Hanwha Cimarron plans to spend $51 million on a production facility in Opelika, Alabama, to make 4,000 high-pressure tanks per year. Construction is to finish in 2022.

Weastec, part of Toyodenso Group, is opening a plant in Greenfield, Ohio to assemble larger engine parts with two semi-automated lines. About 15 jobs are expected, with operations targeted for the end of 2021.

Hanwha Cimarron will invest $130 million in a new factory in Opelika, Alabama, making carbon fiber-wrapped hydrogen storage tanks and pressure vessels. The project will create 261 jobs.

Switzerland-based SIG has finished building its second production plant in China, a site near its Suzhou Industrial Park plant. By 2024 it is expected to produce eight billion carton packs a year.

Delmarva Corrugated Packaging is nearing completion of its $80 million paper corrugating plant in Dover, Delaware, with an October opening planned and about 160 jobs projected.

Yangquan Valve Co. began trial production at phase one of its 20,000-tonne large-diameter gas valve project in the Yangquan High-tech Zone, Shanxi, after equipment installation was completed. Phase one cost 160 million yuan and has already received an order from a Hebei company.

Muncie Power Products bought a former industrial building at 2500 N. Priority Way in Yorktown, Indiana, and will add 100,000 sq ft and invest over $20 million to consolidate operations there.

Progroup is reported to be probably building a corrugated board plant near Milan, Italy, with a cost of EUR 95 million and 205 jobs, expected to be operational by mid-2024.

Price Container, a division of TricorBraun, signed a lease for a 30,000 sq ft facility in the Port of Centralia's Park I development in Washington to open a new metal and plastic packaging operation.

Ekotar LLC is launching a corrugated cardboard and packaging factory at the Uytash investment site in Dagestan, with 220 million rubles of investor funds and 90 permanent jobs.

Arnett Engineered Solutions, a pump and valve manufacturer, will open a facility at 61 Innovation Drive in Bamberg County, South Carolina, creating 19 jobs. The facility is expected to be operational by September 2021.

Berry Global announced plans for a second manufacturing facility and healthcare center of excellence near its existing Bangalore operation, to scale production of ophthalmic, nasal pump, inhalation and injectable products.

H.B. Fuller announced a strategic investment in a new adhesives manufacturing plant at CPC Industrial Park in Cairo's 6th of October industrial city. The 37,000 m2 facility is set to start full production in the last quarter of 2022 and will double production capacity.

Atlantic Packaging is proposing a 488,450-square-foot corrugated packaging plant at 2601 Mason Road in Elgin, Illinois, a $30 million investment, as reported by the Daily Herald on Aug. 3, 2021.

Atlantic Packaging wants to build a 488,450-square-foot corrugated box factory at 2601 Mason Road in Elgin, in a development of about $30 million. The city planning commission recommended approval, and the full city council still has to vote.

RORZE Robotech decided to build an additional factory in Hai Phong, Vietnam, to make semiconductor, FPD and life science equipment. The investment is USD 16.2 million, with construction starting December 2021 and completion scheduled for the end of August 2022.

Progroup is preparing construction of its PW15 corrugated sheetfeeder plant near Petersberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, investing more than €90 million, with production from Q2 2023 and about 60 new jobs.

Georgia-Pacific is manufacturing curbside recyclable paper padded mailers at a new facility in Jonestown, Pennsylvania, to serve Northeast customers including Amazon.

Gen3 Defense and Aerospace is moving into a larger facility in Kent County, Michigan, with a $8.7 million capital investment expected to create up to 269 high-wage jobs. Michigan was chosen over a site in Florida.

Pratt Industries announced a $400 million 100% recycled paper mill of 450,000 sq ft in Henderson, Kentucky, creating over 320 full-time jobs. A separate 700,000 sq ft corrugated box factory is planned next to the mill.

Baosteel Packaging plans to invest about 499 million yuan to build an aluminum two-piece can production base in Cambodia. The announcement was made on July 30, 2021.

Pratt Paper LLC will build a $400 million corrugated box recycling and paper mill complex in Henderson, Kentucky, expected to employ 321 people within five years. The 1 million square foot site is on a 200-acre plot along Kentucky 425.

Brooks Instrument has opened a new manufacturing, engineering and service center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, to produce mass flow controllers for semiconductor manufacturing. The company says the move raises its global production capacity by close to 30 percent once at full scale.

Ball Corporation will invest $383.8 million to build an 800,000 sq ft aluminum beverage can plant in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, creating 220 jobs. The plant will join Red Bull and Rauch's beverage manufacturing hub in Concord.

Al Bayader International secured medium-term financing from HSBC to build a 450,000 sq ft food packaging industrial complex in Sharjah's Al Sajaa Industrial City, expected to be completed in 2023 and quadruple capacity to over 120,000 tonnes.

CANPACK Group announced on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 plans for its first U.S. facility, a 908,000-square-foot aluminum can plant and North American Center of Excellence in Olyphant Borough, Lackawanna County, with about $366 million invested and around 400 jobs, expected to be operational by year end.

Pregis announced an $80 million investment in a new 168,000 square foot blown film extrusion facility in Anderson, South Carolina. The plant is expected to create 120 jobs and become operational in September.

Health Supply US is locating its unit-dose flexible packaging division at 205 Raceway Drive in Mooresville, Iredell County, North Carolina, investing over $2.5 million and creating up to ten jobs.

Kval Inc., a door machinery manufacturer, is partnering with Titan Development on a 52,500-square-foot build-to-suit manufacturing facility at Titan's Innovation Business Park Phase 2 in Hutto, Texas. The announcement was made on July 13, 2021.

TriMas's Rieke unit is building a new 230,000 square foot, highly automated injection molding facility in New Albany, Ohio, expected to start production in Q2 2022, mainly for beauty and personal care dispensers.

AMPO Poyam Valves and Dar Massader Group set up a joint local subsidiary, AMPO Arabia, and a new valve manufacturing and servicing plant in Dammam 2nd Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, which is expected to start manufacturing in Q1 2022.

Grundfos held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new EUR 20 million factory of over 20,000 square metres in Indjija, Serbia. The plant will add workers to the existing 900-employee site.

Belt Power LLC opened a new location at 5146 Duff Road in Cincinnati, Ohio, for conveyor belting fabrication and services in the Midwest. The article states the location opened on July 1, 2021.

Red Bull and Rauch North America announced in early July 2021 plans for a 2 million-square-foot beverage manufacturing site in Concord, North Carolina, adding 413 jobs and investing $740 million by 2027.

A 20,000-ton new large-diameter gas valve project with a total planned investment of CNY 300 million, part of the relocation and restructuring of Yangquan's valve and pump companies, has entered the equipment installation stage in the Yangquan economic development zone.

Shimadzu's Chinese subsidiary Tianjin Shimadzu Hydraulic has built a new factory in the Xiqing Economic-Technological Development Area of Tianjin to make hydraulic gear pumps and control valves for forklifts. The $20 million plant has capacity of 500,000 pumps and 200,000 valves a year, with full operation planned for October 2021.

Daelim Pracon signed an investment memorandum with Gimcheon city to build a 20 billion won PET packaging container plant with automated equipment in the Gimcheon General Industrial Complex. The plant is planned to be operating by early next year and is expected to create over 80 jobs.

Global Compression Services opened a new 5,000 sq ft machine shop in Washington, Pennsylvania, in the Marcellus Shale region to repair and machine natural gas compressor parts. It is part of the company's planned expansion into the Marcellus and Utica market.

SIG will build a new carton packaging plant in Querétaro, Mexico, to serve North American markets, investing around 40 million euros over 2021-2023. The plant is expected to open in Q1 2023 and create about 200 jobs.

The Wilo Group opened a new assembly plant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with an assembly line, test bench and training offices, to serve as a Southeast Asia hub. Production of vertical pressure-boosting systems is planned from the end of 2021.

Atlantic Pumps is moving to a new 1.25-acre site on Carrwood Road in Chesterfield, UK, consolidating its Chesterfield and Sheffield operations into a manufacturing and research hub. The move follows growth and has already created several new jobs.

Belgian VPK Group's Polish subsidiary Aquila Brzeg opened a new corrugated packaging plant in Skarbimierz near Wroclaw, after about one year of construction. The plant was officially inaugurated on 17 June 2021.

VPK Packaging Polska, part of the VPK Group, officially opened a new packaging factory in Brzeg, Poland, on 17 June 2021 with 22,000 m2 of production and warehouse space. The plant adds 60 million m2 of production capacity and is planned to employ 60 more people.

Construction started on a new corrugated board factory of about 85,000 m2 over two floors next to the existing De Jong Verpakking plant in De Lier, Netherlands, with WDP project managing and completion scheduled for end-2022. The first pile was driven on June 16, 2021.

Heat pump maker Ochsner is establishing a new site on a three-hectare plot in Oed, Lower Austria, with construction starting in 2022 and up to 200 jobs at full build-out. The site is planned to produce up to 20,000 heat pumps per year.

Ardagh Group told investors it plans a new factory with two lines in Minas Gerais, Brazil, as part of a US$1.8 billion expansion programme to be completed in the second half of 2022. The programme also includes expansions of existing units in the Northeast region and in Jacarei, Sao Paulo.

Crown Embalagens is building a can factory in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, with a planned investment of R$650 million and 140 direct jobs. The plant is scheduled to open in April 2022 with capacity of 2.4 billion cans per year.

Mayville Engineering Company finalized plans to open a roughly 450,000 sq ft leased manufacturing facility in Hazel Park, Michigan, to serve a new strategic customer, planning to hire up to 390 employees and invest $35-45 million.

Edwards and CSK, both Atlas Copco units, signed an MOU with South Chungcheong Province to build a semiconductor and display equipment plant on a 57,810 m² site in Asan, investing $110 million over five years.

Geko Flow Control Technology (Changzhou) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory in Changzhou's Tianning District. The plant is planned to start in June 2022 with estimated annual output of 120 thousand control valve sets.