Segezha Group signed a letter of intent with the Tver regional government at SPIEF to build an eco-friendly paper packaging plant in the Borovlevo-3 industrial park. Investment is about 3 billion rubles, with over 100 jobs and commissioning planned for mid-2023.

Green Bay Packaging held ribbon-cutting ceremonies in June 2021 for its $500 million recycled paper mill in Wisconsin, the first new mill built in the state in over three decades. The project received $41.9 million in state tax credits and is credited with creating 177 new jobs.

Pregis plans to invest more than $14 million to open an advanced manufacturing facility in an existing 298,000-square-foot building in McDonough, Henry County, Georgia, by August 2021. The plant is expected to create 80 jobs immediately and up to 150 as it scales.

Polish packaging maker Janmarcentrum is building a second corrugated packaging plant in the Strikov Special Economic Zone in central Poland, with about EUR 30 million planned investment, more than 50 jobs and planned capacity of 150 million square metres a year. Start-up is scheduled for Q3 2022.

Canada-based Kruger Packaging plans a $114.2 million, 400,000-square-foot corrugated box plant at T.J. Patterson Industrial Park in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, creating at least 150 jobs. The announcement was made on May 27, 2021.

TAT Technologies plans to move its heat exchanger thermal components manufacturing from Israel to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and expand Limco Airepair there. It also plans a new global R&D center on its Tulsa campus.

California-based Stewart Tool Company will invest $9.1 million to establish its first East Coast manufacturing operation in Fluvanna County, Virginia, renovating a former Kloeckner Metals facility and creating 22 jobs.

Poland-based can maker CANPACK plans a beverage can plant in Muncie, Indiana, expected to create 345 jobs by the end of 2023.

Ball is set to open its 11th can plant in Frutal, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a R$500 million investment and 1.5 billion cans per year capacity, entering production in Q3 2021.

Hydro-Gear, a power equipment drive systems manufacturer, is locating a new operation in Huntingdon, Tennessee, expected to create 375 new jobs.

Plastipak will build a food-grade recycled PET recycling facility at its Toledo, Spain site, producing 20,000 tons of rPET pellets per year. The project will create about 14 jobs and is scheduled to start production in summer 2022.

Ourgin announced a plan to invest about RMB 510 million in a two-piece can production project in Zaozhuang, Shandong, built in two phases. Phase one is expected to produce 800 million cans a year, and phase two adds another 800 million.

Plastipak plans a new recycling facility at its Toledo site in Spain to convert PET flake into food-grade recycled PET pellets, producing 20,000 tonnes per year from summer 2022 and creating about 14 jobs.

Royal Containers is moving its western facility from London to a larger footprint at 400 South Edgeware Road in St. Thomas, Ontario, to address growth and increase capacity.

Dompel, a group from Caxias do Sul, is building Pump América, a plant in Linhares, Espírito Santo, to make pump and trigger plastic valves. Initial investment is R$8 million, rising to R$16 million, with about 100 jobs and production expected from August 2021.

EagleBurgmann do Brasil, a Freudenberg Group subsidiary, is moving its headquarters and plant from Campinas to a new factory in Valinhos, São Paulo, with about R$20 million of investment. Completion is expected in November 2021.

Antylia Scientific will establish a Masterflex Bioprocessing facility in the National Science Park in Mullingar, Ireland, creating 60 jobs. The site will design and manufacture Masterflex peristaltic pumps, supported by IDA Ireland.

Optinova inaugurated its Optinova Valley Forge plant in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, a 95,000 sq ft facility for specialty industrial tubing with 11 extrusion lines running at opening and capacity for over 20.

Shougang Toyota Industrial Air Conditioning Compressor, invested in by Toyota Industries, produced its first electric compressor at the Yantai Development Zone plant on May 4, 2021, targeting over 1 million units a year.

Flottweg inaugurated Plant 2 in Vilsbiburg, Germany, a roughly $66 million investment that doubles the company's separation-technology production capacity.

Modine Manufacturing will invest $7 million to convert a former warehouse in Rockbridge County, Virginia into a plant making data center cooling solutions. The operation is expected to create 60 new jobs after full ramp-up.

India's Forpack Industries signed an MoU with Sharjah's SAIF Zone to establish its first UAE headquarters by leasing four warehouses in the U2 area. The company plans AED 10 million in capital investment and makes packaging, stretch film and cardboard products.

Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme broke ground in Waldkraiburg on a 50 million euro new campus with a multi-storey assembly hall and automated warehouse, due by June 2022, consolidating three plants for 650 employees.

Cartones de Guatemala opened a new greenfield corrugated board facility of under 33,000 sqm in Escuintla, with a Fosber corrugator that started up on April 26, 2021.

Ball Corp is buying land from Rome-Floyd County development authorities for about $3.8 million to build a $51.8 million, 750,000 sq ft warehouse and distribution center expected to add 70 jobs.

Norrhydro Oy will build a roughly €15 million factory in Rovaniemi's new industry area, doubling production capacity over time and creating over 100 jobs; construction starts May 2021 with relocation in 2022.

Lugrama, a printing company focused on pharmaceutical packaging, is investing about US$6 million in a new plant on Ruta 101 in Canelones, Uruguay. The plant will double production capacity from 10 to 20 million cartons per month and add 15 jobs, with operations expected in August 2021.

Construction is underway on Linuo's high-performance control valve production and R&D project in Ruian, Zhejiang, with total investment of 350 million yuan. Completion is expected in 2022 with annual output value of 1 billion yuan.

Port Houston and Portwall Partners signed a 50-year lease for Portwall to build an 800,000-square-foot resin packaging facility at the Bayport Industrial Complex in Houston. The plant will be operated by Packwell.

Grupo WIC, a subsidiary of Western Industries Corporation, opened a new larger facility in Reynosa, Mexico, with new manufacturing capabilities, with an inauguration ceremony held on August 21, 2018.

Pregis has opened a 128,000 sq ft facility in Garland, Texas, producing protective packaging materials and hosting a customer demo center. The site already employs 44 people, with 40 more to be added later in the year.

Crown Embalagens Metalicas da Amazonia signed a letter of intent with the city of Uberaba, Brazil, for a new beverage can factory with about R$500 million investment. Earthworks have begun on a 360,000 square metre site, with 800 construction jobs and 140 operating jobs expected.

Premier Packaging Corporation will move into a newly built 105,000 square-foot facility in Wiregrass Business Park, Town of Henrietta, Monroe County, New York, and buy new machinery, creating up to 37 jobs.

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

Innovation Foods is building a $45 million, 71,000 sq ft facility in Millville, New Jersey, to produce aseptic and ESL oat beverages for Oatly, with opening projected for mid-2022. The facility will create 40 new jobs.

Munters Group AB will invest $36 million in a 365,000 sq ft facility at Botetourt Center at Greenfield, Virginia, to replace its Buena Vista plant. The company plans to retain its approximately 200 workers.

E.ON has brought into operation a 3 MW trigeneration plant that supplies electricity, heat and cooling to Amcor Flexibles' Lugo di Vicenza packaging plant. The plant is expected to avoid over 3,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.

C.R.I. Pumps inaugurated a second uPVC and CPVC pipe plant at Hosur, Tamil Nadu, to serve southern and eastern India. Together with the Gandhinagar plant, capacity is set to reach 40,000 metric tonnes per year.

Edwards will invest in a new building in Haverhill, Massachusetts, expected to be completed in Q2 2022, to host an innovation and solutions center for its cryogenic pump and chiller product company, relocating functions from Chelmsford.

CANPACK is building its first US manufacturing plant, a 1.2-million square foot aluminum can facility on a former brownfield site in Olyphant, Pennsylvania, reaching its topping-out stage with over 400 jobs expected within two years.

Egyptian sanitary ware and plumbing maker Valio (Faliou) has leased a new 1,200 sq m factory in Tenth of Ramadan City, to start operating in July 2021, adding capacity and a new component line to cut imports.

Pharmaceutical packaging firm Origin has opened a new warehouse in Scunthorpe, about three times the size of its previous 25,000 sq ft site in Melton. The facility has capacity for 4,900 pallet spaces and is currently rented.

Guangdong Hande Precision Machinery began construction on its Section 2 compressor industry park in Yuanzhou town, Boluo County, Huizhou, as part of a batch of 17 industrial projects. The reported investment for the project is about 1.2 billion RMB, and the event took place on 3 March 2021.

Constantia Copenhagen opened a new fully automated 6,000 square metre production site in Ishøj, Denmark, at the end of March 2021, with over EUR 8 million invested and capacity tripled.

Richmond-based folding carton maker Dominion Packaging has leased 144,606 square feet in the second phase of Becknell Industrial's Airport Logistics Center near Richmond International Airport, Virginia, in March 2021.

Hanon Systems began construction of its fifth plant in Korea, in Naengcheon-ri, Gyeongju-si, on a site of about 33,000 square meters. The plant will make heat pump modules and coolant valve assemblies for electric vehicles, with completion expected in Q2 2021 and production from Q3 2021.

Green Bay Packaging CEO Will Kress described plans for a new state-of-the-art paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to replace the original 1940s mill. The project has cost over $500 million and is the largest single development project in Brown County history.

Kruger Products completed and started up its new tissue manufacturing facility in Brompton, Sherbrooke, featuring Canada's largest through-air-dry tissue machine after C$575M of investment.

Victaulic recently purchased a 220,000 square foot Waupaca manufacturing plant in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, to add a manufacturing site. The announcement was dated February 25, 2021.

Northvolt announced a new highly automated battery module and energy storage systems plant with an R&D centre in Gdańsk, Poland, with investment of nearly USD 200 million and up to 500 jobs. Production is to start in 2022.