Montreal-based valve maker Velan plans a new facility in Durham Region, east of Toronto, to manufacture reactor integral and containment isolation valves for small modular reactors. The plan was announced alongside a partnership with GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy on June 17, 2026.

ISEM Packaging Group officially opened a new manufacturing and logistics platform in Trecate, in Italy's Novara area, integrating three former production facilities. The site covers more than 49,000 square metres.

Buckeye Corrugated, Inc. held a grand opening and innovation showcase for its 100,000-square-foot Reno, Nevada facility, which serves as a packaging, manufacturing and distribution hub for Northern Nevada, Northern California and the western United States.

Al Bayader International signed an agreement with National Industries Park to develop a AED 180 million (about USD 50 million) integrated manufacturing and logistics hub in Dubai, able to produce up to 30,000 tonnes of packaging a year, with construction starting in 2026 and operations targeted for early 2028.

Smurfit Westrock plans a corrugated box manufacturing plant in Cajeme, Sonora, Mexico, with a $65 million investment and 300 direct jobs in its first phase. Operations are expected to start in early 2027.

Durst Group is holding a groundbreaking ceremony on 4 June 2026 for Durst Como, a digital textile printing production and innovation hub in Luisago, Como, Italy.

GROUPE ATLANTIC is investing nearly €150 million in a new 35,000 square metre heat pump factory in the Chalon region of Saône-et-Loire, expected to create 300 jobs and add 180,000 units a year by 2028.

UFP Packaging opened a new corrugated box plant in Las Vegas, Nevada during summer 2026, its first full corrugated converting manufacturer in that market, with automation and robotics. The site joins its All Boxed Up plants in Flower Mound, Texas and Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Liancheng Group broke ground in June 2026 on its Phase IV Smart Nuclear Pump Project at the Liancheng Suzhou Industrial Park in Taicang, adding about 55,000 square meters of factory space.

FläktGroup announced Project GAGAN, a new production facility in Pune, Maharashtra, with an investment of €5.7 million. Once fully ramped up, the plant will make up to 6,500 units a year, including air handling units, fan wall units, CRAH/CRAC units, coolant distribution units and coils.

EAM Mosca inaugurated a US$8 million plant in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, its first strapping production site in Mexico and Latin America. The plant makes plastic strapping consumables locally for the region's industrial and agricultural sectors.

Shlekler (Shandong) Pump & Valve Manufacturing built a 150 million yuan high-end intelligent control valve plant in Zibo High-tech Zone, Shandong, going from groundbreaking to full production in nine months. It is planned to produce 25,000 pneumatic and 10,000 electric valves per year.

Safran will invest €125 million in a new compressor components plant in Welkenraedt, Belgium, in an 18,000 m² former Copeland building, with operations scheduled to start in 2028 through subsidiary Safran Booster Components.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco, is finishing a USD 319 million, 240,000 sq ft dry vacuum pump factory at WNY STAMP in Alabama, New York. The plant is set to open in November 2026 with phase one capacity of up to 10,000 pumps per year.

Graham Packaging has proposed a manufacturing facility in about 215,000 square feet of a warehouse in Lee's Summit Commerce Center, with about $33.7 million of machinery and 82 jobs, and has requested a 75% five-year personal property tax abatement.

Franklin Electric officially opened its new production facility in Torbalı, İzmir, Türkiye, built on a 14,600 m² site through a €5 million investment. The plant is expected to increase production capacity and strengthen regional logistics.

Rosenboom Machine & Tool plans to acquire and build out a new facility in Milford, Iowa, for $19.07 million, including relocated and new machining equipment. The company expects to create 78 jobs.

IMI PLC has opened a new precision engineering facility in Lake Forest, California, for severe service control valves serving the energy sector. The campus replaces the Rancho Santa Margarita site and consolidates more than 200 employees.

International Paper broke ground on May 20, 2026 on a $225 million greenfield corrugated packaging plant of 468,000 square feet in Rankin County, Mississippi. Operations are expected in the fourth quarter of 2027.

ORPU Pumpenfabrik GmbH celebrated the topping-out of its new company facility, including a production hall and office building, on May 6, 2026. The plant will make pump systems for the chemical, environmental and process engineering industries.

NatureWorks opened a fully integrated Ingeo biopolymer manufacturing facility in Thailand that will use locally sourced sugarcane as feedstock.

PolyFlex, part of Nefab Group, opened a two-building manufacturing and engineering campus in Wixom, Michigan, for returnable plastic packaging and protective solutions serving automotive and advanced manufacturing clients.

Poly Craft Industries opened a 72,000 sq ft flexible plastic packaging facility in Middletown, New York, costing $27 million, consolidating two Long Island locations and serving as corporate headquarters.

Keke Group held the groundbreaking for a precision machining plant in Longwan District, Zhejiang, with capacity of 78,000 high-temperature, high-pressure safety valves per year and a total floor area of about 58,528 square meters.

Nidec Global Appliance has entered a major construction phase for its compressor plant in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, Maharashtra, with commercial production scheduled for the final quarter of 2026.

Azuria Water Solutions broke ground on a new $80 million, 72,000-square-foot plant in Batesville, Mississippi, to make Fusible PVC pipe. The facility is expected to create 50 jobs and be completed in early 2027.

Kruger Inc. announced a C$333 million investment to build a nonwovens production unit on Île-de-la-Potherie in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, adjacent to its Wayagamack pulp and paper mill. Operations are planned to start in 2028.

STULZ USA announced plans to construct a new facility of about 300,000 square feet adjacent to its Denton, Texas site opened in 2025, for manufacturing and testing of air-cooled and liquid-cooled cooling solutions. The facility is expected to open in Spring 2027 and create hundreds of jobs.

Bauer Compresseurs inaugurated its new site in Méry, Savoie, on 24 April 2026 in the presence of regional officials and the Bauer group's second-generation owner Heinz Bauer.

Sulzer partnered with Jawaby Services & Investments, a subsidiary of Libya's National Oil Corporation, to establish Jawaby Sulzer Services, a local rotating equipment service hub in Libya.

Crown Holdings announced plans for a two-line beverage can manufacturing facility in Northern India, expected to start operations in the second half of 2027 and produce about 2.2 billion cans annually at full capacity, supported by a partnership with United Breweries.

Algerian packaging producer Général Emballage plans a new recycled containerboard (RCCM) mill in Naâma with 350,000 tpy capacity, with start-up scheduled for Q4 2028.

XOLUTION broke ground on a new production and development center at NU Park Dachau, Germany, on 23 April 2026, consolidating administration, R&D and production from Bremen and the Czech Republic, with capacity of up to 900 million XO lids per year.

Nextera Packaging has opened a new headquarters in White Bear Township, Minnesota, with a 114,000 sq ft warehouse and office facility that is 116% larger than its previous HQ.

Mondi has opened a highly automated paper bag plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, consolidating production from its Wellsburg, West Virginia and Oakdale, Pennsylvania sites. After ramp-up it is expected to reach 300 million paper bags a year.

Oliver Valves has opened a 45,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in India that became fully operational on January 2, 2026. The site makes valve components up to 3 tonnes and has a clean room for oxygen-clean valves.

Diageo North America officially opened its 360,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehousing facility in Montgomery, Alabama on 21 April 2026. The $415 million investment creates 100 full-time jobs and serves the Southern U.S. region.

Mondi Bags USA will relocate its manufacturing from Oakdale, Pennsylvania and Wellsburg, West Virginia to a 200,000-square-foot facility in Findlay Township, Allegheny County. The project creates about 170 jobs over three years, supported by a $1,036,000 Pennsylvania First grant announced on 21 April 2026.

Cook Compression held the grand opening of its new 26,000 sq. ft. facility in Ellesmere Port, UK, on April 19, which also houses new laser cutting machinery for compressor valve internals.

Newway Valve (纽威股份) announced plans to invest about CNY 1.2 billion in a high-performance fluid control valve project in Suzhou, expected to be completed around March 2027 with capacity of 300,000 valves a year and output value of about CNY 2.5 billion. The project responds to rising orders for power and water valves.

Germany's Lutz Holding GmbH set up Lutz-Jesco Italia S.r.l. near Milan, extending its European footprint for pump and fluid handling products.

Buckeye Corrugated, Inc. has installed conveyor and unitizer, die cutter infrastructure, CAD table and folder gluer at its new Reno, Nevada facility ahead of a June grand opening. A 3-color die cutter is due in mid to late May and a J&L folder gluer on May 1.

CANPACK, in partnership with Bavaria, announced a new aluminum beverage can plant in Malambo, Atlantico, Colombia, with an investment of 548 billion Colombian pesos. The plant is expected to be operational by 2027 and create about 150 direct jobs.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions India announced a greenfield 50,000 sq m manufacturing, R&D and customer campus in Kaggalahalli, Bengaluru, expected to lift its production capacity by 30% upon completion in 2027.

Valmet inaugurated a new flow control service center and manufacturing unit in Sydney, Australia, offering valve and pump services, spare parts and local assembly for process industries.

AGI Greenpac is building a greenfield glass plant in Madhya Pradesh with a Rs 700 crore outlay, expected to raise production capacity by 25% and become operational by March 2027.

Tetra Pak broke ground on a new Product Development Center at its U.S. and Canada headquarters in Denton, Texas, with 12,000 sq ft for product development and 3,000 sq ft for a Customer Innovation Center. The facility is scheduled to open in Q1 2027 and create eight jobs.

Flowserve inaugurated its Global Technology and Engineering Center (GTEC) in Torreón, Coahuila, with a $40 million investment that will create about 150 specialized jobs. The center will support Flowserve operations across the Americas.

Safran Aero Boosters announced a new subsidiary, Safran Booster Components, building an aircraft engine compressor components plant in Welkenraedt, Wallonia, backed by Walloon and Belgian federal investors, operational in 2028.

Swire Coca-Cola broke ground on a 620,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Peak Innovation Park near Colorado Springs Airport. The $475 million plant is expected to create 170 jobs and produce more than 230 drinks.