Mondi Bags USA will relocate its manufacturing from Oakdale, Pennsylvania and Wellsburg, West Virginia to a 200,000-square-foot facility in Findlay Township, Allegheny County. The project creates about 170 jobs over three years, supported by a $1,036,000 Pennsylvania First grant announced on 21 April 2026.

Buckeye Corrugated, Inc. has installed conveyor and unitizer, die cutter infrastructure, CAD table and folder gluer at its new Reno, Nevada facility ahead of a June grand opening. A 3-color die cutter is due in mid to late May and a J&L folder gluer on May 1.

Tetra Pak broke ground on a new Product Development Center at its U.S. and Canada headquarters in Denton, Texas, with 12,000 sq ft for product development and 3,000 sq ft for a Customer Innovation Center. The facility is scheduled to open in Q1 2027 and create eight jobs.

Swire Coca-Cola broke ground on a 620,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Peak Innovation Park near Colorado Springs Airport. The $475 million plant is expected to create 170 jobs and produce more than 230 drinks.

Yazoo Mills completed construction of a new $14 million, 107,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and is phasing in equipment installation.

International Paper will spend $225 million on a greenfield 468,000-square-foot box plant in Brandon, Mississippi. Construction is slated to begin in June with operations expected in Q4 2027.

ePac Flexible Packaging is opening a new facility in Phoenix, Arizona, its largest plant, to serve Southwest U.S. customers. It is also adding capacity at sites in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Vancouver.

Edible Garden AG is expanding its Zero-Waste Inspired platform with a ready-to-drink manufacturing hub at its Midwest facility of over 200,000 sq ft. It selected Tetra Pak for planning, installation and integration of proprietary processing and aseptic carton packaging, with an agreement to be executed on March 4, 2026.

Canada-based Dainty Foods will open a 250,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Batavia Township, Ohio, in 2027, with a total investment of $150 million over five years and about 240 jobs at full buildout.

Hinton Lumber Products has opened a greenfield pallet manufacturing facility in Summerville, South Carolina, near Charleston, with production slated to begin this spring.

Georg Utz plans a 90,000-square-foot facility in Sumter County, South Carolina, for rigid returnable packaging, with roughly $40 million investment and 50 jobs, scheduled to start manufacturing in 2028.

Preciball USA plans a $17.6 million precision manufacturing facility in the Screven County Industrial Park in Sylvania, Georgia, creating 65 jobs. Hiring is expected to begin in 2027.

Bidell Gas Compression broke ground in February 2026 on an $8 million, roughly 30,000 sq ft facility in Weirton, West Virginia, to expand operations, with opening targeted for October 2026.

SunDance announced on January 30, 2026 that it added a new production facility to its Florida hub for flexible packaging manufacturing.

Zorn Compressor & Equipment has opened a new 12,500-square-foot facility in the Town of Lawrence, replacing its older Green Bay site. The building includes office and warehouse space and a loading dock.

Buckeye Corrugated has opened a 100,000-square-foot corrugated manufacturing and distribution facility in Reno, Nevada, its first entirely new corrugated plant, expected to employ 20 to 25 production workers.

Pratt Industries has opened a 496,000-square-foot corrugating facility in Warner Robins, Georgia, creating more than 125 jobs in Peach County. The plant will produce corrugated boxes from recycled containerboard.

Flexcraft will open a new 194,000 square foot automated manufacturing and warehousing facility in Fort Worth, Texas in March 2026, producing bottles and closures and roughly doubling its manufacturing capacity.

Hodge Compressor will launch a U.S.-based assembly, testing and light manufacturing factory in Hoschton, Georgia, beginning in late Q2 2026. The plant will assemble HTM and HB series rotary screw compressors from 7.5 to 50 horsepower.

APackaging Group broke ground on a $25 million, 300,000-square-foot packaging manufacturing facility on a 35-acre site in the Enterprise Industrial Park in Defiance, Ohio, built by Rupp Rosebrock Inc., with $12.5 million in production technology.

Eaton will open a new manufacturing campus in Henrico County, Virginia, making static transfer switches, power distribution units and remote power panels for data centers, with production expected to start in 2027.

Canned beverage maker DrinkPAK will establish its first Pennsylvania plant with a $195 million investment, leasing a 1.4 million sq ft build-to-suit facility in the Bellwether District of Philadelphia. The Commonwealth is investing $2 million and the project will create 174 jobs over three years.

Viega opened a new production facility with a seminar center in Mantua, Ohio, after an investment of about $178 million on a 20,400 square meter site. It is the company's second US production site after McPherson, Kansas.

Woodward held the grand opening of a new Heavy Frame Turbine Valve and Actuator repair and overhaul facility in Greenville, South Carolina. The site doubles its North American service capacity for heavy frame gas turbine valves and actuators.

Gaia Biomaterials established a supply hub in Los Angeles for its compostable, microplastic-free materials, created with distributor Mitsubishi International Corp to shorten lead times for US customers.

Modine officially opened a 155,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Franklin, Wisconsin, to produce Airedale by Modine data center cooling products. It is part of a multi-year USD 100 million investment announced in July, and is expected to create more than 300 jobs by March 2026.

Burckhardt Compression opened an 11,000-square-foot service center in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, providing maintenance, repair and upgrade services for reciprocating gas compressors.

Shandong Head Group announced a $65 million investment for a new capsule manufacturing facility in Bessemer City, Gaston County, North Carolina, creating more than 100 jobs over two years. Operations are scheduled to start in late 2026.

Saica Group broke ground on its second U.S. corrugated packaging plant in Anderson, Indiana, an investment of more than $110 million that will create over 100 jobs and open in Q4 2026.

Peerless Pump Company is opening a new packaged system competency center in Waller, Texas, in November to more than double operational capacity for its Peerless Engineered Systems division and launch a new prefabricated packaged pump product line.

JBM Packaging broke ground in September 2025 on a new 52,500-square-foot building one mile from its Lebanon, Ohio headquarters, expected to be completed by the end of February 2026.

Axium Packaging is investing $45 million to open a new location in Jersey Township, Ohio, with 70 new jobs. The company plans two new production plants to make plastic containers and caps for the personal care industry.

Axium Packaging will invest $45 million in a nearly 300,000-square-foot facility in Jersey Township, Ohio, for expanded tube manufacturing and warehousing. The project will create 70 new jobs and retain over 1,200 existing jobs. Announced 8 October 2025.

Westlake Pipe & Fittings, a division of Westlake Corp., has completed a 190,000-square-foot PVCO pipe plant at its Wichita Falls, Texas site, expanding its North American PVCO pipe capacity. The completion was announced on November 2, 2026, and no investment value was given.

Eaton will invest $46 million in a new facility at 7230 Cross County Road in North Charleston, South Carolina, to make hydraulic pumps and motors for aerospace platforms. The plant will create 50 jobs and is expected to begin operations in 2028.

PolyFlex Products, part of Sweden's Nefab Group, will invest $8.3 million to open a new manufacturing facility in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee, creating 58 jobs. The plant will add material extrusion and reuse of end-of-life industrial packaging.

Pregis opened a 477,000-square-foot paper-converting centre in Elgin, Illinois, at a ribbon-cutting on 19 September 2025, supporting over 500 manufacturing jobs and making curbside-recyclable paper mailers.

Sweden-based Lamiflex Group is entering the United States with a more than $5 million plastic packaging plant in Borden, Indiana. The plant will mainly supply US sheet steel producers and employ 62 people at full capacity.

Ball Corporation, Red Bull and Rauch North America broke ground on a USD 1.5 billion can manufacturing and distribution facility in Concord, North Carolina, able to produce up to 3 billion cans a year for Red Bull, with operations expected from 2028.

Ohio Valve Company held the grand opening of its 265,000-square-foot Valve World Headquarters in Houston.

Nefab opened a 150,000 sq. ft. Southeast Hub in Braselton, Georgia, relocating from Norcross. The $9.5 million investment will add 30 manufacturing jobs and serves cloud, automotive and healthcare customers.

Yazoo Mills is constructing a third paper tube and core manufacturing plant in Hanover, Pennsylvania, a 107,000-square-foot facility representing a $14 million investment. Five new high-speed production lines are planned, with completion expected in January 2026.

Viega opened its 244,000-square-foot, $178 million copper plumbing products factory in Shalersville, Ohio, and plans to hire 68 full-time employees.

Viega North America is opening a new 244,000-square-foot manufacturing, distribution and training facility in Mantua, Ohio, representing a $178 million investment and about 68 new jobs; the ribbon-cutting is set for September 4, 2025.

Busch Vacuum Solutions plans a 60,000-square-foot regional hub in Tempe, Arizona, for repair, service and overhaul of vacuum pumps and systems. Operations are scheduled to begin in October 2025.

Schütz Container Systems held the grand opening of its new 370,000-square-foot production facility in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a $166 million project expected to create 185 jobs over five years. The site will later add reconditioning of used industrial packaging.

Eco King, a China-based fiber tableware maker, will invest $80.5 million to open a production facility in the existing dormant industrial plant in Robbinsville, North Carolina, its first in North America. It plans to hire 300 people initially and add 515 jobs over time.

Bundor Valves agreed to set up a final assembly plant for hydraulic valves at the APOZ zone in Chambers County, Texas, expected to create over 100 local jobs. The press release is dated 13 August 2025 and is promotional in tone.

Canadian plastic packaging producer E. Hofmann Plastics has broken ground on a $43 million production facility in Madisonville, Kentucky, its first US operation. The plant is expected to create 164 jobs and be completed in 2026.

Construction is underway on a new HOERBIGER campus in Delray Beach, Florida, comprising a 197,000 square foot office and manufacturing site for compressor valves, control systems and actuators. Ware Malcomb is providing architecture and interior design services; the announcement was dated 7 August 2025.