Seiko NSK plans to invest 30 billion yen over five years to increase production of bearings for electric vehicles, including at its Ishibe Plant in Konan City, Shiga Prefecture. The plan was reported on 29 December 2022.

Heineken will expand its plant in Navojoa with an investment of 1,000 million Mexican pesos, creating nearly 200 direct jobs. The announcement was reported on 26 December 2022.

Aotejia (002239.SZ) said on December 22, 2022 that its annual 1 million electric compressor project is expected to be completed in mid-2023. After completion, its electric compressor annual capacity is expected to be about 1.8 million units.

Nottingham-based packaging firm Wilkins Group unveiled a multi-million pound 50,000 sq ft extension to its Colwick factory, built by Lindum Group. The extension is expected to add investment in new machines and increase turnover.

DS Smith is investing almost EUR 120 million to expand and modernise its plants in Nördlingen, Arenshausen and Arnstadt, Germany, adding capacity such as a new corrugator at Nördlingen. The investment will create about 100 new jobs once construction and commissioning are complete.

German film packaging line maker Brückner plans to expand its subsidiary factory in Topoľčany, Slovakia, by building a hall of nearly half a hectare, as orders have grown.

Encirc, a Vidrala company, and Diageo announced a hydrogen-powered hybrid glass furnace at Encirc's Elton plant in Cheshire, to be fully operational by 2027. It aims to produce up to 200 million net zero bottles annually by 2030.

General Machine and Tool Company will invest $3.7 million to expand manufacturing at its headquarters in Elizabethton, Tennessee, creating 25 new jobs in Carter County. The expansion follows its acquisition by Cinco Research Corporation in February 2022.

Universal Carton Industries is investing US$15 million (AED 55 million) to expand its corrugated box production in Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone, tripling capacity to 100,000 tons per year, with completion scheduled for 2023.

Ardagh Glass Packaging South Africa, formerly Consol Glass, is expanding its Nigel plant east of Johannesburg with two additional furnaces, a R3bn investment that will add about 30% capacity and create 300 jobs.

Grote Industries announced an expansion of its engineering design center and production facility, Grote Industries de Mexico, in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon. Manufacturing space was increased by more than 50% to add production and shipping capacity.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners opened a A$43.7 million, highly automated canning line at its Moorabbin production site, built with KHS, GPI and Matthews Australasia, to serve Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.

aXpel s+r AG and aXpel one for all AG began operating together under the aXpel one for all AG name on December 1, 2022, with a broader range of paper and PE sacks. The certified production site in Burgdorf, Switzerland will remain and be expanded.

NOVAIR USA plans to invest more than $1 million and add 12 jobs at its North Tonawanda, New York plant to expand oxygen and nitrogen generator manufacturing, including moving some production from America Energy in Miami.

Shibaura Machine India plans to invest Rs. 225 crore in its Chennai plant to expand injection molding machine capacity to 3,200 machines a year in phases. A new factory adjacent to the existing plant is under construction, with trial production expected by November 2023.

Huhtamaki inaugurated a 12,500 m2 extension to its Nules, Spain factory for paper-based packaging, a EUR 20 million investment with a EUR 2.2 million regional grant, doubling site capacity and creating around 130 jobs; production starts January 2023.

CANPACK FPN Brzesko opened new production lines for aluminium beverage can ends, raising capacity to over 12 billion units a year, in a USD 50 million brownfield investment expected to create 50 direct jobs.

Sulzer completed a modernization of its Karhula pump factory in Kotka, adding a highly automated, digitized pump production line and a new logistics centre. The upgrade cuts production throughput time by 93%.

Tempo Flexible Packaging will receive C$3.5 million from FedDev Ontario's Business Scale-up and Productivity stream to expand its facility by 10,000 sq ft and increase production of recyclable food packaging.

Ferrero Canada will receive C$5 million from FedDev Ontario's Jobs and Growth Fund to increase capacity and further automate two main production lines in Brantford, Ontario, creating more than 100 skilled jobs.

Michigan Automotive Compressor (MACI), a Toyota Industries and DENSO joint venture, plans a $82 million investment to install new production processes at its Parma facility to produce electric vehicle technology products, retaining 241 jobs.

Sappi will invest about $418 million to convert the No. 2 paper machine at its Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine to produce solid bleached sulphate board, nearly doubling machine capacity to 470,000 tons per year by early 2025.

Emerson is expanding its Ramos Arizpe facility, which makes motors for air-conditioning compressors. The state government says the group's Mexico operations will generate more than 1,200 new jobs at full operation.

Mondi approved a €400 million investment in a new paper machine at its Štětí mill in the Czech Republic, producing about 210,000 tonnes per year of sack kraft paper for its Paper Bags business. Start-up is expected in 2025.

Gardner Denver Ltd invested GBP3.5 million in its Cross Lane, Bradford facility, merging two locations for design, assembly and testing of compressors, blowers and vacuum pumps. The site is operational.

Emerson announced on November 8, 2022 an expansion of its Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila facility, which already manufactures more than 10 million air conditioning compressors.

Rheem announced a $20 million expansion of its Fort Smith plant, adding 100 jobs and production capacity, along with a training and innovation center.

Flex Américas laid the first stone of a new BoPET film plant in Altamira, Tamaulipas, as the first stage of a $200 million expansion for construction in 2022-2023. The company says the expansion will create about 1,000 jobs.

Visy will invest A$48 million to upgrade its Material Recovery Facility on Gibson Island, Queensland, redirecting an additional 30,000kt of material from landfills. The plan was announced on November 3, 2022.

Constantia Flexibles is investing more than EUR 80 million to expand its Constantia Teich plant in Weinburg, Austria, raising aluminium foil capacity to 90,000 tonnes a year, about 30% more, and making it the largest European aluminium foil producer.

Mondi is expanding its Mszczonów plant near Warsaw, adding new machinery and automation to more than double production capacity to 320 million square metres per year by 2023.

Changhong Huayi's Jingzhou subsidiary began construction on a project adding 10 million small high-efficiency variable-frequency compressors per year, with total investment of 600 million yuan. Phase one is 4 million units with 400 million yuan invested, and the groundbreaking took place on October 28, 2022.

Continental announced a project to invest close to 210 million euros in expanding its Silao Las Colinas operations in Guanajuato, Mexico, adding floor space and building a new 12,600 m2 plant for electronic control units, expected to create 1,500 direct jobs over three years.

HVA expanded its factory with additional staff, a new warehouse and new machinery including a Mazak milling line, almost doubling its milling capacity. The article is undated and the date shown is the article date.

Stora Enso will invest approximately EUR 1 billion during 2022-2025 to convert an idle paper machine at its Oulu site in Finland into a 750,000-tonne consumer board line, with production expected in early 2025.

The Panther Group is investing in its Tornesch location in Germany by buying a neighboring 25,000 m² property and ordering two folder-gluers and palletizing robots. A new 6,000 m² production building is planned for 2023.

Rockfin sp. z o.o. will invest about 33 million zł to expand its existing Gorlice production plant, tripling production space and adding machinery and lines, with 30 new jobs, supported by the Polish Investment Zone program.

Cardbox Packaging is investing over €14 million in its Wolfsberg site in Austria, adding premises, a new Heidelberg printing line, die-cutting machines and an off-line barrier coating line, with operations starting in Q4 2022.

Constantia Flexibles is investing over €80 million at its Teich factory in Austria to build a new rolling mill and lacquering line, raising aluminum foil output to 90,000 tons per year.

KSB Indonesia inaugurated an expansion of its Cibitung, West Java plant, growing floor space from 3,620 to 9,620 square metres with a €3.9 million (about Rp 60 billion) investment, targeting up to 505 new jobs.

Toyota Industries Electric Air Conditioning Compressor (Kunshan) raised capital by RMB 560 million to build a second phase producing electric air-conditioning compressors for new energy vehicles. The expansion is expected to add 1.2 million units of capacity.

Greiner Packaging announced a £10 million expansion programme at its Dungannon, Northern Ireland plastics packaging site as part of a goal to reach £100m annual turnover within three years.

Diageo will invest GBP 16 million at its Runcorn, England site to significantly upgrade the bottling line and expand warehousing capacity.

Airxcel broke ground on a 125,000-square-foot expansion of its Maxxair and Coleman-Mach facility in Wichita, Kansas, to centralize RV air conditioner production and warehousing. Phase 2 office expansion is set to begin in 2023.

BDR Thermea Group is scaling up capacity by 50% at its existing heat pump production sites in Mertzwiller, France, and Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain, and aims for 800,000 annual heat pumps by 2026.

BDR Thermea Group will open new heat pump production lines at its Apeldoorn (Netherlands) and Bassano del Grappa (Italy) sites, starting production from July 2023 alongside gas boilers.

Shige Fluid Control (Shanghai), a subsidiary of Emerson Electric, has put a new magnetic switch production line into operation in Songjiang, Shanghai, localising production of core components; the line had trial production from July 2022.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging is investing £15m in a new innovation and design hub and an additional factory at its expanded Glasgow site. The expansion will create more than 120 jobs and double output to over one billion pieces per year.

ORBIS Corporation broke ground on an expansion of its Urbana, Ohio manufacturing plant, adding 30% more space and more presses and tools for reusable totes, bulk containers and pallets. The expansion targets completion in Q2 2023 and plans 40-50 additional jobs over three years.

Lamipak is investing over $400 million to expand its Kunshan, China facility with an R&D centre and automated warehouse, raising site capacity from 12 billion to 39 billion packs per year, with commissioning expected by April 2023.