Safran Landing Systems Kentucky, a subsidiary of Safran S.A., is investing $65 million into its Walton, Kentucky campus to expand manufacturing capabilities for aircraft wheels and carbon brakes. The expansion is expected to create 92 jobs.

Refcool has started construction of the second phase of its plant in the Kaluga special economic zone, Russia. The investment is about 300 million rubles, and the expansion will add 10,000 square meters and 6 production lines, doubling output. Production is expected to start in 2024, creating 100 jobs.

Nidec Subic Philippines Corporation received a Certificate of Registration for a ₱4.2-billion expansion project in Subic Bay Freeport to manufacture Kinematix high-accuracy gearboxes for industrial robots. The expansion is expected to generate close to 5,000 jobs.

Safran Landing Systems Kentucky will invest over $65 million to expand its Walton, Kentucky manufacturing facility, adding 92 jobs and relocating a technical team from Paris. The expansion responds to post-pandemic demand for aircraft parts.

Tyree Transformers invested over $10 million to construct a dedicated high-volume production line for Battery Energy Storage System step-up transformers at its Braemar facility in New South Wales, capable of over 500 units per year.

Bühler India, a subsidiary of Swiss technology firm Bühler Group, announced a ₹200 crore investment over 2-3 years to expand its manufacturing capabilities in Bengaluru, India. The expansion will produce equipment for grain milling, food, feed, and advanced materials sectors.

İşbir Elektrik is investing 300 million TL in a new factory, with construction 97% complete, to increase alternator production from 500 to 5,000 units annually. The company also signed multiple contracts at IDEF'23, including with ASELSAN, BMC Power, Roketsan, Meteksan, and TAIS-STM.

Kubota Corporation will add a new production line at its Hirakata Plant in Osaka, Japan, to increase annual production capacity of cracking tubes for petrochemical plants by approximately 180%. The expansion addresses growing demand for new plants and hydrogen production.

Siemens Healthineers is investing €25 million to build a 2,100-square-meter manufacturing facility in Rudolstadt, Germany, to produce electron accelerators for Varian's cancer therapy devices. The expansion will create about 50 new jobs by 2027, with production starting in mid-2024.

Murata Manufacturing finalized plans to build a new production building at First Philippine Industrial Park in Tanauan City, Batangas, Philippines, with an investment of JPY 11.2 billion (PHP 4.4 billion) to meet growing demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs).

Case Construction invested US$10 million (R$49.5 million) to transfer global production of crawler tractors from the US to its Contagem, Brazil plant. The facility now has capacity to produce 1,100 tractors per year, with first exports starting in July 2023.

The Kalashnikov Concern is opening new production sites for guided artillery shells, including heat treatment and assembly areas, to more than double output of high-precision ammunition. The project will create 700 additional jobs by end of 2023.

WEBER-HYDRAULIK has opened a 6,000+ square metre new building at its Losenstein site in Upper Austria, a rescue equipment competence center. The family company invested about 12 million euros in the extension.

Viega plans to invest more than 150 million euros by the end of 2028 to modernise and expand its Großheringen, Thuringia plant, its largest manufacturing site worldwide. About 100 new jobs will be created over five years.

Follmann is investing €20 million to build a new polyurethane production hall at its Karlstraße site in Minden, Germany. The groundbreaking ceremony has been held.

Packaging specialist Papacks has opened a second hall at its Arnstadt, Thuringia site after investing around 14 million euros, and is planning a third gigafactory that will include a research institute. The company makes plastic-free, biodegradable packaging.

Yanmar Turkiye Machine Inc., subsidiary of Yanmar Holding, commissioned a new facility in Torbali, Izmir in September 2023. The expansion increases annual tractor production capacity from 2,500 to 8,500 units and aims to boost exports.

GlobalFoundries officially opened its US$4 billion expansion fabrication plant in Singapore. The 23,000 sqm facility will create 1,000 high-value jobs and produce an additional 450,000 wafers (300mm) annually, raising GF Singapore's overall capacity to approximately 1.5 million wafers per year.

Safran Aircraft Engines inaugurated new production capacities in Guiyang, China, on September 1, 2023. The company invested $30 million in a low-carbon building and new machinery for manufacturing low-pressure turbine blades, vanes, and seals for CFM56 and LEAP engines, doubling the production building capacity.

Whirlpool invested over $160 million to expand its plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico, adding a production line for over 300,000 French door refrigerators and creating around 1,000 new direct jobs. The investment covers the years 2022 to 2025.

IRPC Public Company Limited expanded its ABS powder production from 11,000 to 17,000 million metric tons per year at its facility in Rayong, Thailand, using Agglomeration Process technology.

Lenzing Group completed technical improvements at its Purwakarta site in Indonesia, investing over EUR 100 million since 2021 to convert existing production capacity to specialty viscose fibers. The site aims for EU Ecolabel certification.

Wanhua Chemical (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. completed and put into production a project with an annual output of 50,000 tons of water-based resin, including 33,000 t/y water-based polyurethane, 15,000 t/y epoxy resin, and 2,000 t/y carbomer. Total investment was 630 million yuan.

Winston Industries is investing $1.2 million to expand its facility in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, retaining 215 jobs and adding 5 new positions. The investment includes automation equipment and facility renovations.

LEHVOSS Group opened a new, larger facility in Kunshan German Industrial Park on August 30, 2023, doubling total area to 5,000 m² for compound production and a plastics technology center. The expansion increases capacity for LUVOCOM high-performance compounds, LUVOTECH technical compounds and LUVOBATCH masterbatches.

Press Glass Inc. will invest $155.2 million to expand its facility at Commonwealth Crossing Industrial Park in Henry County, Virginia. The project includes a 360,000-square-foot addition and will create 335 new jobs.

Thuressons Hönseri will build a new packing facility on Öland, Sweden, doubling capacity to five million eggs per week. Construction begins in autumn 2023 and completion is expected next year.

Southern Champion Tray broke ground on a $60 million, 320,000-square-foot factory in Centre South Riverport Industrial Park in 2021, and the facility is now inaugurated. The expansion creates over 150 new jobs.

Tecnoglass announced a $25 million investment to begin manufacturing and selling vinyl windows at its facilities in Colombia, with shipping expected by the end of November 2023.

Sinobras is completing a R$1 billion expansion to double its long steel production capacity to 850,000 tonnes per year at its plant in Marabá, Pará.

Custom Plastics International is investing over $1.4 million to add new production lines and automation at its Cobourg, Ontario injection moulding facility, supported by C$217,050 in Ontario funding.

EVAPCO, a manufacturer of industrial refrigeration equipment, is expanding its facility near Bryan, Texas, with a $9 million addition that will host a newly acquired Canadian company. The expansion is expected to create at least 90 full-time jobs by the end of 2026.

Becton Dickinson (BD) announced a $43 million investment to expand its Nogales Sur plant in Sonora, Mexico, expected to create 1,000 new jobs. The expansion will unfold in phases through 2025.

MBA Polymers UK is adding a fourth facility in Northeast England, boosting overall capacity by 35%. The facility is expected to come online in September 2023.

General Mills is investing $48 million to expand its frozen dough plant in Joplin, Missouri, creating 47 jobs and increasing manufacturing and packaging capacity to over 1 billion pounds of frozen dough products per year.

Scottish Water engaged Gurney Environmental to perform a 20-year refurbishment and expansion of the Errol Aero-Fac wastewater treatment plant to accommodate a 50% increase in load.

Mill Steel Co. purchased a 90,000 square foot facility in Mansfield, Ohio, to support its entry into flat-rolled stainless steel and aluminum markets. The company also announced an $18 million investment in its Detroit facility for new equipment and warehouse space.

Kanto Seiki Co., Ltd. held a completion ceremony for its new Eda Plant E3 in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan, a manufacturing facility for liquid temperature automatic control equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing devices. The plant aims to increase production capacity by 1.5 times and productivity by 20%, with full-scale operation planned for November 2023.

Siemens Mobility has broken ground on a $220 million advanced manufacturing and rail services facility in Lexington, North Carolina. The expansion will create over 500 new jobs and is expected to start operations in 2024.

Vencorex is investing in its Freeport, Texas facility to expand capacity for specialty aliphatic isocyanates used in low-VOC polyurethane coatings and adhesives. The new product line is expected to be operational in the second half of 2023.

PSG recently completed an $11 million expansion at its Grand Rapids plant, adding 56,000 square feet of manufacturing, office and R&D space.

WEG Transformers USA cut the ribbon on a 30,000-square-foot expansion of its Avantha Drive facility in Washington, Missouri. The $10 million+ investment will increase production capacity by 40%.

LG Chem will invest 124.6 billion won ($94 million) to expand its reverse osmosis membrane factory in Cheongju, South Korea, adding annual capacity of 400,000 membranes by July 2025.

Sun Glass installed an 80 tpd furnace at its container glass manufacturing plant in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, increasing capacity to 230 tpd.

CS Wind received $110 million in financing from Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-Sure) to expand its wind tower factory in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam. The expansion will increase maximum production diameter from 6.5m to 10m and weight from 400 tons to over 800 tons, targeting annual capacity of over 120,000 tons of offshore wind towers by April 2024.

Alfa Laval's Business Unit Brazed & Fusion Bonded Heat Exchangers is increasing production of brazed plate heat exchangers through capacity expansions at factories in San Bonifacio (Italy), JiangYin (China), Ronneby (Sweden), and Richmond (USA), including additional buildings at existing sites, to meet demand from the global energy transition.

W.D. Lewis, a Welsh housebuilding and manufacturing group, has increased production capacity with a new concrete block making plant in Aberdare, funded by a seven-figure package from HSBC UK. The plant has a capacity of 27,000 blocks per day.

Wells Enterprises announced a plant expansion in Dunkirk, New York, to create over 200 jobs.

MicroLink Devices announced a $9.5 million expansion of its Niles, Illinois facility to increase production of solar cells and solar sheets, creating 9 new jobs and retaining 54 jobs.

BASX Solutions broke ground on a new 36,000-square-foot weld shop addition at its Redmond, Oregon campus. The company, a manufacturer of HVAC products for data centers and cleanrooms, also secured a $13 million modular order from Microsoft.