Krones

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Deutschland is investing 45 million euros in a new canning line at its Halle plant, with a Krones filler capable of up to 120,000 cans per hour. The line is scheduled for commissioning in November 2026 and will create 25 new jobs.

Grupo RFK has opened a new R$400 million factory in São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, developed with Krones, tripling its production capacity for cans and PET packaging, with about 300 direct jobs and a target of R$2 billion in revenue.

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.

DS Smith developed the Lift Up, a fully recyclable corrugated cardboard handle for 1.5-litre soft drink bottle multipacks, in collaboration with Krones and Coca-Cola HBC. Krones says the method could cut packaging production energy use by 58%.

DS Smith and Alpine Water developed a recycled and recyclable corrugated transport box for Hallstein glass water bottles that replaces polyethylene foam inserts. The announcement was dated 18 September 2025.

Krones acquired all shares of Deventer-based Can Systems Worldwide, which makes can-end handling machinery. CSW has 35 full-time staff and generated about EUR 20 million in revenue in 2024.

Krones bought a 60% stake in Landshut-based GHS Separationstechnik, gaining decanter centrifuges for solid-liquid separation. The company has 25 staff and generated about EUR 10 million in revenue in 2024.

Krones is building the Bayreuther Brauhaus brewery near Bayreuth, Germany, with Steinecker brewhouse and cellar equipment and a complete returnable-glass bottling line of 40,000 bottles per hour. The brewery is designed for 500,000 hectolitres annual capacity.

Krones has started building a new manufacturing plant worth Rs 315 crore in Vemagal, Kolar district, Karnataka, to increase its capacity for bottling machines. The plant is expected to create 550 jobs.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners will spend $105.5 million on a new warmfill bottling line for Powerade and Fuze Tea at its Moorabbin, Victoria plant, adding about 23% to site capacity. Krones supplies the line.

Krones has agreed to acquire 100 percent of the Netstal Group from KraussMaffei, with the agreement signed on February 6, 2024 and completion expected in the first half of 2024.

DrinkPAK, a contract beverage manufacturer, is investing more than $450 million to build two facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas totaling about 2.8 million square feet. The DP2 low-acid plant is expected to open in November 2024 and DP3 high-acid plant in January 2025, creating 1,000 jobs by 2026.

Bundaberg Brewed Drinks opened its 22,000 sqm Master Brewery in Bundaberg, Queensland, on 31 October 2023 with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attending. The plant cost more than A$120 million, including a A$19 million government grant, and was equipped with Krones beverage systems.

Coca-Cola HBC Austria replaced plastic shrink film on four soft drink multipacks with kraft paper and cardboard packaging, developed with Krones, DS Smith and Mondi. The line was installed at its Edestal plant in Burgenland.

Coca-Cola HBC Austria replaced plastic films on 1.5-litre PET multipacks with recyclable cardboard and kraft paper outer packaging at its Burgenland production center, saving an estimated 200 tons of plastic annually. Krones, Mondi and DS Smith collaborated on the project.

Danone ordered five Krones ErgoBloc L wet-end blocks in 2020 for Volvic and other water plants, four in France and one in Spain, with installation planned by the end of 2023.

Danone ordered five Krones ErgoBloc L wet-end blocks, four for France and one for Spain, to be installed by the end of 2023. The first block at Volvic in France is already operating and the second is nearly ready to start.

Krones selected Icertis Contract Intelligence to transform its sales and procurement contracting processes, integrating it with SAP Ariba and Salesforce. The system is managed from Krones headquarters in Neutraubling, Germany.

Krones signed an agreement on 20 April 2023 to acquire 90% of Ampco Pumps Company LLC, a Wisconsin supplier of sanitary pumps and mixing equipment to food, beverage, dairy and pharma markets. Ampco generated about US$50 million revenue in fiscal 2022, and closing is expected in the first half of 2023.

Mondi launched Hug&Hold, a paper-based kraft sleeve and corrugated clip that replaces plastic shrink wrap for PET bottle bundle packs. The solution was tested with Krones and a global beverage brand.

Continental Bottling Industry (Vikos) is building a €22 million production and bottling plant in Kalpaki, Ioannina, with glass and can lines from Krones, expected to be operational by September 2022.

German machinery maker Krones won the order for four complete PET bottling lines and the related IT landscape for innocent's new Port of Rotterdam plant, each line handling up to 32,000 containers an hour.

Smoothie maker innocent is building its first own bottling plant in the Port of Rotterdam, a greenfield CO2-neutral factory with an investment of US$250 million.

Grupo Petrópolis' greenfield brewery in Uberaba, Brazil, built with Krones as general contractor and Steinecker brewing lines, started production in September 2020 and reached nearly 6 million cans in a single day in February 2021.

Evoguard GmbH, a Krones subsidiary, broke ground on an expansion of its Nittenau plant to add about 2,000 m2 of production hall and office space for pumps and valves. Completion is planned for October 2019.

Krones acquired MHT Holding, a Hochheim, Germany-based producer of PET preform moulds and injection moulding tools, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition strengthens Krones' PET value chain and tool manufacturing.

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.

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