NETZSCH Pumps & Systems India inaugurated a new 45,000 square metre manufacturing facility at Verna Industrial Estate in South Goa, India, with a 12,500 square metre production floor.

Hinton Lumber Products has opened a greenfield pallet manufacturing facility in Summerville, South Carolina, near Charleston, with production slated to begin this spring.

Georg Utz plans a 90,000-square-foot facility in Sumter County, South Carolina, for rigid returnable packaging, with roughly $40 million investment and 50 jobs, scheduled to start manufacturing in 2028.

Disruptive Packaging opened a new manufacturing and recycling facility in Mexicali, Mexico, on February 18, 2026, with two production lines producing up to 20 million URTHCOR boxes.

SKF India announced a $72 million investment in a next-generation digital 'Factory of the Future' manufacturing campus in Pune, Maharashtra, expected to be ready by 2030. The plant will consolidate existing production and add new channels.

SKF India (Industrial) announced a Rs 653 crore investment to establish a next-generation digital 'Factory of the Future' campus in Pune, Maharashtra. The facility is expected to be ready by 2030.

Japanese-owned Tri-Wall Group has started construction of its paper packaging plant in the Trakia Economic Zone near Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The investment has grown to over 40 million euros and production is expected to begin by mid-2027.

Rechi India, a joint venture of Daikin Air-conditioning India and Taiwan's Rechi Precision, has started construction of a rotary compressor plant in Sri City, India, on 33.10 acres. Phase I involves an investment of Rs 547 crore, with capacity rising from 2 million to 9 million units in the final phase.

L-PAK launched the first phase of its corrugated cardboard and packaging plant in the Kashira special economic zone in Moscow Oblast on February 11, 2026, with a total investment of 7.7 billion rubles and capacity of 240 million sq m per year.

CBS Packaging announced the acquisition of a new 120,000 square foot facility in Walsall, West Midlands, to support a planned plant expansion scheduled for mid-2026.

Preciball USA plans a $17.6 million precision manufacturing facility in the Screven County Industrial Park in Sylvania, Georgia, creating 65 jobs. Hiring is expected to begin in 2027.

Bosnian producer Violeta has opened a new corrugated board plant after a two-year project and an investment of over €40 million. The plant will supply its own food-business packaging needs and could serve the local market.

Canpack and Bavaria announced a COP 548,000 million investment to build an aluminum can plant in Malambo, Atlantico, expected to be fully operational in 2027 with 150 direct jobs. The plant will serve Bavaria's beverage operations and enable exports through nearby ports.

ZeeQuest Holding signed an agreement with Impact Investments Group to begin construction of the first KraftPal recyclable corrugated cardboard pallet factory in Montenegro, which will be its seventh factory globally.

Oliver Valves opened a new 45,000 square foot manufacturing facility in India that became fully operational on 2 January 2026, serving as an international manufacturing and supply chain hub; inauguration is set for 12 February 2026.

The Bulgarian unit of Tri-Wall Limited has started construction of a €30 million corrugated cardboard and packaging plant in the Trakia Economic Zone near Plovdiv, expected to create 150 jobs.

CMSA has opened a new 2,700 m² packaging hub in Beniaján, Murcia, after investing EUR 1.8 million in robotics, quality control and automation. The company targets EUR 28 million in turnover in 2026.

Smurfit Westrock announced a USD 65 million investment in a new packaging production plant in Sonora, Mexico, making corrugated, microflute and high-graphic folding packaging. Operations are expected to start in early 2027, with more than 800 jobs, and the first stone has been laid.

Bidell Gas Compression broke ground in February 2026 on an $8 million, roughly 30,000 sq ft facility in Weirton, West Virginia, to expand operations, with opening targeted for October 2026.

NETZSCH Pumps & Systems inaugurated a new production facility in Goa, India, at the end of February 2026, more than doubling its previous production capacity in India.

Oliver Valves India Private Limited moved into a new purpose-built 45,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in New Vellanur, Chennai, becoming fully operational on 2 January 2026. The site makes components up to three tonnes and adds in-house painting, non-destructive testing and an oxygen clean room.

SunDance announced on January 30, 2026 that it added a new production facility to its Florida hub for flexible packaging manufacturing.

Palm is consolidating two existing Alzenau and Hasselroth-Gondsroth plants into a new EUR 200 million corrugated board plant on a greenfield site. Operations start in Q2 2026, with installation of production lines ongoing.

TMIC plans to build an integrated aluminum foil plant in Dammam with a planned annual capacity of 106,000 tons. Production is expected to start in Q3 2027.

Construction has started on a high-tech corrugated board and packaging plant in the Trakia Economic Zone near Plovdiv, with Tri-Wall investing over EUR 30 million and planning 150 jobs.

Massilly North America will invest $85 million in a new facility in Brantford, Ontario, to produce food cans with coil cutting and three-piece can lines. The project creates 50 new jobs and sustains 228 existing ones, with $5 million in support from the Ontario government.

KITZ and KITZ SCT held a completion ceremony on January 26, 2026 for a new plant at KITZ Corporation of Vietnam in Thang Long Industrial Park, Vinh Phuc, and production has commenced. The 4.5 billion yen facility makes ultra-high purity gas valves for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Zorn Compressor & Equipment has opened a new 12,500-square-foot facility in the Town of Lawrence, replacing its older Green Bay site. The building includes office and warehouse space and a loading dock.

Tetra Pak is investing 60 million euros in a new paper-based barrier pilot plant at its Lund, Sweden facility to develop an aseptic packaging material that replaces the aluminium foil layer. The plant will also serve customers for trials across the manufacturing journey.

Valmet announced an investment of about US$8 million (R$40 million) in a new plant in Sorocaba, São Paulo, housing its Flow Control and Automation Solutions businesses. Completion is planned for the first half of 2026 and capacity will exceed 12,000 valve assemblies per year.

Smith Anderson & Ara, an Anglo-Turkish paper packaging maker, has opened a new plant in Burgas after investing over 10.2 million euros. The plant employs 60 people, with the investor aiming for at least 160 by summer.

Eroğlu Global Holding signed an agreement with the Suez Canal Economic Zone to build a carton and packaging factory in Qantara West Industrial Zone, with a $175 million investment and about 2,000 direct jobs. The plant will span 70,000 square meters.

Westport Fuel Systems began production at its new China Hydrogen Innovation Center and Manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China, to make GFI hydrogen fuel system components locally. Initial products shipped in December 2025 and capacity is ramping through Q1 2026.

Minerals Technologies expects to commission a new satellite plant in China early in 2026 for paper and packaging filler and coating technology.

Specialty Packaging Group opened a 50,000-square-foot facility in Guadalajara, Mexico, to make crates for shipping advanced technology and data center equipment.

Buckeye Corrugated has opened a 100,000-square-foot corrugated manufacturing and distribution facility in Reno, Nevada, its first entirely new corrugated plant, expected to employ 20 to 25 production workers.

Pratt Industries has opened a 496,000-square-foot corrugating facility in Warner Robins, Georgia, creating more than 125 jobs in Peach County. The plant will produce corrugated boxes from recycled containerboard.

Flexcraft will open a new 194,000 square foot automated manufacturing and warehousing facility in Fort Worth, Texas in March 2026, producing bottles and closures and roughly doubling its manufacturing capacity.

Becker India, a vacuum and pneumatic equipment maker, has opened a new assembly unit in Pune, India. Its first product from the site is the VT 4.16 vacuum pump.

Shakti Pumps invested Rs 3 crore in its subsidiary Shakti Energy Solutions to establish a greenfield solar DCR cell and PV module manufacturing plant with 2.20 GW capacity in Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh.

Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM) inaugurated PRONAL Corrugados, a corrugated packaging plant in the capital of Nuevo León, fed by paper from PRONAL mills in San Luis Potosí. The plant has annual conversion capacity of 100 thousand tonnes of paper and up to 215 million sqm of corrugated board.

Hodge Compressor will launch a U.S.-based assembly, testing and light manufacturing factory in Hoschton, Georgia, beginning in late Q2 2026. The plant will assemble HTM and HB series rotary screw compressors from 7.5 to 50 horsepower.

TRICOR Packaging & Logistics built a heavy-duty corrugated board plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with an investment of about EUR 170 million, funded by parent Rengo. The plant began operations in July 2025 with planned output of 140,000 tonnes per year and more than 200 jobs.

Jiangsu Jiangheng Valve Co.'s third factory, phase 3 of its project, is nearing full completion, with a planned capacity of 180,000 high-end valve sets a year. The plant will add about 200 jobs and install over 400 automated devices.

APackaging Group broke ground on a $25 million, 300,000-square-foot packaging manufacturing facility on a 35-acre site in the Enterprise Industrial Park in Defiance, Ohio, built by Rupp Rosebrock Inc., with $12.5 million in production technology.

Daihen plans a new single-storey factory of about 6,000 square metres at its Mie Works in Taki, Mie Prefecture, with a total investment of roughly ¥10 billion. Phase 1 is due to finish in fiscal 2027 and phase 2 in fiscal 2029.

Mecco Group's subsidiary Shanghai Mecco Valve Co. held a groundbreaking ceremony on December 17, 2025 for a RMB 1 billion high-end intelligent valve factory at Lijing Industrial Park. The plant is scheduled for completion by December 31, 2026 and is expected to produce 20,000 control valves and 80,000 high-end process valves annually.

Axium Packaging celebrated the opening of a 227,000-square-foot plastic packaging plant in Brampton, Ontario, its third Ontario location. The facility uses more than 45 packaging equipment lines and 10 plastic resin silos. The article is dated December 16, 2025.

Jinzhou Beiteng Pump Manufacturing plans a new production line for 2,000 high-efficiency energy-saving pumps per year in Linghe District, Jinzhou, Liaoning, with total investment of about 37.88 million yuan. The project is at the approval stage with construction planned for Q2 to Q4 2026.

Ariston Group opened a factory in Niš, Serbia, employing 175 people, with serial production of cylinders and heat pump parts expected to start in April 2026. Headcount is planned to reach 300 at full capacity.