Lassonde Industries has unveiled an expanded beverage plant in Hendersonville, North Carolina, adding a single-serve aseptic juice line and a 104,000 sq. ft. distribution center. The USD 53 million investment adds 30 full-time positions.

Mitsubishi Electric US plans to invest $143.5 million to repurpose its existing Maysville, Kentucky facility to produce heat pump compressors, the first U.S. factory for twin-rotary variable capacity compressors. The project is expected to create 122 new jobs.

Tetra Pak will invest an additional €97 million in its beverage carton plant in Binh Duong province, Vietnam, bringing total investment there since 2019 to over €217 million. A new production line is expected to be fully operational in Q3 2025.

Atlas Copco has received village approvals to expand its School Road facility in Voorheesville, New York, adding 65,000 square feet to manufacture larger centrifugal compressors.

LESER inaugurated a brownfield expansion of its safety valve manufacturing facility in Paithan, Aurangabad, India, with an investment of over INR 50 crore. The groundbreaking took place on 17 July 2024.

Endress+Hauser is investing over 100 million euros in its Maulburg production site in southern Germany under the Campus 2030+ project. The first construction phase is scheduled for completion in 2027.

Selee Corp., a division of Porvair, is investing $7 million in its Henderson County plant to improve production and retain 110 jobs. Henderson County is providing a $68,000 grant tied to investment and job targets.

Danfoss inaugurated new production facilities adding 40,000 square meters at its Monterrey Campus in Nuevo León, Mexico, for scroll and reciprocating compressors, pressure sensors and heat exchangers. The expansion targets an estimated 100,000 compressor units and 1.6 million pressure sensors per year.

NIDEC will invest $23 million to expand its operations in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, creating 384 jobs. The Tamaulipas state government announced the investment on 29 July 2024.

Paul Mueller Company announced a $20 million expansion of its Springfield, Missouri headquarters facilities, adding 100,000 square feet for production and R&D. Construction is expected to begin in fall 2024 and finish in fall 2025.

Wepoba Wellpappenfabrik, part of the Panther Group, has bought an adjacent property in Wustermark and plans a double-digit million euro investment to expand its logistics center. The planned automated high-bay warehouse would raise storage capacity from about 15,000 to 30,000 pallets.

deSter will make a multi-million investment in production equipment at its Prachinburi, Thailand site to double its wet molded fiber capacity to 250 million trays and bowls per year. The investment was announced on July 25, 2024.

UK packaging maker Cepac has completed a phase of its £20m three-year investment plan, adding corrugating capacity and equipment for its Flutepac food packaging at its Darlington site.

Stora Enso is investing €30m to upgrade and grow its corrugated packaging production in Ostrołęka, Poland, including a new 2.8m-wide corrugator. Construction is scheduled to start in Q3 2024 and finish by the end of 2025.

Crown Holdings is investing in its plant in the El Agba region near Tunis, doubling its annual capacity to more than 1.2 billion beverage cans.

Arnest Packaging Solutions plans to complete a modernization of its aluminum lid production in Naro-Fominsk in September 2024. The project costs more than 1.3 billion roubles and will add 1.8 billion CDL lids a year.

Arnest Packaging Solutions plans a third aluminum can line at its new Ulyanovsk plant by end-2025 and possibly a fourth in 2026. Total investment in the plant is expected to exceed 20 billion roubles, with capacity reaching about 3 billion cans a year.

Jiaxing Gaxi Bera Compressor plans to build two refrigerator compressor production lines at its existing Wangdian site in Jiaxing, adding 6 million units a year, under a CNY 105.65 million investment. The local environmental authority published its draft environmental approval notice on 18 July 2024.

Smolensk governor Vasily Anokhin announced an investment project at the Rudnya container plant to raise tin can production from 30 million to 50 million units per year, with investment exceeding 800 million rubles. Construction of a warehouse and production building has begun, and two new can lines will be installed.

Novelis is investing approximately $90 million to raise used beverage can recycling capacity at its Latchford plant in the UK by 85 kilotonnes per year, more than 100%. Commissioning is expected to begin in December 2026.

Smurfit Kappa invested USD23.5 million to upgrade its Nuevo Laredo sheet plant in Tamaulipas, Mexico, into a fully integrated corrugated plant with a new corrugator. The new machine began operating in July 2024 and doubles production capacity.

KAESER Compressors Canada announced a CAD 20 million investment to expand in Boisbriand, Quebec, after acquiring a former Canada Goose facility. The project is planned to create 45 new positions by 2026.

Under an agreement signed with the Chelyabinsk regional governor at Innoprom-2024, ChelyabinskSpecGrazhdanStroy, part of LD group, plans to expand production of pipeline valves with over 1.5 billion rubles of investment, new workshops and more than 250 jobs by 2029.

Victaulic announced a $100 million expansion in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, adding a 150,000-square-foot foundry addition and a 60,000-square-foot CNC machine shop, with at least 214 new jobs. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is investing $1.5 million in the project, announced on 2 July 2024.

LESER India laid the foundation stone in July 2024 for a 5.5 million euro expansion of its safety valve factory in Paithan, Aurangabad. The modernized facility adds segmentation, automation and separate machinery and assembly areas.

WIKA has begun manufacturing a new line of valves at its Iperó unit in São Paulo state, Brazil, for oil and gas, petrochemical, food, pharmaceutical and sanitation markets, with capacity of about 20,000 units per year, also exporting to Latin America.

Canada's PacifiCan announced over CAD 3.1 million in funding for VMAC in Nanaimo, British Columbia, to expand its manufacturing facility and increase production of vehicle-mounted air compressors for commercial electric vehicles. The funding was announced on June 27, 2024.

LMI Packaging announced a 50,000-square-foot addition to its Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin building, bringing its manufacturing footprint to just over 120,000 square feet to support warehousing, manufacturing and machine capacity.

On June 19, 2024 Mondi announced completion of its EUR 125 million investment in the Kuopio containerboard mill in Finland, upgrading the wood yard, fibre line, evaporation plant and paper machine to add 55,000 tonnes per year of ProVantage Powerflute fluting capacity.

BillerudKorsnas is expanding its Gruvon paper mill in Grums with a new board machine of 550,000 tonnes annual capacity and rebuilding of the existing pulp mill, in its largest investment ever at SEK 5.7 billion.

Siemens Canada is investing approximately CAD 14 million in a multi-phased modernization of its Drummondville, Quebec factory to expand made-to-order switchboard production and increase automation, which could raise jobs by up to 15% by 2027.

Hyosung Heavy Industries will invest 100 billion KRW to expand its ultra-high-voltage transformer plants in Memphis, USA and Changwon, Korea, raising total UHV transformer capacity by about 40%, with Memphis capacity doubling.

Indopoly Swakarsa Industry allocated about US$100 million for a capacity expansion of BOPP and BOPET films. It will add two BOPP machines in Purwakarta, Indonesia and Suzhou, China, raising annual capacity from 100,000 to 165,000 tons, and two metalizing machines, targeted to be operational by end-2024.

Annexair announced a C$30 million investment to add 14,000 m2 to its plant in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec, and buy new equipment. Works start soon with completion planned for June 2025, bringing the site to 46,500 m2.

Kraus-Anderson Construction completed an 89,856-square-foot expansion of Menasha Packaging's facility in Pelahatchie Industrial Park, Mississippi. Menasha, which invested $79 million in the project, will add 21 jobs to its 95 existing employees.

Unilever is investing EUR 14.7 million (US$16 million) in a new Hellmann's squeeze bottle production line at its Pouso Alegre plant in Brazil. The investment is expected to increase production capacity by double digits to meet rising demand.

Aquila Września, part of VPK Group, is expanding its factory in Września, Poland, with a new production hall of nearly 13,000 sqm and a new corrugator that can produce up to 20 million m2 of corrugated board per month.

Walki completed an investment of more than EUR 6 million in a new production line called The Bridge at its Steinfurt plant in Germany, to make recyclable fibre-based barrier board and flexible packaging.

Atlas Copco plans a $40 million expansion of its Voorheesville facility in Albany County, New York, adding a 64,438-square-foot building so it can custom build larger compressors. The plan was reported on 2024-06-04.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems officially commissioned a new 6,000 square metre building with an automated small-parts warehouse in Öhringen, part of a 20 million euro investment. The buildings have been ready for use since June 2024.

Danfoss Turbocor celebrated the opening of a new 145,000 square foot production facility in Tallahassee, doubling its manufacturing capacity for oil-free compressors. The $62 million investment is expected to create jobs in the area.

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems celebrated the grand opening of a 185,000 square foot automated production facility at its Acuña campus, producing brake control and air treatment systems, with production expanding over several years.

Westlake Pipe & Fittings announced on 23 May 2024 plans to add a 190,000 sq ft facility at its existing Wichita Falls, Texas site to manufacture molecular-oriented PVC (PVCO) pipe. Construction is slated to begin by the end of 2024.

Mondi held a groundbreaking in Duino, Italy, on 23 May 2024 for a €200 million investment converting an existing paper machine into a recycled containerboard machine with about 420,000 tonnes annual capacity. Start-up is expected in 2025.

Tetra Pak and Stora Enso are investing a combined EUR29.1m in a new carton repulping line in Poland that will triple used beverage carton capacity from 25,000 to 75,000 tonnes per year.

Salinas Packaging Group opened a new sustainable printing and graphic arts facility in Spain, investing close to EUR 10 million. The plant serves its three rigid box plants near Alicante and its Barcelona plant, and is expected to raise capacity by 40% in 2025.

Genpak LLC expanded and reopened its renovated 400,000-square-foot Hope Hull manufacturing facility in Montgomery, Alabama, investing $22.8 million and adding 155 jobs to its existing 145 employees. The reopening was reported on 16 May 2024.

NOVAPOR is adding 2,000 square meters of warehouse and manufacturing area at its Kaltenkirchen, Germany facility, with completion scheduled for the end of 2024 to increase capacity and shorten delivery times.

EAM-Mosca opened its $20.6 million expansion of its Hazle Township, Luzerne County manufacturing operation, growing its footprint from 165,000 to 283,000 square feet and creating over 50 jobs.

Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen is expanding production at its Suzhou site near Shanghai, adding VACUTAP tap-changer capacity available from July 2024 to shorten delivery times in China.