Italian packaging maker Gruppo Fanti will invest $30 million to buy and reuse the former Signode building in Weirton's Half Moon Industrial Park, creating at least 40 jobs. It is the group's first U.S. plant.

Gryphon Investors acquired Vessco Holdings, a Minneapolis distributor of flow control, pump and automation equipment, from O2 Investment Partners together with Vessco's management team. Terms were not disclosed.

Duravant has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cloud Packaging Solutions from its parent Hearthside Food Solutions. Cloud, based in Des Plaines, Illinois, makes high-speed flexible packaging equipment.

Klöckner Pentaplast will expand its production facility in Beaver, West Virginia by adding thermoforming capabilities for sustainable food trays. The investment, worth several million dollars, will create 21 full-time jobs.

Altium Packaging has acquired the assets of SFB Plastics, Inc., a Wichita, Kansas maker of HDPE blow-molded industrial containers. The deal was announced on November 16, 2020.

Entekra planned a new production facility in Modesto, California for off-site framing for residential and commercial construction, and equipped it with a compressed air system supplied by Rogers Machinery.

SPIG Industry, a highway guardrail manufacturer, will invest $7.9 million to expand its operation in the Bristol-Washington County Industrial Park in Virginia, building three production plants and a welding shop and hiring 113 people.

FirstElement Fuel Inc. ordered a vertical non-lube API-618 hydrogen compressor package from Burckhardt Compression for its upcoming hydrogen transfill facility in Northern California. The unit will be manufactured in Pune, India.

Japan-based CKD Corporation will establish its first U.S. production site in Austin, Texas, with a $13 million investment creating up to 70 jobs. The facility will make fluid control components for the semiconductor industry and is scheduled to start operations in Fall 2021.

ANDRITZ received a contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District to rehabilitate turbines and generators at the 186 MW Barkley hydroelectric plant on the Cumberland River in Kentucky, with an order value of about 65 million euros and first-unit commissioning expected in September 2023.

Buffalo Rock Company bought over 1 million square feet of warehouse and office space in Birmingham, Alabama, and plans to invest $75 million in new technology, renovations and an automated warehouse, creating 25 to 50 jobs.

Golden West Packaging Group acquired Berry Pack and Progressive Packaging Group, two California-based fresh produce packaging and distribution providers with operations in California, Arizona and northern Mexico.

Sunbelt Supply's affiliate FloWorks International acquired Oliver Equipment Company, a Houston-based specialty rotating equipment and packaged systems provider with five branches. Terms were not disclosed.

Inovar Packaging Group acquired Kansas City-based Tabco, a label and packaging manufacturer founded in 1957, in partnership with its existing management team, announced on 4 November 2020.

Chicago-based BASCO, Inc. announced the acquisition of Youngstown-based Youngstown Barrel and Drum (YBD), a distributor of industrial packaging. YBD customers will gain access to BASCO's wider product lines.

Lufkin Industries completed its acquisition of Schlumberger's North American Land Rod Lift Business, a provider of rod lift products and services with brands including Don-Nan and Shores Lift Solutions.

AD finalized a merger agreement with PVF buying group Delta Distributors, effective January 1, 2021, bringing collective member sales in AD's PVF Division to over $11 billion.

Wilo USA held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 244,000 sq ft headquarters and production facility in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

Pelican Energy Partners closed its purchase of the Surface Pressure Control Flow business unit of Baker Hughes on 31 October 2020. The unit becomes an independent company called Vault Pressure Control, serving pressure control customers in the US, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Trinidad and Tobago.

Cummins-Wagner finalized its acquisition of F.R. Mahony & Associates, a Rockland, Massachusetts water and wastewater manufacturer's representative and distributor, effective October 29, 2020. All FRMA employees transferred to Cummins-Wagner's employee stock ownership plan.

Voith has been contracted by Domtar to deliver equipment and technical services for converting the paper machine at its Kingsport mill in Tennessee to recycled containerboard. The mill is expected to be complete in 2022 and will produce 600,000 tonnes of linerboard and corrugated medium per year.

Ardagh Group, Glass - North America, has selected TricorBraun WinePak, a division of TricorBraun, in a strategic alliance announced October 28, 2020. The article is a short excerpt with few details.

McKinley Paper will receive a $5 million state Local Economic Development Act grant to build a new boiler, water systems and wastewater treatment in McKinley County, New Mexico, retaining at least 125 jobs after its power supply closed.

U.S. Corrugated of Delaware chose Dover, Delaware as its preferred location for a new $80 million, 457,000 sq ft box-manufacturing plant creating 159 jobs, with state grants of over $3 million under consideration.

Flexible packaging converter Glenroy, Inc. appointed Tom Danneker as President and CEO and William Dopp as CFO; the company plans a major campus expansion to boost film and pouch production, due for completion in 2021.

Ardagh Group is adding two new high-speed beverage can manufacturing lines at its Olive Branch, Mississippi facility, starting production by end of 2020 and adding more than 80 jobs.

Toyota Industries Compressor Parts America will expand its Pendergrass, Georgia production facility to add a DC-AC inverter production line and 15,000 sq ft, investing $5.5 million and creating at least 27 jobs over 18 months.

Private equity group KCE of Bilbao, Spain completed the acquisition of CTL Packaging USA Inc., the U.S. manufacturing subsidiary of Corporacion Juan Celaya located in North Carolina, via a stock deal.

Ball Corporation and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment launched a global partnership covering aluminum beverage packaging and recycling at venues in Denver, Los Angeles and London, including naming rights for the Denver arena.

Ball Corporation and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment established a partnership across venues in Denver, Los Angeles and London to provide aluminum beverage packaging and boost recycling. The Denver arena will be named Ball Arena.

Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies, plans to invest approximately $650 million through 2027 in a new manufacturing facility in Buncombe County, North Carolina. The operation is intended to create 800 new positions.

Chicago-based private-equity firm Capital Concepts Holdings, LLC acquired QCC, a precision machining, assembly and testing services provider. The announcement is dated 29 April 2021.

QCC LLC acquired the Woodward EFC (Electronic Fuel Control) product line, supporting continuity of supply for industrial, mobile off-highway and energy customers. The announcement is dated 16 December 2024.

Alfa Laval has won an order worth nearly $15 million to supply a pretreatment processing line, including high-speed separators and heat exchangers, to HollyFrontier for renewable diesel production in the U.S. Delivery is scheduled for 2021.

Emerson will open a new manufacturing facility in Ash Flat, Arkansas, investing $35 million and creating about 245 jobs within four years.

Opus Packaging Indianapolis agreed to acquire substantially all assets of Arvco Container Corporation's Indianapolis location, and offered employment to its current employees, effective October 5, 2020.

ELGi USA, a subsidiary of Elgi Equipments, formed G3 Compressors, LLC, a North Carolina joint venture with 50% ownership held by Chad Gooding, with a proposed total investment of $100,000 in Class A shares.

Priority Plastics says it acquired and installed injection stretch blow molding (ISBM) equipment at its Portland, Indiana facility to increase PET container capacity. The article gives no installation date.

Saica Group held a groundbreaking on a 350,000 sq ft corrugated packaging plant in Hamilton, Ohio, its first US plant, representing a $72 million investment and expected to create 64 jobs.

Hilite International is expanding its Whitehall, Michigan operations with state support, a project expected to bring $9.6 million in private investment and 108 new jobs by 2022, chosen over a site in Texas.

Rolls-Royce announced a $13.9 million investment in its Power Systems unit for a new R&D building and a multi-phase expansion of its mtu power generation plant in Mankato, Minnesota, adding 28,000 sq ft and 20 manufacturing jobs.

SIG SAUER is poised to acquire a multi-building campus of up to 210,000 sq ft in Rochester, New Hampshire, to relocate its Dover operation and expand manufacturing, with about 300 new jobs expected.

Churchill Asset Management acted as administrative agent for a $48 million senior secured credit facility supporting GenNx360's acquisition of B2B Industrial and the assets of AMW Packaging Supply. The announcement was dated 2020-10-09.

Polyplex USA announced a $100 million-plus expansion at its Decatur, Alabama facility, adding a second BOPET film line with 50 thousand tonnes capacity and resin debottlenecking. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2021 with production expected by end 2022.

GenNx360 Capital Partners acquired industrial packaging distributor B2B Industrial and the assets of AMW Packaging Supply, both US-based suppliers of packaging supplies and equipment. The deal was announced on 2020-10-08 with no financial terms disclosed.

New-Indy JV Corp. agreed to acquire Reliable Container from Georgia-Pacific, adding facilities in Santa Fe Springs, California and Tijuana, Mexico that make custom corrugated containers and point-of-purchase displays. The transaction was expected to close in mid-October 2020.

Green Bay Packaging Inc. acquired Third Dimension Inc., a corrugated and molded foam packaging maker headquartered in Geneva, Ohio, effective October 1, 2020. Third Dimension will continue to be led by its co-founders.

GE Marine signed a contract with STM of Turkey to provide LM2500 marine gas turbines for the new MILGEM corvettes of the Pakistan Navy. The turbines will be manufactured at GE's facility in Evendale, Ohio.

PaperWorks will invest $25 million in new printing and finishing equipment to enhance North American production capacity at its Baldwinsville, New York converting facility, with installation running from October 2020 to Q1 2021.

Trillium Flow Technologies is moving its WSP Self-Primer pump line and other operations from Salt Lake City, Utah to a Fresno, California facility that becomes its US pump headquarters. The move is expected to generate more than 50 additional jobs over five years.