Framatome signed contracts worth multi-billion euros with Sizewell C Ltd for its role in the Sizewell C nuclear new build in Suffolk, covering reactor heat production systems, I&C systems, fuel supply and maintenance services.

Corrugated packaging maker Jardin Corrugated Cases reappointed Bretts Transport as its sole carrier, starting January 1 2024, after about five and a half years with another haulier. Bretts dedicated a rigid vehicle, four tractor units and ten trailers to the contract from Jardin's Sutton, Ely facility.

UK government agency FCDO Services awarded a single-supplier contract to The Alternative Pallet Company for recyclable cardboard pallets, crates and packaging elements. The contract is worth £250,000 and runs for 35 months from November 2023.

Princes signed a partnership with Capri-Sun Group to produce over 250 million juice pouches a year at its Bradford, UK site. Four production lines are moving from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, with production starting autumn 2024 and about 50-60 new jobs.

Framatome officially announced a contract with EDF for the nuclear boilers for the Sizewell site in the UK, reportedly worth €4 billion and including control systems. The announcement was made in the weeks before the article date.

Princes will take over four production lines from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and relocate them to its Bradford site to co-pack Capri-Sun juice pouches. Production starts in autumn 2024 with full capacity by spring 2025 and about 50-60 new jobs are expected.

NZT Power and the Northern Endurance Partnership awarded engineering, procurement and construction contracts worth about £4 billion across eight packages to nine firms for the Teesside East Coast Cluster carbon capture project, subject to final investment decisions planned for September 2024.

UK bioplastic firm Kelpi won a contract with fresh fruit company Blue Skies, backed by Waitrose, to develop seaweed-based packaging for fresh-cut fruit, starting with a prototype and a pilot next year in an 18-month project.

US company Emerson signed a record £16m, two-year supply contract with spring manufacturer Hanson Springs in Rochdale, UK, on or around March 12, 2024. The deal is expected to grow Hanson's turnover to £33.5m in 2024.

Earthshot Prize winner Notpla signed a contract to supply an expected 75 million seaweed-based food packaging items to caterer Levy over three years for use in more than 50 UK sports venues.

UK logistics firm Europa Warehouse signed a contract to provide 3PL storage, fulfilment and transport from its Birmingham site to packaging distributor Paramount Global's European business.

ABB won an order from Portsmouth International Port to supply a shore connection system for ferries and cruise ships under the port's Sea Change project. The system is due for installation in Q4 2024 and operation by Q2 2025.

Ablebox signed a multi-phase supply project with Emmepi Group, via its UK agent GTS Europe, for a materials handling solution at the Sherborne facility; the first phase is about GBP 450,000.

Menzies Distribution Solutions secured a three-year extension of its UK distribution contract with Saica Group, managing transport at Saica's Carrington facility covering around 450 loads per week.

Nuclear Waste Services has awarded contracts under a four-lot framework for waste containers, UN drums, soft sided packages and NOVAPAK spares, with a notional ceiling of £14.7 million over four years.

Southern Water Services awarded Find a Tender project prj_2203 for valves and actuators to five winners, including AVK UK, Glenfield Invicta, HVL Solutions, Auma Actuators and Rotork UK. Total value was not stated and the contract runs 47 months.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council awarded EagleBurgmann Industries UK a supply contract for a hydrogen top-up compressor and a process gas compressor, valued at 88,015 with work from January to August 2024. The award was dated 14 December 2023.

A GE Vernova-led consortium with MYTILINEOS was awarded a GBP 1 billion contract by National Grid Electricity Transmission and SP Transmission to supply and construct two HVDC converter stations for the Eastern Green Link 1 subsea link in the UK.

PetrolValves and its subsidiary VSI Controls were awarded a contract to supply severe service control valves, including a turbine bypass system and pressure reducing and desuperheating system, for a new energy recovery waste-to-energy plant in North London.

Score Group won a new valve management contract from INEOS FPS covering the Forties pipeline system and related assets, including the Unity Riser platform and onshore facilities, with work managed from Cruden Bay, Scotland.

Score Group was awarded a valve management contract by INEOS FPS covering the Forties Pipeline System and associated assets, including valve supply, repair, offshore and on-site services. The work is managed from Score's Cowdenbeath facility in Scotland.

Prysmian, in consortium with Siemens, won a record contract worth about €800 million to build the Western HVDC submarine interconnector between Scotland and England for NGET/SPT Upgrades Ltd. The total project value is about €1.1 billion, with commissioning scheduled for late 2015.

Harland & Wolff Group secured a GBP 61 million base contract from Cenovus Energy to carry out the mid-life upgrade of the SeaRose FPSO at its Belfast Yard, with the vessel due to arrive in early 2024.

Score Group was awarded a new valve management contract by INEOS FPS covering valve supply, repair, offshore and on-site services, inventory management and engineering support for the Forties Pipeline System and associated assets.

Broadland Drinks signed a contract with Frugalpac and Journey's End to fill and distribute Interpunkt wines in Frugal paper bottles, making it the largest UK filler of Frugal Bottles. Journey's End will expand the bottles into the UK and beyond.

TechnipFMC was awarded a large integrated EPCI contract by Equinor for the Rosebank project west of the Shetland Isles in the UK, covering subsea production systems, pipe and umbilicals. TechnipFMC committed about $500 million of the award to local value creation.

T.G. Nuttall Packaging Ltd signed a sales contract with GTS Europe for a two-colour Weipong Venus 820 casemaker, to be installed at its Manchester site in the second quarter of 2024.

Northern Ireland's Procurement and Logistics Service awarded a corrugated boxes supply contract to Diamond Corrugated Cases Limited for £860,005 (about €998,369), with three bids received.

Fischer Panda UK secured its largest contract, worth over GBP 10 million, from a global aerospace and defence company to fit generator systems to the British Army's AJAX fighting vehicles.

Sellafield Limited awarded Induchem UK a contract worth £1,413,544 for three XOMOX cartridge valves, with the award notice published on September 8, 2023.

Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) awarded a framework agreement for manufacturing and installing full pipe systems on vessels to three winners: Malakoff Limited, Hydrasun Limited and HB Hydraulics. The framework maximum value is €23,393,728.

Geothermal Engineering Ltd. awarded Exergy International a turnkey EPC contract for a 3 MWe gross Organic Rankine Cycle power plant at the United Downs site near Redruth, Cornwall, with commissioning expected by late 2024.

Exergy International signed a turnkey EPC contract with Geothermal Engineering Ltd to supply a 3 MWe ORC power plant at the United Downs site in Cornwall. Commissioning is expected by late 2024.

Sparrows Group won a three-and-a-half-year contract from INEOS FPS to provide crane and lifting equipment operations, maintenance, engineering and inspection services on the Unity platform, delivered from Aberdeen.

Duro Felguera Logistic Systems installed a fully automatic vertical storage system for corrugated board at Saica Pack's new facility in Livingston, Scotland. It is Duro Felguera's first project in the United Kingdom.

Airedale International Air Conditioning was awarded a single-tender contract worth £27,678.69 to replace compressor 4 on chiller 2 and related capacitors at the Frenchay Campus of the University of the West of England in Bristol. The award was published on 12 June 2023.

Bip Solutions Limited, based in London, awarded a supply and installation contract for blowers and compressors to Atlas Copco, Sulzer Pumps Wastewater UK and MB Air Systems. The value was not stated.

Coral Products subsidiary Tatra Rotalac signed an exclusive three-year agreement with a leading UK distributor of BRC packaging containers to supply ice cream and food containers, expected to generate £1.5-2.0 million in sales per year. The announcement was made on 20 March 2025 in Wythenshawe, Manchester.

Braintree District Council awarded Paramount Packaging (UK) Ltd a one-year supply contract of up to 5 million pink recycling sacks worth £122,500 on 22 May 2023.

P. Wilkinson Containers and William Say are supplying three separate commissions of Coronation tins for The Royal Collection, Waitrose and Daylesford. The Royal Collection and Waitrose orders integrate with existing ranges.

Walstead Group has won a five-year contract to print News UK's Saturday Times, Sunday Times and Sun on Sunday supplements at its Bicester site, moving them from Prinovis in Liverpool. The contract value was not disclosed.

Technip Energies won a contract for a LanzaTech sustainable aviation fuel facility in the UK. The article gives no contract value or further details.

Wipak has extended its long-term warehouse and distribution contract with Wrexham-based McCarthy Group, which will support Wipak's expansion plans. The contract value was not disclosed.

Liverpool-area logistics firm SSO Logistics Ltd signed a 12-month distribution deal with St Helens packaging supplier Venturepak, which makes injection-moulded food-safe plastic containers, using its Pallet-Track network.

Score Group Limited was awarded a five-year framework contract by National Grid Gas Transmission and Metering to procure, supply and stock valves and actuators across the UK gas network. The scope covers valves up to 48 inches and all pressure classes.

Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Ltd awarded a supply contract for valves to two winners, Hydrasun Limited and LK Valves & Controls Limited, with a lot value of £1 million. The award notice was published on 9 February 2023. The place of performance is Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire.

Complete Co-packing Services won a new co-packing contract with an unnamed major UK brand after investing in liquid mixing and filling equipment and a warehouse and fulfilment centre. The article is dated 8 February 2023.

Babcock & Wilcox's environmental and renewable units won a roughly $65 million contract from Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant Ltd to provide engineering and technologies for a waste-to-energy plant near Manchester, UK. The plant will generate 60+ MW from about 600,000 tonnes of waste annually.

Teknotherm Marine, part of Heinen & Hopman, will design and supply HVAC systems for two offshore platforms for the Hornsea Three wind project in the UK North Sea. Aibel awarded the contract, and Ørsted will operate the platforms.

Wärtsilä signed a repeat order with EDF Renewables UK and Ireland to deliver a 50 MW / 100 MWh lithium-ion grid-scale battery storage facility in Sundon, Bedfordshire, as part of an Energy Superhub. Construction is expected to start in spring 2023.