Chongqing Water Environment Holding Group issued a tender for smart water, automation, dosing and instrumentation equipment for the Phase 3 expansion of the Chayuan New District municipal wastewater treatment plant. The expansion will add 50,000 m³/day capacity.
Mondi is expanding its Mszczonów plant near Warsaw, adding new machinery and automation to more than double production capacity to 320 million square metres per year by 2023.
Nova Chemicals' new polyethylene manufacturing site on Rokeby Line near Corunna, Ontario, is now expected to start up in early 2023, delayed from late 2022 due to COVID-19 and labor market impacts. The $2.5 billion expansion includes a new facility with capacity of about one billion pounds of polyethylene per year and a 50% boost in ethylene capacity at the existing Corunna site, creating 150 permanent jobs.
Viant announced a major expansion of its medical device manufacturing facility in Heredia, Costa Rica, adding three new buildings for a total of seven and increasing footprint by 43% to over 250,000 square feet. The expansion will support complex interventional devices and is expected to double revenue by 2024.
Promatech Célgépgyártó Ltd. is building a 3,800 square-meter hall at its Nagytarcsa site with a greenfield investment of HUF 1.952 billion, partly funded by EU grants. The project includes new automated metalworking machines and solar panels, expected to be completed by end of August 2023.
Gaoqiao Petrochemical, a subsidiary of Sinopec, plans to increase ABS production capacity from 200,000 t/a to 300,000 t/a by adding a fourth production line and increasing effective production time. The total investment is about 778.52 million RMB. Construction is expected from May 2023 to January 2024.
Pirelli announced a €114 million investment to expand its tire plant in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico. The expansion will increase production capacity by over 1 million tires to 8.5 million by 2025, add 16,000 square meters, and create 400 jobs.
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies broke ground on a $300 million expansion of its vaccine manufacturing campus in College Station, Texas. The project will add 138,000 square feet and double the site's single-use medical device manufacturing capacity.
Nationwide Produce commissioned a £3.5 million extension at its Evesham depot, more than doubling the size from 14,000 sq ft to 38,000 sq ft and increasing storage capacity from 450 to 1,600 pallets, due for completion by November 2022.
Bial inaugurated a €30 million investment at its Trofa campus, including a new antibiotics factory and expansion of the industrial building, more than doubling production capacity from 10.5 million to 23 million packages.
Beyond Gravity is adding a new production facility in Decatur, Alabama, to produce payload fairings for ULA's Vulcan rockets, creating 200 jobs. The expansion follows a contract to supply 38 fairings for Amazon's Project Kuiper.
Mogul, a Turkish nonwovens producer, started up its seventh meltblown line, a 1.6 m wide Reicofil machine, adding annual capacity of 550 tons for N95 or 365 tons for N99 material.
Installation of process equipment, including four peaking and reserve boilers, has started at the New Czechnica Combined Heat and Power Plant in Siechnice, Poland. The gas-fired plant is being built by a consortium of Polimex Mostostal and Polimex Energetyka for KOGENERACJA, part of PGE Energia Ciepła.
JFE Engineering's Malaysian subsidiary has received an EPC order from Toyochem Specialty Chemical to expand a laminating adhesive plant in Seremban, Malaysia. The expansion will double production capacity, with operations scheduled to start in September 2023.
Changhong Huayi's Jingzhou subsidiary began construction on a project adding 10 million small high-efficiency variable-frequency compressors per year, with total investment of 600 million yuan. Phase one is 4 million units with 400 million yuan invested, and the groundbreaking took place on October 28, 2022.
Algoma Steel is investing $700 million to transition to electric-arc steelmaking, which will eliminate five to seven noise sources. Commissioning of two new furnaces is scheduled to begin in mid-2024.
Şişecam will invest approximately 3.4 billion TL (185 million euros) to build a second frosted glass furnace and processing line in Tarsus OSB, Mersin, with a daily capacity of 600 tons and an annual energy glass processing capacity of 20 million square meters.
Radiation Detection Technologies, Inc. (RDT) is expanding its operations near Manhattan, Kansas, with a $4 million investment to construct a new facility and purchase semiconductor processing equipment, creating 30 new jobs over five years.
Kalmar is upgrading and expanding its manufacturing plant in Ottawa, Kansas, in a deal worth close to US$21.5 million, aiming to double annual production capacity. The expansion is expected to be completed in 2023.
Forterra has begun demolition at its Wilnecote factory in Staffordshire as part of a £27 million investment to modernize the facility. The redevelopment will include a new kiln, dryers and handling equipment, increasing brick production capacity to 35 million bricks per year (40% increase). The factory is expected to reopen at the end of 2023.
Toray Industries plans to expand production capacity for biaxially oriented polyester (BoPET) release films under the Lumirror brand at its Gifu site in Japan by 60%. The investment is about 8 billion JPY (54.5 million EUR), with new lines expected to start in 2025.
Solenis will invest $40 million to expand its R&D operations by moving to a 100,000-square-foot building at Chestnut Run Innovation and Science Park in Wilmington, Delaware, adding up to 46 new jobs.
NKT has inaugurated a newly built extrusion tower at its high-voltage factory in Karlskrona, Sweden, and will start manufacturing high-voltage power cables there in Q4 2022.
Ferrari Stampi USA Inc. will invest $1.4 million to expand manufacturing operations at its U.S. headquarters in Clarksville, Tennessee, creating 30 new jobs over five years. The expansion follows the company's acquisition of Poligraph USA.
Continental announced a project to invest close to 210 million euros in expanding its Silao Las Colinas operations in Guanajuato, Mexico, adding floor space and building a new 12,600 m2 plant for electronic control units, expected to create 1,500 direct jobs over three years.
HVA expanded its factory with additional staff, a new warehouse and new machinery including a Mazak milling line, almost doubling its milling capacity. The article is undated and the date shown is the article date.
Tekni-Plex Healthcare announced the expansion of its Cartago plant in Costa Rica, adding approximately 5,000 square meters of assembly and storage space and new extrusion lines for medical tubing. The new equipment is expected online by end of Q2 2024.
Mogul has started its seventh meltblown line, a 1.6-meter-wide Reicofil line at its facility in Baspinar-Gaziantep, Turkey. The line adds annual capacity of 550 tons for N95 material or 365 tons for N99 material.
Getinge completed a 2020 expansion project at its La Ciotat, France production site for polyester vascular grafts, enabling record delivery rates. The site exceeds 5,000 square meters and employs over 300 people.
Diakont will invest over 1 billion rubles to expand production of medical devices for diabetes patients in Korolyov, Russia. The new line is scheduled to start in January 2023, creating about 20 jobs initially, with plans to grow to 500 employees.
Adamietz signed a contract to expand the Ferrero Polska plant in Belsk Duży, Poland, building a production building of approximately 2,000 m² with utility and staff areas.
Teijin Frontier's subsidiary Teijin Polyester (Thailand) launched a cutting-edge automated facility for producing functional polyester filaments. The facility, with an investment of approximately JPY 1 billion, is expected to produce 1,500 tons annually by fiscal year ending March 2024.
Kohler Power announced expansions at multiple facilities: a 155,000-square-foot expansion in Mosel, Wisconsin; a new residential generator assembly operation in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; and a model plant in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Denso inaugurated the third expansion of its plant in Guanajuato Puerto Interior, Mexico, with a $9.8 million investment. The expansion adds 40,262 square meters of construction and 18,000 square meters of building, and will generate over 200 new jobs.
Airbus announced plans to add 1,000 jobs and a second A320 family assembly line at its Mobile, Alabama plant, bringing total employment to 2,500 by 2027. The plant also delivered its 100th aircraft to Delta Air Lines.
Rockwood Composites announced it will quadruple capacity in five years, relocating to a new larger factory in Paignton, UK, and establishing a new subsidiary in Morocco for aerospace. The UK factory floor space will increase from 5,000 to over 30,000 square feet.
Nichiha USA is expanding its manufacturing facility in Macon, Georgia with a $150 million investment, adding 500,000 square feet and creating 100 new jobs. The expansion will implement advanced technologies.
Magna Electric Vehicle Structures (MEVS) will invest $426 million to expand its St. Clair, Michigan facility by 740,000 square feet, adding e-coating and production capacity for EV battery enclosures. The expansion is expected to create 920 jobs over three years.
DZ Dražice, the largest Czech water heater manufacturer, will build a production hall at its plant in Luštěnice next year. The investment of CZK 300 million will increase annual heater production by 150,000 to 400,000 units and includes storage hall expansion.
Nexperia (China) Ltd. signed an investment agreement with Huangjiang Town Government to expand its packaging and test plant in Dongguan, China. The project involves a total investment of approximately CNY 3 billion and will produce discrete devices, analog & logic ICs, and power MOSFETs.
Wingtech Technology announced plans to invest CNY 3 billion (USD 411 million) to expand capacity at the semiconductor packaging and testing plant of Nexperia Semiconductors China in Dongguan, Guangdong. Construction will begin within 12 months and be completed in 1.5 years.
Molex opened a new 60,000 square-meter factory in Guadalajara, Mexico, nearly doubling its footprint there, with a $130 million investment to meet demand for electric vehicle interconnect solutions.
Neuromeka plans to use IPO funds to expand its production facilities at plant #3 in Pohang to produce 18,000 robot units per year (12,000 Indy cobots and 6,000 ICoN co-industrial robots).
Stora Enso will invest approximately EUR 1 billion during 2022-2025 to convert an idle paper machine at its Oulu site in Finland into a 750,000-tonne consumer board line, with production expected in early 2025.
Motion Controls Robotics broke ground on a multimillion-dollar expansion at its Fremont, Ohio, plant, adding 25,500 square feet of space and 1,300 square feet for offices, expected to create 18 full-time jobs. The announcement was made on October 22, 2022.
Schneider Electric is expanding its Tlaxcala, Mexico, operation with a 150,000-square-foot facility that will employ about 600 workers to meet demand for circuit breakers and electrical panel boards. The announcement was made on October 22, 2022.
Hemlock Semiconductor broke ground on a $375 million expansion at its Thomas Township, Michigan plant to modernize polysilicon manufacturing, adding three new buildings and creating 170 permanent jobs.
Byggelement, a Peab subsidiary, is investing SEK 450 million to expand and automate its concrete element plants in Ucklum and Hallstahammar, Sweden, doubling capacity for walls and floor slabs. The investment will create 60-70 new jobs and is expected to be completed by early 2024.
Henan Guanzhuang Paint Technology Co. invested 320 million yuan in a relocation and expansion project in Henan Guanzhuang Advanced Manufacturing Development Zone. The plant, with annual capacity of 100,000 tonnes of paint, is expected to be fully operational by November 30, 2022.
Schlagmann Poroton invested EUR 4 million over two years in modern equipment at its Ansbach brickworks, including a new raw material processing facility that was officially commissioned. The plant processes about 10,000 tons of clay per month for Poroton bricks.