GlobalWafers will invest approximately 35 billion won to expand its subsidiary MEMC Korea's facility in Cheonan, South Korea, adding a 300mm silicon wafer production line by 2024.

Inteplast Group's AmTopp division plans to add two cast film extrusion lines at its newly acquired facility in Remington, Indiana, expanding stretch film capacity by 60 million pounds to a total of 445 million pounds. The company is investing an additional $20 million in new equipment and expects to start operations by the end of 2020.

Hengtong Aberdare Cable Company's high voltage cable of 132 kV expansion project in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, will be officially launched on July 18, 2019. The expansion adds high-voltage product line to the existing factory.

Grundfos Canada plans a $3.5 million expansion of its Oakville service and warehouse location, doubling its size to 2,221 sq. m. Construction starts in July 2019 and is scheduled for completion by July 2020.

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company announced a $10 million expansion of its Simsbury, Connecticut operation, anticipating 140 new jobs over three years. The expansion will include a new state-of-the-art facility.

Whirlpool opened a new manufacturing section at its Celaya plant in Guanajuato, Mexico, with a US$5 million investment. The expansion includes a 1,000-ton press to increase operational efficiency and production volumes.

Şişecam invested EUR 42 million (BGN 90 million) to modernize a production furnace at its flat glass plant in Targovishte, Bulgaria, maintaining a capacity of 725 tons of glass per day and introducing a new cooling system.

Airbus Canada expanded its primary A220 facility in Mirabel, Quebec, with two new dome structures built early this year.

Airbus Canada marked the first anniversary of leading the A220 program, with highlights including ground-breaking for a new A220 manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama, and expansion at the Mirabel facility. The Mobile facility is under construction with first delivery planned for mid-2020.

B2F Group invested €3.4M in a new building for its subsidiary Hydrachim in Plélan-le-Grand, France, doubling the facility's size. A new production line (€1.2M) will be installed in early 2020.

Whirlpool inaugurated an expansion of its Celaya, Guanajuato plant, its largest in Mexico, with a $5 million investment including a 1,000-ton press, raising stove production capacity by 18%.

Mitsubishi Chemical Composites America (MCCA) announced a nearly $5 million expansion of its ALPOLIC production facility in Chesapeake, Virginia, adding approximately 40,000 square feet to increase storage, shipping and receiving capabilities. Construction is expected to begin in July 2019.

LM Digital signed an MOU with Gumi City on July 1, 2019, to invest KRW 31 billion to expand production lines at its Gumi National Industrial Complex plant, creating 52 new jobs.

HellermannTyton is expanding its manufacturing plant in Nuevo León, Mexico, with a total investment of over $30 million from 2017 to 2019, aiming to increase installed capacity above 45% and create 300 jobs. A further $10 million investment is planned by 2022 to reach 80% capacity and add 200 more jobs.

FPE Automation is expanding its St. Louis operations and opening a robotics training center.

Tongfu Microelectronics is expanding its Hefei Phase I project, which currently produces 17 million integrated circuits per day. The Phase I project invested 3.3 billion RMB, and Phase II is planned with an additional 2.7 billion RMB investment.

Smurfit Kappa is seeking planning permission to extend its Mold corrugated packaging plant in Flintshire by more than 14,000 square metres, raising capacity by over 80 per cent and adding around 50 jobs. Comments were being invited as of August 2019.

Haltec Corporation held a groundbreaking for a 59,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Leetonia World Trade Park, Ohio, expected to open early next year and add 30 to 40 jobs within three years.

Edwards Lifesciences kicked off construction on a multibuilding expansion of its Irvine headquarters, investing $239 million to add nearly 500,000 square feet of office, research, and manufacturing space. The project will result in hundreds of additional employees.

LU-VE Group, through its subsidiary Zyklus Heat Transfer, will construct a 300,000+ square-foot manufacturing facility in Norman Industrial Park, Jacksonville, Texas. The project was approved by the City Council on June 11, 2019.

LANXESS started operations of a new high-performance prepolymer unit in Porto Feliz, Brazil, with an investment of approximately R$15 million. The unit expands production capacity and includes a new Application Development and Technical Support Center for Latin America.

BillerudKorsnäs commissioned the new Voith XcelLine board machine KM 7 at its Gruvön mill in Sweden on June 28, 2019. The machine has a capacity of 550,000 tonnes per year for liquid packaging board, cartonboard, food service board and liner.

Volvo Group announced on June 28, 2019 plans to invest nearly $400 million over six years to upgrade and expand its New River Valley, Virginia plant, adding 777 jobs. The project includes expansion of the industrial footprint and installation of new equipment.

OSO Polymers agreed a ten-year lease for an 87,000 sq ft space at Copperworks 2 in Leeds, UK, to set up its first UK plastic recycling facility.

Ciments de l'Afrique (CIMAF) agreed with the Cameroon Investment Promotion Agency to invest US$33m to triple production capacity to 1.5Mt/yr at its integrated plant in Douala, Cameroon.

AAON will relocate manufacturing of its SA Series self-contained units to its Longview, Texas facility, investing $28 million and creating 125 jobs. The first expansion phase of 195,000 sq. ft. is due by October 2020.

In 2011, AGCO announced plans to expand its Jackson, Minnesota manufacturing facility to produce high-horsepower, wheeled, row-crop tractors previously made in France. The project cost $16.6 million and created 130 FTE jobs.

MMI Engineered Solutions Inc. is expanding its operations in Michigan and Mexico, as announced on June 27, 2019. Details of the expansion are not provided in the snippet.

Flomatic Valves celebrated its 85th anniversary and the completion of a $3.3 million, 20,000 square foot plant expansion at its facility on Pruyn's Island in Glens Falls, New York.

Airbus Americas subsidiary Satair Group will invest over $10 million to relocate its parts warehouse to a larger 250,000-square-foot facility in Northwoods Industrial Park near Dulles International Airport in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Evonik has started up new installations for the production of pyrogenic silica in Antwerp, Belgium, with an investment between €50 and €100 million. The expansion adds hydrophobic silica production capacity.

Tindall Corporation is building a new state-of-the-art batch plant facility at its Spartanburg, South Carolina location to increase production of precast concrete. The facility is expected to be completed in summer 2019.

Central Motor Wheel of America Inc. will expand its aluminum wheel manufacturing facility in Paris, Kentucky, with a $111.9 million investment, adding 145 jobs and increasing production by 50%. Construction begins June 2019, with production starting July 2021.

A. Hatzopoulos S.A. installed a BOBST RS 6003 HS rotogravure printing press at its Stadiou plant in Kalohori, Thessaloniki, as a €4 million investment to increase capacity. The press has annual capacity of up to 110,000,000 m2 and will be fully operational by July 2019.

Zyklus Heat Transfer, a subsidiary of Italy-based LU-VE Group, will construct a 300,000+ square-foot manufacturing facility in Norman Industrial Park, Jacksonville, Texas, creating new jobs.

Honeywell is expanding its aerospace facility in Greer, South Carolina, with a $50 million investment to install two electron-beam physical vapor deposition coaters for thermal barrier coatings, adding 10,000 square feet of manufacturing space.

Atlantic Packaging is investing $4.5 million to expand its existing Dorchester County operations with a 100,000-square-foot distribution and warehousing addition, creating 10 new jobs, with completion projected by fall 2019.

Custom Truck One Source moved from its Midland location to a larger 16,200-square-foot facility in Odessa, Texas, to meet increasing customer demand. The new facility has six full-service bays and a retail parts counter.

Kuraray's TROSIFOL business started production on a new SentryGlas ionoplast interlayer line at its Holešov site in the Czech Republic. The new line, built in one year, passed factory acceptance testing in October 2018 and first rolls came off in January 2019.

Cedar's Foods is nearing completion of a 125,000 square-foot facility in Ward Hill, Massachusetts, representing a $100 million investment that will double annual production output to 208 million pounds of hommus and Mediterranean foods.

Auer Packaging is building a third production hall of about 3,000 m² at its Amerang headquarters, due for completion in December 2019, to house eight new injection molding machines from February 2020.

Barron Industries purchased a 10,000-square-foot manufacturing center in Oxford, Michigan for $650,000 to increase production capacity for precision machined investment castings and assemblies. The new facility will house a 325-kW induction melting unit and be operational by mid-July 2019.

Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) is fully bringing online its Line 6 Expansion Project, adding 540,000 metric tons per year of aluminum capacity for a total of over 1.5 million mtpa, making it the world's largest single-site aluminum smelter. The $2.5 billion project started commissioning in December 2018 and will be fully operational in Q3 2019.

Steelbird Hi-tech India has invested Rs 150 crore to expand its helmet manufacturing plant in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, adding 15,600 sqm of land. The expanded plant will be able to produce 44,500 helmets per day.

Visaka Industries announced a new plant for Vnext boards in Tamil Nadu with an investment of ₹100 crore, increasing capacity from 170,000 MT to 220,000 MT. The plant will be completed in 15 months.

Continental inaugurated a new rubber compound mixing facility at its Alor Setar tyre plant in Malaysia, investing over MYR 65 million (£10.6 million) to increase capacity and flexibility.

Veolia North America will invest $40 million to expand its Burnside regeneration plant in Darrow, Louisiana, increasing sulfuric acid regeneration capacity by 15% and retaining 29 employees.

Behr-Hella Thermocontrol (BHTC) invested €16.2 million to extend its production plant in Sofia-Bojurishte Economic Zone, doubling capacity and creating 250 new jobs. The expansion covers 7,500 square meters.

thyssenkrupp opened a new damper plant extension in Sibiu, Romania, with an investment of around €60 million, creating over 350 new jobs. The plant produces dampers for automotive customers including Daimler, Jaguar Land Rover and Porsche.

BCNonwovens is investing in a new production line, machine hall and warehouse at its Sant Quinti de Mediona (Barcelona) plant to meet growing customer needs. The announcement was made on June 25, 2019.