Coca-Cola Europacific Partners announced a planned £42.3m investment in a new 38-metre automated storage and retrieval system warehouse at its Wakefield site, adding 29,500 pallets of capacity. The build will take two and a half years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CorrBoard UK will shortly install a new £1.5 million automated palletisation system and IT control system upgrades at its 320,000 sq ft North Lincolnshire plant.

Following new shareholder investment, CorrBoard UK will install a new £1.5m automated palletisation system at its North Lincolnshire plant, alongside IT control system upgrades.

Whitham Mills Engineering has secured an order to supply a fully automatic cardboard baler (GB1108FSS) with a bin tipping solution and bale roller track to Weetabix's Northamptonshire food processing site, with a two-year warranty.

Nexen Lift Trucks announced an £8.5m investment in its Lowestoft, UK headquarters and manufacturing facility, including a 48,000 sq. ft. extension that will double output and create 40 jobs.

Wincanton was appointed to manage Britvic's new automated warehouse in Rugby, Warwickshire, which went live in March, with the contract extending their relationship to 2025. The facility has 33,000 pallet positions.

Longacre Group announced the acquisition of Pyroban and Pyropress, makers of explosion protection equipment, from Caterpillar Inc. Brian Quarendon joins as CEO to carry out the carve-out and drive growth.

Babcock DSG, part of Babcock International Group, placed a single-lot GBP 94,000 contract with Schoeller Allibert for the supply of tote boxes and lids, running from October 2017 to February 2018 in Telford.

CPM Holdings acquired Manchester-based Proline Engineering, a supplier of high-speed conveyance solutions and services for the metal packaging industry, which will join Greenbank Technology in CPM's metal packaging platform.