Versum Materials will expand manufacturing capacity at its Delivery Systems and Service headquarters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to meet semiconductor industry demand. New technician, engineering and manufacturing positions will be created.

Grain Millers announced a $100 million expansion of its oat mill in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, adding 80,000 tonnes of capacity to double annual capacity to 160,000 tonnes. The project is expected to be operational in 2018.

Wausau Equipment Company completed its expansion into a newly acquired 46,900 square foot building in New Berlin, Wisconsin, housing a service parts warehouse, assembly line for SnoGo snow blowers, and office space.

PPG marked the completion of a new $19 million high-performance waterborne and high-solids coatings production line at its Wuhu facility in Anhui province, China, enhancing its automotive coatings business.

Golden Dragon Copper USA, Inc. plans to add 30-40 jobs at its existing copper manufacturing facility in Wilcox County, Alabama. The $100 million facility currently employs 300 people.

Fukoku America is spending $13.9 million on new machinery to boost production of CV joint boots and rack and pinion boots at its Laurens County plant. The expansion will add 65 jobs over four years and enable the plant to supply Honda directly as a Tier 1 supplier.

EBRD is extending a US$3 million loan to Ecosoft, Ukraine's leading water purification equipment producer, to increase production and storage capacity, purchase injection moulding equipment, commission a new warehouse, and launch production of reverse osmosis membranes.

Liftmoore, a manufacturer of truck cranes, has moved into a new facility that allows for expansion and increased production capacity through new machine purchases.

Crown plans to expand its Da Nang beverage can plant in Lien Chieu Industrial Park, Vietnam, to 1.6 billion cans in the fourth quarter of 2017. The plant was first built in 2013 with a 730 million can capacity and $40 million investment.

Emerson's Copeland Scroll division opened a new production line, Line 4, at its Reynosa compressor plant and is offering over 100 operator vacancies. The plant already employs about 730 people.

Munters Corporation will invest $2.5 million to expand and upgrade equipment at its manufacturing operation in Buena Vista, Virginia, creating 100 new jobs.

Raysut Cement commissioned an upgraded Gas Supply Station at its Salalah plant, adding 130,000-140,000 metric tonnes of cement output per annum.

Major Metals Inc. completed a 48,000 square-foot expansion at its Mansfield, Ohio facility, relocating a steel mill from North Carolina and creating at least 18 new jobs.

John Robertson & Sons opened a second food processing unit in Irvine, Ayrshire, with a £3 million investment, creating 11 new jobs.

Mitsubishi Electric will invest approximately 7 billion yen to construct a new building at its Himeji Works Hirohata Plant in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, to strengthen production of motor generators and inverters for HEVs and EVs. Operations are scheduled to start in May 2018.

Shinryo, part of Mitsubishi Chemical Group, plans to expand its 300mm wafer plating production capacity in winter of fiscal 2026 and install automated bump inspection equipment to meet growing demand for prototype and mass-production wafer bump plating services.

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. started up manufacturing facilities for breathable films at its Mitsui Hygiene Materials (Thailand) Co., Ltd. in Rayong Province, adding 4,200 tons per year of capacity, bringing total to 10,900 tons per year. The expansion serves growing demand for premium diapers in East and Southeast Asia.

PMC Biogenix significantly expanded production capacity for long chain fatty acid intermediates at its Memphis, Tennessee plant, increasing erucic and behenic acid capacity by approximately 50% and doubling C-20 fatty acid output. The expansion supports its fatty amide slip agent production.

Dyson Ltd. announced a new 517-acre campus in the Cotswolds, England, for R&D in robotics, batteries, vision systems and AI. Work starts in May 2017 with opening by end of 2017.

Canlar Mekatronik, a Turkish textile machinery manufacturer, plans to increase production capacity by 40% in 2017, targeting 35 machines per month, up from 25, by installing a new robotic welding line.

HVAC manufacturer The Whalen Company will rent additional space in the former Black & Decker building in Easton, Maryland, to develop and manufacture a new heat pump product line. It needs about 50,000 more square feet of manufacturing space.

Daikin North America LLC celebrated the first VRV unit off the production line at its new $417-million, 4-million-square-foot Daikin Texas Technology Park in Waller, Texas. The facility is expected to increase productivity by 22% and reduce lead times.

Hamilton Standard-Nauka has started construction of the second phase of its aircraft heat exchanger production complex in Kimry, Tver Oblast, with investments exceeding RUB 877 million. The total investment will reach about RUB 1.4 billion.

VÚHŽ, a subsidiary of Třinecké železárny, has started modernising its special profiles rolling mill with an investment of CZK 83 million to increase capacity by 50% and expand product portfolio. The project is expected to be completed by the end of January 2018.

Panasonic Eco Solutions Vietnam broke ground on an additional factory building in Binh Duong Province, costing about 1 billion yen. The expansion aims to double wiring device and circuit breaker capacity by FY2020.

Welch Packaging Group added new corrugation equipment in a new factory addition in Elkhart, Indiana, enabling it to make its own cardboard; the first board came off the machinery on Nov. 14.

PMC Hydraulika is expanding its Rosówek plant near Szczecin by another 1.5 thousand square meters, to 3.8 thousand square meters by the end of August 2017, with 20-30 new jobs expected within 12-18 months.

Nidec announced plans to build a plant in Ohio and two plants in northern Spain to produce large servo press machines for the U.S. and Mexican markets. The plants are estimated to cost US$ 88.1 million and will come online by 2020.

PE Cold Storage is expanding its pre-cooling facility in the Coega Industrial Development Zone with a R100 million investment, doubling capacity from 7,500 to 15,000 pallets. Construction began in late 2016 and is expected to be completed by March 2017.

Indorama invested US$25 million in its subsidiary PT Medisafe Technologies to build a sixth plant at its North Sumatra complex, increasing rubber glove production capacity to 2.7 billion per year and creating 1,700 jobs.

Centrica begins installation of a new gas turbine and major refurbishment at the mothballed King's Lynn power station, part of a £180 million investment programme. The 370MW plant is expected to be operational in 2019, creating 30 permanent jobs.

A Cascades and Sonoco joint venture plans to invest $16 million to expand its Birmingham, Alabama plant for a new line of recyclable take-out containers. The line is expected to start up by mid-2018; the announcement is dated 2017-02-24.

Arkema has doubled the capacity of its Kepstan PEKK product line in France, completed recently, to serve the carbon fibre reinforced composites and additive manufacturing markets.

The Iron Ore Company of Canada is investing $79 million to develop the Wabush 3 mining pit near Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador, to boost production capacity to 23 million tonnes by the second half of 2018.

ARM Cement plans to expand grinding capacity at its one million tonne-per-year plant in Athi River, Kenya, by 500,000 tonnes over the next 12 to 14 months to meet rising demand. The expansion is funded by internal resources.

Caterpillar Inc. plans to significantly increase manufacturing capabilities and capacity for hydraulic excavators at a facility under construction in Victoria, Texas.

Petainer Innopac Packaging is installing an additional line at its Maharashtra facility, with each new line investment reported at INR 14 crore. The report is dated 2017-02-23.

Wacker Chemie AG is investing €25 million to build a new dispersion reactor with an annual capacity of 60,000 metric tons at its Burghausen site. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.

Formosa Plastics Group also plans a $5 billion investment to expand production lines in Texas, with completion expected by 2018.

Fives commissioned two new cement milling units at Qatar National Cement Company's fifth production line in Umm Bab, Qatar, on January 25 and February 6, 2017. The line is a turnkey 5000tpd plant still under construction, with equipment including two 4200kW FCB B-mills for cement grinding.

Steel and Alloy Processing, a subsidiary of Gonvarri Steel Services, has begun construction of a new GBP 27 million factory in Oldbury, UK. The project will create about 150 jobs over three phases, with the first phase (50 jobs) expected to be operational by November 2017.

GE Aviation is constructing two adjacent plants in Huntsville, Alabama, to produce ceramic matrix composite (CMC) components. The $200 million project will produce silicon-carbide fiber and CMC tape, with capacity of up to 20 metric tons per year and about 300 employees when fully operational.

Huron Inc. is planning a 40,000 square foot addition to its factory in Worth Township, Michigan, and the creation of 181 new full-time manufacturing jobs over three years. Construction is expected to start in April 2017 and be completed by October 2017.

EDAC Technologies received a loan under Connecticut's First Five program to expand its Cheshire facility, retaining 349 jobs and creating 200 new jobs. The funding will assist in acquiring machinery and equipment.

TemperPack will invest $2 million to expand its headquarters and manufacturing operations in Richmond, Virginia, creating 23 new jobs. The expansion was announced by the Richmond mayor and Virginia's Secretary of Commerce and Trade.

Evapco Inc. will invest $15 million to expand its factory in Taneytown, Maryland, constructing a 160,000-square-foot building and adding more than 125 jobs over five years.

Pfizer is continuing construction at its Rocky Mount, North Carolina site, increasing the scope of its sterile injectable manufacturing facility expansion from $159 million to $190 million, adding a 65,000-square-foot adjacent facility. No new jobs are expected.

Oxco Inc., a light manufacturer and supplier of nonwoven materials, is launching new operations in York County, South Carolina, with a 150,000-square-foot facility (expandable to 200,000 sq ft), creating over 130 new jobs and bringing approximately $13 million in capital investment.

Dearing Plastics has agreed to lease a 40,000 sq ft warehouse at Humber Enterprise Park in Brough, moving from Hull next month as part of expansion plans. The move is expected to lead to additional staff hiring.

Hunan Fumake delivered a second fully automatic betel nut packaging line (10 packaging machines) to a major betel nut enterprise in Hunan, China. The line is expected to be operational in early March 2017.