CIRCOR International announced a new centrifugal and displacement pump manufacturing facility in Weihai, Shandong Province, China, to open in 2020. It will support customers in Asia.

Panasonic Life Solutions India will build a factory in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, to produce wiring devices, electrical wire and switchgear, with an investment of 2,946 million rupees. Production is scheduled to start in autumn 2021.

Gerresheimer officially opened a new plant in Kosamba, India, on December 16, 2019, to manufacture plastic primary packaging for pharmaceutical products.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc. (BCI) opened a new 260,000-square-foot corrugated sheet plant in Houston, Texas, on December 16, 2019, with equipment transferred from its existing site and several new machines added.

Korea-based Hyosung Heavy Industries will invest $86.9 million to create 410 jobs at a new US production facility in Shelby County, Memphis, Tennessee, making power transformers. Production is planned to start by the first half of 2020.

Petroleum Development Oman and Schlumberger opened the Oman Assembly, Repair and Inspection Centre in Nizwa, investing $26 million. The facility makes electric submersible pumps and gauges, can produce 25 to 60 ESP strings per month, and employs 20 Omanis initially.

Dalian Qianyi Heavy Industry Group's Juyi Heavy Industry turbo compressor production line project broke ground in Deyang, Sichuan, with a total investment of 1.18 billion CNY on a 150,000 square metre site, built in two phases.

Gerresheimer officially opened a new plant in Changzhou, China, producing plastic primary packaging for pharmaceuticals. The facility operates in clean rooms of class 9 and 7 and has FDA registration for US-type containers.

Waterlogic USA will establish a new North American headquarters and Center of Excellence in Grapevine, Texas, moving manufacturing from China into a new facility. The project involves more than $1.6 million in capital investment and up to 164 new jobs, supported by a $524,400 Texas Enterprise Fund grant.

Nice-Pak Products announced an $80 million expansion in Mooresville, Indiana, moving to a planned 760,000 sq ft facility on 55 acres owned by the RDC, expected to create about 100 jobs. The $80 million covers $43.5 million for property and facility and $36.5 million for equipment.

INEOS Styrolution and Agilyx are advancing development of a polystyrene chemical recycling facility in Channahon, Illinois, capable of processing up to 100 tons per day of post-consumer polystyrene. The next phase covers engineering and design.

Enerflex completed the Mila midline compressor station at Bombala, New South Wales, for Jemena, five weeks ahead of schedule. The station boosts capacity of the Eastern Gas Pipeline.

Charl-Pol, a maker of welded mechanical parts for heavy industry, has begun construction of a fifth plant in Baie-Comeau, Quebec, with an investment of CAD 3 to 5 million. The lower bound is used here.

ABB is investing $16 million to open a new Product Development Center in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

San Miguel Industrias is constructing a 10,000 square metre rigid plastic packaging plant in Huejotzingo, Mexico, with a $28 million investment, 10 SACMI machines and 150 planned jobs.

Elliott Group broke ground on a $60 million cryogenic pump test facility at the former Jeannette Glass site in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, near its U.S. headquarters. The company chose the site as its main U.S. manufacturing base.

Darvico has opened a new facility in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, where its joint venture with Baker Hughes, a GE company, provides localised production of Masoneilan and Consolidated control valves.

Unilok, a maker of high-performance valves, invested 48 billion won and completed a new factory in Sihwa MTV, Korea, with about 20,000 m2 of land. A 7,600 m2 site is reserved for expansion.

The Government of Serbia and Aptiv signed a Memorandum of Understanding for Aptiv to open a factory in Zajecar, investing close to EUR 20 million and employing around 2,000 workers. The 40,000 sq m plant is planned in an industrial zone, with construction expected to start in early 2020.

Constantia Flexibles has opened Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, described as the first plant designed to produce sustainable, recyclable flexible packaging. The 24,500 sq m plant began test runs in September 2019 and has 50 staff.

Russian trading holding Forte announced plans to build a large pump manufacturing plant near Azov, Rostov region, in cooperation with Italian firm S.A.I.P., at an estimated cost of €40 million. The holding has acquired a site of over 100,000 sq m and targets production launch by mid-2021, with up to 700 jobs.

Canpack opened a $150 million aluminium beverage can factory in Tocancipa, Colombia, with capacity of 1.3 billion cans per year expandable to 1.9 billion. The plant employs over 200 people and mainly supplies Bavaria, part of AB InBev.

Baker Hughes broke ground on its first chemicals manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia at the PlasChem Park in Jubail and agreed to supply feedstock chemicals from Sadara Chemical Company. The announcement was dated November 26, 2019.

Miba officially opened its new Miba Drivetec India production site in Pune on November 21, 2019. The space for production and administration more than doubles, from 1,000 to 2,600 square meters.

Mauser Packaging Solutions plans to invest $850,000 to build out 120,960 square feet of new space at 1740 South Interstate 45 in Hutchins, Texas, expected to be occupied around March 1, 2020.

Lindal announced it is moving its Brazilian operations to Jundiaí and building a new unit at Fazenda Grande with about US$10 million of investment. The first phase covers 8,000 m2, expanding to 16,000 m2, and staff is expected to grow from about 90 to 120.

Panattoni Europe is converting 12,000 sqm at Panattoni Business Center Łódź III into a plant for Sealed Air producing PE foam packaging. Production is scheduled to start in November 2019 under a lease signed in April 2019.

Weber Maschinenbau inaugurated its new plant in Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia, producing components and format and cutting tools for packaging machines. The building was delivered with C + P, which built the steel structure and outer shell.

Flexible packaging specialist ePac UK is holding a grand opening of its new Silverstone site in Northamptonshire on December 4, 2019, as announced November 18, 2019.

Coins Co. signed an investment agreement with Yeosu city to build a factory on a 9,900 m2 site in the Yulchon 1 industrial complex, producing synthetic pigs and pipe-inspection robots, for 7 billion won, with work planned from January to December 2020 and 15 hires.

FoamPartner Fritz Nauer AG is building a converting center for industrial technical foams at its Duderstadt site in Germany, scheduled to start in the first half of 2020 and create several new jobs.

Scania is building a new foundry at its Södertälje plant in Sweden to produce engine blocks, investing about SEK 1.6 billion. The foundry is due in 2020 and will triple capacity to 90,000 tonnes of molten iron per year.

Sulzer has opened a new Houston Service Center in Pasadena, Texas, with a large pump repair shop, lifting capacity for large machines and automated welding. The center focuses on oil and gas customers.

Grupo Industrial Ferruz will invest 15 million euros to consolidate all its sites into a new 130,000 sq m plant in the Parque Tecnológico de Reciclado in Zaragoza, doubling production capacity and creating 75 jobs. The article's text refers to 2018 timelines, so the date may be inaccurate.

United Soft Plastics has opened a new 4,500-tonne thermoplastic elastomer compounding facility in Houston, Texas, complementing its Lawrenceville, Georgia plant. The site is expected to create up to 25 production jobs.

Heineken built a greenfield brewery in Meoqui, Chihuahua, Mexico, with about 5 million hectoliters annual capacity and 500 direct jobs, a roughly 400 million euro investment; KHS supplied four of the six lines.

KHS broke ground on a new plant and service center in Kunshan, China, a roughly 10,000 square metre factory with a total investment of about €10 million. The groundbreaking took place October 17, 2019.

Yeovil-based corrugated packaging maker Ablebox will open a new 72,000 sq ft factory in Henstridge after a £7 million investment, with a high-speed corrugator built in China. The plant is expected to create 50 jobs and produce over 100 million square metres of corrugated board a year.

Nantong Yikadi Industrial Technology plans a 1 billion yuan project in Tongzhou district, Nantong, to make oil-free air compressors, brushless inverter compressors and door closers on a former Caterpillar site. The project is pending government approval, with 400 jobs planned.

SELIT North America opened its second US production site in Commerce, Georgia, in November 2019, with two polystyrene extrusion lines and an on-site foam recycling department. Two more extrusion lines are planned for the end of 2021.

The Rockwall Economic Development Corporation announced that Xerxes Corporation will open a new manufacturing location in Rockwall, Texas, dated July 22, 2024.

Sew-Eurodrive's Russian subsidiary plans to build a gear motor assembly plant in Novosibirsk for €15 million, with completion targeted for January 2021 and capacity of 10,000 units per year.

Industrias Dolz built a new production plant in Almazora (Castellón, Spain) for automotive water pumps, supported by a €476,956 regional incentive grant co-financed by FEDER. The plant features robotized assembly, ovens, injectors and machining centers.

Mexican packaging company Cartograf will invest $65.3 million to build its first U.S. folding and micro-corrugated package printing facility in Chesterfield County's Meadowville Technology Park, creating 63 jobs.

Tetra Pak opened a €25 million, 12,000-square-meter site in Olsztyn, Poland with sales, engineering and manufacturing for cheese production solutions. The site employs over 350 staff and doubles its cheesemaking solution capacity in the country.

Box manufacturer U.S. Corrugated, owned by McKinley Paper Co., selected Lebanon, Indiana for a new state-of-the-art corrugated packaging plant scheduled to start up by the end of 2019. No capacity figure was announced.

Marchesini Group officially opened the new Siena factory of its CORIMA division, which makes machines for sterile drug packaging, in Monteriggioni, Tuscany, on October 19, 2019.

Tri-Wall Vina Pack held the grand opening of its new packaging factory in Yen My II Industrial Park, Hung Yen Province, near Hanoi, Vietnam, on October 18, 2019. The factory serves the growing Vietnamese industrial base.

ID Plastics LP announced it will invest $9.8 million to open its first U.S. manufacturing operation in Auburn, Alabama, creating 50 jobs over three years. The plant will initially produce the ID PACK collapsible returnable transport container sleeve.

Ball Corporation will build a new aluminum cups manufacturing plant in Rome, Georgia, investing more than $200 million and creating more than 180 jobs, with completion expected in Q4 2020.