ELGi Equipments plans a long-term investment of more than ₹500 crore to build new buildings and production lines on its 120-acre campus outside Coimbatore. It will progressively move city factory operations there over five to six years.

KITZ SCT plans to add a production building at its KITZ Corporation of Vietnam site in Tang Long III industrial park, Vinh Phuc, making high-purity gas diaphragm valves for semiconductor equipment, with operation planned for November 2025 and an investment of ¥4.5 billion.

GEA is investing around €5.5 million to modernise industrial refrigeration valve production at its AWP site in Prenzlau, Germany, replacing older machining centres with new CNC machines. The investment will add 20 production jobs by 2026.

Kellanova invested £86m in new technology to produce a 90% paper-based Pringles tube, sold first exclusively in Tesco and One Stop stores in the UK from January 2024 and rolling out to other supermarkets later in 2024.

Pawi Packaging Schweiz AG invested CHF 330,000 to switch its heating from gas to district heating from Stadtwerke Winterthur. The connection was made in 2021 and is reported in January 2024.

Inter Group Packaging is implementing a two-phase investment programme to expand and upgrade its corrugated plants in Bangkok and Prachinburi.

PAO Penzkompressormash in Penza modernized its machine tool fleet in 2024 with an investment of about 1 billion rubles, raising productivity; the regional minister reviewed the project in August 2025.

DS Smith Packaging plans to invest EUR 16 million in its Krusevac production site in Serbia, adding 25% capacity and installing a six-color flexo printer and upgraded corrugators.

AMPO Poyam Valves reorganised its Idiazabal, Spain valve plant using a LEAN layout, bought seven new test benches capable of high-pressure testing and a new logistics warehouse, and invested in an oxygen-service clean room and an upstream valve test bench. The changes followed a 2019 expansion of machining and weld overlay operations.

Connector Subsea Distribution is investing over NOK 20 million in new production equipment to increase capacity for ball valves and associated subsea equipment amid a surge in orders.

MULTIVAC Group announced a new 35,000 square metre production factory in Wolfertschwenden, Germany, for manufacturing parts and handling spare parts logistics, with a total investment of around EUR60 million and completion due by end of 2025.

STIEBEL ELTRON plans to invest 600 million baht in a new factory near its Bang Pa-In plant in Ayutthaya, Thailand, to produce heat pumps for export, with operations starting in 2025.

Turkish converter Yilpar A.Ş. installed two BOBST gravure printing presses, a 9-color RS 6003 commissioned earlier in 2023 and a 9-color RS 5003 completed in summer 2023, at its Kemalpaşa production facility in Izmir province to expand flexible packaging operations.

The US Department of Energy will provide Mitsubishi Electric US $50 million to establish a heat pump compressor factory in Kentucky. The funding is part of a $169 million package for heat pump manufacturing projects.

Mikisew Group's private investment division bought ATB Private Equity's holdings in Edmonton-based JL Filtration, giving Mikisew a majority interest in the industrial filtration equipment maker.

RHIEM Packaging & Print has invested almost EUR 2 million in new die-cutting machines at its Voerde site in Germany, raising production capacity by almost a third. The systems are now in production.

CORE Industrial Partners has announced a new investment in Century Box, a Methuen, Massachusetts-based maker of folding cartons for store-brand food and consumer products.

Bosch plans to invest EUR 100 million at its Aveiro plant in Portugal to increase heat pump production, reported in November 2023.

At the Phase II inauguration on November 1, 2023, Schaeffler signed an investment agreement with the Taicang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone for a New Energy Phase III Project.

DS Smith is investing nearly €90 million to replace the coal-fired boiler at its Rouen paper mill in Normandy with a 56 MW Valmet biomass boiler, cutting site emissions by 99,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. The boiler is due to be fully operational by Q1 2025, and Engie Solutions will operate it.

Russian machinery holding GMS Group is investing 11.9 billion rubles in a test complex for ultra-powerful LNG refrigerant compressors at Kazankompressormash in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, with a state subsidy of 6.7 billion rubles. Commissioning is planned for Q1 2025.

Eaton announced $85 million in additional manufacturing investment to increase North American output of utility equipment, including underground protective connectors, with about 300 new positions at its Queretaro facility. Recent North American investments reach nearly $750 million.

Vitro plans to invest an additional $180 million to upgrade one of its furnaces at its Meadville, Pennsylvania plant and adapt other facilities to support First Solar's growing manufacturing capacity.

Eaton is investing $22 million in equipment at its Waukesha, Wisconsin facility to increase manufacturing capacity for three-phase transformers for utility, data center and commercial applications.

Smurfit Kappa Norteamérica plans to invest about $67 million in 2023 in machinery, process upgrades and service expansion at its plants in Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana, Mexicali and Nogales, Mexico. The company has invested over $350 million in Mexico over the past five years.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners announced a £31 million investment at its Wakefield, West Yorkshire plant to install a new canning line with 2,000 cans per minute capacity, expected to start production in 2024.

Pratt Industries pledged a further $500 million over 10 years in Pennsylvania for recycling, remanufacturing and clean energy infrastructure, creating hundreds of new jobs, as announced with Governor Josh Shapiro.

National Vacuum Equipment announced further investment in new automated machinery at its Traverse City, Michigan factory to increase manufacturing capacity for industrial vacuum equipment.

Dart Container became a strategic equity partner in Red Leaf Pulp, securing exclusive rights to its wheat straw-based alternative fibre for molded fibre packaging. Red Leaf's initial conversion facility in Regina, Saskatchewan is scheduled for completion in 2026.

Pratt Industries committed to invest $500 million in Pennsylvania over the next ten years in recycling, remanufacturing and clean energy infrastructure, creating hundreds of jobs, announced with Governor Shapiro.

Poclain installed two new machines at its Žiri plant in Slovenia, its main valve manufacturing site, making fine machining five times faster and improving flexibility.

TCCI, an automotive compressor maker in Decatur, Illinois, plans to invest some $20 million to shift EV compressor production to its home base, supported by a state REV Illinois Act incentive package and $21.3 million in Rebuild Illinois grants for an EV cluster.

Pratt Industries is building a new $120 million production facility in Peach County, Georgia, expected to be operational in late 2024 and producing corrugated boxes and containerboard.

Beneco Packaging is investing $7 million to buy new automated equipment in Cobourg, Ontario, to expand its product line and speed up production, supported by C$500,000 from the Ontario government.

Ingersoll Rand is installing a rooftop photovoltaic system worth over $1 million at its Elmo Rietschle plant in Bad Neustadt, Germany, expected to generate about 5.66 MWp of solar energy in summer.

KSB SAS invested €13.5 million in its Sequedin production site near Lille to decarbonise operations, aiming to cut emissions from 815 to 15 tCO2eq per year by 2027. The plant employs 150 people.

Hinojosa Packaging Group invested €36 million to convert its Alquería d'Asnar paper mill in Valencia into a circular economy reference site. The Generalitat president visited the plant on 29 June 2026.

TC Transcontinental Packaging announced a US$60 million investment in a new biaxially oriented polyethylene film line and a 120,000 sq. ft building expansion at its Spartanburg, South Carolina facility, with completion expected in fiscal 2024. Brückner was selected to supply the equipment.

KSB, a pumps and valves manufacturer, has concluded new credit lines totalling EUR 550 million with a consortium of six banks, including a EUR 300 million revolving facility and a EUR 250 million guarantee facility. The term is five years with options to extend by up to two years. Hengeler Mueller advised on the financing.

Depak Company Limited received approval to raise its investment in a packaging factory at Bim Son Industrial Park, Thanh Hoa, from VND85 billion to VND394.2 billion (about $14.74 million). The plant will make carton packaging and plastic wood products, with operations expected 37 months after land handover.

Allweiler plans extensive investments in the coming years at its Radolfzell site to modernise production and improve sustainability. The company is currently recruiting ten production workers to expand capacity.

BorgWarner announced a $198 million investment for a new 64,000 square metre plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, making electronic power components and electric motors. It will create 380 jobs and is expected to start operations in the second half of 2024.

Zhejiang Haihong Hydraulic Technology, a hydraulic valve maker and supplier to XCMG, Anchai and Hangcha, filed a prospectus for a ChiNext IPO to raise CNY 600 million, of which CNY 550 million is for capacity expansion.

Constellation Brands is near completing a $13 billion investment in a new brewery in Veracruz, Mexico, receiving most equipment in 2024, alongside capacity expansions at its Nava and Obregon breweries.

Pact Group is investing more than $76 million in new packaging manufacturing equipment across its Australian operations to produce recycled packaging. The investment is currently underway as of June 2023.

Frucor Suntory Oceania has started construction of a net-zero manufacturing and distribution facility in Swanbank, Queensland, with immediate capacity of 20 million cases per year. The article reports the investment as over $400 million, most likely Australian dollars.

Atlantic Packaging Products commissioned a six-colour Delta SPC 130 digital printing press, made in Austria by Koenig & Bauer Durst, at its Tiffield Road retail packaging facility in Toronto in June 2023.

Stora Enso laid the foundation stone on 30 May 2023 for a new high-volume consumer board line in Oulu, Finland, with capacity up to 750,000 tonnes of renewable packaging materials, due in 2025.

SIG is making a €60 million investment in constructing an aseptic carton plant in India, expected to reach a yearly production capacity of 4 billion packs.

Alongside the Esterpet deal, Biffa Polymers made a minority investment in its sister company Esterform, a manufacturer of PET preforms. The stake size and value were not disclosed.