Firma Virial has upgraded its production line for metal-cutting tools in St. Petersburg, Russia, increasing annual capacity to 70 tons. The investment exceeded 500 million rubles, with half from the Industrial Development Fund.

GE Aviation plans to invest $50 million to expand the additive manufacturing operation at its Auburn, Alabama facility, creating 60 jobs and installing advanced new additive production machines to begin high volume production of a 3-D printed bracket for the GEnx-2B engine program.

KION Group is investing around EUR 15 million to build a new forklift plant at its existing Pune, India site, creating over 100 jobs. The facility is expected to start operations in early 2020.

Trust Automation Inc. announced it is moving to a 96,000-square-foot facility in San Luis Obispo, California, more than doubling its space for engineering, manufacturing, and business operations.

Engcon inaugurated a new computer-controlled, fully robotized production facility in Strömsund, Sweden, tripling its production capacity to at least 22,000 tiltrotators per year, with investments of around SEK 90 million over three years.

Hyster-Yale received planning approval for a £5 million ($6.63 million) expansion of its Craigavon, Northern Ireland factory, adding 61,000 sq ft to manufacture a new line of forklift trucks. The expansion is expected to create new jobs.

Sun Chemical increased production capacity for its Perrindo Perylene pigment line at its Bushy Park facility in South Carolina, covering several pigment types. Expansion plans continue into 2019/20 for new Ultra Fine pigments.

Okayama Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. completed its eighth production building at its factory in Setouchi City, Okayama Prefecture, with an investment of approximately 10 billion yen (building only). The new building will increase production capacity for electronic components used in smartphones and other devices.

Denyo Manufacturing opened a 63,000-square-foot sheet metal fabrication facility in Danville, Kentucky, adding 65 jobs, to make parts for its generators and air compressors using new Amada equipment.

Yakovlevsky Mining and Processing Works assembled a new Metso crushing machine at its crushing and sorting factory as part of a modernization program. The machine can process ore up to 10 mm fraction with a capacity of 400 tons per hour.

LANXESS is expanding production capacity for benzyl alcohol at its Krefeld-Uerdingen site in Germany by around 30%, with completion scheduled by end of 2019. A low double-digit million euro sum will be spent. Additional debottlenecking measures are planned at its Nagda site in India.

Bosch Rexroth (Xi'an) Electronic Drives and Controls Co., Ltd. broke ground on a second-phase expansion project in Xi'an Economic and Technological Development Zone, investing CNY 500 million to build an Industry 4.0 linear guide and assembly conveyor system project. The expansion is expected to be completed and operational by 2020.

Hisense invested R72 million to expand its refrigeration and television production lines at its factory in Atlantis, Cape Town, South Africa, creating 150 jobs and bringing total investment to R440 million.

NCI Packaging has installed and opened a new fully integrated aerosol can making line at its Preston operation in Victoria, Australia, investing almost $7 million.

Topre Corporation announced a US$26 million investment to expand production capacity at its plant in San Juan del Río, Querétaro. The expansion will add 120 jobs, reaching 700 employees by 2020, and add hot stamping processes.

Nordson Corp. completed a two-year construction of a new 14,380-square-meter facility in Münster, Germany, serving as a global hub for BKG pelletizers and melt-delivery components. The facility triples space and employs 339 workers.

Bodine Aluminum Troy in Missouri will invest $62 million to add equipment to produce an additional 864,000 cylinder heads for Toyota's New Global Architecture.

Nouryon completed a EUR 4 million expansion of production capacity for surface-modified colloidal silica at its Bohus site in Sweden, primarily to support customers in the paints and coatings market.

LORD Corp. announced a EUR 14 million (~$15.8 million) expansion at its Hückelhoven, Germany facility, adding 3,200 sq m of production and office space to support the electric vehicle market, creating over 20 jobs.

Haier Carrier celebrated the opening of a new intelligent manufacturing facility in Qingdao, China. The facility increases production capacity by 45% over the previous location.

Asahi Kasei decided to add a third production line for polypropylene spunbond nonwoven at its subsidiary Asahi Kasei Spunbond (Thailand) in Si Racha, increasing annual capacity by 15,000 tonnes to about 50,000 tonnes. Construction starts March 2019, with operation planned for July 2021.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama announced a $288 million expansion at its Huntsville plant, adding 450 jobs. Annual engine capacity will increase from 670,000 to 900,000 by the end of 2021.

DuPont announced a $220 million investment to expand its Circleville, Ohio plant, adding 46 jobs. The investment will expand the Kapton film line used in electronics manufacturing.

Toyota announced a $749 million investment across five U.S. plants, adding 586 jobs. The investment includes expanding engine capacity in Huntsville, Alabama; doubling hybrid transaxle capacity in Buffalo, West Virginia; and building expansions in Troy, Missouri, and Jackson, Tennessee.

HP Hood selected Evoqua Water Technologies to design and build an expanded wastewater treatment system at its Winchester, Virginia plant to accommodate increased production capacity. The upgrade includes a new anaerobic BVF reactor and retrofitted SBR.

Newbow Aerospace is expanding its manufacturing and production facility in Redditch, UK, doubling production capacity and increasing workforce by 30%. The expansion is due to be complete by Spring 2019.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia will invest $111 million to expand its facility and double hybrid transaxle capacity from 120,000 to 240,000 units annually by 2021, creating 123 new jobs.

SvetlogorskKhimvolokno plans to commission a new nonwovens production facility with an initial capacity of 20,000 tonnes per year of spunbonded and hydroentangled nonwovens, as part of a $300 million corporate program. The investment is estimated at BYR 50 million ($25 million).

Toyota announced it will invest $111 million and add 123 jobs at its Buffalo, West Virginia plant to double production of hybrid transaxles. The expansion adds 72,000 square feet and will increase annual production from 120,000 to 240,000 units by 2021.

The Weir Group is investing an additional $15 million in its Newton manufacturing facility in Mississippi as part of a total $50 million plan supporting 150 jobs at the plant.

Scholle IPN Packaging will invest $10.29 million to expand its production facility in Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, creating 42 new jobs. Virginia state and county incentives support the project.

Sisler Manufacturing Group is investing $14 million to expand its Dickson, Tennessee operations by adding 40,000 square feet. The expansion is driven by a large program of stampings and welded assemblies for Nissan's 2021 model, and is expected to be operational in Q3 2019.

Seco Industries is building a new machining hall of 3,700 m² in Jičín, Czech Republic, for nearly 90 million CZK. The investment will increase machining capacity of its own castings by at least 50% and improve working conditions.

Ercros has completed an expansion at its Tortosa factory, increasing pentaerythritol and dipentaerythritol capacity by 5,000 t/year (17%) to 35,000 t/year, and sodium formate capacity by 3,000 t/year (17%) to 23,000 t/year. The investment includes technological improvements and energy efficiency upgrades.

Omega Kitchens officially opened phase four of its £20 million expansion at its Yorkshire headquarters. The company invested £12 million in new plant and machinery, including robotic cutting and automated paint lines, to increase capacity to 34,000 kitchens per year and total production capacity expected to reach £125 million within two years.

BioVectra announced a five-year, $144.6 million CAD expansion project to enhance biopharmaceutical capabilities in Charlottetown, PEI and Windsor, Nova Scotia, with $37.5 million from the Canadian government, creating 150 jobs.

Güntner-Tata will invest over €25m to expand its heat exchanger product factory in Tata, Hungary, adding a logistics centre with a 9,000m² production facility and a 6,500m² warehouse. The Hungarian government is contributing HUF1.5bn (€4.8m).

OOO 'Smolelektroshchit' plans to open a new production facility in Smolensk, Russia, doubling its capacity for manufacturing electrical equipment such as high-voltage cells, switchgear, and transformer substations. The company is considering options and evaluating economic efficiency.

Formulated Polymer Products invested in a new custom-built mixing vessel to increase manufacturing capacity for its anti-slip coating FP 2177, enabling larger batch sizes up to 15,000 kilos. The coating is used for food tray mats and pallet liners.

Ball Corporation is investing EUR 45 million in a new production line at its Belgrade beverage can plant in Serbia, increasing capacity toward more than two billion cans a year.

O-I will invest more than EUR 60 million at its Gironcourt plant in France, adding a new furnace in 2020 and upgrading an existing one, for about 1.9 billion incremental glass containers per year and around 60 new jobs.

Celanese is expanding production capacity of thermoplastic co-polyesters (Pibiflex and Riteflex TPC) at its Donegani facility in Ferrara, Italy. A new solid-state polymerization unit started up in September 2018, and another polymerization line is expected to be completed in 15 to 18 months.

Becton Dickinson is completing a 5,000-square-meter expansion of its plant in Fraga, Spain, which manufactures syringes, hypodermic needles, and prefilled syringes. The plant employs over 600 people and produces over 6 billion units annually.

Gorenje will move its entire refrigerator production to Serbia in April 2019.

Synlait Milk is building a new liquid milk production and packaging facility at its Dunsandel site in New Zealand. Cimcorp will install a MultiPick materials handling solution to automate order picking, enabling transport of 1800 crates per hour.

Port Rexton Brewing Company is expanding its Newfoundland operation with a new manufacturing facility and larger processing system, including an automated canning line, creating two jobs. Provincial and federal governments are providing repayable and non-repayable funding.

Evonik has started up its new plant complex in Antwerp, Belgium, for the production of fumed silica, expanding capacity.

Singapore-invested New Wing Interconnect Technology Co increased the investment capital of its headphone and wire manufacturing plant in Bac Giang province, Vietnam, by $110 million, bringing total investment to $210 million.

Omega PLC completed a £20 million expansion (Phase IV) of its kitchen manufacturing plant in Thorne, Yorkshire, increasing the site to 400,000 sq. ft. and production capacity to 34,000 kitchens per annum.

CoorsTek broke ground on a 50,000 sq ft expansion at its Benton, Arkansas facility, representing $26 million in capital investments. The expansion will increase workforce by approximately 15% and support aerospace and defense industries.