Crown Hellas Can plans to expand capacity at its Corinth aluminium can plant with an investment of about €136.2 million, adding two industrial buildings and upgraded equipment and creating 50 jobs. The project has applied for strategic investment status and is in consultation until 3 August.
ePac has installed an HP Indigo 200K digital press at its Sheffield production site, its first such press in Europe. Installation was completed in April 2025 to add capacity for flexible packaging such as pouches.
Flair Packaging is adding a 10-color flexographic press and a solventless laminator at its Calgary, Alberta plant, and has acquired a second Calgary plant of 35,000 square feet for its converting equipment. It is the first of a series of planned Canadian expansions.
A Chinese approval notice lists the expansion of Hubei Zhushan Kelaisi's valve production project in Zhushan, Hubei, for 12 million valves per year. The notice is a regulatory approval filing, and no investment amount is stated.
Hood Container Corporation announced a $118.9 million modernization of its paper mill in St. Francisville, Louisiana, centred on upgrading its primary paper machine to add 80,000 tons per year of capacity. The project will run in two phases over about two years and retain 295 positions.
Bürkert Fluid Control Systems completed and inaugurated an expansion of its Öhringen plant, a new roughly 6,000 m² building combining production, assembly and an automated small parts warehouse. The company invested about 20 million euros, and the site is now a lead factory for process valves.
Schwing Stetter India has proposed an expansion to build industrial buildings for manufacturing and assembling concrete pumps in Thiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu, covering 95,564.58 sq m built-up area on 209,505.80 sq m of land; value not disclosed.
Danfoss Climate Solutions is now manufacturing a significant number of its GBC 45 and 49 bar shutoff ball valves at Monterrey, Mexico, moving production from China to strengthen supply and cut delivery times.
Arglass fired up a new, larger furnace at its Valdosta, Georgia glass container plant as part of a $230 million project. The furnace is expected to produce more than 350 million glass containers per year and more than double site capacity.
American Packaging Corp plans to expand its Story City, Iowa facility to add pouch production capacity. It plans to break ground in October 2025 and complete the project by September 2026.
Russian plastic packaging maker Ai-Plast signed an agreement with the Rostov region government to expand production of plastic containers for cottage cheese at its Azov plant. Total investment exceeds 400 million rubles and about 20 new jobs are planned.
SIG will invest an additional $35 million in the first expansion of its aseptic carton plant in Querétaro, Mexico, boosting output by 50%. Production from the expansion is scheduled to start in the second half of 2026.
Johnson Controls has started work on expanding its Sabroe chiller and heat pump manufacturing facility in Holme near Aarhus, Denmark, adding 2,300 square metres of production capacity and a test centre, with completion scheduled for early 2026 and over 100 new jobs.
ZÁLESÍ a.s. is investing almost CZK 90 million in a new high-speed automated laminate tube line using Swiss SAESA 240 technology in Luhačovice, raising plant capacity by 45%. Serial production is planned for January 2026.
DelVal Flow Controls is finalizing its fourth manufacturing facility in India, a 65-foot-tall plant to make valves up to 120 inches, the largest it has produced. The plant will complement its sites in Satara, Pune, Geismar and Dammam.
Tetra Pak inaugurated its second aseptic carton packaging material production line at its Bình Dương facility in VSIP II-A Industrial Park, Ho Chi Minh City. The 97 million euro investment more than doubles the site's capacity to over 30 billion packages a year.
Zálesí is investing nearly CZK 90 million in a new high-speed automated laminate tube line from Swiss supplier Aisa at its Luhačovice plant, expected to raise site capacity by 45% with series production from January 2026.
Posson Packaging completed its large extension works at its Louailles, Sarthe plant, which it is inaugurating on 27 June 2025 to mark 20 years at the site.
Xinlei Shares (301317.SZ) reported that its IPO-funded project to upgrade production to 800,000 small air compressors per year has reached usable status, and it plans to close out the project.
Atlas Copco broke ground on June 25, 2025 on a new 20,000-square-meter compressor and power technique facility at its Ximei Road subsidiary in Wuxi National Hi-Tech District, China, capable of producing 10,020 compressors, 5,000 generators and 150 energy storage systems annually.
ALSTAL Grupa Budowlana signed a contract to build a production and warehouse hall for CANPACK in Bydgoszcz, adding a line for about 1 billion aluminium cans a year, with investment above 440 million PLN; construction runs to August 2026.
Arnest Packaging Solutions is launching a third production line and building a 26,000 m² warehouse at its Ulyanovsk aluminum can plant, with investment exceeding 5 billion rubles and the new line due in Q4 2025.
Anima Infinita Flex Novgorod, part of the NEOPOLIS holding, will build a new production and warehouse building at its Veliky Novgorod plant for over 1 billion rubles. The agreement was signed on 18 June, and production launch is planned for April 2026, with 60 jobs.
DuPont expanded a Costa Rica facility with a 16,000-square-foot addition to produce sterile healthcare packaging such as pouches, header bags and lids.
Cayuga Milk Ingredients, working with Tetra Pak, held the grand opening of its expanded Auburn, New York facility, part of a two-phase $270 million expansion that includes a new consumer goods dairy plant.
Leser GmbH & Co. KG is investing EUR 45 million in a new 15,000 m2 production building at its Hohenwestedt, Schleswig-Holstein plant, which is to become one of the world's largest safety valve production sites, with completion planned for early 2026.
LESER has begun construction of a 15,000 m² production hall in Hohenwestedt, Germany, investing 41.3 million euros to increase safety valve capacity. Completion is slated for early 2026.
Atlas Copco Comptec broke ground on June 10, 2025 on a 63,000-square-foot expansion of its Voorheesville, New York manufacturing facility to make large centrifugal compressors. Completion is expected by the end of 2026.
Sonoco is investing in four US facilities in West Chicago, Illinois; Greenville, Wisconsin; Dayton, New Jersey; and Norwalk, California to add paper-bottom can lines. The investment is described as multimillion-dollar, with no exact figure given.
MAT Industries, LLC, a manufacturer of air compressors and brake tanks, will invest at least $9 million to add production lines at its Jackson facility in Madison County, Tennessee, creating 30 new jobs. The announcement was made on June 3, 2025.
Cosmo First commissioned a new BOPP packaging film line with capex above Rs 400 crore at its Aurangabad, Maharashtra plant on June 1, 2025. The line has annual capacity of 81,200 MT, raising total BOPP capacity about 40% to 277,000 MT.
Amcor announced in June 2025 that it will expand capacity for packaging with postconsumer recycled content at its existing Nicholasville, Kentucky facility. The added dedicated silos allow PCR blending up to 100%, mainly for spirits customers.
Green Bay Packaging is expanding its Morrilton, Arkansas facility with an investment of more than $1 billion, creating 35 new jobs and acquiring about 300 acres for future growth. The mill's production capacity could more than double.
Crown Holdings will add a third high-speed production line to its beverage can plant in Ponta Grossa, Parana, lifting capacity from 2.4 to 3.6 billion cans, with commercial production expected in Q3 2026.
Atlas Copco is moving forward again with a $40 million expansion of its School Road manufacturing facility in Voorheesville, New York, after pausing the project two months earlier. The restart was referenced at a May 2025 village board meeting.
Mondi has installed a new production line at its Krapkowice plant in Poland to increase output of its re/cycle MailerBAG paper packaging for e-commerce customers. The article is dated 27 May 2025 and gives no investment amount.
Meckwell has broken ground on a new 5,000 m² manufacturing facility adjacent to its Tianjin plant, scheduled for commissioning in Q4 2025. The expansion will double its annual ESP system output capacity.
SIG announced an R$44.1 million investment to expand its production unit in Vinhedo, São Paulo, creating more than 60 jobs. The project is expected to be completed later in 2025.
Bürkert Fluid Control Systems is expanding its Gerabronn plant in Germany, having completed the shell of three new halls, expanding assembly and storage capacity, and modernizing solenoid valve production.
Princes Group has installed four new lines at its Bradford facility to produce over 250 million Capri-Sun juice pouches a year for Great Britain and Ireland, creating 50 jobs.
Modine is investing more than $38 million through 2028 to upgrade its Grenada, Mississippi facility and expand data center chiller manufacturing, expected to create more than 450 jobs. Chiller production is expected to begin later this summer.
International Paper is adding 40 jobs at a container plant in McAllen, Texas, as it consolidates its manufacturing footprint along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Charter Next Generation announced a $106 million investment to expand operations in Northeast Ohio, adding 12 film packaging lines in Lexington and four extrusion lines in Ontario, with 125 new jobs.
Thermodyn, a Baker Hughes subsidiary, announced a 10 million euro investment to more than double production capacity at its Le Creusot site with a new building and two test positions, creating 40 jobs by end of 2025. The first stone ceremony was held on 15 May 2025.
Van Genechten Packaging Group announced the start of a €10 million expansion at its VG Kvadra Pak plant in Riga, Latvia, adding construction, automation and sustainability upgrades to increase production capacity. UPB Nams is the building contractor for the nine-month project.
Hinojosa Packaging Group has finished a €30 million expansion of its Xàtiva plant in Valencia, adding 15,000 square metres and installing a 3.35-metre corrugator that raises capacity to two million boxes per day. The project began in 2022 and was announced on 14 May 2025.
Constantia Flexibles is expanding its rolling mill to increase aluminum foil production by 30%. The location and investment were not given in the excerpt.
Grundfos announced a multi-million-dollar expansion of its Brookshire, Texas facility with a new state-of-the-art production plant. The investment will increase capacity for North American customers. The amount was not specified.
Asahi Beverages has unveiled a new $60 million canning line at its Yatala brewery in Queensland, able to produce up to 400 million cans a year and adding 27 net full-time jobs.
Canpack Group plans to add a line producing about 1 billion beverage cans at its Bydgoszcz plant in Poland, with commissioning targeted for Q2 2026. The project was first announced in 2022 and postponed in 2023.