Nemera inaugurated Hall 3, a 7,200 sqm production building at its Ponts-et-Marais site in Normandy, France. It adds capacity for the SP9 pump and enables consolidation of SP2 production at Le Tréport, creating up to 100 jobs.

SÜDPACK Medica officially opened its significantly expanded plant in Coulmer, France, on 17 July 2026. The site's clean-room production areas were almost doubled to make primary packaging for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Danfoss is investing an additional €10 million in its heat pump component factory in Reyrieux, France, expanding its European heat pump component manufacturing capacity.

Smurfit Westrock plans a EUR 20 million investment to further develop its corrugated board plant in Rethel, Ardennes, France.

Smurfit Westrock plans a EUR 40 million expansion and modernisation project at its Épernay site in the Marne region of France.

Quiri completed a 1,500 m2 extension of its Duttlenheim site in Bas-Rhin, France, costing 1.5 million euros and adding 25% production capacity. The extension was commissioned in November 2025.

Komori-Chambon expanded its Orléans site to 12,000 square meters for design, assembly and testing of printing machines, doubling the site's footprint and increasing production capacity.

Posson Packaging completed its large extension works at its Louailles, Sarthe plant, which it is inaugurating on 27 June 2025 to mark 20 years at the site.

Thermodyn, a Baker Hughes subsidiary, announced a 10 million euro investment to more than double production capacity at its Le Creusot site with a new building and two test positions, creating 40 jobs by end of 2025. The first stone ceremony was held on 15 May 2025.

RIVARD is investing close to EUR 20 million to enlarge its production site in Daumeray (Maine-et-Loire), growing it from 7,000 m2 to over 10,000 m2 and moving assembly lines to dynamic production. The company says the change could double or triple its revenue.

Sanden is investing €68 million in a new assembly line for electric-vehicle automotive compressors at its Tinténiac site in Brittany, with 17% financed by the French state under France 2030. The line is being installed since autumn 2024.

DS Smith invested €6m in its La Chevrolière facility near Nantes, France, adding 4,000 square metres and a new 2,500m² workshop for Kaypal cardboard pallets. The workshop has capacity of 250,000 units and potential for up to 1.5 million pallets per year.

Liebherr-Aerospace is building a new 12,000 m² heat exchanger production building next to its Campsas site in Tarn-et-Garonne, with an investment of nearly €30 million. The building is due to be completed at the end of Q1 2025 and fully operational in mid-2026.

Wobz is investing €6 million to expand its Oyonnax plant with a 1,800 m² extension and three new production lines by May 2024, raising capacity from 120,000 to 500,000 customized containers per day.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems officially opened a plant extension in Triembach au Val, Alsace, on July 13, 2023, after investing around 15 million euros in new production and logistics space for industrial sensors.

Atlantic is investing over EUR 30 million to extend its Billy-Berclau factory by 5,000 m², adding production of heat pump components previously imported from Asia.

Ardagh Metal Packaging is investing nearly EUR 80 million to add a third production line at its La Ciotat plant, launching in the first half of 2023, to make slim beverage cans previously imported from Germany.

BDR Thermea Group is scaling up capacity by 50% at its existing heat pump production sites in Mertzwiller, France, and Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain, and aims for 800,000 annual heat pumps by 2026.

Ardagh Metal Packaging is investing in expanding its La Ciotat, France beverage can facility, supported by Bpifrance and Sud Attractivité, creating about 80 jobs with production expected to begin in the first half of 2023.

Coveris has installed a five-layer coextrusion extruder at its Montfaucon plant in France to increase capacity for shrink and stretch hoods with recycled content. The equipment was recently acquired and the site was redesigned to accommodate it.

Lacroix Emballages will invest in its La Ferté-Macé site in Normandy, enlarging the building and diversifying its activity, with state support from the France Relance industrial investment fund. The investment will also create jobs and add solar panels.

Cryostar is investing EUR 15 million of its own funds to build a ninth 1,600 m2 hall at Hésingue, Haut-Rhin, for assembling and testing turbines and compressors, doubling capacity for these products, with 25 hires planned and commissioning expected end of 2022.

Tetra Pak announced a EUR 100 million, three-year investment at its Châteaubriant plant in France to add about 30% manufacturing capacity and support the transition to tethered caps by 2024.

Norske Skog's board approved the final investment decision to convert one machine at its Golbey industrial site in France from newsprint to recycled containerboard, adding 550,000 tonnes of capacity. Golbey PM1 conversion costs about EUR 250 million, with production starting in Q4 2023.

GE Renewable Energy is investing €60 million to expand its Montoir-de-Bretagne factory by 10,000 sqm to 26,000 sqm total, to meet demand for Haliade-X 12MW turbines.

Bürkert is investing 15 million euros to extend its production site in Triembach-au-Val, France, including a new production laboratory, offices and logistics hall, with about 20 hires planned within 36 months.

Sundyne expanded its manufacturing and testing facility in Dijon, France by 1,200 square metres, adding space for package assembly and full unit tests on larger machines. The expansion was announced on 2 February 2021.

Framatome has ramped up production of replacement component parts at its Le Creusot forge in France, starting forging of shells for replacement steam generators on 28 October 2020. Production follows validation of qualifications by the French nuclear regulator ASN.

JDE Peet's plans to invest EUR 110 million in new high-speed aluminium coffee capsule production lines, starting with Andrézieux, France, operational in H1 2021. The investment will raise its capsule capacity by 60%.

Danfoss Commercial Compressors inaugurated a 3,000 square metre ATEX laboratory at its Reyrieux, France plant on 12 September 2019, a €16 million investment for testing compressors with flammable refrigerants.

O-I will invest more than EUR 60 million at its Gironcourt plant in France, adding a new furnace in 2020 and upgrading an existing one, for about 1.9 billion incremental glass containers per year and around 60 new jobs.

In March 2019 Owens-Illinois announced an investment of more than $60 million to expand its plant in Gironcourt, France, to broaden its premium segment presence and increase capability.

The Shepherd Chemical Company is investing $8.5 million to expand its Mirecourt, France manufacturing and R&D site, adding a third reactor, a new warehouse and upgraded pilot facilities. Production in the new reactor is expected in late 2019, potentially doubling the site's capacity.

Otis inaugurated a new 2,000 square metre building at its Gien plant in Loiret, France, to develop its elevator modernisation and digital innovation activity, with an investment of several million euros.

Danfoss inaugurated its extended ATEX compressor laboratory in Trévoux, France, which now covers 3,000 square metres and is the first of its kind in Europe. The investment totalled 16 million euro.

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS added a 3,300 square metre building at its Campsas site near Toulouse to make precision aircraft parts such as turbine rotors and valve bodies. The extension is an investment of € 6.5 million, with recent equipment investments of € 3 million.

Owens Corning will invest $50 million to rebuild a glass melter and expand production capacity by 25% at its Chambéry, France, composites plant, with the melter expected to be operational by mid-2018.

Solvay is doubling its kitting capabilities for process materials at its Toulouse, France site to meet rising demand for large composite parts. The expansion will create 60 new jobs over the next few years.