Viega plans to invest more than 150 million euros by the end of 2028 to modernise and expand its Großheringen, Thuringia plant, its largest manufacturing site worldwide. About 100 new jobs will be created over five years.

Packaging specialist Papacks has opened a second hall at its Arnstadt, Thuringia site after investing around 14 million euros, and is planning a third gigafactory that will include a research institute. The company makes plastic-free, biodegradable packaging.

Saueressig is building a new company building at its site on Ottensteiner Straße in Vreden, Germany, investing €18 million and creating new jobs.

ait-group is acquiring and converting the neighbouring Maja-Werke site in Kasendorf, Germany, doubling its heat pump production capacity by up to 150,000 units. Production start is planned for early 2024 and the company aims to take over Maja employees.

TD Deutsche Klimakompressor broke ground on its sixth construction phase in Straßgräbchen, Saxony, adding about 20,000 square metres and a high-bay warehouse, with completion planned for late 2024 and annual shipments rising from 6 to 8 million units.

PAPACKS opened its Gigafactory 2 in Arnstadt, Thuringia, more than doubling its production area with a completed extension. The company invested almost 30 million euros with state support of around 6 million euros.

Thimm Group has commissioned a CorruCUT rotary die-cutter from Koenig & Bauer at its Wolnzach site in Bavaria, investing about €5.5 million to add at least 30 million square metres of annual capacity.

Stiebel Eltron plans to invest 450 million euros in its Holzminden main plant to quadruple heat pump production capacity and roughly triple industrial jobs to about 1,200 by 2027.

HUBER SE inaugurated its new production hall P3 at its headquarters in Berching/Erasbach, Germany, on 19 April 2023. The expansion lays the foundation for further growth and secures jobs.

Hexagon Purus has held a groundbreaking for a multi-million euro expansion of its Wystrach site in Weeze, Germany, adding a 5,000 m2 production hall and raising staff from 240 to 350.

Progroup began building a waste-to-energy plant next to its PM3 paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany, to supply process steam and about a third of the site's electricity. The plant is set to start operating at the end of 2025.

Voss is expanding its drum coating system for its in-house Voss coat zinc-nickel corrosion protection in Wipperfürth, Germany, increasing plant volume by nearly 50%. The company has invested EUR 2.5 million in galvanizing since 2018.

DS Smith is investing €34 million to modernise and expand its corrugated board plant in Arenshausen, Thuringia, with groundbreaking held for the works. The investment is part of about €120 million spent across three German sites and is expected to create new jobs.

DS Smith will invest almost EUR 120 million in expanding and modernising its plants in Nördlingen, Arenshausen and Arnstadt, including a new corrugator at Nördlingen, creating about 100 new jobs.

DS Smith is investing almost EUR 120 million to expand and modernise its plants in Nördlingen, Arenshausen and Arnstadt, Germany, adding capacity such as a new corrugator at Nördlingen. The investment will create about 100 new jobs once construction and commissioning are complete.

The Panther Group is investing in its Tornesch location in Germany by buying a neighboring 25,000 m² property and ordering two folder-gluers and palletizing robots. A new 6,000 m² production building is planned for 2023.

Ellerhold AG is building a new cardboard factory of almost 11,000 square metres at its Radebeul headquarters near Dresden, investing EUR 20 million. Completion is planned by the end of 2022, shifting the company's focus from large posters to packaging.

Ypsomed is investing in additional high-volume production lines at its Schwerin plant in Germany, including added capacity for the YpsoMate auto-injector. Equipment for the expansion has already been ordered and is being installed.

Weber Maschinenbau is investing almost ten million euro in expanding and modernizing its Neubrandenburg plant, starting with a 3,200 square meter logistics center and later expanding halls 5 and 6. Construction started after the building permit was officially presented.

Thimm group expanded its folding box production capacity at its Wörrstadt, Germany site by installing a new production line, a few months after commissioning a new folder gluing machine.

Packaging manufacturer Thimm installed a new Bahmüller Turbox folder gluer and automated downstream equipment at its Wörrstadt site for EUR 4.2 million, to meet rising e-commerce packaging demand.

CompAir, part of Ingersoll Rand, has completed the transfer of foreign screw compressor production capacity to its Simmern site in Germany, which is being upgraded and reconfigured.

Novelis is investing more than $30 million in a new continuous annealing line at its Plettenberg-Ohle, Germany plant, doubling capacity for aluminium used in coffee capsules.

HUBER SE started construction of a new production hall of about 7,000 m² at its Berching, Germany headquarters, expanding its two existing halls for its 150th anniversary. The new hall is expected to relieve existing halls and allow other process areas to expand.

Schumacher Packaging is expanding its Greven plant in the Airportpark FMO by about 14,000 square metres, investing around EUR 70 million and creating 200 jobs in 2021/2022. Annual corrugated board capacity at the site rises to 600 million square metres.

Huhtamaki is switching its Alf, Germany site from plastics to smooth molded fiber packaging, adding capacity of up to 3.5 billion fiber products a year. The unit plans to replace more than 2,000 tons of plastic with fiber in 2022.

Scanfil plc is adding 2,200 m² to its Wutha-Farnroda factory in Germany, raising its size by 50%. The expansion is expected to be in production use in the second quarter of 2022.

Miele is investing about €28 million in Bünde, Germany, including a new development centre on Borriesstraße and several hundred-tonne presses, which doubles capacity.

Papacks Sales GmbH is investing around EUR 13 million in a second molded fiber packaging plant next to its Arnstadt Gigafactory 1, doubling annual capacity there to 360 million units.

Siemens Energy is investing over €60 million to add a 6,200 m² vacuum interrupter manufacturing facility at its Berlin switchgear plant, scheduled to start operations in 2023. The vacuum interrupters form the core of its SF6-free Blue Portfolio.

PAPACKS has started construction of its PAPACKS GIGAFACTORY 2, a molded fiber parts plant next to GIGAFACTORY 1 in Arnstadt, Thuringia, investing over 13 million euros. Annual capacity at the site will double to over 360 million molded parts from 2022.

Schumacher Packaging is expanding its Greven, Germany plant to double production capacity, with about €70 million invested and 200 new jobs created by the end of June 2021.

Endress+Hauser invested about 46 million euros over several years to expand its Maulburg site, adding a building with 11,000 square metres of production space. The building was completed in 2020 and was formally presented on October 8, 2021.

Endress+Hauser dedicated its expanded Maulburg, Germany site, a roughly 46 million euro project adding a production and office building and parking garage, used for level and pressure measurement technology.

Thimm expanded its Alzey corrugated board plant in Rhineland-Palatinate with a new corrugating roll module from BHS Corrugated, raising maximum speed to 350 metres per minute and enabling F-flute production in Germany.

Ziehl-Abegg is investing 36 million euros in a new production facility at its Kupferzell site in Baden-Württemberg, with 16 million for buildings and 20 million for machinery, and plans 180 additional jobs.

HORSCH Maschinen GmbH is investing about €17 million to build a new assembly hall and office building of roughly 11,000 square metres at its Ronneburg, Thuringia site, groundbreaking on 27 July 2021 with completion planned by spring 2022.

Schumacher Packaging is expanding its Greven corrugated board plant with more than 20,000 sqm of new production space and two BHS Corrugated lines, bringing capacity to 600 million sqm per year by 2022. The group is investing about €70 million in 2021 and 2022 and creating 200 jobs.

Dosing technology maker ViscoTec held a groundbreaking on 5 July 2021 for a new three-storey building in Töging, Germany, adding office, final assembly and warehouse space. Completion is planned by the end of 2022.

Wellpappe, part of the Schiettinger group, is doubling its commercial area in Lichtenau, Germany, investing about EUR 35 million in new halls and warehouses to meet demand for new packaging.

Bayer Weimar has commissioned a new automated pouch packaging line costing about EUR 5 million, which will make all Bayer Pharmaceuticals pouch products of hormone-containing solid dosage forms at Weimar. Five new jobs are created.

Smurfit Kappa is investing EUR 35 million to refurbish the PM2 paper machine at its Hoya mill in northwest Germany, raising output by 70 kt to 450 kt per year. The project is expected to be operational in Q1 2023.

Closure maker Heinlein Plastik-Technik has built a new production hall in Ansbach for twenty more injection molding machines and assembly units. The project also upgraded energy supply and infrastructure, including water-cooled chillers and screw compressors.

DS Smith is investing EUR 16.7 million to expand and modernise its Arnstadt site in Thuringia, adding a new corrugator and automated conveyors. Construction began with a ground-breaking ceremony and runs about 12 months.

Fan maker ebm-papst is investing almost EUR 20 million in three new buildings at its headquarters in Mulfingen and Mulfingen-Hollenbach, Baden-Württemberg, including R&D space and a machinery building. Construction is expected to take about 15 months for two of the buildings.

PACCOR plans to invest more than 40 million euros in 2021 in capacity, automation, logistics and technology. The investment includes new injection molding capacity at its Ravensburg site in Germany for in-mold labeled PP cups and lids.

Helvetia Packaging is increasing capacity by 30% at its aluminium can manufacturing facility in Saarlouis, Germany, this year. The plant previously had a maximum capacity of around 1.2 billion cans and ends per year.

Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme plans a new production hall with office units at its Waldkraiburg site, consolidating three local plants into a campus. Groundbreaking was planned for the first quarter of 2021.

Mauser Packaging Solutions completed a new production space in Erkelenz, Germany in summer 2020, housing an IBC wash line and an automated IBC rebottle line, and increased post-consumer resin production.

Mondi's Ansbach plant in Southern Germany has installed new machinery under a €30 million investment, expanding its corrugated packaging portfolio and capacity ahead of full project completion in 2021.