Central Wire, Inc. is expanding its wire operation in Lancaster County, South Carolina, adding two state-of-the-art welding wire manufacturing lines. The expansion is expected to bring $2 million in new capital investment and create 18 new jobs.

Bombardier Transportation formally opened a 20,000 sqm factory floor in Wrocław, Poland, for high-speed train bodyworks, with an investment of nearly 250 million PLN. The investment brings 100 new jobs.

Kruger is rebuilding Paper Machine 10 at its Trois-Rivières mill to produce 100% recycled linerboard, with about $250 million invested and completion expected in May 2017. About $135 million of the budget has been committed to date.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company broke ground on a $485 million expansion of its tire factory in Pulandian, Dalian, China. The expansion will increase capacity by about 5 million tires per year when completed in 2020.

AT&S is ramping up two new plants in Chongqing, China, for high-end printed circuit boards and IC substrates. The ramp-up of plant 1 is flatter than expected due to process optimizations.

Kamensk-Uralsk Metallurgical Works (KUMW) is constructing the second stage of a new rolling complex with a capacity of 160,000 tonnes of aluminium products per year. The first stage was launched in May 2015.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences is investing $7 million to expand its manufacturing facility in Westborough, Massachusetts, tripling clean-room production capacity for single-use bioprocessing products.

PPG completed the first phase of an expansion project at its Tepotzotlán plant in Mexico, adding production and distribution capacity for adhesives and sealants for automotive products.

High Liner Foods is investing $13 million to upgrade its Lunenburg, Nova Scotia plant and adding 70 union jobs, as it moves production from two idled facilities in Massachusetts to Canada.

PPG has expanded the capacity of its silica plant in Delfzijl, Netherlands, to over 15,000 tons per year to meet growing global demand for Agilon Performance Silica used in tire manufacturing.

HDT Global is transitioning its Buena Vista, VA manufacturing operations to a new facility adjacent to its Huntsville, AL facility, creating over 120 jobs. The company also announced the opening of a new HDT Battle Lab and Advanced Development (BLADE) Center in Spotsylvania, VA.

Eriez is investing US$425,000 in a new rotor manufacturing facility at its European manufacturing headquarters in South Wales.

Armada Nutrition will expand its operations in Spring Hill, Tennessee, with a $2.1 million investment, taking over Capstone Nutrition's 300,000 sq ft facility and creating 310 new jobs while retaining 111.

OSRAM inaugurated the expansion of its plant in Apodaca, Mexico, with a $10 million investment. The facility doubled in size to 15,857 m², added two production lines (total 12), and created 500 new jobs.

WestRock announced in October 2016 a $48 million expansion of its Sioux City, Iowa corrugated box operations, consolidating two plants into an 82,000 square foot addition at the Bridgeport Drive plant with new automated equipment.

Heliotek, a Bosch Group brand, invested R$1 million in new machinery to double its solar thermal collector production capacity at its plant in Barueri, Brazil. The new line will start operating in 2017.

In October 2016, Metal Shark installed a new 150' x 80' building for final assembly at its Franklin, Louisiana shipyard, as part of ongoing expansions.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) announced the official launch of a 12-inch integrated circuit production line at its Shenzhen facility. The new line will have a total designed capacity of 40,000 wafers per month, with early production expected to begin by the end of 2017.

Wittmann Battenfeld Inc. opened a new 50,000-square-foot plant at its Torrington, Connecticut headquarters, enabling it to double US production of robots to about 1,000 per year. The new facility includes a paint booth, machining center, welding booth, and a new robot assembly line.

Calgon Carbon Corporation was awarded up to $15.4 million from the U.S. Government under the Defense Production Act Title III Program to construct a manufacturing facility at its Pearl River plant in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The award became effective September 21, 2016, construction is expected to begin in January 2018, and the new capability is expected to be operational by March 2019.

Crown Equipment Corp. opened a new facility near Los Angeles to meet growing customer demand, offering forklifts, warehouse design services and fleet management systems.

DMA Groupe, a specialist in high-speed assembly and marking machines, inaugurated an extension of its facility in Martignat, France, adding 1,100 m² of workshop and 500 m² of office space, bringing total industrial space to 2,500 m² and office space to 800 m².

The Kloten Opfikon wastewater treatment plant in Switzerland commissioned WABAG Water Technology Ltd. to double its capacity from 65,000 to 125,000 p.e. using the Nereda process, with a project value of more than EUR 8 million.

Wholesome Harvest Baking, a division of Grupo Bimbo, installed Mayekawa's NewTon ammonia/CO2 packaged refrigeration system at its bread-making plant in Etobicoke, Toronto. It is the first industrial installation of the system in Canada.

Safran Landing Systems broke ground in fall 2016 on a $100 million-plus expansion at its Walton, Kentucky plant, which manufactures aircraft carbon brakes. The expansion aims to meet rising demand in North America.

Altopro SA de CV plans a $50 million expansion of its Irapuato facility, including a new five-layer polypropylene oriented film line from Brückner, expected operational in early 2017 and adding about 40 million pounds of capacity.

Mater-Biotech, a subsidiary of Novamont, refurbished and expanded a biochemical plant in Adria, Italy, producing 1-4 Butanediol from renewable sources. Fluence provided water treatment, wastewater treatment, and waste-to-energy systems.

Ball Corporation's 92,440 sq ft addition to its Canton, Ohio food and household packaging plant, housing a new can printing line, was built by Campbell Construction and completed in August 2016 for $32 million.

Sandler AG formally inaugurated a new production building and manufacturing line at its Schwarzenbach/Saale, Bavaria plant in July 2016, with the line already running at high capacity.

Arkema completed the first phase of a $16 million expansion at its St. Charles Plant in Hahnville, Louisiana, adding 12 tanks. The project plans to build 22 tanks by 2019.

Hoist Liftruck moved its forklift manufacturing operation from Illinois to East Chicago, Indiana, after purchasing and renovating an abandoned industrial site. The relocation was celebrated at a ribbon cutting and open house in March.

Anheuser-Busch broke ground in March 2016 on a $175 million expansion of its Metal Container Corporation plant in Jacksonville, Florida, to make 16 oz aluminum bottles, with Haskell and Benham building it and 75 new jobs promised.

Nitricomax, part of MAXAM Chem, has submitted a project to expand its nitric acid production facilities in La Canonja, Tarragona. The investment could exceed EUR 10 million, with production start planned for the first half of 2017.

Elmo tripled the production capacity of its Israeli facility during 2015 and 2016 as demand for its servo drives grew.

Fernco, Inc. moved its manufacturing and distribution operations to a new 150,000 sq. ft. facility in Davison, Michigan, a mile from its headquarters. The facility, which became fully operational in November 2015, features new injection molding machines and robotic equipment, increasing production and shipping capacity by 15%.

Kruger completed the conversion of its No. 10 newsprint machine at the Trois-Rivières mill in Quebec into a lightweight linerboard line with 360,000 tonnes annual capacity, creating 270 jobs. The project was first announced with the Government of Quebec in September 2015.

Dindings Poultry Processing Sdn Bhd completed a greenfield poultry processing project in Malaysia in 2015, with two primary processing lines (12,000 bph and 6,000 bph) and a combined secondary processing department, supplied by Marel Poultry.