Adocim commissioned a new four-silo cement terminal at the Port of Samsun, Turkey, with a storage capacity of 45,000t, to serve PLC export operations.

Vaillant unveiled a new multi-million-pound heat pump production line at its headquarters in Belper, Derbyshire, following a £4 million investment, dedicated to producing the aroTHERM plus air-to-water heat pump.

Polyplastics has started construction of a EUR 200 million production plant for Topas Cyclo-Olefin Copolymers (COC) at the Leuna site in Germany. The plant, operated by subsidiary Topas Advanced Polymers GmbH, will have a capacity of 20,000 t/a, more than doubling current capacity, and is expected to start in Q3 2024.

CANPACK FPN Brzesko opened new production lines for aluminium beverage can ends, raising capacity to over 12 billion units a year, in a USD 50 million brownfield investment expected to create 50 direct jobs.

COIM is investing in its Singapore plant, doubling capacity with a new automated warehouse, a thermoplastic polyurethane production plant, doubled adhesives line capacity, and increased prepolymers line, creating 35 new jobs.

Veolia Water Technologies, through a nine-year contract with OTV and Veolia Eau France, is upgrading the Maéra wastewater treatment plant in Lattes, France, to increase capacity to 210,000 m³ per day and make it the world's first plant to produce twice the energy it consumes.

AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG plans to expand its existing site in Leoben, Austria with a new manufacturing and research facility named HTB 3, including an office building and central utility building.

BASF JIHUA Neopentyl Glycol Co., Ltd plans to expand the annual production capacity of its plant in Jilin, China by 10,000 tons, bringing BASF's global NPG capacity to 165,000 tons per year.

Nishiki Food Co., Ltd. invested approximately 4 billion yen to build the Airport South Second Plant within its existing Airport South plant site in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture. The plant will be completed on November 24, 2022, and start operations on December 20, 2022, increasing monthly production capacity from 4 million to 6 million packs.

Sulzer completed a modernization of its Karhula pump factory in Kotka, adding a highly automated, digitized pump production line and a new logistics centre. The upgrade cuts production throughput time by 93%.

Bosch announced a 4,500 million peso investment to expand its Celaya, Guanajuato plant, doubling its manufacturing space by over 20,000 square meters to produce electronic control units and electrification components for the North American market. The expansion is expected to create 1,500 jobs over seven years.

Road-Broad Automotive Electronics, a majority-owned subsidiary of Continental AG in China, signed an agreement on November 17, 2022 to construct the second phase of Continental's factory in Qufu, Shandong, for developing and producing vehicle speed sensors.

Chevron Phillips Chemical, in a joint venture with QatarEnergy called Golden Triangle Polymers Company, plans to build an $8.5 billion integrated polymers plant in Orange County, California. The project will create 500 full-time jobs and 4,500 construction jobs, with operations expected to start in 2026.

MIRTEK, a manufacturer in Taganrog, plans to expand production capacity by acquiring a new building and increasing monthly output from 60,000 to 200,000 units, tripling its workforce. The governor pledged support via the regional industrial development fund, with an investment of about 500 million rubles.

Bosch México will expand its Celaya plant (CeaP) to produce electronic control units and powertrain electrification components. The investment is 4.5 billion pesos, creating 1,500 jobs over 7 years, and will double the built area by over 20,000 square meters.

Irkutsk Pipe Plant, part of the Poliplastik Group, launched a new production line for multi-layer polyethylene pipes at its Angarsk facility. The line has an annual capacity of about 7,000 tonnes and created 10 jobs, with an investment of over 100 million rubles.

General Motors will invest $45 million at its Bedford, Indiana aluminum die casting foundry to expand production capacity of EV drive unit castings for the Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV. Work begins immediately.

Tempo Flexible Packaging will receive C$3.5 million from FedDev Ontario's Business Scale-up and Productivity stream to expand its facility by 10,000 sq ft and increase production of recyclable food packaging.

Ferrero Canada will receive C$5 million from FedDev Ontario's Jobs and Growth Fund to increase capacity and further automate two main production lines in Brantford, Ontario, creating more than 100 skilled jobs.

Prysmian Group will expand its Sedalia, Missouri, manufacturing facility with a $45 million investment, adding 115,000 square feet and 60 jobs. The expansion includes new production lines for aluminum wire products.

Steel Dynamics will invest $2.5 billion to expand its Columbus, Mississippi campus with a $1.9 billion recycled aluminum flat rolled mill and a biocarbon production facility, creating 1,000 jobs. Construction of the aluminum mill begins in 2023 with completion in 2025; the biocarbon facility begins in 2022 with completion in late 2023.

Zest WEG has expanded its E-House manufacturing facility in Heidelberg, South Africa, concreting and roofing additional areas to increase capacity. The expansion includes a 1,100 m² concrete floor covered with a shed roof, an additional 900 m² roofed area, and a further 650-700 m² concreted area awaiting roofing.

GE Healthcare's Pharmaceutical Diagnostics business announced an $80 million investment to increase manufacturing capacity by 30% at its Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients site in Lindesnes, Norway, creating about 100 new jobs. The expansion aims to enable production of 30 million more patient doses per year by 2025.

Nidec announced it will convert its Komagane, Nagano facility into a gear motor factory for machine tools and industrial equipment, investing JPY 16 billion in two phases. Phase 1 starts April 2023 with 360,000 units/year capacity; Phase 2 adds 240,000 units/year by April 2024. Full capacity of 600,000 units/year and 750 employees expected by end of 2025.

Shchekinoazot is completing preparations for commissioning the third spunbond (SSMS) production line at its Pervomaisky branch. The line has a capacity of 8,640 tons per year and was built with a loan from the Russian Industrial Development Fund.

Lujabetoni will significantly expand its Kärsämäki plant with a new large factory building and nearly four hectares of storage area to produce concrete elements for wind turbine towers. Production is set to begin in summer 2023.

Sumitomo Riko will expand its SRK-QRO plant in Querétaro, Mexico with an investment of $18.8 million, increasing production area from 12,000 to 22,000 square meters and capacity by 1.5 times. Mass production is scheduled to start in December 2023.

Route 92 Medical announced expansion to a new 40,000 square foot high-volume manufacturing site in Salt Lake City, Utah, which will also serve as a clinician training center.

BMW Manufacturing announced an expansion to add a press shop for stamped metal body parts on its Spartanburg County campus, investing more than $200 million and creating 200 jobs.

United Engine Corporation (ODK) launched three new production buildings at its ODK-Kuznetsov plant in Samara, Russia, with an investment of over RUB 4 billion. The expansion will double the production of components for NK-32-02 engines and the 'product RF' for the PAK DA program.

Lear Corporation will invest 160 million pesos to expand its plant in the Parque Industrial Aeropuerto Morelos I in Zacatecas, Mexico, adding 600 new jobs. The expansion includes a new production line and 30,000 square feet of space.

Shell Chemical has started production at its new polyethylene plant in Pennsylvania. The plant is a major petrochemical facility.

GIM Inc. plans to invest over $18 million to develop a manufacturing campus in Scottsburg, Indiana, to increase production of its Sandwich Plate System, creating up to 135 jobs by end of 2026.

Zoomlion has produced the first excavator exclusively through intelligent manufacturing at its Excavation Machinery Smart Park in Changsha, China, achieving a production rate of one excavator every six minutes. The park has an annual capacity of 50,000 units.

Schneider Electric will invest €60 million to expand its smart factory in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, adding 3,000 sq m of production space and three new lines to increase circuit breaker capacity by 30%. The expansion is expected to finish within a year and create 100 jobs by mid-2023.

Trident is adding 94,848 spindles in Spinning at Rs. 546 crores, 42 looms in Weaving at Rs. 247 crores, and 2,15,000 TPA in Chemicals at Rs. 100 crores. The expansions will be operational by September 2023, June 2023, and March 2024 respectively.

DMG Mori Seiki will significantly increase machining center production capacity in China by building a new factory in Zhejiang Province and expanding its Tianjin facility. It also plans to build a factory in Egypt. All three factories are to be completed by December 2023 and start operations in 2024. Total investment is JPY 11.3 billion.

Continental completed the third expansion of its plant in Timisoara, Romania, investing around €40 million to increase production area by over 7,000 to 18,000 square meters. The expanded megafactory will produce innovative User Experience solutions such as displays.

Roche Tissue Diagnostics celebrated the expansion of its manufacturing operations in Marana, Arizona, with a new 60,000 sq ft building for instrument and service manufacturing. The total investment is approximately $43.5 million, and the building is expected to be fully operational in early 2023.

Praxis Technology purchased a 53,500-square-foot manufacturing complex on Pruyn's Island in Glens Falls, New York from Andritz Inc. The company will consolidate its two Queensbury facilities into the new location, investing approximately $1 million to reoutfit the building. The move will more than double its current 20,000 square feet of space and is expected to be completed by mid-2023.

HAI plans to expand its facility in Cris, Romania, with the installation of a new 40 MN extrusion line and associated infrastructure to significantly expand production capacity.

Hytrol Conveyor and Haag Brown Commercial Real Estate began building a 150,000 square foot warehouse and distribution center at e-Commerce Park in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The facility will serve as Hytrol's main warehouse and is expected to be complete in spring 2023.

Pulmuone is expanding its pasta production line in Pinggu District, Beijing, with an investment of 31.6 billion won ($23.8 million). The expansion will more than double annual output from 45 million to 100 million units.

Salzgitter Group is investing approximately €200 million in a new hot-dip galvanizing line (No. 3) at its subsidiary Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH. The line will have an annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes and create 70 new jobs.

Wangbian Electric (Wangbian Dianqi) announced a low-iron-loss high-magnetic-induction silicon steel core intelligent manufacturing project, adding 30,000 tonnes/year of silicon steel core processing capacity and 20,000 tonnes/year of shearing capacity. The project is expected to be completed and operational by March 2023.

Sherwin-Williams invested £10M to expand its Chapeltown site in Sheffield, UK, adding new production and filling lines and creating over 20 jobs. The expansion moves paint production from Europe to the UK, making Chapeltown the manufacturing base for Valspar and Valspar Trade brands.

Haymes Paint has started work on a $20 million upgrade at its Mitchell Park site in Ballarat, Australia, to double the factory's output and improve R&D. The expansion will increase batch sizes from 12,000 to 30,000 litres.

BMW announced an investment of 10 billion yuan ($1.39 billion) to expand its high-voltage battery production center in Shenyang, China. The expansion will make it BMW's third global power battery center.

Martinrea International announced a 746.2 million pesos ($36M) expansion of its Querétaro, Mexico facility, creating 108 new jobs. The expansion will focus on suspension bridges, engine blocks, and transmission housings.

Kohler Power Systems completed a 155,000 sq. ft. expansion of its North American generator manufacturing facility in Mosel, Wisconsin, including production, testing, warehousing space and a customer experience center. The project began in March 2021.