KNF held the groundbreaking for an expansion of its Freiburg-Munzingen headquarters costing more than 5 million euros, due for completion by autumn 2019. Production area grows from 4,000 to 5,000 square metres and staff rise from 220 to about 300.

Nordson merged its BKG pelletizer and melt delivery equipment businesses into Nordson BKG GmbH, headquartered at a Münster facility that more than triples in space. Full relocation of operations will be completed by fall 2018.

Leser extended its production facility in Hohenwestedt, Germany, at a cost of €7.3 million. The investment was made in the year before the article.

LEIPA Georg Leinfelder converted the former UPM newsprint machine PM 11 in Schwedt into packaging paper machine PM 5 for white top testliner, with Voith rebuilding the machine. LEIPA invested over 160 million euros, and the handover was signed on 19 April 2018.

Stauff put a new round-cycle machine for pipe fittings into operation at its Werdohl headquarters, part of a 6.2 million euro investment that raises annual capacity from 10 to 15 million parts.

Hamburger Rieger, part of the Prinzhorn Group, began construction of a second recycled containerboard paper machine at its Spremberg site, with a 500,000 tonne annual capacity and commissioning planned for summer 2020. The investment is about EUR 370 million and will create 200 jobs.

WERIT Kunststoffwerke started production of EURO H1 plastic hygiene pallets at its Buchholz (Westerwald) site with a fully automated line, in an investment of undisclosed millions of euros. The article is dated 28 February 2018.

HCP Packaging Group held a ground-breaking ceremony on 22 January 2018 for the first phase of a multi-year expansion at its Rusi site in Bechhofen, Bavaria, adding two production buildings and injection moulding and decoration equipment, expected to be fully operational by October 2018 and raising annual capacity by over 60%.

HEROSE has started operating three new CNC lathes at its Bad Oldesloe site, two replacing outdated machines, to expand prefabrication capacity and reduce delivery bottlenecks.

Auer Packaging GmbH is adding injection molding capacity at its Amerang, Germany site, with a second hall running 14 machines since 2016 and a third hall planned to reach 35 machines. The company produces about 35 million plastic containers per year.

German firm Vetter has begun expanding its secondary packaging capacity, adding nearly 32,000 ft² on the second floor of its existing VSP facility. The expansion serves growing demand for complex packaging of pens, auto-injectors and similar products.

VARIOVAC PS SystemPack is building 3,000 square meters of additional production, assembly and office space at its Zarrentin site, creating about 25 jobs. Construction is planned to start at the end of 2017.

ACTEGA DS is investing around 18 million euros to expand its Bremen research and manufacturing site, adding 8,000 square meters and growing manufacturing capacity by 50 percent. Construction is slated for spring 2018.

Pump maker Lewa has completed two new production halls, totalling about 3,000 square meters, at its Leonberg headquarters, investing over EUR 25 million, mainly for final assembly of large pumps and systems.

Bischof + Klein is adding production capacity for flexible packaging and technical films in 2017, including two new blown film lines and an extrusion coating line at its Lengerich main plant, plus a new hall with converting lines at Konzell.

WMF Group inaugurated a new production hall, its sixth, at its Hayingen knife plant, boosting knife output by about one third and adding around twenty jobs, with a target of about one million knives per year at the site.

Emerson enlarged the cleanroom at its Ölbronn-Dürrn plant in Germany, where miniaturized ASCO valves are produced for analytical and medical applications. The new cleanroom covers 720 square meters and is part of the expansion of the Analytical & Medical centre of excellence in Stuttgart.

Covestro started operations at a new coextrusion plant for high-quality multilayered flat films at its Dormagen site in Germany. The investment is around EUR 20 million and creates 15 new jobs.

Emerson Automation Solutions inaugurated a new production building in Ölbronn-Dürrn, Baden-Württemberg, its center of excellence for miniature valves for analytical and medical technology and industrial proportional valves. The building has a 720 square meter cleanroom and about 100 employees work there.

Hytorc, rebranding its HydroWer hydraulic pump business as Hytorc Technologies, is moving into a new and larger facility in Sprockhovel, Germany to bring all departments together and increase output.

LEWA GmbH put a newly designed process pump test room into operation at the start of 2017, replacing its outdated, fully refurbished test facility.

Schumacher Packaging, a corrugated cardboard packaging maker, will expand its plant in Greven, near Münster, Germany. The announcement was made on 22 December 2016.

Wacker Chemie is expanding a hydrophobic silica specialties plant at its Burghausen, Germany site, raising capacity for HDK pyrogenic silica by 40%.