High Concrete Group LLC will break ground on an $8 million manufacturing revitalization project at its precast concrete headquarters in East Cocalico Township, Pennsylvania, adding 50-70 jobs. The project includes a new batch plant and is scheduled for completion by mid-2020.

Seiren plans to increase production capacity of liquid crystal polyester fiber by about 50% within two years, investing several hundred million yen at subsidiary KB Seiren's plant. The fiber is used in earphone cables and optical fiber reinforcement.

tremco illbruck has nearly completed a three-year, €8 million renovation at its Traunreut, Germany plant, integrating a new production line for adhesives and sealants into an existing building. The expansion includes one of Europe's most modern mixing plants.

Nilfisk is moving all production from a leased site to a new 32,000 sqm plant in Nagykanizsa, Hungary, following years of capacity and workforce expansion. The workforce has tripled to nearly 500 at the site.

Micron Technology plans to invest $3 billion by 2030 to expand its semiconductor manufacturing plant in Manassas, Virginia, creating more than 1,000 jobs over the next 10 years.

Tenova TAKRAF successfully completed a 48-hour performance test for bauxite-carrying trains at Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée's (CBG) Bauxite Production Expansion project in Kamsar, Guinea. TAKRAF was awarded a €100 million EPC contract in late 2016 for a greenfield railcar unloading and primary crushing station, secondary crushing station, and conveyor system.

Plastipak Packaging signed a 96-month lease expansion of 233,770 square feet at Southern California Logistics Airport, bringing its total occupied space there to 530,230 square feet. The space supports a new bottled water business.

RENOLIT GOR S.p.A. has added a new production line for RENOLIT TECNOGOR composite sheets at the APPL GOR Plastics India plant in Pune, India. This is the first facility outside Europe to produce these 100% recyclable thermoplastic composites for the automotive interior market.

ATS Automation Tooling Systems is planning a multimillion-dollar expansion at its Cambridge headquarters, adding 122,000 square feet of space including manufacturing, office and innovation space. The expansion is part of a $60 million global initiative and will create 120 new jobs.

Pancap Pharma Inc. will spend $6.6 million to renovate and expand a facility at 2679 Howard Ave. in Windsor, Ontario, creating 50 jobs initially and over 100 long-term.

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated will expand its West Memphis, Ark., production facility, investing $33 million and adding 200,000 sq. ft.

The Hershey Co. will invest $104 million to expand its Stuarts Draft, Va., Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups facility, adding 110,000 sq. ft.

McCain Foods plans to invest $300 million to expand its Othello, Wash., potato processing facility, adding 170,000 sq. ft.

ARYZTA opened a new bakery in Chaska, Minn., to expand production of its Otis Spunkmeyer cookie line, increasing throughput by more than 40%.

Mikron Tool celebrated the groundbreaking for a new manufacturing building at its Rottweil site, which will double production surface starting in 2020 and allow installation of more grinding machines and hiring of additional employees.

Tobroco-Giant plans to invest €14 million in 2019 to expand its production facilities in Oisterwijk, Netherlands, including a new 8,000 m² warehouse to start construction in October.

TTG Inc., an ePTFE manufacturer, is investing $7.25 million to expand its existing 65,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Higginsville, Missouri, creating 20 new jobs with an average wage of $43,500.

Volvo Construction Equipment will build a $1.7 million expansion of its facilities in Eskilstuna, Sweden, including a customer demonstration arena for electric and autonomous machines, a new R&D test track, and an energy recovery system.

Heat pump manufacturer iDM opened a new 6,500 m² production hall with integrated research centre in Matrei, Austria, after an €11 million investment. The expansion doubles production capacity to 15,000 heat pumps per year and creates about 100 new jobs.

Prysmian inaugurated its new South America regional headquarters in Sorocaba, Brazil, with an investment of approximately €35 million. The project expanded production capacity for power cables, optical and metal data transmission cables, and automotive cables, and included a new distribution centre and R&D centre.

Toyo Tire Corporation approved a 7 billion yen ($51.6 million) investment to expand its Bartow County, Georgia plant, adding 1.2 million tyres of annual capacity and creating 120 jobs. Equipment installation begins September 2020, with production starting January 2021.

Holcim Philippines completed the expansion of its Davao cement plant, adding 700,000 metric tons of annual cement-making capacity. Full production began on June 20, 2019.

Kramp UK will move to a new 14,000 sq metre warehouse in Biggleswade in early 2020, three times the size of its current warehouse, to support growth in agricultural spare parts.

Swiss group Sefar Fyltis has completed a 1,000-square-meter extension of its filter manufacturing facility in Billy-Berclau, France, for over €1 million, to increase production and logistics space.

Oxea's Board of Directors approved a capacity increase investment for TCD Alcohol at its Oberhausen, Germany site. The additional capacity is expected to be available by the second half of 2021.

JSC Moscow Electrical Equipment and Lifts received a 0.7-hectare land plot in eastern Moscow to build a new production workshop for electrical switchgear, transformer substations and lift equipment, with investment of RUB 152 million and creation of 85 jobs.

LS Cable & System Asia Ltd. will invest 4.1 billion won ($3.5 million) to increase medium-voltage power cable production capacity at its LSCV plant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from $93 million to $120 million worth.

Luxshare Precision will invest up to CNY 1.243 billion to expand production capacity for smart wearable devices at its subsidiary Luxshare Precision (Vietnam) Co., Ltd.

Grundfos Canada broke ground on a roughly C$3.5 million expansion of its Oakville, Ontario facility, roughly doubling it to 48,000 sq ft for warehousing and service. Completion is scheduled for July 2020.

Camiş Madencilik A.Ş. is expanding its quartzite mine and processing plant in Yağlıca, Eflani, Turkey. The mine area will increase from 49.12 ha to 133.37 ha and production capacity from 800,000 to 2,250,000 tons/year; the processing plant area will increase from 24.78 ha to 37.68 ha and capacity from 600,000 to 1,050,000 tons/year of quartz sand.

SOPAKCO is investing more than $12.5 million in a three-phase expansion of its food processing operations in Marion County, South Carolina, expected to create 25 new jobs. The expansion includes new facilities for corporate offices and increased manufacturing capacity.

Lehigh Cement Co. received an air permit from IDEM to construct a new cement kiln system and material handling equipment at its Mitchell, Indiana site. The company will invest over $600 million, replacing three existing kilns with one new kiln, increasing capacity and reducing emissions.

ABB, Inc. will expand its facility in Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina, investing up to $39.9 million to upgrade equipment and increase the size of the facility. The expansion will create more than 400 jobs.

Novares Group inaugurated a new 9,600 m² second building at its Janovice site in the Czech Republic, increasing total area to 16,500 m². The expansion houses new injection molding machines for plastic car parts and will serve new customers including Groupe PSA. Employment is planned to increase to 530 by end of 2019.

thyssenkrupp announced an €80 million investment to build a new forging line at its Homburg site in Saarland, Germany, to produce forged front axles for trucks. The project will create 70 new jobs and is the largest single investment at the site.

Ludwig Paletten GmbH enlarged its second site in Baden-Baden Steinbach from 10,000 to 20,500 square metres, adding a production hall, office and storage halls for a total investment of just over EUR 4 million. Occupancy is planned for early 2020.

Thermo Fisher Scientific will invest over $30 million to expand its Logan, Utah facility, doubling capacity and creating several hundred new jobs. Construction has started and the facility is expected to be completed in 2020, with full qualification by 2021.

Pretium Packaging invested $2 million in new reheat stretch PET blow molding equipment and infrastructure at its Troy, Alabama plant. The lines can make cold- and hot-fill containers from 6 ounces to 2 liters.

Yamaha Marine Precision Propellers broke ground on a new 54,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Greenfield, Indiana, to increase annual propeller production from 60,000 to over 100,000, with an $18.3 million investment and 30 new jobs.

BASF inaugurated the expansion of its automotive waterborne paint (Base Agua) plant in Tultitlán, Mexico, to increase production capacity for the automotive industry.

Giken Seisakusho will invest 9 million euros to expand its group company Giken Europe BV's headquarters and factory in Almere, Netherlands, adding a new factory and office building. Construction starts July 2019 and completes March 2020.

The City of Cape Town is undertaking a R1.7 billion upgrade of the Zandvliet Wastewater Treatment Works in South Africa, increasing capacity from 72 to 90 million litres per day. Commissioning of the new plant is anticipated by December 2023.

Samyang Innochem will invest 71 billion won to add a new production line at its existing plant in the Gunsan Free Trade Zone, South Korea, by August 2021. The expansion will create about 30 new jobs and produce eco-friendly bio-plastic raw material isosorbide.

EnergyAustralia will invest more than $80 million in operational upgrades at its Mt Piper power station near Lithgow, New South Wales, to expand capacity by 60 MW. The project involves replacing turbine internal componentry and will be completed in 2020 and 2021.

Strata Manufacturing, a Mubadala unit, will expand its existing plant at Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park to assemble Boeing 787 Dreamliner vertical fins. Assembly is scheduled to start in 2020.

Kranovy Zavod, part of BelAZ-Holding, opened a new shop for producing bridge cranes with capacity up to 240 tonnes in Slutsk, Belarus. The investment was over 15 million euros, and the shop covers 6,400 square meters.

Precision Refrigeration is nearing completion of a £250,000 factory investment programme to double capacity and speed up production at its facility, supported by a £34,000 grant from New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership.

Fortescue Metals Group awarded contracts worth A$330 million to over 250 Australian businesses for the Eliwana Mine and Rail project in Western Australia. The US$1.275 billion project will create up to 1,900 construction jobs and 500 permanent positions.

Iqoxe, part of Cristian Lay, inaugurated a new ethylene oxide derivatives plant in La Canonja, Tarragona, on July 4, 2019, with an investment of €10 million to increase production of ethoxylates, polyols, and polyethylene glycols.

Pfleiderer Grajewo has commissioned a new line for laminated particleboard (MFC) at its plant in Grajewo, Poland, with an investment of EUR 8.5 million. The line adds 15 million m² of laminated board capacity per year.