ORG Packaging is investing CNY1.1 billion (about USD150 million) in two new canmaking facilities in Thailand and Kazakhstan. The report is dated 5 August 2025.

Sabert Corporation has announced its acquisition of Colpac Limited, strengthening its presence in the UK, Irish and European markets for paperboard packaging.

Hood Container will invest $118.9 million to modernize its paper mill in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, upgrading the primary paper machine to add 80,000 tons per year capacity and improving the recovery boiler. The first phase is due in Q3 2026.

Grupo Cobra and Masa, subsidiaries of Cobra IS, were awarded electrical, piping and industrial mechanical works for a €1.2 billion second-generation biofuel plant in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, for Moeve and Apical, with 500,000 tonnes per year capacity.

Torishima Service Solutions Europe acquired KRG Specialist Engineering Services, a Coatbridge, Scotland precision sub-contract machining company, to add machining capabilities for its parent Torishima Pump Mfg.

thyssenkrupp Uhde's subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a Letter of Intent with KÖKSAN to deliver two PET resin plants, one in Gaziantep, Türkiye and one in Babylon, Iraq with Al Mutahida Packaging, each with 324,000 tons per year capacity. Completion is planned for 2027 and 2028.

PONAR Wadowice received a PLN 15.4 million grant from the Just Transition Fund to build a low-emission production hall at its Łaziska Górne branch in Silesia for drives, controls and special-purpose systems.

AMPO POYAM VALVES was selected by Aramco to supply sour service valves for the Jafurah Gas Wells Tie-in project under purchase orders CRPO 19 and CRPO 23, as reported on 4 August 2025.

Xuanda Industrial Group is building a green smart factory in Yongjia County, Zhejiang, for pumps and valves, with total investment of 300 million yuan. Completion and production start are expected in 2026, with annual capacity of 12,000 tonnes.

Jaipur-based Miracle Group will invest Rs 125 crore in capacity expansion across its eight packaging plants in the current financial year, adding new printing and converting machinery and lifting production capacity by up to 30%.

Napco Investment LLC, a Dubai-based subsidiary of Napco National, completed the acquisition of Arabian Flexible Packaging from the Ghurair Group, effective 1 August 2025.

ORG Packaging announced on August 1, 2025 that its subsidiary Bena Packaging (Thailand) will build a two-piece aluminium can line with 700 million cans annual capacity at Rojana Ayutthaya Industrial Park, with an investment of about 441.6 million yuan.

OJI Thailand installed and commissioned an Aopack BM3000-HD corrugated box maker at its Thailand facility in August 2025. The machine follows deployments at OJI subsidiaries in Japan.

Chinese industrial compressor maker ZIQI Compressor has completed its new factory in Dexing, adding production and R&D capacity. The company reported the completion in August 2025, with hundreds of jobs created locally.

Beverage Pack Company S/A plans to invest R$700 million in two new aluminum plants in Minas Gerais: a can plant in Frutal (about R$465 million) and a can-end plant in Governador Valadares (about R$235 million), creating 200 direct jobs.

Cervejaria Cidade Imperial plans to invest about R$130 million to expand its Frutal plant in Minas Gerais, creating an estimated 67 direct jobs.

ACON Investments agreed to sell its controlling interest in Colombian packaging company Amfora Packaging S.A.S. to Albéa Group. Terms were not disclosed.

Atlas Copco Group agreed to acquire CRI-MAN S.p.A., an Italian maker of chopper pumps, separators and mixers for biogas and wastewater treatment, based in Correggio, Italy. The acquisition adds 85 employees and is expected to close in Q4 2025; the price was not disclosed.

Schütz Container Systems will expand its St. Joseph, Missouri site with a new building and a new manufacturing line for industrial packaging, investing $31 million and creating 20 jobs. The announcement was made on 31 July 2025.

Comer Industries agreed to acquire a majority of Nabtesco's hydraulic equipment unit through a newco it will hold 70% of, for around EUR 85 million. Closing is expected by the end of Q4 2025, subject to approvals.

The US Defense Logistics Agency awarded Compressor Engineering Corp a contract worth $155,661 to supply 53 inlet valves (NSN 4310010240288). The award was dated 31 July 2025.

BorgWarner won a contract to supply wastegate turbochargers for a 1.6L engine used in hybrid electric SUVs for an unnamed major East Asian automaker in Korea. Production is scheduled to start in 2027 at BorgWarner's Pyongtaek facility.

TRICOR Packaging & Logistics AG commissioned a factory-integrated BHS Corrucleaner HE-90 dust removal system on its newest 2.8-metre corrugator in Goch, Germany. The article is dated 30 July 2025 and the commissioning took place the previous week.

Meson Valves, formerly Quest Flow Controls Limited of India, signed a term sheet to acquire a 51% controlling stake in QUEST Flow Controls, LLC, a valve and actuation provider in Tomball, Texas. The deal was announced on 30 July 2025 and no value was disclosed.

Sappi North America completed Project Elevate, a $500 million rebuild of Paper Machine No. 2 at its Somerset Mill in Maine that doubled capacity for SBS paperboard. Full volume is expected by 2026 as customer qualifications continue.

Specialized Packaging Group acquired the Monterrey, Mexico-based assets of ArkPack de Mexico, a provider of custom corrugated packaging and foam fabrication, expanding its North American footprint. ArkPack continues operating in Tijuana and Juarez.

Atlas Copco Group acquired Clearpro Construction Water Solutions Pty Ltd, an Australian specialty mobile water treatment rental company based in Queensland that serves dewatering projects.

Chemical dosing company Lutz-Jesco GmbH acquired the FXM line of peristaltic metering pumps, formerly branded Flowrox, from Valmet, including technology, designs and intellectual property. The Flowrox trademark remains with Valmet.

Atlas Copco Group purchased Heide Pumpen GmbH, a German distributor and service provider of portable pumps.

Ceco Environmental completed the divestiture of its Fluid Handling (Global Pump Solutions) business to private equity firm May River Capital, which combined the Dean, Fybroc and Sethco pump brands into a new portfolio company, Tusk Industrial.

Modine announced a $100 million investment over 12-18 months to expand Airedale data center cooling manufacturing at four US sites, including a new facility in the Dallas, Texas area and an expansion in Grenada, Mississippi, with possible repurposing of Performance Technologies sites in Franklin, Wisconsin and Jefferson City, Missouri.

Larsen & Toubro's hydrocarbon arm L&T Energy Hydrocarbon won an ultra-mega EPCIC contract worth over Rs 15,000 crore from QatarEnergy LNG for two offshore compression complexes in the North Field Production Sustainability project, located about 80 km off Qatar's northeast coast.

Nidec affiliate Embraco announced a compressor manufacturing facility in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), Maharashtra, with over $120 million investment, 6 million units annual capacity and 750 to 1,000 jobs, with operations starting in the second half of 2026.

Origin Materials and Dutch packaging producer Royal Hordijk Packaging announced a partnership in which Hordijk will supply PET extruded sheet for Origin's CapFormer lines, operated by Hordijk at its EU facilities, to mass produce PET bottlecaps.

Flowserve terminated its merger agreement with Chart Industries and will receive a $266 million termination payment after declining to submit a revised offer, as Chart's board deemed a Baker Hughes proposal superior.

JK Paper agreed to acquire a 72% controlling stake in Goa-based folding carton maker Borkar Packaging for about Rs 235 crore ($27 million) in cash, with the remaining 28% to follow over four years.

Virtuoso Optoelectronics Limited has started manufacturing compressors in Nashik, India, according to a Reuters report published July 28, 2025. The article provides few further details.

RMS, a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania provider of rotating equipment solutions, announced the acquisition of Psicon BV, a Netherlands-based maker of compressor modernization products, turbomachinery parts and magnetic filters. The announcement was dated July 2025.

Kautex Textron received an order from a leading automotive OEM for a full-BEV thermoplastic composite lower battery housing under its Pentatonic line. The part will be produced for a major BEV platform spanning multiple vehicle brands.

NovoPacks, based in Bulgaria, obtained exclusive European distribution rights for FIBC big bags and woven polypropylene products made by Uzbekistan's Sirdaryo Mega Luks. The multi-year agreement covers about 2 million FIBC bulk bags monthly.

Genera completed a $340+ million expansion of its molded fiber packaging manufacturing facility in Vonore, Tennessee, creating over 200 new jobs and bringing annual capacity to over 30,000 tons. The completion was announced on July 28, 2025.

Panther Group's Coswiger Wellpappe is adding a new production and warehouse building in Coswig, Saxony-Anhalt, due to go into operation in August 2025. The site is expected to grow by around 30 per cent.

Panther Group plans to build a €40 million fully automated corrugator at its RRK Wellpappenfabrik site in Bottrop, after buying an adjacent 30,000 square metre plot. Annual capacity is to rise above 300 million square metres, with timing to be finalised in 2026.

Crown Hellas Can plans to expand capacity at its Corinth aluminium can plant with an investment of about €136.2 million, adding two industrial buildings and upgraded equipment and creating 50 jobs. The project has applied for strategic investment status and is in consultation until 3 August.

Welspun Corp won a $580 million contract to supply coated line pipe for a natural gas pipeline network in the Permian Basin of western Texas, to be produced at its US subsidiary Welspun Tubular LLC. Deliveries are expected in fiscal 2028-29. The article's date details are internally inconsistent.

Sangao Valve (Xi'an) is building a 350 million yuan production and R&D base in Lintong District, Xi'an, to make 20,000 sets of high-pressure smart pump valves a year. Construction is underway and the project is expected to create over 500 jobs.

CO VALVE's electric pinch valve won an open tender for valve procurement run by Chongqing Jianfeng Industrial Group, and the company entered the client's qualified supplier system. No contract value was disclosed.

STMicroelectronics entered into an agreement to acquire NXP Semiconductors' MEMS sensors business for up to US$950 million in cash, including US$900 million upfront and US$50 million subject to technical milestones. The acquisition strengthens ST's position in sensors for automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.

Warburg Pincus and Berkshire Partners completed the acquisition of Triumph Group, Inc., making it a privately-held company. Triumph provides mission-critical engineered systems and components for aerospace and defense.

Somany Ceramics Limited acquired a majority stake in Dura Build Care Private Limited, a leading player in the construction chemicals manufacturing space. The transaction was advised by EVA Law.