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

Lontra is opening a £17 million smart factory in Doncaster to make energy-saving compressors, with South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority providing grant and loan support of over £7 million and over 300 new jobs expected.

Walbro LLC is expanding in Cass City, Michigan, with a $11.4 million capital investment supported by a $400,000 state grant, creating up to 40 advanced manufacturing jobs. Construction of the new facility has started.

Soenen Golfkarton has started building a 132,500 sqm corrugated box factory on the former Bekaert site in Lanklaar, Belgium, representing an investment of more than €120 million and about 200 jobs. The plant is planned to start in 2023.

A Oman-China joint piping factory by Hongtong Dukm Piping Company opened in the Duqm Special Economic Zone, the first project in the China-Oman Industrial Park, covering 60,000 m² and making hydrocarbon fluid pipes.

Watson-Marlow will begin construction in October 2021 on a 150,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Devens, Massachusetts, with first production due in late 2022. The site will make peristaltic pumps, tubing and fluid path solutions for life sciences and process customers.

Evanesce Packaging Solutions, an investee of Billy Goat Brands, will open a new manufacturing facility in Hampton County, South Carolina on October 21, 2021, to produce millions of PLA straws per day, creating 78 jobs.

Pregis began production at its new $80 million blown film extrusion facility in Anderson, South Carolina, with a ribbon cutting attended by Governor Henry McMaster. The 168,000 sq ft plant is expected to create 120 jobs.

Progroup's 12th corrugated board production facility, its third in Poland, is under construction in Stryków with planned capacity of 825 million square metres per year.

Sri Lankan corrugated carton maker Ex-pack plans a Rs 3 billion new facility on a 10-acre site, raising its capacity to 4,000 tons per month by 2025 from 2,750 tons. Part of the cost is funded by a Rs 700 million IPO.

BorgWarner broke ground on a 17,000 m² plant in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, investing €100 million to produce electric motors, inverters and battery management systems, with production starting in Q3 2022 and about 300 jobs.

Spanish valve maker Ringo Válvulas plans to invest up to €8 million in an 8,000 m² factory in the Empresarium industrial estate to expand production capacity.

Danfoss broke ground on a new 167,000 sq ft Turbocor manufacturing facility in Tallahassee, Florida, which will triple the unit's current manufacturing capacity, with completion scheduled for early 2023.

Hiru Corporation, through subsidiary AZ Custom Bottled Water, completed a new automated packaging and bottling facility. It will serve a three-year co-packing agreement with The Alkaline Water Company to produce Alkaline88 products. The announcement was made on October 6, 2021.

Hanwha Cimarron has broken ground on a $130 million factory in Opelika, Alabama, producing carbon fiber-wrapped high-pressure storage tanks. The project will create 261 new jobs, with hiring expected next spring.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions intends to establish its own sealing production plant in Vietnam and is currently examining options. The move is part of a group investment of just under SEK 300 million across several countries.

Trelleborg Industrial Solutions plans to begin producing thermoplastic elastomer vehicle bellows in Odawara, southwest of Tokyo, in Q1 2022. Part of a group investment of just under SEK 300 million across several countries.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions will start producing high-performance seals at Yesipovo outside Moscow in Q3 2022. Part of a group investment of just under SEK 300 million across Russia, Vietnam, Japan and Morocco over five years.

French aluminum foundry Le Bélier confirmed a $100 million investment in a new production plant in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, creating 500 jobs. The plant will serve the automotive market.

Argentine bag maker Corbag invested ARS 100 million to buy and fit out a 2,000 m2 industrial building in Los Boulevares, Córdoba, raising monthly capacity to 3 million units, three times its previous plant.

Danish firm Integrated Gas Controls Technologies formally opened its first Indian manufacturing facility near Hyderabad, Telangana, making LPG safety devices, after investing ₹20 crore. It plans a further ₹20 crore expansion and a bigger facility.

PDC Machines has signed the lease on a new 148,000 square foot plant in Lower Salford, Pennsylvania to scale up production of diaphragm gas compressors for hydrogen refuelling stations, with capacity of thousands of units per year.

Panattoni started the final construction stage of a Danfoss Poland production plant in Grodzisk Mazowiecki with 45 production lines for refrigeration valves, scheduled for completion at the end of November 2021.

Haskel plans a second manufacturing facility in Rouen, northern France, set to become operational in 2022 and scale up to double manufacturing capacity as part of a global expansion.

Crown Holdings will build a two-line aluminium beverage can facility of 355,000 sq ft in Mesquite, Nevada, creating 126 jobs. Operations are scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2023.

VPK has opened a new production and warehouse plant of 22,000 sqm in Brzeg, Poland, in the Skarbimierz special economic zone. The plant adds 60 million sqm of production capacity and 120 staff, with 60 more jobs planned.

United Caps held a grand opening for its Dinnington factory in Rotherham, England, which has produced dairy and beverage closures since 2020, including tethered closures, in a 5,000 square meter facility expandable to 20,000 square meters.

BHS Corrugated broke ground on a logistics park in Weiherhammer, Germany, with a 26,500 m² production hall and a three-storey administration building, with construction due by March 2023. The investment totals approximately €38 million.

Ball Corporation announced plans for a multi-line aluminum beverage can plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada, with a nearly $290 million investment, about 180 jobs and production starting in late 2022.

LINDAL Group opened a 12,000 sqm aerosol dispensing facility in São Paulo, Brazil, after a 370-day build, with a €14 million investment and 130 initial employees.

Kruger Packaging is building its first US packaging plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, a $114 million investment expected to create 150 jobs and produce 2.4 billion square feet of corrugated boxes per year.

Austrian PicoPack Group is setting up industrial polypropylene jumbo bag production in leased halls of a former factory in Knin's Preparandija zone, through a new company Velebit ambalaža (51% PicoPack, 49% Goran Jerković). The project is valued at about 33.34 million kuna.

Thailand's SCG Packaging announced an 11.8 billion baht expansion in packaging paper in Vietnam through joint venture Vina Kraft Paper, building a new facility in Vinh Phuc to start in early 2024.

Bundaberg manufacturer Grillex opened a new 2,680 square metre facility in Bundaberg's Kensington industrial area, backed by Queensland's Jobs and Regional Growth Fund, with 15 new roles planned.

ALPLA, Ecohelp SRL and United Polymer Trading AG are each investing equally in a joint venture to install an extrusion line recycling post-consumer PET bottles in Targu Mures, Romania, aiming for 15,000 tonnes of rPET per year. The total investment is about EUR 7.5 million and will create 15 jobs.

The board of Craftsman Automation approved a new plant in Nagpur, Maharashtra, to add 8-10% powertrain capacity, with phase 1 costing Rs 115 crore over 24-30 months. Phase 2 is planned at Rs 110 crore over 24-48 months.

Panattoni completed a 40,000 sqm production plant in Kalisz for Leviat, which will manufacture fasteners and construction reinforcement and transport systems. The plant replaces Leviat's existing factory nearby and increases its production capacity.

Atlas Copco Compressors opened a new 200,000-square-foot facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina to begin US assembly of Z range oil-free air compressors and support assembly, distribution and remanufacturing.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco Group, opened a 250,000-square-foot facility in Genesee County, New York to expand US production of dry vacuum pumps for semiconductor manufacturers, expected to employ up to 600 people.

Guntner officially inaugurated a new 8,400 m2 production plant in Apodaca, Mexico, making evaporators and condensers for commercial refrigeration to serve growing US demand.

Allpax, a PROMACH brand, completed its move to a new Covington, Louisiana facility, more than doubling its office and manufacturing area from 40,000 to 86,000 sq ft.

Dhunseri Poly Films, a subsidiary of Dhunseri Ventures, announced a Rs 1,250 crore flexible packaging film factory at Panagarh Industrial Park in West Bengal. The first phase will make BOPET film with 45,000 TPA capacity, with commercial operations expected by March 2023.

Boeun County signed a 12 billion won expansion investment agreement with Puremann, which will buy land and build a second factory in the Jangan industrial complex to enter the new materials business. Puremann currently makes automotive and refrigeration refrigerants.

Hengli Hydraulic plans a CNY1.2 billion project in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with annual capacity for oil cylinders, special cylinders and hydraulic pumps and motors. No construction schedule was given.

Klingele Paper & Packaging Group is building a corrugated sheet plant in the Diamniadio industrial estate near Dakar, Senegal, with production expected in summer 2022 and about 45 jobs. The EUR 7.5 million investment is partly financed by DEG.

Tunxi High-Pressure Valve Co broke ground on a project producing 10,000 tonnes of industrial forgings per year in the Huangshan high-tech zone, Anhui, China, on August 26, 2021. The project includes a 10,000 square metre plant and about 30 new machines.

Chapin International, a maker of compressed air sprayers, plans to acquire a 496,000-square-foot facility on the South Danville Bypass in Boyle County, Kentucky, investing $8.25 million and creating 100 full-time jobs.

Blackmer, a maker of rotary pumps, gas compressors and centrifugal pumps, plans a new manufacturing facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Its parent company expects to invest more than $7 million and create 50 jobs, and the company received a $350,000 MEDC grant.

Haite Power Co. is building a hydraulic pump and valve production plant in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, with a planned capacity of 400,000 hydraulic pumps and 800,000 hydraulic valves per year. The project is listed with an investment of about 2.091 billion CNY and is in main construction stage.

Paulig unveiled the first stone of its new tortilla production plant in Roeselare, Belgium, a EUR 45 million investment to strengthen its Tex Mex market position in Europe. The factory will be carbon neutral from the start.