Korean automotive thermal management maker Hanon Systems announced a $40 million factory in Statesboro, Georgia, to supply HVAC parts to Hyundai and Kia near Hyundai's EV plant, hiring at least 160 people with operations targeted for May 2024.

Mexican industrial company Metelmex announced a $5 million investment to build a new plant in Monclova, Coahuila, serving Mexican and US markets with heavy-industry products for the rail sector, creating 485 jobs within two years.

UN1F1ED² Global Packaging, a Kraft-owned company, has a roughly 300,000-square-foot building adjacent to the Rand-Whitney plant in Boylston, which it intends to use for storage. It makes foam, air pack and wood packaging components.

Rand-Whitney Container, owned by The Kraft Group, opened a 384,000-square-foot corrugated box plant in Boylston, Massachusetts, backed by a $125 million investment. The plant can make up to 300 million boxes a year.

Egypt's Trade and Industry Minister inaugurated the first phase of a water pump factory built by Xylem, worth EGP 300 million ($9.7 million), on 22 May 2023. The plant will serve Egypt and export half its output to the Middle East and Africa.

Lennox began operations at its third plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, investing $36 million and creating 600 jobs. The plant will make residential air conditioning and heating products, about 3,000 units per day.

SKF is investing SEK 50 million in a new manufacturing site in Tangier, Morocco, to produce magnetic bearings for turbomachinery and high-speed applications. Operations are set to ramp up in the second quarter of 2023.

Demon (Zhejiang) Gas Equipment Manufacturing held a groundbreaking ceremony on 20 May 2023 in Pinghu, Zhejiang, for a plant on over 20 mu of land. The 105 million yuan project will produce 5,000 intelligent industrial gas compressors a year.

Danfoss has opened a 7,000 square meter green refrigerants compressor laboratory in Tianjin for research and testing of commercial compressors, with a total investment of 140 million yuan. The opening was reported in the week before May 17, 2023.

Omni-Pac opened a new 60,000 sq ft packaging site in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, after more than GBP 3 million of investment. The company plans to create 100 more jobs and double turnover over three to five years.

Compack Cartons officially opened a new GBP 13.5 million packaging operation in Livingston, Scotland, following an investment by McLaren Packaging. The investment creates 26 jobs and safeguards 59 existing jobs.

ELGI Sauer Compressors Ltd, a joint venture of Elgi Equipments and Germany's Sauer Compressors Group, opened a 50,000 sq ft plant in Kallappalayam, Coimbatore, with an investment of ₹40 crore. It will make high-pressure compressors, pressure-reducing stations and portable breathing air compressors.

GazEnergoKomplekt is building an oil, gas and energy equipment plant in Glinishchevo, Bryansk district, Russia, with an investment of 2.1 billion rubles. The plant is expected to employ 600 people by 2025 and will make tanks, pressure regulators and shut-off valves.

Ambev plans a new sustainable container glass plant in Carambei, Parana, Brazil, with an investment of 870 million reais ($154m) using recycled glass. HORN Glass Industries is the contractor, and operations are expected from 2025.

India's Yash Pakka has announced it will set up its first international plant in Guatemala to make compostable sugarcane bagasse packaging and moulded fibre products. It has signed a memorandum of understanding with sugar mills to supply bagasse.

TekniPlex Consumer Products plans a 200,000 sq ft specialty molded fiber manufacturing facility in Ohio, scheduled to start operations in early 2024. It is the company's eighth molded fiber facility and follows three recent acquisitions.

Mitsubishi Electric India signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu government for a Rs 1,891 crore air-conditioner and compressor factory in Peruvoyal Village, Thiruvallur District, on a 52-acre site. The plant is targeted to start production in October 2025 and create more than 2,000 jobs.

Danfoss signed an agreement with the Haiyan county government in Zhejiang to begin building its second campus there. The local government funds the facility, which Danfoss leases and equips itself.

Food and drinks packaging supplier Max Fame Paper Products agreed a new 10-year lease on a 21,500 sq ft logistics building at Carrington Gateway in Greater Manchester. The site will serve as a centrally located base to nearshore services for UK clients.

Cascades began production at its converted Bear Island, Virginia mill, which has annual capacity of 465,000 short tons of 100% recycled containerboard and 180 permanent jobs.

Rand-Whitney held a ribbon-cutting for its new 384,000 square foot corrugated packaging facility in Boylston, Massachusetts, costing $120 million. The plant has a BHS corrugator and can produce 300 million boxes annually.

Progroup held the topping out ceremony for its new corrugated sheetfeeder plant at Petersberg/Höheischweiler, Germany, with production scheduled to start in the first half of 2024. The company is investing more than EUR 90 million, and the plant will supply board sheets directly to neighbour G&G Preißer.

Ypsomed held the groundbreaking for a new production facility in the Changzhou National Hi-tech District on 25 April 2023, investing over CHF 35 million in a first phase. Production is expected to start in the second half of 2024.

SIG Combibloc inaugurated its first Mexican plant in the Aerotech industrial park in Querétaro, built with a €73 million investment. The plant will initially produce up to 500 million containers per year and create 200 jobs, rising to 1,200 million containers by 2024.

German packaging producer August Faller plans to add a new folding carton plant in Horsens, Denmark, investing between EUR 10 million and EUR 15 million. The plant will expand its folding carton production in Denmark.

Rengo subsidiary TRICOR Packaging & Logistics will build a new automated corrugated board plant in Goch, North Rhine-Westphalia, with a total investment of about EUR 170 million. Completion is targeted for July 2025.

SIG has started operations at a new aseptic carton packaging plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with a total investment of 73 million euros. The plant creates more than 200 jobs and will serve North American markets.

Canadian packaging firm Kruger has opened its first US corrugated plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, a $142 million facility with high automation. It is expected to employ 150 people and produce 2.4 billion sq ft of recycled corrugated boxes a year when fully operational.

Torque Valves, an Ahmedabad-based control valve maker, is planning a larger centralized manufacturing unit in Ahmedabad to double its annual output. The company currently runs three plants in Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Pune producing about 2,500 valves a month.

Bizerba opened a new plant in Valjevo, Serbia, to expand production of retail scales, with an investment of about EUR 21 million and room for up to 300 employees. The first scales were delivered in February 2023, and 55 employees already work there.

Auramarine Asia held the grand opening of its new factory in Jinshan, Shanghai, on April 19, 2023. The site expands the company's production capacity for the marine, power and process industries.

Trelleborg has decided to invest SEK 300 million in a new production plant for sealing solutions in India, to be built on land acquired in the Bengaluru area. Production is set to start in the first half of 2026, raising capacity by more than 60 percent.

Macfarlane Packaging unveiled a £1.3m packaging innovation lab at its North West Regional Distribution Centre in Heywood, Greater Manchester, built by MC Construction. The 5,000 sq ft facility includes design, digital print and testing equipment and a packaging automation showroom.

TCCI Manufacturing is developing an EV Innovation Hub in Decatur, Illinois, combining an EV components production line, a climatic testing centre and a training academy. The project is part of a public-private partnership with the state and local schools.

Eviosys opened a new eco-friendly plant in Thailand producing 85g drawn aluminium cans for the local wet pet food market.

Louth-based corrugated packaging maker P.H. Mountain Corrugated opened a new 9,000 sq ft factory after pandemic-delayed construction began in summer 2022.

Chinese company Jiaxipera inaugurated a US$60 million plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, to manufacture high-efficiency refrigeration compressors. The plant will create 600 jobs and produce 6 million compressors per year.

Rusken Packaging is opening a new 440,000 square foot facility in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, expected to start running boxes in early May 2023. The site houses a BHS 110-inch corrugator and other converting equipment.

Aliaxis announced plans to build a €48 million greenfield manufacturing plant in Telangana, India, creating about 500 jobs, with production expected in 2024.

Magnum Venus Products (MVP) bought a facility and 17 acres of land in East Tennessee, consolidating its corporate office and Knoxville assembly and service center. The expected $20 million investment over five years is estimated to create 100 jobs.

Ardagh Metal Packaging's planned £150 million can factory at Global Point Business Park in Newtownabbey has been delayed by at least a year, with construction now unlikely before 2024. The plant was expected to create around 160 permanent jobs.

NBM group opened a pipeline valve and fittings plant in Veliky Novgorod through its subsidiary T-ARM LLC. The first phase cost 400 million rubles and plans up to 100 new jobs.

Haier and Highly broke ground on a joint venture air-conditioner compressor production base in Zhengzhou Economic-Technological Development Zone. The project has a total investment of 2 billion yuan and plans 15 million compressors per year, with phase one due in first half of 2024.

IMI's Norgren China opened a automated pneumatic and fluid control manufacturing base in the Wujiang Development Zone. The project has a total investment of US$30 million and a 2025 sales target of 1.4 billion yuan.

Daikin has started building a new heat pump factory in Poland with a total investment of 300 million euros. Production is due to start in July 2024 and the plant is expected to create 1,000 jobs by 2025.

ABB is constructing a $100 million, 275,000-square-foot plant and offices in New Berlin, Wisconsin, adding 100 jobs, with opening scheduled for fall 2024 as part of about $170 million US investment.

Millennium Group International Holdings launched a new paper-based packaging manufacturing facility in Hung Yen Province, Vietnam, producing color boxes and packaging for sports, electronics, toys and consumer goods.

LiangGu Valve Group is building a valve casting base in Longquan with investment over 100 million CNY, covering 50 acres, targeting 15,000 tons of valve castings a year, with completion planned for 2024.

LiangGu Valve Group plans a special valve production facility in Longwan Airport New Area, Wenzhou, with total investment over 300 million CNY, targeted for operation in 2025 with an annual output value above one billion yuan.

INOXCVA began construction of a 30-acre greenfield cryogenic equipment manufacturing facility at Savli in Vadodara, Gujarat, with an investment of INR 200 crore, able to fabricate over 20,000 tonnes of stainless steel equipment per year.