Elcogen signed an agreement to develop a 50 MW solid oxide fuel cell and stack (200 MW solid oxide electrolysis cell) production facility at Ülemiste City business campus in Tallinn. The company currently has a 1.5 MW annual production capacity at its existing facility.

Hanwha Solutions announced a 160 billion won ($143.5 million) investment to build a factory producing 180,000 tons of DNT per year, a material for TDI. The company also plans to launch XDI production next year.

Croell Redi-Mix constructed a new concrete commodity storage building addition at its existing location in Charles City, Iowa. The storage area is 80,000 square feet and can house 87,000 tons of cement.

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation will construct a 300-millimeter wafer fabrication facility at Kaga Toshiba Electronics Corporation in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, to expand production capacity for power devices. Mass production is expected to start in the first half of fiscal year 2023.

Valbruna ASW Inc., Canada's only specialty steel producer, received a FedDev Ontario repayable contribution of up to $5 million to support its expansion in Welland, Ontario. The project will leverage over $24 million in private investment, maintain over 110 jobs and create 15 new ones, and enable the company to produce stainless steel and nickel alloy.

MAPEI Corp. announced the expansion of its Wildwood, Florida location with a groundbreaking for a new 260,000-sq-ft powder production and distribution facility.

Kohler Power Systems is adding a 155,000 square-foot expansion to its North American manufacturing facility in Mosel, Wisconsin, including production and testing space, warehousing and a customer experience center. The project is already underway.

Continental announced a roughly €60 million expansion of its San Luis Potosí automotive plant, adding about 20,000 square meters of production floor and a fully automated high-bay warehouse for disc brakes and electronic parking brakes. Full operation is expected by October 2022.

Intersurgical Medical Devices (Changzhou) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its second-phase project, with total investment exceeding 300 million RMB. The expansion will add four cleanrooms for respiratory and anesthesia consumables.

Helvoet Rubber & Plastic Technologies has expanded its ISO Class 7 cleanroom at its Tilburg manufacturing site by over 200%, increasing manufacturing capacity for microfluidics components used in medical devices and polymer consumables.

Verallia will invest €60 million in its Jacutinga plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil, adding a new furnace that more than doubles glass packaging production capacity. The announcement was dated 1 March 2021.

Fenner Precision Polymers officially opened a new $4 million fabric treatment line facility in Manheim, Pennsylvania, for coating technical fabrics and textiles, serving aerospace, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

The City of Toronto is undertaking a $216 million upgrade of the Ashbridges Bay Water Treatment Plant, including a new UV disinfection system. The project faced delays due to unexpected buried sea wall and bedrock issues.

StatLab Medical Products is expanding its operations with a dedicated 50,000 square-foot distribution facility in McKinney, Texas, to triple temperature-controlled and flammable storage space. The existing warehouse space will be converted to manufacturing.

Kruger Products announced a C$240 million project to expand its operations in the Sherbrooke region, making it a major tissue production hub in Québec.

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced plans to expand its manufacturing capabilities in San Jose, California, for its laser annealing technology serving semiconductor customers. The new SEMI-compliant facility will serve as a center of excellence for development and production.

NCC has signed a construction contract worth SEK 360 million (€36 million) to remodel and expand Kristianstad's central wastewater treatment plant in Sweden, featuring membrane bioreactor technology.

Meadow Foods has invested £4 million in a new plant-based yogurt production facility, designed and installed by Gemak and Filltech, to produce The Collective's plant-based yogurt range. The plant was commissioned in January 2021.

WestMedGroup will invest over 809 million rubles to expand its medical equipment production facility in the Dubna Special Economic Zone, increasing the building area from 5,000 to 10,000 square meters and creating 120 new jobs.

Altorfer Inc. is completing a three-transaction relocation of its Construction Services and Power Systems divisions from Elmhurst to new facilities in Mokena, Addison and East Dundee, Illinois, with completion scheduled for April 2021.

NPP Termostoiky Tekstil began expanding its existing production facility in Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Oblast, with investments over 700 million rubles. The expansion will increase capacity by 57-100 tonnes of finished products and create over 90 new jobs.

Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. completed a debottlenecking and expansion of its MDI plant at Yantai Industrial Park, increasing capacity from 60,000 to 110,000 tonnes per year, with a cumulative investment of CNY 284 million.

SCM REF Australia, Beijer Ref's Australian manufacturing operation, completed relocation to a new 22,000m² facility in Bankstown, Sydney. The AUS$48 million (€31 million) site includes office space and serves as corporate headquarters for Beijer Ref's Australian businesses.

Prysmian Group completed phase one of an expansion at its manufacturing facility near Sedalia, Missouri, with a $3.5 million investment for new equipment, building renovations, and 30 new jobs. A second phase is planned.

AO Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Predpriyatiye Termostoykiy Tekstil (NPP Thermostable Textile) has begun expanding its existing production facility in Sergiyev Posad, Russia, with an investment of over 700 million rubles, increasing capacity by 57-100 tonnes of finished product and creating over 90 jobs.

McFarlane Aviation has filed plans to build a 22,000-square-foot building at its airport property in Vinland, Kansas, adding storage and manufacturing space. The company expects to grow to over 200 employees.

DENSO MALAYSIA A Sdn. Bhd. will expand its production capacity in Selangor, Malaysia, with an RM160 million investment approved by MIDA. The project is scheduled to commence in April 2021.

Buffalo Machinery (Dafo) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a first-phase expansion in Daya, Taichung, investing over NT$650 million. The facility will produce AXILE high-end 5-axis machining centers and is expected to be completed in April 2022 and operational in June 2022.

Aspla, part of Grupo Armando Álvarez, will expand its Reocín plant by 15,272 m2, increasing extruded film capacity from 25,000 to 80,000 tonnes per year, and creating 225 jobs.

Polyplex USA announced a $90.6 million expansion of its Decatur, Alabama facility to add a BOPET polyester film line, creating 100 jobs. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2021, with production by the end of 2022.

Folding carton maker Malnove is spending $7.4 million to upgrade a production line and grow capacity at its Jacksonville plant, creating 10 new advanced manufacturing jobs and retaining 182.

Posco Chemical will invest 275.8 billion won ($248.71 million) to build a fourth cathode materials plant in Gwangyang, South Jeolla Province, raising total cathode production capacity to 100,000 tons per year. Ground was broken on February 23, 2021, with operation expected in 2023.

RHH Franks has completed an expansion of its factory in New Milton, Hampshire, adding 6,600 sq ft of unit space and new technology worth over £150,000. The project increases manufacturing capacity by over 25% and was completed in January 2021.

Braskem is expanding its green ethylene production capacity at its Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul plant from 200 kton/year to 260 kton/year, with a US$61 million investment. The project will run in 2021 and conclude in Q4 2022.

Arkema will invest to increase fluoropolymer production capacity at its Changshu, China site by 35%, scheduled to come on stream before the end of 2022. The expansion is driven by demand from lithium-ion battery, water filtration, and semiconductor industries.

Rootree, a Burlington, Ontario flexible packaging converter, is adding a second HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press to double its print capacity for fully compostable flexible packaging.

Fan maker ebm-papst is investing almost EUR 20 million in three new buildings at its headquarters in Mulfingen and Mulfingen-Hollenbach, Baden-Württemberg, including R&D space and a machinery building. Construction is expected to take about 15 months for two of the buildings.

Minet SA launched a new nonwoven textile production line in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania, with a capacity of 25,000,000 sqm/year and an investment of 6.5 million euros. The line will produce 5,000 tons of nonwoven textiles annually for construction and automotive industries.

Algoma Steel celebrated the first arc at its new No. 2 ladle metallurgy facility (LMF) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, adding 100,000 tons of capacity to the plant. The facility is part of a $300 million investment commitment from 2018.

Century Aluminum plans to invest $50 million in 2021 to restart half of a second pot line at its Mount Holly smelter in Goose Creek, South Carolina, increasing annual aluminum output capacity to 140,000 tons initially and eventually to 170,000 tons. The expansion will add 70 jobs and follows a new power deal with Santee Cooper.

Armstrong Fluid Technology will relocate its West Midlands factory, warehouse and offices to a larger, purpose-designed site in Droitwich to expand UK production capabilities for packaged HVAC and fire solutions.

Hidromek is constructing a new production facility in Ankara, Turkey, including a components factory already operational and an excavator factory planned to become operational in 2022, creating new employment and increasing production capacity.

UFlex Limited announced it will double production capacity at its Asepto aseptic liquid packaging plant in Sanand, India, from 3.5 billion to 7 billion packs per annum, by investing in a second Heidelberg Intro web printing line.

SEW-EURODRIVE began construction of a new industrial complex at its Graben-Neudorf plant, including a factory hall and a 30-meter-high, 300-meter-long high-bay warehouse, with a gross floor area of 61,900 square meters. WOLFF & MÜLLER is performing earthworks, special foundation, and shell construction.

Rotarex inaugurated new production lines at its Lintgen site in Luxembourg to meet demand for COVID-19-related medical devices. The investment project is estimated at EUR 4.5 million and aims to double production by 2025.

Downer has been appointed to undertake approximately $100 million in upgrade works at the Loganholme Wastewater Treatment Plant in Queensland, including a biosolids gasification facility, solar array, pump station upgrade, and membrane bioreactor treatment facility.

Cementos Pacasmayo is studying an expansion of its plant in northern Peru, with an estimated investment of US$220-280 million. A decision is expected in 2021.

The board of Fauji Cement Company Limited has approved setting up a Greenfield Cement Manufacturing Plant of 2.05 million tons per annum at Dera Ghazi Khan, subject to regulatory approvals. Construction is expected to start within the current financial year and take about 2.5 years.

Siemens Gamesa submitted a planning application to double the size of its wind turbine blade factory in Hull, UK, from 36,000 m² to 77,600 m², to enable production of blades over 100 meters in length. No firm investment decision has been made yet.

Reisner Cooling Solutions GmbH, a subsidiary of technotrans SE, started operations at a new production and office building in Holzwickede, Germany. The new site includes 2,000 m² of production space and 900 m² of office space, increasing production capacity for large energy-saving refrigeration systems.