Hyundai Heavy Industries Turbomachinery signed an MOU with Pohang city and Gyeongbuk province to invest 100 billion won through 2029 in a new plant at Yeongilman 4 industrial complex producing eco-friendly turbomachinery and SMR equipment. About 100 jobs are expected to be created.

Westerman will invest $45 million to establish a new nuclear manufacturing operation in Hebron, Ohio, primarily supporting the expansion of Centrus Energy's American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon. The project will create 135 jobs.

Uniflow Controls is investing ₹50 crore (about $5 million) in a new Industry 4.0 control-valve plant at Ambernath near Mumbai. Annual capacity is to rise from 8,000 to 40,000–50,000 units.

Valmet inaugurated a manufacturing unit in Vespasiano, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, which it says will triple its filtration solutions production capacity for mining. The unit was presented ahead of Exposibram 2026.

Atlas Copco broke ground on a new Dalian factory in the Jinpu New Area, with about RMB 150 million investment on roughly 40,000 m2 of land. Completion is scheduled for late July 2027.

Molded fiber food packaging maker Cirkla will invest $5 million in a new manufacturing facility in the Gainesville 85 Business Park in Hall County, Georgia, expected to create around 140 jobs over three years.

DRC Industries is investing about $4 million to establish operations in an existing facility in Columbus, Mississippi, expected to create 50 jobs with state tax incentives.

Western Steel plans a processing and fabrication facility in Fernley, Nevada, as part of state-approved projects announced on 14 August 2026. Investment and job figures for this project were not included in the article excerpt.

ALPLA Inc. plans to establish a plastic bottle manufacturing facility in Clark County, Nevada, with $8.01 million in capital investment and 51 near-term jobs. Nevada's governor's office approved $818,718 in tax abatements for the project. The approvals were announced on 14 August 2026.

UFP Packaging announced a new manufacturing facility in Cherokee County, South Carolina, with a $5.31 million investment in property, machinery and equipment to expand custom crate manufacturing. The project is expected to create 136 jobs over five years.

VPK Group is investing €4m in a brand-new manufacturing facility of nearly 6,000 sqm in Salonta, Bihor County, Romania, to produce corrugated packaging, cardboard tubes, cores and edge protectors for VPK Packaging Romania and Corex Romania.

Smurfit Westrock is building a corrugated packaging plant in Cajeme, Sonora, with an initial investment of 1,138 million Mexican pesos and more than 2,800 direct and indirect jobs. The company will supply packaging to Constellation Brands, with first products due in December 2026.

Hanon Systems secured C$10 million in government support from Canada for its electric compressor plant and R&D center in Vaughan, Ontario, within a total project valued at C$198.75 million. The plant targets up to 1.5 million compressors a year by 2034.

Ningbo BaoSi Energy Equipment's subsidiary acquired land use rights for a 157,604.54 sqm site in Jiangxi for RMB 18.4397 million for a new refrigerant compressor and heat pump production base, funded by a RMB 500 million capital injection.

Worth Wellness Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Worth Peripherals Limited, began commercial production on August 1, 2026 at its new corrugated packaging facility in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The plant also plans a solar power installation.

Axjo Group, a Sweden-based recycled plastic packaging specialist, opened a new 160,600-square-foot plant in Haltom City, Texas, and has begun producing large reels for the wire and cable sector.

Axium Packaging is expanding its Midwest presence with a new 202,000-square-foot facility in the St. Louis area, its third in Missouri. It will initially launch with extrusion blow molding and later add injection stretch blow molding.

Grundfos opened a new factory in Székesfehérvár and a competence centre in Hungary in September 2007, increasing Hungarian production area by over 50%. The factory was to take production moved from Langå, Denmark. This is an older press release.

Paranova is building a £6m purpose-built 98,000 sq ft manufacturing site in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, expected to be fully operational in November with 150 staff, with a new Koenig & Bauer press arriving in September.

Philip Morris International's U.S. business opened a roughly 780,000 sq ft Zyn nicotine pouch manufacturing campus in Aurora, Colorado, on 27 July 2026, with about $1 billion invested so far and $1.2 billion expected through 2028.

KZTA has started producing steel wedge valves for the oil and gas, energy and chemical industries at a new enterprise in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Investment was 100 million rubles and 50 jobs were created; the plant plans 500 units in 2026 and 1.5 thousand in 2027.

Baosi Co plans to inject 500 million yuan cash into its subsidiary Jiangxi Baosi Industrial Chain Service to build a smart factory in Jiangxi making 30,000 refrigerant compressors and heat pumps a year over 18 months.

SIP Manufacturing, a contract beverage co-packer, is establishing operations in an existing building in Southaven, Mississippi, with corporate investment above $100 million and 187 jobs created.

Grupo RFK has opened a new R$400 million factory in São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, developed with Krones, tripling its production capacity for cans and PET packaging, with about 300 direct jobs and a target of R$2 billion in revenue.

Detpak, the foodservice packaging arm of Adelaide's Detmold Group, opened a 175,000-square-foot factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina, initially employing more than 50 people, with full production due in August 2026.

BAOYI Group held the groundbreaking of its Huangtian Industrial Park in Yongjia County, Zhejiang, on July 18, 2026, for special control valves and intelligent control systems, with completion scheduled for August 2028.

Valvitalia Group broke ground on a new manufacturing facility of over 16,000 sqm in Wujiang, Jiangsu Province, backed by an investment of over €10 million, marking 20 years in China.

Jenson & Nicholson Packaging signed a land lease with the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority to build a new manufacturing facility at the National Special Economic Zone, an investment of about US$13.7 million.

Detpak USA, a subsidiary of Australia's Detmold Group, will open its first US manufacturing operation in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, at a 175,000 square-foot facility on New Cut Road. The multi-million-dollar investment will create over 50 jobs, with operations expected online in August 2026.

Canpac and Krishna Creation will jointly establish a new greenfield rigid paper packaging plant in Ahmedabad, Canpac's tenth Indian manufacturing unit, scheduled to start operations in September 2026.

Guangzhou AirHorse Compressor plans to invest RMB 300 million in a new production base for screw air compressors, screw air blowers and refrigerant air dryers, including a National Engineering Technology Center for gas compressor units.

Eren Holding opened its Modern Karton new production plant in Muslu, Kilimli district, Zonguldak, Turkey, in a ceremony attended by the Industry and Technology Minister. The investment is reported at $850 million.

Suntory PepsiCo Vietnam Beverage inaugurated its US$300 million Tây Ninh Plant in Hựu Thạnh Industrial Park on July 10, 2026. The automated plant has an annual capacity of 1.24 billion litres and is expected to employ around 3,000 people.

Terravanta Power Systems, a Kaishan Group geothermal company, broke ground on a $74.5 million, 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Loxley, Alabama, making screw and turbine expander systems. The project will create 63 new jobs.

HydraSpecma Group opened its new Tianjin factory in the TEDA West Zone on 8 July 2026, investing RMB 100 million to make hydraulic, lubrication and cooling systems for wind turbines, expected to generate over RMB 700 million in annual production value.

AGI Greenpac has begun construction of a greenfield aluminium beverage can plant on 34 acres in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, with an investment of ₹1,000 crore. Operations are expected in H1 2027 with initial output of 1.3 billion cans per year.

Makino Milling Machine has started operations at its new Fujiyoshida Factory in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The factory, with a site area of about 27,500 sqm, will produce 21 of the company's 101 machine models, focusing on large machining centers and 5-axis machines to meet growing demand from aerospace, defense, and data center sectors.

Packaging Corporation of America started operations at its new 550,000-square-foot corrugated box plant in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, a month ahead of schedule. The $275 million investment is the company's largest box plant to date.

Vert opened a 35,000-square-foot pouch and roll stock production site in Longmont, Colorado, built around HP Indigo digital printing, with pouch production starting in July 2026.

Ball began making beverage cans at its new Millersburg, Oregon production site in July 2026, with a single line producing standard cans and a full ramp-up targeted for 2027.

Detmold Group has opened a 19,000-square-metre fibre-based packaging manufacturing and warehousing facility in Chatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), Maharashtra, consolidating its Indian operations at one site. It has been operational since late June 2026.

Shri Krishana Overseas PLC invested KES 132 million (US$1.0 million) in a new corrugated packaging facility on a 5-acre industrial park in Kisaju, Kajiado County, Kenya. The plant will raise annual production from 3,000 to 22,000 tonnes.

Viega Group officially opened its new production site in Kirkel, Saarland, in a former Michelin warehouse complex. The first phase cost about EUR 150 million and creates 150 jobs, with around 100 employees already in place.

Chinese-capital Kaishan Group officially opened its factory at İZBAŞ in the Izmir Free Zone, Türkiye, built on 20,000 square meters with a USD 20 million investment. It will make drilling equipment and compressors for geothermal power plants for domestic use and export.

Profile Films plans to build a new 97,000-square-foot facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan, next to its existing headquarters and production site, according to MLive. A city board approved a $5.1 million incentive for the project this week.

Grundfos held a groundbreaking on June 24, 2026, for a new 143,000 sq ft building in Brookshire, Texas, serving as its US headquarters and production expansion, scheduled for completion in 2027. It also opened the Grundfos Academy Americas training hub.

A project filing shows a CNY 305 million compressor research and manufacturing base in Zhongxin town, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou, covering 65,300 sq m of buildings and a new smart compressor production line. Full-capacity output value is planned at CNY 500 million per year.

Kazankompressormash opened a new assembly and testing complex in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, on June 18, 2026, with total investment of 10.7 billion rubles, to make compressors for LNG plants.

Catalan industrial packaging maker CADEPA received a €1.5 million ICF Eurocrèdit loan to build a 12,000 m² plant in Sant Guim de Freixenet, consolidating its Esparreguera and Logroño operations. The project is expected to raise productivity by 30% to 40% and create 30 jobs.

Polish packaging maker Grembox is investing 110 million zloty (about 26 million euros) in a new corrugated cardboard plant in the Katowice Special Economic Zone in Bytom, creating up to 70 jobs. Commissioning is scheduled for 2027.