Inland Packaging announced a new third facility near the La Crosse Regional Airport in La Crosse, Wisconsin, bringing new jobs. Full production is planned by May 2021.

L&T Valves Arabia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of L&T Valves, is setting up a manufacturing facility in the Eastern Province near Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia, to make its full valve range from October, supporting Saudi Aramco's IKTVA programme.

Envases Group announced plans for its first aluminum can production and distribution center in Waco, Texas, with 120 jobs and over $100 million in capital investment. Opening is projected for late 2021.

Plastic packaging provider Comar is developing a new manufacturing facility of about 159,000 square feet in Vineland, New Jersey, to expand capacity from its Buena site. Groundbreaking took place in November 2020 with completion expected in March 2021.

YBA Kanoo and US-based Clarke Valve are coordinating to build a production line for Shutter Valves in Saudi Arabia. The plan would bring assembly and servicing closer to regional customers, as reported on December 2, 2020.

Unibloc Pump moved its headquarters and manufacturing to a new Kennesaw, Georgia facility at 1650 Airport Road. The site is three times larger than the previous Marietta building and adds R&D, service and warehouse space.

Guangzhou Wanbao Compressor held a groundbreaking for a refrigerator compressor factory in Conghua district, Guangzhou, with about 1 billion yuan invested and capacity of 21 million units per year. Production is scheduled to start in October 2021.

Camfil Group is building a new state-of-the-art facility in Taicang city, Jiangsu province, China, as part of expanding its global operations.

Mondi will open its first South American paper bags plant in Cartagena, Colombia, in January 2021, with one production line of about 50 million bags per year, serving chemical, food and cement customers.

Progroup's PM3 containerboard paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany, started operating in August 2020 and has reached more than 2,000 tonnes a day, with full run-up expected by the end of Q2 2021 and output of up to 750,000 tonnes a year.

Marelli is opening a production facility for electric drivetrains in Cologne, Germany, on 18,000 square metres, with production slated to start in the first half of 2021 and about 160 employees.

Linde and the Dalian Bingshan Group signed an agreement to establish a joint venture manufacturing hydrogen refueling stations in Dalian, Liaoning, starting in 2021, tripling Linde's production capacity for these stations.

Italian packaging maker Gruppo Fanti will invest $30 million to buy and reuse the former Signode building in Weirton's Half Moon Industrial Park, creating at least 40 jobs. It is the group's first U.S. plant.

Europal Packaging, part of the D.I. Group, has started up a new 2.5m doublewall Quantum corrugator line at its new factory in Blandain/Tournai, Belgium. The line was installed by Quantum Corrugated and Fosber Group.

Atılım Ambalaj has broken ground on a new factory in the Bolu Organized Industrial Zone to produce food stretch film. Production is targeted for 2021 at about 1,300-1,400 tonnes per year.

Entekra planned a new production facility in Modesto, California for off-site framing for residential and commercial construction, and equipped it with a compressed air system supplied by Rogers Machinery.

Japan-based CKD Corporation will establish its first U.S. production site in Austin, Texas, with a $13 million investment creating up to 70 jobs. The facility will make fluid control components for the semiconductor industry and is scheduled to start operations in Fall 2021.

TI Fluid Systems has commissioned a new plant in Tangier, Morocco for battery electric vehicle components, supplying finished hoses to Tauste, Spain for final assembly.

IMI Truflo Marine, part of IMI Critical Engineering, agreed a 15-year lease on a new 57,000 sq ft manufacturing and design headquarters at Birmingham's Advanced Manufacturing Hub, developed by Barberry Industrial, with construction possibly starting before year-end and completion expected in Q3 2021.

Wilo USA held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 244,000 sq ft headquarters and production facility in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

Jokey Group is building a new production facility in Murcia, Spain, for its Jokey Treplás subsidiary, investing about 12 million euros, to replace the Molina de Segura plant and double capacity, with operation expected in early 2021.

Progroup and Krystals have started operating a new £20 million packaging park in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, combining Progroup's corrugated board plant with Krystals' packaging production on one site.

U.S. Corrugated of Delaware chose Dover, Delaware as its preferred location for a new $80 million, 457,000 sq ft box-manufacturing plant creating 159 jobs, with state grants of over $3 million under consideration.

Ball Corporation approved a US$90 million investment to build a new aluminum can production plant in Frutal (MG), Brazil, its eleventh plant in the country, to meet rising demand for canned beer and new beverage categories.

Crane held a groundbreaking ceremony on October 23, 2020 for a new Engineered Check Valves factory in Satara, India, planned to open in October 2021 and produce Noz-Chek and Duo-Chek valves up to 84 inches.

Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies, plans to invest approximately $650 million through 2027 in a new manufacturing facility in Buncombe County, North Carolina. The operation is intended to create 800 new positions.

Progroup and Krystals have started operating a joint packaging park in Ellesmere Port near Liverpool, linking Progroup's corrugator with Krystals' packaging production. Progroup's investment in the corrugated board plant and packaging park totals more than £90 million.

Emerson will open a new manufacturing facility in Ash Flat, Arkansas, investing $35 million and creating about 245 jobs within four years.

Saica Group held a groundbreaking on a 350,000 sq ft corrugated packaging plant in Hamilton, Ohio, its first US plant, representing a $72 million investment and expected to create 64 jobs.

Panattoni has started construction of a 12,000 sq m built-to-own factory for Danfoss Poland in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, to produce refrigeration and air-conditioning components, with completion planned for November 2021.

Danfoss started construction of a new production hall at its site in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, on 13 October 2020, which is expected to create 400 jobs. The plant will make solenoid valves for water installations.

SIG SAUER is poised to acquire a multi-building campus of up to 210,000 sq ft in Rochester, New Hampshire, to relocate its Dover operation and expand manufacturing, with about 300 new jobs expected.

Merck celebrated the topping-out of its new membrane factory in Darmstadt, an investment of more than €140 million that will produce Millipore Express membranes for sterile filters and create about 55 jobs. Construction is due to finish in 2022.

Zhenhong bought a 30,000 square metre permanent manufacturing base in the Wenzhou Airport Industrial Zone for CNY125 million (about USD20 million). It plans to move there by May 2022 and consolidate its existing plants.

Trillium Flow Technologies is moving its WSP Self-Primer pump line and other operations from Salt Lake City, Utah to a Fresno, California facility that becomes its US pump headquarters. The move is expected to generate more than 50 additional jobs over five years.

Motion Industries broke ground on a $11.1 million, 104,000-square-foot shop facility in Irondale, Alabama, housing its fluid power shop, hose and rubber shop and engineering department. The project was announced in October 2020, is expected to finish in Q3 2021 and will create 15 new jobs.

Trillium Pumps merged its Salt Lake City, Utah facility into its Fresno, California plant, making Fresno its North American headquarters for pump manufacturing. The company expects to add more than 50 jobs, with the move to be completed by late 2021.

Rusken Packaging has opened a new facility in Conyers, Georgia, consolidating its former Canton and Conyers locations under one roof. The site includes a new BOBST Discovery Flexo Folder Gluer and sits next to corrugator supplier Corrugated Supplies Company Atlanta.

U.S. Corrugated plans to buy about 40 acres south of Dover and build an approximately $80 million corrugated cardboard box manufacturing plant bringing 150 jobs to Kent County, Delaware, reported September 29, 2020.

N95 respirator maker Moldex-Metric will retrofit an existing building in Lebanon, Tennessee, for its first Tennessee manufacturing facility, with a $25 million investment and over 200 jobs over three years, announced September 29, 2020.

Bell Oil and Gas broke ground on a $10 million threading and valve assembly facility at the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos, Nigeria. The integrated plant will provide piping, tubular, valve assembly and fabrication services for the oil and gas industry.

Goodwill of the Heartland converted a former food distribution centre in Coralville, Iowa, into a vegetable oil packaging facility after investing $8 million. The facility has nine full-time employees and began operating after remodelling completed in June 2020.

PAPACKS is investing over €10 million in its GIGAFACTORY 1 in Arnstadt, Germany, creating around 20 new jobs for molded paper fiber packaging. The topping-out ceremony was held on 25 September 2020.

Trivium and Ausnutria are building a new €30 million can factory at the Internationaal Bedrijvenpark Friesland in Heerenveen, Netherlands, due for completion at the end of 2020. Trivium will produce 150 million cans a year for Ausnutria's infant formula under a ten-year contract.

EBARA Precision Machinery Europe invested about €1.6 million in a new overhaul centre for vacuum pumps in Dresden-Weixdorf, Germany, announced on 25 September 2020. The site is the second overhaul centre after Livingston, Scotland.

Thermo Fisher Scientific opened a Suzhou branch of its China Innovation Center, with an office and R&D environment of about 800 square metres including sample preparation, chemical analysis and air testing laboratories.

Grundfos has broken ground on a new 45,000 square foot facility in Brookshire, Texas, to house its Americas Regional Center. The expansion is expected to bring about 90 positions to the area.

Baosteel Packaging will build a new aluminum easy open can production line in Huaiyuan Industrial Park, Bengbu, Anhui. The first phase has an annual design capacity of 1.1 billion cans and an estimated total investment of RMB 440 million.

Shijiazhuang Guanling Packaging has opened a plant about 150km southwest of Beijing to make cans for infant formula. The line will eventually produce 75 million cans a year, with RMB 510 million in plant cost.

Bennett Packaging plans a nearly $70 million, 524,300-square-foot corporate campus in Kansas City to move the core of its custom corrugated packaging and retail display operations. Kansas City council members voted to approve up to $48 million in Chapter 100 industrial revenue bonds.