KAP Industrial plans to invest R1.9 billion in expanding a plant in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The announcement was reported on 25 August 2022.

CEMEX announced a plan to expand production capacity at its subsidiary Caribbean Cement Company Limited in Jamaica by up to 30%, with an investment of approximately US$40 million for the first phase. The expansion is expected to be completed by the second half of 2024.

Cementos Argos reactivated the kiln at its Toluviejo plant in Colombia after five years of inactivity, increasing cement production capacity to 800,000 tonnes per year and creating about 20 new jobs.

Mumbai-based industrial automation firm Cybernetik is adding a new manufacturing plant at Vile Bhagad MIDC in Maharashtra, which will increase its industrial robot production capacity by five times.

Polyplastics Group plans to construct a new polyacetal (POM) manufacturing plant in Nantong Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu Province, China, with a planned production capacity of 150,000 tonnes/year over two stages.

Hitachi Energy India has invested Rs 100 crore to double its product manufacturing capacity at its Doddabalapur facility in Bengaluru. The capacity for power quality equipment has been expanded to 22,000 MVAR from 10,000 MVAR, and the facility will add 300-400 jobs.

Tegra Medical is expanding its manufacturing operations in Costa Rica with the purchase of an 85,000-square-foot building near its existing facilities in La Aurora de Heredia. The $13 million investment will consolidate metals manufacturing and expand clean room molding and assembly.

SABIC SK Nexlene Company (SSNC), a joint venture between SK Geo Centric and SABIC, will invest about 200 billion won ($149 million) to build a new production line by July 2024 at its Ulsan plant, increasing annual ethylene co-polymer capacity from 210,000 tons to 300,000 tons.

PPG will invest $9 million to expand its adhesives and sealants production line at its Temple, Texas facility, creating 12 jobs.

Mingxin Xuteng's Phase I water-based microfiber project with annual capacity of 2 million square meters has achieved mass production, and Phase II with 8 million square meters capacity is underway.

PPG will invest $11 million to double the production capacity of its powder coatings plant in San Juan del Rio, Mexico. The expansion is expected to be completed by mid-2023 and will add new production lines and equipment.

Grundfos broke ground on an expansion of its Indjija plant in Serbia, adding about 17,000 square metres and a new line to assemble trade circulators. The groundbreaking took place on August 23, 2022.

DuPont Semiconductor Technologies has chosen Glasgow, Delaware, for a $50 million expansion of its semiconductor materials manufacturing operations. The new 385,000-square-foot facility will create about 10 new jobs and serve as the primary work site for more than 70 existing workers.

Associated Integrated Supply Chain Solutions and Stoffel Equipment Company, both owned by Raymond Corp., are moving to a 31,000-square-foot facility in Germantown, Wisconsin, doubling their previous Milwaukee space.

Griffin Food Company announced a plan to invest over $1,000,000 in flexible packaging equipment at its Muskogee, Oklahoma plant, creating 6-10 new jobs. The company received a $150,000 state incentive and a $9,800 local incentive.

Kaneka announced that its group company Kaneka Medical Vietnam completed construction of a new factory in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam, tripling production capacity of medical catheters. The investment was approximately 1 billion yen.

TechnoFrost has started construction of a new 4,000+ m2 production building at its plant in Russia to expand capacity for industrial refrigeration and climate control equipment, as part of an import substitution program.

Fenner Conveyors has invested $23.5 million to expand its Kwinana facility in Perth, Australia, adding a third press line to increase steel cord conveyor belt capacity by 50%. The expansion was announced in 2020 and is now being reported as completed.

The Kirov plant Mayak received an approved loan from the Russian Fund for Industrial Development to move its gas compressor production to series output of 120 units per year. The total project budget is 206.1 million rubles and is expected to create 22 jobs.

Mauser Packaging Solutions has invested in a new multi-layer extrusion blow molding machine at its Littleborough, UK plant to make 220-litre drums with recycled resin. The investment expands capacity for its Infinity Series products.

Carraro India inaugurated a new portal axle assembly line at its Pune plant, capable of producing over 42,000 pieces per year for agricultural tractors.

The Mount Vernon Municipal Planning Commission approved Sanoh America's plan to add a 75,000 square foot addition, a 25% increase in floor space, to its Industrial Park Drive plant. The company plans to add 32 machines from an Alabama plant and expects to hire 60-plus people.

Carus LLC announced a $20 million expansion at its La Salle, Illinois manufacturing facility. The project will modernize the plant and add production capacity, with construction already underway and expected completion by the end of 2022.

Metal Flow Corp. will build a 60,000-square-foot facility adjacent to its existing site in Holland Township, Michigan, with a $7.2 million investment, creating 10 jobs. The facility will include light manufacturing, robotics, automation, and logistics.

The Kirzhach branch of Izhevsk Heat Engineering Plant (IZTT) has invested over 70 million rubles to automate production, including welding and milling robots, increasing output of water heaters to 2,000 units per day and electric convectors to 145,000 per month.

Bangmo Technology Co., Ltd. completed and put into operation a new ultrafiltration membrane spinning factory in Shenwan Town, Zhongshan City. The expansion project started in March 2022 and added 2 production lines, each with 3 times the capacity, achieving a daily output of 10,000 square meters.

General Kinematics broke ground on a 42,000-square-foot plant expansion at its corporate headquarters in Crystal Lake, Illinois, to increase manufacturing capacity for mining, foundry, and recycling equipment. The expansion will include high bay ceilings with 80-ton crane capacity.

Terves, a subsidiary of PMT Group, is expanding its Euclid, Ohio operation by adding 30,000 sq ft and installing a vertical direct chill casting system for magnesium alloy billet. The expansion broke ground on August 18, 2022 and is expected to be completed in 2022.

Vixen Composites, an Airxcel brand, expanded into a new 60,000-square-foot facility in the Aeroplex Industrial Park in Elkhart, Indiana, announced on August 18, 2022. The move increases capacity for fiberglass reinforced plastic and composite panel production.

AGCO is expanding its Wolfenbüttel, Germany plant: production halls are being renovated and modernized, and starting September 2022, the site will also produce loader wagons in addition to round balers. The company is hiring 40 new employees, increasing the workforce from 280 to 320.

Huber+Suhner, a Swiss manufacturer of industrial, communication and transport equipment, will invest PLN 120 million to build a new production line at its facility in Tczew, Poland. The project was announced via a support decision from the Pomorska Special Economic Zone.

Prysmian Group celebrated the groundbreaking of a $50 million expansion at its Harrison County plant in Marshall, Texas, including equipment upgrades and the addition of 75 jobs.

Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical will invest several million dollars to expand its manufacturing facility in Northborough, Massachusetts, adding 25,000 square feet of cleanroom space and creating about 50 jobs.

Sanyo Chemical decided to increase production capacity of carbon fiber sizing agent 'Chemitilen' by about 50% by adding equipment at Kashima Plant. Investment is about 700 million yen, with operation start planned for May 2024.

Kaneka Corporation announced a ¥5 billion investment to add a fourth production line for Kaneka MS Polymer at its plant in Westerlo, Belgium, increasing capacity by 10,000 tons annually to a total of 43,000 tons. The new line is scheduled for June 2024.

WEG announced an investment of approximately R$34 million to expand production capacity of power transformers and add new product lines at its Betim plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The expansion includes a new line for transformer repair and repowering services.

Ural Turbine Works plans to increase its capacity from 1.6 GW to 2.5 GW per year over the next five years, with investments of more than 3 billion rubles by 2027. The company will invest nearly 1 billion rubles in 2023 for a new production line.

Festo is expanding its Technology Engineering Center at the Mason, Ohio campus, with the expansion expected to be complete by the end of September 2022.

Vartega is expanding to a new 50,000-square-foot facility at Pecos Logistics Park in Denver, Colorado, increasing production capacity 10X to 2,000 metric tons per year. The expansion is supported by a $5 million Series Seed II funding round led by Belle Impact Fund.

Manitou Group held a groundbreaking for an 80,000-square-foot expansion at its Madison plant. The $60 million project is expected to add 50-75 new employees over five years.

Vion Food Group is investing tens of millions of euros to expand production capacity for processed and packaged fresh meat at its Altenburg site in Thuringia, Germany, building on a previous investment of almost 50 million euros starting in 2020.

Wärtsilä will supply an 18 MW extension to the power generating facility and upgrade the electrical and automation system at the Sabodala-Massawa gold mine complex in Senegal, owned by Endeavour Mining. The order was placed by Sabodala Gold Operations.

Anduro Manufacturing plans to more than double its manufacturing footprint in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in the San Jose Commercial Park free zone, by late 2023 or early 2024. The expansion will also more than double in-house production capacity.

Bobcat's rigid telehandlers plant in Pontchateau, France, aims to double activity by 2025, following a 4 million euro expansion completed in 2019 and recent investments in welding robots.

Oman Cement appointed Sohar Islamic Bank as Mandated Lead Arranger to secure funding for the capacity expansion of its Misfah plant. The expansion includes a new production line (Line 4) with capacity of 10,000 tonnes per day and an upgrade of Line 3 from 4,000 to 5,000 tonnes per day.

Hwashin America Corp. is planning to expand its electric vehicle components campus at the Greenville Industrial Park in Greenville, Alabama, with an estimated EPC cost of $13 million. Construction is expected to begin in late July or August 2022.

Mondi plans to convert the paper machine at its planned Duino mill to produce about 420,000 tonnes per year of recycled containerboard, at an estimated investment of around €200 million. The plan supports its Corrugated Solutions plants in Central Europe and Turkey.

Aksa Akrilik is building a new 20,000 sqm factory for its Aksafil project in Yalova, Turkey, with a $27.5 million investment. The first phase (10,000 sqm) started production in late 2021, and the second phase is expected to be completed by end of 2022, creating 200 jobs.

Russian Gas Turbines plans to build a new production site in Rybinsk's Eastern Industrial Zone, adding 30,000 square meters of production space and seven production lines. Construction is expected to start in 2022.

Confluent Medical Technologies announced the grand opening of a new 66,000-square-foot building at its manufacturing center of excellence in Alajuela, Costa Rica, expanding Nitinol processing and catheter manufacturing capacity.