GEA is adding about 70,000 square feet of office, manufacturing, research and industrial space at its Janesville campus in Wisconsin. The investment of about USD 25 million covers construction, machinery and equipment, with full operation scheduled for early 2028.
Actron Industries has installed a SIG Midi 12 aseptic filling line at its Calamba, Laguna plant in the Philippines, capable of filling up to 12,000 cartons per hour, with commercial production scheduled for Q2 2026.
Filling and closing machine maker groninger USA will invest $15.1 million to expand its manufacturing operations in Charlotte's Steele Creek submarket, creating 60 new jobs.
Paul Mueller Company announced a $20 million expansion of its Springfield, Missouri headquarters facilities, adding 100,000 square feet for production and R&D. Construction is expected to begin in fall 2024 and finish in fall 2025.
Meat processor MAP WA invested $35 million at its Bibra Lake facility in Western Australia, including $10 million construction and $25 million robotics and equipment, doubling capacity to 400,000 kg per week and adding Multivac thermoforming packaging technology.
Westrock Coffee plans to invest over $300 million and create 600 new jobs over five years at its development, production, packaging and distribution facility in Conway, Arkansas, with the facility using advanced robotics.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners opened a A$43.7 million, highly automated canning line at its Moorabbin production site, built with KHS, GPI and Matthews Australasia, to serve Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.
Britvic officially opened a new canning line at its Rugby factory after investing £26.9 million and creating 20 new jobs. The line produces around 120,000 cans per hour and raises site capacity by about 20%.
Pepsi Bottling Ventures will invest $35 million to add a new bottling line at its Winston-Salem, North Carolina production facility, expected to be operational by the end of 2024. The line will serve Aquafina, Lipton Tea and Nature's Twist.
Retigo completed construction of a new two-storey 6,000 m2 production hall at its headquarters in Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic. The hall will be fitted with automation and new machines to raise output by the second half of 2022.
Australian beverage producer Bickford's has opened a new AUD 20 million bottling line at its South Australian facility, developed by Sidel with Tetra Pak, including aseptic filling technology. The line helps expand the company into dairy.
Weber Maschinenbau is investing a seven-figure sum in a new assembly hall of about 2,300 m² and a two-storey office building at its Breidenbach site. Completion of the assembly hall is planned for September 2019 and the office building for January 2020.
Shick Esteve held the grand opening of a 108,000 square-foot manufacturing expansion at 4323 Clary Blvd, Kansas City, Missouri, with new forming, rolling, laser cutting and welding equipment. The expansion was announced April 1, 2019.
Almarai installed two complete Sidel PET lines, each handling 54,000 bottles per hour, at its Al Kharj central processing plant to increase single-serve orange juice capacity. The lines use Tetra Pak Processing Systems equipment. The article is dated January 2019.
Cargill invested over $10 million to install a bottling line at its Sidney, Ohio crush and refinery, adding 75% annual capacity over previous lines. The line uses recyclable PET plastic.
Voltic (GH) inaugurated a new high-speed packaging line at its second facility in Akwadum, Eastern Region, funded by parent Coca-Cola Beverages Africa with US$6.5 million. The line is meant to raise production capacity.
Nestlé Waters North America completed a two-year, $79 million expansion of its Nestlé Pure Life bottling facility in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, adding three high-speed bottling lines and nearly 50 jobs.
Meyn Polska was handed over 10,375 sqm of production space and nearly 2,000 sqm of office space in Lebork, Pomerania on June 13, 2017. The expansion was completed in eleven months, and the company makes poultry processing machinery.