Impact Air Systems was awarded a repeat contract by Ball Packaging for scrap conveying and bale handling at its Wakefield and France production facilities. The turnkey automated solution handles aluminium can trim and reject scrap.

Abbey Logistics has been awarded a recycled polymer logistics and materials handling contract by Viridor, the UK's largest recycling company. Abbey will receive, store and reformat recycled plastic flakes from Viridor's Skelmersdale facility at its bag-to-bulk site on the Wirral.

Duravant's new operating company nVenia, formed by combining Arpac, Hamer-Fischbein and Ohlson, will operate from a newly built 256,000 sq ft facility in Wood Dale, Illinois, planned to open in April 2021.

Lebanon, Tennessee manufacturer Morrison Industries acquired Envoy Packaging of Morrison, Tennessee. Envoy will make plastic and foam packaging and dunnage to complement Morrison's steel shipping racks and cardboard packaging.

Logistics provider Albert Craiss won a contract to handle production supply and outbound logistics for a German technology group in Weiz, Austria, and is building a new logistics centre there, with completion expected in autumn 2021 and about 50 jobs.

Cargotec and Konecranes have signed a combination agreement and merger plan under which Konecranes will be merged into Cargotec. The combined company would have illustrative annual sales of about EUR 7.0 billion.

Bila Group, Denmark's largest automation solutions company, acquired all shares of Reo-Pack in Mariager, a stretch-wrapping machine manufacturer with 50 employees, after the founder's generational handover.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, received its largest single vessel contract to date from OHT for a monopile lifting, skidding and transfer system for the Alfa Lift offshore wind installation vessel being built at China Merchants Heavy Industry in Jiangsu, with delivery in Q4 2021.

Swisslog completed a fully automated storage and retrieval system for Mai Dubai's bottled water operations in Dubai, under an order valued at over EUR 20 million. The system includes a six-aisle high-bay raw materials warehouse and a finished-goods warehouse with 17,560 pallet locations.

Fenner Dunlop announced a $23.5 million expansion of its Kwinana, Western Australia conveyor belt plant, adding a third press line with Siempelkamp that raises capacity by a further 50%.

CorrBoard UK will shortly install a new £1.5 million automated palletisation system and IT control system upgrades at its 320,000 sq ft North Lincolnshire plant.

Following new shareholder investment, CorrBoard UK will install a new £1.5m automated palletisation system at its North Lincolnshire plant, alongside IT control system upgrades.

Crowley Solutions received a multi-year award from the U.S. Army 409th Contracting Support Brigade on 4 May 2020 to provide transport and material handling equipment procurement in Europe, running May 2020 to May 2023 with an estimated value of $49 million.

Tank Holding, North America's largest rotational molder, acquired Meese Inc., a maker of bulk laundry carts and material handling bins, from parent Tingue Brown & Co. The deal includes rotational molding facilities in Madison, Indiana and Ashtabula, Ohio.

SSI Schäfer realized an automated intralogistics solution, including a fully automated high-bay warehouse and compact conveyors, at Etivera Verpackungstechnik's new fulfilment logistics center in St. Margarethen/Raab.

Gefco agreed with Airbus to help it move to a cleaner, more environmentally friendly supply chain by gradually replacing single-use packaging with reusable foldable containers.

Sew-Eurodrive's Russian subsidiary plans to build a gear motor assembly plant in Novosibirsk for €15 million, with completion targeted for January 2021 and capacity of 10,000 units per year.

BEUMER Group was commissioned by EPC contractor TTCL to supply complete bagging lines for the LLDPE plants at the Long Son Petrochemicals Complex in southern Vietnam, including three FFS filling machines, three palletizers and two stretch hood packaging machines.

Dematic has won a multi-million euro contract to supply an automated collation and sequencing system for an extension to Vectura AS's pallet warehouse in Gjelleraasen, Norway. The system is due to go live in summer 2020.

Lokeren-based Dhollandia is investing 30 million (euro, as reported) to build a new factory in the United States, its sixth site, marking its 50th anniversary.

Interroll moved its Thailand operations into a new 4,800-square-metre plant in Phantong, Chonburi, to serve Southeast Asian material handling demand. The site makes rollers, RollerDrive, pallet flow and drum motors, and will add a modular conveyor platform line by end-2019.

Shimadzu's affiliate Tianjin-Shimadzu Hydraulic Equipment will build a new plant of about 17,000 square meters in the Xiqing Economic-Technological Development Area for about 2 billion yen, finishing September 2020 and targeting 300,000 hydraulic gear pumps per year by fiscal 2023.

Shimadzu's Chinese subsidiary Tianjin Shimadzu Hydraulic (TSH) will start building a new plant in November 2019 in Tianjin's Xiqing Economic-Technological Development Area to make gear pumps and control valves for forklifts, with completion planned for September 2020. TSH targets 300,000 gear pumps per year by fiscal 2023.

PiovanGroup finalized the acquisition of ToBaPNC, a South Korean company that automates industrial processes for plastics, especially plastic powder transport. The deal expands Piovan's presence in South Korea.

Thomas H. Lee Partners agreed to acquire AutoStore, a provider of cube storage systems and robotics, from EQT, which had bought the company in January 2017. AutoStore management and EQT will keep minority stakes.

Whitham Mills Engineering has secured an order to supply a fully automatic cardboard baler (GB1108FSS) with a bin tipping solution and bale roller track to Weetabix's Northamptonshire food processing site, with a two-year warranty.

Interroll is investing about $11 million to build a second factory next to its existing plant in Hiram, near Atlanta, Georgia. Completion is expected by the end of 2019.

Nexen Lift Trucks announced an £8.5m investment in its Lowestoft, UK headquarters and manufacturing facility, including a 48,000 sq. ft. extension that will double output and create 40 jobs.

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, signed a comprehensive three-year cooperation agreement under which it takes full responsibility for log handling at Iggesund Paperboard's Iggesund mill, including equipment, operators, maintenance and software.

Wincanton was appointed to manage Britvic's new automated warehouse in Rugby, Warwickshire, which went live in March, with the contract extending their relationship to 2025. The facility has 33,000 pallet positions.

SEKO Logistics has won a three-year Master Services Agreement to act as Peli BioThermal's network station and service centre in Dublin, refurbishing and distributing its temperature-controlled shippers across Ireland.

Piovan's Universal Dynamics has bought CMG America, according to Plastics News dated March 20, 2019. No deal value was reported.

Dongyang PNF signed a supply contract worth 8.5 billion won with Daelim Industrial for a pneumatic conveying system. The contract runs until January 9, 2020.

Timber Investments bought a 51 per cent interest in Columbia Containers from Providence Grain Group, which keeps 49 per cent. Columbia Containers operates a grain and agri products container transloading facility in Vancouver, B.C., now with capacity of 1.5 million tonnes a year.

Saudi Pallet Manufacturing Company signed a 90 million US dollar memorandum of understanding with SABIC to manufacture Paxxal plastic pallets for export and develop local supply chain initiatives. The agreement was signed on 28 January 2019 in Riyadh during the National Industrial Development and Logistics Program launch.

Xenon acquired 100% of Mectra and Emmeti in Montecchio Emilia and Sipac and Logik in Fontevivo, creating Ems Group, a packaging line maker with EUR 130 million turnover and 290 employees. The deal was reported on 2018-12-13.

Xenon Private Equity, via its Xenon Private Equity VI fund, bought 100% of Emmeti, Mectra, Sipac and Logik, creating EMS Group, a maker of palletizing, depalletizing and conveyor lines based in Italy. The deal was reported on 28 November 2018 and no value was disclosed.

Phoenix Logistics, an affiliate of Phoenix Investors, obtained a contract to provide warehouse and transportation management services for Pretium Packaging at a former Maytag plant in Herrin, Illinois. The announcement was made in October 2018.

Toll Group won a contract to provide warehousing, transport and value-added supply chain services for Suntory PepsiCo Vietnam Beverage in Vietnam, including a greenfield factory and warehouse site.

Phoenix Logistics, an affiliate of Phoenix Investors, obtained a contract to provide warehousing and transportation management for Pretium Packaging at the revitalized former Maytag plant in Herrin, Illinois.

Fava Artemio was commissioned by Serioplast to design and build a new bulk conveying system and Venturi pneumatic conveyor for PET and HDPE bottles at the L'Oréal plant in Settimo Torinese, Italy.

ComPETence Universal Dynamics, part of PiovanGroup, completed its move to a 10,000 square meter facility in Fredericksburg, Virginia in July 2018, which also serves as PiovanGroup's North American headquarters and doubles production capacity.

Carlton & United Breweries has appointed BevChain, part of the Linfox group, to run warehousing and metropolitan delivery across its east coast operations at Truganina, Rosehill, Heathwood and Abbotsford. Transition to BevChain will happen site by site as existing arrangements expire.

South African packaging maker Corruseal Group has commissioned a new corrugated board plant in Cape Town, equipped with a 2.5m Fosber S/Line corrugator and converting and materials handling machinery. The article is dated 1 June 2018.

Patricia Industries agreed to acquire Piab from private equity firm EQT, as announced on 30 April 2018. The article gives no deal value or location details.

Panattoni Europe has been awarded a contract by Volkswagen Group to build a packaging centre for automotive parts at JadeWeserPort in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The five-hall facility will cover about 45,000 square metres on a 100,000 square metre site, with construction scheduled to begin in June 2018.

Walther Faltsysteme completed one of its largest logistics contracts, supplying recyclable plastic pallets with RFID chips to retailer Hofer in Austria, with pallets in circulation since the start of 2018.

Duravant LLC acquired US conveyor and integrated systems manufacturer QC Industries LLC, expanding its material handling portfolio in North America. The value was not disclosed.

WERIT Kunststoffwerke started production of EURO H1 plastic hygiene pallets at its Buchholz (Westerwald) site with a fully automated line, in an investment of undisclosed millions of euros. The article is dated 28 February 2018.

Auer Packaging won a European tender from Volkswagen AG for about one million RL-KLT plastic small load carriers, worth EUR 3 million. The containers will be delivered regularly from Amerang to VW suppliers across Europe.