Suntory Beverage & Food is investing £13m in Lucozade Ribena Suntory to install a new high-speed bottle filler at its Coleford, Gloucestershire factory, producing 1.3 million bottles a day.

Almarai installed two complete Sidel PET lines, each handling 54,000 bottles per hour, at its Al Kharj central processing plant to increase single-serve orange juice capacity. The lines use Tetra Pak Processing Systems equipment. The article is dated January 2019.

Packaging and processing equipment maker tna opened a new 80,000 sq ft manufacturing centre in Boronia, Victoria, built for almost $8 million, and targets over $1 billion in sales within five years.

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.

Unigrains, together with Mecatherm's management, completed the acquisition of bakery equipment maker Mecatherm S.A. from Wendel and other shareholders. The enterprise value was 120 million euros.

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.

CFT Group acquired a majority shareholding in CO.MAC S.R.L., which designs and makes beverage filling and packaging machines, especially for beer kegs. The deal extends CFT's beverage portfolio.

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.

Unibloc-Pump Inc. of Marietta, Georgia has acquired German manufacturer R&H GmbH, creating a combined European market leader in road tanker pumps. The deal was announced on May 30, 2018.

Nanjing Ziquan, a Chinese co-packer, installed a second complete hot fill PET bottling line from Sidel to boost Mizone production at its Nanjing plant. The line runs at 36,000 bottles per hour and was reported on 28 February 2018.

Bühler has won a contract from Norwegian coffee producer Joh. Johannson to build an environmentally friendly coffee processing plant with capacity of up to 12,000 tonnes a year, set to start operations in mid-2019.

Voltic (GH) inaugurated a new high-speed packaging line at its second facility in Akwadum, Eastern Region, funded by parent Coca-Cola Beverages Africa with US$6.5 million. The line is meant to raise production capacity.

US process equipment maker Duravant acquired UK-based weighing and filling machine manufacturer Ohlson Packaging to expand its product portfolio.

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.

HQ Equita agreed to sell ROVEMA GmbH, a German maker of vertical form-fill-seal food packaging machinery based in Fernwald, Hesse, to Franz Haniel & Cie, subject to regulatory approvals; Alantra advised the seller.

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.

Treviso-based food equipment maker Irinox plans to acquire two adjacent industrial sites in Vittorio Veneto, previously occupied by woodworking firm La San Giuseppe, and to grow headcount from 250 to over 300 by 2019 as it doubles production space.

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.

Warburg Pincus announced it will acquire Duravant, a packaging, food processing and material handling equipment maker, from Odyssey Investment Partners.

Meyn Polska was handed over 10,375 sqm of production space and nearly 2,000 sqm of office space in Lebork, Pomerania on June 13, 2017. The expansion was completed in eleven months, and the company makes poultry processing machinery.

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

Folmeg Engineering of Eschwege has taken over Schuy, an insolvent maker of filling and packaging machines in Hünfeld, Germany. Schuy will remain independent and its site will stay open.

Italy's Interpump Group bought Inoxpa Group, a Spanish maker of process equipment and flow handling systems for the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries, in Q1 2017.

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.

Interpump Group acquired 100 percent of Inoxpa Group, a Spanish maker of process equipment and flow-handling systems for food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, for EUR 90 million. Inoxpa had fiscal 2016 sales of nearly EUR 60 million.

SPX FLOW opened a new 28,000-square-meter manufacturing campus in Bydgoszcz, Poland, producing hygienic valves, sanitary plate heat exchangers and homogenizers. The company described it as a multimillion-dollar investment, and the announcement was dated January 31, 2017.

Multivac and TVI plan to build a new production site and office building with a demonstration and customer centre in Bruckmühl, southern Bavaria, with construction due to finish in 2018.

Multivac's German unit bought a 49.9% stake in TVI Entwicklung und Produktion GmbH for an undisclosed sum, to offer complete production lines from a single source.

Australian food processing and packaging solution provider TNA introduced the arctic 3 vertical form fill and seal system, designed for wet and cold processing environments, following its earlier acquisition of Sabalpack.

Tetra Pak agreed an AED25 million deal to construct processing and packaging lines for Binghatti Holding's new food and beverage plant in Abu Dhabi, where Raubi juice output is set to rise from 10 million to 40 million cases a year. Installation is expected to start in Q1 2017.

Tetra Pak agreed to provide and construct processing and packaging lines for Binghatti Holding's new food and beverage plant in the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi, worth AED25 million (about $6.8 million), announced November 26, 2016.

Enterprise Tondelli was awarded the contract for a 15,000 bottles-per-hour beer bottling line, including a glass depalletiser and conveyor automation, for BrewDog's new craft brewery in Ellon, Aberdeenshire. The brewery officially opened on Saturday 19 January.

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.