Polish packaging maker Grembox is investing 110 million zloty (about 26 million euros) in a new corrugated cardboard plant in the Katowice Special Economic Zone in Bytom, creating up to 70 jobs. Commissioning is scheduled for 2027.

Dutch flexible packaging manufacturer Royal Vaassen leased nearly 13,000 sq m of warehouse space and about 600 sq m of office space at the Hillwood Oleśnica logistics park, which is now fully leased. AXI IMMO advised on the transaction.

The Eberspaecher Group has opened a new plant in Przylesie, Poland, producing thermal management systems for electric city buses and coaches, with capacity of up to 20,000 systems a year. Production of the AC138 EVO heat pump starts in January 2025.

Swedish heat pump maker Aira opened its first factory in Wrocław, Poland, with a maximum annual capacity of 500,000 units. The €300 million plant, acquired from Volvo in 2023, is expected to create up to 2,000 jobs over the next decade.

Viessmann is building a 40,000-square-meter heat pump factory in Legnica, Poland, with an investment above EUR 200 million, with UNITY Consulting supporting planning and production start targeted for Q3 2023.

Viessmann Climate Solutions is building a new €200 million, 50,000-square-meter heat pump factory in Legnica, Poland, as part of a planned €1 billion investment over three years in heat pumps and green air-conditioning.

Daikin has started building a new heat pump factory in Poland with a total investment of 300 million euros. Production is due to start in July 2024 and the plant is expected to create 1,000 jobs by 2025.

Deles Polska, the Polish subsidiary of Italy's Deles group, formally inaugurated a 7,000 m2 corrugated packaging plant in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Western Poland. The plant employs more than 100 staff and headcount is planned to double within three years.

Progroup has started production at its PW14 corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Stryków, Poland, which can produce up to 200,000 tonnes of corrugated sheetboard. The EUR 72 million project created 50 jobs.

Gatner Packaging, formerly Janmar Centrum, is close to commissioning its corrugated packaging plant in Stryków, Poland, and will start production in December 2022.

DS Smith launched a new state-of-the-art sustainable packaging facility in Belchatow, Poland, on 15 September 2022, part of a combined £100m investment with its new Italian site. The site is expected to help create part of more than 250 new roles across both countries.

Polish cardboard packaging maker Janmar Centrum opened a new production facility of about 7,300 square metres in Stryków, within Segro Logistics Park Stryków, to boost manufacturing capacity. The investment value was not disclosed.

Viessmann plans a new production site of about 5,000 square metres in Legnica, Poland, for R290 propane-based heat pumps, with a €200 million investment and completion due in 2023.

Daikin Industries will invest 300 million euros to build a new heat pump unit factory at the Ksawerów Industrial Park in Lodz Province, Poland. Operations are set to start in July 2024.

DS Smith is launching a 37,000 m² corrugated packaging plant in Bełchatów with annual capacity of 180 million m² at the end of June 2022. The project cost PLN 250 million and created more than 200 jobs.

SÜDPACK officially opened its new printing and finishing plant in Kłobuck, Poland, on May 5 and 6, 2022, on a site of over 14,000 m2 that was previously Bahpol.

Atlas Ward Polska started building a production and warehouse plant for Rawibox S.A. in the Jasienicka Low-Emission Economic Zone in Miedzyrzecz Dolny, Lower Silesia, with about 30,000 m2 of floor space. Atlas Ward is the general contractor under a design-and-build contract. Reported November 24, 2021.

Progroup's 12th corrugated board production facility, its third in Poland, is under construction in Stryków with planned capacity of 825 million square metres per year.

Panattoni started the final construction stage of a Danfoss Poland production plant in Grodzisk Mazowiecki with 45 production lines for refrigeration valves, scheduled for completion at the end of November 2021.

VPK has opened a new production and warehouse plant of 22,000 sqm in Brzeg, Poland, in the Skarbimierz special economic zone. The plant adds 60 million sqm of production capacity and 120 staff, with 60 more jobs planned.

Panattoni completed a 40,000 sqm production plant in Kalisz for Leviat, which will manufacture fasteners and construction reinforcement and transport systems. The plant replaces Leviat's existing factory nearby and increases its production capacity.

Belgian VPK Group's Polish subsidiary Aquila Brzeg opened a new corrugated packaging plant in Skarbimierz near Wroclaw, after about one year of construction. The plant was officially inaugurated on 17 June 2021.

VPK Packaging Polska, part of the VPK Group, officially opened a new packaging factory in Brzeg, Poland, on 17 June 2021 with 22,000 m2 of production and warehouse space. The plant adds 60 million m2 of production capacity and is planned to employ 60 more people.

Polish packaging maker Janmarcentrum is building a second corrugated packaging plant in the Strikov Special Economic Zone in central Poland, with about EUR 30 million planned investment, more than 50 jobs and planned capacity of 150 million square metres a year. Start-up is scheduled for Q3 2022.

Northvolt announced a new highly automated battery module and energy storage systems plant with an R&D centre in Gdańsk, Poland, with investment of nearly USD 200 million and up to 500 jobs. Production is to start in 2022.

Sumika Polymer Compounds Europe is setting up a new Polish subsidiary and a production site of about 5,500 square meters in Poznan. The site will add 30,000 tonnes of compounded polypropylene capacity, with about 30 jobs and production scheduled from Q1 2022.

Progroup started construction of its PW14 corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Stryków, Poland, investing about €72 million. The plant will produce up to 200,000 tonnes of corrugated board sheets per year from Q4 2022 and create more than 50 jobs.

Panattoni has started construction of a 12,000 sq m built-to-own factory for Danfoss Poland in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, to produce refrigeration and air-conditioning components, with completion planned for November 2021.

Danfoss started construction of a new production hall at its site in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, on 13 October 2020, which is expected to create 400 jobs. The plant will make solenoid valves for water installations.

Polish plastics packaging maker TW Plast leased an 8,000 m² hall at Accolade's industrial park in Mińsk Mazowiecki to produce type II surgical masks, reportedly one of Europe's largest such plants.

Phoenix Contact E-Mobility is building a 15,000 m2 production facility at the Rzeszow-Dworzysko science park in Poland, developed by Panattoni, to make AC and DC charging cables. Completion is expected by end 2020 or early 2021, with production starting in early 2021 and the workforce growing to over 250.

NIBE-BIAWAR has moved production into a new plant in the Białystok subzone of the Suwałki Special Economic Zone and opened a training centre. The first investment stage cost over PLN 25 million.

Johnson Matthey Poland has built a new automotive catalyst factory of about 23,000 square metres in Gliwice, Poland, and plans to hire 400 workers, with recruitment starting in March 2020. The construction cost of the plant was 128 million PLN within a wider 450 million PLN investment begun in 2018.

Panattoni Europe is converting 12,000 sqm at Panattoni Business Center Łódź III into a plant for Sealed Air producing PE foam packaging. Production is scheduled to start in November 2019 under a lease signed in April 2019.

Tetra Pak opened a €25 million, 12,000-square-meter site in Olsztyn, Poland with sales, engineering and manufacturing for cheese production solutions. The site employs over 350 staff and doubles its cheesemaking solution capacity in the country.

Progroup AG announced a new, larger corrugated sheetboard plant in Stryków, Poland, with an investment of about EUR 75 million and more than 50 new jobs, raising total Polish capacity to 520,000 tonnes per year.

Panattoni Europe finished building a roughly 13,000 sq m build-to-suit factory for Finnish hydraulic cylinder maker Hydroline in Stargard, Poland, with production set to start in August 2019.

T.B.Fruit has begun building what it says is the largest berry and fruit processing plant in Europe in Poland, with an investment of EUR 40 million.

Packaging company Elpes held an opening ceremony in June 2019 for a modern plant in Lublin that produces laminate tubes, mainly for the cosmetics industry. The article is dated July 1, 2019.

UFI Filters has inaugurated its first European thermal management plant in Opole, Poland, doubling its global heat exchanger capacity by 2023. The 42 million PLN (about 10 million euro) investment is expected to create 250 jobs within five years.

BORG Automotive plans a new factory in Lublin, southeast of Warsaw, to add remanufactured automotive parts capacity because its existing Polish plant will be fully utilized by 2019.

Schumacher Packaging is converting a former newsprint machine at its Myszków, Poland site into a containerboard mill, bringing start-up forward by 6-12 months, with 300,000 tpy of recycled containerboard capacity planned in two steps.

Safran CEO Philippe Petitcolin inaugurated a new Safran Aircraft Engines plant in Poland on July 4, 2018, to support LEAP engine production. Subsidiary Safran Transmission Systems Poland will assemble about 2,000 power transmissions in 2019.

Nibe Biawar is building a new factory of about 30,000 square metres in the Białystok subzone of the Suwałki Special Economic Zone to produce water heaters, heat pumps and pellet boilers. The first stage, costing 25 million zloty, is due to finish in Q1 2019 and will add several dozen jobs.

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.

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.

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.

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.