Namangan Cement announced the start of work on a second line at its 0.3 Mt/yr integrated cement plant in Namangan region, Uzbekistan, to boost capacity to 1.2 Mt/yr. The project will cost US$49 million, create 250 jobs, and be completed in late 2021.

Martinrea Tuscaloosa announced plans to expand its manufacturing facility in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, to produce parts for Mercedes' new electric vehicle. The expansion represents an investment of approximately $52.3 million and will create 62 new jobs.

Merrow Manufacturing LLC is expanding its facility in Fall River, MA to produce reusable and disposable PPE, investing roughly $5 million. The company expects to produce 700,000 gowns per week by July 2020 and create 900 jobs.

Berry Global is investing $8 million to install new equipment and enhance existing production lines at its Statesville, North Carolina facility to increase spunmelt nonwoven capacity for hygiene and healthcare products.

Schaeffler is developing its production hub in Bien Hoa City, Vietnam, into a digital pilot plant for its global production system, adding new product lines including Radial Insert Ball Bearings and Needle Ball Bearings.

Kumho P&B Chemicals, a subsidiary of Kumho Petrochemical, will invest 200 billion won to expand its Bisphenol-A (BPA) production capacity by 200,000 tons per year at its Yeosu plant in South Korea, targeting completion by December 2023.

AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe Company, a subsidiary of AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company, is expanding to Paris, Texas, with a $70-90 million investment in a new spiral-welded steel pipe facility. The plant is expected to be operational in Q1 2021.

French company Mecafor is building a new 3,000 m2 facility in Kikinda, Serbia, to produce aircraft turbines. The investment is EUR 3 million, and the plant is expected to be completed by late summer 2020, with 180 new jobs over three years.

Mona, a drinking water equipment company, started full operation of its second assembly line in early May 2020, increasing capacity to 360,000 water purifiers per year. The line was set up in late March and 80 new workers were hired.

Nestlé is investing CHF 100 million in its Tianjin facilities, including a capacity expansion of its existing pet food plant with new production lines for Veterinary Diet and Wet Cat Food.

LU-VE Group is making additional investments to expand the range of units produced at its SEST-Luve plant in Lipetsk, Russia, which has 260+ employees and 15,000 m2 of production area.

Ortner Medical Solutions acquired a Siemens ACUSON Juniper ultrasound system to expand internal testing and inspection capabilities for Siemens ultrasound probes, enhancing quality assurance.

OTTO FUCHS Technology (Shenyang) Co Ltd will accelerate construction of the second and third phases of its plant in Shenyang, China, and is testing an intelligent production line for aluminum alloy control arms.

Hyosung Advanced Materials signed an MOU with Ulsan City to invest KRW 61.3 billion in expanding its aramid factory in Ulsan, increasing capacity from 1,200 to 3,700 tons per year by the first half of 2021.

Polipak signed a contract worth over 50 million zloty with general contractor W.P.I.P. on 20 May 2020 to build production, warehouse and office buildings of over 20,000 m2 in Środa Wielkopolska, doubling its production and storage space. Completion is planned for mid-2021.

Coca-Cola's bottler COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages set up a new fully automated production line at its Chengdu, Sichuan facility capable of 120,000 cans per hour, which it says is the fastest such plant in the world.

Emerson will invest more than $100 million in Boulder, Colorado, to expand manufacturing space by nearly 180,000 square feet and open a new innovation center for advanced flow measurement products.

Dongfang Blue Sky Titanium Technology Co., Ltd. started construction of a test workshop for aerospace-grade titanium alloy fasteners and new material process testing in Yantai, Shandong. The project involves an investment of CNY 98 million and will add capacity for 20 million aerospace fasteners and structural parts.

Jianding Technology's board approved a $100 million capital increase for its Hubei Xiantao plant to add 400,000 square feet of monthly PCB capacity, targeting the automotive board market. The new capacity is expected to launch in Q2 2020.

Atlantic Natural Foods is increasing production at its North Carolina facility and in a joint venture in Thailand with Pataya Food Group, building a 47,000-square-foot facility by June 2020. The company is also launching new products under the Loma Linda brand.

Nipro PharmaPackaging is investing over US$60 million to expand capacity at its glass tube-draw facilities in Aumale, France and Millville, New Jersey, USA. First production is scheduled for 2021, with full fruition by 2024, creating about 70 jobs.

Votorantim Cimentos will end 2020 with an agricultural lime production capacity of 1.0Mt/yr, up from 0.8Mt/yr in 2019, following a $12.6m investment in two new plants in Itapeva and Nobres and upgrades to plants in Itau de Minas and Nobres.

Runxin Company is constructing Phase 5 and Phase 6 factories. Phase 5 (17,163 m², investment 58 million yuan) will be used for ceramic ball valve production and is expected to complete in June 2020. Phase 6 (74,606 m²) will produce 100,000 water purifiers and 300,000 home water softeners per year, expected to complete in August 2021.

Accredo Packaging expanded its Sugar Land, Texas facility by 200,000 square feet, with a $50 million investment in the recent phase, completed in the first quarter of 2020.

Medela AG has more than tripled its Swiss production of surgical and airway suction pumps since mid-March 2020 to meet pandemic demand.

Medela AG announced a new US production line for its Vario 18 AC portable suction pumps, with up to 10,000 units to be produced and shipped to hospitals by August 2020.

Lhoist North America received permit approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to construct a new energy efficient vertical lime kiln at its New Braunfels, Texas facility. The kiln is expected to be operational in 2021, driven by demand from steel and construction industries.

Caljan Inc., a Danish manufacturer of conveyors and automated labeling products, acquired a 105,500-square-foot building in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, to relocate manufacturing operations currently performed overseas. The move is expected by August 2020, with plans to add employees.

Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a $40 million expansion of its Lenexa, Kansas operation, including a new facility and 300 new jobs, to produce over 8 million viral transport tubes per week for COVID-19 testing.

Chambroad Petrochemical is planning to construct two polypropylene units with a combined capacity of 600,000 tons/year as part of a CNY5.17 billion propylene plant in Binzhou, Shandong.

Turkish earthmoving machinery manufacturer Hidromek is constructing a new 1.2 million square meter production plant in Ankara with an estimated investment of €300 million. JUARISTI will supply 11 machining centers for the facility.

Nabell USA, a bellows manufacturer and subsidiary of Japan's Nabell Corporation, plans to invest about $2.9 million in its existing Albemarle, North Carolina facility and create 15 new jobs within 24 months.

AB InBev will invest $220 million in new bottling lines at South African Breweries plants in Gauteng province, South Africa, to produce returnable glass bottles, with both lines expected operational by October 2020. The expansion is expected to raise overall capacity by up to 8%.

Terumo Corporation is investing £33 million ($46 million) to expand its subsidiary Vascutek Limited's headquarters and manufacturing facility in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, including two new cleanrooms.

Tetra Pak will build a new plant at its existing Straws and Strips Plant in Rayong, Thailand, to manufacture closures for carton packaging. The €24 million investment is expected to create around 60 jobs and produce more than 3 billion closures per year when it opens in early 2021.

Kemira signed a long-term agreement with UPM-Kymmene extending and expanding its bleaching chemicals supply contract in Uruguay, pending environmental permitting. The total Kemira investment is expected to be approximately $30 million into bleaching chemicals plants at the UPM Fray Bentos site, expanding capacity for both sodium chlorate and hydrogen peroxide production.

Cipla has been approved by SAHPRA to produce vital medicines in its recently refurbished plant in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa. The improvements include construction of a new granulation suite with a new Glatt Integrated Batch Granulation Line to increase capacity.

Siemens Gamesa plans to expand its nacelle assembly facility in Taichung, Taiwan, doubling the plot area to over 60,000 square metres and at least doubling the number of employees. The expansion will start after nacelle work for Ørsted's Greater Changhua 1&2a is completed in 2022, and will support the Hai Long 2 project.

Chemours started operations at a new HFO-1234yf refrigerant plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, doubling production capacity. The project began in 2016 and was completed in 2020.

Siemens Gamesa plans to expand its nacelle assembly facility in Taichung, Taiwan, to form a regional offshore wind nacelle industrial hub, with the 300 MW Hai Long 2 project as the anchor. The expansion will double the plot area and at least double the workforce.

Metso is installing a mega-size compress press at its Trelleborg factory in Sweden to increase consumables wear parts capacity, with production starting in May 2020; the first of three similar presses has a series value of EUR 10 million.

Posco Chemical has completed construction of a second-stage production line at its cathode material facility in Gwangyang, South Korea, tripling annual capacity of high-nickel cathode materials from 5,000 to 25,000 tons.

HögforsGST completed construction of a new factory on its site in Leppävirta, Finland, adding about 3,000 square meters of space. The factory is now fully operational, with production of Unis substations and Mix products starting in early April 2020. The new facility enables potential doubling of production capacity.

Danish subcontractor MC Uldall has expanded its factory with a 1,900 sqm extension, increasing total area by 50%, and installed a new 4-axis Quaser milling machine.

Infineon completed the shell of a new fully automated chip fab in Villach, Austria, one year after construction start. The EUR 1.6 billion investment will produce power semiconductors on 300mm thin wafers, with production start planned for end of 2021.

Darekon installed a new SMT production line at its Haapavesi plant in early May 2020, nearly doubling SMT capacity. The EUR 1.2 million investment includes assembly, reflow, paste printing, optical inspection, and selective soldering machines.

Accolade group, with financing from Česká spořitelna, will expand the KION Group smart factory in Ostrov u Stříbra, Czech Republic, by 25,000 m2. Investment is worth half a billion crowns (approx. CZK 500 million) and will be made available during summer 2020.

HME Inc. will expand its Button Road facility in Topeka, Kansas, in three phases starting end of 2020, adding 36,000 sq ft in phase one, 16,000 sq ft in phase two, and a 60,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in phase three. The initial investment is about $6 million, creating 167 new jobs.

BillerudKorsnäs invested over EUR 537 million to launch KM7, a new paperboard machine at its Gruvön mill in Sweden. The machine has an annual capacity of 550,000 metric tons and produces liquid packaging board, cartonboard, food service board, and liner.

Gessner expanded production capacity for meltblown nonwovens at its Feldkirchen-Westerham, Germany site to meet increased demand for face mask materials during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company is also converting other machines to produce community mask material.