In October 2019, REI Automation announced a $3 million expansion at its Veterans Road campus, building a new headquarters and adding onto an existing assembly hall, expected to create 35 new jobs.

Grupo Qualtia Lácteos announced the expansion of its plant in Corregidora, Querétaro, with an investment of 282.4 million pesos. The new facility will add 2,840 square meters, increase production by 70%, and create 226 new jobs, starting operations in December 2019.

Novamont has increased its MATER-BI compostable bioplastics production capacity by 40,000 tonnes at the Mater-Biopolymer plant in Patrica, Frosinone, with an investment exceeding €100 million.

Mapei invested NOK 190 million in a new powder factory, warehouse and transport office at its Sand facility in Nord-Odal, Norway. The expansion added 8,000 square meters and more than doubled capacity, making it the fifth largest of Mapei's 82 factories worldwide.

Bulcons Parvomay invested 5 million leva ($2.8 million) to modernize its lyutenitsa production facility in Parvomay, Bulgaria. The project included new machinery and a packaging line for small 70g and 125g containers.

Segezha Group plans to launch a third production line at its industrial paper packaging plant in Salsk, Russia, in November 2019. The line, with equipment from Windmöller & Hölscher, will double capacity and produce over 80 million industrial bags per year. Investment is 500 million rubles.

Gurit is implementing a multi-year plant renewal and capacity expansion program at its aerospace site in Kassel, Germany, with a high single-digit million CHF investment. The expansion will support global aerospace customers.

South African dump truck specialist Bell Equipment commissioned its new manufacturing complex at Eisenach-Kindel, Germany, tripling production and storage space to 18,000 m². The expansion includes a new dump body production line and equipment.

Zeon Corporation has decided to expand production capacity of cycloolefin polymer (COP) at its Mizushima plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, from 37,000 t/year to 41,600 t/year. Construction is planned to start in fiscal 2020 with completion targeted for July 2021.

JSHP held a foundation stone laying ceremony on September 30, 2019 for a $100 million campus expansion to increase production capacity for solar and wind transformers to 1,000 units per month.

Kellstrom Holding Corporation announced the grand opening of a 25,000-square-foot operating facility for its Williams Aerospace & Manufacturing business in Chula Vista, California, to support global defense customers.

Tsujitomi, a Japanese nonwovens producer, plans to increase production capacity by adding two needlepunch nonwovens lines. The first line (4.5 meters wide) will be added at the end of 2020, and the second (4 meters wide for laminant structures) in 2022. The capacity will be twice as large as existing facilities.

Genesis Energy will invest $300 million to expand its Granger soda ash production facility in Green River, Wyoming, increasing capacity by 750 kilotons per year. Construction begins in Q4 2019, with increased production available in Q2 2022.

Mackay Regional Council is upgrading the Mirani Water Recycling Facility in Queensland, Australia, with contractor UGL. The $14 million project will double capacity from 3500 EP to 7000 EP and is expected to be operational by mid-2020.

BASF will expand its ethylene oxide and derivatives complex at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium, with an investment exceeding €500 million, adding about 400,000 metric tons per year of production capacity. Sequential start-up of new capacities begins in 2022.

Galvasid is expanding its plant in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico, with a significant technology investment to produce high-end coated steel products for the appliance industry.

Orizon Aerostructures broke ground on a 120,000 square foot expansion at its Chanute, Kansas campus on September 24, 2019. The addition will be used for assembling a section of the Boeing 737 fuselage for Spirit AeroSystems, and will increase employment from 320 to 420-470.

Plascore Inc. is investing nearly $6 million to construct an 80,000-square-foot facility in Zeeland, Michigan, creating approximately 35 jobs over three years.

Lassila & Tikanoja's Muovinaattori plastic recycling plant in Merikarvia, Finland, has completed an expansion that doubles its capacity to 20,000 tonnes per year, processing plastic waste into over 100 types of recycled plastic granules.

Viraver increased its production area to 17,500 sqm, built a new chemical strengthened glass plant, added a sag bending oven, and installed a new autoclave and five-axis plant for large-dimension glass processing.

BASF increased NPG capacity at its Ludwigshafen site by 10,000 metric tons per year, reaching 215,000 metric tons total globally. It is also expanding NPG capacity at the Nanjing site by 40,000 tons, available from 2020.

Johnson Controls completed an expansion of its Rooftop Center of Excellence in Norman, Oklahoma, adding 400,000 sq ft of lab and manufacturing space and renovating 150,000 sq ft of office space. The project created 300 jobs and was supported by $1.75 million in state funding.

Wistron Technologies plans to expand its manufacturing facility in Narasapura, Karnataka, India, increasing investment from Rs 900 crore to Rs 3,300 crore and growing the workforce to 15,000 in three phases. The company also plans to set up an R&D facility in Bengaluru.

Penn Color completed a $12 million expansion at its Venray, Netherlands production facility, adding capabilities for high-end specialty coatings, highly concentrated PVC and engineering plastics color, and additive masterbatches. A new Customer Innovation Center, laboratory, warehouse, and office areas were also added.

Graphic Packaging International is expanding its Kalamazoo, Michigan site on a brownfield plot, with an anticipated $600 million investment and construction starting in Q4 2019, supported by $21M in tax breaks.

Schaeffler Group USA Inc. announced a $65 million investment to expand its Cheraw, South Carolina facility and establish it as an Engine Systems Manufacturing Center of Competence for North America. The expansion includes new equipment for production of the FRAX bearing component and is expected to be completed by the end of 2020.

YANMAR Energy System Europe is expanding its headquarters in Marl, Germany, adding around 10,000 square meters of space for sales, production, logistics and a new academy.

Grupo Verzatec, through its subsidiary Polímeros Gestión Industrial, is studying an expansion of its plant in Córdoba, Spain, as announced to the mayor during a meeting on September 26, 2019.

Americhem announced a 60,000 sq ft expansion of its Morrisville, Pennsylvania plant, including a 20,000 sq ft clean compounding room for up to six new lines, with a groundbreaking on October 2, 2019.

Lafarge commissioned a new EUR 7.2 million technological line at its cement factory in Beocin, Serbia, which will reduce CO2 emissions by over 20,000 tons annually.

Synthomer inaugurated a new 36,000-tonne expansion to its acrylic dispersions production facility in Worms, Germany, increasing capacity by over 30%. The project was completed in September 2019.

DENSO Corporation will invest about 11 billion yen to expand the DENSO Hokkaido plant to increase production of semiconductor sensors. Construction starts July 2020, completion June 2021, production starts October 2021.

Emsur Madrid inaugurated a new 5,000 m2 production building with a high-speed rotogravure printing line and a laminator at its Alcalá de Henares headquarters in Spain. The project adds production capacity for flexible packaging, mainly for the dairy market.

Hydro Extruded Solutions started operation of a new melting furnace at its Lichtervelde facility to increase recycling of aluminum scrap.

MIDHANI successfully modernised its manufacturing facilities in Hyderabad by upgrading forging and other equipment at a total cost of ₹200 crore, aiming to scale up annual production to ₹1,000 crore.

The Ministry of Textile Industry of Turkmenistan announced international tenders to introduce spunbond and spunlace nonwoven fabric production at its factories in Ashgabat, including the Ashgabat Silk-reeling Factory and the Ashgabat factory for medical wadding and cosmetic cotton products.

Graphic Packaging is investing $600 million in an expansion, according to a Crain's Grand Rapids report dated September 25, 2019. Site and capacity details are not given in the text.

StandardAero Component Services celebrated the grand opening of a 30,000 sq. ft. expansion of its Hillsboro, Ohio engine component manufacturing and repair facility on September 20, 2019. The expansion adds capacity for aerospace engine low pressure turbine vane manufacturing.

Sefar Fyltis, part of Swiss group Sefar, is investing about €1 million to extend its technical textiles plant in Billy-Berclau, France, by approximately 1,000 m². The extension is about to be commissioned.

Extruflex is planning a $1 million investment in its Pelham, Alabama facility to create a new factory within its current facility and expand its product line, adding 16 jobs.

Solvay will increase soda ash production capacity by 600 kilotonnes at its Green River site in Wyoming, USA, and expand sodium bicarbonate capacity by 200 kilotonnes at its Devnya plant in Bulgaria. Total investment is €185 million over three years.

The Original Cakerie, a division of Dessert Holdings, announced a major expansion of its London, Ontario plant, adding a new building and production lines. Construction is expected to be completed by fall 2020, creating about 100 jobs.

Carraro Group laid the foundation stone for a new production area at its Ranjangaon plant near Pune, India, to expand capacity and portal axle production. Local activities are expected to rise 50% in three years.

TemperPack announced a significant expansion of its production facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, to manufacture ClimaCell packaging material. The company invested $6.8 million and created 33 new jobs.

Cree is continuing a mega materials factory expansion at its global headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, to increase silicon carbide material production capacity.

Neaton Auto Products Manufacturing Inc., a subsidiary of Japan's Nihon Plast Co. Ltd., plans a $15 million expansion at its facility in Eaton, Ohio.

Airtech Advanced Materials Group, a vacuum bagging and composite tooling materials manufacturer, will invest $13 million and create approximately 30 new jobs at its existing facility in Springfield, Tennessee.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering has completed construction of a large-scale polyethylene production train for ExxonMobil in Beaumont, Texas, with a capacity of 650,000 tonnes per year.

Terumo Corporation announced it will construct an additional production facility for pre-filled syringes at its Terumo Yamaguchi D&D Corporation subsidiary, with a capital investment of approximately JPY 2 billion. This will increase production capacity by about 2.5 times compared to current capability.

Polynt-Reichhold Group announced plans to invest in local production of Maleic and Phthalic Anhydride intermediates in the Americas, with a total combined capacity above 100 KT/y, to expand its integrated business model.