Graham Packaging has proposed a manufacturing facility in about 215,000 square feet of a warehouse in Lee's Summit Commerce Center, with about $33.7 million of machinery and 82 jobs, and has requested a 75% five-year personal property tax abatement.

Rosenboom Machine & Tool plans to acquire and build out a new facility in Milford, Iowa, for $19.07 million, including relocated and new machining equipment. The company expects to create 78 jobs.

Rural Development Partners allocated $20 million in New Markets Tax Credit financing to start-up PackEx USA to redevelop a 256,000 sq ft former bottling plant in Marianna, Florida. Phase 1 will support two production lines and about 300 jobs.

Parker Hannifin has agreed to acquire the Commercial and Defense Aerospace business of CIRCOR International for a cash purchase price of $2.55 billion, with closing expected in the second half of 2026. The unit projects about $270 million in 2026 sales.

IMI PLC has opened a new precision engineering facility in Lake Forest, California, for severe service control valves serving the energy sector. The campus replaces the Rancho Santa Margarita site and consolidates more than 200 employees.

International Paper broke ground on May 20, 2026 on a $225 million greenfield corrugated packaging plant of 468,000 square feet in Rankin County, Mississippi. Operations are expected in the fourth quarter of 2027.

Kelso-backed Novvia Group acquired APC Packaging, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida supplier of sustainable luxury beauty packaging. No financial terms were disclosed, and the founding owners will keep running the business.

Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd. announced it will acquire all equity of Moore Nanotechnology Systems, LLC, a U.S. ultra-precision machine tool maker, for approximately $150 million through its subsidiary SHIBAURA MACHINE COMPANY, AMERICA. The acquisition aims to expand sales of grinding machines in Western markets.

PolyFlex, part of Nefab Group, opened a two-building manufacturing and engineering campus in Wixom, Michigan, for returnable plastic packaging and protective solutions serving automotive and advanced manufacturing clients.

Poly Craft Industries opened a 72,000 sq ft flexible plastic packaging facility in Middletown, New York, costing $27 million, consolidating two Long Island locations and serving as corporate headquarters.

Chicago-based TRG Packaging and Display Solutions announced the acquisition of Columbia Container, a corrugated manufacturer based in Baltimore, Maryland, to strengthen its Mid-Atlantic network.

Union City, California-based Emerald Packaging bought the flexible packaging assets of Blower-Dempsay Corp. in Santa Ana, California, establishing its second facility and its first acquisition in 63 years. Headcount is expected to rise from 250 to over 300 by year end.

Azuria Water Solutions broke ground on a new $80 million, 72,000-square-foot plant in Batesville, Mississippi, to make Fusible PVC pipe. The facility is expected to create 50 jobs and be completed in early 2027.

Protective Packaging Corporation was awarded a $2,500,000 Defense Logistics Agency contract for heat sealable bags, with contract award dated May 13, 2026 and notice published May 19, 2026.

Protective Packaging Corporation was awarded a US$2.5 million federal supply contract by the Defense Logistics Agency for heat sealable bags for DLA Distribution, with performance in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

Parker Hannifin was awarded a $11,567,431 firm-fixed-price delivery order by the U.S. Navy to overhaul 583 secondary bleed air pressure regulating valves for the F/A-18, with work in Irvine, California, expected to finish by December 2028.

LACO, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, which makes vacuum solutions, vacuum chambers and leak detection equipment, has become part of Atlas Copco Group.

STULZ USA announced plans to construct a new facility of about 300,000 square feet adjacent to its Denton, Texas site opened in 2025, for manufacturing and testing of air-cooled and liquid-cooled cooling solutions. The facility is expected to open in Spring 2027 and create hundreds of jobs.

Coca-Cola Consolidated will invest $35 million to add a glass bottle production line at its Indianapolis facility, creating 15 to 20 full-time jobs. Construction is expected to begin in late 2026.

International Paper announced it has acquired Delmarva Corrugated Packaging in Dover, Delaware, to expand its capacity and regional footprint. Terms were not disclosed.

Cook Compression has announced the acquisition of Mechanical Field Services, LP, a turnkey repair and maintenance provider for compressors, engines and pumps, which will operate as Cook-MFS, Inc.

UFP Packaging, a division of UFP Industries, acquired Berry Pallets, Inc., a pallet manufacturer with a facility in Waseca, Minnesota, to extend its pallet network into the Upper Midwest. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Cryogenic Technology Resources, a TransTech Group platform company, has acquired Allcryo, a Montgomery, Texas provider of industrial and cryogenic gas equipment, storage tanks and pump service.

Virginia Artesian Bottling has installed a Polypack WR-I wraparound case packer at its Hanover, Virginia plant to handle multiple bottle formats and shift private-label packaging from shrink wrap to recycled corrugated cases.

Arcline Investment Management entered a definitive agreement to acquire Hydraulics International, a US provider of ground support equipment, mobile test systems and specialized pumps. Customers include aerospace, defense and industrial markets.

DXP Enterprises completed the acquisition of Colorado-headquartered Ambiente H2O, expanding its water and wastewater platform in the US Mountain West. The deal is listed in the Q1 2026 pumps M&A roundup.

Aalberts integrated piping systems announced an investment to manufacture its Apollo PowerPress products at its Pageland, South Carolina facility, with phased completion through 2027 and first US-made products expected in early 2027.

Nextera Packaging has opened a new headquarters in White Bear Township, Minnesota, with a 114,000 sq ft warehouse and office facility that is 116% larger than its previous HQ.

New Tech Plastics is investing $5 million to expand into pouch converting at a facility in Piqua, Ohio, creating an expected 30 jobs. It receives a $250,000 grant from the JobsOhio Revitalization Fund.

Alltrista Plastics, a Jadex subsidiary, is adding a 25,000 sq ft expansion at its Springfield, Missouri facility for compression blow forming. The project is scheduled for completion in September 2026 and was described as a multimillion-dollar investment.

Mondi has opened a highly automated paper bag plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, consolidating production from its Wellsburg, West Virginia and Oakdale, Pennsylvania sites. After ramp-up it is expected to reach 300 million paper bags a year.

Air Liquide is investing $350 million in Louisiana industrial gas infrastructure, including a new air separation unit at the existing Koch Methanol facility in St. James Parish. Commercial operations are expected to begin in 2028.

CG Roxane is expanding its Benton, Tennessee facility to bring PET preform and HDPE cap manufacturing in-house, adding about 60,000 sq ft of infrastructure. The company announced the expansion on April 21, 2026.

Diageo North America officially opened its 360,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehousing facility in Montgomery, Alabama on 21 April 2026. The $415 million investment creates 100 full-time jobs and serves the Southern U.S. region.

Mondi Bags USA will relocate its manufacturing from Oakdale, Pennsylvania and Wellsburg, West Virginia to a 200,000-square-foot facility in Findlay Township, Allegheny County. The project creates about 170 jobs over three years, supported by a $1,036,000 Pennsylvania First grant announced on 21 April 2026.

Alcami Corporation signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tjoapack, a contract packaging organization with facilities in Clinton, Tennessee and Etten-Leur, Netherlands. The deal was announced on 21 April 2026.

Buckeye Corrugated, Inc. has installed conveyor and unitizer, die cutter infrastructure, CAD table and folder gluer at its new Reno, Nevada facility ahead of a June grand opening. A 3-color die cutter is due in mid to late May and a J&L folder gluer on May 1.

EPETWATER placed an initial multi-truckload order with Greene Concepts for gallon-sized private-label pet water products, to be produced at Greene's bottling facility in Marion, North Carolina. The order was announced on April 16, 2026.

Orange Co announced a significant capital investment in RWN Pump & Fabrication to modernize facilities, add automation and expand production lines. The amount was not disclosed.

Orange Co, a private investment firm, announced that Carl Jackson and Craig Kennedy joined the leadership team of RWN Pump & Fabrication, a pump manufacturer. The hires were announced on April 15, 2026.

Dearing Compressor & Pump Co. acquired J&L Supply Co., an industrial air compressor distributor in Huntington, West Virginia, which will operate as a business unit within Dearing's Industrial Products Division.

Somnigroup International agreed to acquire Leggett & Platt in an all-stock transaction valued at about $2.5 billion, with Leggett & Platt shareholders receiving 0.1455 Somnigroup shares per share. The deal is expected to close by year-end 2026, subject to approvals.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, part of the US Treasury, awarded Cadillac Products Packaging Company a contract for currency packaging film with a total value of $7,483,269.75. The award was published on 13 April 2026.

An affiliate of CD&R completed its acquisition of Sealed Air, which is now privately held and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The deal has an enterprise value of $10.3 billion, with about $6.3 billion paid to shareholders.

Cold Corr of Monterey, a new corrugated sheet producer linked to Cumberland Container, ordered Interpac's patented cold corrugator, the first such order in the United States and third worldwide.

Midland acquired Wetoska Packaging Distributors to expand its end-to-end packaging and supply chain solutions, strengthening its food sector capabilities through combined distribution footprints.

Tetra Pak broke ground on a $22 million innovation facility at its U.S. and Canada campus in Denton, Texas, adjacent to its product development center. The space will roughly double the campus's innovation capacity and is expected to open in Q1 2027, adding eight jobs.

Tetra Pak broke ground on a new Product Development Center at its U.S. and Canada headquarters in Denton, Texas, with 12,000 sq ft for product development and 3,000 sq ft for a Customer Innovation Center. The facility is scheduled to open in Q1 2027 and create eight jobs.

Universal Plant Services, a Houston-based provider of field services, acquired Mechanical Solutions Inc., a Whippany, New Jersey engineering firm specializing in rotating machinery such as pumps and compressors. Terms were not disclosed, and it is the first add-on investment since UPS partnered with New State Capital Partners.

Swire Coca-Cola broke ground on a 620,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Peak Innovation Park near Colorado Springs Airport. The $475 million plant is expected to create 170 jobs and produce more than 230 drinks.