Big Beverages Contract Manufacturing plans a beverage co-packing facility in a 170,000 sq ft building at The Park-Huntersville, creating 60 jobs. The facility will start with one line producing 1,200 cans per minute.

Franklin Electric acquired the product lines, assets and manufacturing process of CPS Pumps, LLC in Rossville, Tennessee for $6.3 million, with the Rossville employees joining Franklin Electric. The business will be integrated into its Global Water unit.

Nutmeg Container, a division of Unicorr Packaging Group, has completed refurbishment of a 125,000 sq ft manufacturing and warehouse facility in Thompson, Connecticut, consolidating its wood production there.

Welch Packaging has acquired Tri-Lakes Container, a corrugated packaging supplier in Pierceton, Indiana. Terms were not disclosed.

Nypro, a Jabil company, announced plans to invest $18.5 million in its Asheville, North Carolina operations, adding 68 positions to its 325-person workforce. The expansion covers facilities, new technology and equipment for precision plastic healthcare products.

Newell Brands will expand into an existing 211,000 sq ft facility in Shelbyville, Bedford County, investing $11 million and creating 115 jobs over five years.

Georgia-Pacific will shut its Darlington, South Carolina, cup plant by September and close its current distribution center sometime in 2021. Cup customers will be served from its Lexington, Kentucky, and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, plants.

Georgia-Pacific will invest more than $145 million to expand and modernize plate and bowl production at its Darlington, South Carolina, Dixie plant, with work starting in March 2020 and targeted for completion in Q1 2022. The investment includes a new plate printing press and a new warehouse and creates no new jobs.

IHI announced it will expand its automotive turbocharger plant in Illinois, USA, investing about 4 billion yen and raising annual capacity to 1.5 million units by fiscal 2021. The expansion adds an adjacent building and assembly equipment, with mass production starting in December 2020.

Graphic Packaging agreed to acquire Greif's Consumer Packaging Group business for approximately $85 million, adding seven US converting facilities with over $200 million in annual revenue, with closing expected in Q1 2020.

HollyFrontier chose Topsoe's HydroFlex technology for a large renewable diesel unit at its Artesia refinery in New Mexico, with Topsoe licensing and supplying engineering, equipment, catalysts and services.

Klinger Group closed a stock purchase agreement to acquire GPI, a West Texas industrial sealing company headquartered in Borger, effective January 1, 2020. GPI operates four business locations in Texas.

Mueller Water Products is building a finished goods brass foundry in Decatur, Illinois, expected to employ 250 workers and increase production capacity for the water infrastructure industry.

Pactiv Corporation will invest a minimum of $8 million to expand its Greensboro facility in Guilford County, North Carolina, creating 25 new jobs, as announced by Governor Roy Cooper on January 24, 2020.

NEPA Carton & Carrier, a folding carton maker in northeastern Pennsylvania, is adding a second Koenig & Bauer Rapida 145 press, due for delivery in spring 2020, to increase its capacity by 50%.

Danfoss plans to close its Arkadelphia, Arkansas manufacturing facility by the end of 2020, affecting 170 employees, citing decreasing market demand for small capacity scroll compressors.

Danfoss Commercial Compressors will close its Arkadelphia, Arkansas plant by the end of 2020 because of declining demand for small scroll compressors, affecting about 170 employees. Production will be consolidated elsewhere.

Danish engineering company Danfoss agreed to acquire Eaton's Hydraulics business for a cash price of $3.3 billion (about EUR 3.0 billion), as reported in a January 21, 2020 law firm roundup.

IG Design Group agreed a merger to acquire US consumer product maker CSS Industries for $9.40 per share in an all-cash deal valued at about $88 million, announced January 21, 2020.

AAR Mobility Systems, a division of AAR Corp, was awarded a sole-source IDIQ contract by the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, with an estimated value of $90 million, to produce shipping and storage containers in Cadillac, Michigan.

Atlas Copco acquired Hydra Flow West, a distributor of spare parts and accessories for compressor service based in Walnut, California. The purchase price was not disclosed. The announcement was made on January 16, 2020.

Clearlake Capital Group, in partnership with management, has acquired rigid packaging maker Pretium Packaging from Genstar Capital. Pretium operates 19 automated plants in the US; financial terms were not disclosed.

Packaging Corporation of America has built a $26 million corrugated cardboard box plant on a 42-acre Richland site bought from the city for $1.7 million. The plant opened with an estimated 65 workers, with the workforce expected to grow to 100-150.

Ball Corporation broke ground in Rome, Georgia on a new aluminum cups manufacturing facility next to its existing can plant, a multi-year investment of about $200 million that plans to hire approximately 145 employees.

VEGA Americas acquired about 50 acres in Mason, Ohio's Research and Development Park for a new North American headquarters and advanced manufacturing facility.

Cott Corporation agreed to acquire Primo Water Corporation for $14.00 per share in cash and stock, valuing Primo at approximately $775 million. The deal will make Cott a pure-play water company and it will rebrand as Primo Water.

Bunzl Distribution announced the acquisition of Joshen Paper & Packaging, a distributor of packaging supplies with locations in 11 US states and about 450 employees.

Private equity firm Industrial Opportunity Partners has acquired Midwest Paper Group, a recycled containerboard mill in Combined Locks, Wisconsin. Terms were not disclosed.

Progressive Pipe Fabricators, a division of Shambaugh & Son, has broken ground on an 82,000-square-foot custom fire protection fabrication facility in Lawrence County, expected to be operational by July 1 and to employ 50.

CCI Manufacturing USA is investing $21.5 million in an advanced production facility at the Mallard Fox West Industrial Complex in Lawrence County to make brake fluid and engine coolant, creating 28 jobs.

Pye-Barker Engineered Solutions acquired Florida Air Technologies, LLC of Orlando, taking over its compressed air equipment, vacuum pumps and repair parts. All employees keep their jobs, and the deal was announced on January 9, 2020.

TricorBraun, a North American primary packaging supplier, acquired Minneapolis-based Packaging Solutions Inc (PSI), a rigid packaging supplier with 25 years of experience, adding a Minneapolis warehouse. Financial terms were not disclosed.

MSI Express, backed by HCI Equity Partners, acquired contract packager Power Packaging on December 31, 2019, and announced it on January 7, 2020. Power has four facilities in the Chicago area, Wisconsin and Texas, and takes the combined platform to 12 production facilities.

Warburg Pincus agreed to acquire Sundyne, a maker of centrifugal pumps and compressors, from BC Partners and The Carlyle Group. Terms were not disclosed and management under CEO Mark Sefcik will continue.

ELGi Compressors USA, a subsidiary of ELGi Equipments, acquired Michigan Air Solutions, an independent air compressor distributor with locations in Grand Rapids and Plymouth, Michigan.

KKSP, a Mill Point Capital platform, acquired Prime Engineered Components of Watertown, Connecticut in early 2020 as part of its expansion into New England. The article gives no exact date or deal value.

DS Smith opened a new 550,000-square-foot corrugated box manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Indiana, on January 24, 2020, capable of producing about 30,000 boxes an hour.

ZF opened its first US plant for automatic passenger car transmissions in Gray Court, South Carolina, making the 8HP and 9HP transmissions with about 1.2 million units planned annually and a total investment of about $600 million.

Aisin Automotive Casting Tennessee announced a $67 million expansion of its Clinton, Tennessee die-casting facility, expected to add 160 jobs to its 400-person workforce.

Rexel signed an agreement to sell its Gexpro Services supply chain business to private investment firm LKCM Headwater, with closing expected in Q1 2020. Gexpro Services has about 400 employees and sales of about USD 260 million.

ND Paper is also investing up to $189 million in a paper mill near Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, according to the same report.

ND Paper plans to invest about $49 million to open a corrugated cardboard box plant in Racine County, Wisconsin, creating 88 jobs. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp disclosed the plan.

Precise Packaging opened a new 15,000 square-foot aerosol and liquid contract manufacturing facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, near its headquarters. The site has two custom liquid filling lines and a new shrink sleever, and the company hired several new staff.

Cerberus Capital Management affiliates completed the purchase of the North American, Costa Rican and Japanese businesses and facilities of closure maker Closure Systems International from Reynolds Group Holdings, which keeps its European, Middle Eastern, Egyptian and South American closures units.

Pregis is investing $5 million in a fourth multilayer Windmoeller & Hoelscher blown film line at its Pregis Films facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan, adding about 4 million pounds of annual output, and is leasing 35,000 additional square feet of warehouse space.

Pierburg US, LLC announced a $27 million expansion of its Fountain Inn plant in Greenville County, South Carolina, adding four new production lines and 95 jobs, with completion expected in 2024.

MEYER launched MEYER Aftermarket Services (MAS), offering inspection, machining, welding, repair, remanufacture and recertification of oilfield pressure control equipment, led by Mike Colby and Shane Wood. The launch was announced on December 17, 2019.

MEYER announced the acquisition of Texas West BOP (TWBOP), headquartered in Odessa, Texas, adding service locations in US shale basins. The announcement was made on December 17, 2019.

Valmet received a repeat order from Irving Consumer Products in the United States for a complete tissue production line with an Advantage ThruAir machine. The line will add 75,000 annual tonnes of tissue capacity and is planned to start up in 2022.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc. (BCI) opened a new 260,000-square-foot corrugated sheet plant in Houston, Texas, on December 16, 2019, with equipment transferred from its existing site and several new machines added.