Alleima inaugurated a new hydraulic and instrumentation tubing factory at its Mehsana Mill in Gujarat, India, on 15 March 2023. The plant adds seamless stainless steel tube capacity for the chemical, petrochemical and energy segments.
Carraro Group inaugurated a new 1,440 square meter production area at its gear plant in Ranjangaon, Pune, adding gear hobbing and grinding machines. Monthly gear capacity will rise from 150,000 to over 175,000.
Shibaura Machine India plans to invest Rs. 225 crore in its Chennai plant to expand injection molding machine capacity to 3,200 machines a year in phases. A new factory adjacent to the existing plant is under construction, with trial production expected by November 2023.
WIKA's Pune site has commissioned two new Lean production lines for pressure gauge accessories such as overpressure protectors, throttles, cocks and adapters.
Gerresheimer has commissioned a new plastic container and closure plant and a new glass melting furnace at its Kosamba site in India, adding production capacity for pharmaceutical primary packaging.
Danfoss Group company Eaton Fluid Power inaugurated a new hydrostatics production line at its Pune Pimpri campus to raise localisation and serve growing demand in the Indian market, especially agriculture.
Tekno Valves plans to raise production from about 1.2 million valves a year to 1.5 million by December 2022 and 2 million by 2025 at its West Bengal facility. The total investment is Rs 35 crore, invested in phases.
Endress+Hauser Wetzer plans to invest Rs 100 crore (about $13.4 million) to expand its manufacturing facilities in Aurangabad, India, starting with a 60,000 sq ft building in the Waluj industrial area. A second phase of up to Rs 300 crore is under consideration, as reported on 3 September 2021.
Kirloskar Brothers Limited has set up a new Advanced Technology Product Division for high-end pumps used in nuclear applications, based at its mother plant in Kirloskarvadi, Maharashtra. The investment amount was not disclosed.
Godrej Appliances will invest INR 100 Cr in its Shirwal and Mohali manufacturing units by 2025 to raise air conditioner production capacity to 8 lakh units. The brand also launched a new range of 100% Made in India ACs using R290 and R32 refrigerants.
Tamilnadu Petroproducts approved revamping the caustic soda unit of its heavy chemicals division at an estimated cost of Rs 165 crore, raising capacity from 150 to 250 tonnes per day. Completion is expected in about 18 months after statutory clearances.
Tamilnadu Petroproducts approved augmenting its linear alkyl benzene plant from 120 to 145 kilo tonnes per year at an estimated cost of Rs 240 crore, with completion expected in about 24 months after approvals. The announcement was made on 30 March 2021.
PG Electroplast announced a Rs 100 crore investment over two years to expand its Ahmednagar plant in Maharashtra, creating over 600 local jobs and lifting AC indoor unit capacity to over 1.5 million and outdoor unit capacity to over 1 million.
Sandvik will invest in a new hydraulic and instrumentation tubing factory at its Mehsana Mill in Gujarat, India, to meet rising demand. The investment is split into two parts and is expected to be fully operational by early 2023.
UFlex announced it will double production capacity at its Asepto aseptic liquid packaging plant in Sanand, Gujarat, from 3.5 billion to 7 billion packs a year within ten months.
Von Roll is turning its existing Bangalore plant into the most modern electric wire coil production facility in India, doubling current capacity. The company cites growing outsourcing by motor and generator manufacturers.
Anup Engineering is setting up an expanded heavy engineering facility in Kheda near Ahmedabad with capex of 200 crore rupees, to be funded through internal accruals. The company sees strong demand for reactors from the petrochemicals sector.
PMC Hydraulics extended its production facilities in India to 1650 square meters in February 2020, adding storage, a larger machine shop and assembly and testing areas. The company expects production capacity to rise by up to 25%.
Piramal Glass announced a $42 million greenfield expansion at its Jambusar plant in Gujarat, India. It adds one 250 TPD furnace and seven manufacturing lines for high-end spirits, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical glass packaging, and will create about 700 jobs.
Endress+Hauser Flowtech India plans to invest Rs 200 crore over five years to expand its Waluj plant in Aurangabad, creating 70 new jobs.
Endress+Hauser India plans a ₹100-crore expansion at its Aurangabad facility focused on flow technologies and smart products, with completion likely in 2021.
Zircon Technologies ordered two Mark Andy Performance Series P7E presses and five Rotoflex finishing units at Labelexpo Brussels, and plans a fifth manufacturing site in Dehradun, India, adding 100-120 jobs. It also plans to invest $6 million in capital equipment over 12 months.
Carraro Group laid the foundation stone for a new production area at its Ranjangaon plant near Pune, India, to expand capacity and portal axle production. Local activities are expected to rise 50% in three years.
Bosch has inaugurated Phase II of its expanded smart factory in Bidadi near Bengaluru, built with an investment of 31 million euros to make powertrain products such as common rail pumps and high-pressure rails.
Indore-based flexible packaging converter Inoflex has bought a new Windsor 5-layer BFL machine and plans to expand production, with the expansion slated to start in November at its Indore plants.
Haier broke ground on an expansion of its Ranjangaon, Pune factory, backed by a Rs 490 crore investment, to add production of new appliance lines and raise the workforce from 1,100 to 2,900.
HSIL plans to double capacity of its Sangareddy pipes and fittings plant near Hyderabad to 60,000 tonnes by FY-2022 with an investment of INR 150 crore.
Schott Kaisha plans a Rs 500 crore expansion between 2018 and 2020, including a new site on the Gujarat-Daman border for pre-filled syringes and cartridges and expansion of its Daman and Jambusar plants.
BorgWarner celebrated the opening of its expanded 4,023 square metre facility in Kakkalur, Tamil Nadu, which adds a production line for variable cam timing systems to serve India and Southeast Asia.
ZF Friedrichshafen opened a shock absorber production line at its regional headquarters in Chakan, Pune, with an annual capacity of 0.7 million units, planned to rise to 3 million units within 3 to 4 years.
UNP Polyvalves is nearly finished adding 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space at its Vadodara, Gujarat plant, bringing total factory space to 150,000 square feet for lined valves.
ZF Friedrichshafen started a new shock absorber production line at its regional headquarters in Chakan, Pune, India, with annual capacity of 0.7 million units, planned to rise to three million units within three to four years.
BorgWarner expanded manufacturing at its Kakkalur facility in Thiruvallur near Chennai by adding 1,500 square metres to its production line, hiring more than 80 people and starting variable cam timing system production.
Marquardt India plans to move its R&D operations into a bigger Pune facility with labs and prototyping, and to grow engineering headcount from 250 to 500 within about two years. The land for the new facility has already been bought.
WIKA India put an extension building at its Pune production site into operation at the end of September 2018, boosting production of level measurement, WEgrid and calibration technology.
The board of Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd approved a ₹2,520 crore outlay for a phased expansion at unit II of its Tiruchi plant, including a pulp mill of 400 tonnes per day and 1.65 lakh tonnes of printing and writing paper capacity.
Mumbai-based Huhtamaki PPL commissioned an HP Indigo 20000 digital press at its Thane plant in January 2018, adding digital printing to its flexible packaging and label operations. The press was formally unveiled on 23 April 2018.
Honeywell will double the operational space of its Fulgaon facility in Pune to 151,000 square feet to meet growing demand for automation solutions. No cost was given.
Constantia Flexibles is investing millions to expand production capacity at its Indian subsidiary Parikh Packaging in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, with operations expected to start in 2019. A greenfield site near the existing plant has already been broken ground.
HSIL plans to expand its security bottle caps facility in Telangana with a Rs 100 crore investment, raising capacity from 230 million to one billion units per year, with commissioning expected by September 2018.
Jaquar Group plans to spend Rs 150 crore to raise faucet output at its Bhiwadi, Rajasthan facility from 80,000 to 100,000 units per day, with commissioning expected within six months.
Nippon Piston Ring will invest one billion yen (US$8.9 million) to raise valve seat output by 30 percent at its factory in Karnataka, India, as car and motorcycle production ramps up. The 8,000 sq m facility can reportedly produce around 3 million valve seats per month.
Atlas Copco opened a new manufacturing unit at its Cherlapally plant in Hyderabad, India, after investing Rs 80 crore, doubling the plant's capacity and adding about 35 jobs. The unit includes a rock drilling R&D test centre.
BorgWarner Cooling Systems (India) has opened a fully automated Visctronic assembly line at its plant in Sriperumpudur near Chennai. The line has an annual capacity of 500,000 units and will start rolling out products in Q2 2017 for BS-IV applications.
Petainer Innopac Packaging is installing an additional line at its Maharashtra facility, with each new line investment reported at INR 14 crore. The report is dated 2017-02-23.
Cosmo Films installed a new 10.4-metre BOPP line at its existing Karjan facility near Vadodara, Gujarat, raising annual capacity 40 percent to 196,000 MT. The line cost about Rs 200 crore and was commissioned ahead of schedule.
BorgWarner plans to add 17,000 square feet of manufacturing and engineering space at its Kakkalur, India engine timing components plant later in 2017, marking 15 years of the facility.
Clariant plans to expand production of its Continu-Strip desiccant packets by adding a high-capacity multi-lane production line. The expansion was described in November 2016.