D. Wheatley Enterprises (DWE) is relocating its headquarters and manufacturing operations to Belcamp, Harford County, investing over $2.3 million in a new 45,000 sq ft building and adding 40 new jobs over four years.

Panasonic Corporation opened the Refrigeration Compressor Business Unit (RCBU) in Singapore, relocating it from Kusatsu City, Shiga, Japan. The new headquarters will be within Panasonic Appliances Refrigeration Devices Singapore and will integrate R&D, sales, marketing, and manufacturing functions to serve Asian markets.

PP Control & Automation opened a £1 million extension to its factory in Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire, adding 10,765 sq ft of production space. The company plans to double sales to £40 million by 2021.

Watson Metal Masters Inc. is expanding its manufacturing plant in Republic, Missouri, with a $4.8 million investment that will double floor space to 47,000 square feet and add 40 jobs. The expansion is expected to be completed in August 2017.

American Metals Group plans to bring 80 jobs to Childersburg, Alabama.

Cemex inaugurated a new packaging and palletising line at its San Pedro de Macorís plant in the Dominican Republic, representing an investment of DOP400m (US$8.5m) and increasing capacity by 30% to over 3Mta.

Electrical equipment manufacturer Aiden (Kanazawa) is investing approximately 500 million yen to expand production capacity for industrial control panels by 30%. The investment includes a new second factory on its premises and the introduction of automation robots at the main factory, as well as an overseas base.

Okmetic announced a €40 million investment in its Vantaa, Finland plant to increase production capacity of C-SOI wafers for sensors and linear integrated circuits.

Flint Group completed a major investment in additional capacity at its water-based coatings site in Willstaett, Germany, and launched an extended range of Novaset specialty coatings.

Woodward Inc. plans to establish a second campus in Loves Park, Illinois for its Aircraft Turbine Systems business, investing $200 million over 10 years and doubling its workforce by 2021.

UACJ Automotive Whitehall Industries Inc. is adding a 56,000 square foot expansion to its Paducah facility, including machining centers, robotics and fabrication equipment, creating up to 50 jobs.

Henkel's Adhesive Technologies business unit will construct a factory for aerospace adhesives at its Montornés del Vallés facility in Barcelona, with an investment of EUR 25-40 million. First delivery is scheduled for 2019.

Toray Industries Inc. will install prototype equipment to develop higher value spun bonded fabrics at its Shiga Plant in Japan, with operation starting in November 2017.

PPG completed a $3m expansion of its packaging coatings manufacturing at its Oak Creek, Wisconsin plant, adding a 3,300 sq ft facility to produce food can coatings.

PPG opened a nearly $3 million expansion at its Oak Creek, Wisconsin, plant, adding a 3,300-square-foot facility for food-can coatings production.

Outokumpu has enhanced its stainless bar production capabilities at its Richburg, South Carolina facility with a new coil-to-bar peeling line and full reinforcement bar capabilities, increasing stainless bar production capacity by more than 15,000 metric tons annually.

Perfetti van Melle USA will expand its manufacturing plant near Erlanger, Kentucky, with an $11 million investment, adding 70 new jobs and increasing manufacturing and packaging capacity by nearly 50%.

Oji Fibre Solutions unveiled upgraded and expanded facilities at its Penrose paper bag plant in Auckland after a NZ$30 million investment. The new conversion line adds 48 million dairy and food powder bags a year, bringing total output to about 100 million bags.

Croda International plans to invest £27 million to expand production capacity for polymer additives at its Hull facility in the UK, almost doubling existing capacity. The new capacity is scheduled to come on stream in late 2018.

Evoqua Water Technologies is upgrading its SeaCURE system production facility in Caldicot, Wales, to meet demand for ballast water treatment systems ahead of the Ballast Water Management Convention coming into force in September 2017.

Winpak Portion Packaging, Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 348,000-square-foot expansion to its existing facility in Sauk Village, Illinois, doubling its manufacturing, office and warehouse space.

Owens Corning is investing over Rs 1,100 crore to expand its fibreglass facility in Taloja, India.

Emerson officially opened an expanded factory in Łódź, Poland, nearly doubling its production area to 13,500 square metres and making it Emerson's largest ASCO valve plant in Europe. The investment cost over 20 million PLN.

Tenowo, Inc. celebrated the grand opening of its expanded plant in Lincolnton, NC, involving a new 70,000 sq ft building and a new production line, with a total investment of $10 million.

Continental Motors Group will remain in Mobile, Alabama, with the Mobile Airport Authority building a 260,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and corporate office. Total capital investment is estimated at $70 million, with $30 million for the facility and $40 million for new equipment.

Turkish nonwovens producer Mogul officially opened its first U.S. investment in Grey Court, South Carolina, a 3.2-meter spunlace line with 15,000 tons annual capacity, creating over 70 jobs.

RadiciGroup has installed new production lines at its Radici Chemiefaser plant in Selbitz, Germany, to expand its offering of products for the abrasives and industrial felt sectors, under the dorix® teck brand.

RadiciGroup, through its subsidiary Tessiture Pietro Radici, will install a new production line for spunbond fibers based on Bico Technology by the end of 2017, increasing production capacity by about 50 percent.

Akoustis Technologies received an incentive package from Empire State Development offering up to $8 million in tax credits for its planned expansion into Canandaigua, New York, including acquisition of a 120,000 sq ft wafer manufacturing facility. The company plans to create 214 new jobs and invest up to $20 million over five years.

Longwood Elastomers added presses at its Branham facility in Texas to expand service offerings for the oil and gas market.

IOI Loders Croklaan is expanding its production facility in Rexdale, Ontario, Canada, adding new deodorization capacity, with commissioning scheduled for July 2017.

Constellium installed a new recycling furnace at its Muscle Shoals, Alabama facility, boosting recycling output by 170 million pounds per year.

OAO Slutsky Zavod Pod'yomno-Transportnogo Oborudovaniya is reconstructing existing facilities and building a new workshop to produce cranes with capacity up to 240 tons, a first for Belarus. The project is a public-private partnership with BELAZ-HOLDING.

Synthopol Chemie invested around €20 million in a new production plant for synthetic resins at its Buxtehude site, including a new six-story hall. The new plant started production on 30 January 2017 and can produce 8,000 to 10,000 tonnes per year.

ConvaTec is expanding its Unomedical infusion set business to increase production capacity for Medtronic's insulin pump consumables, as part of a long-standing partnership.

HP Pelzer Automotive Systems will create 124 jobs and invest $13.5 million to expand its operations in Port Huron, Michigan, including a new production facility at 2356 Beard St.

Continental Dairy Facilities and Fairlife LLC announced a $173 million collaborative project to add on-site wastewater treatment capacity at their dairy processing plant in Coopersville, Michigan. The upgrade will create 52 new jobs and allow Fairlife to add capacity for fairlife, Core Power, and Yup products, and Continental Dairy to produce butter and buttermilk powder.

Ford Motor Co will announce production of a new 7X engine for large pickup trucks at its Essex Engine Plant in Windsor, Ontario. The investment is part of $700 million secured in a 2016 agreement, with about $600 million for Windsor's two engine plants. Production is expected to start in 2019 with about 125,000 units per year.

Abiomed held the grand opening of its expanded global headquarters in Danvers, Massachusetts, doubling the size from 60,000 to 160,000 square feet. The $40 million investment added research, manufacturing, and training capabilities, and created over 150 engineering and manufacturing jobs.

Trimet Automotive is building a 6,500 sqm hall at its Harzgerode foundry to increase production capacity. The €50 million investment with partner Schlote will create around 100 jobs by 2019.

Perfetti van Melle USA will expand its Erlanger, Kentucky manufacturing plant with an $11 million investment, adding 70 full-time jobs in 2017 and growing manufacturing and packaging capacity by nearly 50 percent.

NGK Insulators will invest about 29.0 billion yen to expand production of GPF and SiC DPF ceramics at NGK Ceramics Polska's Gliwice plant and its No. 2 plant in Dabrowa Gornicza. Capacity is to rise to about three times for GPFs and 30% for SiC DPFs by April 2020.

Biffa Polymers built a new recycled High Density Polyethylene (rHDPE) line at its Redcar facility, doubling output from 9,000 to 18,000 tonnes per year. The line opened on 29 March 2017 and created 20 new jobs.

Cemex inaugurated the expansion of its Arizona cement plant in Puerto de San José, Escuintla, Guatemala, with a US$3.7 million investment. The expansion increases production capacity by 10% to 545,000 tonnes per year and boosts bagging capacity from 65 to 95 tonnes per hour.

Orizon Aerostructures will invest $45 million to expand its Grove, Oklahoma plant by 80,000 square feet and add 60 new jobs. The expansion includes installation of six Ecospeed machines for F-35 parts.

Cristalchile will invest $100 million to expand a plant near Santiago, adding a new furnace with 400 tonnes/day melting capacity and increasing annual production by about 100,000 tonnes. The expansion is expected to start operations in the second half of 2019.

Plansee announced a €10 million investment in a new production line for medical engineering products at its Breitenwang facility in Reutte, Austria. The line is expected to enter use within 12 months and is part of a total €46 million investment at the site.

Demix Aggregates is constructing a new state-of-the-art processing plant at its quarry north of St. Martin in the Renaud district of Laval, Quebec. The project includes two new Metso crushers and other equipment, with completion expected by the end of summer 2017.

UTT de México, a subsidiary of UTT, inaugurated an expansion of its airbag manufacturing facility in Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico. The overall investment since 2012 amounts to approximately 200 million pesos. The facility produces fabric for airbags using synthetic yarns and created 42 jobs.

Trimet Aluminium SE is investing around 50 million euros to expand production capacity at its foundry in Harzgerode, Germany, and build new processing halls, creating about 100 new jobs. The expansion is enabled by a major contract to produce up to one million aluminum clutch housings annually for an automotive supplier starting in 2018.