Governor Alexei Dyumin and TBKO signed an agreement at SPIEF on June 16, 2022 to build a plant in the Uzlovaya special economic zone producing 18,000 gas cylinders per year. The investment is about 1.6 billion rubles and about 150 jobs will be created, with commissioning planned within three years.

Illinois-based Rockford Spring Company will invest $10.3 million to locate new manufacturing operations in an existing facility at 1100 Garrett Parkway in Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee, creating 62 jobs. The announcement was made on June 16, 2022.

Ball Corporation announced a new aluminum can manufacturing plant in Chilca, Peru, with capacity of over 1 billion beverage cans a year. Start-up is planned for 2023 and the plant will create more than 100 direct jobs.

JDR Cable Systems reached final agreement under the UK government's OWMIS scheme for financial support for its £130m subsea cable factory in Cambois near Blyth, Northumberland. Construction starts in summer 2022 with opening planned for 2024 and 171 jobs expected.

DS Smith is launching a 37,000 m² corrugated packaging plant in Bełchatów with annual capacity of 180 million m² at the end of June 2022. The project cost PLN 250 million and created more than 200 jobs.

Canpack marked the steel framing completion of its 862,000 sq ft aluminium beverage can plant in Monroe Township, Muncie, Indiana, with plant operations expected in Q4 2022. The $380 million facility is expected to employ about 345 people.

Shengu Group broke ground on its compressor supporting industrial park and reciprocating machine production test base in Shenyang, a 160 million yuan project expected to start production by end-2022.

Mitsubishi Electric will invest about 2.2 billion Indian rupees through its subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric India to build a factory manufacturing inverters and FA control system products, expected to start operations in December 2023.

Pratt Industries, through subsidiary Pratt Corrugated Holdings, will locate a Regional Manufacturing & Innovation Center in Cedar Hill, Texas. The company will invest more than $200 million and employ 150 full-time workers.

Sulzer opened a 10,500 sq ft service centre in Vadodara, Gujarat, India for repairs, upgrades and parts manufacturing of pumps, steam turbines, compressors and expanders. The site has added CNC and balancing equipment.

LiangGu Valve Group is preparing a fully intelligent special valve factory in Wenzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone with annual output of 100,000 sets and a total investment of 668.78 million yuan. The project has submitted a feasibility report and a land application, and construction is expected to take two years.

Canpack announced a new aluminum caps factory in Manaus, with construction scheduled to begin in 2023. The investment value was not stated.

Eastey, a shrink-packaging equipment maker owned by Engage Technologies, moved its sealer and tunnel manufacturing into a 50,000 sq ft building in Big Lake, Minnesota, announced June 1, 2022.

JOST Brasil inaugurated a new 3,500 square meter industrial plant in Campinas, São Paulo, with about R$11 million of investment to expand capacity and develop new products for buses, trucks and implements. The opening took place on June 1, 2022.

Haitian International is investing around EUR 100 million in a 365,000 m2 plant in Ruma, Serbia, to produce up to 2,500 injection molding machines annually, with construction starting in winter 2022 and completion scheduled for early 2025.

Manna Capital Partners will build and operate an aluminum can sheet rolling mill and recycling center in Los Lunas, New Mexico, in alliance with Ball Corporation, which will sign a long-term supply agreement and take a minority equity stake in the mill.

Smurfit Kappa has started construction of its first corrugated packaging plant in Morocco, a 25,000 m2 facility in Rabat, with an investment of over €35 million and about 300 direct and indirect jobs. The first stone was laid on 25 May 2022.

Ashirvad Pipes of Aliaxis Group agreed with the Telangana government to build a greenfield plant with a Rs 500 crore investment to make plastic pipes, fittings and accessories. The project is expected to create over 500 jobs.

Lamipak has started construction of its second Indonesian factory, an aseptic packaging plant in Cikande, Serang, Banten. The plant is designed for 18 billion packs per year in two phases, with 9 billion packs targeted by Q4 2023.

Sartorius is expanding its UK presence with a new 58,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Havant, Hampshire, to produce downstream processing equipment for injectable drug manufacture.

Marotta Controls opened a 50,000 sq ft Parsippany, New Jersey office and development lab, moving executive and business functions there while keeping production in Montville.

EcoPacking is building a 10,000 m2 plant in Lurín, Peru, to make plastic corrugated (cartonplast) boxes for agro-exporters, with inauguration planned for July 2022.

Ball Corporation has started construction of a new aluminium beverage can plant in Pilsen, Czech Republic, investing €170 million (CZK 4.5 billion) and creating up to 200 jobs. The plant is scheduled to start operating in early 2023.

Shengxing Co. (002752.SZ) announced that it will establish subsidiary Shengxing (Ya'an) Packaging in the Ya'an economic development zone, Sichuan, to build an aluminum beverage can production project. The total estimated investment is about 180 million yuan, announced May 10, 2022.

Korean piping manufacturer COSMOIND Co. will invest more than $12.8 million to build its first North American campus, a 128,000 sq ft facility in Middlesex, Nash County, North Carolina, creating 168 jobs. The announcement was made May 10, 2022.

M&M Carnot has begun building industrial transcritical CO2 refrigeration systems in a new leased 25,000 sq ft factory in Federalsburg, Maryland, with a further 25,000 sq ft planned.

Nashville Box has started manufacturing at its 100,000-square-foot corrugated box plant in Lebanon, Tennessee, after installing converting lines, announced May 2022.

Zhejiang Niudun Fluid Technology's new plant in Yongjia, Wenzhou, with total investment above 500 million yuan, entered pile foundation construction and is expected to partly start production by end-2022.

SÜDPACK officially opened its new printing and finishing plant in Kłobuck, Poland, on May 5 and 6, 2022, on a site of over 14,000 m2 that was previously Bahpol.

Girard Equipment has established a new all-in-one headquarters in Vero Beach, Florida, housing its expanded foundry, machine shop, assembly lines and offices. The move is presented as a way to gain efficiencies and keep prices stable amid inflation.

NETZSCH Pumps North America opened a new Houston facility to assemble and test its positive displacement pumps and downhole pumps and grinders for regional oil and gas and water treatment customers. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was scheduled for May 4, 2022.

Visy announced a new A$150 million corrugated box factory at Hemmant, Queensland, to serve the state's agricultural sector. The projects together are expected to create over 900 construction jobs and 300 remanufacturing jobs.

Visy announced a A$500 million glass food and beverage container recycling and manufacturing facility in Yatala, Queensland, relocating its glass remanufacturing from South Brisbane, expected in 2025. The plant will produce about 1 billion glass containers a year.

Guangdong GDA Valve Technology began construction on its GDA Digital Intelligent Manufacturing Base in Fusha Town, Zhongshan, for R&D and manufacturing of patented valves for smart heaters and ovens. The total investment is 210 million yuan, with expected annual output value of 400 million yuan.

AMD Medicom announced a new subsidiary, Manikheir Canada, to produce nitrile gloves in London, Ontario. The investment is over CAD 120 million and is expected to create 145 direct jobs, backed by an Ontario government purchasing commitment.

KSB opened a 5,000 square meter plant in the Indigo industrial park in New Moscow, funded with about 750 million rubles of foreign investment. It expects to create 110 jobs and produce about 700 pumps in 2019 and 1,200 in 2020.

East Jordan Plastics, a horticultural container maker, will invest over $44 million in a new 255,500 sq ft facility in Lyons, Toombs County, Georgia, creating 80 jobs.

NSI, a Tigard, Oregon supplier of gas and chemical equipment to semiconductor makers, is moving to a newly built 62,000 square foot plant in Sherwood, quadrupling its factory space this year.

Van Genechten Packaging (VGP) opened a second plant in Komárom, Hungary, with a 10,000 m2 production building, creating more than 100 local jobs. Production was starting in April 2022, about 14 months after the decision.

Link Manufacturing opened its 50,000 square foot Plant 4 manufacturing and training facility on its Sioux Center, Iowa campus. The plant is now the manufacturing core for its air management and suspension control products and adds 50 local staff.

Rand-Whitney held a groundbreaking for a 384,000 square foot packaging facility in Boylston, Massachusetts, designed and built with PROCON. When fully operational it will be able to produce 300 million boxes annually.

Tark inc., a maker of pumps and cooling systems, held a ribbon cutting on April 14, 2022 for a new 50,735 square foot facility on Byers Road in Miamisburg, Ohio, moving from Washington Township. The site adds 20,000 square feet of production space and may create up to 3 new positions.

APRIL Group is investing IDR33.4 trillion in a sustainable paperboard packaging facility at its Pangkalan Kerinci operations in Riau province, Sumatra. The mill will produce 1.2 million tons of folding box board annually; construction was marked with a ceremony in April 2022.

Pneumostroymashina plans to build a new plant in Yekaterinburg to produce high-end hydraulic motors and pumps, with a estimated cost of 5 billion rubles. Output is expected to rise from 3,500 to 12,000 units per month.

Saica Group started corrugated packaging production at its new 360,000 square-foot plant in Hamilton, Ohio, its first U.S. corrugated plant. The plant has capacity over 1,500 MSF/year and is part of a $800 million U.S. investment plan; about 500 jobs are expected.

Daikin Air-conditioning India, a subsidiary of Daikin Industries, held a foundation laying ceremony on 7 April 2022 to start construction of its third manufacturing unit in India at Sri City. The factory is part of Daikin's Fusion 2025 growth strategy.

Ardagh Metal Packaging submitted a full planning application for a $200 million beverage can plant at Global Point, Newtownabbey near Belfast, expected to create about 160 direct jobs. The plant is planned to be operational in 2023.

Atlantis-Pak, a major Russian packaging maker, opened a new plant in Rostov-on-Don producing film for meat, sausage, fish and cheese products. The investment was 1.9 billion rubles, including a 500 million ruble preferential loan.

Saica Pack started up its first US box plant, a 360,000 sq ft greenfield facility in Hamilton, Ohio, in April 2022. It currently runs one shift with 32 employees and targets 140m sqm of corrugated board per year by 2029.

Georgia-based Pratt Industries leased 1 million square feet in Hillwood's High Point 67 business park in Cedar Hill, Texas, for a new plant and shipping center. The company plans to create 150 jobs and invest more than $200 million.