STULZ announced a new manufacturing plant in Dayton, Tennessee, its second US manufacturing location, expected to create 25 high-skill jobs initially.

Niagara Bottling will invest $68 million in a 420,000-sq.-ft. production plant near the intermodal center in Kansas City, Missouri, creating 50 jobs, with completion targeted for early 2020.

Prowell, a subsidiary of Progroup AG, is opening a corrugated board factory in Drizzona, Italy, next to Imbal Carton, with a 100,000-tonne annual capacity and about 40 new jobs.

Bosch Ltd inaugurated the phase II Bidadi factory near Bengaluru, built with an investment of 31 million euros. The plant will make common rail single-cylinder pumps and high-pressure rails and accommodate almost 2,500 associates by end-2019.

US-based Universal Alloy Corporation began construction in March 2019 of a $170 million aircraft components factory at Danang's Hi-tech Park, in two stages with the first due in December 2020. The company plans to recruit 1,200 skilled workers.

Yamaha Marine Precision Propellers broke ground on a 54,000 sq ft propeller manufacturing plant in Greenfield, Indiana, expected to be completed in mid-2020 and add 30 jobs. The expansion could raise propeller output by more than 40,000 a year.

CRI Pumps is setting up wholly owned subsidiaries in the US and Mexico, with an assembly facility in Houston estimated at around $5 million, to cut US lead times from 120 days to under 5. It also plans a California facility within six months.

T.B.Fruit has begun building what it says is the largest berry and fruit processing plant in Europe in Poland, with an investment of EUR 40 million.

Bunge, in partnership with Spain's Daksa group, will invest $14 million to build a corn processing plant on a 2.96 hectare site in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

Turkish company Odesa Hydraulic plans to invest $5 million in a new plant in the Odesa region, Ukraine, making hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, pipes and metal products, and to create about 200 jobs.

CIRCOR signed an investment agreement to build a new facility in the Weihai Economic and Technological Development Zone, China. The announcement was dated July 5, 2019.

Cefla's Engineering Business Unit is general contractor for TeaPak's new 12,000 square metre plant in Imola, Italy, for Yogi Tea Group. The estimated €25 million investment will double current output, which exceeded 40 million packs in 2018.

Oji Fibre Solutions (OjiFS) opened a $72 million corrugated packaging factory in Yatala on the Gold Coast, supported by the Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund. OjiFS also plans three satellite manufacturing sites in other Queensland locations.

Deufol will build a HUF 7 billion packaging and logistics plant in Debrecen, which will also serve as its Southeast Europe regional hub, with a HUF 1.4 billion government subsidy. The project will create 120 jobs and phase one construction is set to begin in July 2019.

Tetra Pak opened its €120 million greenfield aseptic carton packaging material factory in Binh Duong province, Vietnam, on 3 July 2019. The expandable plant serves domestic and export markets in ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand.

Unilever, Arnest Group and the Tula region government signed a trilateral agreement at the St Petersburg forum in June 2019 to set up export-oriented contract manufacturing of cosmetic and household products in Novomoskovsk, to be run by Aerosol Novomoskovsk within three years.

Formosa Flexible Packaging America, a Hotai company, obtained a new manufacturing facility in San Fernando Valley, California, on July 1, 2019, its first manufacturing subsidiary in the United States.

Japanese packaging maker Takigawa opened its nearly $46 million, 180-job flexible packaging and high-performance films plant in Bardstown, Kentucky, its first US facility, with a 180,000-square-foot operation.

Benepack Belgium, a joint venture of CPMC and Haoneng, is investing over EUR 50 million in a can production plant in Genk, Belgium, creating 150 jobs and receiving a EUR 3 million Flemish subsidy.

Irish packaging group Smurfit Kappa will invest $34 million in two stages to build a new corrugated cardboard plant in Baja California, Mexico, creating 200 new jobs.

Dooil Cap signed an investment MOU with North Gyeongsang province and Yecheon county to invest 20 billion won over three years to build a plastic packaging plant at Yecheon's second agricultural industrial complex. Completion is targeted for 2022.

Chemours formally inaugurated its $300 million Opteon YF production facility in Ingleside, Texas, near Corpus Christi, tripling its Opteon YF capacity. Production started in February 2019.

Special machinery maker VWH GmbH held the ground-breaking for a new production center in the Westerwald region of Germany, adding 3,000 square metres of production space by February 2020 with a new plastics technology centre.

Al Safa Packaging and the Sadulym financial group built a packaging materials plant in Mali with an investment of EUR 30 million, with Al Safa holding 51 percent. The plant has started operating at about 60 percent of total capacity.

GOEX Corporation will open a new plastic sheet extrusion facility in Iron County, Utah, creating up to 100 jobs and about US$15 million in capital investment over seven years.

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals decided to build a new plant at the Bando Inter Industrial Park in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, producing gravure inks and coating agents, with construction from November 2019 and operations from July 2021.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc., a maker of corrugated packaging, will lease a vacant 197,000 sq ft building on Carrier Corp.'s DeWitt campus and spend $1.4 million to build out and furnish it, creating 11 jobs.

Ekki Pumps is setting up a fourth Coimbatore plant, an assembly, testing and painting facility run as a 50:50 joint venture with Germany's Homa Pumps. It will make parts for Homa's production lines and waste water pumps, with production expected within six months. Investment was not disclosed.

Foxpak has opened a new €3 million manufacturing plant in Collon, County Louth, to add capacity for flexible compostable packaging. The opening was reported on 7 June 2019.

FIBC Kazakhstan opened a newly built factory in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, producing railcar liners used to transport Tengiz sulphur, on June 6, 2019.

Sun Hydraulics (Helios Group) opened its Kunshan plant in the German Industrial Park in Zhangpu Town, China, its first and only factory in Greater China. The project has a total investment of $10 million and registered capital of $8 million.

EFP Corporation will lease a 100,000-square-foot building in Evansville's Vanderburgh Industrial Park and invest in production equipment for expanded foam protective packaging, creating up to 29 jobs by 2021. The facility is planned to be operational by November 2019.

JBS will invest about 100 million reais in building a metal packaging factory and modernising its Lins unit in Sao Paulo state, with about 80 million reais going to the new plant that will make steel and aluminium cans. Operation is planned for the first half of 2020.

Dunapack Rambox is building a 45 million euro packaging plant on an 11.5ha site in Bolintin-Deal, Giurgiu County, Romania, with 180 million square metres annual capacity and 150 jobs. Construction began in October 2018 and operations are expected to start in June 2019.

Werner & Mertz invested 30 million euro in a new production building in Mainz's Rheinallee, its largest investment to date. One production line valued at 4.5 million euro is already running, and Frosch production can be doubled in the final stage.

KP Components completed a new dedicated automated warehouse in Denmark in June 2019 to improve logistics and inventory holding for customers.

Packaging company Elpes held an opening ceremony in June 2019 for a modern plant in Lublin that produces laminate tubes, mainly for the cosmetics industry. The article is dated July 1, 2019.

Indian firm Ekki Pumps and Germany's Homa Pumpenfabrik are investing in a new joint venture plant in Coimbatore, India.

Ring Plus Aqua established a new plant in Sinnar near Nashik, Maharashtra, to produce flywheel ring gears, with annual capacity of 2 million units. The company announced the plant in a press release dated 31 May 2019.

QuantumFlo, a Wilo brand, bought and renovated an existing building at 2664 Jewett Lane in Sanford, Florida, to serve as its new headquarters and production facility with more than double its previous space. A grand opening celebration is planned for June 28.

Burckhardt Compression says a new Shenyang Yuanda Compressor plant in Shenyang, China, will be operational in fall 2020, consolidating two existing plants at a larger site after the old site was converted to residential use.

Amcor is reinstalling a food packaging production line in Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, relocated from Goiania, to supply Unilever mayonnaise, ketchup and soup lines. Operations are expected to start in July 2019 with an estimated 70 to 100 direct and indirect jobs.

Hanon Systems formally opened Chongqing Hanon Jianshe Automotive Thermal Systems, a 38,000 square meter joint venture plant in Banan district, Chongqing. It will initially supply variable swashplate compressors and heat pump systems to Changan Automobile.

ebm-papst is taking over an existing production building in Johnson City, Tennessee, to make fans for refrigeration and HVAC applications from September 2019. It also bought 12 hectares to build a new plant there, planning to invest about USD 37 million and employ up to 200 people over five years.

Opus Packaging Group plans a 170,000 sq ft corrugated packaging manufacturing facility in Park 130, Whitestown, Indiana, investing nearly $3 million and creating up to 43 jobs by end-2022. Construction was underway in May 2019 with completion expected by July 2019.

Rohrer is building a new thermoforming facility in Tijuana, Mexico, to serve U.S. consumer goods and packaging customers who have moved manufacturing to the border region. The plant is expected to employ nearly 200 people at full production.

AIV and Gulf Coast Modification opened a 320,000-square-foot warehouse, manufacturing and office headquarters at 22806 Northwest Lake Drive in Houston, consolidating three previous properties.

AMERICAN Innovation LLC, formed by AMERICAN Flow Control, plans a $9 million, 30,000-square-foot research and development center in Crawfordsville, Indiana, with construction slated to finish in spring 2020 and up to eight hires by end of 2020.

Hiru Corporation's subsidiary AZ Custom Water completed a new facility in Phoenix, Arizona, housing an automated packaging and bottling line built to produce Alkaline88 water for The Alkaline Water Company.

Manchester Tank and Equipment, a division of McWane Inc., plans a propane tank manufacturing facility in Campbellsville, Kentucky, investing over $10 million and creating 175 full-time jobs. The plant will occupy an existing 238,000 sq. ft. building and supply components to the company's facilities.