Kaas-Pack Holland of Hoogeveen, Netherlands, awarded Robertpack a contract in 2020 for a complete cheese packaging line, now installed and operational. The line includes a box erector, Fanuc robot cells, a box closer and a palletising robot.

Südpack has acquired LPF Flexible Packaging, a Grootegast, Netherlands flexible packaging maker, from Clondalkin Group. MP Corporate Finance acted as exclusive M&A advisor to the seller.

De Jong Packaging is building a new multilayer distribution centre with storage and production space in De Lier, Netherlands, with real estate company WDP as investor and developer, to add production capacity. Completion is expected in 2022.

Tjoapack will invest more than €10 million over the next two years in its Etten-Leur site, growing it from 8,500 m2 to 11,500 m2 and adding eight production lines to double oral solid dose packaging capacity to over four billion tablets a year.

Sweden's SSAB has made a bid for Tata Steel's IJmuiden integrated steelworks in the Netherlands, including its packaging steels business. An analyst views the bid as fitting SSAB's focus on added-value sectors.

Royal De Heus has reached an agreement to acquire Coops Mengvoeders, a feed producer with turnover of 115,000 tons in the east of the Netherlands, subject to ACM approval. The acquisition does not affect employment.

Berlin Packaging has acquired Vinkova B.V., a Netherlands-based glass packaging supplier serving food and beverage markets, strengthening its glass offering in northern Europe. All employees and locations are being retained.

Trivium and Ausnutria are building a new €30 million can factory at the Internationaal Bedrijvenpark Friesland in Heerenveen, Netherlands, due for completion at the end of 2020. Trivium will produce 150 million cans a year for Ausnutria's infant formula under a ten-year contract.

BHS Corrugated has taken over all shares of Universal Corrugated B.V. from Minda Industrieanlagen, effective September 2020. Uwe Leopold was appointed Managing Director of the Almelo, Netherlands plant, which employs almost 40 people.

Ziehl-Abegg Benelux added 1,400 square metres to its existing distribution centre in Nieuwkuijk, Netherlands, with two extra loading docks, to handle growing demand for energy-saving fans and motors.

German machinery maker Krones won the order for four complete PET bottling lines and the related IT landscape for innocent's new Port of Rotterdam plant, each line handling up to 32,000 containers an hour.

Smoothie maker innocent is building its first own bottling plant in the Port of Rotterdam, a greenfield CO2-neutral factory with an investment of US$250 million.

De Jong Packaging completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Bangma Verpakking, adding an erecting center in Dronten, the Netherlands, after Dutch competition approval.

De Jong Verpakking Holding, a Dutch corrugated board manufacturer, took over Bangma Verpakking in Dronten, gaining a presence in Flevoland. The Dutch competition authority approved the deal; the amount was not disclosed.

Dairy group Ausnutria and packaging company Trivium are jointly building a EUR 30 million can factory at the Internationaal Bedrijvenpark Friesland in Heerenveen, under a ten-year contract, to produce 150 million cans per year for infant formula, with completion expected end 2020.

DMT Environmental Technology won a contract from Waternet, on behalf of Water Board Amstel, Gooi en Vecht, to upgrade the Amsterdam sewage treatment plant for biogas upgrading into green gas. The article is dated June 3, 2020.

MAN Energy Solutions was awarded a contract to engineer three RG compressor trains for the Porthos carbon capture, utilization and storage project in the Netherlands, which will store about 2.5 million tons of CO2 per year under the North Sea.

Flamco, an expansion vessel maker owned by Aalberts, is relocating its offices, distribution centre and expansion vessel production from Bunschoten to a new building in Almere, Netherlands. The first pile has been driven and the move is expected in Q1 2021.

Fortaleza Capital acted as exclusive corporate finance adviser to the shareholders of Bark Packaging Group on the sale of a minority stake to Quadrum Capital. Bark Packaging Group is headquartered in Eerbeek, Netherlands, with 36 employees.

Erik Bos, currently CCO at Bark Packaging Group, will take over as CEO from Berny Plas, who will remain actively involved in the company.

Quadrum Capital has added Bark Packaging Group, a Dutch packaging management intermediary, to its portfolio as a minority investment to fund international growth. The article gives no deal value.

Graphic Packaging International expanded its Sneek, Netherlands folding carton facility, doubling production capacity with a new 11-colour press and a new folder-gluing line. The EUR 20 million (about $22 million) project took two years and added a 5,000 m2 building extension.

Dairy group Ausnutria and packaging company Trivium are building a new can factory at the Internationaal Bedrijvenpark Friesland in Heerenveen for EUR 30 million, shared between them. The plant is due for completion at end 2020 and needs 50 to 60 workers.

BEWiSynbra Group agreed to acquire 75 per cent of the shares in Dutch recycling company De Wijs-van Loon BV, including its subsidiary Poredo BV, which recycle expandable polystyrene in southern Netherlands. The price was not disclosed.

Corex Group opened a new production facility in Wierden, Netherlands, dedicated to consumer packaging for dry food and other segments. The line can produce 15 million cans annually.

Hoffmann Neopac is acquiring the production lines for hinged lid cans from Trivium Packaging in Deventer, the Netherlands. The purchase price was not disclosed.

NIBE Industrier agreed to acquire 51% of Nathan Holding B.V., a Benelux distributor of heating and cooling solutions based in Zevenaar, with the remaining shares to follow in two stages. Annual sales are about EUR 50 million; the price was not disclosed.

Trivium Packaging and Ausnutria have signed a 10-year contract for Trivium to produce different can sizes with its peel-off lid, supplying Ausnutria's factories in Heerenveen and Leeuwarden.

Ausnutria and Trivium Packaging are building a joint-venture can manufacturing plant of more than 10,000 square meters at Ausnutria's Heerenveen site in the Netherlands, expected to open in 2020 with capacity above 150 million cans by 2021.

Following its acquisition of CM Packaging, Hoffmann Neopac is investing in a three-piece can making line at CM Packaging's facility in Dronten, Netherlands. The investment is aimed at metal packaging capacity.

Hoffmann Neopac is investing in a three-piece canmaking line at CM Packaging's facility in Dronten, the Netherlands, adding capacity for the infant food sector. No amount was disclosed.

Hoffmann Neopac acquired CM Packaging, a longstanding metal packaging partner in the Netherlands, and the companies will operate as one entity from January 1, 2020. The price was not disclosed.

Trioplast Group signed an agreement on November 22, 2019 to acquire Dutch plastic film maker Apeldoorn Flexible Packaging (AFP) from JPF Netherlands BV, part of B.C. Jindal group. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.

ÅF Pöyry signed a contract to deliver two new turn-key process lines to Oatly's Vlissingen plant in the Netherlands, doubling the plant's capacity for oat base, with operations expected in December 2020.

Ardagh Group completed the merger of its Food & Speciality can business with Exal Corporation to create Trivium Packaging, jointly controlled by Ardagh and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board. The deal was completed on 31 October 2019.

Krohne and Samson started FOCUS-ON, an equal joint venture registered in Dordrecht, Netherlands, to develop, market and produce autonomous actuators for the process industry. The announcement was dated 30 October 2019.

Berlin Packaging agreed to acquire Netherlands-based Novio Packaging Group, which has about 160 employees and operations across northern Europe, adding plastic and glass packaging capacity. The deal was announced on 29 October 2019 and the value was not disclosed.

Berlin Packaging has acquired Netherlands-based packaging supplier Vincap & Adolfse Packaging for an undisclosed value and is merging it with its Bruni Glass division. The deal serves customers across the Benelux region.

Dow and UPM Biofuels announced the commercialization of a packaging plastics offering made from UPM BioVerno renewable naphtha, which Dow will use to produce bio-based polyethylene at its Terneuzen plant in the Netherlands.

Ardagh Group agreed to combine its Food & Specialty Metal Packaging business with Exal Corporation to form Trivium Packaging, a metal packaging company with 57 facilities and about 7,800 employees, headquartered in the Netherlands. Ardagh will hold 43% and receive about $2.5 billion in cash, with completion expected later in 2019.

Envases Universales Group, through its Danish subsidiary Glud & Marstrand, acquired 100% of pack2pack from private equity firm Gilde Equity Management in a competitive auction. Alantra advised Envases Universales on the deal.

Zijerveld, a FrieslandCampina Dairy Essentials cheese wholesaler, acquired W. Bakker Kaashandel B.V., which specializes in cutting and packaging cheese, and will integrate its activities.

FrieslandCampina agreed to sell cream liqueur manufacturer Creamy Creation, with its Rijkevoort plant and a US sales office, to investment company Wagram Equity Partners, with completion expected in Q4 2019.

ams and Wise Road Capital signed an agreement to create a joint venture, ScioSense, for environmental, flow and pressure sensors, with ams transferring its sensor business and a valuation of about USD 120 million. The company is headquartered in the Netherlands.

Machine Fabriek Elburg is taking over the activities of Nannoka Vulcanus BV, effective 1 April 2019, under the new name Vulcanus Castings BV. The Langerak (Doetichem) iron foundry produces cast semi-manufactured products for tractors, drives, vacuum pumps and earthmoving machines.

SABIC, with customers Unilever, Vinventions and Walki Group, announced the launch of ISCC certified circular polymers to be produced at SABIC's Geleen site in the Netherlands from TACOIL feedstock supplied by Plastic Energy. The products will be introduced to market in 2019.

LC Packaging acquired a majority stake in Hagens Verpakkingen, a box erection company in Venlo, Netherlands serving the fruit and vegetable market. The Hagens name and existing customer operations are unchanged.

Gas boiler maker Remeha announced it is taking over Dutch heat pump specialist Techneco, which will continue as an independent subsidiary. The deal is aimed at making Remeha a market leader in heat pumps.

SABIC signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based PLASTIC ENERGY for feedstock supply to its European petrochemical operations. The two intend to build the first commercial plant in the Netherlands, anticipated to start production in 2021.

CANPACK topped out a new hall at its Helmond, Netherlands can factory that will house a third production line. The expansion raises production capacity by 50 percent and will create 120 new jobs.