Torgovy Dom ADL received a seven-year land lease of 1.3 hectares in the Kolomna district to build a plant for serial production of steel ball valves. The investment is about 1.1 billion rubles, with construction starting in 2021, full capacity planned for 2027, and 41 new jobs.

Bostik started up a new industrial adhesives plant in Nara, Japan, within the Bostik-Nitta joint venture, 80% owned by Arkema. The lines serve non-woven hygiene and industrial packaging, labelling, transportation and electronics markets.

Canadian manufacturer Modern Manufacturing selected Eudora, Kansas for a new production facility making railway crossing light systems and steel bungalows, buying a 50,000 sq ft building and about 18 acres, with about 40 new jobs.

Wilo USA is building a 250,000 sq ft headquarters and manufacturing campus on Highway 60 in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, with opening planned for early 2022.

A newly commissioned Shenyang plant of Burckhardt Compression's Chinese unit, with 86,000 m2 of production area on 153,000 m2 of land, replaces two older city-centre sites. Operations are set to begin at the end of September 2020.

Westfield Fluid Controls, an affiliate of Westfield Hydraulics, will invest $5.1 million to relocate a manufacturing operation from San Fernando, California to a 30,000-square-foot facility in Lafayette, Louisiana, creating 67 direct jobs.

Graphic Packaging opened a highly automated 1.2 million sq ft folding carton factory in Monroe, Louisiana, consolidating two plants and three warehouses. The 180 million US dollar investment will convert more than 1.4 billion beverage cartons a year.

Bosch and Electra Consumer Products plan to set up an HVAC manufacturing facility and technology park in Ashkelon, Israel, investing NIS 100 million (about $29.6 million). The plant is due to open in early 2022 and employ 300 people.

Smoothie maker innocent is building its first own bottling plant in the Port of Rotterdam, a greenfield CO2-neutral factory with an investment of US$250 million.

Ball Corporation operates a beverage can and lid plant in Guarambaré, Paraguay, with total investment of about US$80 million and over 350 jobs, serving Bolivia and northern Argentina.

Ball Corporation plans a new aluminum beverage packaging plant at the former Techneglas site in Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, creating about 230 jobs with an investment of about $360 million over multiple years.

Grupo Petrópolis' greenfield brewery in Uberaba, Brazil, built with Krones as general contractor and Steinecker brewing lines, started production in September 2020 and reached nearly 6 million cans in a single day in February 2021.

Messer is building a new air separation plant in Vila-seca, Tarragona, with a €35 million investment, producing 2,400 tonnes per day of oxygen, nitrogen and argon, with startup planned for December next year.

FNA Compressors opened a new 36,000 sqm production plant in Haiyan, Zhejiang province, China, its fifth worldwide, employing over 600 people.

Progroup started operating its new PM3 paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, with a containerboard paper machine of 750,000 tonnes annual capacity, raising its output to about 1.85 million tonnes.

Arkhbum JSC is preparing a new corrugated board plant in Ulyanovsk for 2021, with BOBST supplying two packaging production lines worth an investment of €14.2 million.

Schulz of America, a US subsidiary of Joinville-based Schulz Compressores, opened a new facility in Acworth, near Atlanta, Georgia, after investing about US$2.5 million to expand its presence in the North American market.

HydraSpecma is moving into a new 11,200 sq m facility that will house its Swedish headquarters and production of hydraulic equipment for the vehicle industry. Logistic Contractor is building the new warehouse, and Installationsbolaget is installing its sprinkler system.

Green Bay Packaging will begin construction of a new 550,000 sq ft corrugator plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, replacing its 180,000 sq ft plant there. Construction starts September 1, 2020, with start-up scheduled for October 2021.

Dana Incorporated opened a new manufacturing and assembly plant of about 16,000 sq m in Yancheng, China, its 24th in China, to produce off-highway drive and motion components. The plant can produce about 160,000 units per year.

Beijing Fengdian Jinkaiwei Group signed an agreement on August 19, 2020 to set up a 300 million yuan hydrogen compressor project in the Changshu High-tech Zone, with a 25,000 sq m plant and annual sales of 500 million yuan expected at full production.

Dover Precision Components opened a new roughly 12,000 sq ft Innovation Lab in Houston, Texas, housing test rigs for fluid film bearings and reciprocating compressor components.

Miura Industry's Chinese subsidiary started operating a new plant in Suzhou making gas-fired industrial boilers, raising combined annual capacity to 5,000 units, about 2.5 times the previous level. The investment was about 2.6 billion yen.

Xingang Thermal Energy broke ground in Zhangzhou Development Zone on a 150 million yuan plant making large permanent-magnet screw air compressors, with 8,000 wan yuan projected annual sales.

Zhangzhou Manma Li Automation Machinery broke ground on a high-speed internal mixer manufacturing project in Zhangzhou Development Zone with about 160 million yuan investment, expected to start production in 2022.

PaperFoam completed first test runs at its new Krupka plant in the Czech Republic and plans full production from September 2020. The plant adds a second European site and could raise global capacity by more than 30%.

Kubota will transfer part of its compact track loader production for North America to a new plant in Salina, Kansas, run by subsidiary Great Plains Manufacturing. Mass production is set to start in 2022, with an investment of about $53 million.

Packaging maker Pratt Industries signed a five-year lease for 136,600 square feet at $4.00 per square foot, less than a mile from its manufacturing facility. The case study is dated August 17, 2020.

Futurepump opened its new Chibhda factory on a two-acre campus near Rajkot, Gujarat, ahead of schedule. The facility has tripled production capacity to over 2,000 pumps per month.

Southern Champion Tray will invest $84.9 million in a new paperboard packaging manufacturing facility at the Centre South Riverport Industrial Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee, creating more than 120 jobs. Construction is expected to start in early 2021 and finish by early 2022.

Canadian flexible packaging company Rootree Inc. opened a second location in Montréal, Québec, to serve French-speaking and Québec-based clients, as the company grows its customer base across North America.

Polish plastics packaging maker TW Plast leased an 8,000 m² hall at Accolade's industrial park in Mińsk Mazowiecki to produce type II surgical masks, reportedly one of Europe's largest such plants.

Oji announced a new corrugated packaging plant in Malaysia with 7 million m² per month capacity on a 42,000 m² site, to be operated by subsidiary United Kotak Berhad at a cost of about JPY4bn. Production is scheduled to start in January 2022.

Packaging Corporation of America may spend up to $170 million to move its Newark plant from South 21st Street to a new, larger facility on Thornwood Drive, subject to city and county approval. The proposal was reported on August 5, 2020.

Pact Group, Cleanaway Waste Management and Asahi Beverages formed a joint venture to build a A$45 million PET plastic recycling plant at the Nexus Precinct in Albury/Wodonga, NSW, expected to be operational by December 2021.

Canpack has started commercial production of aluminum beverage cans at its greenfield plant in Stříbro, near Plzeň. The plant supplies Plzeňský Prazdroj and will produce about 1 billion cans a year, with an investment above EUR 100 million and over 140 jobs.

COFCO Coca-Cola began construction on its 20th bottling factory in China in Guian New Area, Guizhou province, on July 28, 2020. The first stage has an investment of 270 million yuan and an annual capacity of 170,000 metric tons, with operations expected by end-2021.

Walton High-tech Industries established Bangladesh's first compressor factory, which it established on April 6, 2017, and publicised in July 2020. Walton says the plant makes compressors with German technology and offers a 12-year warranty.

Electro-Mechanical announced in November 2024 that it will invest $16.55 million to expand operations in Southwest Virginia, adding a 200,000 square foot facility in Washington County.

Arkhbum-Pak will build another factory in the Vorsino industrial park in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, investing 2 billion rubles and creating about 200 jobs to make paper bags and tableware. The agreement was signed on 24 July 2020.

BioPure Technology, owned by Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group, will build a 120,000 sq ft fluid-path component factory at Dunsbury Park in Portsmouth, creating 120 jobs, with work starting later in summer 2020.

International Cushioning Company will invest more than $3.6 million to establish a new advanced manufacturing facility in Fremont, Ohio, creating 75 jobs in its first year.

CANPACK Group, through its parent Giorgi Global Holdings, announced a $366 million aluminum can manufacturing facility and operations center on a 102-acre site in Olyphant near Scranton, Pennsylvania. The plant is expected to be operating by Q4 2021 and employ over 400 people.

Industrial distributor Harrington plans to invest over $2.4 million in a 68,000-square-foot regional distribution center in New Haven, Indiana, retrofitting an existing building, by the end of 2024. The company intends to add up to 20 jobs.

Alpla, a plastic packaging manufacturer, will spend $21 million on a new plant of about 154,000 square feet in a NorthPoint Development warehouse next to Dayton International Airport. The plant is expected to add 50 jobs by April.

Bio Pappel, Mexico's largest paper manufacturer, is putting into operation a packaging plant in Lebanon, Indiana, with operations expected to begin in July 2020.

Azbil announced it will construct a new factory building at its subsidiary Azbil Equipment (Dalian) in Dalian, Liaoning Province, to expand production capacity, with completion planned for early 2022. The article states an investment of 4600 million yuan, though its yen equivalent is inconsistent.

Neles has started operations at its new greenfield valve technology center in Jiaxing, China, announced in October 2018. The plant will produce over 100,000 standard valves per year for customers in process industries.

Spain's Saica Group will build its first North American facility, a corrugated manufacturing plant in Hamilton's Enterprise Park near Cincinnati, Ohio, investing nearly $72 million and creating 64 jobs. Construction is expected to start in September 2020 and take eighteen months.

Ball Metal Beverage Container, a division of Ball Corp, signed a lease for 165,000 square feet at the Monroe Logistics Center in Monroe, Ohio, relocating its distribution operations from Trenton. The landlord is Industrial Developments International.