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.

Britvic has invested £100m in three new high-speed can lines at its Rugby manufacturing site, creating 80 jobs and producing 6,000 cans per minute, as part of a £240m three-year GB investment programme.

Sunderland-based Pakway, which turns waste plastic bottles into packaging sheet, plans to double its capacity, with a second production line arriving in April 2018 and full capacity expected by end-2018.

Gruppo ASA installed a new aerosol can production line at its Liverpool, UK site in October 2017, investing about EUR 1 million and doubling the plant's aerosol capacity.

ActionPlas, a Leeds-based plastics supplier, invested over £1 million in new machinery, a warehouse expansion of 4,000 sqm to 7,600 sqm, and staff. The investment includes two Haas milling centres and new CNC routing equipment.

Cepac is investing £2m to expand its corrugated packaging factory at Rawcliffe Bridge, East Yorkshire, with a new 45,000 sq ft production and warehousing facility under construction. The article is dated July 11, 2017.

Konings plans to submit a planning application for a GBP 35 million expansion of its Boxford, Suffolk factory, adding a cider canning line, a PET bottling line and warehousing. The project is expected to create up to 116 new jobs.

Board24, part of the Logson Group, is investing a further £5m to extend its Preston sheet feeder operation by 4,000sqm, raising loading and storage capacity by 30% and adding a fourth material handling line.

i2r Packaging Solutions opened a new warehouse at its Telford manufacturing facility after investing about £1.5m in 2016. Staff are expected to rise from 85 to 100 and the company plans to add aluminium and paper lines.

Invertek is investing in a new 5,000 square metre factory adjacent to its Welshpool HQ, enabling production of over 400,000 variable frequency drives per year. The announcement was reported on 4 January 2017.

Fort Vale Engineering is adding a new casting foundry and a sports and recreation centre at its Calder Vale Park site in Burnley, jointly valued at £5.7 million. The projects mark the company's 50 years of service in 2017.

Eriez is investing US$425,000 in a new rotor manufacturing facility at its European manufacturing headquarters in South Wales.