Logson Group will build a new sheet feeding facility for Board24 at the Euro-Central business park in Motherwell, Scotland, with a new BHS Corrugated line and material handling system. Completion is expected in December 2023.

GEA began construction of a 85,000 square foot repair, logistics, assembly, production and training facility in Janesville, Wisconsin. The investment is about USD 20 million, over 70 jobs are expected, and opening is scheduled for late 2023.

Flex Américas opened a BoPET film recycling plant at its Altamira industrial complex in Tamaulipas, Mexico, with state government officials present. The project was completed a few weeks before the November 3, 2022 ceremony.

Visy plans a new A$150 million corrugated box factory at Hemmant in Queensland to support the state's agricultural sector. The plan was announced on November 3, 2022.

Edwards, part of Atlas Copco, is building a new dry vacuum pump factory for semiconductor manufacturers in Genesee County, New York. Phase one is a $127 million project; the total over seven years is $319 million, creating about 600 jobs.

IMI Saudi Industry, a subsidiary of IMI Critical Engineering, opened a 5,000 sq m valve factory in Dammam in November 2022. The plant makes butterfly and ball valves for oil and gas, petrochemical, power, water and hydrogen markets, with choke and control valves planned for 2023.

Kruger Packaging completed construction of its $114 million automated corrugated packaging plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, which is starting up and is expected to create nearly 150 jobs.

Metso Outotec has opened a new pump assembly plant in Lima, Peru, to serve growing demand for large mining pumps in South America with shorter lead times. The plant is customized for production of large MD Series pumps.

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems has started construction of a new highly automated production facility at its Acuña, Mexico campus to make GSBC and GSAT brake control and air treatment systems, with initial occupancy slated for November 2023.

Jiangsu Suyan Valve Group is investing and building the Jiangsu Maike Special Valve Technology project with a planned total of 1 billion yuan, covering 50,000 square meters of plant space and capacity of 300,000 special valves a year; construction began in April 2022 and trial operation started in October 2022.

Visy plans a glass packaging facility at its Yatala site in Queensland, Australia, able to produce up to 1 billion glass bottles and jars a year with 70% recycled content. The value is stated as $500m, with currency inferred as AUD.

Middle East Paper Company (Mepco) has started preparations for a paperboard mill in Saudi Arabia costing SAR 1.5 billion ($399 million), with 400,000 tonnes annual capacity and production expected within 33 months.

IMI Critical Engineering officially opened a new 16,000 m2 factory in Sardinia on 18 October 2022 to manufacture valves and hydraulic actuating systems for petrochemical applications along with IMI VIVO electrolysers; the 45,000 m2 site employs over 200 people.

Midea Group began construction of a heat pump production and R&D base at Clivet's site in Feltre, Veneto, with a €60 million investment. The base is expected to start operating in the second quarter of 2024.

Kamakshi Südpack inaugurated a flexible packaging manufacturing plant at Bavla near Ahmedabad, India, with a Rs 200 crore investment and 24,000 MTPA installed capacity. The plant is expected to be fully operational by January 2023.

Pietro announced a new factory in Koga, Fukuoka, with about ¥6 billion investment, planned to start operating in autumn 2025, consolidating production of dressings and retort sauces.

Bocar Group opened a new plant in Huntsville, Alabama, its first in the U.S., with a $176 million investment in land and construction, 323,000 sq ft of production space and 420 employees expected by end of 2022.

Novelis has started construction of a $2.5bn aluminium recycling and rolling facility in Bay Minette, Alabama, which is scheduled for commissioning in mid-2025 and will initially process 600,000t of finished aluminium a year. The company expects to create up to 1,000 jobs.

Mold-Tek Packaging plans a co-located plant in Panipat to serve Birla Paints, estimated at Rs30 crore and due operational by end-2023, with IML container production planned for northern India.

Lehry Instrumentation and Valves has established a ₹30-crore non-ferrous production facility at Gummudipoondi Industrial Estate near Chennai to make lead-free brass valves, employing 100 people.

Canpack will invest R$710 million to build an aluminum can plant in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, with capacity of 1.3 billion units per year. Construction is expected to start at the end of 2022 and finish by Q1 2024.

Germany's Lauda Ultracool opened a new production plant of nearly 5,000 m2 in Terrassa, Catalonia, with a €7 million investment and 30 new jobs, including an R&D centre. The plant is expected to triple the company's turnover by 2026; the project was supported by ACCIÓ.

Ampo Poyam Valves held the opening ceremony of its new valve manufacturing and servicing plant, AMPO Arabia, in Dammam 2nd Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. The plant extends its main valve factory in Spain and aims to serve local projects closer to customers.

PT Inocycle Technology Group completed construction of a new factory building in Medan, Indonesia, to produce recycled polyester staple fiber from PET bottle waste. Commercial operations are expected by end of March 2023, adding about 15% to total capacity.

Pratt Industries opened a new advanced corrugated box manufacturing plant in Park City, Kansas, a $200 million investment creating 58 new jobs in Sedgwick County, with about 300 full-time jobs cited for the facility.

Munters relocated operations from Buena Vista, Virginia to a new 34,000 m2 factory in Daleville, Virginia with twice the manufacturing capacity and more than 150 new jobs, its largest plant in the Americas.

Visy began operations at its $25 million glass beneficiation plant in Gawler, South Australia, announced in October 2022. The plant will recycle 150,000 tonnes of post-consumer glass each year.

RP Masiello began a design/build project for Unified2 Global Packaging in Sutton, Massachusetts, comprising two steel-frame warehouse and manufacturing buildings totaling 1 million square feet with 160 loading docks.

Crane inaugurated its new 10,000 square meter Engineered Check Valves factory in Satara, Maharashtra, India, which directly employs about 100 people and serves chemical, oil and gas, petrochemical and energy customers.

Meggitt plans a €35 million, 14,500 square meter factory at the Baratonnière site in Avrillé near Angers to replace its current plant, with the move expected at the beginning of 2025.

Grundfos held the opening ceremony for a €20 million water pump plant in Inđija, Serbia, with 17,600 square meters of space, all production aimed at export, and headcount rising from 800 to about 1,050.

Hubei Taihe Petrochemical Equipment broke ground on a smart manufacturing plant for ultra-low temperature valves on 90.36 mu of land in Zigui, Hubei, with planned investment of 286 million yuan and completion expected in October 2023.

Ellerhold AG is building a new 12,000 m² cardboard factory at its headquarters in Radebeul, Germany, with about EUR 20 million invested in the building and machinery. Completion is expected by end of 2022, and the plant will shift the company's focus toward packaging production.

Kruger Packaging has completed construction of its 400,000-plus square foot Elizabethtown plant in Kentucky, costing $114 million, and started producing corrugated paper.

Taiwanese firm Richy, with Egypt's Al Arabi Group, plans an air conditioner compressor plant in the Kom Abu Radi industrial zone in Beni Suef, Egypt, with total investment of $33 million and a capacity of 6 million compressors per year. Production is planned to start in 2024.

German containerboard maker Progroup plans a new corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Cessalto, Italy, next to packaging maker Ondulkart, with an investment of more than 90 million euros and around 65 new jobs. Construction is planned to start in spring 2023 with production by the end of 2024.

BorgWarner Morse Systems inaugurated a 83,600 sq ft plant at Gudapakkam near Tiruvallur, India, making engine control, variable cam timing and motion control devices, initially for Hyundai Motor India.

BorgWarner Morse Systems India opened its second plant in Tiruvallur District near Chennai, India, for variable camshaft timing systems. Initial capacity is 300,000 units on a single line, with plans to reach 3 million per year within four years.

CANPACK is building its second U.S. aluminum beverage can body plant in Muncie, Indiana, on 139 acres in Monroe Township. The $380 million project is expected to create 345 jobs by 2023, with potential to reach 425 jobs and $490 million by 2025.

Papier- und Kartonfabrik Varel is in preliminary planning for a plant in Wilhelmshaven on the former Uniper coal power plant site, producing ultra-light corrugated board papers with a capacity of 600,000 tonnes per year. An investment decision is still pending.

GEA celebrated the opening of a new food processing and packaging Technology Center in Frisco, Texas, in mid-September 2022.

Bosch Rexroth will build a new 42,000 sq m plant in Queretaro, Mexico, investing about 160 million euros to make mobile hydraulics and factory automation components for North America. Opening is planned for mid-2023, with over 900 jobs after full commissioning in 2027.

DS Smith launched a new state-of-the-art sustainable packaging facility in Belchatow, Poland, on 15 September 2022, part of a combined £100m investment with its new Italian site. The site is expected to help create part of more than 250 new roles across both countries.

Amcor has opened a new innovation center in Jiangsu province, East China, with a $10 million investment. It is the company's second-biggest innovation center after North America.

Koksan PET Packaging Industry will build a new chemically recycled PET (R-PET) plant in Turkey with capacity of 300 tons per day using its patented process. The plant is expected to be operational by the end of 2023.

Taiwanese hydraulic valve maker Winner Hydraulics is building a brand-new factory to increase production capacity more than five times in coming years. Its Scandinavian partner WTB Control is expected to grow with it.

Nelipak Healthcare Packaging will build a new flexible packaging production site in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, its first in the Americas, with about $20 million capital investment and roughly 80 new jobs.

Visy plans a A$500 million glass food and beverage container recycling and manufacturing facility in Yatala, Queensland. The three Queensland projects are expected to create 900 construction jobs and 300 operational jobs.

T/CCI Manufacturing will convert a 200,000-square-foot former Borg-Warner factory in Decatur, Illinois into a center making cooling devices for electric vehicles, with more than $20 million of investment and 50 added jobs. The company will also set up a climate innovation center with Richland Community College.

Korea Seal Line and Ulsan City signed an investment memorandum of understanding for a new metal bellows seal factory in the GW General Industrial Complex in Ulju-gun. The 7.8 billion KRW project is scheduled to begin construction in February 2023 and finish in October.