Smith Anderson & Ara, an Anglo-Turkish paper packaging maker, has opened a new plant in Burgas after investing over 10.2 million euros. The plant employs 60 people, with the investor aiming for at least 160 by summer.

PONAR Wadowice S.A. will invest nearly 100 million PLN in a new production hall of about 1,000 m² and a machinery park at its Wadowice plant, supported under the Polish Investment Zone. The investment is for the defense sector.

Siemens Energy was awarded the contract to supply the hydrogen compression station for Hamburger Energienetze's Moorburg project. The order covers two large hydrogen compressor packages plus balance-of-plant scope, with commissioning scheduled for the second half of 2027.

Ramén Valves announced the acquisition of Industriarmatur, a Swedish supplier of valves and valve actuation solutions for industrial, process and district heating applications. The deal broadens Ramén's portfolio for Swedish customers.

CIRCOR plans a $16 million expansion in Columbia, Kentucky, including a 90,000 sq ft manufacturing facility and 50 new full-time jobs. The city is seeking a $1 million Community Development Block Grant to buy equipment.

Consolidated Packaging Australia, a KnoxCorp subsidiary, agreed to buy Pro-Pac Packaging's Australian businesses, excluding Perfection Packaging, with completion expected by early March 2026. The New Zealand sale is expected to complete by end January 2026.

Oka Production Company modernized its plant in Pavlovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, raising shut-off valve capacity by 25% to 8,000 units a year. Total investment was about 150 million rubles, including a 90 million ruble federal development fund loan.

Summit Packaging Systems has added over 40 injection molding machines at its European headquarters in Almere, Netherlands, plus a dedicated Lotus actuator assembly area and a mold repair center to meet growing actuator demand.

Perfection Packaging, a unit of Pro-Pac Packaging based in Dandenong, Victoria, is being wound down and is scheduled to close in February 2026. It was excluded from the sale to Knoxcorp.

Australian investor Knoxcorp, through subsidiaries, is buying the Australian and New Zealand continuing businesses of Pro-Pac Packaging from administrator McGrathNicol, excluding the Perfection Packaging unit. Completion is expected in early March 2026 in Australia and by 30 January 2026 in New Zealand.

Imker Group, through its Luxembourg subsidiary Rucio Investment, plans to acquire a stake of more than 25% in Germany's folding carton manufacturer Faller Packaging.

Fernholz Verpackungen has commissioned another high-performance extruder at its film site in Schkopau, Saxony-Anhalt, and increased silo capacity by 75%. The end-2025 start-up completes its investment programme begun in 2022.

Redox, a supplier of oxygen and water treatment systems for aquaculture, has agreed to buy compressor and compressed-air equipment firm Trykkluftservice in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. The seller's eight employees transfer with the business; financial terms were not disclosed.

Eroğlu Global Holding signed an agreement with the Suez Canal Economic Zone to build a carton and packaging factory in Qantara West Industrial Zone, with a $175 million investment and about 2,000 direct jobs. The plant will span 70,000 square meters.

East India Drums & Barrels Manufacturing received a Letter of Acceptance from Indian Oil Corporation for steel drums and barrels worth ₹18,170,815, to be delivered at Panipat, Haryana. The announcement is dated January 20, 2026.

Tetra Pak opened its expanded packaging material plant in Binh Duong, Vietnam, adding a production line that raised capacity from 12 billion to 30 billion packages per year. The project cost €97 million and was built from August 2024.

Westport Fuel Systems began production at its new China Hydrogen Innovation Center and Manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China, to make GFI hydrogen fuel system components locally. Initial products shipped in December 2025 and capacity is ramping through Q1 2026.

Westport Fuel Systems started production at its expanded product development and manufacturing facility in Cambridge, Ontario, producing GFI high-pressure fuel system components. Initial products shipped in December 2025 and capacity is ramping through Q1 2026.

United Engine Corporation (ODK) opened a new gas turbine engine compressor production complex at its ODK-Kuznetsov plant in Samara, with an investment of 4.8 billion rubles. The complex doubles the plant's throughput and covers 16,500 square meters.

Valvitalia Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a joint venture with Saudi FAL Co. LTD, a Saudi process automation operator, as part of its expansion into Saudi Arabia's energy and infrastructure market. The announcement is dated January 19, 2026.

Daetwyler Group acquired Manchester-based Cheshire Anilox Technology on January 16, 2026. Daetwyler is setting up an anilox manufacturing facility at its Huntersville, North Carolina headquarters.

Austrian-owned Marzek Kner Packaging inaugurated an expansion at its Békéscsaba site in southeast Hungary. The company completed expansions worth HUF 5.5 billion in recent years, securing 480 jobs with HUF 1.5 billion in government support.

CB&I won a contract from We Energies to complete a full-containment LNG storage tank for a peak shaving facility in Wisconsin.

Packaging distributor Zeus Group and packaging machinery firm Engelmann & Buckham formed a partnership to deliver an end-to-end packaging automation and consumables solution.

The Hamburg-based LINDAL Group acquired a new manufacturing facility in Wismar, Germany, equipped for polymer processing, with 9,000 sqm of production space. Noerr advised LINDAL on the deal.

United Drilling Tools Limited received a domestic order from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation to supply gas lift valves, side pocket mandrels and associated components, to be executed within three to four months. The estimated value is Rs 4.06 crore.

Eastern Pipes Company's board approved a new external steel pipe coating line at its pipe coating plant in Dammam's Second Industrial City, costing about SAR 78.5 million. The expansion aims to double annual capacity from about 4 to 8 million square meters, with commercial production expected in Q1 of fiscal 2027-2028.

Copeland completed the first phase of its INR 500 crore expansion at its Atit plant near Pune, India, rolling out its first locally made 5 HP scroll compressors. The expansion makes Copeland the only domestic producer of these hermetic scroll compressors.

Infinity Global Inc. will expand its packaging operations in Danville, Virginia, with a $34 million investment creating 150 new jobs, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced.

Butterfly Equity completed its acquisition of ePac Holdings, a digitally printed flexible packaging producer with 14 facilities in the US and Canada, from an investor group including Amcor and Indevco North America. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Saica Group supplied Unilever with a recyclable paper grouping band replacing plastic shrink film on Axe deodorant duopacks. The solution has been on the French market since late 2025.

Avantium signed a capacity reservation agreement under which Packamama will secure future volumes of its plant-based PEF polymer releaf for wine bottles, sourced from licensed plants using its YXY Technology.

MODEC commissioned Everllence to supply five barrel-type compressor trains for the Gato do Mato-Orca FPSO moored in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. Electric and Solar Turbines gas-turbine drives will power the units.

Birch Hill Equity Partners agreed to buy about 72.1% of industrial valve manufacturer Velan from the Velan family for C$13.10 per share, roughly C$204 million in gross proceeds. Closing is expected in the first half of 2026.

Birch Hill completed the acquisition of a controlling interest in Montreal-based valve maker Velan from Velan Holding and affiliated entities at C$13.10 per share, giving it about 72.1% of shares and 91.9% of voting rights.

Canadian transformer maker CES Transformers celebrated the grand opening of a 160,000 sq ft expanded manufacturing facility in Markham, Ontario, which will more than triple its production capacity and create over 150 jobs by 2030.

S.O. Holding S.A. completed the acquisition of ADAM PACK S.A., a Greek producer of gable-top cartons and plastic caps for liquid food packaging. Consilium Capital advised the buyer; the deal value was not disclosed.

Minerals Technologies expects to commission a new satellite plant in China early in 2026 for paper and packaging filler and coating technology.

ePac Flexible Packaging is investing in upgrades at its facilities in Austria, France, Poland and the United Kingdom, including digital printing presses and pouch converting equipment, announced in January 2026.

Specialty Packaging Group opened a 50,000-square-foot facility in Guadalajara, Mexico, to make crates for shipping advanced technology and data center equipment.

Buckeye Corrugated has opened a 100,000-square-foot corrugated manufacturing and distribution facility in Reno, Nevada, its first entirely new corrugated plant, expected to employ 20 to 25 production workers.

L&T's Heavy Civil Infrastructure arm secured an order worth INR 2,500-5,000 crore from Torrent Energy Storage Solutions to design and build civil and hydro-mechanical works for the 3,000 MW Saidongar-1 pumped storage project in Raigad, Maharashtra, announced on 14 January 2026.

DS Smith partnered with the Romanian Serele SupeR agricultural cooperative to replace ten million plastic tomato packages with recyclable corrugated fibre punnets, following a three-year trial, reported on 14 January 2026.

Polska Grupa Górnicza S.A. awarded two supply contracts for plastic packaging bags to Inter-Duban in Bielsko-Biała and POMAR in Zabrze, with a combined value of 3,922,674 PLN, announced on 14 January 2026.

Oglethorpe Power selected Kiewit Corporation's subsidiary The Industrial Company as EPC partner for a new 1,425-MW combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in Monroe County, Georgia. The capital investment is over $3 billion, with commercial operation planned for 2029.

Pratt Industries has opened a 496,000-square-foot corrugating facility in Warner Robins, Georgia, creating more than 125 jobs in Peach County. The plant will produce corrugated boxes from recycled containerboard.

PONAR Wadowice has received a support decision under the Polish Investment Zone for a strategic project worth nearly PLN 100 million, including a new 1,000 m2 production hall and modern machinery for defense and civilian hydraulics, to be carried out in 2026-2027.

Festo has taken over Gummiwarenfabrik R. Neddermann GmbH, a specialist in sealing and rubber technology, effective 1 January 2026, to strengthen its valve seal production. The announcement was made on 13 January 2026.

Smurfit Westrock plans to invest more than R$800 million in its Brazilian mills to expand production of recyclable paper packaging and modernize its plants. The CEO of its Brazil unit, Manuel Alcalá, described the country as strategic.

Ranpak expanded its partnership with Medline Industries, with Medline deploying Ranpak's Cut'it EVO right-sizing machine and Form'it case erector in its high-volume outbound operations.