Yasda precision tools started full-scale operation of its fifth factory at the headquarters, built with an investment of about 500 million yen and a total floor area of about 1000 square meters.

Argentine farm machinery maker Mainero is adding a 2,400 m2 industrial building, a paint line and robotic welding at its Bell Ville plant. About $30 million has been invested so far, with the rest spent over this year and next.

Can Pack Romania is investing €50 million in a second production line and capacity expansion at its Bucharest metal can factory, hiring 85 people and targeting 1.5 billion cans per year, with the line starting in February 2018.

Victaulic is planning a 400,000-square-foot expansion of its manufacturing complex in Easton, Pennsylvania, beginning later in 2018, with operations to start in 2019, to meet growing domestic demand for mechanical piping systems.

NAOS Les Laboratoires has completed an expansion and modernization of its 20,000 m² production site in Aix-en-Provence, with a €60 million investment over five years, doubling emulsion production capacity.

Graham Packaging will invest $6.7 million to expand its manufacturing operation in Campbell County, Virginia, creating 8 new jobs and retraining 37 employees on new technology.

Kordsa broke ground on a polyester expansion project in Izmit, Turkey, adding 7,000 t/y of polyester yarn capacity, expected online in 2018. The company also held a groundbreaking for an additional monofilament PP line for the Kratos product.

Vanderlande and Edeka Südwest Fleisch signed a contract to expand the existing logistics system at the Edeka distribution center in Rheinstetten, Germany, doubling capacity to handle increased product volume.

Interroll, together with three OEMs, installed 158 hygienic drum motors at a Charoen Pokphand Foods subsidiary in Thailand, increasing daily chicken processing capacity by up to 400,000 chickens per day.

Kobelco Construction Machinery Co. is ramping up production at its Spartanburg, South Carolina excavator plant, on pace to produce 1,800 units per year, and adding production of the SK500-LC-10 and SJ260LC-10 models.

Service Center Metals will invest $45.2 million to expand operations at its Prince George County, Virginia facility, creating 58 jobs.

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) will expand in Utah, adding up to 135 high-paying jobs and $3.3 million in new state tax revenue.

Amthor International will invest $7.1 million to build a 115,000 sq ft plant in Gretna, Virginia, retaining 110 jobs and creating 70 new jobs over three years.

Chiron-Werke is investing around EUR 30 million to build a 9,000 sqm production building in Neuhausen ob Eck for a new machine generation, with production start targeted for mid-2019.

Hirata Kiko began construction of a new headquarters building and factory in Kumamoto, Japan, with a total investment of about JPY 7 billion. The project is scheduled for completion in January 2020 and will expand production space for large components and cleanroom manufacturing.

Jaquar Group plans to spend Rs 150 crore to raise faucet output at its Bhiwadi, Rajasthan facility from 80,000 to 100,000 units per day, with commissioning expected within six months.

Jushi started work on the $60 million fourth phase of its fiberglass factory in Ain Sokhna, Egypt, adding raw material processing and packaging. The expansion is expected to be completed within a few months.

AGC Glass North America will invest $40.6 million and create 85 new jobs to expand its Church Hill, Tennessee facility, adding over 100,000 square feet and installing a new MSVD coater.

Miller Baking Company is adding a second production facility in Milwaukee to meet demand for its Pretzilla pretzel bread line. The facility will create 30 jobs and is slated to open soon.

Whirlpool of India plans to invest Rs 182 crore ($28M) to increase single-door refrigerator production capacity by 600,000 units per year, from 2.1 million to 2.7 million units. The investment will be spent over two years.

DuPont Nutrition & Health relocated its Australian facility from Botany to Erskine Park, New South Wales, doubling output capacity with a new specialty food ingredient blending plant.

La Rábita América, a Spanish-Mexican agrotextile manufacturer, will invest $15 million to build a new industrial plant in Culiacán, Sinaloa. The project includes a 16,000 m² facility in four phases, with the first phase (4,000 m²) starting in Q1 2018, creating 100 permanent jobs initially and 400 jobs over five years.

Bondex, a technical nonwoven manufacturer, announced an $18.8 million expansion of its Edgefield County, South Carolina facility. The expansion includes a new needlepunch line and will create 13 new jobs.

Especialitats Elèctriques Escubedo, a manufacturer of connection systems for automotive and appliances, is investing €6 million to build three new buildings (7,000 m²) at its Riudellots de la Creu site, creating 30 jobs over two years.

GROHE, part of LIXIL Corporation, started operations at a new 12,000-square-meter zinc manufacturing facility in Klaeng, Rayong, Thailand. The expansion, with over $30 million investment, will double capacity to 12 million pieces per year by 2021 and create 800 new jobs.

Evonik will begin construction of an additional compounding line for ACRYLITE PMMA at its site in Osceola, Arkansas, nearly doubling production capacity of specialty molding compounds. Completion and startup is scheduled for Q1 2019.

Interroll Thailand plans to move to a new location within the Amata Nakorn Industrial Estate near Bangkok, expanding its production of conveyors, drives, and sorters. Construction starts in Q1 2018 and finishes by Q2 2019.

Yachiyo Industry will invest about 2.5 billion yen ($22.1 million) to increase production capacity of key auto parts by about 50% at a plant in Wuhan, China, to boost supply to parent Honda Motor.

ScentLok Technologies is planning to build a 68,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehousing facility at 1285 E. Pontaluna Road in Norton Shores, Michigan, pending site plan amendment approval.

SciCan completed an 8,000 square foot expansion of its warehouse at its Don Mills manufacturing facility in Toronto, adding to its 25,000-square-foot facility. The expansion was completed in fall 2017.

Tecvalco Ltd added additional manufacturing capability to its North Battleford facility after the successful first year of its MemFree wastewater treatment pilot in Unity, Saskatchewan. The pilot, turned on in early 2017, has exceeded Canadian standards.

Impexmetal S.A. Aluminium Konin plans to invest over PLN 1 billion to build a new rolling mill with 200,000 tonnes capacity and a foundry with 300,000 tonnes capacity at its existing site in Konin, Poland. The first phase is expected to be completed by the first half of 2019, creating about 300 jobs.

Symplast moved to a new 10,000 square meter manufacturing facility with 7,000 square meters of storage capacity, representing a significant investment in its TPE production.

North Hartland Tool Corporation is expanding its manufacturing plant in North Hartland, Vermont, by 60% in the first quarter of 2018. The company plans to hire CNC programmers, machinists, and automation specialists.

Craft brewery À la Fût is investing over CAD 3 million to build a new plant with 14 brewing tanks in Saint-Tite, Quebec, doubling its production, which is currently about 125,000 cans a year.

B.Braun, which recently took over the former Gambro manufacturing plant on Mason Avenue in Daytona Beach, is expanding the site with plans to add 175 jobs.

PaperWorks Industries invested $3 million in a 44,500 sq ft warehouse adjoining its Wabash, Indiana paperboard mill, able to store up to 7,000 tons of coated recycled board rolls, expected operational in Q1 2018.

Baker Furnace, a division of Thermal Product Solutions, shipped a record number of custom and standard furnaces in 2017, enabled by its new 40,000-square-foot facility in Brea, California.

American Biaxis Inc., a subsidiary of Winpak Ltd., is expanding its production capacity for biaxially oriented polyamide (BOPA) films by 11,000 to 14,000 metric tonnes per year, with an investment of over $40 million USD. The additional capacity is expected to be available in the second half of 2019.

The Dallas Group of America announced the expansion of its manufacturing and packaging facilities with new facilities in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands and Pingdu, China, to meet growing global demand.

Texas Instruments Philippines announced a $10 million investment to expand its product-distribution center in Clark Freeport, aiming to increase production capacity to 2 billion units quarterly.

Lotte Advanced Materials plans to expand combined capacity of the two acquired plants to 73,000 tonnes/year by 2019 and construct a new 300,000 tonnes/year ABS plant in Banten province by 2022.

Kerala Electrical and Allied Engineering Company (KEL) will start manufacturing medium power transformers (5 MVA to 25 MVA) at a new ₹12 crore plant in Mamala, Ernakulam, with production beginning in early months of the next financial year.

Sunderland-based Pakway, which turns waste plastic bottles into packaging sheet, plans to double its capacity, with a second production line arriving in April 2018 and full capacity expected by end-2018.

Polwax plans to commission a solvent deoiling installation at its Silesian plant at the end of 2019, processing about 30,000 tonnes of paraffin slack wax a year to supply its Jaśło site.

Isoroc Polska plans to launch a new production line in Nidzica, Poland, with a capacity of 40,000 tons per year, targeting markets in Poland, Germany, and Scandinavia.

Tandem Diabetes Care announced that its new 50,000 square foot manufacturing facility in San Diego is fully operational, doubling the company's previous manufacturing capacity for insulin pumps and cartridges.

General Electric is restructuring its Belfort site to create a 'factory of the future' for manufacturing next-generation gas turbines, including the 9HA.02 model. The project involves renovating an assembly building in Belfort and extending a machining building in Bourogne, with public funding.

Samsung will expand its NAND Flash factory in Xi'an, China, increasing production of 3D-NAND Flash.

Intel is engaging in the second-phase expansion of its fab in Dalian, China, aiming to double the facility's 3D-NAND Flash capacity by the end of 2018.