BASF and SINOPEC will double the annual capacity of Neopentylglycol (NPG) at their joint venture BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. in Nanjing from 40,000 to 80,000 metric tons. The expanded capacity will come on stream in 2020.

Caterpillar Brasil's factory in Campo Largo, Paraná, produced its 20,000th machine, a backhoe loader 420F2. The plant was inaugurated in 2011 and employs 460 people.

Olsonfab Metal Fabrication has acquired a second 54,000 square foot facility at 235 Saunders Drive in Cornwall, Ontario, to accommodate new demands. Renovations are underway, and the facility is expected to be fully operational by spring 2018.

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. is rebuilding its production facilities in Aiko District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, with a total investment of approximately 3 billion yen. The project includes new Factory 1 (completed March 2017), Factory 2 (completed September 2017), and Factory 3 (planned for completion March 2019), increasing overall production capacity by 1.5 times.

Tecomet will invest $14.5 million over three to five years to expand and upgrade its Lansing facilities, creating 160 manufacturing jobs. The company will expand into 30,000 square feet of new space.

Beckman Coulter will create 70 jobs and add 6,700 sq. meters to its development and manufacturing facility in Lismeehan, County Clare, Ireland. Construction is expected to commence in early 2018.

Wacker Química do Brasil is expanding its silicone factory in Jandira, Brazil, with an investment of over R$ 25 million. The new multi-purpose unit with two reactors will produce defoamers and functional silicone fluids for paper, household and personal care markets.

Duke Energy received regulatory approval to add a 402-MW Siemens combustion turbine at its Lincoln Combustion Turbine plant in North Carolina. Construction will begin in summer 2018, with commercial operation expected in 2024.

Allegro MicroSystems held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 15,000-square foot expansion at its Manchester, NH facility. The expansion will support R&D and is planned for completion in summer 2018. The company will employ upwards of 400 people at the site.

Ferriot has begun installation of a new 2,250-ton Negri Bossi BI-POWER injection molding press at its Akron, Ohio facility, which will be the largest in its fleet, to increase production capacity and accelerate delivery times.

Stora Enso officially opened its new polyethylene coating plant at its consumer board mill in Beihai, Guangxi, China, with an annual capacity of 80,000 tonnes of PE coated products. The company invested EUR 31 million in the plant.

Vipal Borrachas plans R$40 million of investment to add 4,000 motorcycle tyres a day at its Feira de Santana plant, raising output to 8,000 a day and hiring 200 more workers. A protocol of intent was signed with the Bahia state economic development secretariat.

Rusken Packaging plans a $20 million expansion of its corrugated fiber box lines in Harrisburg, Arkansas, expected to create about 50 new jobs and double its workforce by spring 2018.

Winpak's subsidiary has started work on an expansion adding 11,000 to 14,000 metric tonnes of annual BOPA film capacity for sale in North America, with over $40 million to be invested. The additional production is expected to be available in the second half of 2019.

PT Polytama Propindo plans to increase polypropylene output at its existing plant in West Java, Indonesia from 180,000 to 300,000 tons per year by 2019, with a USD 10 million investment. The expansion will be progressive, reaching 240,000 t/y by 2018.

Nu Flow Technologies announced its move to an expanded 38,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Ajax, Ontario, with 25% larger manufacturing capacity, including R&D lab, metal fabrication, painting and chemical formulation areas.

Punch Powerglide Strasbourg announced it will hire 50 additional permanent employees in 2018 to increase production of 8-speed transmissions at its Strasbourg plant.

Trade Tech Industries is spending approximately $1.3 million to install a dedicated aluminum manufacturing line at its Port Hope, Ontario plant. The project will create 10 new jobs and is expected to be complete by 2022.

Kolbenschmidt Shanghai Piston (KSSP), a joint venture of Rheinmetall Automotive, is adding a new plant in Chongqing with an investment of about €65 million. The plant has 34,000 sqm production area, 230 employees, and initial capacity of 5 million pistons per year.

Agricultural machinery manufacturer A. Pöttinger is investing approximately 230 million Czech koruna in its Vodňany plant to expand welding, machining, sheet metal processing, and assembly capacity, and plans to hire 30 new employees.

Constellation Brands is expanding its Nava plant in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, with Siemens automation to triple capacity to about 27.5 million hectoliters per year. The third phase adds 2.5 million hectoliters and three packaging lines, on track for Spring 2018.

Nabtesco announced a production capacity expansion for precision reducers from 2018 to 2020, investing about ¥70 billion initially and ¥190 billion later to reach 1.2 million units per year by 2020, up from 640,000 units in 2017.

Laminacorr began a 3-year expansion including a 20,000 sq ft addition in the Cornwall Business Park, Ontario, and an upgrade of one extrusion line. Equipment investment is over $1.5 million and building investment is $1.7 million.

MilliporeSigma is completing a $5 million expansion at its bio-tech manufacturing site in Kankakee, Illinois. The facility employs 74 workers.

HellermannTyton has received planning permission for a £7 million, 4,500 sq m extension to its Plymouth factory, adding 40 jobs, with construction starting in 2019.

Parker Hannifin is expanding its Racor Division in Holly Springs, Mississippi, converting it to the Engine Mobile Original Equipment Division. The project creates 50 jobs and involves relocating existing manufacturing to other states.

Holcim Argentina announced a $120 million investment to expand its cement plant in Malagueño, Córdoba, increasing production capacity by 45% with construction starting in early 2018 and completion by 2020.

Hwashin America announced a $23 million expansion of its Greenville, Alabama facility, creating nearly 100 new jobs. Construction is scheduled to begin in January 2018 and be complete by summer 2018.

Aluminum recycler Spectro Alloys Corp. will invest $5.8 million to expand its facilities in Rosemount, Minnesota, adding two aluminum furnaces in a new 5,000-square-foot building and creating 10 jobs.

Datwyler Sealing Solutions is preparing to start production of pharmaceutical rubber components at a new facility on its Satara site in Pune, India. Production is scheduled to start in Q2 2018, increasing manufacturing volume to five billion components per year and more than doubling production area to 58,000 sq. feet.

Gensco, an HVAC distributor, has applied for a $4.95 million permit to build a 56,662-square-foot warehouse and showroom in Kennewick, Washington. Construction is set to begin in early 2018.

Philippine Resins Industries tapped Aboitiz Construction to expand its polyvinyl chloride resin plant in Bataan, doubling capacity to 200,000 metric tons per year, with completion expected in December 2018 and a $44 million investment.

Aboitiz Construction signed a memorandum of agreement with Philippine Resins Industries to double the capacity of its polyvinyl chloride resin plant in Bataan from 100 to 200 metric tons per year, an 18-month project.

Japan-based Exedy plans to double its torque converter production in China between 2019 and 2020 by adding new manufacturing facilities at a factory operated by its subsidiary Exedy Dynax Shanghai.

Loma Negra will invest US$350 million in a brownfield expansion of its L'Amali plant in Olavarría, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, adding 2.7 million tonnes per year of cement capacity. Construction is scheduled for start-up in early 2020.

Rheem Australia officially opened its upgraded $40 million manufacturing facility in Rydalmere, Sydney, featuring state-of-the-art equipment and a new R&D laboratory.

Chemetall, the Surface Treatment business unit of BASF's Coatings division, will expand its production site in Langelsheim, Germany to increase capacity for aircraft sealants, including new laboratory and office space. Groundbreaking is scheduled for March 2018, with commissioning in 2019.

Acromil Corporation ordered two Cincinnati Wide-Range Titanium Profilers and a Giddings & Lewis Horizontal Boring Mill from Fives Machining Systems Inc. as the start of a two-phase expansion to establish a hard metals manufacturing center.

Valeo Auto-Electric Magyarország is expanding its manufacturing and R&D complex in Veszprém, Hungary, with a EUR 60 million greenfield project. The expansion will create 220 new jobs and include 30 robots and 12 cobots for automated production.

Hanon Systems signed an investment agreement with the Dalian municipal government to build a third plant in Dalian for automotive compressors, bringing total site space to over 98,000 square meters.

SCA is investing SEK 196 million at its Munksund pulp and paper mill in Sweden to increase production of white-top kraftliner, lifting capacity from 150,000 to 200,000 tonnes per year.

Emerson will invest $15 million to renovate its Chanhassen, Minnesota manufacturing facility, converting 30,000 square feet of offices into production space for Rosemount measurement equipment and hiring 80 workers over three years.

Sateri officially broke ground for a 12 billion yuan ($1.82 billion) project in Lianxi District, Jiujiang, China. The project will be executed in four phases to reach a total of 1 million tons of viscose fibre capacity.

UACJ plans to invest about 16 billion yen to expand its manufacturing site in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, with a new automotive aluminum sheet plant. Construction starts January 2018, with production start in January 2020. Annual capacity is 100,000 tons, creating 50-60 local jobs.

Hexcel Corp. will expand its existing Decatur, Alabama production site to create its first integrated U.S. carbon fiber and PAN production facility. The $200 million project will add about 90 jobs, with production expected to begin in 2021.

Danfoss is extending its ATEX compressor testing laboratory in Trevoux, France, to six times its current size to support testing of flammable refrigerants up to A3 class, with over 50 test benches.

NuZee is expanding its production plant in Vista, California, adding two new Drip Cup co-packing machines and upgrading process automation to more than double annual single-serve pour-over Drip Cup production.

Fabplus plans a three-year expansion with £7 million investment, including expanding factory space, storage and R&D facilities, and creating 83 new jobs by 2019.

Jacksonville Electric Authority installed a 600,000 gpd DAVCO WWTP to meet additional treatment requirements while expanding the Blacks Ford WRF from 3 mgd to 6 mgd. The project cost $2.5 million and was completed in 109 days.

Terumo Corporation announced a ¥30 billion investment to construct a new building at its Terumo Yamaguchi facility to strengthen catheter production capacity.