InterGen announced financial close on a £100 million, 300-megawatt natural gas-fired expansion at its Spalding site in Lincolnshire, England. Construction is expected to be completed in June 2019.

Hobby has constructed a new prefabrication warehouse at its Fockbek site for around six million euros, featuring fully automated production for caravan and motorhome interiors.

AGCOR Steel, a manufacturer of metal siding and metal trusses, will relocate from Vinemont to Good Hope, Alabama, investing $400,000 in a 53-acre site and creating about 20 new jobs.

Robust Technology is expanding its facility to increase monthly robot repair capacity from 250 to 350 units, with the new plant expected to be completed in Q4 2026.

The Perm Metalworking Centers Plant (PZMTs) opened a second production site in the Osentsy industrial park, Perm Krai, after a 400 million ruble investment. The expansion will increase annual output to 200 metalworking centers.

Forterra completed a £3.2 million investment at its Claughton brickworks in Lancashire, installing a new dryer system and upgrading factory control systems, increasing capacity to over five million bricks per year.

DCM Shriram will invest Rs 113 crore to expand its caustic soda unit in Bharuch, Gujarat, increasing capacity from 1,015 to 1,347 tonnes per day. The expanded unit is expected to be commissioned in April 2019.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. expanded its Silicon Valley headquarters to over two million square feet with the grand opening of Building 22, adding engineering, manufacturing and customer service capacity.

Moventas is expanding its wind-turbine gearbox assembly and testing capacity in Jyväskylä, Finland, with a €17 million investment. The topping out ceremony was held in January 2018, and the expansion will enable production of Exceed series gearboxes.

Royal Engineered Composites announced a 23,500-square-foot expansion of its Minden, Nebraska facility, with a $3 million building addition and $2 million in new equipment, to provide full-scale in-house manufacturing for large section-level assemblies.

Owl's Head Alloys Inc., an aluminum recycler in Bowling Green, Kentucky, will invest $3 million to add a fourth furnace, increasing capacity by 60 million pounds of scrap annually and creating 17 jobs.

BOC Australia officially opened a new $20 million specialty gases production facility and a $15 million robot cylinder automation system at its Sydney Operations Centre in Wetherill Park, increasing capacity for high-purity and specialty gases.

AMG approved a $35 million expansion of its spent catalyst recycling operations at its Cambridge, Ohio facility, including a new flue gas desulfurization unit, increasing capacity by 30%.

Safran invested $25 million to expand its Querétaro plant to produce OGV (Outlet Guide Vane) parts for aircraft engines, starting operations in December 2018 with 150 workers and aiming for 31,000 pieces per year by 2020.

FastHouse installed a third production line at its Limavady facility in November 2017, with all lines fully operational by mid-February 2018, increasing output capability to over 1,500 houses per annum.

Airbus plans to add a Bombardier C Series final assembly line at its Mobile, Alabama facility with a $300 million investment, creating 400 jobs. Additionally, Airbus is studying a 50% production increase for A320 aircraft, adding 200 jobs.

Veolia, in partnership with Irish Water, started work on an €80 million capacity upgrade of the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant in Dublin, Ireland. The two-year project will increase capacity by 400,000 population equivalent.

BOC Australia, a Linde Group member, unveiled a new $20 million specialty gases production facility at its Sydney Operations Centre in Wetherill Park. The facility will supply over 8,000 high purity and specialty gases.

Spirit AeroSystems unveiled its new Five-Axis Center of Excellence at its south Oliver plant in Wichita, Kansas, with a $30 million investment. The center is part of a plan to hire 1,000 workers and invest $1 billion, and will produce complex parts like hinge-and-latch beams for the Boeing 737 Max.

North Industrial Truck Company (Nitco) opened a new and expanded facility in Concord, New Hampshire, featuring a showroom for forklifts, construction equipment, and warehouse solutions. The facility opened for business on June 5, 2017.

Lomon Billions approved a ¥1.8 billion ($285 million) investment to build two new chloride titanium dioxide manufacturing lines at its existing site in Jiaozuo, Henan Province, China, adding 200,000 tons of annual capacity. Commercial production is expected in 2019.

Cook Medical Australia is increasing manufacturing capacity at its Eight Mile Plains facility by nearly 70% by adding an afternoon production shift. The expansion will create 94 new full-time jobs, bringing total skilled technicians to 231 by end of 2018.

Lubrizol is investing in multiple staged expansions at its facilities in Oevel, Belgium and Montmelo, Spain to increase production of thermoplastic polyurethanes. A major European expansion is planned for 2019.

Lubrizol is expanding its thermoplastics polyurethane (TPU) capacity across North America, Europe, and Asia with a combined investment of nearly $80 million. New capacity is coming onstream in North America later in 2018, a new compounding line and extrusion lines in Songjiang, China were inaugurated in February 2018, and further expansions are planned in Europe and Asia in 2019.

Harrison Spinks is investing £1.8 million in a wire drawing facility on British Steel's site in Scunthorpe, creating 22 jobs. Two wire drawing lines will be installed at the end of April.

SABIC will build a third Ultem polyetherimide resin plant in Singapore, expanding capacity by 50%, and restart a Noryl polyphenylene ether resin plant in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, expanding capacity by 40%.

Constellium Extrusion plans to invest €27 million to expand its Levice plant with a new hall, doubling capacity from 18,000 to 37,500 tonnes per year and creating 80 jobs. Separately, its subsidiary Constellium Automotive Žilina will open a new plant in Žilina with production starting mid-2018.

Whirlpool of India plans to expand its Pune manufacturing facility that produces refrigerators with an investment of ₹375 crore. The expansion will increase refrigeration manufacturing capacity in two phases over five years.

Westlake Chemical is investing $140 million to add 110 million pounds per year of suspension polyvinyl chloride at its Geismar, Louisiana plant. The company is also pursuing a VCM and PVC expansion to boost combined annual volume to 1 billion pounds. Expansions in Geismar and Burghausen are expected to be completed in 2019.

Whirlpool, the largest manufacturer of refrigerators in Southern Africa, has launched a multi-million rand expansion at its plant in Isithebe Industrial Estate, KwaZulu-Natal, investing R100 million on plant and machine upgrades to begin manufacturing washing machines.

L&M Radiator is investing $17.6 million to add 100,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space to its existing facility in Hibbing, Minnesota, and hiring 22 new workers.

SABIC will restart a Noryl polyphenylene ether resin plant in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, expanding capacity by 40%.

Bemis installed a Totani pouch-forming machine at Predilecta's plant in Patos de Minas, Brazil, to produce 6 million pouches per month for vegetables and other foods. The equipment began operation in November 2017.

Insistens launched a new production line for milling cutters, drills and specialized tools in Yekaterinburg, with RUB 135 million investment partly from the Industrial Development Fund. Capacity will increase by 30% to 220,000 tools per year.

B. Braun Avitum Italy is adding a new production line for catheters and special drug containers, plus a usability lab, at its Mirandola plant, supported by Emilia-Romagna regional financing. The filling machine is being supplied by IMA of Ozzano dell'Emilia.

Colortech, Inc. announced plans to expand its Morristown, Tennessee operations, adding 44,000 square feet and creating approximately 25 new jobs. The expansion is estimated to cost $11-12 million, with building completion by end of 2018 and production starting in 2019.

TGW Systems Inc. plans to move to a new facility two miles away in Norton Shores to double capacity and accommodate growth from its parent company's Austrian operations.

Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company, announced an expansion of production for a medical customer's cancer detection diagnostic kit at the Molex Little Rock facility, doubling production with new molding and automation equipment. Production is expected to begin in Q2 2018.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced it will build a new $40 million, 180,000-square-foot service center at Appleton International Airport in Greenville, Wisconsin, creating about 200 jobs.

Integra LifeSciences signed a lease for a 110,000-square-foot portion of an industrial building at Cabot Business Park in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Nearly 200 employees from its Raynham site will relocate to the new facility, which will include offices, clean room, R&D space, and manufacturing for neurosurgery products.

Wacker Neuson is building a seventh production hall at its Reichertshofen site in Germany, investing €7.5 million. The 8,000 m² hall will expand production capacity for compaction equipment and include a material and component warehouse.

Arla Foods is investing over SEK 60 million in a new packaging and processing line for cheese at its Götene facility. The line will increase packaging and processing capacity by 2.5 times and is expected to be ready by end of 2018.

Lynas Corporation is spending $14 million to expand processing capacity at its Mt Weld mine from 242,000 to 443,000 tonnes per year. Construction begins mid-March 2018 and is due for completion by mid-2018.

Pfizer is investing $147 million at its Portage, Michigan manufacturing complex, including a 98,500 sq ft warehousing and distribution expansion (completed) and a 10,000 sq ft aseptic processing center (under construction) for Act-O-Vial production.

Rubble Master is expanding its headquarters in Linz-Pichling, Austria, to address capacity constraints and bring outsourced production back in-house. The expansion will create a Rubble Master campus.

J.R. Simplot Company will invest $460 million to expand its french fry processing plant in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, adding 280,000 square feet and 87 new jobs, with completion expected in fall 2019.

Eurocement Group will invest 24.8 billion rubles to build a new cement production line at its Mikhailovcement plant in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, with a capacity of up to 4 million tonnes per year.

Zeus Industrial Products is expanding its existing operations in Aiken County, South Carolina, with a $15.7 million investment to convert warehousing to manufacturing space, adding 51 jobs.

Georgia-Pacific is in the final construction phase of an oriented strand board (OSB) facility in Clarendon, S.C., part of a $400 million acquisition from Grant Forest Products. The company will spend an additional $30 million to complete the facility, which is expected to start in December 2011 and create about 150 permanent jobs.

Diasorin is expanding its Saluggia plant by installing an HVAC system (thermal power station and new AHUs) to serve a new production department.