Siemens Industry is seeking city incentives for a new advanced manufacturing plant at 7200 Harris Legacy Drive in Fort Worth, Texas, to make low-voltage switchboards and switchgear, with $133 million in building and equipment investment and up to 715 jobs by end of 2026. The Fort Worth City Council will decide on incentives Sept. 12.

Wilo Group opened a new high-tech production plant in Kesurdi, India, to manufacture pump systems for India, the Middle East, Africa and South-east Asia, creating around 1,500 direct and indirect jobs.

A.Y. McDonald broke ground on a new brass foundry in Dickeyville, Wisconsin, expected to employ about 150 workers at initial capacity and be fully operational by summer 2026. The cost was described as nine figures but not disclosed.

Zilmet plans to open its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Georgetown County, South Carolina, investing $32.7 million and creating 50 jobs. Phase one is expected to be completed in 2024, with production starting in 2025.

Anhui Dazhong Valve Group held a groundbreaking ceremony on 3 August 2023 for a smart pipeline valve production project in Anhui, China. The total investment is CNY 180 million, with capacity of 4,500 tonnes of pipeline valves per year.

Corrugated Partners Group will invest $52.7 million to establish Keystone Sheets, creating at least 80 jobs in a 420,000-square-foot facility in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The plant will produce single, double and triple wall corrugated sheets.

BODENFLO has moved its micro diaphragm pump and mini compressor factory to a new industrial park location in Baoan District, Shenzhen, China. The company says the move expanded its production space and did not disrupt orders.

American Packaging Corporation held the grand opening of its 275,000-square-foot Center of Excellence flexible packaging plant in Cedar City, Utah, a $100 million facility expected to create over 135 jobs.

Hanon Systems will invest nearly $170 million and create 600 jobs by establishing a new manufacturing facility in Huntington Park, Loudon County, Tennessee. The plant will supply thermal solutions for electrified vehicles to North American automakers.

Balluff plans to build a new distribution center near its headquarters in Neuhausen an der Fildern, Germany, by 2026. The project supports its growth strategy.

Balluff is building a new high-volume production plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, starting at the end of 2023, with about EUR 50 million invested. The 15,000 square metre plant will make sensors, accessories, network systems and RFID solutions.

Sempa Pompa has laid the foundation for a new high-tech pump plant covering 102,000 square meters in Vladimir, Russia, to expand pump production and range. The article is dated 2023-07-25 and gives no investment value or completion date.

Frucor Suntory announced a new A$400 million beverage manufacturing and distribution facility at Swanbank, Queensland, its first in Australia. It is expected to create 160 long-term jobs when it starts operating in mid-2024.

Mersen officially opened its new manufacturing facility at 795 Santa Fe Pike in Columbia, Tennessee, its 10th US location, after investing USD 70 million. The plant will produce extruded graphite, insulation felt and isostatic graphite.

Recopak Machinery, an Australian family-owned packaging machinery manufacturer founded in 1986, opened a new factory in Cobram, Victoria. The facility is intended to streamline in-house manufacturing and speed delivery.

Martogg is commissioning its Circular AU food-grade plastic recycling facility in Melbourne, expected to be operational before year end 2023. The plant will reprocess plastic packaging waste into food-grade recycled plastics.

Ford Meter Box announced plans to invest up to $300 million in a 300,000-square-foot brass products facility adjacent to its Wabash headquarters, creating up to 126 jobs by the end of 2027.

Azerbaijan Investment Holding and Hungarian company Hell Energy signed an agreement to construct a plant producing aluminium beverage cans in the Alat free economic zone. The cans will be exported regionally and used for bottling on the domestic market.

Akers Packaging has moved its Chicago team into a new 280,000-square-foot facility at 425 Crossing Drive, University Park, Illinois, which houses a new Fosber corrugator and will add converting machines in the third quarter.

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Terinex Flexibles, part of OGM Holdings Group, signed to take 46,000 sq ft at Dove Valley Park in Foston, South Derbyshire, for a GBP 8m production, warehouse and R&D facility. The development completes its latest phase in January 2024.

BorgWarner broke ground on a new plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, to make power electronics components and electric motors, with 380 new direct jobs expected over five years and opening targeted for Q2 2024.

Stora Enso opened a second corrugated packaging factory at its De Lier site in the Netherlands, equipped with two new corrugators, making the site the largest and most modern corrugated packaging facility in Europe. The factory was in commissioning with first orders delivered.

Maadaniyah signed a SR34 million ($9.1 million) contract with Gulf Triple Contracting Company to build a new valves factory at King Salman Energy Park, with work starting in August 2023 and completion due mid-2024.

Smurfit Kappa has inaugurated an integrated corrugated plant in Rabat, Morocco, its first operation in North Africa, with a 25,000 m2 facility costing over €35 million and supporting 400 direct and indirect jobs.

Zhejiang Tehong Fluid Control, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tehong Valve, signed to locate a high-performance smart control valve and intelligent components production base in Wenzhou Hai Jing district, with total investment of RMB 242 million and annual output expected above RMB 300 million.

Taiwan-listed Forward-KY (8411) invested RMB 300 million in a two-line two-piece aluminum can plant in Xi'an, Shaanxi, opened June 30, 2023, with first-phase production planned before the mid-autumn season and annual capacity of 600 million cans.

Hansgrohe Group opened a new faucet factory in Valjevo, Serbia, on June 27, 2023, built over about a year and a half at a cost of around 85 million euros. The plant will mainly produce hansgrohe-branded products for the European market.

Atlas Copco broke ground on its China headquarters project for industrial compressor R&D and manufacturing in Wuxi, Jiangsu, with total investment near RMB 3 billion and annual capacity of 163,000 units once complete.

Bosch Rexroth opened a 42,000 sq m plant in Queretaro, Mexico, investing about EUR 160 million to make hydraulic pumps, motors and valves for mobile machinery and linear motion products, creating about 900 jobs by 2027.

Biopax Limited is set to open a £47m factory in Springvale Business Park, West Belfast, to produce certified green packaging and labels. The company plans to create 169 jobs over four years, with a second investment phase planned.

Chinese company Yuanshun Enterprise will invest US$9.49 million to set up a packaging plant in Mongla Export Processing Zone, Bangladesh, producing 10 million boxes a year and employing 490 people. The agreement was signed with BEPZA.

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse is constructing a 12,000 m2 building at its Campsas site in France, with an investment of almost EUR 30 million. Construction starts September 2023 with commissioning scheduled for 2025, and the site will eventually employ 400 people.

Sona Comstar inaugurated its second manufacturing plant on a 10-acre site in Chakan, Pune, with an investment of USD 28.1 million. The plant will make driveline components for ICE and electric vehicles and can produce up to 1.18 million gear sets a year.

Viessmann Climate Solutions is building a new €200 million, 50,000-square-meter heat pump factory in Legnica, Poland, as part of a planned €1 billion investment over three years in heat pumps and green air-conditioning.

Swedish heat transfer firm Alfa Laval has begun construction of its second production site in San Bonifacio, Verona province, with an investment of about €100 million, to be fully operational in about a year.

Ball Corporation has started production of recyclable aluminium beverage cans at a new plant in Plzeň, Czech Republic, with an investment of over CZK 4 billion; it currently employs 150 and plans to reach 200.

EBARA Corporation built a fully automated 18,450 square metre factory in Fujisawa near Tokyo to produce dry vacuum pumps for semiconductor, flat screen, LED and solar cell manufacturing. The plant is designed to produce more than 20,000 units a year.

Kyashif started production at a new hydraulic cylinder plant in Kardzhali, its fourth plant. The investment is 10 million leva, with a planned rise to 30 million, and 40 workers will be hired.

Anhui Tenglong Pump & Valve Manufacturing began construction of a new plant in Jing County, Anhui, to produce 10,000 ultra-pure pumps and pipes and 20,000 injection pumps per year. The project has a total investment of 120 million yuan and is expected to employ over 200 people.

Plastilene Group opened its Sustainable Food Packaging Innovation Center at the Rocktenn building in Washington Court House, Ohio, its first US facility, on Wednesday June 7, 2023. The $47 million facility is expected to create 58 new jobs.

NETZSCH (Lanzhou) Pump Co. held a groundbreaking on June 5, 2023 for a relocated, expanded pump plant on a 139-mu site in Lanzhou High-tech Zone, with total investment of 300 million yuan and annual capacity of 50,000 pumps. Phase one is due for completion at the end of 2024 with production in 2025.

Asahi/America opened its newly constructed 59,000-square-foot fabrication facility in Paulina, Louisiana, for large-scale thermoplastic pre-fabrication. The facility operates as Asahi/America - PPI and was celebrated with a grand opening on June 1, 2023.

Pratt Industries opened its $253 million advanced corrugated box factory in Cedar Hill, Texas, on June 27, 2023. At capacity the 1.1 million square foot plant will employ 375 people.

Wellpappe Alzenau, part of Papierfabrik Palm, has begun ground surveys for a new corrugated board plant in the Alzenau-Nord industrial area, the first step of a project that also upgrades the existing city-centre site. The plant will consolidate the 250 employees of its Alzenau and Hasselroth-Gondsroth operations at one site.

CNP's Russian subsidiary SiNaPi Rus plans to launch production of industrial booster and fire-fighting pump stations at the Esipovo industrial park in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, with an investment of about 100 million rubles and around 20 jobs, with launch planned for Q3 2023.

Dream (Zhejiang) Air Equipment Manufacturing broke ground on a 35,000 square meter plant in Pinghu City, Zhejiang, China, with 105 million yuan of investment to produce 5,000 intelligent industrial air compressors annually.

Smurfit Kappa's Corrugados de Baja California subsidiary started operations at a new $11 million plant in Baja California, Mexico, which expanded its industrial building and added machinery to raise production capacity. The company is the main corrugated cardboard box manufacturer in the state.

Festo laid the first stone of a new plant in Salinas Victoria near Monterrey, Mexico, with a $100 million investment and three construction phases generating 1,500 jobs. The plant is due to be ready in 2025 and will supply automation solutions to automotive, mining, pharmaceutical and electronics sectors.

The Saica Group confirmed an investment of more than €100 million in a new Saica Pack corrugated packaging factory in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Barcelona, which will consolidate its El Prat and Barcelona plants, with installation of the first machines expected by end-2024.