Borouge is expanding its integrated polyolefins complex in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, with a fifth polypropylene unit (PP5) with annual output of 480,000 tonnes and a fourth mixed-feed cracker with annual ethylene output of 18 million tonnes, raising total polyolefins capacity to 5 million tonnes by 2021.

Rostec announced the construction of a 15,000-square-metre logistics centre on the territory of its subsidiary POZIS in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, with an investment of 300 million rubles, to consolidate warehouse operations for refrigerators.

SK hynix celebrated the completion of its second factory in Wuxi National Hi-tech District in April 2019. The project, with a total investment of $8.6 billion, can produce 180,000 12-inch wafers monthly at full capacity.

Meggitt PLC held a groundbreaking ceremony for a $82.7 million expansion of its carbon brake manufacturing facility in Danville, Kentucky, which will create up to 83 jobs and add 95,000 square feet.

Hanson UK completed the first phase of a £24 million investment programme at its Padeswood cement works in Mold, Flintshire, including a new cement grinding mill capable of producing up to 650,000 tonnes of cement per year.

Xinxiang Tianheng Refrigeration Appliances Co., Ltd. plans a 5 million yuan ($710,000) technical upgrade to its refrigeration appliance and parts production line in Xinxiang, Henan, replacing an electrophoretic and spray coating line with a film machine line, with completion by end of November 2019.

L-A Electric and Kokosing Construction are continuing construction on a $25 million expansion to the City of Warsaw Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Hunan Liwang New Energy Co., Ltd. received approval for a 120 million yuan ($17 million) project to build six automated production lines for high-end smartphone transformers in Jianghua, Hunan, targeting annual capacity of 40 million electronic transformers.

M&G Real Estate and Trebor Developments appointed A&H Construction as main contractor for a 325,000 sq ft industrial facility in Redditch, including a 72,000 sq ft extension, for Pilkington Automotive. Construction starts November 2019, completion by Summer 2020.

Mid America Display, a division of St. Louis corrugated packaging provider Boxes, Inc., bought a second EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass inkjet printer, along with EFI software and a VUTEk superwide-format printer, to add digital production capacity.

Kimberly-Clark is investing $20 million to expand the capacity of its nonwovens line in Corinth, Mississippi. The multi-phase project will add 45,000 square feet and new technology to manufacture nonwovens components for Depend and Pull-Ups products, creating 25 jobs.

Boehringer Ingelheim announced a nearly $50 million expansion of its animal-health manufacturing site in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. The investment will create up to 105 full-time jobs over three to five years and enable the site to manufacture NexGard.

FLSmidth has invested an additional R100 million in its Supercenter in Delmas, Mpumalanga, South Africa, setting it up as the group's global centre of excellence for vibrating equipment. The expansion was completed in April 2019.

Irving Tissue announced a $400 million investment in a new manufacturing facility in Macon, Georgia, creating more than 150 jobs, following the grand-opening of its most recent $470 million plant in the same location.

Kentuckiana Curb Co. Inc., doing business as KCC Manufacturing, plans to invest $50 million and create up to 400 jobs by building a new 300,000-square-foot facility in Louisville, Kentucky, for HVAC equipment and sheet metal products.

Chemetall, the Surface Treatment business unit of BASF's Coatings division, has inaugurated a new laboratory and office building and expanded production of Naftoseal aircraft sealants at its Langelsheim, Germany site. The investment is the brand's largest single investment at the site.

Hexion Inc. announced plans to expand its adhesive resins capacity in Australia. The company also completed a new Application Development Center in Shanghai.

Sewtec, an industrial automation specialist, will relocate to a 75,000 sq ft facility in Wakefield, more than double its current premises. The multi-million pound investment will create over 70 new jobs and is expected to be operational by March 2020.

Teijin Aramid announced the second round of activities to increase production capacity of Twaron fiber at its factories in Delfzijl and Emmen, Netherlands, targeting more than 25% capacity increase by 2022. The expansion is expected to create a couple of dozen new jobs.

Manifattura Fontana, part of the Sioen Group, has doubled capacity in the manufacture of specialist nonwoven geotextiles by installing a complete neXline needlepunch line from Andritz, making it the most productive geotextile line in the world.

Emerson Process Management will expand its Ontario, Ohio facility with a $6.5 million project adding about 12,600 square feet of manufacturing space for its rotary vane and electro-hydraulic operator lines. The expansion is expected to add 20 jobs and take 15 to 16 months to complete.

German firm Allgaier announced an investment of 224 million pesos to expand its second plant in Puebla, Mexico, with a new industrial building in Chachapa. The project will create 181 new jobs and serve Volkswagen's new SUV model and Audi's Q5 Sport.

AMRO Fabricating Corporation, a supplier of aluminum and titanium components for aerospace, has expanded its capabilities with the addition of new machining equipment to improve efficiency and diversify its product base.

Emmi is replacing the existing ammonia refrigeration system at its Kirchberg site with a new 2.5 MW ammonia system serving 46 air coolers and 23 ventilation units. The project is managed by SSP Kälteplaner AG and will be completed by spring 2020.

Inditer, a Spanish manufacturer of thermal exchangers for refrigeration and air conditioning, invested EUR 854,000 to expand and modernize its factory in Montilla, increasing production capacity by about 30% and adding two new presses for CO2, propane and ammonia refrigerant exchangers.

Australian beverage producer Bickford's has opened a new AUD 20 million bottling line at its South Australian facility, developed by Sidel with Tetra Pak, including aseptic filling technology. The line helps expand the company into dairy.

Aluminum Bahrain (Alba) is nearing completion of its Line 6 expansion project, which will increase annual aluminum production capacity from 981,000 to 1.5 million metric tons. The $3 billion project includes a new pot-line and a dedicated 1,800MW power station.

Verallia inaugurated a €33 million reconstruction of a furnace at its Burgos, Spain plant, increasing production capacity by 7% to 600 million glass bottles per year. The company also plans an additional €10 million investment in 2020 to renovate the second furnace.

Luis Simões announced the expansion of its logistics center in Lliçà d'Amunt, Barcelona, dedicated to Soler&Palau, a ventilation systems company. The new 6,700 m² warehouse has capacity for 7,000 pallets and will handle 60,000 pallets per year.

SOCAR Polymer LLC, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan's state oil company, will reach full capacity in high density polyethylene production by 2023, with planned output of 120,000 tons. The company also operates a polypropylene plant with design capacity of 184,000 tons per year.

Corteva Agriscience, the agrochemical division of DowDuPont, has invested €16 million to build a new 4,000 m² production unit at its Cernay, France site, which has just entered production. The unit packages phytopharmaceutical products including the natural-origin fungicide Inatreq.

GE Healthcare signed an investment cooperation agreement with Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone to establish a production line for the SIGNA Architect 3.0T MRI system. The new line is expected to be operational in the second half of 2020, with products covering Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, and projected added output value over 100 million yuan.

Kawasaki Precision Machinery reorganized its K3VL axial piston pump machine shop at its Plymouth plant, purchasing two Heller H2000 HMCs in October 2018, nearly doubling productivity for pump cases and valve covers. Annual production is around 20,000 of each component.

Kotovsky Nonwovens Plant (KZNM) in Tambov Oblast launched production of nonwoven fabrics for medical clothing, with a planned capacity of 9,600 tonnes per year and private investment of 283 million rubles.

Iowa Fluid Power (IFP) has begun construction on a $5.7 million expansion adding 44,000 square feet at its Cedar Rapids, Iowa site for manufacturing and distribution. The article is dated November 2019.

Mackie's of Scotland invested £250,000 in new lid-making machinery and £50,000 in a factory extension at its Aberdeenshire site, bringing all ice cream tub component production in-house.

Riviana Foods Inc. is investing $27 million to double production capacity for Minute brand microwavable rice products at its Memphis, Tennessee plant. The expansion will add approximately 25 jobs.

EpiWorld International Co., Ltd has received an AIX G5 WW C system from AIXTRON for its cleanroom facilities in Xiamen, China, to expand production capacity for silicon carbide epitaxial wafers. Annual capacity will increase to 60,000 wafers in 2019, with a new 18,000 sqm facility designed for up to 400,000 wafers annually.

Inovyn is investing more than $70 million in an expansion and debottlenecking project at its Rheinberg site for PVC and VCM production, scheduled for completion in Q1 2021.

Bosch Rexroth broke ground on an expansion of its customer and innovation center in Ulm, Germany. The new building will house a customer forum and model factory for Industry 4.0, and is expected to be completed by spring 2021.

Total will double the production capacity of its affiliate Synova to 40,000 tons per year of recycled polypropylene by early 2021, meeting automotive OEM quality standards.

WG Buchanan and Son (Buchanans) invested over £1 million to build a new 12,000 sq ft factory for its nut business at its Carrickfergus site, creating 13 jobs. It also secured a contract worth over £1 million with a major UK buying group for dried fruit and nuts.

Smurfit Kappa applied in July to extend its corrugated packaging plant on Mold Business Park in Flintshire by more than 14,000 square metres. The company says the expansion would secure 170 existing jobs and create around 50 new ones, making Mold its largest UK production site.

Hyster-Yale Group will invest $25.7 million to expand its facility in Berea, Kentucky by 160,000 sq. ft, greatly increasing manufacturing capacity.

Lubrizol's CDMO, now renamed Lubrizol Life Science Health (LLS Health), opened a new 5,000 sq. ft commercial manufacturing facility in Bethlehem, Pa., as part of a $60 million investment.

Electroalfa expanded its metal fabrication factory by approximately 5,000 sqm and reorganized production, investing over EUR 4 million in new machinery and technologies. The expansion is expected to increase annual production capacity by 15%.

Metinvest plans to spend about $110 million to modernize mill 1700 at MMK im. Lenin in Mariupol, Ukraine, increasing consolidated hot-rolled coil production to 4.5 million tons per year. Primetals Technologies will supply main equipment.

In 2020, Starlim expanded its cleanroom at the Marchtrenk site to nearly 1,380 sqm, certified to ISO 7/8 and GMP C/D, to meet increased demand for life science products.

Morgan Advanced Materials opened a new plant in San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, after an investment of $10 million. The expansion adds 450 highly specialized jobs and aims to consolidate the company as a key supplier to the aerospace industry.

Zhejiang Haina Semiconductor Co., Ltd. plans to invest 20 million yuan in a technical renovation project to add capacity of 100 tons per year of 4-8 inch IC-grade monocrystalline silicon and products at its existing facility in Kaihua County, Zhejiang.