Ingredion announced a $50 million investment to modernize and expand industrial starch production at its Cedar Rapids, Iowa facility for the packaging and papermaking industries.

Hollingsworth & Vose will invest $40.2 million to expand its Floyd County, Virginia facility by over 28,000 square feet for new production equipment, creating 25 new jobs. Governor Glenn Youngkin announced the project on 3 January 2023.

Chemours is increasing its Opteon YF ultra-low GWP refrigerant production by 40% at its Ingleside, Texas facility through an $80 million project. The expansion is aimed at meeting growing customer demand.

Bona US held a groundbreaking for a 280,000-square-foot building at Monroe Corporate Center in Monroe, North Carolina, its second facility at the industrial park. The company plans to invest more than $20 million and create 124 jobs.

Honeywell is expanding its Baton Rouge, Louisiana facility to double the capacity of its ultra-low global warming potential Solstice ze product. The product is used in foam insulation, propellants, refrigeration and air conditioning.

Haldor Topsoe will build a 15,000 tpy hydroprocessing catalyst plant at its existing Bayport production site in Pasadena, Harris County, Texas, expected to be fully operational in the first half of 2023.

PPG is expanding coatings manufacturing capacity for beverage and food can coatings at its Tiel, Netherlands plant and Cieszyn, Poland plant. Completion is expected between late 2021 and Q1 2022; financial details were not disclosed.

Honeywell is considering a potential $40 million investment to expand capacity at its Baton Rouge, Louisiana plant by 20 million pounds per year of Solstice ze refrigerant, creating 13 new jobs, with completion expected in early 2021.

Kuraray is investing approximately $15 million to install plant-based high barrier resin production in Houston, Texas, supporting its partnership with Sealed Air. The resin plant is scheduled for completion in September 2019 and operation in early 2020.

Ortec, a biomaterial and polymer technology company, plans to invest $20 million to expand its existing Pendleton facility in Anderson County, South Carolina, creating about 18 new jobs. Hiring is projected to begin in the second quarter of 2019.

Chemours has started up a new Opteon YF (HFO-1234yf) refrigerant production facility at its Corpus Christi site in Ingleside, Texas, completing a $300 million project that triples its global capacity for this product.

INEOS Styrolution made the final investment decision to build a new 100kt ASA plant at its Bayport, Texas site, with start-up scheduled for 2021. WorleyParsons was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract.

Nylene broke ground on Nov. 13, 2018 on an $8 million expansion at its Henderson, Kentucky plant, adding an 80,000 sq ft building and 40 jobs, with completion expected by July 2019.

DowDuPont announced about $100 million of investments over two years to expand capacity and modernize the Sabine River Works plant in Orange County, Texas, for Surlyn, Nucrel, Fusabond and Vamac specialty materials, with phased output starting in 2020.

LiquidPower Specialty Products (LSPI), a Berkshire Hathaway company, commissioned a new drag reducing agent manufacturing plant within its complex in Bryan, Texas, doubling its capacity. The announcement was made on November 20, 2017.

Dow dedicated $2 billion of chemical manufacturing investments at its Plaquemine site in Louisiana, including two new polyolefin plants, added ethylene capacity, warehousing and a restarted ethylene unit. The projects were first announced in August 2013.

LyondellBasell broke ground on its first commercial Hyperzone polyethylene plant at its La Porte, Texas complex. The plant will produce 500,000 metric tons of HDPE annually and is planned to start up in 2019.

PPG completed a $3m expansion of its packaging coatings manufacturing at its Oak Creek, Wisconsin plant, adding a 3,300 sq ft facility to produce food can coatings.

PPG opened a nearly $3 million expansion at its Oak Creek, Wisconsin, plant, adding a 3,300-square-foot facility for food-can coatings production.