Tyson Foods announced an $87.6 million expansion in Tennessee, creating 230 jobs.
Sysco France is renovating and expanding its food warehouse in Lagny-le-Sec, France, with a €22 million project including a 5MW NH3/CO2 refrigeration system from ENGIE Solutions. The project is expected to be completed by end of 2020.
Two new ship-to-shore cranes worth £11.5 million arrived at the Port of Immingham as part of a £33 million upgrade and expansion of the Humber Container Terminal, following earlier delivery of six electric rubber tyre gantry cranes.
Nestlé Australia announced plans to invest $90 million to expand its Purina PetCare manufacturing facility in Blayney, New South Wales, upgrading production areas and installing new equipment to increase production and export capacities.
AkzoNobel announced the expansion of its plant in Amata Industrial Park, Dong Nai province, Vietnam. The expansion includes a green factory for marine coatings, protective coatings and wood adhesives. The wood adhesive area is ready for operation, and the marine and protective coatings area is expected to start production in January 2021.
Macro EMS, part of Macro Group, will build a new electronics contract manufacturing plant in the Obukhovo industrial zone in St. Petersburg, investing over RUB 500 million, adding two production lines to increase output from 100,000 to 400,000 components per year, with launch planned for mid-2021.
McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing will move production of its concrete mixers from its Minnesota campus to sister company London Machinery's facility in London, Ontario, and parent Oshkosh Corporation's facility in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to increase capacity and efficiency.
EHang will build a new autonomous aerial vehicle production facility in Yunfu, Guangdong, China, with an initial annual capacity of 600 units and an RMB42 million (approx. US$6 million) investment. The facility will include R&D and training centers.
Snowbird Technologies plans to invest about $500,000 to relocate and consolidate its four Southside Jacksonville locations into a single facility at Deerwood Center by October 1, 2020. The company makes military air-conditioning units.
Construction began on a $300 million expansion of the Big Creek Water Reclamation Facility in Roswell, Georgia, from 24 MGD to 32 MGD. The project is delivered by a joint venture of Archer Western and Brown and Caldwell for Fulton County.
Kunert Wellpappe is planning a new automated high-bay warehouse at its Bad Neustadt site to create space for production expansions. Hörmann Logistik was awarded the contract to realize the warehouse with connecting conveyor technology.
Coveris has invested about £3.5m to add a second re-equipped factory to its Amberley Labels business, installing two new MPS label presses at its Boston, Lincolnshire site. The site will be rebranded Amberley Labels Boston in September.
Sekisui Diagnostics announced a £14.4 million investment to expand cGMP microbial fermentation and purification capacity at its Maidstone, Kent site, to be completed by the second half of 2022.
Pressta-Eisele is completing an expansion at its headquarters in Bullay, Germany, with an investment of over €1 million. The expansion adds a new building for the manufacturer of special machines for aluminium processing.
MAHLE will expand its Murfreesboro, Tennessee facility by adding 140,000 square feet and new injection molding production lines, creating approximately 300 jobs.
Metalúrgica Hermann will expand its plant in Gualeguaychú, increasing production capacity from 7 to 10 trailers per month, adding 1,500 square meters to reach 26,500 square meters, and hiring 80-100 new employees.
Touki Kikai (Zhejiang) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory in Pinghu, China. The expansion involves an investment of $17.02 million, adding 6,733 square meters of floor space, and will produce high-speed precision stamping presses up to 1,000 tons.
Flender Australia, a Siemens subsidiary, announced an expansion in Western Australia with a new 3,500-square-metre facility to meet demand from mining and wind energy sectors.
Sandisk Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Phase 3 plant expansion in Shanghai's Zizhu High-Tech Park, adding about 11,800 square meters for R&D, testing and production of next-generation flash memory products, with total investment of approximately CNY 1 billion.
Retex, a Czech nonwoven textiles manufacturer, launched a new production line worth CZK 250 million at its Moravský Krumlov facility. The line has a daily capacity of 20 tons and was supplied by Germany's Autefa.
Leoni held a foundation-laying ceremony on August 14, 2020, for a 7,000-square-meter expansion of its Cuauhtémoc, Mexico facility to produce EV charging cables and high-voltage cables. Production is scheduled to start in Q1 2021.
AGCOR Steel is undertaking a $2.3 million expansion at its facility in Good Hope, Alabama, adding new machinery and equipment and creating 15-20 new jobs. The expansion will start in July 2020, with equipment purchased this year and building construction next year.
Subaru of Indiana Automotive broke ground on a $158 million expansion at its Lafayette, Indiana plant, adding a service parts facility and transmission assembly shop, creating 350 new jobs. The transmission assembly will produce continuously variable transmissions, with completion in mid-2021.
Foshan Yusen Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. plans to invest 100 million yuan to build a 23,000 sqm facility in Foshan, Guangdong, for producing 500,000 units/sets of oral medical devices annually. The project was approved on July 24, 2020, with construction from December 2020 to December 2023.
CarnaudMetalbox Engineering, a subsidiary of Crown Holdings, completed an expansion at its UK site to increase manufacturing capabilities for canmaking equipment, driven by growing demand for D&I beer & beverage can machinery.
Conagra Brands is investing over $100 million to expand its existing facility in Troy, Ohio, adding 63,000 square feet of production area, new packaging equipment, smokehouses, and drying rooms for Slim Jim and Duke's Smoked Sausages. The project is expected to create over 200 new jobs and be completed in December 2020.
Lydall Performance Materials held a groundbreaking ceremony for an expansion at its Rochester, New Hampshire facility to house two new production lines for N95 mask material. The expansion is supported by a $13.5 million federal contract from the DOD and HHS.
Interroll Group started operation of its second plant in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, adding 100,000 sq ft of manufacturing and warehousing space and 25,000 sq ft of offices. The plant provides assembly lines for the Modular Conveyor Platform and sorters.
Lydall held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 24, 2020, for a major expansion of its production facility in Rochester, New Hampshire. The Filtration Center of Excellence will house two new production lines for fine fiber meltblown filtration media for N95 respirators, surgical masks, and air filtration systems.
Zhejiang Grate Relay Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for an expansion project to add annual production capacity of 50 million relays and transformers at its site in Yaozhuang Town, Jiashan County. The project is part of a larger 7.15 billion yuan investment in 16 major projects in the county.
TPV Automotive is investing EUR 49 million to expand its production facilities in Brežice, Slovenia, including a new press shop and assembly line for chassis and body assemblies for premium electric vehicles. The project is expected to create 50 new jobs.
Spanco announced a new expansion in the Greater Milwaukee Area, as listed in its company history milestones for 2026.
BMW opened a new production facility at its Landshut location in Lower Bavaria to produce innovative components for the BMW iNext. The facility is investing over 50 million Euros in components including the kidney grille, cockpit parts, and electric drive system components.
Novosibirsk Radio Components Plant Oksid, part of Rostec's Roselektronika holding, has launched a production line for SMD resistors with an annual capacity of about 170 million units. The investment was about 1 billion rubles, split between federal budget and company funds.
The Mars factory for wet animal feed in the Aksai district of the Rostov region, operating since 2017, will launch a second production line in 2020, doubling its capacity. Sulzer XFP sewage pumps are supplied for the expansion.
Faurecia Automotive Solutions plans to invest 410 million rubles in its production facility in the Togliatti Special Economic Zone by 2025, creating 513 jobs. The first phase will start in January 2021 with about 100 jobs.
Cooper Tire's subsidiary Cooper Tire Serbia is expanding production capacity at its Kruševac tire plant by one-third, investing USD 55 million to make larger diameter tires. The press release was issued on 23 July 2020.
Aslan Technologies added a new location at 2270 Industrial Street in Burlington, Ontario, adding 20,000 square feet of offices and manufacturing space for water and wastewater systems.
FlexQube decided to insource assembly and distribution operations from its subcontractor in Georgia and move to a new plant in Duncan, South Carolina, with about 20 employees, starting in July 2020 and completing by mid-August.
Primetals Technologies has moved parts of its Morgoil product line manufacturing and service operations from Worcester, Mass., to its Warren, Ohio facility. Fifteen machines have been installed, and the company plans to hire 32 employees.
KLS Martin Group inaugurated a new production and construction building 'Building 70' in Mühlheim an der Donau, Germany, after a 15-month construction period. The 5,400m² building, with an investment of 13 million EUR, houses about 150 employees and includes a highly automated machining department.
Tver regional governor discussed with Shell Neft plans to expand lubricant production at its Torzhok plant, with investment up to 6 billion roubles, output rising to 300 million litres a year, and work starting in 2021 and finishing in 2023.
Pioneer Landscape Centers added four new quarries—three in Arizona and one in Colorado—to its operations, expanding its total to 20 quarries and production facilities, and entering the concrete, asphalt and road base markets.
ROTO group is opening a branch in Germany to establish a development department for the VODA program, focusing on water treatment plants, and has hired Jens Uphoff as a technical expert.
McInnis Cement is building a new DomeSilo for cement storage and a truck loadout lane at its facility in Providence, Rhode Island, to supplement existing flat storage and improve operational flexibility.
LM Wind Power, part of GE Renewable Energy, is investing $30 million to expand its Bergama facility in İzmir, Turkey, adding 300 new jobs to its existing 450 employees. Construction began in April 2019 and the expansion is expected to be completed by end of 2019.
Sumitomo Rubber Industries decided to increase production capacity of nitrile rubber gloves at its Malaysia plant to 2 million pairs per month, with production start expected in May 2021.
Avangard plans to build new warehouses, install new nonwoven fabric production lines, and construct a polyester fiber plant in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast. The investment is estimated at 1.5 billion rubles and will create 260 jobs.
Crown Cork and Seal is reopening a manufacturing line at its Batesville, Mississippi facility to meet higher demand, creating 60 jobs; the site can make 5 million cans and lids per day.
Senyo Machinery relocated its second factory (Foshan Hooching Intelligent Technology) to a new owned facility in Foshan, Guangdong, and renamed it Guangdong Hooching Intelligent Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd.