Kerr Pumps/FlowValve has started demolition and remodeling at its Highway 77 facility to house a new fabrication line for a new product. The company has hired 10 employees and plans to hire 15 to 20 more.

Ebara Elliott Energy was awarded a contract by Larsen & Toubro to supply nine customized centrifugal compressors for a multi-billion-dollar gas infrastructure project in the Middle East. Deliveries are to begin in line with project timelines.

Frugalpac signed an agreement with Siemens Financial Services to offer customers a structured lease-purchase scheme to finance its FBAM-2 paper bottle assembly machine. The FBAM-2 can produce up to 14 million bottles a year in a three-lane configuration.

Gerresheimer agreed to sell Centor US Holding and its global Primary Packaging Plastics business, with 15 plants in nine countries plus Centor's US site, to Apax Funds at an enterprise value of about EUR 1.5 billion. Closings are expected by the end of FY2026 for Centor and in H1 FY2027 for the plastics business.

Pentair agreed to acquire Cranston, Rhode Island-based Taco Group Holdings, maker of pumps, valves, tanks and heat exchangers, in a deal valued at about $1.4 billion. Closing is expected in Q4 2026, and Pentair says Taco will operate as a stand-alone business.

Brazilian packaging maker Grupo Penha began a modernisation and expansion project in 2024 at its Itapira headquarters, with a total investment of about R$200 million, including a new corrugator and die-cutting machine from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

AMPO Arabia signed its largest single order to date with C.A.T. Group to locally manufacture up to 1,200 engineered valves at its Dammam 2nd Industrial City facility for Aramco's Zuluf offshore development.

Baker Hughes completed its acquisition of Chart Industries, greatly expanding its industrial portfolio and aftermarket service capabilities.

Paranova is building a £6m purpose-built 98,000 sq ft manufacturing site in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, expected to be fully operational in November with 150 staff, with a new Koenig & Bauer press arriving in September.

Dunapack Packaging Hellas, part of Austria's Prinzhorn Group, has agreed to take over El Pack's corrugated packaging operations at sites in Patras, Kapandriti and Thiva, Greece. The transaction is subject to merger clearance with closing expected in the second half of 2026.

Philip Morris International's U.S. business opened a roughly 780,000 sq ft Zyn nicotine pouch manufacturing campus in Aurora, Colorado, on 27 July 2026, with about $1 billion invested so far and $1.2 billion expected through 2028.

AMPO POYAM VALVES has been awarded a contract to supply 180 large gate valves, including 148 cryogenic service valves, for Aramco's Riyas NGL Fractionation Trains project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The order is under the EPC contract awarded to Técnicas Reunidas.

CANPACK Group has approved a $100 million investment in a second line at its greenfield aluminum can facility in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India, adding 1.2 billion cans of capacity. Commercial production is expected in late 2027 or early 2028.

Goglio, through its Brazilian subsidiary Mega Goglio, has acquired Cristal Embalagens, a flexible packaging company in Morro da Fumaça, Brazil. The deal expands Goglio's flexible packaging offering in the Brazilian market.

KZTA has started producing steel wedge valves for the oil and gas, energy and chemical industries at a new enterprise in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Investment was 100 million rubles and 50 jobs were created; the plant plans 500 units in 2026 and 1.5 thousand in 2027.

Zhejiang Niudun Fluid Control won a 2026-2028 framework tender from Juhua Group for bellows globe valves, worth 6.8134 million yuan, covering heat transfer oil and hydrogen fluoride service.

Baosi Co plans to inject 500 million yuan cash into its subsidiary Jiangxi Baosi Industrial Chain Service to build a smart factory in Jiangxi making 30,000 refrigerant compressors and heat pumps a year over 18 months.

SPX Technologies completed the acquisition of Neptronic Inc. for a total cash consideration of CA$605 million.

The European Commission approved Saica Group's acquisition of Thimm Group's nine corrugated board plants in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania, plus a preprint facility in Ilsenburg, Germany. The deal adds 1.2 billion square metres of corrugated capacity and about 2,500 employees.

Vertiv is expanding chiller manufacturing and adding a large-scale testing laboratory at its Tognana campus near Padua, Italy, expecting to double regional chiller capacity by end-2026 and finish the lab in early 2027.

Ampo Poyam Valves was selected to supply 180 large-sized cryogenic and non-cryogenic gate valves for the Riyas NGL fractionation project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, for Aramco, under an EPC contract awarded to Técnicas Reunidas.

IBT Industrial Solutions, Inc. of Kansas City, Kansas, acquired Indesco, Inc., a Charlotte, North Carolina distributor of hydraulic, pneumatic and power transmission products; the deal closed June 26, 2026 and was announced July 23, 2026.

SIP Manufacturing, a contract beverage co-packer, is establishing operations in an existing building in Southaven, Mississippi, with corporate investment above $100 million and 187 jobs created.

Grupo RFK has opened a new R$400 million factory in São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, developed with Krones, tripling its production capacity for cans and PET packaging, with about 300 direct jobs and a target of R$2 billion in revenue.

Lloyds Metals and Energy has awarded Weir an order for 14 GEHO TZPM 2000 positive displacement pumps with GLORES for the second phase of its 200 km slurry pipeline at the Surjagarh mine in Maharashtra, adding 16 million tonnes per year of capacity.

CANPACK S.A. has announced plans to merge with CP GLASS S.A. through universal succession under Polish law, taking over all its assets and obligations to simplify the group structure and cut administrative costs.

Rajshree Polypack received a repeat order worth about ₹3.09 crore from a wholly owned subsidiary of a global confectionery company to supply plastic rigid sheets, to be delivered by September 2026.

Tetra Pak has expanded its partnership with Vinícola Aurora, supplying carton packaging for juice and wine and implementing its Parts Control spare-parts management service. The packaging supply began in 2022 and the Parts Control contract started in 2023.

Smurfit Westrock has inaugurated a new Bobst Mastercut 2.1 die-cutting line at its Anzio plant near Rome, a €11 million investment adding over 20 million square metres of capacity and raising hourly productivity by over 20%.

Chinese listed company Boshi Co (博实股份) signed a commercial contract worth about 440 million yuan with Guoneng Xinjiang Chemical for five-year solid product packaging operation services, about 87.99 million yuan per year, announced July 21, 2026.

Indian packaging manufacturer Rajshree Polypack Limited has secured a commercial order worth ₹30.9 million for supply of rigid plastic packaging products and sheets, disclosed to stock exchanges on July 21, 2026.

Vossko do Brasil presented a five-phase expansion plan worth R$712 million for its Lages plant, running 2027 to 2032 and adding about 21,900 square metres of industrial space.

Detpak, the foodservice packaging arm of Adelaide's Detmold Group, opened a 175,000-square-foot factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina, initially employing more than 50 people, with full production due in August 2026.

BAOYI Group held the groundbreaking of its Huangtian Industrial Park in Yongjia County, Zhejiang, on July 18, 2026, for special control valves and intelligent control systems, with completion scheduled for August 2028.

SÜDPACK Medica officially opened its significantly expanded plant in Coulmer, France, on 17 July 2026. The site's clean-room production areas were almost doubled to make primary packaging for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Valvitalia Group broke ground on a new manufacturing facility of over 16,000 sqm in Wujiang, Jiangsu Province, backed by an investment of over €10 million, marking 20 years in China.

Compañía Española de Tabaco en Rama (CETARSA) awarded a contract to PALM PACKAGING BILBAO S.L. to supply 45,000 C48 AC ND boxes for tobacco packaging in Cáceres for EUR 602,100, with the award dated 16 July 2026.

Exotic Automation & Supply, a US fluid power distributor with nineteen stores, announced a merger with Value Added Distributors, a Wisconsin-based Parker Hannifin distributor with 18 facilities across the Midwest and Southern US.

Tianjin Tanggu No.1 Valve Co. (TVI) was awarded a framework supply contract worth RMB 9.4511 million by China Railway Water Group for valves and fittings for water and wastewater projects in Northwest China.

Morocco's Competition Council received notification of a joint control acquisition of Caiba SA, after its merger with Nosoplas SLU, by Portobello Capital Gestión, Cobega and Sonab. Third-party observations are due by July 27, 2026.

Jenson & Nicholson Packaging signed a land lease with the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority to build a new manufacturing facility at the National Special Economic Zone, an investment of about US$13.7 million.

Minhan Paper Joint Stock Company awarded ANDRITZ a contract to supply a complete OCC recycling line for its paper mill in Hung Yen province, Vietnam, with start-up planned for the first half of 2027. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Detpak USA, a subsidiary of Australia's Detmold Group, will open its first US manufacturing operation in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, at a 175,000 square-foot facility on New Cut Road. The multi-million-dollar investment will create over 50 jobs, with operations expected online in August 2026.

ACR, backed by Oridian Capital Partners, has acquired RediBagUSA, a New Hyde Park, New York supplier of reusable retail bags, paper products and packaging. No financial terms were disclosed, and RediBagUSA's CEO will remain involved.

Sichuan Jingkong Valve Manufacturing is building a 271 million yuan smart flexible valve production facility in Guanghan, Sichuan, covering about 26,000 square meters with five new automated lines for oil and gas pipeline valves. The project is expected to enter operation around October 2026 and reach annual output above 600 million yuan.

CCL Container will invest $16.3 million to install a new production line at its Hermitage City facility in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, nearly doubling production capacity and creating 30 new jobs over three years. The state is contributing $160,000 to the project.

Dunapack Packaging has completed its acquisition of Stora Enso's German corrugated packaging plants, Gaster Wellpappe, Wellpappe Sausenheim and PTI. The German Cartel Office approved the deal on 2 June 2026, after plans were announced in mid-April.

Smurfit Westrock says it has put R$1 billion into Brazil in recent years to expand production capacity, modernize industrial units, and add automation, AI and innovation. All output from its Brazilian operations currently serves the domestic market.

BARBIERI Electronics and Beijing Dingli Xintong Technology strengthened their sales, service and support partnership for colour measurement spectrophotometers in China after a partner meeting in Beijing in July 2026.

Rolls-Royce opened a $24 million, 250,000-square-foot logistics and production center next to its mtu power-generation plant in Mankato, Minnesota, expected to more than double output of mtu Series 4000 generator sets by end-2026 and add over 100 jobs.