Model Group will take delivery of a corrugator by the end of 2019 for its Nowa Sol site, a brownfield facility in Poland acquired in 2016 from Funai where TVs were previously made.

Biazet S.A. is adding 6,000 square metres to its Bialystok factory, bringing the plant footprint to 24,000 square metres, with work starting March 2018 and completion due October 2018, including new injection moulding machines.

Grupa Kęty subsidiaries Alupol Packaging Kęty and Alupol Films signed a PLN 90 million loan with mBank to finance their investment programme. A separate PLN 10 million working capital loan was signed for the group companies, running until February 2029 and 36 months respectively.

Poligal, a Grup Peralada member, began production at its new €40 million plant in Skarbimierz, Poland, with a Brückner extrusion line and capacity of 40,000 tonnes per year of BOPP film. Metallization will be added later this year.

Printing company Arka-Druk will expand its printing plant in the Łapy economic subzone with a 5,500 sq m facility costing over PLN 7 million, of which about PLN 3 million is EU subsidy, with production expected to start at the end of 2018.

Dunapack Eurobox Polska plans to open its second cardboard packaging plant in Lubliniec, southern Poland, in July 2018. About 120 to 130 new jobs are expected in the first year, with a workforce of 250 eventually.

Polwax plans to commission a solvent deoiling installation at its Silesian plant at the end of 2019, processing about 30,000 tonnes of paraffin slack wax a year to supply its Jaśło site.

HOCHTIEF Polska's Krakow branch won a design and build contract from Alupol Films to erect a building of over 5,500 square metres for packaging material production in Oswiecim, due for completion in summer 2019. The contract value is confidential.

Polish injection moulding firm Biazet, which added three injection moulding machines in 2017, plans to expand its factory in Białystok to meet growing demand, with opening scheduled for the third quarter of 2018.

Alupol Films Ltd., a subsidiary of Alupol Packaging, signed a contract with Brückner Maschinenbau for a high-performance BOPP film production line. The line will be installed in 2019 at a new plant in the Krakow Technology Park in Oswiecim, Poland.

Grupa Kety's supervisory board approved a PLN 110 million investment for a second BOPP film production line at Alupol Films' plant in Oswiecim, Poland, to be built 2017-2019.

Polish cosmetic packaging maker Politech has bought a plot in the Bydgoszcz Industrial and Technology Park and plans to build a plant of at least 5,000 square metres to automate production.

Danish wind turbine component maker Jupiter Bach is adding 6,000 m2 of halls to its Trzeszczyn plant near Police, doubling production capacity there. Completion is expected by early November 2017, and staffing is to grow by at least 100 within two years.

Wisniowski received an investment permit from Krakow Technology Park for a minimum PLN 140 million expansion of its Wielogłowy plant near Nowy Sącz, which will create at least 80 new jobs. The land was added to the special economic zone on 1 July.

Dunapack Packaging, the corrugated division of Prinzhorn Group, is investing in a second corrugated box plant for Poland in Lubliniec, with start-up planned for mid-2018.

UFI Filters is opening a new plant in Opole, Poland, to make heat exchangers with vacuum brazing, doubling its heat exchanger capacity. The 42 million PLN (about 10 million EUR) investment will create at least 65 jobs, with operations starting in Q2 2018.

Avery Dennison Polska signed a lease for over 13,300 square meters in the MLP Pruszków II logistics park near Warsaw for production and warehousing, with delivery scheduled for Q2 2018.

Sumitomo Heavy Industries completed its acquisition of FW Energia B.V., taking over Amec Foster Wheeler's fluidized-bed boiler business, which now operates as Sumitomo SHI FW including the Sosnowiec, Poland operations.

On 22 June 2017 Zetkama Sp. z o.o. absorbed ARMAK S.A. within Mangata Holding Group, with the combined company making valves and castings at Ścinawka Średnia and Sosnowiec, Poland.

Meyn Polska was handed over 10,375 sqm of production space and nearly 2,000 sqm of office space in Lebork, Pomerania on June 13, 2017. The expansion was completed in eleven months, and the company makes poultry processing machinery.

BHS Corrugated was selected to supply a 2.8m Volume Line corrugator for Dunapack Eurobox's new Lubliniec plant. The contract was signed on 3 June 2017 in Vienna.

Valmet will supply a moisturizer system with two beams to Schumacher Poledno's corrugated line in Bukowiec, Poland, to be started up in July 2017. The order value was not disclosed.

Smith Anderson is setting up a joint venture with a major packaging supplier to open a new facility in the south of Poland, with McDonald's Europe supporting the venture. Staff will be trained in Kirkcaldy.

Aero Gearbox International, a joint venture of Rolls-Royce and Safran, opened a 13,500 m2 accessory drive train plant in Ropczyce, Poland. It already employs over 50 people and is expected to grow to up to 200.

Emerson officially opened an expanded factory in Łódź, Poland, nearly doubling its production area to 13,500 square metres and making it Emerson's largest ASCO valve plant in Europe. The investment cost over 20 million PLN.

NGK Insulators will invest about 29.0 billion yen to expand production of GPF and SiC DPF ceramics at NGK Ceramics Polska's Gliwice plant and its No. 2 plant in Dabrowa Gornicza. Capacity is to rise to about three times for GPFs and 30% for SiC DPFs by April 2020.

PMC Hydraulika is expanding its Rosówek plant near Szczecin by another 1.5 thousand square meters, to 3.8 thousand square meters by the end of August 2017, with 20-30 new jobs expected within 12-18 months.

SPX FLOW opened a new 28,000-square-meter manufacturing campus in Bydgoszcz, Poland, producing hygienic valves, sanitary plate heat exchangers and homogenizers. The company described it as a multimillion-dollar investment, and the announcement was dated January 31, 2017.

Advansor, a CO2 refrigeration systems specialist, is setting up a new production plant in Szczecin, north-west Poland, scheduled to start operations in May 2017 and ramp up over two to three years.

ARMATURY Group supplied valves worth 34 million CZK, including ball and gate valves, for the 168 km Lwówek–Odolanów gas pipeline in Poland, after winning a 2015 public tender. Deliveries ran in four phases during 2016.

German packaging company Schumacher Packaging has completed a further extension of its factory in Krępice, Poland, reported on 14 January 2017.

Model Group installed new four-colour EVOL flexo folder gluers at its Bilgoraj and Czosnow plants in Poland as part of CHF 86 million invested in modernisation, sustainability and expansion in 2017.

Mondi began an investment at its Simet plant near Poznań, Poland, in January 2017 adding a 2.8 m containerboard machine for heavy-duty boxes, quadrupling capacity; 3- and 5-layer board is at full output and 7-layer production is due in Q1 2018.

Valeo Autosystemy plans to invest at least 101.7 million zloty in expanding its Chrzanów plant with a warehouse and new production lines for car lamps, creating 100 new jobs.

Valeo Autosystemy received a permit to invest 323 million zloty in expanding and equipping its Skawina plants in the Kraków Special Economic Zone, creating at least 150 jobs.

Ergis plans to start a third nano stretch film production line in Oława in the second quarter of 2017 at a cost of PLN 30 million, raising capacity by about 40% to over 60,000 tonnes.

Schumacher Packaging took over the Fabryka Papieru Myszków paper mill in Poland and will convert the former newsprint plant into a cardboard factory with 250,000-300,000 tonnes annual capacity, with production starting in 2019 and EUR 100 million invested to expand capacity.

Eaton Automotive Systems will invest 107 million PLN to expand its Bielsko-Biala factory in Poland, adding 10 new positions to the existing 745 jobs.

Bombardier Transportation formally opened a 20,000 sqm factory floor in Wrocław, Poland, for high-speed train bodyworks, with an investment of nearly 250 million PLN. The investment brings 100 new jobs.

Elmo Motion Control began manufacturing servo drives and motion controllers at its own new production facility in Poland in Q2 2015, to serve EU customers.