Bodycote announced plans for significant expansion of its new Rotherham facility, securing extra units on the Advanced Manufacturing Park nearly three times the size of the existing unit, due to customer demand.

UNP Polyvalves is nearly finished adding 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space at its Vadodara, Gujarat plant, bringing total factory space to 150,000 square feet for lined valves.

E.K. Machine broke ground on a new manufacturing facility for its Power Products division at its Fall River, Wisconsin site, with construction due for completion by June 2019 and 20 new jobs planned.

Behr-Hella Thermocontrol Bulgaria is investing 32 million BGN to expand its plant in Bozhurishte industrial zone, adding 6,480 sqm of space including 4,340 sqm of production area. The expansion will increase production capacity by 80% and create over 250 new jobs, growing the workforce to over 700.

GEPP's Procesos Plasticos (Proplasa) plant in Tultitlan, State of Mexico, has a production line targeting over 14,000 tonnes of shrink film and 4,500 tonnes of stretch film per year. Italian firm Amut Dolci Extrusion supplied three coextrusion lines and related equipment.

Watts added 55,000 square feet to its production facility and warehouse in Vildbjerg, Denmark.

Watts Water Technologies expanded manufacturing capabilities for its BLÜCHER brand stainless steel trench drains at its Fort Worth, Texas facility, adding new equipment. The company also added 55,000 square feet to its facility in Vildbjerg, Denmark.

Boliden has decided to invest SEK 350 million to increase capacity at its Rönnskär copper smelter in Sweden. The investment will boost raw material processing capacity by 12%, with commissioning expected in early 2021.

Gradus AD's subsidiary Gradus-1 EOOD invested BGN 1.82 million in new meat processing equipment and vehicles. Another subsidiary, Gradus-98 AD, completed a new broiler breeding facility in Chervena Voda with capacity for 72,360 head, and a second facility is under construction.

REDARC Electronics has opened an expanded headquarters in Lonsdale, South Australia, following a $22 million development that added 3,000 sqm of advanced manufacturing space. The expansion increases manufacturing capacity by 250% and is expected to grow the workforce from 200 to 300 by 2024.

Yaskawa Electric Corporation began full-fledged operations at Yaskawa Solution Factory, a next-generation production plant at its Iruma Plant in Saitama Prefecture. The plant will manufacture the Σ-7 AC servo drive series and serve as an IoT validation plant.

TOMRA expanded its fresh fruit and vegetable grading manufacturing site in Kunshan and expanded its technology center in Xiamen, reinforcing its engineering team in China.

Pipeline Plastics invested in KraussMaffei Berstorff pipe extrusion lines for multi-facility expansion, adding 1000 mm lines at Levelland, Texas and Belle Fourche, South Dakota facilities, with a new South East Coast facility planned.

Retrasib Sibiu, part of the SGB-SMIT group, plans to double its transformer production capacity by 2022 to meet growing export demand. The company will first invest €1 million to modernize its test laboratory.

DRÄXLMAIER Group completed an expansion of its existing manufacturing operations in Duncan, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, investing $42.7 million and creating 460 new jobs. The expansion adds equipment for new automotive interior production demands.

The City of Franklin will break ground on a $132.89 million upgrade and expansion of its water reclamation facility, awarded to Kiewit Infrastructure South Company. The project includes new digesters, UV disinfection, and SCADA system, with construction expected to take 3.5 years.

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling will move its Bolzoni line's North America attachment manufacturing to its Sulligent, Alabama facility, expanding production there. The move begins January 1, 2019, and will phase out production at the Homewood, Illinois facility.

Robert Bosch Power Tool Ltd. is investing 14 billion forints (EUR 43.3 million) to establish a European competence centre and expand tool assembly capacity in Miskolc, Hungary.

Siemens Healthineers largely completed the expansion of its Walpole, Massachusetts laboratory diagnostics manufacturing facility with a $300 million investment, creating up to 700 jobs.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems broke ground on 3 December 2018 for an extension at its Menden site, doubling production and office space to about 5,500 m2 within a year. The system house will grow from 52 to 80 staff over the next six to eight years.

The Prime Minister approved the second phase of Long Son cement plant, adding two production lines (lines 3 and 4) each with a capacity of 2.3 million tonnes of cement per year. Line 3 is expected to begin operation in 2020 and line 4 in 2021.

Novo Nordisk will invest $22 million at its Diabetes Finished Products manufacturing facility in Clayton, North Carolina, creating 22 full-time jobs. The expansion follows a $65 million investment announced ten months earlier.

Bopp-Busch is restarting manufacturing at its idle Plant 3 in Tawas City, Michigan, after winning fifteen General Motors part contracts running through 2024. It bought five 150-ton presses from GM and plans to hire about eight employees.

Kelvion has installed a new production line for air cooled condensers at its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Catoosa, Oklahoma. The line complements existing heat exchanger production.

AHT Cooling Systems USA plans to add a new production site at its headquarters in Ladson, South Carolina, for assembling commercial refrigeration and freezing equipment. The $5 million expansion is slated for completion by end of 2018.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems has expanded production at its joint venture MACO in Thailand, including a new third factory and electrical assembly works. Total investment was approximately ¥3.0 billion, aiming to boost production to 2.7 million units by fiscal 2020.

Vestfrost is investing 4.4 billion forint (approx. EUR 13.7 million) to expand its refrigerator manufacturing and warehouse capacity in Csongrád, Hungary, with state support of over 1 billion forint. The expansion will create 93 new jobs.

Covestro is investing more than $1.7 billion to expand its Baytown, Texas site, adding 500 kilotons per year of MDI capacity. The project, called MDI-500, is expected to be completed in 2024 and will create at least 25 permanent positions and over 1,000 temporary construction jobs.

MFG Chemical is upgrading its Pasadena, Texas plant with a multi-million dollar investment including debottlenecking and the addition of two reactors, one of 20,000 gallons. The improvements are scheduled for completion by the end of Q1 2019.

Nano fiber company Lemon signed an MOU to invest KRW 120 billion to build three nano membrane production lines at Gumi National Industrial Complex 4, creating 200 jobs. Construction runs from March 2019 to May 2020.

LG Chem signed an investment agreement with Jeollanam-do and Yeosu City to invest KRW 2.6 trillion to expand NCC (naphtha cracking) and PO (polyolefin) production facilities at its Yeosu complex by 2021, adding 800,000 tonnes per year each of ethylene and polyolefins.

DuPont Water Solutions opened a new reverse osmosis membrane production line at the Sadara Chemical Company complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The line will manufacture FILMTEC Reverse Osmosis Elements and is expected to be operational in early 2019.

Endeco Omega Sinto moved into a new 2,000 m² fabrication facility in Wadeville, Gauteng, doubling its previous floor space, in December 2018.

UMC announced in December 2018 it was expanding monthly capacity of its HeJian Technology (Suzhou) in China by 10,000 wafers and streamlining its production process at 8-inch facilities in Taiwan.

The town of Gilbert and city of Chandler, Arizona, completed a $67 million expansion of the Santan Vista Water Treatment Plant, doubling its capacity to 16,666 gpm. The project was designed by Black & Veatch and built by Sundt Construction and Sturgeon Electric.

Kefiplant received $5.75 million in financial assistance from the governments of Quebec and Canada for expanding its plant and purchasing land and new equipment. The $10.625 million project will increase production capacity and create 26 jobs.

Unilever is investing R$127 million to expand its Pouso Alegre factory in Brazil, transferring Hellmann's and Arisco product lines from Goiás, with 200 direct and 150 indirect jobs and operations starting in 2019.

International Paper is developing a 159,486 square foot expansion of its Waxahachie plant to make finished corrugated boxes for the local market, according to a letter to the city.

Stora Enso will invest EUR 22 million (SEK 232 million) to expand the water treatment plant at its Skoghall Mill in Sweden, adding capacity and new technology to reduce environmental impact.

PPG Industries announced a $1.7 million expansion project at its coatings production facility in Kunshan, China, installing a new dispense cell to boost productivity and flexibility.

Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing Inc. announced a $138 million two-phase expansion of its Cartersville, Georgia facility, adding a 254,000-square-foot building with annual capacity of 2.4 million passenger tires and creating over 150 jobs.

Superior Essex plans to invest an additional EUR 12 million to double the production capacity of its new Zrenjanin plant to 24,000 tons by 2021.

Preziss announced a new 1,000 square meter plant to increase production and R&D capacity by over 40%, expected to be at full capacity in February 2019.

Bosch plans to purchase the former Associated Fuel Pump Systems (AFCO) plant adjacent to its Anderson campus in South Carolina, investing an additional $45 million to expand production capabilities.

Sundaram-Clayton Limited (SCL), a subsidiary of TVS Group, is investing $40 million to expand its Ridgeville, South Carolina facility by 78,000 square feet, adding new equipment and creating 100 new jobs. Hiring begins in Q2 2019.

Lucart has started up an AHEAD-2.0S tissue machine and a TT WIND-H slitter rewinder supplied by Toscotec at its Porcari mill in Lucca, Italy. The machine has a paper width of 2,850 mm, operating speed of 2,000 m/min, and production capacity of 125 t/d.

Reser's Fine Foods will invest $3.2 million to expand its existing tortilla plant in Halifax, North Carolina, creating 79 jobs over five years.

Videolar-Innova is investing R$500 million to double its styrene monomer plant in Triunfo, Brazil, to 460,000 tonnes per year, with completion expected in 2019.

Carl Data Solutions' subsidiary Astra Smart Systems Corp. was awarded CAD 225,000 from the Columbia Basin Trust Impact Investment Fund to expand its water and wastewater sensor testing lab facility in Trail, British Columbia.

Up North Plastics, a subsidiary of Poly-America, plans to build a 428,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at its site in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, roughly doubling its production capacity. The project is expected to create 200 jobs and construction could begin in spring 2019.