Motion Industries broke ground on a $11.1 million, 104,000-square-foot shop facility in Irondale, Alabama, housing its fluid power shop, hose and rubber shop and engineering department. The project was announced in October 2020, is expected to finish in Q3 2021 and will create 15 new jobs.

Advanced Barrier Extrusions, owned by Graham Partners, agreed in October 2020 to acquire Berry Global's U.S. flexible packaging converter business for $140 million. The business comprises six printing and laminating facilities and will operate under the ABX name.

Hood Container installed a new state-of-the-art 98-inch Fosber corrugator at its Chicago facility to expand its product range and speed to market.

Parker Hannifin's HVAC Filtration Division announced a multi-year investment in its existing Jeffersonville, Indiana facility to increase manufacturing capacity for HEPA and medical filters. The investment is supported by the River Ridge Development Authority and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.

Trillium Pumps merged its Salt Lake City, Utah facility into its Fresno, California plant, making Fresno its North American headquarters for pump manufacturing. The company expects to add more than 50 jobs, with the move to be completed by late 2021.

TemperPack plans to add manufacturing equipment at its Henrico, Virginia production plant, with a $21 million investment in new machinery and additional jobs. The expansion follows a $31 million fundraising round in August.

Endries International has acquired K&L Sales, Inc., a Wisconsin distributor of riveting products, fasteners and installation tools. K&L also offers vendor managed inventory services and a tool repair center.

Rusken Packaging has opened a new facility in Conyers, Georgia, consolidating its former Canton and Conyers locations under one roof. The site includes a new BOBST Discovery Flexo Folder Gluer and sits next to corrugator supplier Corrugated Supplies Company Atlanta.

U.S. Corrugated will close its 35-year-old full-line box plant in Newark, New Jersey, and transfer operations to the planned Dover, Delaware plant by the end of 2021.

U.S. Corrugated plans to buy about 40 acres south of Dover and build an approximately $80 million corrugated cardboard box manufacturing plant bringing 150 jobs to Kent County, Delaware, reported September 29, 2020.

N95 respirator maker Moldex-Metric will retrofit an existing building in Lebanon, Tennessee, for its first Tennessee manufacturing facility, with a $25 million investment and over 200 jobs over three years, announced September 29, 2020.

Goodwill of the Heartland converted a former food distribution centre in Coralville, Iowa, into a vegetable oil packaging facility after investing $8 million. The facility has nine full-time employees and began operating after remodelling completed in June 2020.

SKF will consolidate its factories in Avon, Ohio and North Charleston, South Carolina into its Sumter, South Carolina factory, reducing staff by about 115 with restructuring costs of $4 million. The changes take about 12 to 18 months.

SKF is investing approximately $28 million to expand and automate manufacturing at its Sumter, South Carolina factory, which will consolidate production from Avon, Ohio and North Charleston, South Carolina. The investments take 12 to 18 months to implement.

Grundfos has broken ground on a new 45,000 square foot facility in Brookshire, Texas, to house its Americas Regional Center. The expansion is expected to bring about 90 positions to the area.

Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services was named subcontractor by Aptim Federal Services on a NAVSEA contract to decommission and dispose of the Surface Ship Support Barge in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

UK paper board maker PALLITE announced a joint venture with Madison Polymeric Engineering of Connecticut to manufacture and distribute its paper honeycomb storage products, pallets and crates in the US and Mexico.

Williams International will expand its Ogden, Utah plant, adding 300 jobs and moving production from a shuttered Guaymas, Mexico facility. The $60 million project received a $6.8 million state tax credit approved in September 2020.

Bennett Packaging plans a nearly $70 million, 524,300-square-foot corporate campus in Kansas City to move the core of its custom corrugated packaging and retail display operations. Kansas City council members voted to approve up to $48 million in Chapter 100 industrial revenue bonds.

Canadian manufacturer Modern Manufacturing selected Eudora, Kansas for a new production facility making railway crossing light systems and steel bungalows, buying a 50,000 sq ft building and about 18 acres, with about 40 new jobs.

Frankston Packaging Company completed its acquisition of Paco Label Systems, a Tyler, Texas maker of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive labels, announced on 16 September 2020.

Wilo USA is building a 250,000 sq ft headquarters and manufacturing campus on Highway 60 in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, with opening planned for early 2022.

Phillips 66 awarded Charbonneau Industries a contract for additional mainline valves for its C2G Ethane Pipeline System, which links a storage complex at Clemens Caverns to a new petrochemical complex near Gregory, Texas. Flowserve will supply 15 16-inch 900-class slab gate valves with electric actuators.

Following Atar Capital's acquisition of WinCup, Brad Laporte was appointed chief executive officer and Michael Winters president and chief revenue officer.

Westfield Fluid Controls, an affiliate of Westfield Hydraulics, will invest $5.1 million to relocate a manufacturing operation from San Fernando, California to a 30,000-square-foot facility in Lafayette, Louisiana, creating 67 direct jobs.

Caterpillar signed an agreement to acquire the Oil & Gas division of Scotland-based Weir Group for $405 million in cash, pending shareholder and regulatory approval. The division is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Mpac Group acquired Switchback Group, a US maker of packaging equipment such as cartoners, case packers and labeling machines, for $15.36 million on September 9, 2020.

Atar Capital has completed the acquisition of WinCup, a Georgia-headquartered maker of foodservice packaging, from funds managed by BlackRock. WinCup operates eight manufacturing facilities and employs nearly 1,000 people; financial terms were not disclosed.

Tenaris will invest 11 million US dollars to upgrade the caster line at its Koppel, Pennsylvania facility so it can produce larger steel bars. The project is expected to take 14 months and finish in the second quarter of 2021.

Graphic Packaging opened a highly automated 1.2 million sq ft folding carton factory in Monroe, Louisiana, consolidating two plants and three warehouses. The 180 million US dollar investment will convert more than 1.4 billion beverage cartons a year.

Cattron acquired LOFA Industries and Antx to build an engine and pump management portfolio of radio remote control, automation and telemetry products. The products serve oil and gas, municipal water, agriculture and other industries.

Ball Corporation plans a new aluminum beverage packaging plant at the former Techneglas site in Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, creating about 230 jobs with an investment of about $360 million over multiple years.

Master distributor Industrial Valco announced the purchase of Beric Valves, a producer of cast and forged steel gate, globe, check and ball valves for the United States and its territories.

Rohrer completed a expansion of its Wadsworth, Ohio facility adding 20% floor area to reach 200,000 square feet, making it the company's first Center of Excellence.

ePac will install 26 HP Indigo digital presses, with the first HP Indigo 25K installation at its new Sacramento, California site. The presses will create a 76-press global fleet by 2021.

Atkore plans to spend $3 million to expand its Louisville, Kentucky plant, under a new proposal approved for state incentives. The announcement is dated August 31, 2020.

HP Inc. agreed to supply 26 HP Indigo 25K digital presses to ePac Flexible Packaging, creating a 76-press global fleet by 2021. The first installation is a new ePac site in Sacramento, California, starting the following month.

HP Inc. agreed to supply ePac with 26 additional HP Indigo 25K digital presses, creating a 76-press fleet by 2021 as ePac expands in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The first installation is a Sacramento, California site starting in September 2020.

Georgia-Pacific started manufacturing curbside recyclable paper padded mailers for e-commerce at its recently opened Arizona facility, with Amazon as the key customer.

TricorBraun agreed to acquire Price Container and Packaging, a rigid packaging distributor serving industrial and food markets with facilities in Utah and Washington. The transaction was expected to close in September 2020.

Compass Energy Systems signed an agreement to acquire Exterran's U.S. natural gas compression assets, including its Brittmoore Road facility in Houston, with closing expected in Q4 2020.

Bunzl agreed to acquire MCR Safety, a US distributor of largely own-brand personal protection equipment and safety products, in a deal expected to complete at the end of August 2020. Aggregate revenue of the businesses being acquired in 2019 was US$248 million.

Altium Packaging plans to invest more than $3 million in new equipment at its Argos facility in Marshall County, Indiana, creating 10 jobs and retaining 48 existing jobs. The Argos Town Council approved a personal property tax abatement for the project.

Schulz of America, a US subsidiary of Joinville-based Schulz Compressores, opened a new facility in Acworth, near Atlanta, Georgia, after investing about US$2.5 million to expand its presence in the North American market.

Green Bay Packaging will begin construction of a new 550,000 sq ft corrugator plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, replacing its 180,000 sq ft plant there. Construction starts September 1, 2020, with start-up scheduled for October 2021.

Serva Group announced the acquisition of ValTek Industries, a Permian-based maker of hydraulic fracturing pumps and pump parts with facilities in Odessa, Texas.

MHI Compressor International will supply syngas and ammonia refrigerant compressor trains for Gulf Coast Ammonia's ammonia plant in Texas City, Texas, which Air Products will build and operate.

PaperWorks is adding a Komori GLX740 offset printing press and two Bobst MasterFold folding gluing lines at its Greensboro, North Carolina facility to increase production capacity. The equipment is expected to be in production in Q4 2020.

Dover Precision Components opened a new roughly 12,000 sq ft Innovation Lab in Houston, Texas, housing test rigs for fluid film bearings and reciprocating compressor components.

Kubota will transfer part of its compact track loader production for North America to a new plant in Salina, Kansas, run by subsidiary Great Plains Manufacturing. Mass production is set to start in 2022, with an investment of about $53 million.