Europal, a Belgian corrugated cardboard packaging supplier, will invest several million euros in a new greenfield plant in Tournai, to be fully operational by summer 2020. The plant is expected to create about 40 high-tech jobs.

Stik-Pak Solutions, a subsidiary of M&H Holdings, has broken ground on a $14.3 million facility at Summit View Business Park in Rocky Mount, Franklin County. The first 50,000 sq ft phase is due by mid-2020, with 50 to 60 more employees planned.

McLaren Packaging and Swanline Group's joint venture CorrBoard Bioenergy has invested GBP 5.5 million in a renewable energy plant fuelled by organic waste. It will supply heat and power to CorrBoard UK's corrugated board production in Scunthorpe.

Pratt Industries announced in 2017 a new containerboard mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio, which is slated to open in October 2019. The mill is expected to consume about 400,000 tons of recovered fiber annually once fully operational.

Panasonic Life Solutions Vietnam began construction of its second factory in Binh Duong, Vietnam, with over $45 million investment, to make ceiling and ventilation fans and start operations in January 2021.

StrongPack Ltd set up a greenfield non-alcoholic contract packaging operation in Nigeria, installing four Sidel lines over two years, including a can line, two PET lines and one PET line with Sidel's Actis coating system. The announcement was made on 8 October 2019.

WestRock officially opened its corrugated packaging plant in Porto Feliz, São Paulo state, on 3 October 2019, with annual capacity of 400 million square metres and an investment of US$125 million. The output of the Valinhos plant was moved to the new site.

BillerudKorsnäs inaugurated its KM7 board machine at the Gruvön mill in Sweden on 3 October 2019, its biggest investment to date. The machine has a capacity of 550,000 tonnes per year.

CANPACK opened a can factory in Colombia in the fourth quarter of 2019 with annual capacity above 1.3 billion cans, making it the first Colombian producer able to supply specialty can formats.

Tetra Pak and Saudi paper maker Al Obeikan Paper Industries announced a joint venture to build a beverage carton recycling plant in Riyadh, with capacity of 8,000 tonnes per year. Tetra Pak is investing 1 million USD, and the plant is expected to run at 50% utilisation by the end of 2020. The announcement was made the week before 8 October 2019.

Lontra opened the first purpose-built advanced manufacturing centre in Napton, Warwickshire, in partnership with Shield Group Engineering, as the first phase of a planned expansion of compressor manufacturing.

Nigerian firm PE Energy broke ground on a $30 million plant in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for domesticated valve assembly and metering integration, expected to be completed within months.

Agrisolutions held a ribbon-cutting to unveil its new 103,000 sq ft facility in Rock Island on 26 September 2019, with local economic development officials and company executives attending.

Torishima Service Solutions Europe (TSSE), the European arm of Torishima Pump Manufacturing, has leased a 2,550 sq m unit at Clyde Gateway East Business Park in Glasgow as its new European headquarters, bringing 50 engineering jobs. The move was announced on 26 September 2019 on a 15-year lease.

Progroup AG announced a new, larger corrugated sheetboard plant in Stryków, Poland, with an investment of about EUR 75 million and more than 50 new jobs, raising total Polish capacity to 520,000 tonnes per year.

H&T Presspart inaugurated a new highly automated plant in L'Arboç, Tarragona, producing drug delivery systems and pharmaceutical components such as metered-dose inhaler parts. The plant can produce more than 300 million units a year.

L&T Valves Arabia, a subsidiary of L&T Valves, is setting up a manufacturing facility in the Eastern Province near Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The plant is scheduled to start production in October 2019 and will make the full valve range plus automation and digital solutions.

CHEMAGREGAT is completing the design of a new plant for pumping equipment and valves in the Center special economic zone near Voronezh. The investment is 200 million rubles and the project is planned to create 60 jobs.

Torklift International is opening a new production facility in eastern Washington to expand existing and new product lines and support a growing OEM segment, with operations expected in Q4 2019.

Canpack is starting a new investment in the Czech Republic, a can production line for one of the country's breweries, which will raise its production capacity by more than one third. The announcement is dated 16 September 2019.

Lokeren-based Dhollandia is investing 30 million (euro, as reported) to build a new factory in the United States, its sixth site, marking its 50th anniversary.

Webasto opened a new production facility in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, costing about EUR50 million. The plant makes sunroofs, panorama roofs, high-voltage heaters and charging solutions, with capacity for around 2 million roof systems per year.

Sri Lanka's Board of Investment signed an agreement with Japanese firm Sugano Packing Materials to set up a plant in Ja-Ela making flexible packaging, mainly flat-bottomed bags for the tea industry. A large pouching machine will be brought to Sri Lanka.

Zhejiang Kaishan Compressor's wholly owned US subsidiary Kaishan Compressor USA (KCA) held an opening ceremony for a new $15 million plant in Baldwin County, Alabama, which makes oil-free screw compressors. The plant began construction in July 2018 and covers 65,000 square feet.

Interroll moved its Thailand operations into a new 4,800-square-metre plant in Phantong, Chonburi, to serve Southeast Asian material handling demand. The site makes rollers, RollerDrive, pallet flow and drum motors, and will add a modular conveyor platform line by end-2019.

Sri Lanka's Board of Investment signed an agreement with Sugano Colombo Pvt Ltd, a Japanese-linked firm, to set up a flexible packaging plant in Ja-Ela producing mainly flat-bottomed bags for the tea industry. The agreement was signed on 9 September 2019.

Progroup AG plans a new corrugated sheetboard plant in Eisfeld, Thuringia, with investment of about 60 million euros on a roughly 87,000 square metre plot, creating more than 50 jobs. Production is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2019.

BLZF held a foundation stone laying ceremony for its 120,000 square meter Ninghe industrial base in Ninghe Industrial Park, Tianjin, for oil equipment and high-level valve manufacturing, with an expected investment of one billion RMB and about 1,000 jobs. The article dates the ceremony to July 12, 2012.

TBM began construction on August 26, 2019 of its second domestic LIMEX plant in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, with about 25,000 tonnes annual output and operations planned for winter 2020, employing around 60 local workers.

Aegg is preparing to open its first major UK warehouse near Eye, Suffolk later in 2019, with a 60,000 sq ft facility and a planned plastic food packaging plant. GBP 3.1 million is being invested, creating 50 new jobs.

Progroup AG held a topping out ceremony for its new paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Saxony-Anhalt, with €465 million of investment and an annual capacity of 750,000 tons. About 150 direct and up to 350 indirect jobs are being created.

Aegg is opening a new warehouse and manufacturing plant at Eye in north Suffolk, with total investment of £6.1 million and 50 jobs created. Phase 2 will add a facility for rigid recyclable plastic food packaging.

Wenzhou Xifa Industrial is building a new factory in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, with a construction area of about 40,000 square meters and new high-speed weaving, printing and packaging machines. Completion of the building phase is expected in early November 2019.

Jamestrong Packaging opened a new $15 million metal can manufacturing facility in Wiri, Auckland, serving the infant formula market.

Packaging Corporation of America is constructing a $26 million cardboard box manufacturing plant in the Horn Rapids Industrial Park in Richland, expected to open in mid-November 2019 with 100 jobs.

Arglass Yamamura will invest $123 million to build its first U.S. glass container manufacturing plant in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, creating more than 150 jobs.

Hydraulic component maker Takako will move its headquarters to Kizugawa, Kyoto, with a new office and factory due for completion in January 2021. The new plant will mass-produce solenoid valves for automotive use; the investment is undisclosed.

Shimadzu's affiliate Tianjin-Shimadzu Hydraulic Equipment will build a new plant of about 17,000 square meters in the Xiqing Economic-Technological Development Area for about 2 billion yen, finishing September 2020 and targeting 300,000 hydraulic gear pumps per year by fiscal 2023.

Shimadzu's Chinese subsidiary Tianjin Shimadzu Hydraulic (TSH) will start building a new plant in November 2019 in Tianjin's Xiqing Economic-Technological Development Area to make gear pumps and control valves for forklifts, with completion planned for September 2020. TSH targets 300,000 gear pumps per year by fiscal 2023.

KSB Pumps and Valves South Africa is constructing a new building at its KSB SupremeServ facility in Jet Park, Johannesburg, to host sales and a new valve assembly line targeting 70% local content, expected fully operational in Q4 2019.

Mueller Water Products plans a new state-of-the-art brass foundry at 2700 N. Jasper Street in Decatur, Illinois, to increase production capacity. Up to 250 employees will work there and construction is expected to begin in fall 2019.

Rotary Power opened a North American service centre in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, occupying 8,500 sq. ft. The announcement is dated August 7, 2019.

Panattoni Europe finished building a roughly 13,000 sq m build-to-suit factory for Finnish hydraulic cylinder maker Hydroline in Stargard, Poland, with production set to start in August 2019.

Puyallup-based SeaTac Packaging will finance a new 102,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Frederickson Industrial Area with a $10 million Industrial Development Revenue Bond, creating 50 permanent jobs.

KP Components announced in August 2019 a $16 million investment in a new 50,000 square foot building in Easley, South Carolina, to serve US demand. The project will create nearly 50 jobs and install several milling machines.

TechnipFMC announced a new 100,000 square foot facility on 22.4 acres in Speers, Pennsylvania, consolidating its Surface Americas product and service lines, with 40 new jobs over three years. Groundbreaking is planned for Q4 2019 and the grand opening for Q1 2020.

Smurfit Kappa has opened a new paper recycling plant in Marlia near Lucca, Italy, processing about 15,000 tonnes of recycled paper, rising to 25,000 tonnes next year. Six staff currently work at the site.

SIG announced a second production plant in Suzhou, China, with a total investment of EUR 180 million and a 120,000 square meter site at Suzhou Industrial Park. It is expected to be operational in early 2021.

Pietro Fiorentini held the ribbon-cutting for its new manufacturing plant in Weirton, West Virginia, on July 29, 2019, a $9 million investment. It is the company's first US manufacturing operation.

The J.M. Smucker Company is set to hold a ribbon cutting on July 31, 2019 for its new Smucker's Uncrustables plant at 2900 Peak Ave. in Longmont, Colorado, with Governor Jared Polis attending.