Cranex Limited received orders worth approximately ₹12.88 crore: a Letter of Award from Larsen & Toubro Limited for two EOT cranes for the Torrent Anuppur project (₹7.95 crore), and a purchase order from Godawari Power & Ispat Limited for a 15-tonne EOT crane with grab bucket (₹4.93 crore).

CSSC Wuhan Marine Machinery Plant won orders to supply hydraulic submersible pump systems and offshore cranes for CNOOC's Kaiping 11-4 cylindrical FPSO, which is due to enter production in 2029.

YG Machinery (Henan Xinyuchuang Machinery) exported a customized YG-20 battery-powered load-moving system to a factory relocation contractor in southern Germany. The system is designed for moving heavy industrial equipment such as CNC machining centers and hydraulic presses. The export was completed in early 2026.

Hyundai Movex signed a supply contract with Korea Kolmar worth 55.9 billion won (about 16.37% of its 2024 revenue) for logistics automation modules and robots, running until 31 August 2027.

Orbis held a grand opening for its renovated reusable pallet, tote and bulk container plant in Greenville, Texas, with 420,000 sq ft of manufacturing space. The company expects to create 190 jobs within three years.

Warehouse-robotics provider Exotec and E80 Group announced a strategic partnership to combine Exotec's Skypod AS/RS with E80's pallet-handling systems into one automation ecosystem. The joint offering will initially target CPG and grocery customers.

Veritiv Operating Company acquired Subotnick Packaging, an Oregon-based distributor of packaging products and equipment serving building materials, food, e-commerce and transportation. Financial terms were not disclosed.

JPackaging has begun construction of a wooden pallet and pallet collar plant in the Šeduva industrial park, Lithuania, under a construction contract worth nearly €14 million with AB Panevėžio statybos trestas. Total investment reaches €30 million and up to 150 jobs are planned.

Spokane Valley builder of paperboard-packaging equipment Alliance Machine Systems International agreed to acquire Systec Corporation of Indianapolis and Automatan LLC of Plover, Wisconsin, with completion expected by month end; terms undisclosed.

Columbus McKinnon agreed to acquire Kito Crosby Limited from funds managed by KKR in an all-cash deal valued at $2.7 billion, expected to close later in 2025 subject to regulatory approvals.

ORBIS Corporation opened a new manufacturing plant in Greenville, Texas, repurposing an existing facility, producing reusable totes and pallets; it is expected to reach full production by spring 2025 and create more than 190 jobs.

Hörmann Intralogistics, as general contractor, is building high-bay warehouses and conveyor technology for the new Wellpappe Alzenau corrugated board plant in Alzenau, Germany, part of the Palm Group.

VPK Group has commissioned FMW Industries to deliver an OCC pulper feed line and an automatic OCC bale wire cutter to its Oudegem plant in Belgium, with a capacity of 1,200 BDMT per day. Commissioning is planned for October 2025.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners announced a planned £42.3m investment in a new 38-metre automated storage and retrieval system warehouse at its Wakefield site, adding 29,500 pallets of capacity. The build will take two and a half years.

Hörmann Intralogistics has been commissioned as general contractor to build an automated two-aisle high-bay work-in-progress warehouse for Dunapack Packaging in Straßwalchen, Austria, to expand storage capacity.

Mpac Group has acquired CSi Palletising from Elstar International in a deal worth £46 million, announced on October 7, 2024.

JS Proputec A/S has finished and commissioned Phase 1 of a raw material reception facility for fishmeal producer Bioceval in Cuxhaven, Germany, supplying pumps, feed augers, tanks and piping. Phase 2 installation is planned for the coming months.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems officially commissioned a new 6,000 square metre building with an automated small-parts warehouse in Öhringen, part of a 20 million euro investment. The buildings have been ready for use since June 2024.

Oshkosh Corporation signed a definitive agreement to acquire AUSACORP S.L., a privately held Spanish manufacturer of wheeled dumpers, rough terrain forklifts and telehandlers, which will join its Access segment. Closing is expected within 90 days. No deal value was disclosed.

Bollegraaf Group won the EU tender for a turn-key sorting system for Dansk Retursystem's new deposit plant in Fredericia, Denmark, which will sort 2.5 to 3.5 million bottles and cans daily when completed at the end of 2025.

Ablebox signed a multi-phase supply project with Emmepi Group, via its UK agent GTS Europe, for a materials handling solution at the Sherborne facility; the first phase is about GBP 450,000.

Modula and Ferag announced a strategic partnership, according to a Pack aktuell news roundup. The headline gives no date, so the article date is used.

Swedish intralogistics group MotionTech announced the acquisition of ITO Pallpack, a Norwegian company focused on end-of-line and complete automation systems, on 15 December 2023.

P.T. Frisian Flag Indonesia, a FrieslandCampina subsidiary, placed an order worth IDR 21 billion (about AUD 2 million) with Range International's Indonesian unit for Re>Pal pallets. Delivery for its new Cikarang factory starts in Q2 2024 and completes by May 2025.

Conner Industries, a provider of lumber, industrial wood crates and pallets, acquired Denver Reel & Pallet Company, a custom wooden crate and pallet business in Denver, Colorado.

Pact Group has extended its contract to own, operate, wash and store a crate pool for Woolworths Group for a further 10 years. Current annual revenue from the contract exceeds $50 million, and Woolworths has dropped its option to buy 50% of the Pact entity serving it.

Pact Group extended its crate pooling contract with Woolworths Group for a further 10 years, with Pact owning, operating, washing and storing reusable plastic produce crates. The contract generates annual revenue above $50 million.

Pact Group extended its seven-year crate ownership, washing and pooling contract with Woolworths by 10 years to 2033. The deal is reported as worth more than A$50 million a year, and Woolworths dropped its option to buy half of the Pact entity.

DYPNF signed a contract worth KRW 19.7 billion with Hyundai Engineering to supply silo equipment for Aramco's Shaheen petrochemical project in Ulsan, South Korea. It is the company's second award on the project.

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.

Duro Felguera Logistic Systems installed a fully automatic vertical storage system for corrugated board at Saica Pack's new facility in Livingston, Scotland. It is Duro Felguera's first project in the United Kingdom.

Polaris has acquired a majority stake in Sealing System, a supplier of intralogistics and automated packaging and palletising lines. The article is dated 17 April 2023 and gives no deal value.

Hiab agreed to buy the family-owned Swedish industrial group Olsbergs, which makes hydraulic valves and remote controls for its loader cranes. The closing is set for 1 January 2023, and all 100 Olsbergs employees will join Hiab. The value was not disclosed.

Schmalz India Pvt. Ltd. officially launched a new 1000 sq m manufacturing unit in Bhosari, Pune, for assembling and localizing vacuum handling systems, with an investment of 15 crores.

Eurocontainer's Multitank division is building 200 stainless steel tank containers for agribusiness group Kernel at its Figueruelas plant near Zaragoza, producing three units per day. The article gives no deal value.

Concor placed an order for 10,000 containers with Bhavnagar-based APPL Containers for Rs 477 crore, its largest order to a local firm. APPL was the lowest bidder on the tender.

Florentine machinery maker PARA is building a new factory in Pistoia, Tuscany, to double its production area. The total investment is €9 million, with workshops due by mid-2023 and offices within 2024.

Cordeel Netherlands is designing and building a fully automated high-bay warehouse in Terneuzen for Elopak Netherlands, commissioned by Rijnberg HBW. The 110 m by 52 m by 25 m warehouse will be built adjacent to the existing plant and is expected to be finished at the end of the year.

Piovan S.p.A. completed its acquisition of IPEG, Inc. through a merger of Sewickley Capital, the owner of IPEG, into a Delaware subsidiary of Piovan. The deal was executed on the terms first announced on December 13, 2021.

Bruks Siwertell secured a contract from Packaging Corporation of America to supply a receiving hopper, screw conveyors and belt conveyor handling old corrugated cardboard rejects for boilers at PCA's Jackson, Alabama mill, with delivery scheduled for February 2022.

Plasser American will dedicate a 45,000 sq ft office building as the first phase of a $52.6 million expansion of its North American headquarters and manufacturing center in Chesapeake, Virginia, adding 98 jobs and doubling production capacity with an 82,000 sq ft plant.

Bruks Siwertell secured a contract from Packaging Corporation of America to supply a receiving hopper, screw conveyors and an idler belt conveyor for handling OCC rejects at PCA's Jackson, Alabama containerboard mill. Delivery and installation are scheduled for February 2022.

Metsä Board awarded Core Link AB a combined contract for new core and reel handling systems at its Husum mill to support a production increase of BM1 from 400,000 to 600,000 tonnes per year. Machine installations are scheduled from Q4 2022 through the end of 2023.

Dongjie Intelligent received a winning bid notice from Jiangsu Jinshiyuan Liquor for manufacturing and installing the logistics equipment system of its smart finished-liquor packaging logistics center, worth 132 million yuan, about 12.76% of Dongjie's 2020 audited revenue.

Belt Power LLC opened a new location at 5146 Duff Road in Cincinnati, Ohio, for conveyor belting fabrication and services in the Midwest. The article states the location opened on July 1, 2021.

Mayville Engineering Company finalized plans to open a roughly 450,000 sq ft leased manufacturing facility in Hazel Park, Michigan, to serve a new strategic customer, planning to hire up to 390 employees and invest $35-45 million.

A&R Logistics was chosen by Epsilyte, a large US expandable polystyrene manufacturer, as its third-party logistics provider to manage much of its global supply chain.

Goplasticpallets.com has started work on a contract to provide 24,750 plastic pallet boxes to GA Pet Food Partners for its £80m Ingredients Kitchen, a fully automated warehouse operated by robots.

viastore received an order worth around four million euros from NETZSCH Pumpen & Systeme to build a new automated logistics center in Waldkraiburg, Upper Bavaria. Commissioning is scheduled for June 2022.

SemiTorr, backed by Transom Capital Group, acquired McKenna Engineering & Equipment Co, a distributor and installer of process equipment for air, gas, liquids and dry bulk solids serving California and Nevada. No financial terms were disclosed.