Velvin Group and Japan's Rengo Co announced a joint venture for an upcoming corrugation unit in Cheyyar, Tamil Nadu, India. Rengo takes a 30% equity stake, and Velvin Containers will be renamed Velvin Rengo Containers Private Limited.

eBottles announced a partnership with the GearNeed design team behind Pollen Gear to develop child-resistant cannabis packaging and offer custom design services. GearNeed will advise on proprietary packaging and on branding for existing product lines.

Ampo Poyam Valves signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Clarke Valve covering manufacturing, distribution and service of zero-emissions Dilating Disk Valves. The agreement was signed on October 1, 2023 at Ampo's headquarters in Idiazabal, Spain.

SCG Packaging (SCGP) signed a joint development agreement with US-based Origin Materials to develop bioplastic from eucalyptus wood chips. The bioplastic project is being carried out in Canada, with results expected in the current quarter.

TricorBraun signed an agreement to be the preferred distributor of AFA Dispensing Group's rechargeable Flairosol sprayer in the US and Canada. The device is an alternative to aerosol packages.

Manjushree Technopack (MTL), a rigid plastic packaging maker backed by Advent International, signed a collaboration with the bottle-to-bottle recycling division of Ganesha Ecosphere Group to co-develop and supply food and non-food packaging made from up to 100% recycled plastic in India.

Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA signed an agreement with Ultramar Caffè - La Natura Lifestyle AG to create a new packaging line for aluminum espresso capsules at its Suffolk, Virginia facility. The line, due by the second half of 2024, will produce 100 million capsules per year.

AMPO POYAM VALVES and CLARKE VALVE signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement covering manufacture, distribution and service of the Dilating Disk Valve, signed October 1, 2023 in Idiazabal, Spain.

Odessa Pumps, a DNOW subsidiary, entered an exclusive partnership with EagleBurgmann to offer its mechanical seals and supply systems in Texas, New Mexico and parts of Arkansas and Louisiana.

McElroy Manufacturing, a maker of thermoplastic fusion equipment, announced a strategic partnership with Lawrence, Massachusetts-based thermoplastic valve and pipe maker Asahi/America, providing a tool fleet for butt and socket fusion of pipe up to 630 mm plus an online welding certification system expected in early 2024.

Tetra Pak announced its first Custom Printing collaboration with Flow Beverage Corp., with five bespoke carton designs to appear at Live Nation Canada venues this fall.

Fanuc UK worked with London-based Recycleye to deploy AI vision with Fanuc LR Mate robots for sorting dry mixed recyclables, reporting up to 12% higher sorting accuracy and up to 10% higher line output.

ITT's i-ALERT and Hexagon's j5 Operator Rounds will combine machine health data tracking and analysis features to help heavy industries cut maintenance costs and unplanned downtime for pumps and motors.

Europe Technologies built a semi-automated pilot assembly line for LivingPackets' The Box packaging in Nantes, and the partnership continues with planned mass-production lines of 500,000 to 1 million units a year.

Coastal Container, a packaging company in Holland, Michigan, invested in eProductivity Software CorrTrim and CorrTrac solutions to support a new corrugator and expansion adding 65,000 square feet of manufacturing space. The system is expected to go live in mid-2023.

Flexi-Hex launched a North America partnership under which Orora Packaging Solutions will stock its full product range, with a focus on demand from the US wine and surfing industries.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) collaborated with Petainer to develop a standardized 1L 'Universal refPET Bottle' for its refillable system in the German market. The design supports fill speeds of 36,000 bottles per hour.

Nexgen Packaging will invest in infrastructure, equipment and services to support ARISE IIP's textile and apparel facilities in Togo and Benin. The partnership was announced on 26 July 2023.

UK packaging company Flexi-Hex signed an agreement with California-based Orora Packaging Solutions making Orora its exclusive North American distributor of patented hexagonal recycled fiber protective packaging. The agreement was announced in July 2023.

Berry Global, Deaconess Midtown Hospital and Nexus Circular launched an initiative to recycle non-hazardous, sterile plastic packaging and non-woven fabric from the hospital's Surgical Center, about 500 lbs per week. Waste streams are sent to Evansville Packaging Systems for auditing and separation.

Tetra Pak and Axjo Group are working together on a planned recycling plant in Gislaved, Sweden, for polyAl layers from carton packaging, with up to 10,000 tonnes annual capacity. The collaborative investment is up to EUR 24 million, with operations expected from 2025.

PulPac licensed its Dry Moulded Fiber technology to Matrix Pack, a European maker of paper straws and biodegradable lids. Initial use focuses on hot and cold beverage lids in North America and Europe.

Valmet and thyssenkrupp Industries India signed a cooperation agreement to sell and distribute process automation systems for the energy sector.

Pact Group signed a strategic partnership to supply recycled plastic packaging for ALDI Australia's own-brand products, manufactured at its New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland facilities. The deal was announced on June 29, 2023.

PakTech, maker of recycled secondary packaging, announced a partnership with Visy and a contract manufacturing facility in Victoria, Australia, with capacity for 100 million units a year.

Monterey Wine Company in King City, California agreed with British firm Frugalpac to become the first U.S. contract filler of Frugal paper bottles for wines and spirits.

SKF and Wolong Group signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a strategic cooperation on magnetic levitation technology in electric drive products. The companies announced the MoU on May 17, 2023.

PulPac signed a partnership making HZ Green Pulp its first licensee in Malaysia for dry molded fiber technology. HZ Green Pulp, based in Perak, plans a fast market launch of molded pulp products such as lids, food trays and cutlery.

Flowserve and Hydrogen Optimized signed a memorandum of understanding to advance green hydrogen production, with Flowserve supplying a SIHI Liquid Ring Compressor for a demonstration facility in Ontario.

Consumer health companies Sanofi and Haleon joined the Bottle Collective, an initiative led by PA Consulting and PulPac to industrialise dry moulded fibre bottles. They will support a feasibility study and co-development of cellulose-based packaging.

US-based EAM-Mosca, a subsidiary of Mosca GmbH, signed an exclusive sales and marketing agreement to supply Reisopack strapping systems and OEM parts in the US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.

TricorBraun entered an exclusive agreement to supply BioBottles biodegradable plastic bottles to the nutraceutical industry in the US and Canada. The bottles use Symphony Environmental's d2w oxo-biodegradable technology, developed by Better Earth.

Packaging designer and distributor TricorBraun signed an exclusive agreement to offer BioBottles' fully biodegradable bottles to nutraceutical companies in the US and Canada.

Lupamat Compressor signed a partnership agreement with FS-Elliott, the American centrifugal air compressor maker based in Export, Pennsylvania, for developing industrial products in the Turkish market. The agreement was reported on February 27, 2023.

ADS Services' Power Chokes division and Sayatva LLC signed a global agreement to jointly supply pressure control equipment and systems for oil and gas drilling and production, with forging and in-country manufacturing across the US, Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Avantium and Origin Materials announced a partnership to accelerate mass production of FDCA and PEF bioplastics by combining their technologies to make FDCA from sustainable wood residues on an industrial scale.

IperionX and Carver Pump have partnered to offer additively manufactured titanium pump components to the US Navy, with Carver designing the parts and leading qualification. The announcement is dated 7 February 2023.

Packaging firm Coveris and UPM Raflatac will supply a recyclable label liner to UK food producer Cranswick, replacing PET release liner on cooked meat packs. The partners say the change cuts carbon emissions by 20%.

Voltas proposed a Rs 500 crore compressor plant in partnership with China's Highly International, which has not yet received government clearance. The article is dated 1 January 2023.

Paperboard maker Holmen Iggesund entered a long-term agreement with dry-forming technology firm Yangi to develop renewable packaging to replace rigid plastics in beauty and cosmetics. Holmen Iggesund will supply fiber-based material while Yangi contributes its dry-forming technology.

Amcor's Australia and New Zealand business signed a memorandum of understanding with Licella Holdings to invest in a plastic advanced recycling facility in Melbourne. Stage one is expected to process 20,000 tonnes per year of waste plastic using Licella's Cat-HTR technology, subject to final terms.

Eastern Controls, Inc. expanded its authorized representation of SICK to cover Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and New York, building on its existing western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio territories.

Flowserve and Chart Industries signed an agreement under which Flowserve acquires in-process R&D for Chart's liquid hydrogen fueling pump and will be its sole manufacturer and supplier once commercial production begins.

Egypt's Ibda initiative signed a shareholder agreement with Spain's Coperci, part of Mondragon group, to set up Egypt's first gas safety valve factory with capacity of 15 million valves and an investment of about $6.7 million, scheduled to open in April 2023.

South African valve and pump maker Paltech signed a distribution partnership with Schneider Electric, effective 1 May 2023, making it the sole OEM official distributor of Schneider automation instrumentation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

ADNOC joint venture Borouge signed a memorandum of understanding with Abu Dhabi Medical Devices Company (ADMD) to supply polyolefin materials for medical devices and pharma packaging in Abu Dhabi.

Voltas plans a Rs 500 crore compressor plant near Chennai as a joint venture with Highly International, pending government clearance; the JV will also sell to other brands and export.

Voltas plans a Rs 500 crore compressor plant near Chennai as a joint venture with China's Highly International, which is awaiting government clearance under Press Note 3 and PLI approvals.

Pact Group has converted AU$420 million of existing loan facilities into a sustainability-linked loan, the first such transaction for an Australian manufacturing company. Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac and HSBC were lead arrangers.

Industrial Packaging Group and Treffpack Beteiligungsgesellschaft agreed to combine their shareholdings into a new holding, PACKAGING ALLIANCE EUROPE SA, a merger of equals in primary packaging. Member companies operate in eight European countries.