IDEX Corporation agreed to acquire Muon B.V. and its subsidiaries, a Dutch micro-precision flow path manufacturer, for €700 million in cash. Muon serves medical, semiconductor, food processing, digital printing and filtration customers.

Coca-Cola Canada Bottling is investing C$34 million in its Lachine, Quebec manufacturing facility to add a new production line for canned beverages, expected operational in spring 2023.

Britvic officially opened a new canning line at its Rugby factory after investing £26.9 million and creating 20 new jobs. The line produces around 120,000 cans per hour and raises site capacity by about 20%.

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.

PSG, a Dover company, has completed its acquisition of ipp Pump Products GmbH, a maker of rotary lobe pumps for hygienic applications in Bersenbrück, Germany. The exact completion date is not stated on the page.

Retigo completed construction of a new two-storey 6,000 m2 production hall at its headquarters in Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic. The hall will be fitted with automation and new machines to raise output by the second half of 2022.

Alfa Laval signed an agreement to acquire Desmet, which engineers and supplies processing plants and technologies for edible oils and biofuels. Desmet is headquartered in Brussels and employs around 1,000 people.

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.

Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Ltd. plans to invest nearly $11 million in its Calgary manufacturing facility to add capacity and install new packaging equipment, with expansions expected to be operational by March 2022.

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.

SIG partnered with contract packer Framptons to install a new combidome filling machine, the first of its kind in the UK, so Framptons can produce Lilk's plant-based beverages in SIG's carton bottle.

AxFlow Holding acquired a majority stake in System Cleaners, an Aalborg-based maker of automatic and manual open plant cleaning systems for the food and beverage industry.

Dortmunder Brauereien has placed a multi-million order with KHS Group for a new, resource-saving beverage can filling line in Dortmund, Germany. The line can process up to 80,000 cans per hour.

Eckes-Granini began producing its one-liter hohes C juice bottle entirely from recycled PET since mid-May 2021, with KHS providing bottle and shape design on its InnoPET FreshSafe block at Bad Fallingbostel.

Germany-based Emsland Group awarded GEA a follow-up order, valued in the low single-digit million-euro range, for a potato protein process line at its Wietzendorf site. The order covers planning, delivery and installation support, including plate heat exchangers, pumps and protein decanters.

The Emsland Group contracted GEA for the construction and expansion of its potato protein production line at its Wietzendorf starch plant in Germany, in a follow-up order valued in the low single-digit million-euro range.

Coca-Cola European Partners commissioned KHS to supply a second turnkey canning line at its Wakefield beverage factory in the UK, after line 4 proved successful. The lines use Innofill Can DVD can fillers with capacity of up to 120,000 cans per hour.

Gold Coast craft brewer Black Hops is investing $3 million in a packaging upgrade at its Biggera Waters brewery, including a Master C-Block 24/4 filler and seamer supplied by CFT Australasia. The upgrade is intended to raise can output.

Sidel supplied its Aseptic Combi Predis technology to RJ Corp, whose operating company Varun Beverages installed it at a new facility in Punjab, India, earlier in 2021. It is the first commercial dairy PET aseptic packaging line in the region.

Kaas-Pack Holland of Hoogeveen, Netherlands, awarded Robertpack a contract in 2020 for a complete cheese packaging line, now installed and operational. The line includes a box erector, Fanuc robot cells, a box closer and a palletising robot.

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.

AxFlow's subsidiary Brown Brothers Engineers has acquired SPX Flow Technology New Zealand Ltd., a sales and service organization for APV, Waukesha Cherry-Burrell and other fluid-handling brands, which will be renamed Brown Brothers Engineers Flow Technology Ltd.

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.

JBT Corp. of Chicago agreed to buy United Kingdom-based Proseal, a tray sealing technology maker, for 220 million pounds ($258.67 million), with closing expected in the second quarter of 2021 subject to regulatory approvals.

Steel & O'Brien Manufacturing announced its acquisition of Top Line, maker of the TOP-FLO brand of actuated valves and pumps, to expand its pump and diaphragm valve offering for sanitary fluid handling.

KHS GmbH agreed, pending antitrust approval, to acquire a stake in Ferrum Packaging AG, while Ferrum Packaging Inc. takes over KHS's can seaming business to combine can technology in a joint offer.

KHS Group and Martens Brewery in Belgium developed a film-free Nature MultiPack of six 0.5-liter recyclate PET bottles for Karlskrone beer, sold through a German discounter. The packaging removes shrink film to cut plastic waste and CO2 emissions.

Germany-based KHS was awarded the contract for a new PET bottling line at Uganda's Rwenzori Bottling Company, which is part of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa. The line includes a stretch blow molder/filler with capacity of up to 25,000 500 mL bottles per hour and has been running since early 2020.

AFRY signed a contract valued at MNOK 13.8 to upgrade the process solution for a new cheese production line at TINE's Storsteinnes dairy in Northern Norway. The wider upgrade is estimated at MNOK 181.

GEA Group won a contract from Hochwald Foods GmbH to supply the complete dairy processing technology for a new dairy in Mechernich near Cologne, which will process about 800 million liters of milk per year, with commissioning planned for mid-2021.

SIG was selected as preferred partner to supply 15 aseptic filling machines for Hochwald's new greenfield UHT milk plant in Mechernich, Germany, with production planned from 2022. The plant will have capacity of more than 800 million litres of milk per year.

StrongPack Ltd. established a greenfield non-alcoholic contract packaging operation in Nigeria, installing four Sidel lines over two years, including a can line, two PET lines and a PET line with Sidel's Actis coating system. The article is dated April 3, 2020.

Millitec Food Systems Ltd has invested £1.2 million in a new 20,000 sq ft factory in Draycott, Derbyshire, which will create around 40 new jobs. The site makes food production equipment and supports its planned expansion.

Denmark's Primodan signed an agreement with SPX Flow's Danish subsidiary to take over its yellow cheesemaking activities and technologies. SPX Flow will keep providing aftermarket service to existing customers until the end of 2021.

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.

Gruppo Fabbri announced that CAVECO has officially joined the Modena-based group, adding thermosealing machines and packaging lines to its portfolio. The deal's value was not disclosed.

ÅF Pöyry signed a contract to deliver two new turn-key process lines to Oatly's Vlissingen plant in the Netherlands, doubling the plant's capacity for oat base, with operations expected in December 2020.

Australian beverage producer Bickford's has opened a new AUD 20 million bottling line at its South Australian facility, developed by Sidel with Tetra Pak, including aseptic filling technology. The line helps expand the company into dairy.

KHS broke ground on a new plant and service center in Kunshan, China, a roughly 10,000 square metre factory with a total investment of about €10 million. The groundbreaking took place October 17, 2019.

Tetra Pak opened a €25 million, 12,000-square-meter site in Olsztyn, Poland with sales, engineering and manufacturing for cheese production solutions. The site employs over 350 staff and doubles its cheesemaking solution capacity in the country.

Premier Tech and Switzerland's Bühler formed a strategic co-operation for industrial flexible packaging solutions and plan to build a design and manufacturing centre in China by 2020.

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.

JBT Corporation signed a definitive agreement to acquire Proseal uk Limited, a tray sealing technology provider headquartered in Adlington, UK, for £220 million before adjustments, with closing expected in Q2 2019.

Weber Maschinenbau is investing a seven-figure sum in a new assembly hall of about 2,300 m² and a two-storey office building at its Breidenbach site. Completion of the assembly hall is planned for September 2019 and the office building for January 2020.

California-based Sprizzi Drink Co plans to invest $100 million in a beverage machine manufacturing project in the Rugao Economic and Technological Development Zone, Jiangsu. The launch ceremony was held on April 8, 2019, and the first phase costs $30 million.

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.

Ardian signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Celli S.p.A., an Italian beverage solutions company based in Rimini with 2018 turnover of €110 million, from Consilium and the Celli family. Senior management will reinvest.

Italian Interpump agreed to buy 100% of Fluinox, a Valencia-based maker of processing equipment for food, cosmetic, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, for at least 11.15 million euros including the agreed price and the box value.

High Pressure Processing service provider Deli 24 has invested £2m to help double its capacity.