Winpak Portion Packaging agreed with Dermody Properties' DP Partners to develop a 267,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in the DP LogistiCenter at Sauk Village, Illinois, creating 40 jobs, as part of a $30m investment.

ARI Packaging signed a 10-year lease for a building at 456 International Parkway in Minooka, Illinois, to serve as a manufacturing and distribution site. The article gives the size as both 445,479 and 456,479 square feet.

Bürkert USA held a grand opening for its 173,000 square-foot headquarters and manufacturing complex in Huntersville, North Carolina, on April 3, 2017. The site includes CNC machine shops for manifolds and a class 10,000 clean room for valve assembly.

HORIBA Instruments Incorporated started operations on April 1, 2017 at a new Houston facility that houses design, production, sales and service for its Process & Environmental business, serving the petrochemical and shale gas industries.

Pratt Industries opened a $60 million corrugated packaging facility in Beloit, Wisconsin on 20 March 2017. At full capacity the 350,000 sq ft plant will employ 140 people and produce 600 tons of recycled boxes a day.

Polyguard Products bought a new facility in Corsicana, Texas, that more than doubles its manufacturing capacity, with the site set to open in mid-2017 and most manufacturing moving from Ennis.

Atlas Copco has started production at its new 180,000 sq. ft. facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina, with the first XAS 185 portable air compressor, replacing its original Rock Hill site.

Thompson Pump & Manufacturing bought 15 acres off Williamson Boulevard in Port Orange from the city for $1 million, closing March 2, 2017, to build a new U.S. headquarters with 100,000-square-foot main building; groundbreaking planned for 2018.

Bidell Gas Compression unveiled its renovated Weirton facility, a 100,000-square-foot former ArcelorMittal building, after investing more than $3 million. Production of gas compressor systems is set to start in the coming weeks.

Bidell Gas Compression, a subsidiary of Canadian Total Energy Services Inc., will repurpose a 100,000-square-foot decommissioned machine shop in Weirton, West Virginia, to fabricate, sell, lease and service natural gas compression equipment. The operation expects around 60 jobs in 2017, rising to 130 by 2019.

Lindal Group finalized plans to build a $20 million, 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on 15 acres in the Woodside Northwest Industrial Park in Columbus, Indiana, consolidating its three local facilities. Peterson Co. of Indianapolis was chosen to build it, with groundbreaking planned for spring 2017.

REMA USA LLC is moving its US headquarters to a new 38,000 square-foot facility at 385 South Woods Drive in Fountain Inn, SC, about 10 miles from its current site. The move is set for April 2017 and will add production, engineering and product development capacity for materials handling and EV charging markets.

Emerson Process Management has opened a $30 million Americas headquarters for valve automation technologies and a highly automated manufacturing facility in Houston. The facility serves the oil and gas and petrochemical industries.

Idan Packaging plans to open a new facility next to its existing Hawthorne plant this year, raising dry blending capacity from 6 million to more than 15 million lbs per year.

Huhtamaki is building a new 750,000 sq ft warehousing, distribution and manufacturing facility in Goodyear, Arizona, with investment exceeding $100 million and about 300 jobs. Verst Group Logistics will manage the operation under a long-term contract.

Fuyao Automotive North America, a subsidiary of China's Fuyao Group, will open a new automotive glass manufacturing facility in Plymouth, Michigan, investing $66.3 million and creating 533 jobs. The project received Michigan Strategic Fund support and a $1 million state grant.

Sonoco Products will invest about $20 million in a new packaging center in Fairburn, Fulton County, Georgia, creating 130 full-time and 465 part-time jobs to support Duracell's North American battery packaging operation.

Italian company Pietro Fiorentini closed on land in the Three Springs Business Park in Weirton, West Virginia, for its first US manufacturing plant. The $9 million investment is expected to create 41 jobs in phase one and up to 150 when fully operational.

Colorado Springs-based Packaging Express has a new 30,000 square foot plant in Denver to make custom corrugated boxes for customers on the northern side of Colorado.

Food and beverage container maker Genpak agreed to buy the 333,000 sq ft former International Paper building at Westlake Business Commons in Charlotte for about $15.8 million. It will use the site as its new headquarters and manufacturing plant.

LBP Manufacturing, a maker of paper and plastic food packaging, will spend $6 million to renovate the former BAE Systems building in Jessup, Lackawanna County, and create 74 full-time jobs over three years.

Crown Cork and Seal, part of Crown Holdings, is set to begin production in January 2017 at its $132 million beverage can plant in Nichols, Tioga County. The plant is expected to eventually employ 160 people.

Sterilite Corp of Townsend, Maryland plans a new 2.5 million square foot plastics facility in Davenport that would create 500 jobs over five years. City estimates put land and building costs at $73 million.

Cincinnati Sub-Zero, a Sharonville manufacturer acquired by Gentherm earlier in 2016, opened a new 80,000-square-foot facility in the Cincinnati area around December 2016.

Magnum Venus Products (MVP) announced it will build a $12 million, 80,000-square-foot plant in the Hardin Business Park in Hardin Valley, Knoxville, creating about 70 jobs over five years. Occupancy is planned for the second half of 2017.

SKS Bottle & Packaging plans to move to a 22-acre site off Geyser Road in Saratoga Springs, New York, with a 128,000-square-foot headquarters, warehouse and distribution center, with a long-term goal of 250,000 square feet.

Sonoco will invest $20 million in a new packaging center in a leased Atlanta-area facility to support Duracell's North American battery packaging operation. Full production is expected in the fourth quarter of 2018 under a five-year contract.

Pride Pak opened its 68,000-square-foot U.S. headquarters and organic salad blend processing plant in Medina, New York, on November 30, 2016, creating 200 jobs. The company plans a total $50 million investment over two years, with two more phases planned.

Newly formed Aero Technologies plans a $1.1 million facility in the Blue Grass Industrial Park in Adams County, Iowa, to make heavy-duty industrial cleaning equipment and products. The Iowa Economic Development Authority awarded $225,000 in direct assistance plus tax benefits, and the plant is expected to create 25 jobs.

European automotive supplier Truck & Wheel Group announced it will open a $35.2 million plant in Vance, Alabama, creating about 74 jobs.

Nordson Corp will relocate three manufacturing operations to the former Tamarkin warehouse at 375 Victoria Road in Austintown, Ohio, in a 25 million dollar project. Austintown trustees approved a 60% 10-year Enterprise Zone tax abatement to help fund it.

Berlin Packaging opened a new integrated warehouse and assembly facility of nearly 300,000 square feet at 2300 Sweeney Drive in Clinton, Pennsylvania, tripling its Pittsburgh operations. Qorpak is already operating from the site, and Dangerous Goods is expected to move in by mid-2017.

American Packaging will build a new $170 million flexible packaging plant on Beaver Road in Chili, New York, instead of Altoona, Iowa. The state will invest up to $14.7 million and groundbreaking is planned for early next year.

Rondo-Pak opened a new plant in Camden, N.J., combining its North American headquarters with Contemporary Graphics' assets. The facility has been operating since summer 2016.

Puffer-Sweiven held a grand opening for its new 140,000 sq ft Houston Service Center, focused on repair and assembly of valves and rotating equipment for process industries along the Houston Ship Channel.