Grupo Antolin moved into a new 113,000 ft² unit at St Modwen's Barton Business Park in Staffordshire, UK, to service clients including Jaguar Land Rover, after outgrowing its original 70,000 ft² unit.

Uniquetex LLC, a joint venture between Foshan Nanhai Beautiful Nonwoven and Chaolong Textile Machinery, installed two spunmelt lines capable of producing over 10,000 tons of nonwoven fabrics annually at its Grover, N.C. facility.

Material Sciences Corp. will invest $2.7 million to build a second facility in Greenville, S.C., to expand R&D and manufacturing of advanced composites. The 32,000-square-foot expansion is expected to create 23 jobs over five years, with initial hiring beginning in fall 2018.

BASF has started a stepwise capacity increase of its alkoxylation production plant in Antwerp, Belgium. The company plans to increase alkoxylation capacities by up to 25% by 2021, with first additional capacities available from Q3 2018.

LG Hausys decided to invest $50 million to expand its engineered stone production facility in Georgia, USA. The new facility will have an annual capacity of 350,000 square meters and is set to be completed by December 2019.

Kolon Industries will increase aramid fiber production capacity by 50% to 7,500 tons annually at its Gumi plant in South Korea, by the first quarter of 2020, to meet growing demand. The investment amount was not disclosed.

Nava Nakorn Electricity Generating Co. (NNEG) has started construction of a 60-MW expansion phase at its power plant in the Nava Nakorn industrial zone, Thailand. The 3.105-billion-baht project is scheduled for commercial operation in 2020, increasing total capacity to 185 MW.

Marquardt India plans to move its R&D operations into a bigger Pune facility with labs and prototyping, and to grow engineering headcount from 250 to 500 within about two years. The land for the new facility has already been bought.

TCI Sanmar Chemicals SAE is adding $125 million to its investments in Egypt, increasing caustic soda capacity by 75,000 MT/year to 275,000 MT/year, PVC capacity by 200,000 MT/year to 400,000 MT/year, and adding a 130,000 MT/year calcium chloride granule plant.

Segezhskaya Upakovka's Salsk branch of Segezha Group is commissioning a new GARANT MASCHINEN Triumph 5 QT SK bag converting line in Russia. It can produce up to 500,000 bags in September and 4.5 million by year-end, with total line capacity of 24 million units a year.

A new turbogenerator produced by ELSIB was installed at Pavlodar CHP-3 on September 8, 2018, increasing the station's capacity by 15 MW. The generator replaced an older unit and has a capacity of 125 MW.

Steel Technologies LLC announced an 85,000 sq ft expansion of its Ghent, KY facility, adding a precision slitting line. The expansion is expected to be completed by mid-2019.

Nolato Contour, a precision plastic and silicone injection molding company, will invest $17.9 million to expand its Baldwin, Wisconsin factory, adding 62 jobs, 27,000 square feet, and two clean rooms.

Postle Extrusion, a division of Postle Aluminum, added its sixth extrusion press, a 2,550-metric ton aluminum extrusion press, adding 25 million pounds of new capacity to support the RV industry.

IEC Electronics Corp. is planning a $22 million expansion at a new facility in Silver Hill Technology Park in Newark, New York, expected to create up to 362 jobs, with site work starting in fall 2018.

DuPont Industrial Biosciences completed an expansion of its manufacturing facility in Kinston, North Carolina, increasing capacity for Sorona polymer by 25%. The expansion adds four new jobs.

bitop AG opened a new high-tech company building in Dortmund, Germany, and plans to build a new production facility for extremolytes after completion of the approval process. The company expects to expand its workforce from 50 to about 70 employees.

KAMENERGOMASH (KEM) plans to invest 1.3 billion rubles in building a new production facility for gas turbines and spare parts in Nizhnekamsk, Russia. Construction of the main building is expected to be completed by 2020.

Technimark broke ground on an 80,000-square-foot addition to its healthcare manufacturing facility in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, nearly doubling the size of the existing plant. The company also announced a similar expansion at its El Paso, Texas facility. The expansions are driven by increasing demand for healthcare division services.

Covestro is in the process of doubling capacity at its Greater Noida, India facility by the end of next year.

Sigma Industrial Solutions redesigned and constructed a new production line for medium voltage switchgear panels at its Kitchener, Ontario factory to increase capacity by 50% and reduce costs.

Serumwerk Bernburg AG opened a new production hall for acute dialysis solutions in Bernburg, Germany, after two years of construction. The company invested four million euros, and its Japanese partner Nikkiso contributed a double-digit million sum for machinery.

BD (Becton Dickinson) has launched a new pre-filled syringe production project at its BD Rapid Diagnostics Products (Suzhou) facility in Suzhou Industrial Park, China. The project, with an investment of nearly $300 million, will have an annual capacity of 125 million units.

DuPont Industrial Biosciences completed an expansion of its Kinston, North Carolina, facility, increasing capacity to produce bio-based Sorona polymer by 25%. Four new jobs are being recruited.

BillerudKorsnäs opened one of Europe's largest MG paper machines at Skärblacka in Sweden, part of a $150 million investment. The new machine adds 90,000 tons/year capacity, increasing total MG paper capacity to 180,000 tons/year.

MWM distributor Intergen installed a new TCG 2020 V16 gas engine at cheese maker IGOR in Cameri, Italy, expanding the existing CHP plant. The unit has 2,000 kW electrical output.

Syrma SGS Technology announced the opening of its 5th production facility in Bawal, India, with an investment of over $10 million over three years. The facility will serve domestic electronics markets including automotive, industrial, aerospace, defense, and health tech.

Cargill invested over $10 million to install a bottling line at its Sidney, Ohio crush and refinery, adding 75% annual capacity over previous lines. The line uses recyclable PET plastic.

LISI AUTOMOTIVE commissioned a new 5,600 m² factory in Monterrey, Mexico, 3 km from its old site, inaugurated on July 4, 2018, expanding production capacities for automotive plastic parts and electric parking brake mechanisms.

GF Machining Solutions, a subsidiary of Georg Fischer, held a ground-breaking ceremony for a $48 million Phase II project in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, China. The 32,000-square-meter facility will focus on R&D and production of high-end machine tools.

SKAPS Industries will invest $5 million and create 20 jobs at its recently acquired Henderson, Kentucky operation, upgrading the facility and adding manufacturing equipment to increase production capacity for fiberglass products.

Covestro plans to expand film production at sites in Map Ta Phut (Thailand), Guangzhou (China), South Deerfield (USA), and Dormagen (Germany). Total investment exceeds EUR 100 million, creating over 100 jobs.

CST Global, a subsidiary of Sivers IMA, added in-house InP epitaxial overgrowth capability to its foundry services, following an investment of approximately MSEK 6. This increases capacity for DFB laser production.

Frigopoint acquired adjacent territory in May 2018, doubling its footprint to 5,000 sq m. The expansion will enable production of portable filters, vibration dampers, and vessels for CO2.

Nomenca Ltd. and BAM Nuttall, in a joint venture with South East Water, have begun a £22 million expansion of the Bray Keleher Water Treatment Works in Berkshire, increasing output from 45 to 68 million litres per day, scheduled for completion in March 2020.

Nanjing Yueboo will invest CNY1 billion ($146 million) to build the second phase of its new energy vehicle powertrain plant in Nanjing's Pukou Economic Development Zone. Groundbreaking is set for before end of 2019, with completion by end of 2022.

Aptiv is expanding and modernizing three of its five factories in Brazil: doubling capacity in Conceição dos Ouros (MG), modernizing and building a new building in Espírito Santo do Pinhal (SP), and installing electronics component manufacturing in Jambeiro (SP). The investment amount was not disclosed.

Nisshinbo Automotive Manufacturing, Inc. (NAMI) will invest $72 million to expand its Covington, Georgia facility, creating 100 new jobs in production and administration.

Emerson completed the first phase of upgrades to its Rushville, Indiana plant, totaling nearly $8 million, to enhance Copeland compressor remanufacturing and OEM manufacturing. Emerson has invested $13 million in the plant since 2013.

Eurogomma has begun manufacturing its GET flexy screening system at its Russian factory, extending production beyond its Italian plant to serve Asian and Far East markets.

Idemitsu added a Liebherr R 9800 excavator and three Komatsu 930E dump trucks to its fleet at the Boggabri coal mine in New South Wales, Australia. The equipment was supplied by National Mining Services and became fully operational on August 24, 2018.

Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) completed the expansion of its district cooling plant in Dubai International Financial Centre, adding 6 Trane EcoWise centrifugal chillers with a total capacity of 18,900 RT. The AED60 million expansion makes the 62,000 RT plant one of the largest operational district cooling plants in the region.

Eriez completed a new 326-square-meter extension to its European manufacturing facility in autumn 2018, increasing production capacity of Eddy Current Separator rotors by a third per year.

Berner Food & Beverage completed a significant expansion at its Dakota, Illinois facility in September 2017, tripling its size. In September 2018, it broke ground on a new 675,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in New Milford, Illinois.

Total made a final investment decision to expand its Texas Bayport Polymers joint venture, doubling polyethylene production capacity to around 1.1 million tonnes per year. The new unit will have a capacity of 625,000 tonnes per year, with production expected to start in 2021.

Nucor Corporation approved a $650 million investment to expand production capability at Nucor Steel Gallatin in Ghent, Kentucky, from 1.6 million to approximately 3 million tons annually. The project is expected to create 70 full-time jobs.

Daikin Applied Americas will invest $40.3 million to expand its manufacturing operations in Faribault, Minnesota, creating 132 jobs. The company will buy and renovate a 300,000-square-foot warehouse into a production facility.

The Lariana Depur wastewater treatment plant in Fino Mornasco, Italy, installed a new ozone system from De Nora, consisting of two ozone generators with a maximum capacity of 1,322 lbs/day each.

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet plans to expand its operations in Comstock Charter Township, Michigan, investing $3.1 million and creating 31 jobs.

Seiko Epson launched a robotics manufacturing line at its Toyoshina Plant in Azumino, Nagano in September 2018, mainly producing autonomous two-arm robots. The company plans to increase industrial robot production capacity by 3.5 times by fiscal 2025.