W. R. Grace & Co. opened a new 8,200 square-meter colloidal silica plant at its European flagship center in Worms, Germany, doubling worldwide production capacity of LUDOX colloidal silica. The facility adds approximately 25 new jobs.

Teel Plastics Inc. is expanding its injection molding production by purchasing two new presses to meet demand for swab sticks for COVID-19 testing, medical packaging, and water filtration components.

Magna International plans to invest $35.4 million over three years to expand its seat manufacturing facility in Highland Park, Michigan, creating 480 jobs. The expansion supports new full-seat assembly contracts.

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co. is designing and constructing a new 85,000 square foot facility at its main Milford campus to scale up its counter-gravity investment casting process.

The Egyptian Italian Company for Medical Supplies invested EGP 25 million to increase its production capacity of medical masks from 20,000 to 400,000 per day and face shields to 5,000 per day, adding six new production lines at its Alexandria Road factory.

Atlantis-Pak has started installation of the first extrusion line at its new high-barrier film plant in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The project has an investment of over RUB 3 billion and will create more than 150 jobs. First production is expected in Q1 2021.

Yangtze Memory Technologies broke ground on a new factory to triple its output capacity to 300,000 wafer equivalents per month, as part of China's push to reduce dependence on American semiconductors.

Pratt & Whitney will invest $12.5 million in its North Berwick, Maine facility to add maintenance, repair and overhaul work on high pressure turbine and compressor modules for the PW1100G-JM engine.

Tosoh Corp. plans to invest around 10 billion yen to expand bromine production capacity at its Nanyo Complex in Shunan City, Japan, by approximately 30%, with completion expected in January 2023.

Liberty Steel plans to double steel production at its Rotherham plant to over 1 million tonnes per year through upgrades to electric arc furnaces, investment in rebar products, and more efficient use of Thrybergh rolling mills.

TechnipFMC's new factory for deep-water submersible robots at the Port of Sacramento has stalled again due to the pandemic, delaying the start into fall 2020.

Mengtai Group invested 2 billion yuan in a 200,000-ton annual capacity high-tech aluminum alloy project in Dalate Banner, with main construction completed and equipment installation underway, expected to start trial production in September 2020.

Nouryon completed a project to more than double capacity for organic peroxides at its plant in Itupeva, Brazil, adding capacity for MEKP and BPO pastes and waxes used in composites for wind turbines and civil construction.

Norske Skog plans to invest about EUR 350 million to convert paper machines at its Golbey (France) and Bruck (Austria) mills into renewable containerboard production adding 765,000 tonnes of capacity, starting in H2 2021 over 18 months.

Tyler Pipe Company will invest $4.9 million to expand its Marshfield, Missouri manufacturing facility, which makes couplings and gaskets, creating 75 new jobs.

The second phase of China's national memory base project, operated by Yangtze Memory, started construction in Wuhan with a planned capacity of 200,000 wafers per month, part of a total $24 billion investment.

Saint-Gobain commissioned a second production line at its dry mortar plant in Yegoryevsk, Moscow Region, with an investment of EUR 1 million, quadrupling output to 26,000 tpa.

Kazrostengineering LTD, together with Rostselmash, invested KZT7.5 billion to resume production of combine harvesters at the Vector plant in Kazakhstan, with a planned capacity of up to 800 units per year.

Velux Greenwood LLC announced a $26 million investment to increase production capacity for skylight, tubular daylighting devices, dome skylights and glass pane products at its Greenwood County facility.

PTM Corporation is investing nearly $2 million to expand its manufacturing facility in St. Clair County, Michigan, adding new truck wells, prototype press lines with five 500-800 ton presses, a prototype facility crane expansion, and a robotic flexible assembly cell.

Ulyanovsk Heavy and Unique Machine Tool Plant (UZTS) is investing about RUB 400 million to expand its machine tool production facility in Ulyanovsk, Russia, creating 50 new jobs, with completion expected by end of 2021.

Société Nationale d’Electricité du Burkina contracted MAN Energy Solutions to supply three diesel gensets for the expansion of the Kossodo thermal power plant in Ouagadougou, increasing capacity by 55 MW to 110 MW.

Eaton plans to expand operations in Greenwood County, South Carolina, by consolidating its busway production into a new location, creating 30 new jobs. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of 2020.

Big River Steel is doubling its annual steel production capacity from 1.65 million to 3.3 million tons at its mill in Osceola, Arkansas, with completion expected by end of 2020, ahead of schedule. The $700 million expansion began in June 2019.

Rusal commissioned a new foundry complex at the Boguchansky aluminium smelter with a capacity of 120,000 tonnes of high-silicon aluminium alloys per year, investing over 600 million rubles.

Huisman has added a Submarine Handling Crane to its Schiedam facility in the Netherlands, aiming to attract submarine builders for the Dutch Ministry of Defence's Walrus-class replacement program.

Plastic container maker Auer Packaging is expanding its Amerang site with a third production hall, expected to go into operation in July 2020, bringing the site to three production halls and one warehouse.

Millerbernd Mfg. Co. is building a new 110,000-square-foot facility in Winsted, Minnesota, to add production capacity and new capabilities in plate rolling and flash butt welding. The facility is scheduled for completion in Q4 2020 and is expected to create 100 jobs.

SKF will spend 400 million Swedish crowns ($43 million) to expand its manufacturing site in Xinchang, China, to strengthen ball bearing capabilities.

Nan Ya PCB (Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board) plans to complete the expansion of ABF substrate capacity at its Kunshan plant in China by the end of 2020, targeting 5G and networking orders.

Titan-Polymer is completing construction of the main production building for BOPET film at its plant in the Moglino SEZ, Pskov region. The first phase includes two lines with capacity up to 72,000 tons per year, with the first line expected to launch by end of 2020. Investment so far is about RUB 3.8 billion.

BA Glass plans to invest in its Sofia production site, including construction of a new production workshop with a glass melting furnace of 370 tonnes per day capacity, increasing the capacity of an existing furnace from 330 to 370 tonnes per day, and building new covered warehouses of 15,600 m2 and 32,520 m2.

Sharp invested £1 million to expand its Rhymney, Wales facility into commercial primary and secondary packaging, adding packaging rooms, blistering equipment and automated cartoners. Commercial blister production at the site was set to begin in June 2020.

BASF expanded its dispersion portfolio at its Huizhou site in South China to produce Joncryl resins and dispersions for packaging coatings. The expansion complements existing capacities in Shanghai and supports the growing packaging market in South China.

Cimaf Gabon completed installation of a second grinding line with 350,000 tonnes capacity at its Owendo plant, costing CFAF 9 billion (EUR 13.7 million), to be inaugurated at end of June 2020. Separately, it is investing EUR 100 million to build a clinker processing unit at Ntoum, targeting total annual production of 850,000 tonnes.

GlobalWafers held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of its Taisil Branch in Taiwan, investing over NT$10 billion to increase 300mm silicon wafer capacity. Mass production is expected within two years.

Payan Bertrand S.A. modernized and expanded its Grasse industrial site with a new 1,000 m² production building 'Paname' for natural aromatic ingredients, now fully operational.

GKN Aerospace received FAA approval to repair CFM56 aero-engine parts at its Johor facility in Malaysia. The company has invested $30 million in the facility and expects strong growth in capabilities and people.

Kuraray Co., Ltd. decided to modify the production item lineup of its meltblown nonwoven fabric production facility at the Okayama Factory (run by subsidiary Kuraray Kuraflex) to produce face mask filters, aiming to produce enough material for approximately 300 million masks per year.

Atlantic Coated Papers is building a 12,000 square foot warehouse at its Windsor, Quebec plant and has bought a rewinder to enter cosmetics packaging, with a stated investment of 2.5 million. The company expects five to 10 new full-time jobs over the coming months.

TMP Convert/Jouplast, a plastics processing company in Simandre-sur-Suran, France, has acquired three additional hectares of land to double its site area, three years after a previous expansion.

Kurt Manufacturing is installing a second Mazak INTEGREX i-630V/6 multi-tasking machining center with a new Palletech system at its Machining Division in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to increase capacity for large complex parts.

Diedrich Roasters expanded its manufacturing capabilities with a new 80,000-square-foot factory and headquarters in Ponderay, Idaho, consolidating operations from three buildings. The facility includes 60,000 square feet for manufacturing and testing, with 20,000 square feet available for future expansion, and will focus on mid-size and large industrial coffee roasting machines.

Matrix Electronics completed a new larger flexible circuit materials conversion center at its Santa Ana, CA location, featuring state-of-the-art automated processing equipment to support growth.

Spirit AeroSystems will expand operations at its Wichita, Kansas manufacturing campus to produce tooling, composite parts, and machine complex metallic parts. The expansion is funded by an $80 million allocation from the Department of Defense.

Shengdie Semiconductor (Shanghai), a subsidiary of Western Digital, will start construction of a third-phase expansion in July 2020. The project involves about 11,800 square meters of production and support space, with total investment of about 1 billion yuan (approx. $141 million), to support next-generation BiCS4 and BiCS5 flash memory products.

Lear Corporation added new equipment to its Pine Grove, Pennsylvania facility to produce up to 500,000 protective face masks per week.

Liebherr USA Co. formally moved into a newly expanded campus in Newport News, Virginia, representing a $60 million investment. The campus includes new office, repair shop, and warehouse facilities.

Adler Pelzer Group is expanding its operations by acquiring a 100,000 square-foot facility in Oregon, Ohio. The automotive supplier will invest $10 million and create around 80 new jobs, with operations expected to begin in early 2021.

Cairns Regional Council is constructing four mini solar farms and roof-mounted solar panels at five wastewater treatment plants, with a $3 million contract awarded to Solgen Energy Group, expected to be completed in July 2020.