GEA is adding about 70,000 square feet of office, manufacturing, research and industrial space at its Janesville campus in Wisconsin. The investment of about USD 25 million covers construction, machinery and equipment, with full operation scheduled for early 2028.

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.

Edible Garden AG is expanding its Zero-Waste Inspired platform with a ready-to-drink manufacturing hub at its Midwest facility of over 200,000 sq ft. It selected Tetra Pak for planning, installation and integration of proprietary processing and aseptic carton packaging, with an agreement to be executed on March 4, 2026.

Filling and closing machine maker groninger USA will invest $15.1 million to expand its manufacturing operations in Charlotte's Steele Creek submarket, creating 60 new jobs.

Canadian beverage maker Cardiff Products Corp. will invest $99.6 million to open an aseptic co-packaging facility in the Saxe Gotha Industrial Park in Lexington County, South Carolina, creating 94 jobs.

Paul Mueller Company announced a $20 million expansion of its Springfield, Missouri headquarters facilities, adding 100,000 square feet for production and R&D. Construction is expected to begin in fall 2024 and finish in fall 2025.

Duravant LLC acquired PPM Technologies, a Newberg, Oregon maker of conveying, coating and thermal processing equipment, from Stonehenge Partners. The deal was announced in July 2023.

Westrock Coffee plans to invest over $300 million and create 600 new jobs over five years at its development, production, packaging and distribution facility in Conway, Arkansas, with the facility using advanced robotics.

Ziemann Holvrieka was awarded a turnkey contract to engineer, install, commission and train staff for a new large-scale hard seltzer brewery for Mark Anthony Brewing in the United States. Installation has started, with first fermentation and storage tanks already in place.

Krones signed an agreement on 20 April 2023 to acquire 90% of Ampco Pumps Company LLC, a Wisconsin supplier of sanitary pumps and mixing equipment to food, beverage, dairy and pharma markets. Ampco generated about US$50 million revenue in fiscal 2022, and closing is expected in the first half of 2023.

GEA celebrated the opening of a new food processing and packaging Technology Center in Frisco, Texas, in mid-September 2022.

Pepsi Bottling Ventures will invest $35 million to add a new bottling line at its Winston-Salem, North Carolina production facility, expected to be operational by the end of 2024. The line will serve Aquafina, Lipton Tea and Nature's Twist.

Niagara Bottling plans a new production facility in Opelika's Northeast Industrial Park, Alabama, with an estimated $112 million investment and 50 initial jobs, as announced by Governor Kay Ivey.

ProMach, a processing and packaging machinery maker, has acquired TechniBlend, a provider of engineered liquid processing systems for beverages, dairy and chemicals. The deal expands ProMach's processing technology portfolio. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Allpax, a PROMACH brand, completed its move to a new Covington, Louisiana facility, more than doubling its office and manufacturing area from 40,000 to 86,000 sq ft.

Midwest private equity firm May River Capital has acquired Unibloc Pump, an Atlanta-area maker of positive displacement pumps, strainers and valves for sanitary applications. The deal was announced January 7, 2021.

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.

Allpax Products, a ProMach brand, will build an 80,000 square foot headquarters and manufacturing center in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, replacing existing facilities. The $7 million investment retains 55 jobs and creates five new direct jobs.

Iron Heart Canning purchased its 50th canning line from Wild Goose Filling Systems to expand its mobile beverage canning services. Iron Heart operates from 23 warehouses serving 22 US states.

Shick Esteve held the grand opening of a 108,000 square-foot manufacturing expansion at 4323 Clary Blvd, Kansas City, Missouri, with new forming, rolling, laser cutting and welding equipment. The expansion was announced April 1, 2019.

Krones Inc. acquired W.M. Sprinkman Corp., a Waukesha, Wisconsin maker of food and beverage processing equipment with 125 employees, for an undisclosed price. The deal closed on October 2, 2018.

Middleby Packaging Solutions, a unit of Middleby Corporation, completed the purchase of the assets of M-TEK, a developer of modified atmosphere packaging systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Cargill invested over $10 million to install a bottling line at its Sidney, Ohio crush and refinery, adding 75% annual capacity over previous lines. The line uses recyclable PET plastic.

Unified Brands will open a new manufacturing facility in the Ceres Industrial Park in Vicksburg, Mississippi, bringing 425 jobs. Operations in Pryor, Oklahoma and Byram, Mississippi will transition to the new site as part of a restructuring into three centers of excellence.

Prime Equipment Group, a poultry processing equipment maker, plans to move its Central Ohio manufacturing and offices to a new facility at 2001 Courtright Road in Columbus, investing over $6 million and creating 20 jobs.

W.M. Sprinkman Corp. relocated from Franksville to a newly renovated 45,000-square-foot facility at 404 Pilot Court in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a $3.5 million investment to meet demand for brewing equipment.

Schenck Process is investing to renovate its main Whitewater, Wisconsin plant into a dedicated stainless steel production facility, removing carbon steel manufacturing. The facility is expected to be fully operational by October 1, 2017.

Nestlé Waters North America completed a two-year, $79 million expansion of its Nestlé Pure Life bottling facility in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, adding three high-speed bottling lines and nearly 50 jobs.

Krones Inc. acquired Javlyn, a Rochester, New York process systems integrator serving food, dairy and beverage industries; terms were not disclosed.

Tetra Pak has acquired Johnson Industries International, a Wisconsin-based maker of mozzarella cheese manufacturing lines and cheese cutting, shredding and brining equipment. The target will stay in its current location.

JBT Corp. agreed to buy Tipper Tie, Inc. from Dover Corp. for $160 million before post-closing adjustments, with closing expected in the fourth quarter of 2016.