High Purity New England plans to open a fourth manufacturing facility near its three existing buildings in Smithfield, Rhode Island, funded by a federal contract; the company expects about 350 employees after new hires.

Dussur, Saudi Aramco and Doosan Heavy Industries announced a joint venture to build a 60,000-ton-per-year casting and forging facility in Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia, creating about 1,400 direct jobs, with operations expected in Q1 2025.

US manufacturer Jabil will build a consumer goods manufacturing and packaging plant in l'Aldea, Baix Ebre, Catalonia, with an investment of EUR 4 million and an initial 50 jobs that could rise to about 100. The plant is expected to start up in the third quarter of 2022.

Chinese concrete machinery maker JIUHE Heavy Industry is building a new plant and heavy industry machinery industrial park in Jimo District, Qingdao, with a planned total investment of 600 million yuan over 173,500 square meters, with completion expected around March 2022.

Colombia-based Plastilene Group will establish its first U.S. operation in Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, a $47 million sustainable food packaging research and production facility expected to create 58 jobs.

Bulgarian packaging maker Ate Plast has started construction of its third plant in the Zagore Industrial Zone in Stara Zagora, aiming to double or triple its printed packaging capacity; the investment, initially planned at 10 million leva, is expected to exceed that and completion is due by year end.

EMD Electronics, the North American electronics business of Merck KGaA, announced a new factory in Chandler, Arizona to manufacture gas and chemical delivery systems equipment, with a $28 million investment. Operations are expected to start by end of 2022 with more than 100 employees at full ramp-up.

Paratech decided to invest 10.2 billion won in a new facility in Seosan, South Chungcheong, adding a building and moving equipment and R&D from its Bucheon plant to build a smart factory.

Shangfa Valve (上阀股份) signed an agreement with the Changsanjiao (Huzhou) cooperation zone for a high-end intelligent industrial fluid control equipment manufacturing project with total investment of 1.2 billion yuan and annual output of 500,000 units. Signing took place on January 8, 2022.

Shanghai Valve Factory signed an agreement with the Yangtze River Delta (Huzhou) Industrial Cooperation Zone for a high-end smart fluid control equipment plant with a total investment of 1.2 billion yuan and annual capacity of up to 500,000 units.

Green Bay Packaging will build a new 600,000 sq ft corrugator plant in Fort Worth, Texas, replacing its existing 200,000 sq ft plant there. Construction is set to begin in Q1 2022 with startup scheduled for Q2 2023.

Atlanta packaging company Battle Copacking plans to invest $13.6 million in a new 128,000-square-foot building at Deerfield Business Park in Mooresville, Iredell County, creating up to 20 jobs. The building is expected to be delivered by the end of the year.

Busch Manufacturing India inaugurated a new vacuum pump production plant in Chakan near Pune in 2022. The plant has since produced its 4000th vacuum pump and makes DOLPHIN LX pumps.

UFI Filters Group signed an agreement with the JiaXing XiuZhou High-Technology Industrial Park Administrative Committee for a new plant in Zhejiang Province producing filtration systems and thermal management products for new energy vehicles. The investment is valued at around 25 million euros, and production is set to start in 2023.

DSS, Inc.'s subsidiary Premier Packaging is nearing completion of a new 105,000 sq ft paperboard packaging facility in Henrietta, NY, near Rochester, with operations expected to begin February 1, 2022.

Grundfos will spend USD 100 million building a new high-end pump manufacturing plant in Changshu, Jiangsu province, expected to be ready by 2023 and at full capacity by 2026.

Kampack, a division of National Packaging Group, will relocate its headquarters and build a new corrugated packaging manufacturing facility in the King Mill Distribution industrial park in Henry County, Georgia. The $35 million investment is expected to create 120 jobs.

Pratt Industries broke ground in Henderson, Kentucky, on a $500 million paper mill and box factory complex that will create 321 jobs across two facilities. The box factory is due for completion by 2023.

The Amarillo Economic Development Corporation plans to pay North Carolina-based Manteenbar incentives, including a property tax deferral and $10,000 per job, to build a $40 million factory in Amarillo, Texas, that would employ about 160 workers. The deal goes to city council in early January 2022.

International Paper announced it will build a state-of-the-art corrugated packaging plant in Atglen, Pennsylvania, employing about 150 people. Construction starts in Q1 2022 with full operation expected in Q1 2023.

Portsmouth City Council completed a 120,000 sq ft warehouse at Dunsbury Park in Havant for BioPure Technologies, a fluid-path component manufacturer in the Watson-Marlow group. The facility is expected to create more than 120 engineering and manufacturing jobs.

Honeywell Szabályozástechnikai Kft. is building a new site in the new Nagykanizsa industrial park in Hungary, developed by the state-owned NIPÜF. Groundbreaking is expected in early 2022 and construction is due to finish by year end.

Zep Inc. completed and started up a new AFCO production facility in Kingman's Industrial Park, Arizona, to serve western US customers in the food and beverage processing industry, with about 25 jobs expected over two years.

The Sserora Brewing signed an investment MOU with South Chungcheong Province for a 50 billion won craft beer plant in Boryeong's Ungcheon industrial complex. The highly automated plant, planned to start in August 2022 and be complete by 2024, will produce about 74 million liters a year.

Stoford and Logicor let the newly completed 108,091 sq ft L108 warehouse at Liberty Park, Widnes, to an international packaging company on a ten-year lease for sustainable packaging production.

Crane ChemPharma & Energy, a business of Crane Co, broke ground on a new Saunders valves factory in Cwmbran, UK, dedicated to Saunders products, with opening planned for 2022.

Nashville Box, LLC will invest $3.3 million to set up corrugated box manufacturing operations in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee, creating 48 new jobs.

Simplex for Industrial Solutions and Software announced a new 5,000 sqm CNC machine factory in the 10th of Ramadan City Industrial Zone, Egypt, with planned investments of EGP 100 million to raise production and export to about 15 countries over three years.

Kruger Packaging is building a $114 million, 400,000 sq ft packaging plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, expected to open in summer 2022 and create nearly 150 jobs.

Oji Holdings decided to establish a new corrugated container plant in Vinh Phuc province, Vietnam, with planned investment of about JPY 5 billion ($44.2 million) and operations starting July 2023.

EQ United, an Indiana-based logistics provider and RV components manufacturer, is consolidating its manufacturing into a new facility in Cassopolis, Michigan with a $6.2 million capital investment and up to 175 jobs. The Michigan Strategic Fund supports the project.

Maadaniyah CEO Shaker Otaibi said construction of a high-pressure valve plant serving the oil and petrochemical sector will begin in early 2022 on a land plot at King Salman Energy Park in Saudi Arabia.

German compressor maker Bitzer is establishing a joint venture in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, to manufacture small-capacity rotary compressors in a 90,000 m2 plant under construction, with production planned for the first half of 2022.

BMT held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in Gijang-gun, Busan, with construction investment of about KRW 34 billion and annual production capacity rising from KRW 150 billion to KRW 300 billion. Completion is planned for March 2023.

Atlas Ward Polska started building a production and warehouse plant for Rawibox S.A. in the Jasienicka Low-Emission Economic Zone in Miedzyrzecz Dolny, Lower Silesia, with about 30,000 m2 of floor space. Atlas Ward is the general contractor under a design-and-build contract. Reported November 24, 2021.

Schaeffler India signed an MoU with Guidance, the Tamil Nadu government nodal agency, to invest over ₹300 crore in a new greenfield plant in Hosur making transmission components for automotive and tractor segments. The plant is expected to create more than 300 direct jobs within four years.

Azad Engineering has begun setting up its third manufacturing facility in Medchal Malkajgiri district near Hyderabad, investing over Rs 500 crore over three years to make critical components for aviation and power generation. The foundation stone was laid on November 22, 2021, and about 1,000 jobs are expected.

Watson-Marlow has broken ground on a 150,000 sq ft manufacturing facility at Devens, Massachusetts, for peristaltic pumps, tubing and fluid path products. The site is expected to create over 150 positions.

AMP, part of the Ardagh Group, will build a beverage can-making plant at Global Point in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, representing an investment of about $200 million. Operations are expected to start in 2023.

J.M. Smucker announced an investment in a new manufacturing facility in McCalla, Alabama to accelerate growth of its Smucker's Uncrustables products. No investment amount or job numbers were given in the source.

IMEX, the industrial unit of Angola's Webcor Group, opened a new US$9.5 million woven polypropylene raffia bag processing facility. The plant has a capacity of 60 million bags a year and tripled IMEX's production capacity.

Startup 86 Pearson Lane will establish its first manufacturing location in Lexington, Tennessee, investing $16 million and creating 155 jobs. The company will buy the Ayers Building and expand the facility by 60,000 square feet, with operations expected in early 2022.

Celadon Development Corporation will invest over $155 million to open a North American headquarters and a recycling and advanced manufacturing facility in Chatham County, Georgia, creating 117 jobs. The plant will make recycled brown pulp from old corrugated cardboard, with Phase 1 producing 450,000 tons per year per line.

Graham & Company and Sunbelt Paper & Packaging announced plans for a 216,000 sq ft distribution facility in Calera, Alabama, requiring about $16.5 million of investment. Sunbelt will occupy about 108,000 sq ft, with completion expected by Q3 2022.

Direct Pack Inc. opened a new 200,000-square-foot thermoforming facility in Mexicali, called Direct Pack Baja, which began producing food packaging in September 2021. The plant represents a $25M investment.

Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging secured planning permission to build a second factory on its Glasgow site, scheduled for summer 2023, raising annual output to about 900 million moulded pulp and corrugated packaging pieces.

India's UFlex commissioned a BOPET film manufacturing plant in Ogun State, Nigeria, with 45,000 TPA capacity and an estimated 200 jobs, serving Western Africa and the US.

PE Energy officially opened a 11,000 m2 Centre of Excellence in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, for valve assembly and actuation, metering, pump and compressor solutions, and process automation integration. The facility aims to boost use of local materials and talent.

Gaxi Bella broke ground on a smart compressor project in Nanhu District, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, on 30 October 2021. The RMB 1.3 billion project will produce 20 million high-end refrigerator compressors and 1 million new energy vehicle air-conditioning compressors per year.

Ardagh Metal Packaging has revealed plans for a beverage can plant in the south west United States to add capacity, announced with its third-quarter results. No further details were given in the article.