Danfoss Mexico announced it will expand its plant in Apodaca, Nuevo León from 30,000 to 60,000 sqm, creating 400 new jobs. The expansion is expected to be operational by October 2024.

Schneider Electric announced a £7.2 million investment to expand its Leeds smart factory and Innovation Hub, creating 110 new jobs over five years. The upgrade includes a 3,380 sqm extension and is projected to begin in early 2024 and be completed by August 2024.

The valve project plans a second and third phase, including reconstruction of an empty old building and tripling the floor area of the new building.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners announced a €35 million investment in a new high-speed canning line at its Wakefield site, capable of 2,000 cans per minute and due to be operational in 2024. The line will create 28 roles.

Manitou Group celebrated the grand opening of an 80,000 sq-ft expansion at its Madison, South Dakota facility, coinciding with the company's 50th anniversary of manufacturing skid loaders. The expansion includes a new assembly building to increase production capacity.

Thyssenkrupp is expanding its plant in Jászfényszaru, Hungary, with an EUR 58 million investment to produce rotating shafts for electric vehicles. The expansion adds 8,000 square meters and will create 110 new jobs. Production is expected to ramp up through 2026.

Kuenz - SK plans to expand its existing plant in Kechnec, Slovakia, for manufacturing container handling cranes. The investment is valued at EUR 19 million, with EUR 2 million in state aid, and is expected to create 15 new jobs by the end of 2028.

CertainTeed, a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, has broken ground on a $28 million expansion of its vinyl siding plant in Williamsport, Maryland. The project will increase production, warehouse space, and add training areas.

Freudenberg Medical officially opened its expanded hypotube manufacturing facility in Galway, Ireland, increasing its manufacturing footprint by 50% and creating 100 new jobs. The expansion aims to meet global demand for metal components used in minimally invasive surgery catheters.

RCT Power opened a new factory in Augsburg, Germany, for hybrid inverters for home batteries, with two new production lines (DC 8 and DC 10) producing 5,000 units per month, totaling 600 MW of inverter capacity. The expansion created over 100 new jobs in Augsburg.

Baystar (Bayport Polymers LLC) launched its new Bay 3 polyethylene unit in Pasadena, Texas, with a capacity of 625,000 metric tons per year. The unit uses Borstar technology from Borealis and more than doubles Baystar's production capacity. Total investment exceeded $1.4 billion.

The Public Utilities Corporation signed a €21.8 million contract with IMM to install two 8MW generator sets at the Roche Caiman power station, expanding capacity to 92MW, with completion expected by July 2025.

The second phase of SW Germany's Suzhou factory, built with an investment of 18 million euros and covering 20,000 square meters, started operations in October 2023 with an annual production capacity of 250 sets of machine tools.

Clariant is constructing a second production line at its Daya Bay plant, representing a further CHF 40 million investment, expected to be onstream during 2024.

DB Netze installed a new electric crane at the Erfurt-Vieselbach inland container terminal operated by DUSS in Thuringia, Germany. The crane has higher lifting capacity and is faster and more eco-friendly than the older diesel-powered unit it replaces.

Bühler India announced expansion of its manufacturing capabilities in Bengaluru, including production of Plansifter Arenit and Purifier Norit, with roller mills scheduled for 2024.

ValTek LLC expanded its Odessa, Texas facility across four buildings, adding more than 16 machine tools to double parts manufacturing capacity and cut pump test turnaround times in half. The expansion was reported on October 1, 2023.

Vow ASA received an order from Vow Green Metals to double production capacity at the Follum biocarbon plant in Hønefoss, Norway, adding a new process line to produce up to 20,000 tons of biocarbon annually. Total contract value is NOK 332 million.

On Semiconductor Vietnam is expanding its factory in Vietnam. PGTECH is supplying Belimo balancing valves for the project.

IS Engineering GmbH has relocated the Monforts operations to Viersen, Germany, increasing production space by 2.5 times. The new facility features high-performance overhead cranes with loads up to 6 tons and expanded amenities.

Mondelēz International announced a R$300 million expansion of its factory in Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brazil, increasing production capacity by 50% and creating 500 jobs.

Visioneering, Inc. announced plans to invest $25 million to expand its plant in Auburn Hills, Michigan, adding 133,664 square feet of space. The project is expected to create 238 new jobs.

Cemento Yura announced plans to expand its cement plant in Arequipa, Peru, by adding a new line with 3Mt/yr capacity at a cost of $132 million, doubling total capacity. The new line is expected to be operational in 2027.

Sanner Group has brought a new manufacturing facility, Kunshan II, on stream in Kunshan, China, increasing production capacity by 80%. The facility includes Class D clean rooms for pharmaceutical and medical packaging production.

Hungarian company Masterplast Nonwoven has erected a new warehouse hall in Aschersleben, Germany, to improve competitiveness and efficiency. The facility was officially opened on September 29, 2023.

The Binh Phuoc Cement Factory, a branch of Vicem Ha Tien Cement Joint Stock Company, issued a contractor selection plan for expanding a warehouse to store artificial gypsum in cement production. The tender value is 1,943,696,456 VND.

Titan-Polymer LLC, part of AO GC Titan, plans to build a second stage at its Pskov plant to produce PET pellet (up to 280,000 tonnes/year), PBT pellet (up to 80,000 tonnes/year) and PET pellet (up to 140,000 tonnes/year). Total investment for both stages exceeds RUB 22 billion. The first stage BOPET film production is already operational.

Moncler opened an expanded factory in Bacau, Romania, with an investment of around EUR 10 million. The new 8,000-square-meter facility adds garment production and R&D space, increasing total capacity to nearly 1,800 employees, with plans to hire over 200 more.

Kelvion has expanded its production capacities in Sarstedt, Germany, adding 150,000 heat exchangers per year. The investment was 4.3 million euros.

Airbus has broken ground on its second final assembly line for the A320 family in Tianjin, China. The expansion is planned to enter service by the end of 2025 and will produce A320 and A321neo aircraft.

Zhancheng Enterprise, a precision engineering supplier to Microsoft and Dell, will invest over TWD 50 million to add an intelligent production line at its Shulin plant in New Taipei City for CPU and GPU coolers.

YOKE (Zhenfeng Enterprise), a maker of industrial lifting and safety equipment, plans to invest about TWD 7.5 billion to expand its plants in Changhua and Taichung, Taiwan, including a new forging line, expanded processing capacity, and a new plant in Taichung.

Arkema announced a 2.5-fold increase in organic peroxide production capacity at its Changshu site in China, with an investment of around €50 million. The expansion will support Asian customers in renewable energy markets, with industrial start-up expected in early 2025.

Arkema decided to increase global production capacity of dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) at its Beaumont site in Texas, USA. The €130 million investment will support the growing biofuel market and is scheduled to come on stream in Q2 2025.

Saint-Gobain announced a $28 million expansion of its CertainTeed siding facility in Williamsport, Maryland.

Pioneer Embroideries increased its Specialized Polyester Filament Yarn (SPFY) spinning capacity from 18,000 MTA to 26,000 MTA, with production commencing in June 2023. The company also plans to start new value-added capacities in POY and DTY by end of September 2023.

ArcelorMittal's arm AMNS India is expanding its steel plant at Hazira, Gujarat, India, with an investment of INR 60,000 crore to increase capacity to 15 million tonnes. Executive chairman Lakshmi N Mittal expressed confidence the project will be commissioned by 2026.

TPK Zedex (part of Plastmass Group) will build a new plant in Shchyolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia, to expand production of semi-finished products and articles from ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) and high-molecular-weight polyethylene (HMWPE). Investment is 360 million rubles, creating 110 new jobs. Launch is planned for 2026.

CASEA, a subsidiary of REMONDIS Production, completed an expansion of its alpha plaster production operations in Lünen, Germany, doubling capacity. The multi-million euro investment allows production from both FGD gypsum and natural gypsum.

Ta Chen International announced its TCI Texarkana unit will invest $131 million in a second expansion phase at its Texas aluminum plant. The expansion will increase annual production capacity of hot-rolled aluminum sheet and coil by 72% to 31,000 tons from 18,000 tons.

ANDRITZ successfully started up a new carding machine and opening/blending line at Albis in Roasio, Vercelli, Italy. The machine has a working width of 5.10 meters and enables production of nonwoven fabrics like Albis Curacell.

GROPYUS and KUKA announced a collaboration to install a fully automated production facility at GROPYUS's Richen site near Heilbronn, Germany. The investment in the mid-double-digit million-euro range will expand capacity to approximately 3,500 apartments per year by end of 2024, creating 100 new jobs.

Ball Packaging officially started two additional modules producing aluminium beverage can ends at its Lublin plant, which serves customers across Europe.

Kirloskar Pneumatic opened a new manufacturing facility in Nashik with a 32-tonne forge hammer and fabrication shop, initially producing about 6,000 tonnes of forged parts a year. About 25% of capacity will serve external customers.

Samsung SDI is investing $41 million to expand two facilities in Auburn Hills, Michigan, doubling manufacturing capacity and creating 368 jobs.

Dalian Heavy Industry's Sheyang base wind tower intelligent manufacturing project, which started construction in March 2023 and began trial production in July 2023, is now in the acceptance phase and will fully commence production after passing. The project will meet an annual production capacity of 150,000 tonnes of wind tower manufacturing.

Performance fabric developer Dry-Tex plans to extend production to northern Vietnam, with initial weaving, dyeing and lamination capacity of up to 200,000 square meters per day. The company expects to install up to 500 air- and water-jet looms, while keeping R&D in Shaoxing, China.

BASF's new Uvinul A Plus production plant in Jinshan, China, has come on full stream, expanding capacity for high-quality UVA filters used in sunscreens.

Trützschler Nonwovens, with Italian partner Texnology, is rebuilding its Nonwovens Customer and Technical Center in Egelsbach, Germany, to install a T-SUPREMA needle-punching line. Installation began on September 25, 2023.

Aika Guangdong, a subsidiary of Aika Kogyo, has completed construction of a new adhesive and resin plant in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China. Total investment is approximately JPY 6 billion (CNY 29.3 million), doubling production capacity. The plant started operations in September 2023.