Valves West Africa, a subsidiary of MT Group, plans to build an industrial valves manufacturing facility in Lekki Free Zone, Lagos, targeting 15,000 valves annually. The plant will serve Nigeria's oil and gas and petrochemical sectors.

Atlantis-Pak, part of Agrokom Group, plans to build a new modern plant for sausage casings in the Rostov region of Russia over four years, with a 10 billion ruble investment, raising output by 45% to 4-5 billion rubles.

HOERBIGER Corporation of America held a groundbreaking on April 23, 2025 for a new Florida Campus in Delray Beach, with about 200,000 sq ft of space, including 155,000 sq ft of manufacturing. The facility is slated to open in 2026.

JPackaging has begun construction of a wooden pallet and pallet collar plant in the Šeduva industrial park, Lithuania, under a construction contract worth nearly €14 million with AB Panevėžio statybos trestas. Total investment reaches €30 million and up to 150 jobs are planned.

Mexican industrial valve maker Walworth opened a new production plant in Dubai to serve Middle East markets, expected to generate 80 to 100 direct jobs in its initial phase.

Krones is building the Bayreuther Brauhaus brewery near Bayreuth, Germany, with Steinecker brewhouse and cellar equipment and a complete returnable-glass bottling line of 40,000 bottles per hour. The brewery is designed for 500,000 hectolitres annual capacity.

Danfoss Power Solutions has begun construction of its manufacturing facility on 44 acres in Talegaon, Pune, its seventh unit in India, estimated at Rs 1,000 crore, to make pumps, motors, cylinders and valves.

Lixin Valve Group's digital smart factory in Yongjia, Zhejiang, with total investment of 318 million yuan and about 70,000 square metres, has started production, with its administrative offices to open in September.

Tenglong Pump and Valve has a new plant in Jingxian County, Xuancheng, Anhui, that is about to be put into use to expand production capacity.

Pump manufacturer Strobl Pumpen broke ground on April 14, 2025 for new company buildings in Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, including a three-storey office building and a roughly 1,500 sqm hall. The planned investment totals about EUR 8 million, with the move expected to be completed by mid-2027.

Strobl Pumpen broke ground on April 14, 2025 for a new site in Hilpoltstein, Germany, with about EUR 8 million invested in an office building and a 1,500 sq m hall. The move is due to finish by mid-2027 and provides space for up to 80 employees.

Karat Packaging signed a lease for a 187,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Chino, California, nearly doubling its distribution capacity there and adding about 500 paper product SKUs.

Graphic Packaging International is advancing a proposal to build a warehouse and parking lot beside its recycled paperboard mill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, consolidating four local warehouses, with completion scheduled for 2028.

JH Valve Industry held a kick-off meeting on April 10, 2025 for its third plant planning project, a intelligent high-end valve factory developed with Guangdong Seiko Intelligent System and Funing Telecom.

Morris Packaging plans to build a new $60.9 million flexible packaging production plant in Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, creating 276 full-time jobs. The more-than-100,000-square-foot facility is expected to be completed by October.

INNIO Group is building a new 4,000 square meter production site in Hall in Tirol, Austria, to manufacture Jenbacher engine components; operations start in Q4, with completion scheduled for 2026.

Reyma announced a $40 million investment in a second production plant in Mérida, Yucatán, creating 300 direct and 1,200 indirect jobs. The plant will start with paper and compostable product lines.

PG Electroplast will build an air conditioning compressor manufacturing plant with a capital expenditure of Rs 350 crore. Half of production will supply its in-house AC units and the rest will be sold to external customers, with production slated to begin in H2 2026.

ebm-papst is building a new manufacturing plant in Chennai, India, with a first-phase investment of 36 million euros (INR 340 crore) on a 57,600 m² plot. The plant is expected to be completed by end-2026 and employ around 700 people once operational. Groundbreaking was set for April 4, 2025.

ebm-papst India will invest ₹340 crore to establish its third factory in India at Sunguvarchatram near Chennai, a 14-acre site expected to be operational next year and to create 700 jobs.

Klabin inaugurated Piracicaba II in Piracicaba, São Paulo, described as the largest and most modern corrugated packaging plant in the Americas. The $287 million facility has annual capacity of 240,000 tons.

NETZSCH Technologies India has started construction of a new manufacturing facility in Goa, with the foundation stone laid on April 2, 2025, to expand its production capacity in South Asia.

Sustainable packaging firm Pulpex leased the 88,017 sq ft Westway 90 building from Canmoor on a 20-year lease in April 2025. It will host Pulpex's first commercial-scale fibre bottle manufacturing facility.

Burckhardt Compression will open a dedicated Service Center in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia in April 2025 to conduct factory acceptance tests of its PROGNOST panels for Middle East customers.

Pioneer Pump relocated its UK operations from a 10,000 sq ft site near Stowmarket to a 66,000 sq ft facility in Hadleigh, Suffolk, with two warehouse units. The company plans further expansion over the next five years.

Nemera has started building a new 3,000 m² production plant at Ponts-et-Marais in Seine-Maritime, with injection presses and assembly lines. The site is expected to employ 100 people by 2027, with delivery planned for April 2026.

Atlas Copco opened a 25,000 m2 manufacturing facility in Talegaon, Pune, India, making air and gas compressors, air dryers, gas generators and medical filters, representing an investment of around US$17 million.

Chinese packaging manufacturer Sunrise Group announced plans to invest approximately USD 55.38 million in a new can manufacturing facility in Vietnam with two high-speed aluminium can production lines.

RP1, part of the Rossko auto parts group, received a permit and began construction of a brake disc and caliper plant in the Titanium Valley special economic zone in Verkhnyaya Salda. The investment will exceed 9 billion rubles, with about 500 jobs and completion of the production buildings planned for late 2025.

BENZ Packaging has started operations at a 90,000 sq ft facility in Jhajjar, Haryana, equipped with extrusion and printing machinery, an automated corrugation unit, and wooden box and pallet manufacturing.

Tecumseh do Brasil announced plans to build a compressor plant in the Manaus Free Trade Zone, with operations expected in the second half of 2027. The plant is planned to produce about one million compressors at full capacity and create 200 to 300 local jobs.

Oji India Packaging, a subsidiary of Oji Group, inaugurated its fifth Indian plant at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, producing corrugated boxes and packaging accessories with an initial workforce of 130 expanding to 300.

Zavod Gradient will start construction in 2025 of a plant in the Rostov special economic zone in Novocherkassk to make industrial refrigeration units, targeting 500 units per year at full capacity.

Neugart GmbH has opened its new Werk 3 production plant at its headquarters in Kippenheim, Germany, after a 20-month build with an investment of over EUR 25 million and 7,000 square metres of floor space.

Faller Packaging is opening a new production facility in Gebesee, Thuringia, in April 2025, producing up to 650 million folding cartons and 160 million outserts per year on a former All4Labels site.

Shengxing Co. plans to set up a wholly owned subsidiary in Vietnam to build a two-piece can production line with total investment of about $55.38 million. It would be the company's second overseas can factory after Cambodia.

Jiangsu Nuoyan New Energy Vehicle Air Conditioning launched construction of a 534 million yuan compressor manufacturing base with annual capacity of 1 million compressors, scheduled to start operations in December 2025.

Köksan Group signed a cooperation agreement with Oerlikon Barmag Huitong Engineering for continuous polycondensation technology with 400,000 tons per year capacity at a new plant in Rudong County, Nantong. Production is scheduled to start in mid-2026.

AMPO Arabia, part of Spain's AMPO Group, plans a new valve manufacturing facility at least twice the size of its current plant in Dammam 2nd Industrial City. The company expects to launch it in Q2 2026 and to increase exports to MENA countries.

HYDAC Technology Corp. is preparing to open a new $3 million, 19,500-square-foot manufacturing building in Cheney, Washington, to replace a smaller facility in western Washington. The plant will produce hydraulic valves, pumps and motors for construction equipment.

Beverage Pack Company plans to set up a packaging industrial complex in Frutal, Minas Gerais, investing R$500 to R$700 million and creating at least 100 direct jobs, with operations expected from 2027. The city council approved the purchase of a 236,000 square meter site.

UFP Packaging, a UFP Industries subsidiary, has opened a 165,000 sq ft corrugated manufacturing facility in Jeffersonville, Indiana, that began operations in late 2024 and will expand through 2025.

Tecnocap plans to invest $4.5 million to buy and renovate a facility in Bellaire, Ohio, consolidating operations for its metal closure manufacturing and creating an estimated 29 jobs.

Eco Guardian is on track to open a new Ontario, Canada facility making compostable and recyclable food service products, with capacity of about 2 billion cups per year, scheduled to open in Q4 2025.

Perolo, part of BIP Group, has opened a new factory in China to add production capacity for industrial valves and fittings and serve key markets more quickly. No city, size or investment value was given.

Danfoss Power Solutions has broken ground on a 27,000-square-meter greenfield plant in Talegaon, Pune, India, as part of a phased investment of over EUR 100 million. The campus will make pumps, motors, cylinders and valves and include an application development center.

A US$90 million aluminum can manufacturing and beverage bottling plant backed by East Can Solutions is set to launch in June 2025 in the Yangi Avlod Free Economic Zone in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It will initially produce 1.1 billion cans a year and create up to 500 jobs.

Marquardt has officially opened a new mechatronic systems plant in Talegaon near Pune, India, replacing its Mumbai site. The investment in buildings, machinery and equipment exceeds 180 crore rupees, and around 300 new jobs are expected by 2030.

Coster Group has opened a new production facility in Cabreúva, São Paulo, Brazil, which has been operating since June 2024. The plant, built for over US$15 million, will make aerosol valves, actuators and perfumery pumps.

Flex recently announced a new 400,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Dallas for data center power infrastructure, including switchgear, power pods and power distribution units. No investment value was given.