Vantage Plastics received $6.5 million in New Markets Tax Credit allocation for a nearly $27 million expansion project in Bay City, Michigan. The 325,000-square-foot facility will house injection molding, extrusion, and thermoforming equipment, creating 108 new jobs.

Basin Water Resources rebranded as Expansa and relocated its headquarters from El Paso to Houston, Texas. It is constructing a resin regeneration facility with an initial capital investment of over $10 million to serve clients within an 800-mile radius.

Wellspring Capital Management, owner of Prolamina Corporation, has completed the acquisition and merger of Ampac Holdings LLC with Prolamina, creating a combined flexible packaging company with 16 facilities and over 2,000 employees, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The U.S. Veterans Health Administration awarded Pisces Healthcare Solutions, an authorized distributor of Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare, a five-year contract worth $13.5 million to supply the Pulmo-Aide Compact Compressor Nebulizer System as the exclusive nebulizer for VHA health centers.

AMMEGA has invested $100 million to enhance U.S. production, warehousing, and innovation, including a new conveyor manufacturing center in Buford, Georgia, and an expanded modular conveying products facility in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Millwork & Panel LLC, a subsidiary of CertainTeed, will invest over $14.3 million to expand its vinyl siding operations in Claremont, North Carolina, adding new extrusion production lines and creating 48 jobs.

NET Power has signed a Strategic Supply Agreement with Lummus Technology to design and supply recuperative heat exchangers for NET Power's near-zero emissions power generation process. Lummus will be the licensed supplier for utility-scale plants, with a purchase order expected after Project Permian FEED completion.

GCC has commissioned thyssenkrupp Polysius North America to build a 3,000-mtpd clinker production line (expandable to 3,500 mtpd) at its Odessa, Texas plant. Start-up is anticipated as early as Q4 2025.

Owens Corning broke ground on a new 150,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Russellville, Arkansas, to produce Foamular NGX extruded polystyrene insulation. The facility is expected to create 50 jobs and be operational by 2025.

Additive Plastics Group (APG) is expanding its manufacturing operations in Belton, Anderson County, South Carolina, with a $6.2 million investment that will create 24 new jobs. The expansion includes upfitting its existing facility and adding a new 25,000-square-foot building.

Blackstone and Emerson closed the acquisition of a majority stake in Emerson's Climate Technologies business, now standalone as Copeland, in a transaction valuing the business at US$14 billion. Emerson received about $9.7 billion at close.

MAX Solutions, a packaging manufacturer, and Walker SCM, a transportation and logistics company, formed Unity Solutions, a joint venture offering turnkey packaging, fulfillment and logistics solutions with manufacturing and fulfillment facilities in logistics hubs.

Platte River Equity partnered with the management teams of TIPCO Technologies and HydraTech Industrial Solutions to form a national distributor of fluid conveyance and sealing solutions, operating as TIPCO Technologies with 30 locations in 13 states.

Keystone Medical Technologies opened a new facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, dedicated to filmcast tubing production including polyimide and PTFE. The facility doubles the company's total footprint and enables expanded extruded tubing capacity at its Somerset, Wisconsin site.

ASM International announced a €300 million investment to expand its North American operations in Scottsdale, Arizona. The new facility will double the size of its current site and focus on R&D, including a clean room and lab equipment.

JCB announced plans to build a new 720,000 sq. ft. factory on a 400-acre site in San Antonio, Texas, creating 1,500 jobs over five years. Construction will begin in early 2024.

Budderfly and Fujitsu General America, Inc. announced a strategic partnership to deploy high-efficiency HVAC systems, including Fujitsu's AIRSTAGE VRF systems, for mid-market commercial buildings across the United States.

Granite Construction has acquired Lehman-Roberts Company and Memphis Stone & Gravel Company, leaders in highway paving and asphalt and aggregate mining, expanding into the Southeast US market.

IPS, a provider of electromechanical and rotating equipment, has acquired Wind Solutions LLC, a Sanford, North Carolina-based company specializing in wind turbine repair upgrades and components.

Toyota Boshoku America is constructing a 327,000-square-foot smart plant in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to produce seat frame mechanism parts. The $225 million investment will create over 150 jobs, with operations expected to begin in 2025.

Platte River Equity invested in the merger of TIPCO Technologies and HydraTech Industrial Solutions to form a national independent distributor of fluid conveyance and sealing solutions, operating under the TIPCO name. The combined company has 30 locations across 13 states.

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages will use WestRock's PETCollar Shield Plus paperboard carriers at its Philadelphia plant to replace plastic rings on multipack bottles, expected to be operating by summer 2024 and cutting about 200,000 pounds of plastic a year together with its existing mini-can packaging.

Elopak plans its first U.S. production plant in Little Rock, Arkansas, to make Pure-Pak gable-top cartons for dairy, juice and plant-based products. The investment is about USD 70 million and will create more than 100 permanent jobs.

MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. completed its acquisition of the radio frequency (RF) business of Wolfspeed, Inc. The deal was announced on December 4, 2023. Terms were not disclosed.

Nissha Medical Technologies formalized a definitive agreement on December 4, 2023, to acquire the majority equity of Isometric Intermediate LLC., a medical micro-molding company. The acquisition is expected to close in late December 2023.

Kemira signed an agreement to divest its Oil & Gas-related portfolio to Sterling Specialty Chemicals LLC, a US subsidiary of Artek Group. The transaction includes manufacturing facilities in Mobile, Columbus, Aberdeen (US) and Teesport (UK), and approximately 250 employees will transfer. Revenue of the divested business was about EUR 430 million in 2022.

PlantSwitch began production in early December 2023 at its newly acquired Sanford, North Carolina facility, which will have a 25,000-ton-per-year capacity, starting at 5,000 tons and stepping up quarterly.

Genera broke ground on a nearly $350 million expansion of its Sustainable Biomaterials Campus in Vonore, Tennessee, adding over 150,000 square feet and more than 230 local jobs for compostable molded fiber packaging production.

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages partnered with WestRock to replace plastic multipack rings with paper-based PETCollar Shield Plus carriers, eliminating 200,000 pounds of plastic annually. Installation begins summer 2024 at its Philadelphia facility.

Novvia Group, a packaging solutions provider backed by Kelso, acquired Ocean State Packaging. No deal value or location was given in the article.

Winsupply Inc. of Dayton, Ohio acquired Milford Companies, a distributor of pipe, valve and fitting and waterworks supplies with five locations in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Chase Brown will remain president.

Barcelona-based Quadpack signed a partnership with US injection moulder Colt's Plastics in Connecticut to produce its Regula Airless Refill range locally for Americas brands. Full-scale production is planned for 2024.

AGCO is remodeling its Intivity Center in Jackson, Minnesota, into the Fendt Lodge, a 16,000-square-foot customer center serving as the North American hub for the Fendt brand. Work is underway with completion expected by early 2024.

Reyco Systems and Idaho Steel opened a new 15,000 sq ft manufacturing and repair facility in Eltopia, Washington, to serve customers in the Tri Cities region with reduced repair turnaround times.

Owl's Head Alloys was awarded a long-term agreement to supply recycled aluminum to Aluminum Dynamics LLC (ADL), a joint venture of Steel Dynamics Inc., to support a $2.2 billion rolling mill in Columbus, Mississippi.

J-Berd Companies is nearing completion of a new prefabrication building at its Sauk Rapids, Minnesota facility to increase production capacity and warehouse space.

Conditioned Air Solutions, an HVAC company in Huntsville, Alabama, acquired Controlled Climate Solutions, expanding its service area to include Huntsville, Decatur, and Athens, Alabama.

KIHOMAC, Inc. received a $25 million U.S. Navy contract to supply 450 LAU-127 Snubber Kits for F/A-18 aircraft over three years, with an option for 200 additional units.

Sparta Metal Processing LLC will invest $12.3 million to expand its metal remanufacturing operations in White County, Tennessee, creating 52 new jobs.

Ya YA Foods announced plans to expand its facility in Ogden, Utah, with a $92 million investment over 10 years, creating 302 new jobs. The company received a post-performance tax reduction from the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity.

Amkor Technology held a groundbreaking on October 6, 2025 for an expanded semiconductor advanced packaging and test campus in Peoria, Arizona, increasing investment from $2 billion to $7 billion across two phases, creating up to 3,000 jobs.

HD Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems won a 78.2 billion won ($59.9 million) deal to supply nine extra-high voltage power transformers to Silicon Valley Power in Santa Clara, California, for substation expansion.

Apple announced it will be the first and largest customer of Amkor's new $2 billion semiconductor packaging facility in Peoria, Arizona, which will package Apple silicon produced at the nearby TSMC fab.

Effective December 1, 2023, Precision Fuel Components LLC merged with and into its corporate affiliate VSE Aviation Services, LLC, becoming part of the VSE Aviation Services entity.

GEON Performance Solutions announced the acquisition of Polymax TPE, a specialist in thermoplastic elastomer materials. Polymax TPE has manufacturing sites in Nantong, China and Waukegan, Illinois, USA.

The U.S. Department of Commerce signed a preliminary memorandum of terms to provide approximately $35 million in CHIPS Act funding to BAE Systems Electronic Systems to modernize its Microelectronics Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, quadrupling production of chips for defense programs including the F-35 fighter jet.

INEOS has completed the acquisition of the Eastman Texas City site, including a 600,000-tpy acetic acid plant and all associated third party activities, from Eastman Chemical Company.

Rio Tinto has acquired a 50% equity stake in the Matalco business from Giampaolo Group for $700 million, forming a joint venture that combines North America's largest primary and secondary aluminium producers. Matalco operates six facilities in the US and one in Canada with capacity of about 900,000 tonnes per year.

BETA Technologies will partner with Clinton County on a $41 million expansion of its existing facility at Plattsburgh International Airport to serve as manufacturing, final assembly, flight test, and delivery center for electric aircraft. The company commits to creating 85 jobs in exchange for a $20 million state grant.

Nissha Co., Ltd. acquired Isometric Intermediate, LLC (DBA Isometric Micro Molding), a U.S.-based micro molding company for medical devices, on December 5, 2023.