John Deere plans to hire 100 new employees at its Mannheim, Germany plant, where it expects to build over 30,000 tractors in fiscal year 2020/21.

Inteva Products will invest $4.6 million in an expansion project at its Gadsden, Alabama plant, expected to be completed in summer 2022 and create 67 jobs over three years.

Gestamp will invest $94.7 million to expand operations at its two Chattanooga plants, creating 260 new jobs over five years. The expansion adds capacity for new electric vehicle production and includes retrofitting, weld assembly, and robotics updates.

Bundy, a maker of heat transfer and cooling components for refrigeration units, is setting up a new production plant in Manisa province, Turkey, as part of a $3.4 million investment, to meet rising global demand.

Electrolux's three-year, $300 million revamp of its Anderson, South Carolina refrigeration facilities is expected to be fully operational by mid-2021, with all four production lines running and annual yield reaching about 2 million units.

R&R Icecream completed a four-year, £25 million investment programme at its Leeming Bar factory in North Yorkshire, including an on-site effluent treatment system designed by Axium Process. The system expanded capacity from 600,000 to 1.5 million litres per day.

HomTex Inc. received $10.6 million in CARES Act funds to expand operations to Selma, Alabama, to manufacture surgical masks and N95 masks, creating 300-325 new jobs.

Gerresheimer is investing a double-digit million euro amount to expand its plastics Small Batch Production capacity at its Wackersdorf, Germany site.

Metal Technologies is executing the second phase of its plant in Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with an investment of USD 26.4 million. The expansion will increase capacity from 30,000 to 65,000 metric tons per year and create over 175 direct jobs.

Otto-Chemie has started a new fully automated production line for sanitary silicones at its new plant in Kaltenbrunn, Fridolfing, Germany, with an investment of around EUR 20 million. The line has created 11 new jobs and reached 90% capacity, with two-shift operations planned for December 2020.

Baxter International announced a $50 million expansion of its sterile fill/finish manufacturing facilities in Bloomington, Indiana. The project includes a new warehouse, filling lines, and is expected to create about 100 jobs, with construction underway and completion expected in 2021.

FiberVisions is investing $48 million to expand its polyolefin fiber manufacturing in Covington, Newton County, Georgia, adding 21 jobs with completion expected in the first half of 2021.

Amcor will invest over R$115 million to expand its packaging factory in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, doubling production capacity and raising direct jobs to 720 by July next year.

Exotic Metals Forming Company, a subsidiary of Parker, completed a new building at its Airway Heights, Washington campus in fall 2020, increasing manufacturing space.

Cummins Turbo Technologies announced an $11 million plant expansion at its existing facility in North Charleston, South Carolina, doubling assembly capacity and increasing machining capacity, creating 100 new jobs.

TSMC has decided to build new facilities at its 12-inch fab in Nanjing, China, to satisfy growing demand from local customers.

Samsung Electronics plans to expand monthly wafer capacity for DRAMs by 30,000, flash memory by 60,000, and foundry chips by 20,000 in 2021, with investments of at least 10 trillion won into its Pyeongtaek and Austin plants.

Arkema started up a 50% capacity increase of Kynar® fluoropolymer for the lithium-ion battery business at its Changshu plant in China in December 2020, with first commercial supplies expected in January 2021.

Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC announced plans to increase local production capacity by 1 million metric tons with an investment of US $12 million at its factory in Trincomalee. The expansion will take 18 months and will increase installed capacity.

Atlas Ward Polska, as general contractor, has completed the first stage of a 10,000 sqm expansion of the Schumacher Packaging Polska plant in Krepice, Poland. A second-stage paper warehouse is planned, with completion expected in the second half of 2021.

Singaporean XP Power expanded transformer manufacturing capacity with an adjacent 25,500 sqm Phase 2 factory in Binh Duong, Vietnam. Reecons was contracted as design-and-build contractor for the MEP package, with 8 months of MEP installation.

American Carton Co., a folding carton maker in Texas affiliated with Harris Packaging, expanded its folding carton print capacity. The article gives no capacity figures or dates for the expansion.

GS Inima Environment received a letter of award from Oman Power & Water Procurement Company for two independent water projects: the third phase expansion of the Al Ghubra desalination plant and the fifth phase expansion of the Barka desalination plant. The total project value is 2.3 trillion won ($2.1 billion).

UltraTech Cement plans to expand white cement production capacity from 0.56 million TPA to 1.40 million TPA and captive power plant capacity from 7.5 MW to 33.5 MW at its unit in Kharia Khangar, Rajasthan. Extension of validity of environment clearance is sought.

BASF Canada Agricultural Solutions unveiled a modernized formulation, packaging and distribution facility in Regina, Saskatchewan, with over $14 million in upgrades. The facility can now produce over 30 million litres of agricultural solutions annually.

Karam Industrial will invest over $5 million to build two new factories for electrical materials at the Viana Industrial Complex in Angola, creating 600 jobs. The expansion will increase production capacity from 25 to 40 tonnes of cables and nails.

Ginkgo Bioworks provided capital to expand manufacturing capacity at Access Bio's New Jersey factory for production of rapid diagnostic tests, and secured access to at least 10 million rapid antigen test kits.

Siemens Healthineers received a $12.38 million contract from the Department of Defense to expand production capacity at its Walpole, Massachusetts facility from 8.25 million to 50 million antigen tests per month by July 2021.

Suominen will upgrade one of its production lines in Bethune, South Carolina, with an investment of approximately EUR 6 million, to be finalized in the second half of 2021.

SMT Swedturn, Storebro Machine Tools, and SMT-Abene are merging under the umbrella Swedish Machine Tool Company to scale up machine tool production in Sweden. A new production site will be established in Främmestad, and a new series of milling machines for the German market will launch in fall 2021.

Polywood will invest $42.8 million to build a 369,000-square-foot manufacturing plant at its Syracuse, Indiana campus, adding a plastics recycling line and 30 extrusion lines to increase production capacity.

Merck plans to expand its central wastewater treatment plant at the Darmstadt site by adding a fourth treatment stage using activated carbon filters. The company is investing around €12 million, with construction starting in summer 2021 and commissioning planned for 2023.

Sika commissioned a new manufacturing facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to produce concrete admixtures and epoxy resins locally for the flooring market.

Mahindra Group will invest an additional Rs 100 crore in its Zaheerabad, Telangana plant to manufacture the new K2 series of tractors, doubling the workforce to 3,000 by 2024.

Guangdong HuaAo New Alloy Material Co., Ltd. launched a capital increase and expansion project for an aerospace new materials industrial park in Heshan, Guangdong, with a total investment of 5 billion yuan. The first phase covers 156.88 acres with an investment of 1.6 billion yuan.

CeramTec has invested in two additional machinery units at its piezoceramic centre of excellence in Lauf, Germany, including a metallisation unit installed in 2019 and a second unit for wrap-around electrodes installed in 2020, to meet rising demand for piezoelectric components.

Henkel has started operations at a new 24,000 m² automated warehouse in Montornés del Vallés, Barcelona, for its Laundry & Home Care division, with an investment of 22 million euros. The facility serves as a logistics hub for Southern Europe.

杭州速博雷尔传动机械有限公司 (Supror) signed a contract with 三菱 (Mitsubishi) for an initial investment of CNY 62 million in intelligent equipment and CNY 50 million in machining equipment for a fully automated RV reducer production line. Production is expected to start in July 2021, with capacity ramping from 3,000 to 10,000 units per day.

Owens & Minor increased N95 production over 1000% at three Americas locations including Del Rio, Texas and Lexington, N.C., and increased surgical mask production nearly 100% through investment in Acuña, Mexico. Face shield production increased over 600% and a new meltblown fabric line was added in Lexington, N.C.

Duas Rodas inaugurated an expansion of its pasta and variegato factory in Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil, with an investment of over R$ 11.6 million, doubling production capacity to meet growing demand for premium ice cream products.

Medline announced plans to modify its Lithia Springs, Georgia plant to manufacture face masks for the first time in North America, with production starting in January 2021 and a second line later in 2021, aiming for 36 million masks per month.

Hearthside Food Solutions is investing $13.6 million to install a processing, oven, and packaging line at its Michigan City, Indiana production facility, creating 50 new jobs.

Big River Steel successfully started up the second phase of its scrap metal recycling and flat-rolled steel production facility in Osceola, Arkansas, doubling capacity to 3.3 million tons annually, ahead of schedule and under budget.

NUREL installed a third production line at its Zaragoza plant for compostable biopolymers, increasing total capacity to 26,000 tons per year to meet growing demand from the Americas.

Boston Scientific expanded its operations in Dorado, Puerto Rico, with a $15 million investment, adding 7,800 square feet and 80 jobs. The expansion will house production lines for peripheral intervention devices including Acuity Pro, AngioJet, Wallflex, and WallStent.

WACKER announced construction of a new production line for silane-terminated polymers at its Nünchritz, Germany site. The investment is in the mid double-digit million euro range, and the line will go on-stream in 2022.

Alvance, part of GFG Alliance, plans to add 40,000 metric tons per year of secondary aluminum production at its Fort William plant, doubling capacity to 80,000 metric tons per year, with a £94 million investment.

BASF has increased production capacity for advanced additives at its wholly-owned site in Nanjing, China, focusing on high molecular weight dispersing agents, slip and leveling agents. The investment amount is not disclosed.

Packaging equipment manufacturer Viking Masek is expanding its Oostburg, Wisconsin facility to double production. It is the third expansion of the site in five years, reported on December 1, 2020.

Sasol Ltd. has completed a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) unit at its Lake Charles, Louisiana, plant. LyondellBasell will operate the plant as part of their joint venture operating agreement.