Smurfit Westrock has broken ground on a USD 65 million corrugated and folding carton plant in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, with operations scheduled to begin in early 2027. Construction and start-up are expected to create more than 800 direct and indirect jobs.

Honeycomb paperboard pallet maker Pallite Group secured a £1.6 million export finance facility from KBC Bank, backed by UK Export Finance. The working capital will support growth in overseas markets.

Ball Corporation agreed to buy an 80 percent stake in Benepack's beverage can businesses, which have plants in Belgium and Hungary, for about 184 million EUR; closing is expected in Q1 2026.

Kazakhstan's Ust-Kamenogorsk Valve Plant signed an agreement to supply CPC-K with locally made shut-off valves, pumping units and electric motors, plus maintenance and testing cooperation.

Eaton will open a new manufacturing campus in Henrico County, Virginia, making static transfer switches, power distribution units and remote power panels for data centers, with production expected to start in 2027.

TC Transcontinental, Canada's largest printer, and The Globe and Mail extended their newspaper printing agreement by 10 years, in a partnership dating back 40 years.

Compañía Española de Tabaco en Rama (CETARSA) awarded DS Smith Packaging Italia a supply contract for corrugated cardboard boxes for tobacco packaging, worth 903,000 EUR excluding VAT, with deliveries to Cáceres factories from February to July 2026.

Swisher plans a $135 million expansion of its Jacksonville campus in Florida to increase production of nicotine and caffeine oral pouches, adding 240 jobs by 2027.

John Crane signed a multi-year global framework agreement with an unnamed international energy company to supply sealing technologies and lifecycle reliability services across its global asset base, announced in Dubai.

SCG Packaging completed the purchase of 100% of PT Prokemas Adhikari Kreasi (MYPAK), a corrugated containers producer in Bekasi, West Java, for IDR 467 billion (about THB 981 million), with 144,000 tons annual capacity.

East Pipes Integrated Company, an associate of Welspun Corp, received a six-month contract from the Saudi Water Authority to manufacture and supply steel pipes worth over SAR 485 million including VAT.

Electrocentrale Bucuresti S.A. awarded a contract to F&C Total Grup, SITAN GRUP and ROM ENERGY ARMSTRONG for special steam regulating and injection valves for its VEST Combined Cycle plant near Bucharest, valued at about EUR 575,237.

John Crane, a Smiths Group business, signed a multi-year Global Framework Agreement with an unnamed large international energy company to supply sealing technologies and lifecycle services across its global sites. The agreement follows a successful reliability programme at one of the operator's refineries.

The Defense Logistics Agency Maritime awarded Hunt Valve Company, Inc. a contract for gate valves worth $569,050 in total, with the award dated December 9, 2025.

Canned beverage maker DrinkPAK will establish its first Pennsylvania plant with a $195 million investment, leasing a 1.4 million sq ft build-to-suit facility in the Bellwether District of Philadelphia. The Commonwealth is investing $2 million and the project will create 174 jobs over three years.

Redwood Beverage Group, backed by 13th Floor Capital and Tricor Pacific Capital, acquired the 200,000 sq ft West Sacramento co-packing facility previously run by Manna Beverages. Redwood has restarted operations and rehired many former employees.

Coca-Cola HBC, with packaging maker DS Smith and machinery supplier Krones, is rolling out a corrugated cardboard handle for 1.5-liter bottle multipacks in place of plastic shrink wrap. Commercial trials began in Austria in 2023.

Nelipak completed its acquisition of Merrill's Packaging, which makes custom thermoformed packaging for medical device, pharmaceutical and life science applications. The deal was reported on December 8, 2025.

Torishima received an order from Fuji Electric for hot well pumps for Unit 2 (80 MW) of the Muara Laboh geothermal power plant in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The order was received in July 2025 and announced December 8, 2025.

East Pipes Integrated Company signed a six-month contract with the Saudi Water Authority on December 7, 2025, to manufacture and supply steel pipes valued at over SAR 485 million including VAT.

Axium Packaging, headquartered in New Albany, Ohio, is investing $45 million to expand its tube manufacturing and build a specialized warehouse in Jersey Township. Its total central Ohio investment reaches $550+ million.

ITT agreed to acquire SPX FLOW from Lone Star Funds for a total consideration of $4.775 billion in cash and equity. The deal values SPX FLOW at 14.2x forecast 2026 adjusted EBITDA, and ITT expects $80 million in run-rate cost synergies by year three.

Shah Brothers is constructing a new 87,220 sq ft single-use manufacturing facility in Vadodara, India, with three buildings. It will add capacity for single-use assemblies and fluid handling products for biopharma.

Baosteel Packaging and Thailand's Carabao Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement on 4 December 2025 in Shanghai to localise metal packaging supply across Southeast Asia.

GZ PrintPak will spend $7.1 million to expand production capacity at its recently opened Mount Pleasant plant for luxury paper bags. The announcement was made on 4 December 2025.

East Coast Canning will supply printed cans and dispensing systems for Meadow's resealable aluminium can system in Australia and New Zealand. The partnership was announced on 4 December 2025.

Sappi and UPM signed a non-binding letter of intent to form a 50/50 joint venture combining their European, UK and US graphic paper businesses. The combined enterprise value is about EUR 1.42 billion, and definitive agreements are expected in the first half of 2026.

Canpack has significantly increased the capacity of its beverage can plant in Romania by installing an upgrade to one of its two lines. The announcement is dated 4 December 2025.

Lee Li Holdings will invest over C$533 million to expand its Mississauga, Ontario facility by 15,000 square feet and build a new 85,000 square foot bottling and packing facility focused on plastic bottle manufacturing. The project will create 275 jobs.

Synchronicity Care Ltd (CDD Services) awarded Burlodge Ltd a 24-month contract worth £226,604 for polypropylene food containers, film and free-on-loan sealing machines, starting 4 December 2025.

Viega opened a new production facility with a seminar center in Mantua, Ohio, after an investment of about $178 million on a 20,400 square meter site. It is the company's second US production site after McPherson, Kansas.

Re:Water agreed a five-year, eight-figure partnership under which Ball Corporation will supply tens of millions of recycled aluminium bottles to support the brand's expansion in retail and hospitality.

Silverstream Technologies will supply air lubrication systems for nine RoPax newbuildings contracted by Grimaldi Group at China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyard. It is the largest RoPax order awarded to Silverstream.

Wasco Bhd won a contract worth US$150-200 million from Technip Energies Italy to engineer, procure and fabricate pre-assembled process modules for a low-carbon ammonia project, with delivery within 37 months. Fabrication will be done mainly at Wasco's expanded Batam facility.

Gardner Denver Nash transitioned its regional sales and support partner from Process Controls to Mills Winfield effective December 1, 2025, covering Northern Illinois and NW Indiana for its vacuum pumps and compression systems.

Brookfield reached an agreement with DongFang Precision to acquire the shareholdings in Fosber Group, the Italian corrugated machinery maker, including Fosber Italia, Fosber America, Fosber Asia, Tiruña and Quantum Corrugated. Completion is expected in the first half of 2026.

Horton, a cooling solutions manufacturer, is investing $15 million to add 100,000 square feet at its Westminster facility in Oconee County, South Carolina, doubling manufacturing area to increase production of cooling fans and fan clutches.

Xpert Pack inaugurated a R$100 million, 25,000 square metre flexible packaging plant in Feira de Santana, Bahia, producing big bags including the Fusion seamless big bag. The group becomes the municipality's largest individual employer.

Woodward held the grand opening of a new Heavy Frame Turbine Valve and Actuator repair and overhaul facility in Greenville, South Carolina. The site doubles its North American service capacity for heavy frame gas turbine valves and actuators.

Summit Packaging Systems added a new 64-cavity mold and a customized high-speed assembly line for its Europa two-piece button actuators at its Almere facility in the Netherlands. The expansion was driven by growing customer demand from the personal care market.

Valve maker Tecofi is building a 16,000 m² factory on a 33,000 m² site in Corbas (Rhône), with commissioning planned for early 2027 and 60 planned hires, backed by Bpifrance and a €15 million investment.

GE Vernova won a contract from Megha Engineering & Infrastructures (MEIL) to supply nine 150 MW pumped-storage hydro units for the 1.35 GW Upper Sileru plant in Andhra Pradesh, targeted for completion by 2030. The announcement is dated approximately December 2025 based on the article's relative timing.

Edvin Larssons Mekaniska AB (ELMAB) has become the new owner of Melin & Carlsson Hydraulic AB in Tranås, Sweden. The acquisition took effect in December 2025.

ProAmpac signed a definitive agreement to acquire TC Transcontinental Packaging from TC Transcontinental for US$1.51 billion (about CAD 2.1 billion). The deal is expected to close in Q1 2026.

Roper Pump Company announced its acquisition of Ranger Pumps, a Memphis, Tennessee producer of positive displacement pumps, with Ranger's product lines and customers transitioning to the Roper brand.

Halliburton announced that Petrobras awarded it multiple contracts for intelligent completions, electric safety valves and stimulation services in Brazil's deepwater fields, with work expected to begin in 2026.

TransDigm Group completed its acquisition of the Simmonds Precision Products business from Goodrich Corporation, an RTX subsidiary, for approximately USD 765 million in cash including certain tax benefits.

Velan Inc. was awarded a valve order exceeding CAD 20 million by Ontario Power Generation to supply emergency cooling injection valves for three reactors being refurbished at the Pickering Nuclear Generation Station, with deliveries through January 2028.

Hyundai Movex signed a supply contract with Korea Kolmar worth 55.9 billion won (about 16.37% of its 2024 revenue) for logistics automation modules and robots, running until 31 August 2027.

Sibeg, the Coca-Cola bottler in Sicily, selected Sidel to supply a complete aseptic PET production line with an 18,000 bph capacity at its Catania site. The line uses Sidel's Aseptic Combi Predis, EvoFilm Stretch and PalKombi machines.