Stora Enso's Oulu mill in Finland received an environmental permit for a new board production line, converted from an old paper machine, with production planned to start in 2025. The line is expected to raise the mill's board capacity to up to 750,000 tons a year.

Baker Hughes inaugurated an expanded production line for centrifugal compressors at its Talamona plant in the Valtellina area of Italy. The investment will add four specialized jobs, taking the site above 300 employees.

JEAN MÜLLER is investing a further €10 million in its Eltville production site to add about 8,000 square metres of production space, modernize logistics and buy new machines. Construction began in early 2024 and completion is planned for autumn 2024.

Liebherr-Aerospace is building a new 12,000 m² heat exchanger production building next to its Campsas site in Tarn-et-Garonne, with an investment of nearly €30 million. The building is due to be completed at the end of Q1 2025 and fully operational in mid-2026.

Coleus Packaging has acquired and installed a new PMC500 machine at its Alrode factory in Alberton, South Africa, spending about R40 million to raise output of metal crown closures by about 20%. Yearly output is expected to rise from six billion to seven to eight billion units.

ATAM has replaced most of its overmoulding presses at its Agrate Brianza, Italy plant, adding six new machines of different tonnages to raise production capacity for encapsulated coils.

Owens-Illinois is installing a new furnace at its Vitória de Santo Antão glass bottle plant in Pernambuco, Brazil, adding 200 million glass bottles a year with R$300 million of investment, due for completion by early 2026.

Thimm invested EUR 10 million in its Tychy, Poland plant, adding a new Göpfert corrugated line and new halls. Annual capacity rose from 130 to 165 million square metres of corrugated cardboard.

Craft Beverage Warehouse is installing a second multimillion-dollar German-made digital print-to-can line at Milwaukee's Century City Business Park, expected to start operating by end of May and create six to eight jobs.

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies inaugurated its rebuilt carbon-neutral automotive components plant in Parets del Vallès near Barcelona, investing over EUR 11 million and raising production capacity by 15 percent.

Bürkert broke ground on a new production and warehouse hall at its Öhringen, Germany plant, adding 5,800 square metres of floor space. The expansion includes an automated small-parts warehouse and increases production capacity.

Klabin's Puma II project in Ortigueira, Paraná, involved an investment of R$12.9 billion and two paper machines with total capacity of 910,000 tonnes per year producing Eukaliner kraftliner.

Taiyuan Heavy Industry's Yuci Hydraulic Industry subsidiary re-tendered design services for a quality-upgrade capacity project, building a new hydraulic component R&D plant of about 13,000 square metres to produce 35,000 pump and valve units a year.

Ball Corporation announced R$100 million of investment to increase production capacity at its existing aluminum packaging plant in the Suape industrial port complex in Pernambuco, Brazil, supported by 85% state tax incentives.

Honeywell announced an $84 million expansion of its Olathe, Kansas manufacturing facility, creating 156 permanent jobs plus 268 temporary construction jobs.

Smurfit Kappa will invest EUR 54 million to double the capacity of its Bag-in-Box plant in Ibi, Alicante, Spain, and create 200 jobs. The investment also improves waste management and energy efficiency.

AeroStar is expanding its Brookley Aeroplex component facility in Mobile, Alabama, by purchasing Bauer Test Equipment's hydraulic system. A 55,000-square-foot building expansion is expected to be completed by early 2024.

A.Y. McDonald plans to expand operations at its existing manufacturing facility in Kieler, Wisconsin, as part of its wider Grant County project.

PJ Valves has completed a factory expansion in Pune, India, that increases its ball and butterfly valve manufacturing capacity by over 2.5 times and adds a paint shop and QA investments.

Brazilian valve maker Bermo, owned by German ARI-Armaturen, bought a new plot in Blumenau to expand its factory, with a planned R$60 million investment and an inauguration expected in 2026. The company also takes over sales of ARI products across Latin America.

Accredo Packaging completed its fourth expansion at its Sugar Land headquarters, adding 83,000 square feet of office space for a $10 million investment and creating 30 jobs.

Panasonic Electric Works Vietnam began full-scale operations on January 23, 2024 at a new production building for wiring devices and circuit breakers in Binh Duong. The company expects production capacity to reach about 1.8 times its 2022 level.

GEA Group will invest about €5.5 million by 2026 to modernize production at its GEA AWP valve plant in Prenzlau, Germany, replacing seven older machines and adding about 20 production jobs.

LG Electronics has opened a new scroll compressor production line at its factory in Monterrey, Mexico, to increase capacity and serve North American HVAC customers.

Johnson Controls plans to expand heat-pump manufacturing at three U.S. plants with more than $33 million in federal funding plus matching funds, pushing output above 200,000 units a year and creating close to 1,000 jobs. Final contracts with the Department of Energy were not yet signed.

Voith has started up the rebuilt PM 2 paper machine at Schumacher Packaging's Myszków mill in Poland, doubling lightweight containerboard capacity from 500 to 1,000 tons per day.

ADL, the Moscow Oblast government and the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a special investment contract to build a fourth workshop at ADL's plant in Kolomna. The 750 million ruble project will create 80 jobs and is due by the end of 2024.

Bayern-Fass Group subsidiary Rhein-Fass expanded its Ludwigshafen production with new halls and an IBC cleaning line commissioned in July 2023, tripling daily reconditioning capacity.

Ondupet, which makes rPET packaging, is investing 11 million euros to expand its plant in Almendralejo, Extremadura, and plans to grow its workforce from 65 to 110.

Fresh Mark, Inc. plans a new 38,000-square-foot expansion at its Lincoln Avenue plant in Salem, Ohio, adding 50 jobs and bringing the workforce to 800. Construction begins in January 2024 and the expansion is expected to be operational in July 2024.

Spartech will invest $4.9 million in new manufacturing equipment at its Muncie, Indiana facility, adding six full-time jobs and retaining 100, with a five-year tax abatement approved by the city.

LESER is expanding its production building in Hohenwestedt, Germany, which is described as the world's largest facility of its kind for safety valves. The construction project runs until 2032.

Valve maker ANKOS plans to invest 110 million rubles from 2023 to 2026 to modernize its foundry in Krasnokamsk and machining site in Lysva, Perm Krai, and to make new products for the oil and gas sector. The project is expected to create 14 new jobs.

SIG announced an €8.4 million investment in the fifth expansion of its carton packaging plant in Campo Largo, Paraná, Brazil, raising its production capacity. The plant serves Brazil and South American countries.

Wobz is investing €6 million to expand its Oyonnax plant with a 1,800 m² extension and three new production lines by May 2024, raising capacity from 120,000 to 500,000 customized containers per day.

Prysmian plans to complete by early 2024 the adaptation of its Vila Velha umbilical plant to meet Petrobras demand, at a budgeted investment of R$50 million.

Hubei Xiangdewo Valve Co. is carrying out a renovation and expansion project in Laohekou, Xiangyang, Hubei, to produce 150,000 electric and pneumatic valves a year, with an investment of 96.59 million yuan. The project was listed on 13 December 2023 with a construction period from Q4 2023 to Q4 2024.

Packaging maker Thimm is investing more than EUR 3 million in a new Mastercut 2.1 flat-bed die-cutter from Bobst at its Castrop-Rauxel site. The machine adds capacity of 25 million square metres of corrugated board per year.

Tetra Pak received an investment certificate to raise its investment in its Binh Duong, Vietnam factory to $173 million, expanding the existing aseptic carton packaging project. The certificate was granted at the Meet Singapore 2023 event.

Protectoseal has invested more than $5 million in manufacturing capacity at its US, UK and Indian sites, halving lead times. The Indian unit moved to larger facilities in Mumbai adding 50,000 sq. ft. of space.

Fans and motors maker EBM-Papst is investing EUR 1 million to expand its facilities in Singapore and India, including added production capacity in Chennai. The move is part of its China-decoupling strategy.

Aptar Closures celebrated the grand opening of Gulf Closures, a beverage closures maker in Bahrain it acquired a majority stake in during March 2023. An expansion of the site, with 10 new production lines, is expected to be completed in December 2024.

Piller Blowers & Compressors is investing a low double-digit million euro sum in a new workshop, warehouse and office building at its Moringen site in Germany, with construction starting in Q2 2024.

Petrosmith, an oil and gas production equipment manufacturer in Abilene, Texas, will invest $25 million over ten years to expand operations, creating 250 new jobs and retaining 415 existing jobs, supported by a $2.75 million DCOA incentive package.

Pall Corporation and Tanajib opened an expanded Pall Arabia facility in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, adding filter coalescer manufacturing for the oil and gas and petrochemical industries in a 5,500 m2 facility.

Genera broke ground on a nearly $350 million expansion of its Sustainable Biomaterials Campus in Vonore, Tennessee, adding over 150,000 square feet and more than 230 local jobs for compostable molded fiber packaging production.

Ball Packaging Europe Beograd has applied to Belgrade's environmental secretariat for approval of an impact study for adding a fourth aluminium can production line at its Zemun plant, raising capacity to 3.2 billion cans per year.

Fives inaugurated a new 7,000 sqm workshop at its Fives Cryo Suzhou subsidiary in Taicang, Jiangsu, funded by a EUR 7 million investment. It will make hydrogen-proven cryogenic equipment, combustion products and control systems.

Smurfit Kappa held a ribbon-cutting at its Mexicali plant for four recent equipment investments totaling $14 million, which the company says raises production capacity by over 30 percent.

CPC Pumps International, owned by Atlas Copco, completed its first pump assembly in Pune, India, and plans to expand local manufacturing of centrifugal process pumps.