Austrian packaging maker Alpla plans a $21 million plastic packaging plant of 154,000 square feet in a NorthPoint Development warehouse near Dayton International Airport, creating 50 jobs.

Richmond-based TemperPack will invest $10.4 million to establish a manufacturing operation in Henrico County, Virginia, creating 141 new jobs. It will be the company's second Virginia facility.

Stik-Pak Solutions, a contract packaging firm, will invest $14.3 million to relocate and expand its Franklin County operation into a new 100,000 sq ft facility in the Summit View Business Park. The project is expected to create 50-60 new jobs within six years, with phase one completed by late 2019.

Tristone broke ground on its first US plant in Mooresville with an investment of about $23.6 million, which it will lease under a long-term contract. The plant is expected to be finished in November 2018 and start operating in May 2019, and create more than 300 jobs.

Global Compressor LP has opened a service repair center in Houston, Texas, stocked with more than 28,000 compressor parts and able to refurbish and ship parts the same day.

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics opened a life sciences laboratory on the University of Massachusetts Medical School campus in Worcester, Massachusetts, for application testing of single-use systems for cell and gene therapy.

Lindal Group held a ribbon-cutting for its new 100,000 square foot facility in Columbus, Indiana, hosting manufacturing, R&D, offices and warehousing for aerosol packaging, part of over $20 million of US investment.

Air Temp of America, a subsidiary of Mexico's Air Temp de México, will set up its US headquarters and first US manufacturing operation in Panama City, Florida, after buying an existing facility. The company plans about $6 million in capital investment and 50 new jobs.

DowDuPont will invest $45 million over two years to buy and retrofit a new Newark, Delaware plant producing Kalrez high-temperature sealant material. The facility will be twice the size of the current site and will not add permanent jobs.

Halton Co. will build a 55,000-square-foot $6.66 million second facility in Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, to house its Halton Air Moving division making emission control devices and air handling units.

Greif announced plans to open a new CorrChoice sheet feeder facility in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, with a corrugator and litho-laminator line and about 80 jobs. The announcement was made on 27 April 2018.

Shorr Packaging Corp. announced a new 125,000 square-foot distribution and warehouse facility in the Tech Park area of La Vergne, Tennessee, near Nashville, consolidating several local warehouses. The announcement was made in April 2018.

ACS Manufacturing plans a 141,000-square-foot facility at 1439 Cambridge Street Extension in Abbeville County, South Carolina, with a $6 million investment. The facility is projected to come online in Q3 2018 and create over 150 jobs in five years.

Japan-based Takigawa Corporation broke ground on its first US manufacturing facility, a 148,000 sq ft greenfield plant on 18 acres in Bardstown, Kentucky, producing high-impact consumer packaging. The facility will create about 180 jobs.

Takigawa Corp. America broke ground on a $46 million flexible packaging and high-performance films plant in Bardstown, Kentucky, expected to create 180 jobs. Construction is expected to finish in March 2019 with opening in April 2019.

GasFlo Products relocated to a new manufacturing facility in Fairfield, New Jersey in March 2006, with expanded production and assembly capacity and an in-house R&D wing. The move brought some previously outsourced processes in-house.

Swiss packaging maker Hoffmann Neopac's US subsidiary has selected Wilson County, North Carolina for its first US manufacturing plant and new North American headquarters. The investment is reported at $31 million.

Neopac US, a subsidiary of Swiss Hoffmann Neopac AG, will build its first US plant and new North American headquarters at Wilson Corporate Park in Wilson County, North Carolina, investing over $30.8 million and creating up to 44 jobs.

Charlotte-based Tree Brand Packaging is launching wood pallet and crating operations in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, with a $1.3 million investment and 28 new jobs.

SJE Rhombus has broken ground on a new 51,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Ashland Business Park and plans to relocate from its Ohio Street site by year end. The Minnesota-based pump controls company is backed by a 75 percent property tax abatement for 15 years.

Pratt Industries opened a $60 million corrugated box factory in Beloit, Wisconsin, capable of producing about 600 tonnes of recycled boxes a day. The project was announced in December 2014, built from April 2015 and opened in March 2017, employing 140 full-time staff.

MonoSol, a Kuraray division, will initially invest US$72 million to build a 150,000-square-foot water-soluble film manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to create up to 89 jobs by mid-2020. The site adds about 18 percent to existing global capacity.

Rubber and plastics manufacturer JDS Technologies will invest $2.2 million to establish a new manufacturing facility in Winfield, Scott County, Tennessee, creating about 110 jobs over five years. The company will refurbish a former American Bag Company building.

UAE-based Hotpack has announced a $100 million investment in a new manufacturing and distribution facility in Edison, New Jersey, its first North American production base. The 70,000 sq ft plant will customise plastic and paper cups, containers and clamshells and create 200 jobs in the first phase.

Flint & Walling is investing more than $5 million to buy and equip a vacant 100,000-square-foot factory at 800 W. Mitchell St. in Kendallville, Indiana, to bring motor production back from Mexico. The move will employ almost 40 people.

Eaton Compressor & Fabrication plans a 60,000-square-foot factory in Englewood, Ohio to make Eaton-Max DIY compressors for retail channels. The project needs $5 million in start-up funds and will initially hire 40 workers, rising to 75.

Bidell Gas Compression shipped the first compressor units fabricated at its Weirton, West Virginia facility to natural gas industry customers. The facility began operations in October 2017 and the company has 35 direct employees.

Ring Container Technologies of Tennessee plans to open a plastic bottle plant near Hagerstown, Maryland, in a revamped existing building, producing HDPE bottles for food packaging. It is expected to start operating around mid-2018 and initially employ 18 people.

Post Holdings' Michael Foods business plans an $85 million, 150,000 square-foot pre-cooked egg manufacturing and distribution facility in Norwalk, Iowa, with construction targeted for summer 2018 and completion in 2019. The plant is expected to create 100-150 jobs.

Faurecia will build a new $60 million, 250,000-square-foot interiors production facility in Blue Springs, Missouri, making door and instrument panels and creating 300 new jobs.

MACA Plastics is relocating its whole operation from Winchester, Ohio to a 122,600 sq ft former TechnoTrim building in Maysville, following a 2016 plan backed by a $7.9 million investment. Staff is expected to grow from 21 to 60-70.

Swiss closure maker corvaglia group announced plans for a new manufacturing facility in Newnan, Georgia, to produce one-piece plastic caps and closures for the North American beverage market, operational by year-end 2018.

Sabert Corporation has begun construction of a new manufacturing facility in Greenville, Texas, to make plastic and 100% compostable food packaging. The plant is expected to be fully operational by early 2019 and bring over 125 jobs.

Silgan Holdings has initiated construction of a new manufacturing facility in Fort Smith, Arkansas, planned as a 100,000-square-foot plant employing about 150 people. The city approved $38 million in industrial development revenue bonds for the project, to be repaid by Silgan.

PAC Worldwide, a flexible packaging manufacturer, will lease a 420,000-square-foot facility in Lower Nazareth Township near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The company plans to invest more than $28 million and create over 160 jobs over three years.

Danfoss Turbocor Compressors will build a new facility in Tallahassee, Florida, within Innovation Park, adding 120 jobs. Construction is expected to begin in early 2018 and finish in 2019.

Silgan Containers is investing $15 million in a facility at 8201 Industrial Blvd. in Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, creating 29 new jobs over three years to serve East Coast customers.

Hanon Systems is relocating its Americas Innovation Center to a 217,000 square foot building at 39600 Lewis Drive in Novi, Michigan, consolidating its Southeast Michigan sites into one location.

VanTrust Real Estate is completing a 399,000-square-foot distribution center on Clyde Morris Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida, which B.Braun has agreed to lease long-term. B.Braun is expected to move in at the end of January 2018.

Willmeng Construction completed a full renovation of a 650,000 sq ft manufacturing plant in Goodyear, Arizona for Huhtamaki North America, which will make paper cups, food containers and plastic cups and lids and add hundreds of jobs.

Pratt Industries plans to break ground in 2018 on a recycled containerboard mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio, with initial capacity of about 181,000 tons per year, according to a $210 million bond application. Operation is expected by late 2019.

Tenaris has rolled out a new $1.8 billion pipe plant at Bay City, Texas, as reported on 13 December 2017.

Japanese flexible packaging and high-performance films maker Takigawa Corp. will build a 180,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on a greenfield site in Bardstown, Kentucky, investing nearly $46 million and creating 180 full-time jobs.

German Tier 1 automotive supplier BOCAR Group broke ground on a $115 million, 350,000 square foot plant in Huntsville, Alabama, creating more than 300 jobs. The plant will make high-pressure aluminum die castings and plastic parts.

Amcor Rigid Plastics opened an on-site bottle manufacturing operation at Campbell Soup's Paris, Texas plant, investing $7 million to repurpose 6000 sq ft. The line is expected to produce about 50 million hot-fill PET bottles per year.

Fort Smith's board unanimously approved tax incentive resolutions to help attract Silgan Plastic Food Containers to a planned 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility, which could create 150 jobs by its third year. The chamber said the project was not yet a done deal.

Huhtamaki North America selected Miller Valentine Construction to renovate about 942,000 SF of the old Ford Motor Company transmission plant in Batavia, Ohio, adding 44 dock doors, two parking lots and a 25,000 SF office area.

Alpla is developing a 180,000-square-foot plant near Allentown, Pennsylvania, hiring 80 people to produce containers for food, household and cosmetic products.

W.M. Sprinkman Corp. relocated from Franksville to a newly renovated 45,000-square-foot facility at 404 Pilot Court in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a $3.5 million investment to meet demand for brewing equipment.

Belgian food packaging and serviceware maker deSter is setting up a new production facility in Lima, Ohio, to produce service items for the foodservice and travel industry closer to its US customers.