Sterling Lumber Company will invest more than $30 million to open a new TerraLam Cross-Laminated Timber mat manufacturing facility in Lufkin, Texas, creating 150 jobs.

Ferro Corp is expanding production capacity for ultramarine blue and micronized iron oxide pigments at its facility in Girardota, Colombia, with completion expected by early 2019.

Ube Maxell, a joint venture of Ube Industries and Maxell Holdings, will increase capacity for lithium-ion battery separators in Sakai, Japan, with completion expected in 2020.

Sagar Cements Ltd is planning to increase clinker production capacity from 2.0 to 4.81 MTPA and cement from 2.35 to 5.0 MTPA at its Mattampally unit in Telangana, along with installation of a 2x18 MW coal-based thermal power plant and a 15 MW waste heat recovery power plant. The plan was announced on September 30, 2018.

Ellwood Group Inc. is nearing completion of a $60 million expansion at its Ellwood Quality Steel plant in New Castle, Pennsylvania. The project includes a 100,000-square-foot building and five new furnaces, expected to be under roof by end of October 2018, and will create 25 immediate jobs and 40-50 more over five years.

DuPont Safety & Construction announced plans to invest more than $400 million to expand Tyvek nonwoven materials capacity at its Luxembourg facility, adding a new building and third operating line, with startup scheduled for 2021.

Cementos Fortaleza, part of Elementia, has begun construction of a new 0.25Mta cement mill in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, with an investment of US$30 million.

American Textile Company has announced a new 98,000 square-foot distribution center in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, near its Pittsburgh-area headquarters, to serve customers throughout the northeast.

Prysmian Group North America is expanding its existing operations in Abbeville County, South Carolina, with a $14 million capital investment that will create 10 new jobs. The expansion will increase product manufacturing capacity for low, medium and extra-high voltage electrical cables to support renewable energy projects.

Toyo Seikan Group's subsidiary Toyo Seikan will build a new plant building at its Toyohashi factory in Aichi Prefecture to make plastic pouches and cups, with total investment of about 9 billion yen including capacity equipment. Completion is planned for March 2020.

TTM Technologies is moving its Wireless business unit to a 38,000 sq ft facility in Dewitt, New York, to support growth in 5G communications. The move will free up space for expansion of its Aerospace & Defense business at the existing East Syracuse facility.

Mey Ezor Dan announced it will install a Nutrient Recovery Facility in partnership with Ostara at the Shafdan Wastewater Treatment Plant in Tel Aviv, Israel. The facility will feature two Pearl 10K reactors and have a production capacity of approximately 2000 tonnes of fertiliser per year.

Vestas announced new investments to expand its manufacturing setup in Brazil to locally produce the V150-4.2 MW turbine model under BNDES FINAME II rules.

BASF expanded its automotive coatings plant in Caojing, Shanghai, with an investment estimated at $163.7 million. The project added new production lines, a solvent recovery unit, and other infrastructure, and was completed on time and 10% under budget.

Hydro will invest over $100 million to expand its Cressona, Pennsylvania aluminum extrusion facility. The project includes a new 96,000-square-foot building, infrastructure improvements, and equipment modernization, creating 60 jobs and retaining 1,307.

Chardam Gear Company will invest over $9 million to expand its aerospace component manufacturing in Sterling Heights, Michigan. It purchased land for $1.5 million, will build a 15,500-square-foot facility, and add $7.5 million in new equipment, creating 20 jobs.

North MS Tool, Inc. is investing $700,000 to expand its production center and relocate operations from Booneville to Ripley, Mississippi. The company began operations in August at a rented facility from CECA Forge.

Kirchoff Automotive, a German automotive components manufacturer, will expand its Garland, Texas facility from 94,000 to 115,000 square feet. The company will invest $20 million in new machinery and equipment, with expansion starting in April 2019 and full operation expected by 2020.

Waldinger Corp, a mechanical and electrical contractor, will build a $21 million corporate office and production facility in Des Moines, Iowa. The project includes a 54,000 sq ft office and a 95,000 sq ft production plant and warehouse, creating 115 new jobs.

Fibertex Nonwovens will invest approximately DKK 15 million to increase production capacity at its Brazilian site (acquired from Duci in February 2018) by 20% to meet growing demand for special-purpose nonwovens. The upgrade is expected to be completed by summer 2019.

Arconic (Tital) opened a factory expansion in Bestwig for titanium investment castings for aerospace, nearly doubling production capacity. The expansion was completed in early 2017, with first phase production starting in Q2 2017 and second phase in Q2 2018. It created 70 new jobs.

Hartness, an ITW company, will consolidate all its manufacturing into a renovated 234,000 sqft facility in Greenville, South Carolina in February 2019, replacing two existing buildings. The move centralizes sales, engineering, and manufacturing operations.

TemperPack plans to expand manufacturing of its ClimaCell liner material to its Las Vegas, Nevada facility, which will supplement current production in Richmond, Virginia.

Hamburger Rieger broke ground on a new paper machine No. 2 in Spremberg, Brandenburg, with an investment of around €370 million, creating 200 jobs and adding 500,000 tonnes of annual corrugated base paper capacity. Commissioning is scheduled for the second half of 2020.

AIM Aerospace, a manufacturer of advanced carbon fiber for aerospace, received a $125,000 grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce to support capital investments. The company plans to grow 10% year-over-year for four years and increase workforce by 30% by 2023.

Dentsply Sirona is investing $3 million to expand in Charlotte, North Carolina, creating 320 jobs over three years for a U.S. commercial hub and Dentsply Sirona Academy.

Bayport Polymers, a joint venture of Total, Borealis and NOVA Chemicals, has taken final investment decision to build a 625,000-ton-per-year polyethylene unit at its Bayport, Texas site, doubling capacity to 1.1 Mt/y, with startup in 2021.

Kirchhoff Automotive will expand its Garland, Texas operations from 94,000 to 115,000 square feet, investing over $20 million in new machinery and equipment. The expansion will begin in April 2019 and be fully operational in 2020, retaining nearly 200 employees.

Voronezh Aircraft Plant (VASO) selected a contractor for reconstruction of pylon and mechanization production for the Il-76-MD-90A aircraft. The project, valued at 31.7 million rubles, will modernize production on 1,777 sqm to meet delivery schedules for six aircraft sets.

Nuctech Warsaw, a Chinese manufacturer of scanners, is expanding its plant in Kobyłka, Poland, with a new 6,000 sqm hall that will double production capacity to up to 20 large scanners per year. The company invested 40 million PLN in the facility and plans to hire 80 additional workers.

Crown Equipment Corp. is proposing a $40 million expansion in New Bremen, Ohio, including a 500,000-square-foot building and 197 new jobs over three years, contingent on state and local assistance.

ABB inaugurated an extension of its Sorocaba factory in São Paulo state, with an investment of R$20 million, to produce electrical distribution, smart grid and digital industrial energy solutions for Brazil and South America.

Novosibirsk electric motor maker Sibelektroprivod plans a new 4,000 square metre workshop costing about 100 million rubles, with phased launch in 2019 and full transfer by 2020. Output is expected to rise from about 120 to 150-200 units per month.

Akpa Alüminyum completed a foundry investment in 2024, increasing its annual aluminium billet production capacity from 45,000 tons to 135,000 tons. The new facility uses advanced Wagstaff AirSlip casting technology.

XD-EGEMAC, affiliated with EGEMAC, plans to increase investments in Egypt from $68M to $100M by end of 2019, adding four new factories to its existing two. The factories will produce dry transformers, surge arresters, energy cluster banks, and electrical insulators. Construction is expected to begin in early 2019 and finish by 2021.

Kent RO Systems inaugurated its second manufacturing plant in Noida with an investment of Rs 150 crore, doubling its RO water purifier production capacity to 10 lakh units per year.

Octapharma confirmed a EUR 21 million investment to build a new multi-function facility in Springe, Germany, including a new production line for human normal immunoglobulin panzyga and increased capacity for human albumin albunorm. Completion is expected in 2019.

Evonik Industries is expanding its capacities for fumed silica in Rheinfelden, Germany.

BASF has launched a new Infinergy E-TPU production facility at its Changhua site in Taiwan, expanding capacity to meet growing demand in Asia Pacific.

Penna Cements is planning to expand its cement unit in Boyareddypalli, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, increasing cement capacity from 2.0 mtpa to 4.6 mtpa and clinker capacity from 1.5 mtpa to 4.0 mtpa, at a cost of Rs. 8000 million.

Haith Group opened an 870-square-meter factory extension at its Doncaster site on September 21, 2018. The £1.5 million expansion includes new equipment and added 10 new employees.

Danfoss inaugurated its extended ATEX compressor laboratory in Trévoux, France, which now covers 3,000 square metres and is the first of its kind in Europe. The investment totalled 16 million euro.

B. Braun received approval for a performance-based incentive package for a proposed second manufacturing plant in Daytona Beach, Florida, with a pledge to create 100 new jobs.

BorgWarner expanded manufacturing at its Kakkalur facility in Thiruvallur near Chennai by adding 1,500 square metres to its production line, hiring more than 80 people and starting variable cam timing system production.

Stream Realty Partners led a cold storage infrastructure upgrade and roof replacement at a 225,000-square-foot distribution facility in Mauldin, South Carolina, leased by ADUSA. The project modernized the refrigeration system from R22 to an ammonia package skid system.

Onyx Medical applied for a building permit to start an $11 million expansion of its medical-device manufacturing facility in northeast Memphis.

Ural Boeing Manufacturing, a joint venture of Boeing and VSMPO-Avisma, opened a new production complex in the Titanium Valley special economic zone in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The facility will machine titanium parts for Boeing commercial aircraft programs, with an investment of 5.5 billion rubles.

Sinbon Hungary Kft., a Taiwanese-owned cable manufacturer, inaugurated a new 3,500 sq. m. production hall in Tatabánya, Hungary, with a HUF 1.6 billion investment. The company plans to add a further 2,000 sq. m. hall within three years and create 150 new jobs.

Toshiba Memory held a completion ceremony for its sixth fabrication building at the Yokkaichi plant in Mie Prefecture, Japan. The investment exceeds JPY 500 billion, and mass production of 96-layer NAND flash memory is planned to start in 2019, increasing production capacity by over 20%.

Sinbon Hungary Kft. opened a new production plant in Tatabánya, Hungary, with an investment of EUR 5 million. The company plans further expansion including a new 2,000 sqm hall with an additional EUR 3 million investment.