Ball Corporation detailed a new aluminum can manufacturing facility in Germany in its Q3 2026 earnings release. The facility is part of Ball's global capacity expansion to meet demand for energy drinks and non-alcoholic beverages.

The German state of Saxony will support the Wepa and Honext Material joint venture with EUR 9.85m for a planned recycled fibreboard plant in Kriebstein. The announcement was made on 28 October 2026.

Schirmer Maschinen GmbH, part of Beckhoff Automation Group, held a groundbreaking ceremony on October 21, 2026 for a new plant at its headquarters site in Verl and Rietberg, Germany. The project is the largest investment in company history and will consolidate all operations at one location.

Viega Group officially opened its new production site in Kirkel, Saarland, in a former Michelin warehouse complex. The first phase cost about EUR 150 million and creates 150 jobs, with around 100 employees already in place.

ORPU Pumpenfabrik GmbH celebrated the topping-out of its new company facility, including a production hall and office building, on May 6, 2026. The plant will make pump systems for the chemical, environmental and process engineering industries.

XOLUTION broke ground on a new production and development center at NU Park Dachau, Germany, on 23 April 2026, consolidating administration, R&D and production from Bremen and the Czech Republic, with capacity of up to 900 million XO lids per year.

Coroplast Group opened a new production site in Schönebeck (Elbe), Germany, for high-performance acrylic adhesive tapes, with about EUR 25 million invested in the first construction phase. About 22 employees are expected by the end of 2026, with long-term potential for more than 100 jobs.

BASF and Schütz signed an agreement for Schütz to build a highly automated IBC production and storage facility at BASF's Ludwigshafen headquarters. Construction is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2026.

Palm is consolidating two existing Alzenau and Hasselroth-Gondsroth plants into a new EUR 200 million corrugated board plant on a greenfield site. Operations start in Q2 2026, with installation of production lines ongoing.

TRICOR Packaging & Logistics built a heavy-duty corrugated board plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with an investment of about EUR 170 million, funded by parent Rengo. The plant began operations in July 2025 with planned output of 140,000 tonnes per year and more than 200 jobs.

TRICOR Group opened its new heavy corrugated board plant in the Weeze-Goch business park, Germany, on 30 September 2025. The plant took 15 months to build, cost EUR 175 to 180 million and is expected to create over 200 jobs. It is linked to Japan's Rengo group.

Tricor Group has started corrugated board production on a 2.8m BHS corrugator at its new factory in Goch, Germany, its 17th location after about 15 months of construction. The plant has 140,000 tonnes of annual capacity and serves France, the Netherlands and the Benelux countries.

TRICOR began production at its new heavy corrugated board plant in Weeze-Goch, Germany, after 15 months of construction. The plant cost about EUR 175 million, creates more than 200 jobs and can produce up to 140,000 tonnes per year.

The Viega Group is investing around EUR 150 million in a new production site in Kirkel near Homburg, Saarland, taking over former Michelin logistics halls. About 150 jobs are to be created in the first expansion phase, with production of pipe connectors scheduled to start at the end of 2025.

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.

Pump manufacturer Strobl Pumpen broke ground on April 14, 2025 for new company buildings in Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, including a three-storey office building and a roughly 1,500 sqm hall. The planned investment totals about EUR 8 million, with the move expected to be completed by mid-2027.

Strobl Pumpen broke ground on April 14, 2025 for a new site in Hilpoltstein, Germany, with about EUR 8 million invested in an office building and a 1,500 sq m hall. The move is due to finish by mid-2027 and provides space for up to 80 employees.

Neugart GmbH has opened its new Werk 3 production plant at its headquarters in Kippenheim, Germany, after a 20-month build with an investment of over EUR 25 million and 7,000 square metres of floor space.

Faller Packaging is opening a new production facility in Gebesee, Thuringia, in April 2025, producing up to 650 million folding cartons and 160 million outserts per year on a former All4Labels site.

Weber-Hydraulik has moved into a new owned building in Konstanz-Reichenau, investing around EUR 5 million in a valve technology site with 1,730 sqm of production space and 180 sqm of development space. The building uses photovoltaics, a heat pump and concrete core activation.

SAMSON AG is investing 400 million euros in its MainChange project, which builds new headquarters in Offenbach am Main, Germany. Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the site on 20 January 2025 and the company has guaranteed jobs until the end of 2028.

Safety valve maker Leser is investing 41.3 million euros in a new 15,000 square meter production building in Hohenwestedt, Schleswig-Holstein. Construction began on November 22, 2024, with completion planned for March 2026.

Leser Factory of Safety Valves began construction of a 15,000 square meter production hall in Hohenwestedt, Germany, investing 41.3 million euros. Completion is planned for March 2026, and the hall will consolidate production steps now spread across rented buildings.

Faller Packaging signed a contract on September 16, 2024 to buy the former All4Labels property in Gebesee, Thuringia, to build a new folding carton and package leaflet plant. Production is planned to start in spring 2025.

JS Proputec A/S has finished and commissioned Phase 1 of a raw material reception facility for fishmeal producer Bioceval in Cuxhaven, Germany, supplying pumps, feed augers, tanks and piping. Phase 2 installation is planned for the coming months.

Progroup's new corrugated board plant PW15 in Petersberg, near Pirmasens, has been in routine production since early August 2024, with capacity of up to 200,000 tonnes per year and 60 new jobs and training positions.

Nidec GPM Merbelsrod is investing 14 million euros in a new plant in Merbelsrod, southern Thuringia, and is hiring new staff. The plant is being built in record time.

Tricor, part of the Rengo/Tri-wall Group, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new heavy duty corrugated packaging factory in Weeze-Goch, Germany, with production set to start in July 2025.

TRICOR Group held the groundbreaking for a €170 million heavy corrugated board plant in the Weeze-Goch region of Germany, expected to employ more than 200 people.

Tricor Group plans to invest €170 million in a new plant near the Dutch border in the Weeze/Goch region, with start-up in Q3 2025 and capacity of up to 200 million square metres of corrugated board per year.

SIG has opened its €10 million Packaging Development Center Europe at its packaging plant site in Linnich, Germany, on or around 28 November 2023.

SAMSON AG received final approval for its new factory at the Offenbach Innovation Campus, with construction started in August 2023 and completion scheduled by 2026. Production of electronic positioners is planned from October 2024.

Balluff plans to build a new distribution center near its headquarters in Neuhausen an der Fildern, Germany, by 2026. The project supports its growth strategy.

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Wellpappe Alzenau, part of Papierfabrik Palm, has begun ground surveys for a new corrugated board plant in the Alzenau-Nord industrial area, the first step of a project that also upgrades the existing city-centre site. The plant will consolidate the 250 employees of its Alzenau and Hasselroth-Gondsroth operations at one site.

Progroup held the topping out ceremony for its new corrugated sheetfeeder plant at Petersberg/Höheischweiler, Germany, with production scheduled to start in the first half of 2024. The company is investing more than EUR 90 million, and the plant will supply board sheets directly to neighbour G&G Preißer.

Rengo subsidiary TRICOR Packaging & Logistics will build a new automated corrugated board plant in Goch, North Rhine-Westphalia, with a total investment of about EUR 170 million. Completion is targeted for July 2025.

Berlin pump maker InLine Hydraulik bought a 13,000 sqm site in Stahnsdorf in December 2022 for a second production plant, starting with 200 jobs and possibly up to 400 later. Production is expected to start in about a year.

NETZSCH Pumps & Systems assembled its first progressing cavity pump at the new NETZSCH Campus in Waldkraiburg, Germany, on 9 January 2023. The campus unites three local sites and is planned to run without fossil fuels.

Swimming pool technology maker BINDER has begun construction of a new headquarters and production building in the Langes Feld industrial estate in Hameln, Germany, investing 10 million euros. Production is due to start in spring 2023, with administration following at the end of 2023.

CLEMENS Technologies is building a 14,000 m² production and 3,000 m² administration building in Wittlich-Wengerohr, Germany, with an investment of 10.5 million euros. The company says it will double and modernise its production capacity and secure 220 jobs.

Ellerhold AG is building a new 12,000 m² cardboard factory at its headquarters in Radebeul, Germany, with about EUR 20 million invested in the building and machinery. Completion is expected by end of 2022, and the plant will shift the company's focus toward packaging production.

Papier- und Kartonfabrik Varel is in preliminary planning for a plant in Wilhelmshaven on the former Uniper coal power plant site, producing ultra-light corrugated board papers with a capacity of 600,000 tonnes per year. An investment decision is still pending.

SAMSON AG will relocate its Frankfurt headquarters and production to a 15 ha site in Offenbach am Main, investing several hundred million euro in the MainChange project. The move is planned to secure future capacity and jobs.

Progroup has broken ground on a new corrugated sheetfeeder plant between Petersberg and Höheischweiler, investing more than EUR 90 million and creating 60 jobs. Production is set to begin in the second half of 2023.

Zerhusen Kartonagen is building a second plant in the Niedersachsenpark industrial area in Rieste, with a 15,000 square metre production hall and about 50 jobs, with construction starting in autumn and operation planned for summer 2023.

BHS Corrugated broke ground on a logistics park in Weiherhammer, Germany, with a 26,500 m² production hall and a three-storey administration building, with construction due by March 2023. The investment totals approximately €38 million.

Progroup is preparing construction of its PW15 corrugated sheetfeeder plant near Petersberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, investing more than €90 million, with production from Q2 2023 and about 60 new jobs.

Flottweg inaugurated Plant 2 in Vilsbiburg, Germany, a roughly $66 million investment that doubles the company's separation-technology production capacity.

Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme broke ground in Waldkraiburg on a 50 million euro new campus with a multi-storey assembly hall and automated warehouse, due by June 2022, consolidating three plants for 650 employees.