Continental plans to expand its ContiTech Tlalnepantla plant in Mexico, increasing production from 2 million to 6 million pieces and expanding footprint from 12,000 to 17,000 square meters, with sales expected to exceed $114 million by 2018.

Ruiz Food Products is investing $79 million to expand its frozen food manufacturing facility in Florence, South Carolina, adding production lines over seven years and creating 705 new jobs.

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA) will begin the second expansion of its electric assembly building on its Houston campus, doubling the production space dedicated to electric forklift models.

Cepac is investing £2m to expand its corrugated packaging factory at Rawcliffe Bridge, East Yorkshire, with a new 45,000 sq ft production and warehousing facility under construction. The article is dated July 11, 2017.

Honeywell plans to invest more than $10 million and add up to 5,000 square feet of manufacturing space at its Greer, South Carolina aerospace facility, creating about 30 jobs by 2019. South Carolina committed additional tax incentives over 20 years.

Konings plans to submit a planning application for a GBP 35 million expansion of its Boxford, Suffolk factory, adding a cider canning line, a PET bottling line and warehousing. The project is expected to create up to 116 new jobs.

Sekisui Diagnostics completed a $6 million renovation at its Charlottetown facility, including two new automated packaging lines, a cold storage building, and a retrofit of manufacturing and office areas. The company also announced a further expansion involving a new building, with the provincial government investing and recouping costs through a lease.

Olymel announced a $2 million investment to convert a section of its Red Deer, Alberta pork processing plant for fresh sausage production. The project will create 20 jobs and is expected to begin in July 2017.

Minnetronix announced the completion of a 22,000-square-foot expansion of its St. Paul, Minnesota facility, bringing total space to 125,000 square feet and increasing production capacity by 50%.

Addivant held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 30, 2017, marking a multi-million-dollar expansion for its WESTON 705 nonylphenol-free antioxidant at its Morgantown, West Virginia manufacturing facility, more than tripling production capacity.

Franklin International Inc. announced plans to invest $4.4 million to construct a new 12,500-square-foot R&D facility at its corporate headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, adding eight new employees.

Schoellershammer, a packaging paper manufacturer, has commissioned a new 9,560 sqm production hall and material preparation building at its Düren site, doubling annual paper production capacity to around 500,000 tons. Konecranes supplied two double-girder overhead cranes for the facility.

ABB is investing in a new R&D center at B&R headquarters in Eggelsberg, expanded production capacity in Gilgenberg, and an expanded technical office in Salzburg to add 50 developers. No investment value was stated.

Behr Process Corp., a paint manufacturer, leased nearly 230,000 square feet of office space in Santa Ana, California, to consolidate office employees and free up space for manufacturing. The move could accommodate over 700 employees.

Bronmetal relocated its headquarters and main production plant to new facilities in Larrabetzu, Bizkaia, increasing capacity by 9,000 m². The new site is 3 km from the complementary warehouse.

Fleetwood Metal Industries, a parts supplier for Honda, will complete a 60,000 sq. ft. facility in Sylacauga, Alabama, as an expansion of its existing operations. The project is expected to create at least 30 jobs, with potential for 60-70 jobs.

Wright-Mix Material Solutions will invest $8.5 million to expand into an existing building at the Greenup/Boyd Riverport in Wurtland, Kentucky, creating 130 jobs. The facility will be used for automated toll blending and bagging of cement-based products.

Vistamed opened a €9 million expansion of its manufacturing facility in Carrick-on-Shannon, adding 45,000 square feet. The company's total workforce is now over 525.

Kurskkhimvolokno commissioned an expanded and modernized production line for high-strength polyamide technical thread, increasing capacity from 15,000 to 23,000 tonnes per year. The investment was 1.5 billion rubles, including a 300 million ruble loan from the Industrial Development Fund.

ABB is investing in a new R&D center at B&R headquarters in Eggelsberg and expanded production capacity in Gilgenberg, Austria. The technical office in Salzburg is being expanded to accommodate 50 new developers.

AkzoNobel's Specialty Chemicals business is investing over €20 million to increase production capacity for Expancel expandable microspheres at its Stockvik facility near Sundsvall, Sweden. Completion is expected by the end of 2018.

Medline opened a new 2,400-square-meter office building at its Kleve, Germany headquarters, adding 100 jobs. The company invested €7.5 million in the expansion, which includes a solar-powered administrative wing adjacent to its logistics center.

Fuji (Nachi-Fujikoshi) announced plans to build a new robot factory in Jiangsu Province, China, on a 90,000-square-meter site, to increase production capacity with robot-assembled lines.

Nachi-Fujikoshi plans to triple its industrial robot production in China to 1,000 units per month by next year.

Yaskawa Electric plans to more than double its industrial robot output at its facility in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China.

Covestro started operations at a new coextrusion plant for high-quality multilayered flat films at its Dormagen site in Germany. The investment is around EUR 20 million and creates 15 new jobs.

Abengoa is expanding the capacity of a desalination plant in Agadir, Morocco, from 100,000 to 150,000 m3/d for ONEE, and was awarded an additional 125,000 m3/d for irrigation, with total project value of €309 million.

Russian pharmaceutical company Medisorb is building a new workshop at its Perm site to produce the inhalation anesthetic Sevofluranmedisorb. The investment is about €11.5 million, with three production lines for solid and liquid forms.

Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI) announced a $75 million expansion of its Structural and Rail Division in Columbia City, Indiana. The project will add a rolling mill to produce 240,000 tons of reinforcing bar annually and create 33 jobs, with completion expected in Q4 2018.

The governments of Quebec and Canada have approved over $18 million in loans to Armoires Fabritec to increase production capacity at its Bromont plant. The $50 million project is expected to create over 530 jobs over five years.

Synthomer plc announced that its project to expand Nitrile Latex manufacturing capacity at the Pasir Gudang plant is underway, with an additional RM270 million investment. The facility is due to become the world's largest nitrile polymerisation reactor upon completion by July 2018, adding 200 kilo wet tonnes of capacity in two phases.

Tiarco Chemical, a subsidiary of Textile Rubber & Chemical Company, is expanding its Dalton, Georgia chemical production facility. Construction began in Q1 2017 and will be fully operational by Q2 2018, adding approximately 40% to the site's footprint.

Standard Textile has expanded its Union County, South Carolina facility twice since 2013, adding 50 new jobs, 39,000 square feet, and over USD 10 million in capital investment. The plant produces textiles for the hospitality industry.

Procter & Gamble announced plans to invest up to 5 billion rubles ($120 million) to expand its plant in the Tula region, Russia, for production of diapers and nonwoven products. The investment will modernize the existing facility and increase production volumes.

PJSC Sukhoi Company announced a tender for a 1.5 billion ruble ($26 million) reconstruction and technical re-equipment of its Novosibirsk Aviation Plant (NAZ) to produce air intakes, nacelles, and wing pivot units. Work is to be completed by end of 2020.

Seoul Pharmaceutical completed the relocation of its facilities from Siheung to the expanded Osong plant, enabling integrated production of all dosage forms starting July 2017.

Boehringer Ingelheim broke ground on a $217 million expansion of its Fremont, California manufacturing facility. The expansion will triple capacity and add nearly 300 new jobs.

Huber Engineered Materials increased production capacity by 20% at its Bauxite, Arkansas plant for fine precipitated Martinal LEO alumina trihydrate flame retardants, using technology from its 2016 acquisition of the Martinswerk facility.

Eagle Cement is completing a third integrated cement production line in Bulacan, expected operational by 2018, and will break ground on a fourth line in Cebu City by Q4 2017, with sales targeted by 2019.

Luyang Energy-Saving Materials plans to spend US$11 million to upgrade its mineral wool insulation plant in the Yiyuan Economic Development Zone in Shandong, China, adding 25,000 t/yr of capacity to reach 50,000 t/yr.

Jungheinrich celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Norderstedt plant and announced further expansion of manufacturing capacities at the site. The company has invested over EUR 230 million in the plant since 1967.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. will invest $9.5 million to expand its Clinical Diagnostics operations in Frederick County, Virginia, creating 57 new jobs.

Far Eastern New Century Corp (FENC) is expanding capacity in Vietnam with a project costing over US$700 million, aiming to make Vietnam its third-largest production base by 2020. A new knitted fabrics plant began operations in Q2 2017, and polyester garment factories are set to start by end of 2018.

Frederikshavn Havn is undergoing a half-billion Danish kroner expansion and has acquired a new Liebherr LH 60M High Rise material handling machine to improve cargo handling.

IFA Rotorion North America is expanding its Charleston area operations with a new 234,000-square-foot facility costing $69 million, adding about 120 new jobs. The company produces parts for automakers including BMW and Volvo.

Merck inaugurated a new packaging building at its biotech manufacturing site in Aubonne, Switzerland, on June 29, 2017. The CHF 27 million investment will handle visual inspection, secondary packaging, and shipping of biotech medicines to over 150 countries.

Doosan completed construction of a fuel cell plant in Iksan, South Korea, earlier in 2017. The plant will produce fuel cells worth 63 MW annually, the nation's largest capacity.

thyssenkrupp Materials de Mexico expanded its production in Silao, Guanajuato, by installing a Schuler blanking line with ServoDirect technology. The line produces up to 45,000 steel and aluminum blanks per day, increasing annual processing capacity by 70% to 270,000 tons.

BELFOX Torautomatik GmbH broke ground on a new development and production center in Mittelkalbach, Germany. The company is investing several million euros in two connected production halls of over 3,000 m² and a 1,000 m² administration wing.

Schoellershammer GmbH & Co. KG has commissioned a new paper production hall and material preparation facility at its headquarters in Düren, Germany, more than doubling its annual packaging paper production capacity to around 500,000 tons. Konecranes supplied three double-girder overhead cranes for the facility.