Cosmo Films added a 120-inch-wide slitter at its warehouse in Carol Stream, Illinois, to expand flexible packaging capabilities and meet growing demand. The company announced the investment in August 2025.

Bundor Valves agreed to set up a final assembly plant for hydraulic valves at the APOZ zone in Chambers County, Texas, expected to create over 100 local jobs. The press release is dated 13 August 2025 and is promotional in tone.

Baker Hughes agreed to buy all outstanding shares of Chart Industries at $210 per share, a $13.6 billion total enterprise value, and also acquired Continental Disc. The article is dated 13 August 2025; the deal was reported as finalized in late July.

Fairbanks Morse Defense, through Hunt Valve, won a contract from Birdon to supply motor-operated valves and actuator systems for the first two U.S. Coast Guard Waterways Commerce Cutter vessels. The announcement was dated 12 August 2025.

Novelis, a subsidiary of Hindalco, said in its quarterly earnings release that its $4.1 billion greenfield rolling and recycling plant in Bay Minette, Alabama is progressing, with equipment being installed and operations expected in the second half of calendar 2026.

Fairbanks Morse Defense has secured a contract from Birdon to supply motor-operated valves for the first two U.S. Coast Guard Waterways Commerce Cutter vessels.

The Pump & Motor Works plans a $2.8 million expansion of its Okmulgee, Oklahoma manufacturing operations, adding storage buildings and manufacturing floor space and creating up to 18 jobs.

Canadian plastic packaging producer E. Hofmann Plastics has broken ground on a $43 million production facility in Madisonville, Kentucky, its first US operation. The plant is expected to create 164 jobs and be completed in 2026.

The Wornick Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, received a five-year indefinite-delivery contract worth $25,308,625 for Unitized Group Ration-A modules from the Defense Logistics Agency. The contract notice is dated 8 August 2025.

Ameriqual Packaging of Evansville, Indiana, received a five-year indefinite-delivery contract worth $221,062,100 for Unitized Group Ration-A modules from the Defense Logistics Agency. The contract notice is dated 8 August 2025.

Construction is underway on a new HOERBIGER campus in Delray Beach, Florida, comprising a 197,000 square foot office and manufacturing site for compressor valves, control systems and actuators. Ware Malcomb is providing architecture and interior design services; the announcement was dated 7 August 2025.

Hood Container will invest $118.9 million to modernize its paper mill in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, upgrading the primary paper machine to add 80,000 tons per year capacity and improving the recovery boiler. The first phase is due in Q3 2026.

Schütz Container Systems will expand its St. Joseph, Missouri site with a new building and a new manufacturing line for industrial packaging, investing $31 million and creating 20 jobs. The announcement was made on 31 July 2025.

The US Defense Logistics Agency awarded Compressor Engineering Corp a contract worth $155,661 to supply 53 inlet valves (NSN 4310010240288). The award was dated 31 July 2025.

Meson Valves, formerly Quest Flow Controls Limited of India, signed a term sheet to acquire a 51% controlling stake in QUEST Flow Controls, LLC, a valve and actuation provider in Tomball, Texas. The deal was announced on 30 July 2025 and no value was disclosed.

Sappi North America completed Project Elevate, a $500 million rebuild of Paper Machine No. 2 at its Somerset Mill in Maine that doubled capacity for SBS paperboard. Full volume is expected by 2026 as customer qualifications continue.

Ceco Environmental completed the divestiture of its Fluid Handling (Global Pump Solutions) business to private equity firm May River Capital, which combined the Dean, Fybroc and Sethco pump brands into a new portfolio company, Tusk Industrial.

Modine announced a $100 million investment over 12-18 months to expand Airedale data center cooling manufacturing at four US sites, including a new facility in the Dallas, Texas area and an expansion in Grenada, Mississippi, with possible repurposing of Performance Technologies sites in Franklin, Wisconsin and Jefferson City, Missouri.

Genera completed a $340+ million expansion of its molded fiber packaging manufacturing facility in Vonore, Tennessee, creating over 200 new jobs and bringing annual capacity to over 30,000 tons. The completion was announced on July 28, 2025.

Welspun Corp won a $580 million contract to supply coated line pipe for a natural gas pipeline network in the Permian Basin of western Texas, to be produced at its US subsidiary Welspun Tubular LLC. Deliveries are expected in fiscal 2028-29. The article's date details are internally inconsistent.

Vivos Holdings, a portfolio company of Emprise Group, announced it will combine operations with Nice-Pak Products, a manufacturer of wipes based in Arkansas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Eco King Solutions, a U.S. subsidiary of Chinese manufacturer Zhejiang Kingsun Eco-pack, will invest $80.5 million to open a disposable biodegradable tableware plant in a vacant 588,000 sq ft facility in Robbinsville, Graham County, North Carolina. The project will create 515 jobs and receives state incentives.

Hood Container Corporation announced a $118.9 million modernization of its paper mill in St. Francisville, Louisiana, centred on upgrading its primary paper machine to add 80,000 tons per year of capacity. The project will run in two phases over about two years and retain 295 positions.

Tencarva Machinery has acquired Atlantic Valve & Equipment, a manufacturer's representative serving municipal and industrial water and wastewater markets in Virginia and North Carolina, as listed in a January to June 2025 review.

Honeywell has agreed to acquire Sundyne, maker of pumps and gas compressors for process industries, from Warburg Pincus in a US$2.16 billion all-cash transaction, as listed in a January to June 2025 review.

PSG, an operating company of Dover Corporation, has acquired Cryogenic Machinery Corp, a US designer and manufacturer of cryogenic centrifugal pumps and mechanical seals, as listed in a January to June 2025 review.

Canada-based E. Hofmann plans its first U.S. facility in Madisonville, Kentucky, with a $43 million investment in a 100,000-square-foot building and equipment. Construction is slated for completion next year, and the project commits to 164 jobs.

Arglass fired up a new, larger furnace at its Valdosta, Georgia glass container plant as part of a $230 million project. The furnace is expected to produce more than 350 million glass containers per year and more than double site capacity.

American Packaging Corp plans to expand its Story City, Iowa facility to add pouch production capacity. It plans to break ground in October 2025 and complete the project by September 2026.

Cooper Machinery Services announced the acquisition of Plant Process Machine Works, a reciprocating compressor service and engineering company, from Rotating Machinery Services. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Grundfos announced a multi-million-dollar expansion with a new state-of-the-art pump production facility in Brookshire, Texas. Construction is due to start in early 2026, with first production lines starting in Q4 2027.

DK-Lok disclosed a supply contract with US-based Nudraulix worth 9,977,760,000 won for instrumentation fittings and valves. The contract runs until July 31, 2026 and equals 10.1% of DK-Lok's prior-year revenue.

TedPack LLC assumed control of all flexible packaging operations previously handled by Fairview International, effective July 1, 2025. The Fairview business had operated from Jackson, Wisconsin.

Packaging Corp of America said it will buy the containerboard business of Greif for $1.8 billion, adding two mills with about 800,000 tons of capacity. The deal is expected to close by the end of the third quarter.

Packaging Corporation of America agreed to buy Greif's containerboard business for $1.8 billion in cash, including two mills in Ohio and Virginia with about 800,000 tons of annual capacity. The deal is expected to close by the end of PCA's third quarter.

Linde will supply industrial gases to a low-carbon ammonia plant in Louisiana. The announcement was reported June 27, 2025.

ExxonMobil introduced its ExxonMobil Signature Polymers portfolio brand, uniting its polyolefin products.

ValorFlex Packaging of Kentucky, a subsidiary of ValorFlex Holdings, will establish an advanced flexible packaging manufacturing facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a $23.4 million investment creating 82 jobs.

DNOW Inc. entered a definitive merger agreement to acquire MRC Global in an all-stock transaction valued at about $1.5 billion including net debt, creating a combined energy and industrial solutions provider with over 350 locations in more than 20 countries.

Canadian plastics packaging producer E. Hofmann Packaging plans a 100,000-square-foot production facility in Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, with a $43 million investment that will create 164 jobs. Construction is expected to start in 2025 and finish in 2026.

Industrial automation distributor Tavoron acquired Arkansas Industrial Machinery (AIM), a North Little Rock distributor of compressors, pumps and fluid handling equipment; terms were not disclosed.

Hoerbiger Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Hoerbiger Holding AG, broke ground in April on a nearly 200,000 sq ft plant in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, costing over $70 million, with completion projected for 2026 and 100 additional jobs.

Inland Packaging announced a partnership stake in GOpak, a digitally printed flexible-packaging manufacturer in Delafield, Wisconsin, which employs 16 people and will keep operating at its existing facility.

International Paper is reportedly exploring the possibility of building a new facility in Salt Lake City, Utah; no decision has been confirmed.

Green Bay Packaging will invest $1 billion to expand its kraft linerboard mill in Morrilton, Arkansas, replacing recovery and biomass boiler components, adding an electric turbine generator and buying about 300 acres of land.

Cayuga Milk Ingredients, working with Tetra Pak, held the grand opening of its expanded Auburn, New York facility, part of a two-phase $270 million expansion that includes a new consumer goods dairy plant.

Sofidel finalized its acquisition of assets of Royal Interco LLC (Royal Paper), including a paper mill in Gila Bend, Arizona and converting facilities in Phoenix, Arizona and Duncan, South Carolina, with the deal announced April 9, 2025.

Baker Hughes agreed to acquire Continental Disc Corporation, a Liberty, Missouri maker of rupture discs and pressure-relief valves, from Tinicum-managed funds in an all-cash deal of about $540 million, announced June 16, 2025.

Shore Capital-backed FirmaPak, a manufacturer of blow molded packaging solutions, has acquired Lighthouse Packaging. The article gives no deal value or location.

Atlas Copco Group acquired the compressed air business of Air Mac, which sells and services compressors and blowers from sites in Dallas, Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The business had revenues of about 17 million USD in 2024 and 40 employees join Atlas Copco.