SJM Flex announced a $1.2 million investment to expand its facilities in Guanajuato Puerto Interior, Silao, adding 2,500 square meters and creating 70 new jobs. Construction started and is expected to finish in August 2024.

Saint-Gobain's Brasilit brand inaugurated a new fiber-cement roofing tile production line in Recife, Brazil, with an investment of approximately R$70 million, increasing capacity by up to 50% and creating over 50 direct jobs.

Brugola OEB added 11 new Industry 4.0 machines and expanded its production space with a new 1,000+ m² plant for cold forming in Lissone, Italy. The company also plans to hire about 50 new employees by January 2024.

Avangard Group plans to invest 1.3 billion rubles to expand production of wet wipes and spunlace nonwoven material at its Shakhtinsky Polyester Plant in Rostov Oblast, and build a logistics center.

AISYS INDUSTRIAL has expanded its production capacity by installing a ZAYER KAIROS V5 11000 fixed bed machining center with five simultaneous axes and 11 m stroke at its facility in São José dos Campos, Brazil.

Continental Engineering Compounds has added two compounding lines at its facilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, increasing capacity to approximately 15,000 tons per annum.

BYD Semiconductor completed the first phase of a power device and sensor-control device research and manufacturing project in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, China. The total investment is RMB 10 billion ($1.4 billion), and the project will have an annual capacity of 720,000 power device products and 6 billion optical microelectronic products when fully completed.

SJMFLEX de México, a South Korean-owned manufacturer of flexible couplings and EGR tubes, broke ground on a 2,500 m² expansion at its Guanajuato Puerto Interior facility on November 28, 2023, with a $1.2 million investment.

Orka Automation plans a $2.5 million, 12,000-square-foot expansion at its factory in Wyoming, Michigan, to consolidate component engineering and house operations of its acquisition West Michigan Gage. The project is expected to create up to 25 new jobs.

GE Vernova's Gas Power business announced an investment of over $5 million in new technology and increased services capabilities at the Fierro Service Center in Andoain, Spain. The expansion aims to double production of generator stator bars and add approximately 30 jobs.

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.

Georg Fischer Central Plastics is investing $30 million to expand its plastics unit in Oklahoma. The expansion will add room for growth.

Tempel Steel (a Worthington Industries company) is expanding its Apodaca, Mexico facility by re-engineering existing space and adding a 185,000-square-foot building for traction motor laminate cores for EVs, with production expected in 2024.

ZF Group is investing $500 million to expand its transmission facility in Gray Court, South Carolina, creating 400 jobs and upgrading equipment for EV propulsion systems.

Kemira announced a multi-million euro investment to add 70,000 tons of ferric sulfate water treatment chemicals capacity at its Goole, UK site. The new capacity is planned to be in operation in Q3 2025.

Hydro Aluminium Nenzing invested €45 million since early 2022 to expand its facility in Nenzing, Austria, adding a fourth extrusion press and 10,000 square meters of production and office space. The expansion was completed and opened in 2023.

Mingəçevir Tekstil LLC plans to increase annual yarn production capacity from 1,200 tons to 1,400 tons at its Ring Spinning and OpenEnd factories in Mingachevir, Azerbaijan, starting March or April 2024. The expansion will create 8-12 new permanent jobs.

Kurabo's subsidiary Kurashiki Chemical Products do Brasil will invest about 10 billion yen to double production capacity of flexible urethane moulded products for automotive interiors at its plant in Leme, São Paulo, Brazil. Production start is targeted for May 2025.

BorgWarner expects 2023 turbocharger production to be 18% higher than last year at its Itatiba, Sao Paulo state plant, and is studying a capacity expansion there, though nothing has been agreed with headquarters.

OM Manufacturing will expand its Nagaoka plant in Niigata, Japan, adding 1,944 square meters of floor space with an investment of about ¥1.3 billion. Construction starts November 2023, completion expected November 2024.

Nanjing Hongbaoli Polyurethane plans a technical transformation and expansion project to increase monomer polyether capacity by 40,000 tons/year and combined polyether capacity by 40,000 tons/year, with a total investment of 224.65 million yuan.

Siemens Mexico will invest MX$900 million (US$52.7 million) over five years to expand production at its Queretaro plant, aiming to double electrical technology output.

Knauf Insulation is investing a mid-double-digit million euro amount to modernize and expand production capacity at its glass wool plant in Bernburg, Germany, citing strong demand due to the energy transition.

Plastiques Gagnon received CAD 9,870,000 in loans from the Quebec government and Investissement Québec to expand and automate its facilities in Chaudière-Appalaches, including acquiring a warehouse in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli and building a new plant in Lévis. Work in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli is complete; Lévis expansion is starting.

HD Hyundai Construction Equipment signed an agreement with Ulsan City for the 'Ulsan Campus Advancement Project', investing 1.941 trillion Korean won by June 2025. The project will increase production capacity by 67% to over 15,000 units annually and add more than 600 employees.

Toshiba Electronic Components & Storage Devices will build a new back-end production facility for power semiconductors at its Jilu Semiconductor Plant in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Construction begins June 2024, with production scheduled for spring 2025, more than doubling vehicle power semiconductor capacity vs FY2022.

Schneider Electric completed a new workshop expansion at its Suzhou factory, increasing production area by 60% and capacity by over 60%. The factory is the company's largest transformer production base globally.

Novo Nordisk announced an investment of more than 16 billion Danish kroner (€2.1 billion) to expand its production site in Chartres, France, adding aseptic and finished production processes and a quality control lab, creating over 500 jobs.

Exotec opened a 2,500 m² production area in Croix, France, dedicated to the Skypath conveyor range and a service centre, creating about 30 jobs.

Bentley Endovascular Group, through its subsidiary Bentley InnoMed GmbH, acquired the entire site of Best Freizeitmöbel GmbH in Hechingen, Germany, tripling its used area from 15,000 to nearly 45,000 square meters. The transfer will occur gradually by mid-2025.

SW Germany will invest 100 million yuan to upgrade its Chongqing plant in the coming 3-5 years.

SW Germany will invest an additional 5 million euros in the third phase of its Suzhou, Jiangsu factory over the next three years. The company also plans to invest 100 million yuan to upgrade its Chongqing plant over 3-5 years.

Sika is expanding its polymer production capacity at its Sealy, Texas site to meet growing demand for concrete admixtures in the US and Canada. This is the second polymer investment in Texas in five years.

Paint manufacturer Adler Lacke launched the 'Factory of the Future' project to expand and modernise its production in Schwaz, Austria, starting with converting a high-bay warehouse into a fully automated raw materials logistics system. The new raw materials logistics system is scheduled to be commissioned in stages from mid-2025.

Fortaco will open a new production unit in Narva Industrial Park, Estonia, with a €16 million investment, including €8 million for equipment. The expansion is expected to increase the workforce from 550 to 700 by the second half of 2024.

Johnson Controls International received a $33 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to expand manufacturing plants in San Antonio, Texas; Wichita, Kansas; and Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, aiming to produce approximately 200,000 electric heat pumps per year, a 200% production increase.

Fortaco Estonia is opening a new facility with advanced production lines in Narva's Kadastiku industrial park, investing €8 million (with €2 million from the Just Transition Fund), creating over 50 jobs by end of 2024 and increasing production capacity by about 25%.

Continental Diamond Tool opened a second production unit in Kinmel Bay, Conwy, to house a new electro-plating operation, supported by a £1.6 million investment package from the Welsh Government.

Rohto Laboratories Indonesia expanded its production facility in Cimareme, Bandung Barat, increasing eye drop capacity from 18 million to 35 million bottles per year, with an investment of over IDR 120 billion.

Embraco, a Nidec Global Appliance brand, began high-volume production of NEX and VEH compressors at its Beijing factory. The company invested US$5.7 million to set up the production line.

Metsä Board has completed the project adding 200,000 tons of annual folding boxboard capacity at its Husum mill in Sweden, raising output to 600,000 tons; full capacity is expected by end-2025.

Eagle Crusher is investing $1.8 million to expand its Bucyrus, Ohio manufacturing facility, adding welding tables, a paint booth, cobot technology, and other upgrades to increase capacity.

Anord Mardix announced a €27 million investment in Dundalk, including a new 120,000 sq/ft facility and upgrades to its existing site, creating 200 jobs. The first phase is expected to be completed in Q1 2024.

Sage Automotive Interiors announced plans to renovate and expand the Sharon Plant in Abbeville, SC, with a $10.45 million investment, creating 95 new jobs.

Joyce/Dayton Corp. announced a major expansion of its Portland, Indiana plant from 82,000 to 108,000 square feet, adding 39 jobs by end of 2026. Construction starts March 2024, completion early 2025.

PT Rohto Laboratories Indonesia invested over Rp 120 billion to expand its eye drop and intraocular lens production lines in Cimareme, West Bandung, increasing eye drop capacity from 18 million to 35 million bottles per year.

Guangdong Mengtai High-tech Fiber Co., Ltd. is investing 328.7 million yuan to build a 23,000-tonne polypropylene fiber expansion and R&D center in Jiedong, Jieyang, China.

Kuenz-SK will receive a EUR 2 million state investment incentive to expand its container crane manufacturing plant in Kechnec, Slovakia. The company will invest EUR 19 million and create 15 new jobs by the end of 2028.

Samsung plans to add a new building (Samsung Fabrication Plant 2) to its semiconductor chip plant in Taylor, Texas, with a floor size of around 2.7 million square feet. Construction has begun, and the total investment estimate has risen to $25 billion.

Johnson Controls received a $33 million DOE grant to expand its York heat pump production at plants in San Antonio, Texas; Wichita, Kansas; and Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. The expansion will increase capacity by 200% to 200,000 heat pumps per year and create about 1,000 jobs.