Daikin Applied Americas plans a $40 million project to convert a former Malt-o-Meal distribution center into a new assembly line in Faribault, Minnesota. The city, county, and EDA approved a $4.8 million assistance package including a $1.6 million property tax abatement and a $150,000 forgivable loan.

J.W. Speaker, a specialty lighting manufacturer, is investing $46 million to expand its manufacturing facility in Germantown, Wisconsin, by 140,000 square feet. The project is expected to create 100 new jobs over three years.

The Donaldson Company is planning a $35 million expansion of its existing plant in Frankfort, Indiana, which would add close to 85 new jobs. The Frankfort City Council approved tax abatement resolutions for the project, which is still subject to a public hearing.

General Motors completed a $119 million expansion at its GM Components Holdings plant in Wyoming, Michigan, adding a new assembly line for front and rear axles for the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks. The line started production in June 2018, creating 250 jobs with 50 more planned.

Lu-Ve Group plans to move its production facility from Changshu to Tianmen in Hubei Province, China, with a new 19,000m² unit nearly three times the size of the current plant. Production is expected to commence in autumn 2018 and become fully operational in 2019.

JW Aluminum announced a $255 million expansion of its Mount Holly flat rolled aluminium plant in Goose Creek, South Carolina. The expansion includes a new 220,000 sq ft building and will increase production capacity by 175 million pounds. Completion is expected in early 2020.

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has broken ground on a €4 million project to expand production capacity by 80% and upgrade its organic peroxides facility in Mahad, India. The expansion is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.

The New Zealand government has granted Creswell NZ, a subsidiary of Chinese Nongfu Spring Co, permission to expand a water bottling plant in Whakatane. The company will spend $42.5 million to upgrade the plant and add two bottling lines, creating 60 full-time jobs.

TRUMPF Inc. expanded its training center in Farmington, Connecticut by 18,000 square feet to a total of 40,000 square feet, with an investment exceeding USD 3 million. The center now offers classroom and hands-on instruction for precision sheet metal fabrication customers and employees.

Horstra Technology, a specialist in high-tech precision milling, is expanding its facility in Hardenberg, Netherlands, by building on an adjacent 2,700 m² plot. The expansion will more than double the existing building and house a new portal milling machine.

Yaskawa is planning to build new production facilities in Kočevje, Slovenia, for the manufacture of inverter drives, servo drives and servo motors, close to its existing robot factory. The first European-made Motoman robots are expected by end of 2018.

Nordson merged its BKG pelletizer and melt delivery equipment businesses into Nordson BKG GmbH, headquartered at a Münster facility that more than triples in space. Full relocation of operations will be completed by fall 2018.

Green Bay Packaging announced an investment of over $500 million to build a new 100 percent recycled paper mill in Green Bay and expand its shipping container division, with about 200 jobs expected statewide.

ATEK Metal Technologies is expanding its low-pressure casting capacity by 40%, adding precision machining, and will install a robotic system for de-gating and deburring at its New Hampton, Iowa foundry. A building expansion consolidating warehousing and shipping is also planned.

Semper, owned by Hero Group, will invest over SEK 100 million to install a new drying tower and packaging line at its Götene factory, tripling infant formula production capacity. The move consolidates all Hero Group infant formula production at the site.

Dorner Europe completed a major expansion of its facility in Jülich, Germany, doubling its production space to 2,120 square meters.

DowDuPont plans a new Tyvek production building and third line at its Luxembourg facility, an investment of more than $400 million, expected online in 2021, freeing medical packaging capacity in the US.

Ascend Performance Materials is expanding adiponitrile capacity by 220,000 metric tons per year at its Decatur, Alabama plant, with projects to be completed by 2022. A 50,000-ton expansion was completed in 2017, another 40,000 tons starts by end of 2018, and a final 180,000-ton project will follow.

Hyundai Construction Equipment will expand its Pune, India factory's annual production capacity to 10,000 units by end of 2019, up from 6,000, to meet growing demand.

Steel Tech, a manufacturer of outdoor wood and coal burning furnaces, is building a new 35,000 sq ft facility in Winkler, Manitoba's Clover Creek industrial park. The expansion aims to quadruple production and double staff within a year.

Wittmann Battenfeld France SAS is expanding in Moirans with a new factory and office building of over 5,000 sqm, investing over €5 million, with groundbreaking expected end of June 2018 and completion in March 2019. Wittmann Robot Systeme in Nuremberg completed an office expansion of 418 sqm at the end of May 2018.

termotek GmbH, a technotrans subsidiary, broke ground on a new 3,600 sqm production facility in Baden-Baden, Germany, tripling its production space. The €9 million investment is expected to be completed by Q2 2019.

Zoltek Industries will increase production capacity by 50% at its carbon fibre plant in Nyergesújfalu, Hungary, to 15,000 tonnes/year by 2020. The $130m expansion will create 350 jobs, supported by HUF8bn ($31.5m) from the Hungarian government.

Gilberts Blackpool invested £400,000 in a new powder coating facility at its Blackpool plant, doubling capacity over the previous installation. The new line is computer-controlled and includes full powder recycling.

China Crystal New Material Holdings is relocating its mica tape production lines to a new factory, doubling capacity to 8,000 tons per year. The company is investing about CNY30 million (approx. KRW50 billion) in the move, with completion by end of July 2018.

Omron announced on June 8, 2018, that it will invest 1 billion yen to add a second factory (OMS 2nd Factory) in Shanghai, China, to double production capacity for control equipment by fiscal year 2020. The factory will produce sensors and other automation equipment.

BASF intends to increase the production capacity of 1,6-hexanediol at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site by more than 50%.

Flex-N-Gate Corp. is spending over $175 million to expand into a new 430,188-square-foot manufacturing facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, including a 50,000-square-foot addition. The company will relocate 172 employees from Arlington and hire 500 more by 2020, with production starting July 2, 2018.

Ellwood Quality Steels broke ground in April 2018 on a $60 million expansion at its New Castle, Pennsylvania plant, adding an 110,000-square-foot building for new arc remelting and electroslag remelting processes. Steel beams were being erected on June 6, 2018.

Biscuiterie Saint-Michel will invest €6 million in a new production line at its Commercy plant dedicated to frozen pastries, set to start in October 2018, aiming to increase production from 9,800 tonnes to 13,000 tonnes in 2019.

Cemex Holdings Philippines Inc allocated PHP3bn (US$57.1m) in 2018 towards building a new production line at its Solid Cement plant in Antipolo, Rizal, as part of a US$225m total investment to expand capacity from 1.9Mta to 3.4Mta.

Dorner Europe has completed a major expansion of its facility in Jülich, Germany, doubling production space to 2,120 square meters and adding jobs. The expansion enables production of the 2200 Series conveyor line.

USHydrations, a Pittston beverage maker, unveiled a new $20 million manufacturing line at its 600,000 sq ft facility, able to produce over 2,000 bottles a minute and adding about 30 jobs.

Winpak Portion Packaging expanded its rigid packaging plant at the LogistiCenter in Sauk Village, Illinois, with a 348,000 sq ft addition, doubling manufacturing, office and warehouse space. Construction began in April 2016 and was completed in Q3 2017, adding more than 100 jobs.

Jam and sauce maker Beerenberg opened a 6500 square-metre expanded factory in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, with a new packaging line built with Victoria-based Recopak, expected to double capacity. Production started on 21 May 2018.

Globe Engineering Company, Inc. has installed a fourth all-electric CNC tube bending machine from Unison Ltd. at its Wichita, Kansas site, commissioned earlier in 2018, to increase manufacturing capability for bending aircraft tubing.

Hydro has taken a final investment decision to invest NOK 217 million in its Sunndal aluminium plant in Norway to increase primary aluminium production by 14,600 tonnes per year and add a new casting line for the automotive industry.

WTE Group received an assignment to expand sludge treatment at the Szczecin-Pomorzany sewage treatment plant, constructing an additional sludge digester with a total volume of 5,000 m³, with an investment of EUR 3.6 million and a 36-month construction period.

Berry Global will install a new Spinlace production line at its Mooresville, NC facility, adding 17,000 metric tons of annual capacity for nonwovens, with commercial production expected in mid-2019.

Arkema will increase global production capacity of Orgasol specialty polyamides powders at its Mont site in France by more than 50%, with an investment of approximately €20 million. The expansion is scheduled to come on stream in the second half of 2019.

PBC Linear will invest $10 million over two years to expand its South Beloit campus, including a new 66,000-square-foot building and $3.75 million in equipment. The expansion was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting on June 6, 2018.

Trimill a.s. will officially open a new production hall in Vsetín on June 15, 2018. The investment exceeded 190 million CZK. The company plans to increase production by up to 50 percent within five years and create 30-40 new jobs.

Winkel has built a new production and assembly hall of 4,500 square meters at Plant 3. The investment volume is around eight million euros.

Samuel, Son & Co. announced an $18 million investment to expand and upgrade its automotive metal processing center in Brantford, Ontario. The expansion will add levelling and processing capabilities for advanced high-strength steel, with completion expected by Q4 2018 and full production in early 2019.

Saint-Gobain Placo Iberia plans to spend €4.5 million on upgrades to its Fábrica de Quinto wallboard plant in Zaragoza, Spain, including logistics improvements, storage expansion, and a new wallboard recycling plant.

Safran is ramping up production of plasma thrusters, aiming to double output in 2018 and reach 40 thrusters per year by 2020. A dedicated site for plasma propulsion has been created.

Rockwell Automation plans to invest over $16.4 million to renovate and equip a 369,000-square-foot distribution center in Whitestown, Indiana, consolidating operations from Illinois and Tennessee. The facility is expected to create up to 231 jobs by 2023 and open in 2019.

Metran, an Emerson-owned industrial group, will build a second production phase at its Chelyabinsk complex, adding about 20,000 square meters to reach roughly 50,000 square meters. Completion is expected by the end of 2020; the investment amount was not disclosed.

HellermannTyton signed a contract on June 4, 2018 to expand its factory in Kotuni, Poland, adding 5,500 m² of production space with an investment of 18 million PLN.

DuPont will invest in a new production line for Tyvek at its Contern site in Luxembourg, creating 120 new jobs. Work started on June 4, 2018, and the line is expected to enter service in 2021.