Cyclone Manufacturing Incorporated received over $9 million from FedDev Ontario to expand its facilities in Milton and Mississauga, including a heat treatment oven and temperature-controlled production area. The project will support 110 jobs.

LG Electronics India inaugurated a new manufacturing line for side-by-side refrigerators at its Pune facility with an investment of approximately INR 200 crore. The line has an annual capacity of 200,000 units.

Gestamp is undertaking a two-phase expansion of its Takwe plant near Pune, doubling its size from 100,000 to 200,000 square feet. The first phase completes in February 2023 and the second by the second half of 2023.

Proteor is expanding its production site in Seurre, adding a 2,000-square-meter logistics building and doubling the capacity of its central orthotics and prosthetics workshop. The €6 million investment will create about 30 new jobs, with completion expected in September 2023.

TekhnoPlast has expanded and modernized its production of nonwoven fabrics from recycled plastic bottles in Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, with investments of 850 million rubles, creating 190 new jobs.

DANA Cardanes invested 400 million pesos to expand its facilities in Querétaro, Mexico, adding 917 square meters of warehouse space to manufacture cardan shafts for Toyota trucks. The expansion will produce 545,000 units per year across three production lines, creating 110 direct jobs initially.

Figeac Aero launched construction of a 4,000 m² extension of its Casablanca Aéronautique facility near Casablanca's Mohammed V airport. The investment is 132 million Moroccan dirhams and will create 55 direct jobs.

BASF is investing in capacity expansion of polymer dispersions at its Merak, Indonesia site to provide additional styrene-butadiene dispersions for paper mills in Southeast Asia and Oceania. The new capacity will be operational from the second half of 2023.

Analog Devices Inc. is investing $1 billion to upgrade its semiconductor factory near Beaverton, Oregon, doubling production capacity and adding 280 jobs. The expansion includes 25,000 square feet of new cleanroom space and began in 2021.

Lufthansa Technik Turbine Shannon (LTTS) announced the opening of a new 2,000 m² facility in Shannon, Ireland, and the creation of 25 new jobs, with more to be announced later in 2023. The facility is expected to be fully operational by March 2023.

Cedar Valley Selections Inc., a manufacturer of salad dressings and pita chips in Oldcastle, Ontario, received a $375,000 investment from FedDev Ontario to buy new equipment, improving production capacity and creating 5 jobs.

Uni-Fab, a metal fabricator in Leamington, Ontario, received a $5 million investment from FedDev Ontario to expand its facility and purchase new equipment for automated pallet changer technology, creating 50 jobs.

Skyjack announced an expansion of its newly inaugurated plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, to increase production capacity from 12 to 55 units per day by October 2023.

Helios Technologies is expanding its Daman Products plant in Mishawaka, Indiana by 50,000 square feet and adding a significant number of employees. The site will become a Center of Excellence for North American manifold operations, with relocation expected by Q3 2023.

CMZ, a CNC lathe manufacturer, will complete the start-up of Nuevo Precitor, an expansion of its machining plant in Elorrio, Spain, at the end of February 2023. The company invested nearly EUR 8 million, and the plant will reach full capacity in the second half of 2023, increasing overall capacity by 55%.

Osstem Implant is building a second plant in Busan's Seokdae Advanced Industrial Complex, with a total floor area of 13,700 m². The plant will produce 13 million implant sets annually, raising total capacity to 30 million sets. Mass production is targeted for the second half of 2023.

Lutronic plans to build a new factory at its headquarters in Goyang, South Korea, with a total floor area of 16,080 m². Completion is targeted for 2024 to consolidate production bases and expand capacity.

After buying the Duino mill, Mondi plans to invest around €200 million to convert a paper machine into a containerboard machine. The converted mill is expected to produce about 420,000 tonnes of recycled containerboard a year.

PM Plastics will invest $3 million to expand and upgrade its Orchard Park, New York facility, retaining 17 jobs and creating 26 new jobs. The project includes new injection molding equipment and automation, with completion expected in early 2024.

Molopak will launch a new production and warehouse complex for laminated cardboard for food packaging in Chekhov, Moscow region, in the second half of 2025, with investments of nearly 550 million rubles, creating 30 jobs.

Toray Industries will invest 100 billion yen ($780 million) to increase production capacity for carbon fiber materials used in airplanes and hydrogen fuel tanks by 2025. The expansion will take place at plants in the United States, France, and South Korea.

WITTE Automotive Bulgaria will invest 25 million euros to build a third plant in Ruse, adding 23,000 sqm of space and 300 jobs. The expansion will double production capacity to 400 million euros in annual sales, with completion expected in mid-2024.

Caterpillar Brasil is concluding a BRL 600 million (approx. USD 115 million) investment cycle at its Piracicaba factory, including a new motor grader assembly line that started in August 2022, and a new logistics building under construction.

Zigong Taiwell Valve Manufacturing is expanding its valve and control valve production line in Zigong's Gaoxin high-tech zone, with a total investment of 80 million yuan and annual capacity of 154,000 units, with trial production planned for April 2023.

Autojia says its 1-million-unit-per-year electric compressor project in Chuzhou, Anhui, has partly been completed and formed some capacity, with full production expected by mid-2023.

ABB is investing approximately US $13 million to expand its Iberville facility in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, to increase cable tray production capacity and create a modern R&D environment, with completion expected by mid-2024.

CABB Group will invest more than EUR 50 million by 2025 to expand its facilities in Kokkola, Finland, including eight new chemical reactors and a new packaging plant already commissioned in September, plus a new CO2-neutral office building.

Filtrox Carlson received planning approval for an £8.7 million investment to partly demolish and extend its filter equipment factory in Barnoldswick, Lancashire, creating up to 50 new jobs.

ABB is investing $1.1 million in a new medium-voltage sensor production line at its Brno factory in the Czech Republic, aiming to increase capacity to 100,000 units per year by 2026.

ABB is expanding B&R's manufacturing in Eggelsberg, Austria, increasing processing capacity to over two billion components per year. A temporary weekend shift will create several hundred jobs.

The Bologovsky brass pipeline valve plant in Tver Oblast bought new machinery in 2022 and is preparing a new galvanic shop with capacity up to 5 million units per year. It plans to reach nearly 8 million units annually and set up three logistics hubs in 2023.

Imaflex Inc. has selected Bandera U.S. to supply a 2400 3-layer SmartFlex line and a 2400 5-layer Barrier Flex line to increase capacity at its Victoriaville plant. The first line is scheduled to be installed and started up in Q1 2023.

Chemours announced a $200 million investment to increase capacity and advance technology for Nafion ion exchange materials at its manufacturing facility in Villers-Saint-Paul, France, to support growing demand for clean hydrogen generation.

Entegris announced a $50 million investment to increase production and purification capacity for high-purity electronic chemicals at its Pueblo, Colorado, and Hollister, California sites. The expansion supports anticipated demand from semiconductor manufacturers and is expected to be completed over two years.

Asia Symbol has officially started tissue production after starting up tissue machines, converting lines and packaging machinery supplied by BaoSuo Enterprise Group across factories in mainland China. The machines have a designed annual capacity of 25,000 tons per set.

Imerys has restarted two of three furnaces at its Fos-sur-Mer aluminates plant, with the third to restart within a month. The plant had been idle since mid-October 2022 due to high energy costs.

Sherwin-Williams invested approximately EUR 11.4 million to expand its Chapeltown site in Sheffield, UK, adding two new manufacturing lines and one filling line, creating over 20 new jobs.

Soucy Techno will increase its rubber production capacity by 50% and automate systems in Sherbrooke with $12 million from the governments of Canada and Quebec and Investissement Québec. The project will create 15 jobs by 2027 and keep 220 existing jobs.

BASF will build a new specialty amines plant at its site in Nanjing Chemical Industry Park, China, with a capacity of 21,000 metric tons per year. The plant is scheduled to start up in 2019 and will produce 1,2-Propylenediamine, n-Octylamine and Polyetheramine.

Tosyalı Demir Çelik Sanayi received environmental approval for a modernization and capacity increase project at its meltshop and continuous casting integrated plant in İskenderun, Hatay, Turkey. The investment cost is TRY 1.5 billion ($79.86 million), and annual liquid steel capacity will increase from 2.65 million mt to 4.54 million mt.

Eti Alüminyum announced an investment to add a 'Öğütülmüş Alümina Ünitesi' (ground alumina unit) at its existing aluminum production facility in Konya Seydişehir, Turkey, to produce special alumina for the first time in the country. The unit is planned to be completed in Q3 2023 and will have an annual capacity of 40,000 tons.

Oleon, a subsidiary of Avril, will double the capacity of its isostearic and dimer acids production unit in Ertvelde, Belgium by 2024, adding a new reactor to process 14,125 tons per year.

Hangzhou Machine Tool (Hangji) completed its 'Grinding Machine Intelligent Manufacturing Industrialization + Future Factory Construction Project' in Pujiang County Economic Development Zone, a 145.75 mu site with an investment of 504.58 million yuan, to produce 2,820 smart grinding machines annually.

The Xindi Peier valve R&D center and intelligent retrofit project in Zigong's Gaoxin district has a total investment of 100 million yuan. It is due to start trial production in June 2023 and reach full output in August, adding 100 million yuan of annual output value.

PCI Augsburg GmbH inaugurated a new parquet adhesive plant in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, more than doubling production capacity for THOMSIT parquet adhesives from 900 to 2,000 tons per year. The investment was in the single-digit millions and created two new jobs.

Massman Automation Designs plans to build a 75,000-square-foot facility in Alexandria, Minnesota, for building automated packaging machines, with a $16.3 million investment and creation of at least 10 jobs.

Bullen Ultrasonics announced plans to invest over $14 million to expand its Technology Development Center in Eaton, Ohio, to support R&D in semiconductor manufacturing, aerospace composites, and MEMS.

AEM, a global leader in test innovation, celebrated the grand opening of a new 365,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Penang, Malaysia, for developing advanced testing and handling equipment.

Diemme Filtration began construction of a new factory at its Lugo site in Italy to expand production capacity for large filter presses used in mining tailings dewatering. The project is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2023.

Agilent Technologies announced a $725 million expansion in Frederick, Colorado, to double its manufacturing capacity. The company was considering either Weld County or North Carolina for the project.