BHS Corrugated acquired an 18-hectare property in Weiherhammer, Germany, for a logistics park; the first project is a €40 million automated spare parts logistics center planned to go live in early 2023.

NETZSCH shareholders approved on 27 November 2020 the centralization of its Waldkraiburg facilities, investing EUR 50 million in a new production unit on Geretsrieder Straße that will integrate the assembly hall and offices from the current plant.

Progroup's PM3 containerboard paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany, started operating in August 2020 and has reached more than 2,000 tonnes a day, with full run-up expected by the end of Q2 2021 and output of up to 750,000 tonnes a year.

Marelli is opening a production facility for electric drivetrains in Cologne, Germany, on 18,000 square metres, with production slated to start in the first half of 2021 and about 160 employees.

Merck celebrated the topping-out of its new membrane factory in Darmstadt, an investment of more than €140 million that will produce Millipore Express membranes for sterile filters and create about 55 jobs. Construction is due to finish in 2022.

PAPACKS is investing over €10 million in its GIGAFACTORY 1 in Arnstadt, Germany, creating around 20 new jobs for molded paper fiber packaging. The topping-out ceremony was held on 25 September 2020.

EBARA Precision Machinery Europe invested about €1.6 million in a new overhaul centre for vacuum pumps in Dresden-Weixdorf, Germany, announced on 25 September 2020. The site is the second overhaul centre after Livingston, Scotland.

Progroup started operating its new PM3 paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, with a containerboard paper machine of 750,000 tonnes annual capacity, raising its output to about 1.85 million tonnes.

Pharma folding-carton maker Faller Packaging plans a new plant in Waldkirch, described as its largest investment in company history, after sales and orders rose during the crisis.

SCHOTT started construction of a new plant in Müllheim, Germany, for sterile polymer pharmaceutical primary packaging such as prefillable syringes, on an 11,000 square meter site, with completion planned by 2022 and 100 new jobs.

Weber Maschinenbau inaugurated its new plant in Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia, producing components and format and cutting tools for packaging machines. The building was delivered with C + P, which built the steel structure and outer shell.

FoamPartner Fritz Nauer AG is building a converting center for industrial technical foams at its Duderstadt site in Germany, scheduled to start in the first half of 2020 and create several new jobs.

Progroup AG plans a new corrugated sheetboard plant in Eisfeld, Thuringia, with investment of about 60 million euros on a roughly 87,000 square metre plot, creating more than 50 jobs. Production is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Progroup AG held a topping out ceremony for its new paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Saxony-Anhalt, with €465 million of investment and an annual capacity of 750,000 tons. About 150 direct and up to 350 indirect jobs are being created.

Special machinery maker VWH GmbH held the ground-breaking for a new production center in the Westerwald region of Germany, adding 3,000 square metres of production space by February 2020 with a new plastics technology centre.

Werner & Mertz invested 30 million euro in a new production building in Mainz's Rheinallee, its largest investment to date. One production line valued at 4.5 million euro is already running, and Frosch production can be doubled in the final stage.

Prowell, a subsidiary of Progroup AG, chose Eisfeld in Thuringia for a new corrugated cardboard plant with annual capacity of 140,000 tons, a EUR 50 million investment creating about 50 jobs, with production planned from Q4 2019.

Lenze laid the foundation stone for its Mechatronic Competence Campus in Extertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, a roughly €50 million investment that will employ more than 800 people. Completion is planned for end 2019 with operation from early 2020.

Germany-based canmaker Blechwarenfabrik Limburg has invested €30 million (US$35 million) in a new plant on the outskirts of its home town of Limburg.

Prowell, part of Progroup AG, is constructing an eleventh corrugated sheet board plant in Eisfeld, Thuringia, with 140,000 tonnes annual capacity and about €50 million investment, creating 52 jobs; production starts in Q4 2019.

Hoffmann + Krippner is building a new facility of about 2,200 square meters in Buchen, Germany, for an investment of EUR 3.5 million, with half the space for screen printing for printed electronics and foil printing. The project is expected to be completed within twelve months.

Progroup AG is constructing its eleventh corrugated sheet feeder plant in Eisfeld, Thuringia, with annual capacity of 140,000 tonnes and an investment of around EUR 50 million. The plant will create 52 jobs and production is scheduled to start in Q4 2019.

B. Braun Melsungen opened a new dialyser production facility in Wilsdruff near Dresden, Germany, with over 100 million euros invested and 140 new jobs. The Free State of Saxony contributed 6 million euros.

Measurement technology maker Siko GmbH is investing 12 million euros in a second plant in Bad Krozingen, with 60 jobs planned and completion expected in early 2020.

Progroup AG held the ground-breaking for its third paper factory at Sandersdorf-Brehna near Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, on August 10, 2018. The EUR 375 million plant with 750,000 tonnes annual capacity will create 140 direct jobs and use a new Voith paper machine.

Weber Maschinenbau has broken ground on a seven-figure investment in an office building and workshop of about 6,000 square meters in Werther, Germany, for producing components and tools for thermoforming packaging machines; around 50 employees are to move in by mid-2019.

Progroup will build a new paper machine (PM 3) in Sandersdorf-Brehna near Bitterfeld, Germany, with an investment of €375 million and 750,000 t annual output. Construction is scheduled to start in Q1 2019, with completion in the second half of 2020.

AST Kunststoffverarbeitung is building a new production site near Eppingen in Baden-Württemberg, part of a company investment of about 30 million euros in 2018, with 15 million euros for this site.

Panattoni Europe has been awarded a contract by Volkswagen Group to build a packaging centre for automotive parts at JadeWeserPort in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The five-hall facility will cover about 45,000 square metres on a 100,000 square metre site, with construction scheduled to begin in June 2018.

Progroup started active preparation for a new paper factory for containerboard in Germany, scheduled to start production in 2021.

Thimm Verpackung officially opened its new Holledau corrugated packaging plant in Wolnzach, Bavaria, on 15-16 September 2017 after investing 60 million euros. The plant uses rotary and flat-bed die-cutting and a high-tech corrugator.

Emerson opened a new Asco production building in Ölbronn-Dürrn near Pforzheim on April 20, 2017. It houses a 720 m2 ISO class 8 cleanroom and is the center of excellence for miniature valves.

Thimm Verpackung has started series production at its new Holledau corrugated packaging plant in Wolnzach, Bavaria, after a test run since February 2017. The plant has a capacity of 120 million square metres, has received a total investment of EUR 60 million, and employs 150 people.

Koenig & Bauer laid the foundation stone on 14 March 2017 for a new Demo Center for digital and flexo presses at its Würzburg headquarters, with about 2,100 square metres of usable area. The investment totals about 16 million, covering 6 million for building and infrastructure and about 10 million for demo presses.

Linhardt GmbH & Co. KG of Viechtach is building its first laminate tube plant in Pausa in the Vogtland, Germany, investing EUR 20 million in a standalone factory beside its existing aluminium tube plant.

Multivac and TVI plan to build a new production site and office building with a demonstration and customer centre in Bruckmühl, southern Bavaria, with construction due to finish in 2018.

Thimm Group's new corrugated cardboard plant in Holledau, Wolnzach, Bavaria started series production at the beginning of 2017, described as one of the most modern corrugated cardboard plants in Europe.

Allectra GmbH opened a new manufacturing facility and service centre in Villingen-Schwenningen, Southern Germany, to increase production of in-vacuum custom cables and feedthroughs and host a valve service centre.

Ziehl-Abegg is investing 28 million euros in a new building and machinery in the Hohenlohe Business Park in Kupferzell, Germany, for making energy-saving EC fans and drives. Relocation from Künzelsau is due at the end of 2017, with 140 jobs transferred.

The SCA Terminal at the Port of Kiel's Ostuferhafen was inaugurated on November 11, 2016. It will handle and store 850,000 tons of paper products a year for SCA and Iggesund Paperboard, with 25 million euros invested and 80 jobs created.

Schur Pack International inaugurated a new carton packaging factory in Gallin, east of Hamburg, on September 21, 2016. The 70 million euro investment replaces an older plant at Büchen, with 150 employees transferred.

Haitian International Germany opened a new 8,000 square meter hall in Ebermannsdorf in June 2016 for assembling servo-hydraulic injection molding machines for Europe.