MGS Manufacturing announced a €7 million investment in a 20,000 sq ft extension to its Leixlip plant in Kildare, Ireland, housing cleanrooms, injection moulding machines and warehousing. The expansion is expected to create 100 new jobs.

Summit Packaging Systems broke ground on a 77,000-square-foot facility expansion in Racine, Wisconsin, a $20 million project expected to create about 145 jobs and to be completed within 12 months.

Parent company KSB Mining invested $44 million to expand GIW's slurry pump manufacturing plant in Grovetown, Georgia, which added a foundry expansion of 77,000 square feet and two new furnaces. A ribbon-cutting for the expanded plant was held on Wednesday, most likely 6 April 2022.

HUBER SE started construction of a new production hall of about 7,000 m² at its Berching, Germany headquarters, expanding its two existing halls for its 150th anniversary. The new hall is expected to relieve existing halls and allow other process areas to expand.

Papresa completed the rebuild of paper machine PM5 at its Errenteria mill in Spain, which produced its first jumbo roll of recycled containerboard on 29 March 2022. The machine's capacity rises to 205,000 tpy of testliner and fluting from 135,000 tpy of newsprint.

Planeta-Centr received a preferential loan of 246.8 million rubles from the Fund for Industrial Development to expand production of printed polymer packaging film and wicket bags in the Omsk region. The total modernization budget is 550.6 million rubles.

Klöckner Pentaplast committed to a multimillion-dollar expansion at its Beaver plant in Raleigh County, West Virginia, to add post-consumer recycled PET production for North America. The plant was previously named the company's Plant of the Year.

Cartró opened its second corrugated line in Tepotzotlán, State of Mexico, with an investment of over 600 million pesos. The company says the line doubles its production capacity and creates more than 720 direct and indirect jobs.

Danfoss Group company Eaton Fluid Power inaugurated a new hydrostatics production line at its Pune Pimpri campus to raise localisation and serve growing demand in the Indian market, especially agriculture.

Schumacher Packaging is expanding its Greven plant in the Airportpark FMO by about 14,000 square metres, investing around EUR 70 million and creating 200 jobs in 2021/2022. Annual corrugated board capacity at the site rises to 600 million square metres.

Permobil announced a 70,000-square-foot expansion of its Lebanon, Tennessee facility with a $15 million investment, expected to create 70 new jobs over five years. The expansion was expected to be finished in summer 2022.

Teqal moved into a new 4,000 sqm factory at Dube TradePort, KwaZulu-Natal, after its 2021 expansion funded by a R50m IDC financing facility, adding energy-efficient servo-driven equipment capable of up to 40 million jars per year.

Sensata Technologies held a groundbreaking for a new Green Certified building in Malaysia that adds 40,000 square feet, bringing total manufacturing space to nearly 275,000 square feet. The company plans to invest an additional RM510 million within five years.

Huhtamaki is switching its Alf, Germany site from plastics to smooth molded fiber packaging, adding capacity of up to 3.5 billion fiber products a year. The unit plans to replace more than 2,000 tons of plastic with fiber in 2022.

GIW Minerals, formerly Georgia Iron Works, is opening a 70,000-square-foot, $44 million expansion at its Grovetown, Georgia campus that is expected to add more than 100 jobs and triple production capacity. The grand opening is scheduled for April 6, 2022.

WestRock held a ceremonial groundbreaking for a $47 million expansion of its Claremont plant, adding 285,000 square feet to grow production of food, food service and beverage packaging, with 50 new jobs expected by end of 2023.

Mondi will invest €95 million at its Świecie containerboard mill in Poland to expand production and enhance product quality. The project includes rebuilds of PM2 and PM5, pulp mill upgrades, a recycled fiber line and energy recovery.

Soyuzgidravlika in Belgorod modernized and expanded production of gear oil pumps for Russian road and agricultural machinery makers. Capacity rose 35% to 250,000 units per year, and the RUB 118 million investment was partly financed by the Fund for Industrial Development (VEB.RF) with an RUB 80 million loan.

Klabin announced on 2022-03-18 an R$188 million investment to expand its corrugated paper packaging plant in Horizonte, in the Fortaleza metropolitan region. Capacity will rise from 20,000 to 100,000 tons per year and about 200 jobs will be created by 2023.

Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn is installing new syngas compressors to raise ammonia capacity at its Poland plant, a PLN 180 million (about $43.5 million) project with completion expected in H1 2023.

Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions granted O-I Canada Corp. a repayable C$3.5 million contribution to modernize its Montréal glass container plant. The project adds digital production equipment to increase recycled glass use and diverts up to 75,000 tonnes a year from landfill.

Darnel Inc. will invest about $16 million over five years to expand its Monroe, North Carolina plant, including a 60,000-square-foot warehouse and new production equipment, and create about 20 jobs. Union County and the City of Monroe approved incentive grants of up to $352,000 and $320,000.

Trivium Packaging will invest close to $40 million to add aluminum aerosol can and bottle capacity at its Youngstown, Ohio plant and its Itupeva, Brazil plant, announced 10 March 2022.

Glenroy Inc. announced on March 8, 2022 the addition of a Tandem Adhesive Laminator at its Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin facility to increase capacity for high-barrier laminations, recyclable pouches and stand-up pouches. The machine will be ready for production in spring 2022.

Stevanato Group's subsidiary OMPI of America agreed with BARDA, a US government agency, to receive up to about $95 million to expand planned vial manufacturing capacity in Fishers, Indiana. The aim is to strengthen US national defense and public health readiness.

Multivac has started a production hall extension of about 5,000 square metres at its Bozhurishte, Bulgaria site, costing around €5 million, with completion planned for fall 2022.

Coveris has installed a five-layer coextrusion extruder at its Montfaucon plant in France to increase capacity for shrink and stretch hoods with recycled content. The equipment was recently acquired and the site was redesigned to accommodate it.

Smurfit Kappa announced an expansion of its Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas plant with installation of a first corrugator in the state, creating 50 jobs. The article gives the investment as 26.3 million dollars in the body but 23.6 million in the headline.

Emerson completed a multimillion-dollar expansion of its engineering facility in Sidney, Ohio, adding 110,000 square feet of lab space for compressor and HVACR research and testing.

BROEN is expanding its production in Assens, Denmark with a new approximately 4,400 sqm building for its Mid-Range valve, sized DN50 to DN200. Construction starts spring 2022, with completion expected mid-2023.

Emerson expanded manufacturing capacity at its 63,000 sq ft Brantford, Ontario facility by adding production of AVENTICS pneumatic cylinders. The move shortens lead times for Canadian automation customers to one to five business days.

Wilkins Group has started work on a multimillion-pound, 50,000 sq ft extension of its Nottinghamshire headquarters to increase food packaging production capacity. The firm expects turnover to rise 20 per cent and says the extension could eventually create significant new jobs.

Bericap SC LLC plans to add several production lines to its Cowpens, South Carolina plant by June 2026 with a $19.7 million investment. The expansion targets North American demand in water, dairy, soft drink and sports beverage markets.

Damm has invested 25 million euros to expand its El Prat de Llobregat factory with an auxiliary building, a can packaging line and tank loading systems. The factory intends to create 50 new jobs during 2022, and the line starts in May.

Ball launched a new production line at its Naro-Fominsk plant in the Moscow Region that can make more than 4,000 can lids per minute. The investment exceeds 1.5 billion rubles, creates about 40 jobs, and is expected to add 1.85 billion lids a year by the end of 2022.

Trivium Packaging is investing $40 million to install new aluminum impact-extruded can and bottle lines at its Youngstown, Ohio and Itupeva, Brazil plants. The added capacity is expected in 2023 to meet demand from aerosol and beverage customers.

Singapore-based Jihua Industrial invested in a project to produce 500,000 valve sets a year in Ningjin County, Dezhou, Shandong, with a total investment of USD 16 million including USD 10 million for new CNC equipment. Annual sales are expected to reach about CNY 200 million.

LUFKIN Industries relocated the machine shop operations of its Don-Nan unit from Midland, Texas to an expanded facility in Claremore, Oklahoma, adding at least 70 full-time jobs. A ribbon cutting for the expanded facility took place on February 10, 2022.

Haizea Bilbao will expand its Port of Bilbao plant by 48,800 square metres to over 100,000 square metres, creating about 350 direct jobs. Expansion work begins before summer 2022 to meet a contract with Ørsted.

Evergreen is adding a 54,000-square-foot building to its Clyde, Ohio facility to house four food-grade rPET manufacturing lines. Completion is expected in June 2022, raising annual rPET capacity to 217 million pounds.

Alliance Compressors is investing $45 million over two years to expand its compressor assembly facility in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The announcement was made in February 2022.

Kaneka Corporation has decided to significantly increase production capacity for its PHBH biodegradable polymer Green Planet in Japan, with further capacity planned in Europe and America.

Stora Enso is investing EUR 8 million with new machinery at its Hylte, Sweden site to double formed fiber capacity from 50 to about 115 million units annually. The company will also recruit more than ten employees for formed fiber production.

Bison Bag Company will add 45,000 square feet to its facility in the Town of Lockport, Niagara County, New York, in a $4 million expansion expected to be completed this fall, with up to 10 new jobs committed.

Crown Holdings announced it will add a new food can production line at its Owatonna, Minnesota plant, adding about 40 jobs. Operations are expected to start in Q3 2022.

Swiss vacuum valve maker VAT Group held a groundbreaking for a 39,200 square meter factory extension in Penang, Malaysia. The project will create about 500 jobs and more than double the Malaysian operation's production capacity.

Samuel Packaging Systems Group announced on January 26, 2022 an $11.5 million expansion of its 203,300-square-foot production facility in Fort Mill, adding 20 jobs.

Klöckner Pentaplast announced it will add an extrusion line and two thermoformers for 15,000 metric tonnes of new rPET/PET capacity in North America. The site is still to be determined and the expansion is targeted to be fully operational in Q1 2024.

GN Solids Control's new Yutian factory project for capacity expansion, covering 78,000 m2, has entered its final construction stage and is expected to add capacity in 2022.

Scanfil plc is adding 2,200 m² to its Wutha-Farnroda factory in Germany, raising its size by 50%. The expansion is expected to be in production use in the second quarter of 2022.