BUA Group signed an agreement with Austria's Starlinger for machinery for a packaging facility with capacity of 600 million polypropylene block-bottom bags per year. The deal is Starlinger's largest contract in Africa.

Austria's Starlinger will equip Nigeria-based Bua Group with packaging machinery for a new facility expected to produce 600 million PP block-bottom bags annually. Starlinger calls it its largest contract in Africa and its second-largest globally.

Sidel sold its 1,000th EvoBlow blow-moulder to Nigerian co-packer StrongPack for a new 86,000 bottles-per-hour high-speed PET water line, due to be installed in early 2023. The line includes a Combi SF100 filling and capping solution.