Public Health England awarded a three-year contract worth GBP 450,000 to Intelsius for the supply of UN3373 packaging compliant with IATA PI 650 to UK NEQAS and FEPTU.

Caddick Construction is delivering a multimillion-pound design and build contract for Alpla's Warrington UK plant in Golbourne, including a logistics hub expansion and bridge link. Work is due to complete in autumn 2021.

Goplasticpallets.com has started work on a contract to provide 24,750 plastic pallet boxes to GA Pet Food Partners for its £80m Ingredients Kitchen, a fully automated warehouse operated by robots.

Robertson has been awarded an £18 million construction contract by SAICA Group to convert a former distribution centre in Livingston, West Lothian, into a cardboard manufacturing facility for SAICA Pack. The £50 million plant is due for completion in December 2021.

Coca-Cola European Partners commissioned KHS to supply a second turnkey canning line at its Wakefield beverage factory in the UK, after line 4 proved successful. The lines use Innofill Can DVD can fillers with capacity of up to 120,000 cans per hour.

Framo, an Alfa Laval company, will supply suction anchor pumping systems to Saipem for foundations of the Seagreen offshore wind farm off Scotland, its second order of this type for wind foundations.

ERIKS has won a major contract from Babcock International to supply electrically actuated valves and ancillary equipment for the Type 31 frigate programme in the UK, one of the largest single contracts ERIKS has received in the UK.

Impact Air Systems was awarded a repeat contract by Ball Packaging for scrap conveying and bale handling at its Wakefield and France production facilities. The turnkey automated solution handles aluminium can trim and reject scrap.

Lentus Composites installed a CompAir L45 compressor with dryer and filter pack at its Eynsham, Oxfordshire site, supplied by BCAS Limited. The solution is expected to cut compressor maintenance costs by 80 per cent.

Hamworthy Pumps will supply pump solutions for five Type 31 frigates built by Babcock International, with deliveries through 2028. The contract includes a total of 235 pumps over five years.

Abbey Logistics has been awarded a recycled polymer logistics and materials handling contract by Viridor, the UK's largest recycling company. Abbey will receive, store and reformat recycled plastic flakes from Viridor's Skelmersdale facility at its bag-to-bulk site on the Wirral.

Colloide won a £10 million AMP7 contract from Southern Water to supply, install and commission packaged chemical dosing units at about 78 water and wastewater sites in South East England, with an initial term of 4 years.

LLW Repository Ltd awarded a four-year multi-lot framework for radioactive waste packaging and associated services, with an estimated maximum spend of GBP 17 million. The award was dated 16 July 2020 and published on 30 December 2020.

Bibby Distribution secured a three-year contract extension to transport goods from Jardin Corrugated's UK production sites in Ely and St Ives, renewed until early 2024. Bibby oversees more than 160 deliveries each week.

Valero Energy awarded Fluor the engineering, procurement and construction contract for a combined heat and power cogeneration project at its Pembroke Refinery in Wales, including a 45 MVA gas-fired turbine generator. Osprey provided heavy lift and transport support.

East Yorkshire packaging specialist Origin Ltd has secured a 15 million unit order from the US for its Snappd single-dose sanitiser sachets, after obtaining FDA registration and US trade licences. Production is taking place at its Melton West Business Park facility.

Thames Water awarded framework agreements worth an estimated £24.4 million for supply and maintenance of valves during AMP7, with AVK UK, Gel Engineering, Glenfield Invicta, Ham Baker, HVL Solutions, Industrial Valves, MGA Controls and Saint-Gobain among the awardees.

Carlton Packaging LLP was awarded a single-supplier contract worth £2,841,600 by the UK Department of Health and Social Care to supply outer packaging for test kits. The award was dated 3 September 2020, with the contract running from June to November 2020.

UK retailer The White Company is installing Quadient's CVP Everest automated packaging system at its Northampton fulfilment centre in August 2020. The system cuts package volumes by up to 50% and cardboard use by 20%.

The White Company, a UK homeware retailer, selected Quadient's CVP Everest fit-to-size auto-boxing system for installation in August 2020 at its Northampton fulfilment centre. The system is intended to handle growing e-commerce volumes.

A GE Renewable Energy Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine consortium was selected as preferred supplier of the HVDC transmission system for RWE's 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm on Dogger Bank in the North Sea. More than 50% of the components will be made in local facilities.

Hayward Tyler Fluid Handling, part of Avingtrans, secured a contract worth an initial £2.5 million to develop a prototype valve to replace legacy components for a UK nuclear plant operator. The contract could lead to up to 150 further units.

Coventry-based Staeger Clear Packaging has won a substantial NHS contract to supply face visors, which managing director Ian Jamie says will more than double the size of the business.

MHI Vestas has finalised an order from Seagreen Wind Energy for 114 V164-10 MW turbines for the Seagreen offshore wind farm off Fife, Scotland, to be installed in 2021, with blades supplied from the Isle of Wight. MHI Vestas also signed a 15-year service and maintenance agreement for the project.

Bilfinger won two contracts worth £350m to design, procure, fabricate and build pipework and specialist equipment for Hinkley Point C nuclear station, creating 350 jobs at UK sites including Warrington, Humberside, Bristol and Somerset.

AST Plastic Containers, based on the Wrexham industrial estate in North Wales, was awarded a contract by Yara to supply its 10 litre jerry cans for use with AdBlue.

United Utilities awarded framework contracts to Technolog Ltd, HWM-Water Ltd and I2O Water Ltd for pressure management valve controllers and data systems during AMP7, with an initial requirement of 733 controllers. The award was reported on March 23, 2020.

Wienerberger procured Atlas Copco compressors, vacuum pumps and controls for its Windmill Lane brick factory in the UK, an upgrade estimated to save around £38,000 per year in energy costs.

CM Downton, part of EV Cargo, won a three-year contract to transport packaging products from two Smurfit Kappa manufacturing sites in the south-west of England. The announcement was made on 9 March 2020.

Thames Water Utilities has issued a contract award notice for supply, installation and preventative maintenance of compressors and boosters across its region. The initial term is three years, extendable to eight, and the winning supplier is not named in the text.

Procter & Gamble signed a five-year contract with UK recycling company Viridor to buy recycled high-density polyethylene for its European Ariel laundry packaging, enough to make about 200 million bottles.

Berry BPI Packaging Solutions' Hereford site renewed its contract with Bibby Distribution after nine years of on-time-in-full deliveries of shrink-wrap.

SSE Renewables appointed Petrofac as preferred supplier of substations for the 1,075MW Seagreen offshore wind farm off the Angus coast in Scotland. Petrofac will design, supply and install the onshore and offshore HVAC substations, supporting up to 100 jobs. The announcement was made on January 16, 2020.

Manchester-based Weedon Corrugating Products ordered RMM Dasong B flute corrugating rolls from Jarshire to replace existing equipment, with delivery due in February or March 2020.

i2i Europe, part of the Weedon Group, was appointed for an initial two years to update the Co-op's own-brand corrugated store delivery packaging and retail ready packaging. The work includes reducing packaging and replacing single-trip plastic with paper-based materials.

Hayward Tyler was awarded a contract to supply and manufacture eight valves for MASWEP in West Cumbria, valued at GBP 941,186. The contract was published on 7 January 2020 with a start date of 8 January 2020.

EV Cargo's Jigsaw won a contract to import and distribute glass bottles from Al Tajir's Dubai plant into the UK, with about 200 containers monthly via Bristol, Southampton and Felixstowe. The integrated solution is run with Allport Cargo Services and CM Downton.

UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council awarded Edwards Ltd. a £25,986 single-tender supply contract for a dry scroll pump for STFC RAL, with the contract running from 11 December 2019 to 14 January 2020.

Ringtons automated coffee production at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne factory with PFM Packaging Machinery, boosting output. The reported date is December 2, 2019.

EDF Renewables awarded Saipem an EPCI contract to build the 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm off the Fife coast in Scotland, covering 54 turbine jackets and 2 substation jackets. Offshore installation will be carried out by the crane vessel Saipem 7000.

Durham County Council awarded Automatic Flare Systems a contract to design, supply, install and commission a containerised air compressor for the leachate collection system at Todhills Closed Landfill Site, with a total value of £26,650. The contract runs from December 2019 to March 2026.

ABB secured a contract to supply HVDC Light converter systems connecting the Dogger Bank offshore wind project, developed by Equinor and SSE Renewables, to the UK transmission network. Aibel will deliver two offshore converter platforms. The report is dated 30 October 2019.

Following a formal tender, Scottish Water awarded Rotork UK a framework agreement making it sole supplier of new valve actuators for Scottish Water and its partners during the AMP 6 cycle. The agreement complements an existing servicing framework.

Hoppecke Industrial Batteries was selected to supply batteries for the safety systems of EDF's Hinkley Point C nuclear power station under construction in north Somerset, England. The announcement was made on 17 October 2019.

Pressure Technologies, a subsidiary of Chesterfield Special Cylinders, won a contract worth over £3 million to supply nitrogen storage cylinders to EDF Energy's Torness, Heysham and Hartlepool nuclear stations, with delivery by mid-2020.

UK corrugated packaging maker Durham Box redesigned the mixed 12-can selection pack for North Yorkshire brewer BAD Co using its EFI Nozomi C18000 digital press. The project cut production lead-time by two weeks.

Unipart Logistics signed a contract with Jaguar Land Rover to continue packing services at its two plants in central England through the end of 2022. The work covers around 100 employees and about 800,000 parts per month.

Print-Leeds won a £2m contract to become the sole wet glue label supplier for all of Marston's Beer Company's bottled beer labels, following a competitive tender. The win follows a £5m investment programme over the past two years.

Therser UK Ltd, a Stoke-on-Trent kiln manufacturer, won a major contract from Churchill China to manufacture and install a new 48-metre fast-fire tunnel kiln in Stoke-on-Trent.

Print-Leeds, a label printer in Leeds, UK, won sole supplier status for wet-glue labels for Marston's Beer Company after a competitive tender. The three-year contract is worth approximately $2.5m per year.