Balcan Packaging launched a five-layer wide web extrusion line at its Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin plant, enabling production of industrial sheeting up to 50 feet wide.

Axjo Group, a Sweden-based recycled plastic packaging specialist, opened a new 160,600-square-foot plant in Haltom City, Texas, and has begun producing large reels for the wire and cable sector.

Axium Packaging is expanding its Midwest presence with a new 202,000-square-foot facility in the St. Louis area, its third in Missouri. It will initially launch with extrusion blow molding and later add injection stretch blow molding.

Victaulic broke ground on a new facility at its existing foundry in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, on July 30, 2026. The $100 million investment is expected to create over 200 new jobs.

Pentair agreed to acquire Taco, which will join its Water Solutions segment and keep the Taco brand, with a significant presence in Cranston, Rhode Island. The deal is aimed at high-growth North American end-markets.

Kerr Pumps/FlowValve has started demolition and remodeling at its Highway 77 facility to house a new fabrication line for a new product. The company has hired 10 employees and plans to hire 15 to 20 more.

Gerresheimer agreed to sell Centor US Holding and its global Primary Packaging Plastics business, with 15 plants in nine countries plus Centor's US site, to Apax Funds at an enterprise value of about EUR 1.5 billion. Closings are expected by the end of FY2026 for Centor and in H1 FY2027 for the plastics business.

Pentair agreed to acquire Cranston, Rhode Island-based Taco Group Holdings, maker of pumps, valves, tanks and heat exchangers, in a deal valued at about $1.4 billion. Closing is expected in Q4 2026, and Pentair says Taco will operate as a stand-alone business.

Philip Morris International's U.S. business opened a roughly 780,000 sq ft Zyn nicotine pouch manufacturing campus in Aurora, Colorado, on 27 July 2026, with about $1 billion invested so far and $1.2 billion expected through 2028.

IBT Industrial Solutions, Inc. of Kansas City, Kansas, acquired Indesco, Inc., a Charlotte, North Carolina distributor of hydraulic, pneumatic and power transmission products; the deal closed June 26, 2026 and was announced July 23, 2026.

SIP Manufacturing, a contract beverage co-packer, is establishing operations in an existing building in Southaven, Mississippi, with corporate investment above $100 million and 187 jobs created.

Detpak, the foodservice packaging arm of Adelaide's Detmold Group, opened a 175,000-square-foot factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina, initially employing more than 50 people, with full production due in August 2026.

Exotic Automation & Supply, a US fluid power distributor with nineteen stores, announced a merger with Value Added Distributors, a Wisconsin-based Parker Hannifin distributor with 18 facilities across the Midwest and Southern US.

Detpak USA, a subsidiary of Australia's Detmold Group, will open its first US manufacturing operation in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, at a 175,000 square-foot facility on New Cut Road. The multi-million-dollar investment will create over 50 jobs, with operations expected online in August 2026.

ACR, backed by Oridian Capital Partners, has acquired RediBagUSA, a New Hyde Park, New York supplier of reusable retail bags, paper products and packaging. No financial terms were disclosed, and RediBagUSA's CEO will remain involved.

CCL Container will invest $16.3 million to install a new production line at its Hermitage City facility in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, nearly doubling production capacity and creating 30 new jobs over three years. The state is contributing $160,000 to the project.

Rolls-Royce opened a $24 million, 250,000-square-foot logistics and production center next to its mtu power-generation plant in Mankato, Minnesota, expected to more than double output of mtu Series 4000 generator sets by end-2026 and add over 100 jobs.

Spanish valve maker Ampo Poyam Valves won a contract to supply about 15,000 valves for the first five liquefaction trains of NextDecade's Rio Grande LNG project at the Port of Brownsville, Texas.

Ferguson Enterprises agreed to buy FloWorks (FWI Holdings), a flow-control equipment distributor, from Wynnchurch Capital for about $1.6 billion in cash, with closing expected in Q3 2026.

Terravanta Power Systems, a Kaishan Group geothermal company, broke ground on a $74.5 million, 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Loxley, Alabama, making screw and turbine expander systems. The project will create 63 new jobs.

Baker Hughes received awards from Bechtel Energy and Cheniere for liquefaction equipment, including gas turbines and centrifugal compressors, for Train 7 and a boil-off gas re-liquefaction unit at Sabine Pass in Louisiana, plus fleet-wide gas turbine upgrades. Together they add over 6 MTPA of capacity; the announcement was dated 9 July 2026.

AMPO has been awarded several contracts to supply about 15,000 cryogenic and non-cryogenic valves for the first five trains of the Rio Grande LNG project at the Port of Brownsville, Texas, developed by NextDecade and built by Bechtel. The announcement was dated 9 July 2026.

APPLIED Adhesives entered an exclusive arrangement to handle US distribution of Henkel's flexible packaging adhesive and coating range, combining Henkel's portfolio with APPLIED's sales, technical support and logistics. The announcement was dated 9 July 2026.

Firefly Capital Management acquired Houston-based Gravity Power & Rental, which operates over 2,000 mobile power generation units, to support expansion in the US critical power market in Q3 2026.

Packaging Corporation of America started operations at its new 550,000-square-foot corrugated box plant in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, a month ahead of schedule. The $275 million investment is the company's largest box plant to date.

Vert opened a 35,000-square-foot pouch and roll stock production site in Longmont, Colorado, built around HP Indigo digital printing, with pouch production starting in July 2026.

Ball began making beverage cans at its new Millersburg, Oregon production site in July 2026, with a single line producing standard cans and a full ramp-up targeted for 2027.

Pentair plc agreed to acquire Taco Group Holdings, a hydronic and water-based HVAC solutions maker based in Cranston, Rhode Island, for about $1.4 billion, subject to customary adjustments, announced 28 July 2026.

The Defense Logistics Agency awarded Ponderosa Packaging Corp a $875 delivery order for 36x20x15 inch shipping boxes under contract SP3300-24-D-0008, with the award dated June 30, 2026.

Mavidon, a medical device and contract packaging manufacturer, is investing $6 million to expand at the historic Oriole Mill property in Henderson County, North Carolina. The project will create 28 new jobs.

Valvitalia Group was awarded a USD 30 million contract for the U.S. Desert Southwest pipeline. The announcement was dated June 29, 2026. The customer and scope are not named in the excerpt.

Profile Films plans to build a new 97,000-square-foot facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan, next to its existing headquarters and production site, according to MLive. A city board approved a $5.1 million incentive for the project this week.

Grundfos held a groundbreaking on June 24, 2026, for a new 143,000 sq ft building in Brookshire, Texas, serving as its US headquarters and production expansion, scheduled for completion in 2027. It also opened the Grundfos Academy Americas training hub.

Grundfos held a groundbreaking for a production expansion at its Brookshire campus west of Houston, adding a new approximately 143,000-square-foot facility to make pump systems and water technologies for the US market. The investment amount was not disclosed.

Sonoco is upgrading the wastewater treatment system at its large metal packaging plant in Milwaukee, adding biogas capture and combustion, with operation expected at the end of Q3; no amount was disclosed.

Sonoco added a second rigid paper cans manufacturing line at its West Chicago, Illinois facility, doubling paper cans production capacity there; the line is operational and ramping up.

EOS Corrugated Group acquired a significant ownership stake in Stafford Corrugated Products, a North Carolina distributor of technical consumables for corrugated packaging, and named it sole US importer of its polyurethane anvil covers.

The Defense Logistics Agency awarded Ponderosa Packaging Corp. a delivery order worth $157,750 for fiberboard inserts and shipping boxes for E-Rations, to be delivered to DLA Distribution San Joaquin by July 18, 2026.

Ferguson Enterprises agreed to acquire FWI Holdings (FloWorks) under a definitive agreement announced July 13. The deal is valued at $1.6 billion.

The US Defense Logistics Agency awarded multiple-award IDIQ contracts for cushion packaging material to Ferro Solutions, FP Woll and Co and Federal Merchants Corp, with a total not-to-exceed amount of $8,961,096.38. Place of performance is New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

Buckeye Corrugated, Inc. held a grand opening and innovation showcase for its 100,000-square-foot Reno, Nevada facility, which serves as a packaging, manufacturing and distribution hub for Northern Nevada, Northern California and the western United States.

Andritz-Western Pneumatics expanded its Ruston, Louisiana manufacturing operations with a $1.4 million capital investment in a laser cutter and an overhead crane, creating 15 new jobs and retaining 35 positions.

Jet Parts Engineering, a Vance Street Capital portfolio company, has acquired Northeast Aero Compressor (NEACO), an FAA-certified repair station in Bohemia, New York. It plans significant investment at the facility. The article is dated December 2022, so the date may be older than the metadata.

Berlin Packaging has acquired O Berk Co, a US supplier of glass, metal and plastic containers and closures with sites in California, Connecticut and Maryland. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Pratt Industries will add about 346,000 square feet to its existing corrugating facility in Rockwall Technology Park, Texas, bringing the total to about 736,000 square feet. The project is expected to involve $90 million in capital investment and create 100 new jobs.

Sofidel broke ground on a $775 million expansion of its tissue plant at the Port of Inola, Oklahoma, adding a 75,000 tons-per-year Valmet TAD tissue machine and an automated finished goods warehouse. The machine start-up is scheduled for the second quarter of 2028.

Campbell Wrapper acquired George Gordon Associates, which will be merged into Campbell's De Pere, Wisconsin facility; GGA's president will remain part-time for a three-year transition.

Airline Hydraulics Corporation, a distributor of industrial automation, fluid power and controls, announced the acquisition of Industrial Automation Supply, headquartered in Portland, Maine. The article gives no deal value.

Saothair Capital Partners, a private equity firm, acquired Engineered Absorbent Materials (EAM) from Domtar Corporation in June 2026. EAM operates a facility in Jesup, Georgia, and had previously completed a $90 million expansion adding a large-scale production line three years ago.

UFP Packaging opened a new corrugated box plant in Las Vegas, Nevada during summer 2026, its first full corrugated converting manufacturer in that market, with automation and robotics. The site joins its All Boxed Up plants in Flower Mound, Texas and Jeffersonville, Indiana.