Ardagh Glass Packaging North America signed a supply agreement to continue manufacturing all of Sprecher Brewing Company's glass beer and beverage bottles, including a redesigned custom 16oz bottle made at its Burlington, Wisconsin facility.

Beverage and liquid packaging co-packer BEC Co-Packers will invest $2.5 million to expand in St. Tammany Parish, buying a long-vacant building on Highway 11 in Slidell for production and warehousing. The expansion could create up to 150 jobs, with a fourth production line planned to open this summer.

Cascades announced the permanent shutdown of paper machine number 2 at its Niagara Falls, New York mill, which had been temporarily shut down since November 2022.

Cascades began production at its converted Bear Island, Virginia mill, which has annual capacity of 465,000 short tons of 100% recycled containerboard and 180 permanent jobs.

Novvia Group acquired Northern Container, a stocking distributor of industrial rigid containers based in Alsip, Illinois, in May 2023. Terms were not disclosed.

Rand-Whitney held a ribbon-cutting for its new 384,000 square foot corrugated packaging facility in Boylston, Massachusetts, costing $120 million. The plant has a BHS corrugator and can produce 300 million boxes annually.

Hydrotech, Inc. announced its acquisition of Isaacs Fluid Power Equipment Company, a fluid power distributor based in Mason, Ohio, with six locations in the Midwest. Isaacs will operate as a division of Hydrotech, and specific terms were not disclosed.

Dallas-based Singer Industrial acquired Arizona-based Hotsy Industrial Systems, a maker of pressure washers, air compressors, wastewater treatment systems and detergents, with financial terms undisclosed. Hotsy will operate within Singer's Fluid Power Division from its Tucson location.

B2B Industrial Packaging, a GenNx360 company, announced the acquisition of Millennium Packaging Inc., a South Elgin, Illinois provider of shrink film, stretch film, packaging equipment and corner board. It is B2B Industrial Packaging's 29th acquisition.

Honeywell agreed to acquire Compressor Controls Corporation (CCC), a turbomachinery control provider, from INDICOR LLC for $670 million in an all-cash deal announced April 26, 2023. The deal is about 15x 2023E tax-adjusted EBITDA.

Canadian packaging firm Kruger has opened its first US corrugated plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, a $142 million facility with high automation. It is expected to employ 150 people and produce 2.4 billion sq ft of recycled corrugated boxes a year when fully operational.

BorgWarner plans to invest $42 million to expand its Seneca, South Carolina facility, adding 3GWh of annual battery module capacity and about 122 jobs over three years. Expansion begins in Q2 2023 with completion expected in the first half of 2024.

TCCI Manufacturing is developing an EV Innovation Hub in Decatur, Illinois, combining an EV components production line, a climatic testing centre and a training academy. The project is part of a public-private partnership with the state and local schools.

Pleasant Prairie approved site and operational plans for a roughly 50,000-square-foot addition to LMI Packaging's facility. LMI plans to start construction in May 2023 and finish in November, and expects employment to rise to 200 or 300 full-time.

Fresenius Kabi's Ivenix infusion system has been awarded a Vizient Innovative Technology contract, setting terms for Vizient's U.S. hospital members to evaluate and purchase it. The announcement was made in April 2023.

TPC Printing & Packaging plans a $21 million expansion in East Ridge, Tennessee, adding a 60,000 square foot building connected to its existing plant and more than 90 new jobs. The building is expected to be operational in October 2023.

Fort Wayne-based industrial supplier 3BG has completed its acquisition of Controls and Electric Motor Co. (CEMCO), a provider of motors, drives and pumps in southwest Missouri. Financial terms were not disclosed and the Missouri facility will stay open with plans to expand.

Rusken Packaging is opening a new 440,000 square foot facility in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, expected to start running boxes in early May 2023. The site houses a BHS 110-inch corrugator and other converting equipment.

EnergyLink International completed the acquisition of UECompression Inc., a Colorado-based designer and packager of engineered compression equipment. UECompression's president Keith Kern was appointed to lead the company.

EnergyLink International announced on 11 April 2023 that it has acquired UECompression Inc., a supplier and distributor of engineered-to-order compression equipment, and appointed Keith Kern as UECompression's president.

Magnum Venus Products (MVP) bought a facility and 17 acres of land in East Tennessee, consolidating its corporate office and Knoxville assembly and service center. The expected $20 million investment over five years is estimated to create 100 jobs.

Cheer Pack North America developed a 5-oz flexible spouted refill pouch for ScottsMiracle-Gro's Ortho GroundClear weed and grass killer concentrate, the first of its kind in the weed control category.

Holland Pump Co acquired BPR Pumping & Vacuum Solutions, a Texas pump rental business with Houston and Austin branches. The deal is Holland Pump's sixth acquisition since partnering with XPV Water Partners.

MECO, a Grundfos company, acquired San Diego-based Water Works Inc, which designs and installs ultrapure industrial water systems. The deal strengthens MECO's ultrapure water treatment portfolio.

Xylem entered a definitive agreement to acquire Evoqua Water Technologies in a US$7.5 billion all-stock transaction. The deal adds advanced water treatment and service capabilities.

Busch USA has acquired Vac-Tech Inc., a vacuum pump service and sales provider with locations in Phoenix, Arizona and Richardson, Texas. Vac-Tech will keep its brand as a Busch Group company.

ABB is constructing a $100 million, 275,000-square-foot plant and offices in New Berlin, Wisconsin, adding 100 jobs, with opening scheduled for fall 2024 as part of about $170 million US investment.

The Royal Group acquired Innovative Fiber, a corrugated packaging maker in Franklin, Wisconsin, effective March 31, 2023, adding its 18th manufacturing facility.

Greif completed a $145 million all-cash deal raising its ownership of Centurion Container, a Chicago-area reconditioner of intermediate bulk containers and plastic drums, from 9% to 80%. The deal grows Greif's North American presence.

Thompson Pump distributor Florida Pumping Solutions acquired American Sock & Dewatering, a socking company in Northern Florida.

Paragon Films held a groundbreaking in April 2023 for a 70,000-square-foot expansion of its stretch film plant in Taylorsville, North Carolina.

Charter Next Generation plans a 200,000-square-foot specialty film expansion in Milton, Wisconsin, as part of a broader $270 million investment in Wisconsin.

Krones signed an agreement on 20 April 2023 to acquire 90% of Ampco Pumps Company LLC, a Wisconsin supplier of sanitary pumps and mixing equipment to food, beverage, dairy and pharma markets. Ampco generated about US$50 million revenue in fiscal 2022, and closing is expected in the first half of 2023.

PumpMan Holdings acquired the DAS Group, a Pittsburgh manufacturer's representative for municipal water and wastewater process equipment, and merged it into PumpMan Pittsburgh in Allison Park, Pennsylvania. The deal is PumpMan's twelfth acquisition.

Danish marine pump specialist Svanehøj acquired Complete Cryogenic Services in Tustin, California, which services electric submerged pumps on LNG carriers. CCS will continue as Svanehøj CCS under Svanehøj Service Solutions with its nine employees.

Berry Global began a 25,000 sq ft expansion of its Lewisburg, Tennessee stretch film facility, adding cast lines and 10 jobs, for completion by early 2024.

Charlesbank Capital Partners' portfolio company BOX Partners acquired The Packaging Wholesalers, a nationwide packaging distributor, in a transaction announced April 25, 2023. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Victaulic acquired Horizon Metals Inc., a family-owned iron and steel foundry in Nephi, Utah, on March 30, 2023 to add large-diameter piping capacity in North America.

Houston-based Trendsetter Engineering won a contract from LLOG Exploration Offshore to design and manufacture subsea production manifolds and connectors for the Leon and Castile developments, using ATV valves, with delivery planned for early 2024.

Baker Hughes won a contract from Bechtel to supply four Frame 7 turbines, eight centrifugal compressors and two electric motor driven compressors for the first phase of Sempra's Port Arthur LNG project in Texas. The deal was announced on Monday, March 27, 2023, after Sempra's final investment decision on March 20. The price was not disclosed.

TricorBraun entered an exclusive agreement to supply BioBottles biodegradable plastic bottles to the nutraceutical industry in the US and Canada. The bottles use Symphony Environmental's d2w oxo-biodegradable technology, developed by Better Earth.

Baker Hughes won a Bechtel order to supply two main refrigerant compressors for Sempra Infrastructure's Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project in Jefferson County, Texas, following final investment decision on March 20, 2023. The package includes four Frame 7 turbines, eight centrifugal compressors and two motor-driven compressors, for about 13 MTPA nameplate capacity.

Crown Beverage Packaging is starting up a new module at its Mankato aluminum can plant that should increase end-making capacity by 65%. The plant supplies customers including Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Schell's Beer.

Crown Beverage Packaging plans to build a solar array on a six-acre site north of its Mankato aluminum can plant, with construction planned for 2024. The project supports Crown Holdings' goal of 75% renewable electricity by 2030 and 100% by 2040.

Hiru Corporation entered a multi-million-dollar co-packing agreement with VOSS Water to bottle still and sparkling water for Voss's Western US operations at its Glendale, Arizona and Denman, California plants. The announcement was made on 24 March 2023.

Graphic Packaging International announced a new facility in Waco, Texas, with a state-of-the-art coated recycled paperboard machine and 640,000 square feet of production and warehouse space valued at $1 billion. The company expects to create around 230 local jobs.

Clayco, JB2 Partners and ElmTree Funds broke ground on WestRock's new 410,000-square-foot corrugated box plant in Longview, Washington. Production is due to begin in fall 2023 and create about 40 jobs.

Golden Triangle Polymers, a joint venture of Chevron Phillips and QatarEnergy, has named contractors for its $8.5 billion polyethylene plant in Orange, Texas, which is expected to employ about 4,500 construction workers. Production is expected to begin in 2026.

Lexair is acquiring manufacturing assets and intellectual property licenses from Keystone, an Emerson brand, for U.S. Navy products. Production will move from Emerson's Pasadena, Texas facility to Lexair's Lexington plant.

Lexair Inc. will expand its Lexington, Kentucky operations with an $8.5 million investment, adding 35,000 square feet and creating 14 full-time jobs. The announcement was made on March 15, 2023.