Sealed Air opened a production line for Korrvu retention packaging at its Qingpu facility in Shanghai, with an investment of more than US$1 million, bringing the site to nine lines.

Moog announced a $53 million expansion in Western New York, including a new 95,000-square-foot aircraft manufacturing facility in Elma, expected to be finished by December 2018, and a space propulsion facility in Wheatfield, expected by December 2021. The expansion is expected to add 200 new jobs.

Jaquar Group will expand one of its manufacturing units in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, with an investment of Rs 150 crore, increasing bath fitting capacity from 70,000-75,000 to 100,000 units per day.

Jiber Tekstil announced a TRY 10 million investment to double its factory in Diyarbakır Organized Industrial Zone, adding 7,000 square meters and creating 150 new jobs, with completion expected in 2018.

Skyworth's third-phase project in Lishui Economic Development Zone, Nanjing, will start production in September 2017, producing 1 million high-end refrigerator and washing machine smart control boards and drum washing machine motors annually.

ams announced the expansion of its business in Singapore with a new manufacturing facility in Ang Mo Kio, scheduled to open in July 2017, to meet growing demand for advanced sensor solutions. The company plans to spend several hundred million USD over time.

Emerson Climate Technologies, a manufacturer of HVAC and refrigeration products, is planning a $73 million renovation and expansion of its campus in Dayton, Ohio. The project includes adding to the current facility and rebuilding laboratory space.

Kolon Plastics held a completion ceremony for its second plant in Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, on 2017-05-23. The plant was built on a 66,000 m² site with a total investment of KRW 43 billion, adding capacity for engineering plastic compounds and CFRP composite materials. Production capacity is expected to increase by over 40% to 50,000 tonnes per year.

Micron expanded its Fab 10X in Singapore, adding 255,000 square feet of clean room space to the fabrication facility. The $4 billion project was completed in 18 months and will facilitate 3D NAND production. Air Liquide invested in an on-site ultra-pure nitrogen and oxygen production unit to support the expansion. The article was published on 2017-05-23.

Zhejiang Guxiandao Green Fiber Co., Ltd. completed an expansion project adding 100,000 tonnes per year of specialty polyester industrial fiber capacity at its site in Paojiang New District, Shaoxing. The project had a total investment of CNY 586 million and started trial production in October 2015. The environmental protection验收 was published on 2017-05-23.

DENSO Corporation will expand its Iwate plant in Kanegasaki-cho, Japan, with an investment of approximately $88 million (10 billion yen). The expansion will increase floor area from 106,000 m² to 126,000 m² and add about 384 jobs, with production starting in May 2019 and full operation by 2020.

Sepro Group plans to add large-robot assembly capabilities to its existing systems integration and service operations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to optimize delivery to North American clients.

Sepro Group announced a three-phase, €11 million expansion plan to increase production capacity at its headquarters in La Roche-sur-Yon, France, from 3,000 to 5,000 robots annually, and to add large-robot assembly capabilities at its Pittsburgh, PA facility.

GCP Applied Technologies will expand its manufacturing operations in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, investing $11 million and creating 29 new jobs. The expansion will add a new product line within its existing facility.

ExxonMobil Chemical Company announced the mechanical completion of two new 650,000 tons per year high-performance polyethylene lines at its Mont Belvieu, Texas plastics plant, increasing capacity by 1.3 million tons per year. Production is expected to begin in Q3 2017.

Covestro will expand capacity of its polycarbonate plant in Shanghai by 50% to 600,000 metric tons per year through equipment upgrades.

Tyumen Medical Plant (MIM) will invest 100 million rubles to build a new production building, creating 60 jobs and doubling production capacity.

Mapei's Hungarian unit is expanding its plant in Sóskút, Hungary, with an investment of HUF 2.4 billion. Capacity will double to 110,000 tons, and storage space to 15,000 sqm. Completion is scheduled for November 2017.

Shree Cement is investing Rs700 crore to build two new units near Raipur, Chhattisgarh, increasing capacity from 2.6 mtpa to 5.4 mtpa.

The 1100 MW Cricket Valley Energy Center, a combined cycle natural-gas-fired power plant in Dover, New York, achieved financial close and entered construction. Commercial operation is expected in 2020.

Saudi Arabian Mining Company Ma'aden signed an MOU with Alcoa to assess a potential expansion of the aluminium production complex in Ras Al-Khair Industrial City, aiming to increase primary aluminium capacity by 600,000 metric tonnes per year and create over 3,000 jobs.

DENSO announced it will invest about $135 million to build an additional plant at its DENSO Fukushima location in Tamura, Japan, to manufacture fuel pumps and injectors. Construction starts August 2017, production begins October 2018, and employment will increase to about 600 by 2023.

Faurecia is expanding operations at a facility in Queretaro, adding new production lines and 100 permanent jobs to the plant, which currently employs 450 workers.

Rolls-Royce started construction of a wide chord fan blades factory extension at its Barnoldswick site in December 2016, part of an almost £50 million investment. The expanded centre will be able to manufacture 6,000 large Trent fan blades per year, almost twice its current capacity.

Itron is expanding its Oconee County, South Carolina operations with a new manufacturing line for natural gas meters. The project involves $8 million in capital investment and will create 100 jobs.

Cressall Resistors has taken a lease on an 8,000 sq ft unit in Leicester to expand its UK operations for large-scale high power resistors and load banks. The expansion created 4 permanent and 23 temporary jobs.

B&R invested in a new high-performance SMT assembly line for circuit boards at its production site in Eggelsberg, Austria, increasing capacity by about 20%.

Ercros has received Integrated Environmental Authorization to expand chlorine production at its Sabiñánigo plant from 15,000 t/year to 45,000 t/year, with an investment of EUR 12 million. Completion is expected by end of 2017.

Wholesome Harvest Baking, a subsidiary of Grupo Bimbo, plans to invest $22.1 million to upgrade equipment and add a production line for artisan bread at its facility in Roanoke, Virginia. The company will retrain 324 existing employees.

Tenowo Inc., a Hoftex Group AG business, celebrated the grand opening of its expanded plant in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in late March 2017. The expansion added a 70,000 square foot building and a new production line using Multiknit technology transferred from Germany, with a total investment of $10 million. The new line began operation in January 2017.

Republic Cement and Building Materials Inc. plans to invest $250 million to $300 million over five years to boost annual domestic production capacity by one million tons. The expansion will involve debottlenecking and building new kilns.

VTL Group completed the design, manufacture and installation of a new robotic production line in Huddersfield for manufacturing aluminium 4-cylinder petrol cam carriers for Jaguar Land Rover engines. The line features 17 CNC machines and 12 robots, with capacity of nearly 10,000 parts per week.

Continental is investing approximately $12 million in its ContiTech PVC hose business, creating a new competence center at its upgraded Mount Pleasant, Iowa plant, with more than 40 jobs added.

Anheuser-Busch and its Metal Container Corporation unit held a ribbon cutting for a new aluminum bottle line at the Jacksonville plant. The $175 million expansion created 75 new jobs.

Pratt & Whitney installed a new atomization tower at its HMI facility in Clayville, New York, as part of a $7 million expansion that doubles output of nickel superalloy powder used in engine components.

Alluxa announced a factory expansion at its Santa Rosa location that will double production capacity over the next two years, increasing floor space to over 40,000 square feet and deposition machines to 24.

LyondellBasell broke ground on its first commercial Hyperzone polyethylene plant at its La Porte, Texas complex. The plant will produce 500,000 metric tons of HDPE annually and is planned to start up in 2019.

Rain Carbon Inc. announced detailed engineering for a new plant at its RÜTGERS Resins site in Uithoorn, Netherlands, to produce hydrogenated hydrocarbon resins with an annual capacity of 20,000 metric tons. Operations could begin by end of 2018.

Integer (Lake Region Medical) invested more than $7 million to expand its manufacturing capabilities in Salem, Virginia. The site has experienced 10% year-over-year employment growth over the past three years.

Hino Motors launched the expansion of a 110,000 square feet production line at its Marion, Arkansas facility to manufacture rear axles and front knuckle assemblies for Toyota Tacoma trucks. The project involved $280 million investment and over 300 new hires since 2013.

BluePrint Automation (BPA) has moved into a new 140,000 sq ft facility in Woerden, Netherlands. Sister company BPA Racupack will join from Culemborg to combine case packing and wrap-around expertise.

Electrozinc, part of UMMC, is building a new transformer substation (TP 6A) at its Vladikavkaz site to support the reconstruction of its sulfuric acid plant. The substation, supplied by NPO Sibelectroshchit, is expected to be completed in July 2017.

Orenburgsky Radiator, part of UMMC, will invest 75 million rubles in 2017 to expand its aluminum heat exchanger production line. The expansion includes a new automated sintering line and other equipment.

Electrolux is expanding its existing manufacturing facility in Anderson County, South Carolina, with a capital investment of more than $200 million. The project will add 800,000 square feet for manufacturing capacity and warehousing, with construction starting in summer 2017 and continuing through 2019.

AGC Asahi Glass will invest approximately 19 billion yen to relocate a float furnace and mirror manufacturing facility from its Jakarta Plant to the Cikampek Plant in West Java, Indonesia, increasing float glass capacity by 40% and mirror capacity by 30%. Mass production is scheduled to commence in Q1 2019.

3M will invest $34.5 million to expand its sponge manufacturing plant in Tonawanda, New York, retaining 308 jobs and creating 39 new positions. The project includes new high-speed wrapping equipment.

Exedy Corporation completed a US$87.8 million investment at its subsidiary Exedy-Dynax Mexico in Aguascalientes, expanding the plant by 136,000 square meters and creating 647 new jobs.

WIN Semiconductors Corp has completed phase 2 expansion at its Fab C wafer fab in Guishan, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, adding state-of-the-art clean rooms and equipment for GaAs MMIC production and optical devices. The facility will more than double capacity when fully built out.

Material-Plastik Ltd. begins a EUR 10 million expansion, building a new 6,000-square-meter factory hall and upgrading machinery to double production capacity of polyethylene film products.

Total inaugurated its revamped Carling-Saint-Avold petrochemical complex in eastern France after three years of transformation works, investing close to €200 million to upgrade facilities and build new units for polymer production.