Bosch plans to invest more than $296 million to extend its wafer fab in Reutlingen, Germany, adding 38,750 square feet of clean-room space, with production scheduled to start in 2025.

Alfa Laval has been awarded a contract for Phase 1A of the Thornbury Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion, which will increase capacity from 3,580 m³/day to 5,330 m³/day and improve energy efficiency, with completion expected by end of 2024.

Berliner Luft Technik GmbH is expanding its Bexbach, Saarland production site with an investment of approximately €7 million, including a new pre-assembly center and production line for precision air conditioning units and monoblocks.

Emerson completed a multimillion-dollar expansion of its engineering facility in Sidney, Ohio, adding 110,000 square feet of lab space for compressor and HVACR research and testing.

BROEN is expanding its production in Assens, Denmark with a new approximately 4,400 sqm building for its Mid-Range valve, sized DN50 to DN200. Construction starts spring 2022, with completion expected mid-2023.

VEMAG is building a new production hall of almost 4,000 square meters at its Verden site. The project started in January 2021 and completion is planned for end of October 2022. The company plans to create at least 60 new jobs in 2022.

Breedon Group is investing £5 million (€6 million) to double capacity at its Lisburn concrete roof tile plant to over 22 million tiles annually. The expanded facility is expected to be ready in mid- to late 2023.

Zoomlion's smart industrial city project in Changsha, with a total investment of about 100 billion yuan, has completed basic construction. The excavator park is expected to be fully operational by June 2022, producing one excavator every six minutes.

Solvay announced a multi-year expansion plan for its sulfone polymers business in the US, including a capacity increase for Udel PSU of over 25% by 2024 at Marietta, Ohio, and DCDPS monomer capacity expansion of over 25% by 2024 at Augusta, Georgia.

Wilkins Group has started work on a multimillion-pound, 50,000 sq ft extension of its Nottinghamshire headquarters to increase food packaging production capacity. The firm expects turnover to rise 20 per cent and says the extension could eventually create significant new jobs.

Junhao Group put the second phase of its new plant into operation, adding two production plants covering 18,000 sq ft with a 100,000-level purification workshop and five fully automatic production lines. The annual output value is expected to exceed 100 million yuan.

CertainTeed plans to invest $32 million in a capacity-expanding upgrade to its Chowchilla, California, glass wool insulation plant. The upgrade will increase capacity by 13% and reduce carbon footprint by 4,000 t/yr.

MEMC Electronic Materials SpA, a subsidiary of GlobalWafers, has approved an expansion of its Novara, Italy facility to add 300mm silicon wafer production. The advanced line is expected to start operating mid-2023, subject to financial conditions.

BrucePac announced a $22.5 million expansion of its food processing facility in Durant, Oklahoma, including additional production areas, refrigeration, and processing equipment. The groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for March 9, 2022, and the company expects to hire 100 additional employees.

Packaging manufacturer Sirane has made a multi-million-pound investment in a new site for its board division.

Thermach has moved all operations, manufacturing, research and development to a new physical plant in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Albarrie Canada Ltd. installed a new three-chamber Monforts Montex tenter equipped with MonforClean heat recovery and exhaust air purification at its plant in Barrie, Ontario. The line was delivered in 11 shipping containers and became operational after pandemic-related delays.

ExxonMobil expects to complete a $500 million expansion of its Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant by the end of 2022, boosting polypropylene production capacity by 450,000 metric tons per year.

Stomagienics, Inc. announced an expansion of its operations in Greenville County, South Carolina, with an undisclosed investment expected to create 30 new jobs over three years.

Airbus will integrate its own aerostructure units and Premium AEROTEC in Germany into a new unit (ASA) from July 1, 2022, following a long-term collective bargaining agreement with IG Metall that excludes redundancies until 2030.

Nordfab, a manufacturer of ductwork for environmental filtration systems, will expand its existing operations in Thomasville, North Carolina, with a $5.5 million investment, creating 25 jobs.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is investing $40 million to expand its single-use technology manufacturing facility in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, as part of a $650 million multi-year investment.

Tricel Group, headquartered in Co Kerry, Ireland, announced it will double its operations in France over the next five years and create 60 additional jobs at its manufacturing site in Sorgues, near Avignon.

Continental plans to invest €25 million to expand steel cord conveyor belt production capacity in Brazil, targeting high-strength belts for mining. The final location is being negotiated with Brazilian states.

Fisair is adding 2,800 m2 to its facilities in Madrid to increase production capacity, with construction starting in Q1 2022 and completion expected by early 2023.

Collins Aerospace is investing over RM16 million to relocate to a new 160,000 sqft MRO facility at Subang Aerotech Park, adding new capabilities for aircraft components.

Shin-Etsu Chemical will invest over ¥80 billion to expand production capacity for silicone fluids, resins and rubber end products, mainly at its Gunma Complex and other plants in Japan.

Guangdong Homa Refrigerators Co., Ltd. began construction on a 30,000-square-meter air-cooled refrigerator production base at its fifth plant in Nantou Town, Zhongshan, with an investment of about 100 million yuan. The project will add 300,000 units of air-cooled refrigerator capacity annually, create 500 jobs, and is expected to be completed and operational by early 2023.

Asahi Kasei Medical decided to construct a new assembly plant for Planova BioEX filters in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan, to double production capacity. Construction is scheduled to begin in Q3 2022 with completion in early 2024.

ArcelorMittal Gonvarri Brasil announced a R$140 million investment to expand its Hortolândia, São Paulo plant by 20%, creating about 100 direct jobs. The expansion will be carried out in two stages, with the first stage expected to be completed in April 2022.

Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after V.P. Chkalov will modernize production over five years with a new building for the S-70 'Hunter' heavy stealth drone. Investment is about 2.5 billion rubles, with jobs increasing by 1.5 times. Modernization starts in 2022.

Mexican President announced that steelmaker Ternium will invest $1 billion to expand its plant in Nuevo León, Mexico.

ANGUS Chemical Company announced the expansion of its Sterlington, Louisiana manufacturing facility to include commercial production of TRIS AMINO Hydrochloride products, making it the world's only fully integrated manufacturer of these products.

Collins Aerospace filed civil engineering plans for a 23,000-square-foot metal building at its Blount Island facility in Jacksonville, Florida, to be used for manufacturing submarine parts.

TSMC announced expansion of its chip plant under construction in Japan with Sony Group, and Denso will take a stake in the project. The expansion adds capacity for automotive and industrial chips.

Imperial Systems Inc. has spent more than $1 million on a major expansion at its facility in Mercer, Pennsylvania.

Solid Cement Corp will proceed with a $323 million expansion at its Antipolo City plant in Rizal, Philippines, adding a 1.5Mta integrated production line. The line is scheduled to start in April 2024.

Tsubaki Nakashima decided to build a second plant in Thailand to increase ceramic ball production capacity. The investment is approximately ¥2.7 billion, with production start in Q3 2022.

HRS Heat Exchangers supplied a corrugated tube heat exchanger for the upgrade of the Prince of Wales Bay Sewage Treatment Plant in Hobart, Tasmania. The upgrade, undertaken by TasWater and Aquatec Maxcon, will ensure operational suitability until 2060.

Bericap SC LLC plans to add several production lines to its Cowpens, South Carolina plant by June 2026 with a $19.7 million investment. The expansion targets North American demand in water, dairy, soft drink and sports beverage markets.

Damm has invested 25 million euros to expand its El Prat de Llobregat factory with an auxiliary building, a can packaging line and tank loading systems. The factory intends to create 50 new jobs during 2022, and the line starts in May.

Ball launched a new production line at its Naro-Fominsk plant in the Moscow Region that can make more than 4,000 can lids per minute. The investment exceeds 1.5 billion rubles, creates about 40 jobs, and is expected to add 1.85 billion lids a year by the end of 2022.

Eco Spindles announced plans to expand its yarn plant capacity by 120% from 100 to 220 tonnes per month of Draw Textured Yarn, with completion of the second phase in April 2022. A third phase is also being explored.

Repsol invested €4.5 million to expand capacity at its Polidux compounding plant in Monzón, Huesca, by installing a new production line for fiberglass-reinforced compounds for the automotive sector. The expansion is underway and expected to start operations in 2022.

Nuvoco Vistas Corporation announced an investment of Rs 1,950 crore as part of expansion plans, including Rs 1,500 crore for a new clinker project in Gulbarga, Maharashtra, with a capacity of 6,000 tonnes per day. Ground-breaking is set for FY23.

Trivium Packaging is investing $40 million to install new aluminum impact-extruded can and bottle lines at its Youngstown, Ohio and Itupeva, Brazil plants. The added capacity is expected in 2023 to meet demand from aerosol and beverage customers.

ATP Polymer's second plant, invested more than US$20 million, has been fully operational in 2021 in Dongguan, China. The plant produces high-performance LSZH compounds for telecommunications, automobile, industrial electronics, and rail traffic markets.

Tenaris is increasing production of steel pipes, including OCTG products and Wedge Series 400 connecting tubes, at its Hickman plant in Arkansas to meet growing US manufacturing demand. The expansion follows a production process efficiency upgrade in October 2021.

Eurocrane (China) Co., Ltd. has partnered with the Mengcheng Economic Development Zone to begin construction on a new 35-hectare intelligent crane production base. This expansion will increase total output beyond the current annual capacity of 3,000 industrial cranes and 5,000 hoists.

Meritor will invest over $4 million to expand its trailer operation in Morganton, North Carolina, adding 25 new jobs. The expansion will increase production capacity of axles and underframe components for the North American semi-trailer market.