US heater maker Watlow inaugurated its fourth Mexican plant in El Marqués, Querétaro, investing 420 million pesos to expand electric heater and sensor production and employing 1,315 people there.

Italian metal packaging maker Fanti USA started building renovations for its first U.S. production facility at the Half Moon Industrial Park in Weirton, West Virginia, on March 30, 2022. The $30 million project is expected to create an initial 40 full-time jobs.

Italian packaging company Gruppo Fanti held a groundbreaking for its first US production site in Weirton, Brooke County, West Virginia, investing $30 million to make metal packaging containers and creating 40 jobs.

Frucor Suntory selected Queensland for a new multi-beverage manufacturing facility in Swanbank, Ipswich, with a stated value of over $400 million and about 160 long-term jobs.

Sulzer opened a new service center in Vadodara, Gujarat, offering repairs, upgrades and parts manufacturing for pumps, steam turbines and compressors across 10,500 sq ft.

Haskell converted a vacant warehouse in Plainfield, Illinois into the Lincolnway facility for Diageo, with two high-speed can lines capable of 25 million cases of RTD products per year.

Quality Valve is relocating its corporate headquarters and distribution warehouse to a new Mobile site at 1541 East I-65 Service Road South, a million-dollar investment giving 70 percent more space.

COFCO Packaging (00906) plans a two-piece can factory in Shenyang with total investment of about RMB 600 million. Phase one is expected to start construction in the first half of 2022 with 1 billion cans a year capacity, and phase two adds 700 million cans a year.

Majesty Packaging Systems built a new facility in Brazil through its subsidiary Majesty America do Sul Embalagens, to be operational by mid-2022, producing actuators, dip tubes and aerosol valves and pumps.

Jiaxi Bella Compressor is building phase one of a production line in Jiaxing's Nanhu District, Zhejiang, for refrigerator and EV air-conditioning compressors and inverter controllers. The project has a reported investment of 300 million yuan and a construction period from Q4 2021 to Q4 2022.

J. Schmalz began manufacturing vacuum components and complete vacuum systems for automation and manual handling at its new China headquarters in Taicang on 2022-03-18. The site sits on a plot of about 27,000 square meters acquired in early 2020.

Artigraf, a corrugated cardboard manufacturer, is installing a new plant in Torreón, Coahuila, investing $7.5 million (possibly up to $10 million over later stages) and creating 250 direct jobs. The 20,000 square meter complex is under construction and expected to start operating in about 10 months.

Hanon Systems is launching a new plant in Hubei, China, to manufacture HVAC modules for electrified vehicles, with about 6,000 square meters of space. Production is expected to begin in early 2023 and create about 100 local jobs.

Niagara Bottling plans a new production facility in Opelika's Northeast Industrial Park, Alabama, with an estimated $112 million investment and 50 initial jobs, as announced by Governor Kay Ivey.

Samsung Electronics plans a 15.88 billion rupee (about $207.8 million) refrigerator parts plant in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, Tamil Nadu, under an MoU signed with the state government, with capacity of at least 8 million compressor units annually.

Samsung will set up a compressor plant at an outlay of Rs 1,588 crore on 22 acres near Chennai, with capacity of eight million units a year. The compressors will supply Samsung refrigerators and exports. Samsung India signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu government.

Ex-pack Corrugated Cartons downsized its plan for a large corrugated plant after construction costs rose over 40 percent. It bought a land block in Sapugaskanda for Rs.240.62 million and will build a 150,000 sq ft plant there, 2.3 km from its current factory.

The Circular Plastics Australia joint venture officially opened its A$45 million PET recycling plant in Albury-Wodonga on 11 March 2022, backed by up to A$16.5 million in CEFC debt finance. The plant recycles about 30,000 tonnes of PET a year and employs about 40 people.

Crown Holdings announced it will build a new beverage can facility in Peterborough, United Kingdom, with construction starting Q2 2022 and first production in Q2 2023, employing 280 people.

Kruger Packaging plans to invest $114.2 million in an operation in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, producing corrugated boxes for the food and beverage sector, creating 150 jobs. The deal was supported by an LG&E and KU Opportunity Kentucky grant.

Ball Corporation is building a new aluminium beverage can plant of 56,000 square metres at Segro Park Kettering Gateway, UK, expected to produce about 1 billion cans in its first year and create 200 local jobs.

Jiangsu Fujie Equipment Manufacturing broke ground on 2022-03-04 on a Phase II factory and office building in Wujiang District, Suzhou, with about 500 million yuan of investment. After completion it is to produce 6,000 sets of oil and gas wellhead devices and 40,000 valves per year.

Edwards announced a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona, to support North American semiconductor demand for vacuum and abatement solutions. The facility is expected to create about 200 jobs.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is investing in a new PET plastic recycling facility in Victoria, Australia, built through a cross-industry partnership. The company is also expanding recycling capacity in Indonesia and Europe.

Coster Group has started production at a new 60,000 sq ft facility in Neemrana, Rajasthan, making perfumery pumps, spray pumps and aerosol valves. The EUR 10M investment in plant and machinery adds capacity for the Indian market.

Zerhusen Kartonagen is building a second plant in the Niedersachsenpark industrial area in Rieste, with a 15,000 square metre production hall and about 50 jobs, with construction starting in autumn and operation planned for summer 2023.

Diageo opened Diageo Lincolnway, a 225,000 square-foot canning plant with two high-speed can lines in Plainfield, Illinois, with an investment of about $110 million and 50 full-time jobs.

Hébert Group became a PulPac licensee and will install the PulPac Modula Dry Molded Fiber production platform at PulPac's facilities in Orgelet, eastern France, this summer.

Axium Packaging has moved its headquarters and subsidiaries Acti Pack and Loire Plastic Industrie into a 22,000 sqm facility near Saint-Etienne, France, after a €16 million, six-month fit-out. Production capacity is reported to rise by 15%.

Emerson launched its new manufacturing facility in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, producing solenoid valves, filter regulators and control cabinets to serve customers in Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East and Africa region.

Atlas Copco will invest RMB 3 billion to build a China headquarters and R&D and manufacturing plant for industrial compressors in Wuxi New District, with annual capacity of 163,000 units. The project was signed on February 21, 2022.

Emerson opened a new 145,000 sq ft integrated manufacturing facility at Mahindra World City in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to make products of its Automation Solutions business for India, Asia and global markets.

Midea Group began construction of a new energy vehicle auto parts base in Anqing, Anhui province, with a total investment of about 11 billion yuan ($1.74 billion). The base is designed to produce 60 million units of auto parts annually.

Aptar Pharma has begun construction of a new facility on a 3.5-acre site at the Palava Industrial and Logistics Park in Taloja, Mumbai, adding molding capabilities. Groundbreaking took place on January 21, 2022.

Austin-based craft beverage packaging maker American Canning signed a long-term lease for a 154,786-square-foot facility at Park 183 in Southeast Austin for a new plant and headquarters. The expansion is planned for 2022.

Gainwell Engineering will invest Rs 500 crore to manufacture coal mining equipment under a Caterpillar technology licence at a plant on 35 ares in Panagarh, West Bengal, creating over 250 jobs. The announcement was made on February 7, 2022.

Continental Bottling Industry (Vikos) is building a €22 million production and bottling plant in Kalpaki, Ioannina, with glass and can lines from Krones, expected to be operational by September 2022.

Delmarva Corrugated Packaging has selected Dover, Delaware for a new $91 million corrugated box plant employing 159 people, replacing its New Jersey facility. The plant will have capacity of 75 tractor trailer loads per day when fully staffed.

McKinley Packaging, a subsidiary of Bio Pappell, is building a box manufacturing plant of over half a million square feet on East Pleasant Run in Lancaster, Texas. The more than $35 million facility will add 125 jobs and is scheduled for completion at the end of 2022.

WestRock plans a new corrugated boxing plant in Longview, Cowlitz County, double the size of its current facility, to be built by the end of 2023. The company cites growing demand from regional customers in the Pacific Northwest.

Avantium announced construction of a commercial-scale FDCA plant in Delfzijl, Netherlands, with capacity of 5 kilotonnes (5,600 tons) per year. The construction is expected to run from Q1 2022 to end-2023, with commercial production from 2024, funded by €192 million in financing.

Nabtesco has decided on the basic schedule for a new precision reducer factory on land acquired in 2020 in Hamamatsu, Japan, with construction starting in autumn 2022 and the building finished by September 2023. Total investment through 2026 is about JPY 47 billion, and annual capacity is planned to reach 2 million units by 2026.

Aramco signed an agreement with Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction and Dussur to establish a casting and forging joint venture in Saudi Arabia with a production target of 60,000 tons per year, supplying industrial and process equipment.

Fadesa Manta, part of the Vilaseca group, opened a new packaging plant in Manabí province, Ecuador, with an investment of more than $20 million, expected to create over 200 jobs and raise production capacity by 30%.

NETZSCH is building a new plant in Ribeirão Souto near Pomerode, Santa Catarina, to take over all production of NOTOS multi screw pumps. The opening is planned for March 2023 and the plant will create about 90 jobs.

Titan Steel Door will invest more than $11 million to open a new manufacturing facility of over 145,000 square feet in Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia. The expansion will create 90 new jobs and add detention steel door, frame, wall and ceiling production.

Norpolim Nordeste Polímeros, part of the Plasvan group, announced a plant in the Manaus Free Trade Zone industrial hub. The investment is R$17 million over three years, with about 100 direct jobs, and production is expected in the first half of 2022 pending approvals.

XNRGY, a custom air handling manufacturer, announced a new 1 million-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Greater Phoenix area that will serve as its U.S. headquarters. The estimated $300 million investment is expected to create more than 900 jobs over time.

The BoxMaker began production at a new 62,000 sq ft plant in Lowell, Arkansas, making digitally printed custom corrugated boxes and retail displays, as part of a multimillion-dollar investment that doubles its capacity.

Transmission Dynamics, owned by JR Dynamics, announced a £4.2m expansion including a new Future Innovation Hub with office and manufacturing facilities in Cramlington, Northumberland, expected to bring 50 jobs.