Armstrong Medical has secured planning permission for an £8 million expansion of its factory in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, including £6 million in build costs and £2 million in plant, machinery and robotics, creating 65 jobs.

Vista Metals Georgia broke ground on a $30 million casthouse expansion project at its Adairsville, Georgia facility, including a 7th aluminum casthouse, melting furnaces, homogenizing ovens, and a new finishing facility. Expected to be fully operational in 2024.

West Pharmaceutical Services broke ground on a 37,000-square-foot expansion of its manufacturing facility in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, including a new product mixer line and production equipment.

AJ Manufacturing opened a new 55,000-square-foot fabrication and warehouse facility in Kansas City, Missouri, for commercial HVAC equipment, including HEPA filtration units and hospital operating room ceiling systems.

Saverglass will double capacity at its Guadalajara, Mexico, container glass manufacturing facility with a $116 million investment, adding a 200,000 tonnes/year furnace and creating 400 jobs. Construction began in October 2021 and is projected to be ready by Q1 2023.

Safran Nacelles inaugurated an extension of its site in Casablanca, Morocco, on June 21, 2022. The extension includes two production lines for the PEARL 700 program: Fan Cowl Doors and Air Inlet lines.

Uniboard Canada Inc. announced a $250 million investment to build a new state-of-the-art continuous particleboard press at its Val-d'Or, Quebec plant. Construction starts in summer 2022, with commissioning expected in early 2025, and the plant will employ approximately 190 people.

Toyo Automation (Dong Youda Automation Technology) broke ground on a second factory in Xinyi Industrial Park, Tainan, Taiwan, with an investment of TWD 1 billion. The plant will have a total floor area of about 5,000 ping, is expected to be completed in 2023, and start production in Q1 2024, creating over 200 jobs.

Mark Climate Technology is expanding its production capacity in Veendam, Netherlands, with the addition of a TruBend Center 7030 bending machine and a TruLaser 1030 fiber laser cutter, doubling capacity. The machines were added in 2022.

Safran Nacelles Morocco inaugurated a 6,000 m² extension of its aircraft nacelle production site in Casablanca, dedicated to Gulfstream G700/G800 nacelles. The company invested 115 million dirhams (€11 million) and plans to add 100 new jobs in 2022.

WACKER will invest over €100 million to expand production capacities for solid and liquid silicone rubber over the coming years, focusing on high-value specialty silicone grades.

Invista's polymers business will invest in its Camden, South Carolina facility to transform it from carpet fiber to nylon 66 polymer production, increasing supply capacity for the merchant market. Construction begins later in 2022 and is expected to be completed in 2024.

MFP Automation Engineering, a fluid power and automation company, is investing $824,013 in a 10,000-square-foot expansion of warehousing and office space at its existing facility in Jamestown Charter Township, Michigan. The expansion is expected to create five new jobs.

Zeus announced a multi-million dollar investment to expand its catheter manufacturing capacity worldwide, with the first phase underway at its San Jose, California facility, increasing its footprint by 127% to 32,000 square feet and doubling braiding and coiling capacity.

Soitec announced it will build an extension to its 300-mm SOI wafer fab in Pasir Ris, Singapore, to double capacity to meet strong demand for semiconductors.

BMW Group will invest around one billion euros by 2030 to produce next-generation e-drives at its Steyr engine plant in Austria, with annual capacity of over 600,000 units starting in 2025.

OOO Gruppa Poliplastik plans to create additional production capacity for polymer pipes in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, with an investment of 400 million rubles and creation of 50 new jobs.

Zhejiang Tianma Bearing Group plans to invest 3.3 billion yuan to expand its facility in the general aviation industrial park, adding capacity of 25 million sets of high-end bearings and 60 sets of intelligent equipment annually.

AstenJohnson announced the creation of AJ Nonwovens, a new division combining Eagle Nonwovens and Foss Performance Materials, and a new facility in Waco, Texas with two Dilo Needlepunch lines, to increase production capacity and serve customers in the South and Mexico.

Acoustical Sheetmetal Company (ASC) will invest $45.8 million to expand its operations with a new 250,000-square-foot building in Virginia Beach, creating 350 new jobs. The expansion is on track to be completed in early 2027.

Intech, a medical device manufacturer, broke ground on a $23.5 million, 40,000-square-foot expansion to its Athens, Alabama facility. The expansion will create 30-50 new jobs and is expected to be completed in summer 2023.

PPG Coatings (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of PPG, plans to complete its third-phase project in June 2022, with an investment of $75 million. The expansion will add annual production capacity of 145,000 tonnes of high-performance coatings and 5,000 tonnes of PVC sealant.

FACC announced expansion stages 2 and 3 at its Jakovlje plant, which will triple the size of the facility, with immediate effect.

Siemens Electric Machines Drásov opened a new 2,100 square meter production hall for heavy winding on June 17, 2022, enabling production of stators and rotors weighing up to 70 tons and featuring vacuum pressure impregnation technology.

Polpack, part of Decofilm Group, opened a new plant for heat-shrinkable films, increasing production space by 30% and adding a new production line. The facility produces PVC and polyolefin shrink films for the food industry.

Alcoa announced a USD 51 million project to increase production capacity at its Mosjøen smelter in Norway from 200,000 to 214,000 metric tons annually by the end of 2026.

Rostec's United Engine Corporation subsidiary UEC-Klimov signed an agreement to expand aircraft engine production in the St. Petersburg special economic zone, including construction of a production and design building, development workshop, and test complex. Investment is 37.7 billion rubles through 2026.

OOO 'Hexa – Nonwoven Materials' signed an agreement at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to implement an infrastructure project at its Toropets branch in Tver Oblast, including launching a third production line that will increase output by 35%.

Solvay Sodi, a joint venture between Solvay and Sisecam, inaugurated a new sodium bicarbonate production unit at its Devnya, Bulgaria plant, increasing capacity by 200,000 tons. The facility is one of the largest in the world.

Merseyside subcontract machining company Wealdpark is expanding its factory in St Helens. The first phase adds an extension larger than its current 6,000 sq ft unit, and a second 5,000 sq ft unit is scheduled for completion by end of 2023.

Pemamek Ltd. is investing EUR 15 million to expand its factory by 7,000 square meters and boost R&D. The expansion will be ready for production in Q4 2022, and the company plans to hire 40 additional people by end of 2022.

UN Forklift has commissioned a new assembly line at its plant in Hangzhou, China, adding 10,000 units per year of capacity. The expansion covers 940 sqm and includes 12 mainline stations and seven sub-assembly stations.

Xinjiang Zhongtai Henghui Medical and Health Material Co., Ltd. started up the first spunlaced nonwovens line for its bio-based green degradable material project in Xinjiang Korla Economic and Technological Development Zone. The company plans 12 lines with total annual capacity of 140,000 tons.

Amber Kinetics expects to complete a second manufacturing plant in Sto. Tomas, Batangas by year-end, increasing its flywheel production capacity from 600-700 to 1,800-2,000 units per year.

Power Machines plans to achieve production capacity of eight GTE-170 gas turbines per year by late 2024 to early 2025. The company estimates 32 turbines are needed for payback on investments.

Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing France will invest €8 million to open a new production line at its Ancenis plant in November 2022, producing 900 additional Tonero forklifts (4-8t) per year and creating 45 jobs. The model was previously made only in China.

Bekament opened a new factory for styrodur production and launched two new production lines for facade plaster and paint at its liquid program plant in Aranđelovac, Serbia. Total investment was EUR 12 million, creating 40 new jobs.

Terex GB announced a £9.5 million expansion of its Ballymoney fabrications facility in Northern Ireland, including a new assembly hall and powder coating line, creating 60 permanent jobs. Construction is expected to start in 2023.

TF-AMD Microelectronics Sdn. Bhd. announced plans to expand its manufacturing facility in Penang with a second site at Batu Kawan Industrial Park, involving nearly RM2 billion in capital investment and expected to create over 3,000 new jobs in advanced semiconductor engineering.

Morocco's Industry Minister inaugurated a new 5,000 sq m extension of Compagnie Industrielle des Fibres in Tangier, with seven machines and planned output rising from 12 to 45 tons of packaging materials per day by 2025.

Solvay completed the early expansion of its Solef PVDF production capacity at its Changshu site in China, more than doubling the volume since mid-May 2022. The expansion meets growing demand from the lithium-ion battery market for electric vehicles.

Ferrero North America announced plans to invest up to $214.4 million to expand its chocolate processing and product manufacturing plant in Bloomington, Illinois, adding a 169,000 square foot line for Kinder Bueno products and creating up to 200 new jobs. Construction is projected to start by Fall 2022.

S&D Blechtechnologie is building a new 1,800 square meter production hall in Zemmer, Germany, to house a new powder coating line and expand steel processing capacity by nearly 50%.

Linde Engineering has been selected by Slovnaft to revamp a polypropylene plant in Bratislava, Slovakia, extending capacity by 18% to 300,000 tpy and expanding storage from 45 to 61 silos.

Spectrum Plastics Group has completed a major renovation and cleanroom expansion at its 105,000-square-foot Minneapolis, MN facility. The project added injection molding machine capacity and expanded Class 8 cleanroom space to 10,000 square feet to support medical and aerospace component manufacturing.

The Schunk Group has begun construction of a new production building in Willich, Germany, for Schunk Ingenieurkeramik, with a total investment of EUR 58 million. The facility will manufacture ceramic products for the chip industry using 3D printing and is expected to be ready by the end of 2022, creating about 50 jobs.

Unil commissioned Swisslog to more than double the size of its automated high-bay warehouse in Våler, Norway. The expansion includes 16 new Vectura stacker cranes and conveyor system, adding 105,500 pallet locations. The total budget is US$ 41.82 million. The new crane warehouse was ready summer 2022, with full automation operation planned for mid-2023.

Pilkington IGP completed a two-phase expansion of its glass processing plant in Ostrołęka, Poland, doubling production capacity. The investment added nearly 10,000 sq m of production space, three glass cutting tables, and two insulating glass lines, creating 80 new jobs. The opening ceremony was held on May 31, 2022.

Collins Aerospace opened a new additive manufacturing center and expanded MRO capabilities at its Monroe, N.C., campus. The company invested an additional $15 million following a $30 million expansion in 2021.

Baker Hughes Nuovo Pignone inaugurated a new high-tech production line for gas turbine structural components at its Vibo Valentia plant, with an investment of about €7 million, part of €12 million invested over the last five years.