Xinhecheng's Phase 1 nylon new material project in Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone, with planned capacity of 100,000 tons of adiponitrile and 140,000 tons of nylon 66, is progressing smoothly and expected to be completed and put into operation in 2027.

BASF inaugurated a new world-scale MDI production facility at its Geismar Verbund site in Louisiana, with an annual capacity of approximately 600,000 metric tons. The $1 billion investment is BASF's largest wholly owned investment in North America.

Cosmo First Limited is investing in an expansion of its high-end chemical-coated film capacity. The facility, equipped with an advanced coating line, is expected to add 16,000 metric tonnes of annual capacity in the second half of FY27.

Evonik Industries has invested €52 million to expand its silicone manufacturing platform at the Essen Goldschmidtstrasse site, adding a new production facility and tank farm for organomodified silicones.

AkzoNobel is investing $60 million to expand powder coating capacity at its facilities in Reading, Pennsylvania; Warsaw, Indiana; and Monterrey, Mexico, with upgrades including new production lines and automation.

Bond-Laminates GmbH, a subsidiary of LANXESS, has commissioned two new production lines for Tepex continuous-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites at its Brilon site, increasing capacity by about 50% with a mid single-digit million euro investment.

Covestro inaugurated a new production line for polyester resins at its Meppen site on November 3, 2026. The multi-million-euro investment adds capacity in the double-digit kiloton range and creates some additional jobs in production, filling and shipping.

Osborn completed a multi-million-dollar investment in a new compound manufacturing facility at its North America headquarters in Richmond, Indiana, bringing compound production back in-house for surface treatment and finishing products.

Evonik completed a €52 million investment at its Essen Goldschmidtstrasse site in Germany, including a new production plant and tank farm, to expand capacity for organomodified silicones. The new facility increases production capacity and optimizes logistics.

Ambani Orgochem Limited plans to expand its Tarapur acrylic coatings and adhesives capacity from 2,000 to about 4,500 tonnes per month, a 125% increase, with an investment of Rs 15-20 crore. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of Q4 FY27.

Polimatiz increased production of composite geomembranes eightfold to 4 million sq m per year at its facility in the Alabuga special economic zone, Tatarstan. Total investment was 286 million rubles, including loans from the Federal Industrial Development Fund and the Tatarstan Investment Venture Fund.

ResinTech Inc. announced a $30 million expansion of its Camden, New Jersey headquarters, adding a 34,500-square-foot manufacturing and warehouse facility. Construction begins November 2026 and concludes in early 2028, creating 100 new permanent jobs and retaining 259 existing positions.

MKS Instruments (via its Atotech brand) has broken ground on a $25 million expansion of its equipment manufacturing base in Guangzhou's Huangpu District. The project will add about 30,000 sqm of space, doubling capacity, and is expected to be completed by Q4 2027.

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.

Lubrizol is doubling its CPVC compound manufacturing capacity at its Dahej, Gujarat site from 70,000 to 140,000 metric tons, with operations expected by early 2025. It also plans an R&D center at Dahej.

Mitsubishi Chemical UK began construction of a new production line that will double capacity for its SoarnoL EVOH packaging polymer at Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, a multi-hundred-million-pound investment. The line is expected to be operational by mid-2025 and create at least 30 direct jobs.

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.

Toshiba Materials announced a new facility for silicon nitride balls on its Yokohama headquarters site, budgeted at over 5 billion yen (about US$38 million), raising capacity 50% versus fiscal 2021. Production is expected to start in November 2023.

Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn is installing new syngas compressors to raise ammonia capacity at its Poland plant, a PLN 180 million (about $43.5 million) project with completion expected in H1 2023.

Kaneka Corporation has decided to significantly increase production capacity for its PHBH biodegradable polymer Green Planet in Japan, with further capacity planned in Europe and America.

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.

ADNOC and Borealis signed a final investment agreement worth USD 6.2 billion to build Borouge 4, a polyethylene expansion at the Ruwais complex in the UAE. It will produce 1.4 million tons of polyethylene per year, including a 1.5 million ton ethane cracker.

Avantor announced a multi-year investment in global hydration capabilities, including a recently completed expansion of its Gliwice, Poland facility and a multi-stage expansion of its Aurora, Ohio facility due by mid-2022.

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.

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.

Johnson Matthey announced new manufacturing capacity for catalyst-coated membranes used in green hydrogen production. The capacity location and amount were not stated in the article.

Tver regional governor discussed with Shell Neft plans to expand lubricant production at its Torzhok plant, with investment up to 6 billion roubles, output rising to 300 million litres a year, and work starting in 2021 and finishing in 2023.

Agfa is building a new unit at its central factory in Mortsel, near Antwerp, to produce water-based inks for laminates, corrugated and other packaging. The plant will be co-located with R&D and quality control and is meant to cover volumes for the next five to ten years.

Koch-Chemie began a construction project to modernize and expand its Unna factory, adding production capacity and planned bottling equipment and office space. The announcement was dated 24 June 2020.

Actega is significantly expanding production of water-based and UV-cured overprint varnishes, raising global capacity to over 150,000 tonnes per year. About €2 million has been invested in a new integrated production facility in Brazil employing 180 people.

Evonik Industries is expanding its capacity for organic dispersions used in heat seal lacquers at its Darmstadt, Germany site, with completion scheduled for the second half of 2021. The dispersions serve food and beverage flexible packaging.

Vopak is expanding its Terminal Linkeroever by 50,000 cubic metres with eight new tanks, mainly for storing monoethylene glycol (MEG). The report is dated 4 November 2019.

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.

Solvay will increase production capacity of its Tecnoflon FKM peroxide curable fluoroelastomer by nearly a third at its Spinetta Marengo plant in Italy, with the extra capacity due by May 2021. The expansion serves demand from automotive, oil and gas, and semiconductor industries.

Zhejiang Petrochemical has announced plans to build a paraxylene plant in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, capable of producing 4 million tons per year, as part of China's push to reduce paraxylene imports.

Entegris Korea signed an agreement with Gyeonggi Province for an additional $20 million investment, reinvesting profits from Korea. It began building a production facility in Hwaseong Jangan 2 industrial complex that will make high-purity chemicals and special containers, and will hire 50 people.

Dow announced plans to expand its alkoxylation plant for polyglycols at its Tarragona industrial complex in Spain, with a new reactor. The new capacity is expected to start operating in 2021 and will serve Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India and Asia.

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.

The Shepherd Chemical Company is investing $8.5 million to expand its Mirecourt, France manufacturing and R&D site, adding a third reactor, a new warehouse and upgraded pilot facilities. Production in the new reactor is expected in late 2019, potentially doubling the site's capacity.

Lotte BP Chemical confirmed an 180 billion won expansion at its Ulsan plant to build acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer capacity, with construction from January 2019 to September 2020 and commercial production from January 2021. The project is expected to create 50 direct jobs.

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.

Videolar-Innova is investing R$500 million to double its styrene monomer plant in Triunfo, Brazil, to 460,000 tonnes per year, with completion expected in 2019.

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.

Kumho P&B Chemicals will invest 200 billion won to add 200,000 tonnes per year of BPA capacity at a new site near its Yeosu plant, raising capacity from 450,000 to 650,000 tonnes. Completion is due in the second half of 2021.