 actuated and 19 manual slab gate valves for the Murlach oil field development in the North Sea. The order was reported on June 3, 2025, and the valves are rated for pressures up to 690 bar.

KAEFER UK & Ireland has been awarded Phase 2 of a five-year agreement with Babcock International Group supporting defence projects including Type 31 frigates and submarine sustainment at Rosyth, Devonport and HMNB Clyde. The article is dated 30 May 2025.

Flowtech Fluidpower has become the first UK wholesale distributor for SMC Corporation (UK), giving customers access to a wide range of SMC standard fluid control and automation parts shipped from Flowtech's Skelmersdale facility.

The Royal Mint published a pipeline notice for a future tender to supply printed packaging, estimated at £10,000,000 excluding VAT, with contract dates from September 2026 to August 2029 and possible extension to 2031.

Sharpak Aylesham signed an exclusive agreement with Zoono and OSY to apply Zoono's shelf life extension products and OSY's application technology to its soft fruit packaging sold to UK supermarkets, running until December 31, 2029.

Leidos Supply Limited published a pipeline notice for a future tender to supply packaging and soft consumables under the UK Ministry of Defence logistics contract, with an estimated value of £73,000,000 excluding VAT over February 2026 to February 2030.

Princes Group has installed four new lines at its Bradford facility to produce over 250 million Capri-Sun juice pouches a year for Great Britain and Ireland, creating 50 jobs.

Swedish water-industry group WTR Group completed the acquisition of Oxford-based SI Pumps, a pump and pumping systems distributor founded in 1986, strengthening its UK presence.

Swedish industrial group Teqnion AB acquired Merridale Ltd, a Wolverhampton-based maker of fuel management systems, fuel pumps and tank management equipment, in a deal finalised in early March 2025.

Greencore has made a recommended acquisition offer for food manufacturer Bakkavor, with Freshfields advising Bakkavor. Deal value and terms are not stated in the article.

UK Research and Innovation awarded a below-threshold contract to Protective Packaging Ltd to supply foil packaging, worth £19,781.34 excluding VAT, with delivery from 1 to 16 May 2025.

Holden's Bottling agreed to acquire the small-pack packaging operations of South East Bottling (SEB), taking over its contract packaging volume. The deal was announced on April 28, 2025.

Framatome signed a contract with Sizewell C to procure, qualify and pre-assemble over 8,000 conventional field instrumentation systems for the two EPR units in Suffolk, and also a contract for Ultimate Diesel Generators.

Engelmann & Buckham was selected to supply packaging lines, including filling and labeling systems, for Yara International's new production facility in Yorkshire, UK. The plant is slated to begin operations in early 2026.

Paper and packaging distributor Antalis has announced the acquisition of The Packaging Company (Midlands) in the UK. The announcement is dated 4 April 2025.

Coral Products acquired Arrow Film Converters from administrators through its subsidiary Film & Foil Solutions, for a stated £502,899.

Sustainable packaging firm Pulpex leased the 88,017 sq ft Westway 90 building from Canmoor on a 20-year lease in April 2025. It will host Pulpex's first commercial-scale fibre bottle manufacturing facility.

DS Smith has renewed its packaging partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, covering manufacture, storage and delivery of packaging for JLR's products worldwide from the Mercia Park site in Leicestershire, valued at £108 million. The extension was made official at the beginning of April 2025.

Premium soft drinks maker Belvoir Farm invested £2 million in a canning line at its on-farm factory in Leicestershire, using a T. Freemantle end-load cartoner for multipacks.

Saica Flex, the flexible packaging division of Saica Group, invested €7.1 million in new converting and printing machinery at its Wigan site to boost modified atmosphere packaging production. Up to 20 new jobs will be created.

Pioneer Pump relocated its UK operations from a 10,000 sq ft site near Stowmarket to a 66,000 sq ft facility in Hadleigh, Suffolk, with two warehouse units. The company plans further expansion over the next five years.

Grenadier Packaging announced the acquisition of Kentmere Packaging, a UK-based manufacturer of folding cartons, in March 2025. The deal's value was not disclosed.

DS Smith signed a £108 million, five-year contract to extend its fibre-based packaging supply to Jaguar Land Rover, including a just-in-time on-site service at JLR's Mercia Park plant in Appleby Magna, UK.

Atlas Copco Group acquired MSS Nitrogen Ltd and three connected companies, makers of onsite gas generation systems for laser cutting, adding 44 employees; price undisclosed.

Coral Products subsidiary Tatra Rotalac signed an exclusive three-year supply agreement with a UK distributor of BRC packaging containers to supply ice cream and food containers, worth up to £6m.

DS Smith extended its five-year fibre-based packaging contract with Jaguar Land Rover worth £108 million, including an on-site one-stop-shop at JLR's Mercia Park facility in Appleby Magna, Leicestershire.