Team JAS completed a major expansion of its Jacksonville, Florida headquarters facility, nearly doubling the size of its warehouse, PMA Design & Engineering Department, and FAA & EASA Certified Repair Station. The company also grew its workforce by 20% since late 2016.

Siechem Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a manufacturer of specialty wire and cables, plans to augment its investment to expand its manufacturing facility in Sederapet, Puducherry. A meeting will be held to discuss modalities.

Aluminium Bahrain's Line 6 expansion project, which will increase capacity by 52% to 1.5 million metric tonnes per year, is on track to launch in January 2019. The project is expected to create 3,200 jobs.

LiuGong India, a subsidiary of Guangxi LiuGong Machinery, announced an additional investment of US$5 million to enhance production capacity at its factory in Pithampur, India. The company's manpower is likely to increase by 40% over the next 2-3 years.

Evonik Industries opened a new production line for specialty polyamide 12 powders at its Marl Chemical Park site, increasing annual capacities by 50%. The investment is in the mid double-digit million euro range.

Advanced Machine & Engineering broke ground on a new $3.5 million facility expansion to support product growth and increase revenue. The expansion will create up to 100 new manufacturing jobs in Rockford.

Huron Inc. is building a $13 million, 40,000-square-foot expansion at its Worth Township, Michigan plant, expected to create 181 full-time jobs within three years.

Champion Fiberglass is adding a third production line to its facility, which will double its fiberglass conduit manufacturing capacity. The expansion is expected to be completed by end of 2018.

Biomed-Lublin is investing in a new Distreptaza production line that will double output and start operations in Q3 2018.

Ferromatik Milacron India Pvt. Ltd. is investing $8 million to expand its operations in India.

Sea Harvest is transforming its hake factory in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, with advanced processing equipment and software from Marel. The installation is scheduled for August 2018.

Suryadev Alloys & Power is planning to expand its steel plant in New Gummidipoondi, Tamil Nadu, with DRI kilns, sinter plant, blast furnace, induction furnace, rolling mill, captive power plant, ferro alloy plant and oxygen plant. Project cost is estimated at Rs 21,000 million.

Iberfoil inaugurated the expansion of its factory in Sabiñánigo, Spain, with a new cold-rolling mill that triples production capacity to 60,000 tons per year from 20,000 tons. The investment was 15 million euros.

Berry Global is considering a $70 million project to add four thermoforming lines and seven printers for cups and lids at its Evansville, Indiana plant, with about 150 jobs expected. The plan emerged from a tax abatement application reported on 2018-02-13.

VPK Packaging Group is starting construction of an extra 10,000 m² hall in Radomsko, Poland, investing EUR 10 million. The expansion will add 30 million m² of corrugated cardboard packaging capacity and increase employment from 200 to 215.

A German auto parts company is planning an expansion in Fort Wayne, Indiana, that will create 120 new jobs.

Applied Biomimetic relocated its headquarters and manufacturing facility from Cincinnati, Ohio to Gaithersburg, Maryland, and plans to add at least 30 full-time employees.

Riverside Medical Packaging, a Derby-based manufacturer of medical packaging machines, plans to create 40 new jobs after investing nearly £100,000 in new technology. The company aims to quadruple sales of its Shawpak thermoforming machinery and target a £2 million boost in sales.

Sekisui Specialty Chemicals is expanding PVOH, PVB and PVB film production in the Netherlands with an investment of around €150 million. PVB polymerisation capacity in Geleen will increase by a factor of 1.7, with film production in Roermond starting in 2019 and polymerisation in mid-2020.

Thiess was awarded a $345 million contract by BHP Billiton for civil works and bulk earthworks to expand ore handling facilities at the Yandi Iron Ore mine in Western Australia, as part of Rapid Growth Project 5.

Terumo Corporation approved a £33 million investment in its subsidiary Vascutek to expand its headquarters and manufacturing facility at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, adding cleanrooms and a sterilization suite. The first phase starts April 2018 and completes in 2021.

Constantia Flexibles is investing millions to expand production capacity at its Indian subsidiary Parikh Packaging in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, with operations expected to start in 2019. A greenfield site near the existing plant has already been broken ground.

Konecranes' Saint-Vallier site in France plans to produce 120 stackers in 2018 and 50 mobile cranes over two years (2018-2019).

Topre America Corporation announced an $80 million expansion at its Cullman, Alabama facility, creating approximately 98 new jobs. The expansion will add a new manufacturing production line to supply parts for Nissan's 2018 Altima. Construction is slated to begin in the coming months, announced on February 9, 2018.

RCB ELECTRO 97 SA, a Romanian electric cable manufacturer, will expand an existing hall by 793 square meters to increase processing capacity by nearly 10% for certain operations. The expansion includes new equipment such as PVC insulation lines and cable winding machines.

Franz Family Bakery (United States Bakery) is planning a $20 million expansion at its Glenwood bread-making factory, adding 45 jobs. The company is seeking property tax breaks from Lane County and Springfield.

AT&S is investing approximately EUR 40 million to expand technology and capacity for high-frequency printed circuit boards at its existing sites in Nanjangud, India and Fehring, Austria. Production is set to start in May 2018 in India and March 2019 in Austria.

Direct Pack, a PMC Global subsidiary, installed six silos with Superior Cranes at its Rockingham plant to receive resin by truck in bulk, lowering material costs. The silos each hold 250,000 pounds of raw and recycled material.

METYX Group secured a 50% matched government incentive package to expand its existing facility in Kaposvár, Hungary, increasing annual capacity for technical fabrics from 3,000 to 8,000 tons over five years.

Panasonic announced that Panasonic Industrial Devices Materials (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. will start high-volume manufacturing of molded underfill semiconductor encapsulation materials in March 2018 to meet growing demand in China.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems completed a third factory and electrical assembly plant at its Thai joint venture MACO, with a total investment of approximately ¥3.0 billion. Production capacity is expected to increase to 2.7 million units by fiscal 2020, a 30% increase from fiscal 2015.

Aisin Drivetrain (ADI), a subsidiary of Aisin Seiki, announced plans to invest over $16 million to expand its manufacturing operations in Crothersville, Indiana, creating up to 47 new jobs by the end of 2018. The expansion will accommodate design changes for steering columns and other automotive components.

Parker Hannifin is planning a $30 million expansion at its Greeneville, Tennessee plant to add a new line of equipment for increased production of a transmission component. The project is expected to add 50 to 60 jobs over the next three years.

Electrolux announced plans to invest $250 million to modernize and expand its 400,000-sq.-ft. appliance manufacturing facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, creating 25 jobs and adding production of Frigidaire freestanding cooking products. Completion is expected in 2020.

Teijin Limited will invest around JPY 3 billion (USD 26 million) to increase capacity of its MIRAIM high-performance microporous membrane at the Matsuyama Factory in Japan, targeting operations to begin in early 2019.

The Port of Virginia has begun a $320 million expansion of Virginia International Gateway (VIG) with the arrival of the first six Konecranes rail-mounted gantry cranes. The project includes delivery of 86 new automated stacking cranes over two years, with a $217 million contract awarded to Konecranes in 2016.

Santos Brasil has begun acquiring new equipment for the modernization and expansion of its Tecon Vila do Conde container terminal in Barcarena, Pará, Brazil. The project involves investments of R$37.2 million over two years and will raise capacity to 163,000 TEU/year.

LONGi Green Energy Technology announced a $309 million investment to double capacity of its solar cell and module factory in Andhra Pradesh, India, from 500MW to 1GW each. Module expansion completion is expected by end of August 2019, cell factory by January 2020.

Sasol inaugurated the full completion of its R13.6 billion FT Wax Expansion Project in Sasolburg, South Africa, with Phase 2 beginning beneficial operation in March 2017 and Phase 1 commissioned in 2015.

Covestro will invest approximately EUR 200 million to enhance its Tarragona, Spain site, including building its own chlorine supply and increasing MDI production capacity by 50,000 metric tons to 220,000 metric tons annually.

Indrol installed a complete range of Marel's turkey processing equipment at its Grodzisk Wielkopolski plant, increasing evisceration capacity from 1,800 to 2,500 females per hour and handling up to 1,200 males per hour.

Mogilevkhimvolokno plans to launch the first phase of a polyester fiber production line in July 2018, with a capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year. The equipment from Oerlikon Neumag cost about €16 million.

Medical device firm Caisson Interventional LLC plans to expand its Maple Grove facilities by 30,000 square feet and add 50 jobs, investing $750,000. The project is supported by a $359,850 grant from the Minnesota Job Creation Fund.

Ball Corporation will add capacity at its Buenos Aires, Argentina facility, its third investment in the country in two years, to serve growing beverage can demand.

Britvic has invested £100m in three new high-speed can lines at its Rugby manufacturing site, creating 80 jobs and producing 6,000 cans per minute, as part of a £240m three-year GB investment programme.

Carlisle Medical Technologies expanded its Dongguan facility, increasing clean room manufacturing capabilities and adding sterilization management and engineering resources. The facility is 25% larger than the previous one.

PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical started construction of a new polyethylene plant in Cilegon, Banten, Indonesia, with a total investment of US$350 million. The plant will more than double polyethylene production capacity to 736 kilotons per annum, and is scheduled to start operations in early 2020.

Torwegge expanded its Bielefeld site by over 40%, adding a 1,100-square-meter production hall, a 300-square-meter showroom, and 300 square meters of office and training space. The company invested in the expansion to support growth in intralogistics.

Printing company Arka-Druk will expand its printing plant in the Łapy economic subzone with a 5,500 sq m facility costing over PLN 7 million, of which about PLN 3 million is EU subsidy, with production expected to start at the end of 2018.

Gusar valve plant in Gus-Khrustalny, Vladimir region, is launching a new foundry to start serial production of pipeline valves for Russia's fuel and energy sector in late February 2018. The investment is about 1.7 billion rubles, capacity 7-8 thousand tonnes of steel per year, and 400 jobs will be created.