La Doria has added a third SIG Safe 12 Food Retort filling line at its Sarno plant in Italy to fill canned food products in SIG SafeBloc carton packs. The article gives no investment amount.

Stora Enso opened a new corrugated packaging factory at its De Lier site in the Netherlands, adding a second factory with two new corrugators. The site is now the largest and most modern corrugated packaging facility in Europe.

Flex Accipto, a UFlex Group subsidiary, signed a $120 million deal with Orascom Industrial Parks to expand its packaging plant on a 150,000 square metre area in Sokhna within the Suez Canal Economic Zone. The signing was witnessed by the SCZONE chairman on 20 June 2023.

FirstElement Fuel will expand its hydrogen refueling station module manufacturing line and high-pressure cryogenic hydrogen pump capacity at 660 E. Dyer in Santa Ana, California, creating 38 jobs. A testing stand will also be installed in Livermore, California.

TD Deutsche Klimakompressor broke ground on its sixth construction phase in Straßgräbchen, Saxony, adding about 20,000 square metres and a high-bay warehouse, with completion planned for late 2024 and annual shipments rising from 6 to 8 million units.

PAPACKS opened its Gigafactory 2 in Arnstadt, Thuringia, more than doubling its production area with a completed extension. The company invested almost 30 million euros with state support of around 6 million euros.

Thimm Group has commissioned a CorruCUT rotary die-cutter from Koenig & Bauer at its Wolnzach site in Bavaria, investing about €5.5 million to add at least 30 million square metres of annual capacity.

Russian refrigeration components maker Frigopoint commissioned a billet heating furnace and two 315-ton impact presses for hot forging large ball valves at its Belgorod plant, with a line output of 1000 parts per shift.

Vanair Manufacturing announced a $8.3 million expansion adding about 100,000 square feet to its Michigan City facility in La Porte County, Indiana, creating 75 new jobs. Completion of the building by J. Shoffner is expected in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Rondo Ganahl AG invested 36 million euros in its St. Ruprecht site in Styria, Austria, opening a new corrugated packaging print centre built around a Koenig & Bauer Rapida 164 press.

Sulzer Pump Solutions Inc. announced a $5.3 million investment to expand its Easley, South Carolina manufacturing operations at 155 Ahlstrom Way to support new product lines, creating 25 new jobs.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging completed a £4.2 million extension of its Glasgow plant in Kelvindale to add energy-efficient machinery, creating 34 new jobs. The extension was officially opened in June 2023.

Orora Beverage completed construction of an AUD 80 million multi-size can line at its Dandenong, Victoria facility in June 2023, increasing production capacity by around 10 per cent.

Sulzer Pumps Solutions, a subsidiary of Swiss Sulzer Ltd, will invest $5.3 million to expand its manufacturing operations at its Easley plant on Ahlstrom Way in Pickens County, South Carolina, to add new product lines and create 25 jobs.

Smurfit Kappa Diss completed a £4.5 million upgrade at its Norfolk factory, adding a corrugator upgrade, a Macarbox casemaker and expanded warehouse space to increase trade packaging capacity.

Smurfit Kappa Corrugados de Baja California inaugurated a new plant expansion in Baja California, Mexico, with an $11 million investment in machinery and an enlarged industrial building to raise production capacity.

Kronospan plans a new oriented strand board manufacturing plant on its 460-acre site in Oxford, Alabama, with a $350 million investment creating 125 new jobs. Oxford City Council approved tax abatements for the project, and groundbreaking is slated for later in 2023.

Perint, a plastic packaging manufacturer, is building a new 15,000 square meter production and warehouse building on a three-hectare plot in the Sorzha-Staraya industrial zone, Vsevolozhsky district, Leningrad Region. The one billion ruble investment is expected to take about two years and will raise output from 4.5 to 6.5 million units per day.

Coral Products has completed commissioning of in-house volume manufacturing for ECODECK floor grids after a £2.1 million investment in new machinery and re-tooling, allowing it to insource £3 million per year of previously outsourced products. The announcement was made on 20 March 2025 at its Wythenshawe site.

BorgWarner announced an investment at its Ramos Arizpe Campus in Mexico to produce battery cooling plates for electric vehicles, creating 280 new jobs and raising production capacity by 35%.

Domtar's Engineered Absorbent Materials facility in Jesup, Georgia completed a $90 million project adding an airlaid production line and 75 jobs, celebrated with a ribbon-cutting on May 23, 2023.

Chongqing Water Pump Factory invited bids for project management and supervision of its large reciprocating diaphragm pump expansion in Shapingba, Chongqing. The total project investment is about CNY 76.8 million, including about CNY 41.7 million for new equipment.

Georgia-Pacific and Dixie completed a $145 million expansion of their Darlington plant, which now makes more Dixie plates and bowls and includes a new distribution center and printer. A ribbon-cutting is planned for the end of May 2023.

Hinojosa Packaging is investing about €30m to expand its Xàtiva plant in Spain, adding a 7,500 m2 warehouse in the first phase and a 15,000 m2 building in a second phase. Works are due to finish by September 2024.

Brazilian company TUPY announced an expansion of its Ramos Arizpe plant in Coahuila, Mexico, with an investment of $36.8 million that will create 250 direct jobs. The machining plant will grow by over 5,200 square meters.

Bauer Compressors is expanding its Norfolk, Virginia location and will add 47 new jobs.

Silgan Dispensing announced the expansion of production of its MELODIE fragrance pump to its existing Wuxi facility in China to meet rising demand in the Chinese and Asia-Pacific markets. The announcement is dated May 8, 2023.

Beverage and liquid packaging co-packer BEC Co-Packers will invest $2.5 million to expand in St. Tammany Parish, buying a long-vacant building on Highway 11 in Slidell for production and warehousing. The expansion could create up to 150 jobs, with a fourth production line planned to open this summer.

Smurfit Kappa has completed a €40 million investment at its Pruszków corrugated plant in Poland, adding a high-tech corrugator and a new warehouse for 12,000 pallets. The expansion makes it the company's largest plant in Poland and adds 50 jobs.

Belgian bottle maker Resilux plans to expand its Bucharest PET preforms factory by about 30% under a EUR 3 million investment, including a new rPET pellets production line, according to sources cited by Profit.ro.

Stiebel Eltron plans to invest 450 million euros in its Holzminden main plant to quadruple heat pump production capacity and roughly triple industrial jobs to about 1,200 by 2027.

HUBER SE inaugurated its new production hall P3 at its headquarters in Berching/Erasbach, Germany, on 19 April 2023. The expansion lays the foundation for further growth and secures jobs.

BorgWarner plans to invest $42 million to expand its Seneca, South Carolina facility, adding 3GWh of annual battery module capacity and about 122 jobs over three years. Expansion begins in Q2 2023 with completion expected in the first half of 2024.

Pleasant Prairie approved site and operational plans for a roughly 50,000-square-foot addition to LMI Packaging's facility. LMI plans to start construction in May 2023 and finish in November, and expects employment to rise to 200 or 300 full-time.

Cullen Packaging plans a £15m expansion at its Glasgow facility, adding production lines and an innovation hub and creating more than 100 jobs. The expansion is due to start within months of the April 2023 announcement.

TPC Printing & Packaging plans a $21 million expansion in East Ridge, Tennessee, adding a 60,000 square foot building connected to its existing plant and more than 90 new jobs. The building is expected to be operational in October 2023.

Aliaxis is investing €14 million to transform its Philmac pipe fittings plant in North Plympton, Adelaide, raising capacity by 40% with automation, with full operation expected in 2025.

Mauser has added a new plastics drum line at its Durban plant, enabling production of UN-certified tight-head drums in 210, 232 and 250 litre sizes.

KITZ SCT has completed a new plant building at its Nitta SC Plant, expanding production capacity of valves for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The announcement was made April 7, 2023.

Hexagon Purus has held a groundbreaking for a multi-million euro expansion of its Wystrach site in Weeze, Germany, adding a 5,000 m2 production hall and raising staff from 240 to 350.

Paragon Films held a groundbreaking in April 2023 for a 70,000-square-foot expansion of its stretch film plant in Taylorsville, North Carolina.

Charter Next Generation plans a 200,000-square-foot specialty film expansion in Milton, Wisconsin, as part of a broader $270 million investment in Wisconsin.

Berry Global began a 25,000 sq ft expansion of its Lewisburg, Tennessee stretch film facility, adding cast lines and 10 jobs, for completion by early 2024.

Glasgow-based Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging announced plans to increase production to one billion plastic-free moulded fibre and corrugated packaging units per year, building its own patented machines and tooling amid rising demand.

Emerson started expanding its engineering center in Metepec, State of Mexico, for Fisher control valves, with about $24 million invested and about 200 staff expected, completion targeted for February 2024.

LG Electronics India has begun manufacturing dual inverter air-conditioner compressors at its Greater Noida facility. The company invested about 100 crore rupees to build capacity of one million units a year.

Germany's Multivac is investing 6 million euros to expand its plant in Bulgaria, according to SeeNews. The article does not specify the exact location or the new capacity.

Crown Beverage Packaging is starting up a new module at its Mankato aluminum can plant that should increase end-making capacity by 65%. The plant supplies customers including Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Schell's Beer.

Progroup began building a waste-to-energy plant next to its PM3 paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany, to supply process steam and about a third of the site's electricity. The plant is set to start operating at the end of 2025.

SCA's world's largest kraftliner machine entered service at its Obbola plant in Västerbotten, Sweden, as part of a SEK 7.5 billion expansion, with capacity rising from 450,000 to 725,000 tonnes a year. The machine was built by Voith.