Kanto Seiki announced a new building at its Eda factory in Maebashi, Gunma, to raise production capacity and productivity, with about ¥700 million investment and completion planned for August 2023.

WEG announced it will invest R$660 million over three years to build a new factory for industrial and electric mobility motors and expand existing plants in Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, completing the new plant by Q1 2024.

Owens-Illinois announced an R$300 million investment to expand its glass bottle factory in Vitoria de Santo Antao, Pernambuco, Brazil, creating 100 new jobs on top of 165 existing ones. A letter of intent was signed with the state government.

Ellerhold AG is building a new cardboard factory of almost 11,000 square metres at its Radebeul headquarters near Dresden, investing EUR 20 million. Completion is planned by the end of 2022, shifting the company's focus from large posters to packaging.

PCI Pharma Services has announced a significant expansion of its Tredegar, Wales site, adding two new facilities for solid oral-dose manufacturing and packaging of highly potent drugs. The article gives no investment value or jobs figure.

T/CCI Manufacturing will invest over $20 million to retool its Decatur, Illinois facility for electric compressor manufacturing, creating more than 50 new jobs and retaining 103 positions, backed by Illinois REV tax incentives.

Novolex is investing $10 million to expand plastic bag and polyethylene film recycling capacity at its North Vernon, Indiana facility, producing up to 28 million pounds of recycled content per year.

The Hershey Company will spend $90M to open two new production lines at its plant in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, increasing output by 25% and creating 300 new jobs.

Riviana Foods will invest $80.6 million to expand and renovate its processing and packaging plant in Memphis, Tennessee, adding about 80 full-time jobs and new production for ready-to-serve pouches. Construction is expected to begin in Q1 2023, with new capacity from Q1 2024.

Visy will invest A$48 million in major upgrades to its material recovery facilities on Gibson Island in Queensland. The three Queensland projects are expected to create 900 construction jobs and 300 operational jobs.

Rheem will invest over $40 million to expand its Mexicali plant with a new 98,000-square-foot industrial building and machinery for heat pump water heaters. The project is planned to create 500 direct jobs over the next five years.

Parker Hannifin is investing to expand its Gas Turbine Fuel Systems division plant in Mentor, Ohio, expected to create 60 full-time jobs and $4.6 million in annual payroll. The expansion also retains $14.8 million in existing payroll.

Panasonic will invest about EUR 145 million through 2026 at its Plzen, Czech Republic plant to expand air-to-water heat pump production. It aims to raise annual capacity to 500,000 units by the fiscal year ending March 2026.

Danfoss inaugurated a new production line at its Apodaca, Nuevo Leon plant to make ICF refrigeration valve stations, with capacity above 100,000 units per year. The line is expected to employ 150 people and double the plant's capacity.

The Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority approved a two-phase expansion of E/One's Niskayuna, New York site. Phase one is a $6 million, 27,250 sq ft manufacturing and R&D addition, and it is projected to create 30 jobs over five years.

The Satellite plant in Blagoveshchensk, Bashkortostan, which makes pipeline valves, is investing 340 million rubles in a new production workshop, expected to open in September and create 75 jobs and double production capacity.

Imaflex USA, the US arm of Montréal-based Imaflex, will invest up to $15 million and add 37 jobs for a building expansion and equipment at its Thomasville plant in Davidson County, North Carolina.

BillerudKorsnäs added the KM 7 board machine at its Gruvön mill in Värmland, Sweden, with an investment of SEK 5.7 billion, and shut down three older machines. The machine has a capacity of 550,000 tonnes per year and came online in October 2019.

Ypsomed is investing in additional high-volume production lines at its Schwerin plant in Germany, including added capacity for the YpsoMate auto-injector. Equipment for the expansion has already been ordered and is being installed.

KAP Industrial plans to invest R1.9 billion in expanding a plant in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The announcement was reported on 25 August 2022.

Grundfos broke ground on an expansion of its Indjija plant in Serbia, adding about 17,000 square metres and a new line to assemble trade circulators. The groundbreaking took place on August 23, 2022.

The Kirov plant Mayak received an approved loan from the Russian Fund for Industrial Development to move its gas compressor production to series output of 120 units per year. The total project budget is 206.1 million rubles and is expected to create 22 jobs.

Mauser Packaging Solutions has invested in a new multi-layer extrusion blow molding machine at its Littleborough, UK plant to make 220-litre drums with recycled resin. The investment expands capacity for its Infinity Series products.

The Mount Vernon Municipal Planning Commission approved Sanoh America's plan to add a 75,000 square foot addition, a 25% increase in floor space, to its Industrial Park Drive plant. The company plans to add 32 machines from an Alabama plant and expects to hire 60-plus people.

Festo is expanding its Technology Engineering Center at the Mason, Ohio campus, with the expansion expected to be complete by the end of September 2022.

Anduro Manufacturing plans to more than double its manufacturing footprint in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in the San Jose Commercial Park free zone, by late 2023 or early 2024. The expansion will also more than double in-house production capacity.

Mondi plans to convert the paper machine at its planned Duino mill to produce about 420,000 tonnes per year of recycled containerboard, at an estimated investment of around €200 million. The plan supports its Corrugated Solutions plants in Central Europe and Turkey.

Siemens Energy announced an expansion of its Querétaro facility, investing 105 million Mexican pesos to add high-power switch and high-voltage line manufacturing, with 200 direct jobs expected. The company says the plant will export to Central America, Chile, the US, Canada and the UK.

Tetra Pak will invest 437 million pesos to expand its packaging plant in Querétaro by adding one cutting production line and two lamination lines, raising capacity to 12.8 billion packages per year.

Greif will invest $13 million over five years to modernize and expand production capacity at its Taylors, Greenville County facility, which makes spiral tubes and cores from recycled paperboard, with completion expected in November.

WIKA's Pune site has commissioned two new Lean production lines for pressure gauge accessories such as overpressure protectors, throttles, cocks and adapters.

Weber Maschinenbau is investing almost ten million euro in expanding and modernizing its Neubrandenburg plant, starting with a 3,200 square meter logistics center and later expanding halls 5 and 6. Construction started after the building permit was officially presented.

Britvic officially opened a new canning line at its Rugby factory after investing £26.9 million and creating 20 new jobs. The line produces around 120,000 cans per hour and raises site capacity by about 20%.

Chemours is increasing its Opteon YF ultra-low GWP refrigerant production by 40% at its Ingleside, Texas facility through an $80 million project. The expansion is aimed at meeting growing customer demand.

Pepsi Bottling Ventures will invest $35 million to add a new bottling line at its Winston-Salem, North Carolina production facility, expected to be operational by the end of 2024. The line will serve Aquafina, Lipton Tea and Nature's Twist.

Thimm group expanded its folding box production capacity at its Wörrstadt, Germany site by installing a new production line, a few months after commissioning a new folder gluing machine.

Skjodt-Barrett Contract Packaging is expanding its Lebanon, Indiana facility with a 340,000 square foot addition, adding production lines and freezer space at an estimated $58 million capital investment. The expansion is expected to create 90 jobs.

Packaging manufacturer Thimm installed a new Bahmüller Turbox folder gluer and automated downstream equipment at its Wörrstadt site for EUR 4.2 million, to meet rising e-commerce packaging demand.

Toshiba Materials announced a new facility for silicon nitride balls on its Yokohama headquarters site, budgeted at over 5 billion yen (about US$38 million), raising capacity 50% versus fiscal 2021. Production is expected to start in November 2023.

Mondi is investing nearly €65 million to increase production capacity at three Consumer Flexibles plants in Korneuburg (Austria), Halle and Steinfeld (Germany) for sustainable pet food packaging. Work has already started at Korneuburg.

Crown Holdings will build a second high-speed aluminum beverage can line at its Parma, Italy facility, adding over one billion cans annually and 80 jobs. Commercial production is expected in Q1 2023.

Taizhou municipal environmental authority accepted the environmental impact assessment for Zhejiang Danong Industrial's expansion of high-pressure plunger pumps and pump systems at Hengjie Town, Luqiao District, on 19 July 2022.

Semperit will invest around EUR 110 million to add a highly automated hall at its Odry hose factory, adding 32 million metres of hydraulic hose capacity to almost 200 million metres per year, with operations planned from 2025.

Toyota Industries is expanding capacity for car air-conditioning electric compressors, including roughly doubling its Higashiura plant in Aichi with a new processing line starting October 2022. The company targets a global production system of 10 million units.

Hitachi Rail invested £8.5 million to build welding and painting facilities at its Newton Aycliffe factory, enabling complete fabrication of train carriage shells in the UK. Atlas Copco's distributor Wearside Pneumatics designed and installed the compressed air and argon pipework.

Bahrain's Labour Fund Tamkeen is supporting the expansion of United Paper Industries (Bahrain Pack), a packaging maker, which will add 7,000 tons of production capacity and raise exports over three years.

Ardagh Glass Packaging Africa announced a R1.5 billion expansion of its Nigel production facility southeast of Johannesburg, adding a new furnace and production lines. The investment more than doubles capacity and has created over 150 direct jobs.

Jamestrong Packaging is adding a new aluminium casting line at its Taree, NSW facility to make slugs for aerosol cans, with a reported investment of AUD 6 million. The line is planned for commissioning by October 2023 and will create 12 ongoing jobs.

Welch Packaging reported an expansion of its Indianapolis operations with a new 98-inch Fosber corrugator. The announcement was made in July 2022.

Atlas Copco will invest 70 million euros over three years in production capacity and expanded R&D facilities at its Wilrijk site in Antwerp, Belgium, including a smart factory extension and additional laboratories and production space.