Niagara Bottling plans a bottling plant in Florence County, South Carolina, with investment of more than $70 million and 70 new full-time jobs. The plant is expected to operate in Q1 2021.

CROWN Cork and Seal USA celebrated the groundbreaking of a 327,000 sq ft beverage can plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, investing $147 million and creating 126 direct jobs. The plant is scheduled to be operational by Q1 2021.

DS Controls of Veliky Novgorod is moving from servicing pipeline valves to producing them at a site in Leninogorsk, Tatarstan, with opening planned for March-April 2020. The plant plans up to 300 valves per month and 100 new jobs, with expected revenue of about $20 million a year.

NIBE-BIAWAR has moved production into a new plant in the Białystok subzone of the Suwałki Special Economic Zone and opened a training centre. The first investment stage cost over PLN 25 million.

Italian group Dopla has invested EUR 18 million to open two 10,000 square metre plants at its Polinyà site in Barcelona, making biodegradable cups and plates, with 44 new hires. The plants are already operating, according to the Catalan government.

AtCorr Packaging is investing $780,950 and creating 31 new jobs by relocating its corrugated sheet plant to a new 130,000 square foot facility at 1320 West Main Street in Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky.

Johnson Matthey Poland has built a new automotive catalyst factory of about 23,000 square metres in Gliwice, Poland, and plans to hire 400 workers, with recruitment starting in March 2020. The construction cost of the plant was 128 million PLN within a wider 450 million PLN investment begun in 2018.

Navien, Inc., the US subsidiary of Seoul-based KD Navien, will invest $77.5 million to establish its first US manufacturing and assembly plant in a former Lumber Liquidators facility in James City County, Virginia, creating 180 jobs.

Megaplast launched a new flexible packaging plant of 9,100 square meters in Thiva, Central Greece, part of a 23-million-euro investment program over three years. The plant is expected to employ 70 workers.

Schlumberger opened a manufacturing center in King Salman Energy Park (SPARK) in Dammam, producing liner hangers, packers and GROVE and ORBIT valves. The first phase covers 105,000 square meters and will create more than 200 jobs.

Barber-Nichols held a groundbreaking for a new 43,000 sq ft advanced manufacturing facility in Arvada, Colorado, with completion scheduled for early 2021. The company plans to hire more than twenty new full-time employees in 2020.

SCHOTT started construction of a new plant in Müllheim, Germany, for sterile polymer pharmaceutical primary packaging such as prefillable syringes, on an 11,000 square meter site, with completion planned by 2022 and 100 new jobs.

Corex Group opened a new production facility in Wierden, Netherlands, dedicated to consumer packaging for dry food and other segments. The line can produce 15 million cans annually.

Solucan is setting up a digital can printing production line in part of the former Wabasso plant in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, for a project of CAD 4,094,891. The Quebec government granted a loan of CAD 1,340,713 and the federal government a loan of CAD 500,000; production started in December.

Petoskey Plastics closed on $20 million in New Markets Tax Credits to finance a new rail-served recycling and manufacturing facility in McKinney, Texas, creating 154 jobs. The announcement was made on February 11, 2020.

Allpax Products, a ProMach brand, will build an 80,000 square foot headquarters and manufacturing center in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, replacing existing facilities. The $7 million investment retains 55 jobs and creates five new direct jobs.

Lindal Group is building a new factory for Lindal do Brasil in Jundiaí, São Paulo state, with an investment of R$112 million due by 2021 and about 130 new jobs. Construction is underway and completion is expected within a year.

Flosil Group plans to set up a forging and casting plant on the 10-acre Goodrich Gasket facility at Kelambakkam near Chennai, to serve Aramco, Petronas and ADNOC.

Austin-based ePac Flexible Packaging will invest $6.5 million to establish a manufacturing facility in Henrico County, Virginia, creating 35 jobs, as announced by Governor Ralph Northam.

Biffa has opened a £27.5m ($35.8m) PET bottle recycling facility in Seaham, England, capable of processing 57,000 metric tons of PET per year and creating 100 full-time jobs.

Austria's Prinzhorn Group plans to invest about €52 million in a new packaging factory in Dunavarsány, near Budapest, largely supplied with recycled cardboard from its subsidiary Hamburger Containerboard. The plant is planned to open in summer 2021 with about 200 workers and capacity of around 240 million sq m per year.

Big Beverages Contract Manufacturing plans a beverage co-packing facility in a 170,000 sq ft building at The Park-Huntersville, creating 60 jobs. The facility will start with one line producing 1,200 cans per minute.

Parvalux Electric Motors plans to build a new 13,000 m2 factory and headquarters in Poole, consolidating three existing sites. It has bought a 3.54ha site on Cabot Lane, with construction due to start later in 2020 and occupation in 2021.

Nutmeg Container, a division of Unicorr Packaging Group, has completed refurbishment of a 125,000 sq ft manufacturing and warehouse facility in Thompson, Connecticut, consolidating its wood production there.

Pitreavie Group is opening a £3.8 million corrugated box manufacturing facility of 57,000 sq ft in Westfield, near Cumbernauld, with operations starting in March 2020 and 35 new jobs.

Corbion will invest approximately US$190 million in a new 125,000 metric ton lactic acid plant at its existing Rayong Province site in Thailand, using its gypsum-free technology.

Mueller Water Products is building a finished goods brass foundry in Decatur, Illinois, expected to employ 250 workers and increase production capacity for the water infrastructure industry.

Danfoss, through its Indian subsidiary Danfoss Power Solutions, has invested about €15 million in a Pune facility manufacturing mobile hydraulics products such as electronic controls, pumps, valves and motors for construction, agriculture and off-highway vehicles. The article is dated January 2020.

Oliva Cigars, owned by Belgian supplier J. Cortès, announced the official opening of its Tabolisa 1 cigar factory in Esteli, Nicaragua, the last phase of a three-year project that began in November 2016.

Ball Corporation has invested about US$80 million in a 23,000 sq m aluminum can and lid plant in Guarambaré, Paraguay, which began production in December 2019 and creates over 350 jobs.

Linde Hydraulics opened a new production plant in Weifang, China, a 36,000m² facility for assembling high-pressure pumps, motors and valve technology, with capacity of 100,000 units per year.

Dunapack Packaging, part of Austria's Prinzhorn group, will invest €52 million in a new corrugated packaging plant in Dunavarsány, about 15 km south of Budapest, with capacity of 240 million m². Production start-up is scheduled for summer 2021.

A planned 40,000-unit-per-year high-end valve project in Lishui Economic and Technological Development Zone, Zhejiang, with total investment of RMB 105 million, will lease a plant from Lishui Heli Pump & Valve Manufacturing. Production is expected to start in March 2021. The report is dated January 17, 2020.

Canpack has launched its aluminum beverage can factory in Tocancipá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, with an investment of US$150 million. The 75,000 m2 plant can produce about 1.3 billion cans a year, expandable to 1.9 billion, and will serve Peru, Ecuador and the Caribbean.

Packaging Corporation of America has built a $26 million corrugated cardboard box plant on a 42-acre Richland site bought from the city for $1.7 million. The plant opened with an estimated 65 workers, with the workforce expected to grow to 100-150.

Ball Corporation broke ground in Rome, Georgia on a new aluminum cups manufacturing facility next to its existing can plant, a multi-year investment of about $200 million that plans to hire approximately 145 employees.

VEGA Americas acquired about 50 acres in Mason, Ohio's Research and Development Park for a new North American headquarters and advanced manufacturing facility.

Polish group CANPACK is building an aluminium beverage can plant in Stribro with an investment of about CZK 2.5 billion, employing up to 160 people, with production planned to start in July 2020.

Progressive Pipe Fabricators, a division of Shambaugh & Son, has broken ground on an 82,000-square-foot custom fire protection fabrication facility in Lawrence County, expected to be operational by July 1 and to employ 50.

CCI Manufacturing USA is investing $21.5 million in an advanced production facility at the Mallard Fox West Industrial Complex in Lawrence County to make brake fluid and engine coolant, creating 28 jobs.

Packaging company Albéa is to open a new plant in Huai'an, China, which will manufacture metal tubes.

DS Smith opened a new 550,000-square-foot corrugated box manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Indiana, on January 24, 2020, capable of producing about 30,000 boxes an hour.

ZF opened its first US plant for automatic passenger car transmissions in Gray Court, South Carolina, making the 8HP and 9HP transmissions with about 1.2 million units planned annually and a total investment of about $600 million.

KYB Americas announced a new manufacturing plant in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, to begin with hydraulic pumps for automotive continuously variable transmissions and later make shocks, struts and steering components. The plant is expected to add 130 jobs.

NCI Packaging invested $35 million in a new Auckland factory producing milk powder cans, with production starting at the beginning of 2020. The site includes a Metal Star 3 printing press, the only one in New Zealand.

ND Paper plans to invest about $49 million to open a corrugated cardboard box plant in Racine County, Wisconsin, creating 88 jobs. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp disclosed the plan.

Precise Packaging opened a new 15,000 square-foot aerosol and liquid contract manufacturing facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, near its headquarters. The site has two custom liquid filling lines and a new shrink sleever, and the company hired several new staff.

Juniper opened a container glass plant in Debre Birhan, about 130 km from Addis Ababa, with capacity of 200 million glass bottles a year. Construction and equipment cost about $100 million, and Rama Construction built the factory.

Kaneka has completed a PHBH biodegradable polymer plant with annual production capacity of about 5,000 tons, five times its previous model, at an investment of around 2.5 billion yen.

Ausnutria and Trivium Packaging are building a joint-venture can manufacturing plant of more than 10,000 square meters at Ausnutria's Heerenveen site in the Netherlands, expected to open in 2020 with capacity above 150 million cans by 2021.