Suzlon Group has created facilities for generating 1,000 MWs of wind energy in Anantapur district, of which 600 MWs was being generated. The capacity would be enhanced to 1,000 MWs by May 2017.
Lycoming Engines announced it will expand its operations in Williamsport, PA, bringing outsourced component manufacturing back in-house. The company plans to acquire new equipment and add 33 to 36 new jobs, with an overall project cost of about $12 million.
AccraFabb decided to retain its 155,000-sq.-ft. headquarters in Liberty Lake, Washington, adding 15 new jobs and retaining 160 existing jobs, with a capital investment of $500,000.
V&F Transformer Corporation is investing $1.4 million to expand and upgrade its Celina, Tennessee facility, creating approximately 50 new jobs over five years.
Cavalier Tool & Manufacturing is nearing completion of a multi-million dollar 14,000-square-foot expansion at its Windsor, Ontario plant. The addition will be dedicated to advanced assembly and final manufacturing, and the company expects to hire at least 20 additional skilled trades workers.
Element Six, a world leader in synthetic diamond super-materials, announced a €7 million investment to expand its Shannon facility, creating 100 new jobs in supply chain, engineering and manufacturing. The investment brings total spend at Shannon to €40 million over four years.
Enhanced Community Development, Wells Fargo and Three Rivers Community Development Entity are helping finance Mueller Copper Tube's expansion of its existing Fulton, Mississippi production facility, which will purchase equipment and add permanent jobs.
Hytorc, rebranding its HydroWer hydraulic pump business as Hytorc Technologies, is moving into a new and larger facility in Sprockhovel, Germany to bring all departments together and increase output.
Response Packaging, a returnable packaging manufacturer, is expanding its existing facility at 1698 Perimeter Road in Greenville, South Carolina, with $5 million of new capital investment and 100 new jobs.
Almac Group secured new premises in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, adding 32,000 sq ft of European footprint. The investment will create up to 100 new jobs within two years.
PAC Machinery completed plans to relocate its Converting Technology plant to a 72,000-square-foot facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, doubling manufacturing capacity. The move will create new jobs in customer service, sales, engineering, and manufacturing.
Tank Connection is nearing completion of an expansion at its Galesburg, KS facility, adding a technologically advanced glass/porcelain enamel coating line for liquid storage tank panels. The new line came online in January 2017.
Lear Corporation is expanding its existing operations in Duncan, South Carolina, adding equipment and upgrading infrastructure with a $7.7 million capital investment to support automotive seating programs for Volvo and BMW assembly plants.
Saarstahl AG granted final acceptance to SMS group for the expansion of the high-capacity wire rod mill at the Burbach location. The modernization included adding two stands to the roughing mill, a shear, a four-strand switch and a pinch roll unit, enabling larger initial pass sections.
Triangle Fluid Controls is launching a C$1.86 million expansion at its Belleville, Ontario plant, adding 12,600 sq ft of floor space and new production and lab testing equipment, and expects to create 10 jobs over three years.
Colruyt Group inaugurated a new meat processing site in Halle, Belgium, with an investment of over €85 million. The 18,000 m² expansion doubles the capacity of the existing meat center and is expected to create 150 jobs.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems (MTH) is expanding its joint venture MACO in Thailand by building a third factory for parts manufacturing and an electrical components factory. The expansion will increase production volume to 2.7 million units by fiscal 2020, with a total investment of approximately ¥3.0 billion.
M-D Building Products is expanding its Oklahoma City headquarters with a 100,000-square-foot addition and adding 105 jobs over three years, with an $11.9 million investment. Construction has already broken ground and will be completed by summer 2017.
Indorama Ventures held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the expansion of its tire-cord manufacturing line at the Performance Fibers facility in Kaiping, China, adding 60,000 tonnes per year capacity. The new line is expected to start in early 2018.
Teknor Apex will invest $32.2 million to build a 200,000-square-foot distribution facility in Brownsville, Tennessee, creating 50 new jobs. The expansion will allow growth of manufacturing units at its existing plant.
Armo-Tool is investing more than $7.6 million to expand its London, Ontario facility and upgrade equipment, creating 15 new jobs and retaining 145 positions. The Ontario government is contributing $611,600.
Kruger is investing C$250 million with Investissements Québec to convert its Trois-Rivières newsprint mill to make lightweight cardboard packaging, starting production May 7, and plans to hire about 100 workers within five years.
AkzoNobel plans to invest $10 million in its Nashville operations and hire 70 people over five years, including 40 professional service positions and manufacturing roles.
WireCo WorldGroup has begun a $14 million expansion of its manufacturing facility in Sedalia, Missouri, adding 90,000 square feet and over 30 jobs, with completion targeted for early 2017 and equipment installation by summer 2017.
China Engineering Machinery Corporation (CMEC) began assembling mining equipment at Serbia's Drmno coal mine to increase production by 3 million metric tons per year, as part of a $123 million project for the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS).
Craig Manufacturing completed a 25,000 square foot addition to its Hartland, New Brunswick plant, adding 19 welding bays and two 30-ton cranes. The company invested $3.5 million, with $1 million in government grants.
i2r Packaging Solutions opened a new warehouse at its Telford manufacturing facility after investing about £1.5m in 2016. Staff are expected to rise from 85 to 100 and the company plans to add aluminium and paper lines.
SAIL inaugurated a new Universal Rail Mill at its Bhilai Steel Plant on January 23, 2017, established at a cost of about INR 12 billion. The mill can produce the world's longest single rails of 130 meters, and increases the plant's total rail production capacity to 2.0 million tonnes per annum.
Hima Cement Limited began construction of a cement grinding station in Nyakesi, Rubongi, Tororo, Eastern Uganda, as part of a $40 million capacity expansion. The project will add 1 million metric tons of cement capacity, bringing total capacity to 1.9 million metric tons per year.
ebm-papst is investing €15 million in the second construction phase of its St. Georgen/Hagenmoos facility, adding 3,800 square meters of space. The expansion includes installation of NOVA air conditioners with ebm-papst EC fans.
BASF completed a capacity increase of its MDI production facilities at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium, raising annual capacity from 560,000 to 650,000 metric tons.
Automated Tool & Machine announced plans to acquire and relocate to a 50,000 square foot industrial building in Rosman, North Carolina, to increase investment and add jobs.
Ogura Clutch Changxing held a ground-breaking ceremony for a new plant adjacent to its current facility in Changxing, China, expanding total floor space from 6,640 m² to 10,728 m² and increasing automotive air conditioning clutch production capacity from 300,000 to 2 million clutches per year.
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical, through subsidiary PT Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia, awarded an EPC contract to Toyo Engineering Korea and PT Inti Karya Persada Tehnik for a butadiene expansion project at its Cilegon complex. Capacity will increase by 37%, with completion expected in Q3 2018.
Penza company Decor Trade, working with Hubei Jingshan Light Industrial Machinery, is expanding corrugated cardboard production under a project worth over 150 million rubles that began in 2015. The expansion targets a sevenfold increase in output to 7 million square metres per month.
Premold Corp. added a second location in Monterrey, Mexico, with pilot production starting in October 2016 and full production in December 2016.
Novelis Deutschland GmbH issued the Final Acceptance Certificate to Tenova for an automotive aluminium finishing line at its Nachterstedt plant in Germany. The $85 million investment adds 120,000 metric tons of annual capacity for automotive sheet.
Jones Plastic and Engineering Co. LLC announced an expansion of its Camden, TN facility, investing $4.5 million and creating 52 new jobs to accommodate growing demand and new equipment.
IMS Robotics, a world market leader in robots for sewer rehabilitation, is expanding its facility in Ottendorf to accommodate growth.
Kovostroj plans to invest €10 million in a new line for lacquered and coated steel coils at its Dobšiná plant, creating 70 jobs, with production start in first half of 2018.
Covestro is building a new coextrusion line for multi-layer flat films at its Dormagen site, investing €20 million and creating 15 jobs, with startup expected in Q3 2017.
Tambrands, a Procter & Gamble company, is expanding its Auburn, Maine tampon plant with a $6.2 million, 33,212-square-foot addition to accommodate up to two new production lines. The project broke ground in fall 2016 and is expected to be completed in June 2017.
Federated Co-operatives Limited's Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina, Saskatchewan is investing $200 million in a Wastewater Improvement Project to clean and recycle wastewater, supporting a production expansion from 100,000 to 130,000 barrels per day.
The Chemours Co. broke ground on a new HFO-1234yf production facility at its Corpus Christi plant in Ingleside, Texas, which will triple the company's capacity for its low-GWP refrigerant products.
Archer Western was selected to expand the Fowler Wastewater Reclamation Facility in Forsyth County, Georgia, in a $63 million project that will double and later triple capacity.
Arif Habib Group will invest Rs25 billion ($235 million) in a new cement plant that will increase Power Cement's installed capacity from 0.9 million tons to 3.37 million tons. The plant is expected to be completed in two years.
NORMA Group is investing nearly $1,000,000 to expand its North American test labs and product development facilities in Auburn Hills and St. Clair, Michigan, and test labs in Monterrey, Mexico, to support lighter exhaust, powertrain, and electric-vehicle components.
LeeWooT&C (이우티이씨) purchased an additional 2,200 pyeong of land in Naju Innovation Industrial Complex to expand production lines for high-efficiency transformers, following strong orders from KEPCO.
SWE Energie is expanding its Erfurt East combined heat and power plant by adding a third gas turbine heat recovery boiler (Line 3) with 35 MW electricity output and a 250 MWh heat accumulator.
Xspec Power and Critical Power Management moved from South Charleston to a new, larger location in Elkview, West Virginia, to meet growing demand for generators.