Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) will invest $233 million to build its first US advanced manufacturing facility in Linwood, Davidson County, North Carolina, to make lithium-ion battery pouches for EVs and create 352 jobs.

Northwest Pump acquired D.R. Smith Co. (dba Air Compressor Service), an Everett, Washington distributor and servicer of air compressors, with the transaction closing April 30, 2021.

A new $80 million cardboard box plant at the former Longview Fibre pulp and paper mill site in Longview, Washington is scheduled to open within weeks, owned by WestRock.

Coffin Turbo Pump Inc. acquired JR Engineering and Machining Corporation of Hillsdale, New Jersey, combining pump design, manufacturing and repair services. JRE operations will be consolidated into Englewood, NJ facilities.

Copeland will receive $11,488,975 in federal funding to increase production of heat pump compressors and hydronic systems at four manufacturing locations in Ohio, Missouri and Wisconsin, plus suppliers in several states.

Bard Manufacturing will receive $9,208,605 in federal funding to expand its Madison, Georgia facility, adding fabrication capacity and a new heat pump assembly line.

Armstrong International received $5,083,719 in federal funding to add 29,000 square feet to its Three Rivers, Michigan facility for manufacturing industrial heat pumps.

The US Department of Energy will provide Mitsubishi Electric US $50 million to establish a heat pump compressor factory in Kentucky. The funding is part of a $169 million package for heat pump manufacturing projects.

Smurfit Kappa is establishing its first South Carolina operation in Anderson County with a $68 million investment that will create 200 jobs. The company expects to acquire a 259,000-square-foot facility at 1105 Scotts Bridge Road.

DrinkPAK, a contract beverage manufacturer, is investing more than $450 million to build two facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas totaling about 2.8 million square feet. The DP2 low-acid plant is expected to open in November 2024 and DP3 high-acid plant in January 2025, creating 1,000 jobs by 2026.

Burnside America Inc. will invest at least $4.8 million to expand its hydraulic cylinder manufacturing in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, creating 15 new jobs and retaining at least 32 existing jobs. The project includes a 30,000-square-foot expansion and two new production lines, with support from a $3.3 million PIDA loan.

Reinhausen Manufacturing Inc., a subsidiary of Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen, will spend $3.3 million to expand its Humboldt, Tennessee facilities, raising production capacity by 25 percent. Groundbreaking is due by end of 2023, with completion anticipated in early 2024.

Miller Valentine Construction has begun a major expansion of Huhtamaki's folding carton plant in Paris, Texas, which will triple the 150,000-square-foot facility to 438,000 square feet. The project started in early November 2023.

Graham Corporation has acquired P3 Technologies LLC of Jupiter, Florida, a custom turbomachinery engineering and manufacturing business for space, new energy and medical markets. P3 develops pumps, compressors, turbines, high-speed rotors and cryogenic pumps.

GF Central Plastics broke ground on a new 150,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at 41401 Wolverine Road in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The $30 million investment is expected to create up to 300 full-time jobs upon opening.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded Unico Mechanical a contract worth more than $9.1 million to refurbish two 216-inch butterfly valves at Fort Peck Dam in Montana, with completion estimated for May 28, 2025.

Avingtrans subsidiary Hayward Tyler Inc. was awarded a multi-phase contract by TerraPower to design and develop sodium pumps for the Natrium reactor demonstration project in Wyoming, starting at about $10 million.

Unicorr Packaging Group announced the acquisition of Pennsylvania-based TriState Container Corporation, a corrugated packaging maker with three Philadelphia-area facilities. TriState will operate as a subsidiary of Unicorr.

Amcor signed a memorandum of understanding with NOVA Chemicals to purchase mechanically recycled polyethylene resin for flexible packaging films. The resin will come from NOVA's Connersville, Indiana recycling facility, projected to start operating as early as 2025.

SECO/WARWICK USA has been awarded a contract to supply Skana Aluminum with a 30,000 CFH Exogas exothermic atmosphere generator for its Manitowoc, Wisconsin plant. Skana also ordered a smaller atmospheric gas drier.

Altamont Capital Partners' portfolio company Specialized Packaging Group closed its acquisition of Complete Packaging on November 7, 2023, adding about 90 employees; Complete operates in Detroit and Monroe, Michigan.

eBottles announced a partnership with the GearNeed design team behind Pollen Gear to develop child-resistant cannabis packaging and offer custom design services. GearNeed will advise on proprietary packaging and on branding for existing product lines.

Infinity Operators, a subsidiary of Infinity Valve & Supply, is investing $1.1 million to expand its air compression division manufacturing facility in Lafayette Parish, creating 68 direct jobs.

Conner Industries, a provider of lumber, industrial wood crates and pallets, acquired Denver Reel & Pallet Company, a custom wooden crate and pallet business in Denver, Colorado.

LyondellBasell acquired a 25% equity ownership in Cyclyx, the joint venture between Agilyx and ExxonMobil, to accelerate US plastics circularity infrastructure.

CORE Industrial Partners has announced a new investment in Century Box, a Methuen, Massachusetts-based maker of folding cartons for store-brand food and consumer products.

ORBIS Corporation has expanded its Urbana, Ohio manufacturing plant, adding 30% more space for producing reusable totes and pallets and allowing more presses and tools. The expansion raises the company's overall molding capacity by 10%.

Fouts Bros. Inc. is expanding its fire and rescue truck manufacturing in Milledgeville, Georgia, with a $4 million project adding nearly 100 jobs in 2023 and 70 more in 2024.

Korean auto interior maker Daesol Ausys Georgia is opening a $72 million facility in Harris County, Georgia, creating more than 140 jobs. The plant begins operations in late 2024 and supplies Kia, Hyundai and General Motors.

Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution are investing another $2 billion in their battery cell joint venture at the Metaplant in Bryan County, Georgia, raising total JV investment above $4.3 billion and creating 400 jobs.

CJ Foodville, a subsidiary of CJ Group, is opening a $47 million bakery and food processing facility in Hall County, Georgia, to support its TOUS les JOURS brand. At full capacity in 2025 it will produce more than 19,000 tons of products a year.

DAS Corp, a supplier to Kia and Hyundai, is opening a $35 million facility in Metter, Georgia, to make auto seat structures. The plant will create 300 jobs and begin production in late 2024.

Pratt Industries is building a 496,000-square-foot production facility in Warner Robins, Georgia, its 13th site in the state, opening in 2024. The company's total investment in Georgia will exceed $800 million.

Munters received an order worth $137m from a leading US data centre colocation operator for SyCool Split dry cooling systems and field service. Delivery is scheduled for 2025.

American Packaging Corporation opened its flexible packaging Center of Excellence in Cedar City, Utah, in August 2023. The project had an estimated investment of $100m, was announced in July 2021, and is expected to create more than 135 jobs.

Edwards plans a new dry pump factory at the STAMP park in Genesee County, New York, initially creating about 280 jobs and producing 10,000 dry pumps per year, expandable to 20,000. It is scheduled to be operational in 2025.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded Unico Mechanical a contract worth more than $9.1 million to refurbish two 216-inch butterfly valves at the Fort Peck Dam in Montana. Work is estimated to finish May 28, 2025.

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry held the grand opening of a new $460 million foundry in Oakboro, North Carolina, on 700 acres in Stanly County. It replaces the company's century-old Uptown Charlotte cast iron foundry.

Vitro plans to invest an additional $180 million to upgrade one of its furnaces at its Meadville, Pennsylvania plant and adapt other facilities to support First Solar's growing manufacturing capacity.

Vitro expanded its contract with First Solar to supply $1.3 billion of glass front sheets for thin-film solar panels over the next 10 years, broadening an original $1.2 billion deal from May. Production for the expansion is set to begin in the first quarter of 2026.

Ryder System has entered a definitive agreement to acquire all equity of IFS Holdings (Impact Fulfillment Services), which runs 15 contract packaging, manufacturing and warehousing operations in nine US states. The deal is expected to close in early November 2023, subject to antitrust approvals.

CEME Group announced the acquisition of Micropump, a US pump maker headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, to expand its fluid control offering. The announcement was dated 2023-10-19 and no price was given.

Dan Daniel, a KKR Executive Advisor and former Danaher executive, becomes Chair of CIRCOR International as the KKR transaction closes. The change was announced on 2023-10-18.

Investment affiliates of KKR completed their acquisition of CIRCOR International at $56.00 per share, and CIRCOR stock stopped trading on the NYSE. The completion was announced on 2023-10-18.

Eaton Compressor & Fabrication broke ground on a $6 million expansion project in Dayton, Ohio, which will add nearly 10,000 square feet more than originally expected.

Eaton is investing $22 million in equipment at its Waukesha, Wisconsin facility to increase manufacturing capacity for three-phase transformers for utility, data center and commercial applications.

Minnesota-based canning company Lagersmith Can Supply Co. is investing $10 million to build a 25,000-square-foot warehouse and production facility in Bark Creek Industrial Park, Fremont, creating more than 20 jobs over three years.

Gruppo Fanti celebrated the opening of Fanti USA, its first US manufacturing facility, in a former vacant building in the Half Moon Industrial Park in Weirton. The roughly $30 million investment is the company's largest expansion project, and production begins in the coming weeks.

Georgia-Pacific completed a $175 million investment at its Dixie tableware plant in Darlington, South Carolina, expanding plate and bowl production and adding 100 full-time jobs. The expanded facility is now over 530,000 square feet.

Atlas Copco acquired William G Frank Medical Gas Testing and Consulting and Medical Gas Credentialing from a single owner, to be integrated into BeaconMedaes. The deal was announced on 2023-10-11 and the price was not disclosed.