Food Processing Equipment

GEA is adding about 70,000 square feet of office, manufacturing, research and industrial space at its Janesville campus in Wisconsin. The investment of about USD 25 million covers construction, machinery and equipment, with full operation scheduled for early 2028.

Actron Industries has installed a SIG Midi 12 aseptic filling line at its Calamba, Laguna plant in the Philippines, capable of filling up to 12,000 cartons per hour, with commercial production scheduled for Q2 2026.

FCH completed the acquisition of Axiflow Technologies, a maker of sanitary twin-screw pumps for food, beverage and pharmaceutical users. The deal is listed in the Q1 2026 pumps M&A roundup.

Tetra Pak broke ground on a new Product Development Center at its U.S. and Canada headquarters in Denton, Texas, with 12,000 sq ft for product development and 3,000 sq ft for a Customer Innovation Center. The facility is scheduled to open in Q1 2027 and create eight jobs.

Edible Garden AG is expanding its Zero-Waste Inspired platform with a ready-to-drink manufacturing hub at its Midwest facility of over 200,000 sq ft. It selected Tetra Pak for planning, installation and integration of proprietary processing and aseptic carton packaging, with an agreement to be executed on March 4, 2026.

FCH has completed its acquisition of Axiflow Technologies, a maker of sanitary twin-screw pumps for food, beverage and pharmaceutical customers. The deal extends FCH into twin-screw pumps.

Lee Li Holdings is investing $533 million in renovating and expanding its existing Mississauga, Ontario bottling plant and building a new 85,000 sq ft facility, expected to create 275 jobs with $90 million in provincial funding.

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.

Froxá plans to invest 32 million euros through 2028 to build a new factory in Vargas (Puente Viesgo), doubling production, with Cantabria regional government support of nearly 4 million euros. About 26 additional workers are planned by 2030.

Dover Corp's PSG has acquired IPP Pump Products GmbH, a Bersenbrück-based maker of hygienic lobe and progressive cavity pumps for food, pharma and biotech.

STM Group increased PINTA's beer canning capacity and automated its can line with a cartoner, supplying depalletiser, rinser, Microcan CL10 filler, labeller, case packer and integration with the glass-bottle line.

Luxlait has moved several dairy classics into Elopak Pure-Pak cartons after installing a new Shikoku S-PSF70UCe filling machine supplied by Elopak at its Roost plant in Luxembourg.

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.

Duravant LLC signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pattyn Group BV, a Bruges-based designer and manufacturer of packaging automation systems for bag-in-box and other packaging applications. The deal value was not disclosed.

KHS installed an ultramodern non-returnable PET bottling line for Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited at its Willowvale industrial area plant in Harare, increasing production capacity by 300% over the replaced line. The line can produce and fill up to 36,000 containers per hour.

Filling and closing machine maker groninger USA will invest $15.1 million to expand its manufacturing operations in Charlotte's Steele Creek submarket, creating 60 new jobs.

Canadian beverage maker Cardiff Products Corp. will invest $99.6 million to open an aseptic co-packaging facility in the Saxe Gotha Industrial Park in Lexington County, South Carolina, creating 94 jobs.

Spain's Inoxpa Group officially opened its new Inoxpa India plant on a 32,000 square metre site in Khandala Taluka, south of Pune. The facility adds manufacturing, warehousing and office space.

The DUBAG-managed LEO III fund acquired Ampack GmbH and Osgood Industries from Syntegon, a CVC portfolio company. Ampack and Osgood make form, fill and seal machines for cups and bottles used in food packaging.

Paul Mueller Company announced a $20 million expansion of its Springfield, Missouri headquarters facilities, adding 100,000 square feet for production and R&D. Construction is expected to begin in fall 2024 and finish in fall 2025.

Tetra Pak signed agreements with Ektifa, the commercial arm of Sharjah's Department of Agriculture and Livestock, to install a Tetra Top filling line and provide utilities at the Meliha Dairy Factory in the UAE. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Tetra Pak signed an agreement with Sharjah's Ektifa to install a Tetra Top filling line at the Meliha Dairy Factory in the UAE, worth USD 3.5 million for packaging. A separate USD 8 million utilities deal was also signed.

Sharjah Agricultural and Livestock Production (EKTFA) awarded Tetra Pak a contract to install a Tetra Top packaging line at the Mleiha Dairy Factory in Sharjah, UAE. The agreement was signed during a visit to Tetra Pak's facility in Lund, Sweden, reported on June 25, 2024.

SIG has signed a partnership to provide carton packs and filling services to Mupy, a Brazilian soy and fruit juice drink brand, via a copacker. Mupy aims to double turnover by 2025 and reported 115 million reais in revenue for 2023.

SIG is providing carton packs and filling services to Brazil-based soy and juice drink maker Mupy via a co-packer. The filling machines support Mupy's growth plans for soy and juice beverages.