Construction Materials

CMPC agreed to sell its Chilean corrugated packaging business, including Envases Impresos Cordillera and Chimolsa, to Smurfit Westrock for $420 million, subject to review by Chile's National Economic Prosecutor's Office.

Norbec opened its new CAD 45 million manufacturing plant in Strathroy, Ontario, its first in Ontario, creating 70 jobs to serve Ontario and U.S. Midwest markets.

Amiblu has acquired RPC Pipe Systems, its long-term Flowtite licensee in Australia and New Zealand, expanding its operations into the Asia-Pacific region. No value was disclosed.

Viglacera Thang Long Joint Stock Company ran a domestic online tender for supply of boxes with a package price of 7,333,000,000 VND, with contract award results published on March 25, 2024.

Aliaxis plans to invest about €28 million in Australian factories, including a new Toowoomba 2 plant near Brisbane for stormwater drainage products, with production lines starting from Q3 2024.

SheaRock Construction Group will build a 30,000-square-foot facility in the Windsor-Essex area of Ontario to manufacture plastic sewer maintenance shafts, investing about $4.29 million and creating 20 new jobs. The plant is targeted to be fully operational by 2026, producing up to 10,000 units a month.

Anfra Oy signed contracts with Stora Enso for cast-in-place and element construction works for the conversion of a former paper machine at Stora Enso's Oulu mill into a consumer packaging board line, a billion-euro investment creating 300 jobs.

Kronospan plans a new oriented strand board manufacturing plant on its 460-acre site in Oxford, Alabama, with a $350 million investment creating 125 new jobs. Oxford City Council approved tax abatements for the project, and groundbreaking is slated for later in 2023.

Uponor signed an agreement to buy the remaining 44.7% stake in its subsidiary Uponor Infra Oy from KWH Group for about €60 million, raising its ownership from 55.3% to 100%. Closing is expected in the third quarter of 2023 after regulatory approvals.

Bewi's acquisition of Jackon Holding AS, a Norwegian insulation and packaging group with about 935 employees and 20 facilities across the Nordics, Germany and Belgium, has been approved by all competition authorities. The deal value is not stated.

Trebor Developments completed the pre-sale of a 625,000 sq ft freehold turnkey site at Delta Park, Peterborough to Crown Holdings for a build-to-suit aluminium beverage can plant, with total capital value over £150 million. Main contractor ISG began work in June 2022 with completion expected in summer 2023.

The Amarillo Economic Development Corporation plans to pay North Carolina-based Manteenbar incentives, including a property tax deferral and $10,000 per job, to build a $40 million factory in Amarillo, Texas, that would employ about 160 workers. The deal goes to city council in early January 2022.

S:t Eriks signed an agreement to acquire all shares of MEAG VA-System AB, a Swedish producer of concrete water and sewage (VA) solutions with about 90 employees, to be run as a separate company within the group.

Spanish paper and packaging group SAICA plans to invest $800 million over the next five years to expand in the US market, via acquisition or new plant construction, while building a corrugated paper plant in Hamilton, Ohio due to open in early 2022.

Panattoni completed a 40,000 sqm production plant in Kalisz for Leviat, which will manufacture fasteners and construction reinforcement and transport systems. The plant replaces Leviat's existing factory nearby and increases its production capacity.

Provia plans to spend $14 million to $18 million to nearly double its facility north of Strasburg, Ohio, and create 150 jobs over five years, under an enterprise zone tax abatement approved by Tuscarawas County commissioners.

DiversiTech Corporation is opening a concrete manufacturing plant in Leesburg, Lake County, Florida, with an investment of over $2 million and a commitment to create at least 25 jobs.

CEMCO announced the grand opening of its expanded manufacturing plant in Denver. The announcement is dated 27 February 2026 on the company's news page.

LIXIL Group has agreed to sell its Permasteelisa building facade business to Atlas Holdings; the deal value was not stated in the article.

Altrad Cape UAE announced it was awarded a contract to manufacture, fabricate and supply 62,000 sqm of CAPIR for KLNG's LNG facilities, supplied through its Korean vendor PACO Corporation. The announcement is dated 15 January 2019.

Georgia-Pacific is investing $4.5 million to expand its Clarendon OSB mill in Clarendon County, South Carolina, with a new 30,000 sq ft warehouse, a laminating line and additional equipment. The announcement was made in November 2018.

Uponor has started PEX pipe production in a 237,000-square-foot facility in Hutchinson, Minnesota, which it bought for $6.35 million in 2017, and will hold its grand opening ceremony.

Uponor North America started manufacturing PEX pipe at its new 237,000-square-foot facility in Hutchinson, Minnesota, six months ahead of schedule. The $6.35 million investment was announced in July 2017 after the company bought the existing facility.

A CTCI-Saipem joint venture was awarded the EPC contract for the Nong Fab LNG receiving terminal in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, by PTT LNG, a PTT subsidiary, valued at about USD 925 million.

NCC signed a cooperation agreement with BillerudKorsnas to carry out nearly all construction work for the KM7 expansion at Grums, valued at about 950 million SEK. The contract was signed in December 2016.