Welch Packaging reported an expansion of its Indianapolis operations with a new 98-inch Fosber corrugator. The announcement was made in July 2022.
Atlas Copco will invest 70 million euros over three years in production capacity and expanded R&D facilities at its Wilrijk site in Antwerp, Belgium, including a smart factory extension and additional laboratories and production space.
Brose will invest MXN 404 million to expand its facility in Colón, Mexico, including acquiring an 800-ton press from Servornechanich for a project with Volvo.
Automation machinery maker Mühlbauer Inc., the US subsidiary of Germany's Mühlbauer Group, will invest $9 million to upgrade its Oakland Industrial Park facility in Newport News, Virginia, adding production equipment and creating 32 jobs.
Sartorius opened a new 10,000-square-meter building with about 2,400 square meters of clean rooms at its M'Hamdia site in Tunisia, after investing more than 20 million euros to increase fluid management production.
CompAir, part of Ingersoll Rand, has completed the transfer of foreign screw compressor production capacity to its Simmern site in Germany, which is being upgraded and reconfigured.
Tigard-based NSI, a supplier of gas and chemical delivery systems to semiconductor makers, is moving from 15,000 sq ft of buildings to a newly built 62,000 sq ft plant in Sherwood, Oregon, in 2022, described as a multiple-million-dollar investment.
Fluid blending equipment maker Fusion Fluid Equipment plans a $6.1 million, 42,000 sq ft expansion of its Whitehall, Michigan production facility, creating 35 jobs over three years.
Saica plans a second phase at its Hamilton, Ohio plant, adding two converting machines including a 4-colour Bobst flexo folder-gluer and a 2-colour Bobst rotary die-cutter. Civil works are to start in coming months, with both machines running in the second half of 2023.
HUBER SE started construction of a new production hall of about 7,000 m² at its Berching, Germany headquarters, expanding its two existing halls for its 150th anniversary. The new hall is expected to relieve existing halls and allow other process areas to expand.
Danfoss Group company Eaton Fluid Power inaugurated a new hydrostatics production line at its Pune Pimpri campus to raise localisation and serve growing demand in the Indian market, especially agriculture.
Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn is installing new syngas compressors to raise ammonia capacity at its Poland plant, a PLN 180 million (about $43.5 million) project with completion expected in H1 2023.
Multivac has started a production hall extension of about 5,000 square metres at its Bozhurishte, Bulgaria site, costing around €5 million, with completion planned for fall 2022.
LUFKIN Industries relocated the machine shop operations of its Don-Nan unit from Midland, Texas to an expanded facility in Claremore, Oklahoma, adding at least 70 full-time jobs. A ribbon cutting for the expanded facility took place on February 10, 2022.
GN Solids Control's new Yutian factory project for capacity expansion, covering 78,000 m2, has entered its final construction stage and is expected to add capacity in 2022.
Zhejiang Taitian Compressor Co. plans a technical renovation project to produce 300,000 compressor units per year at an existing plant in Luqiao, Taizhou, with an investment of about 121.66 million yuan. The environmental impact assessment approval notice was published on 18 January 2022.
Hydraulic cylinder maker Rosenboom Machine and Tool will invest $4 million over 36 months in new manufacturing capabilities at its Bowling Green, Ohio facility, adding a production line and about 70 jobs. The expansion aims to serve customers in the Eastern United States.
Bosch Rexroth will invest $12.8 million to expand its hydraulics manufacturing campus in Fountain Inn, Greenville County, South Carolina, adding a testing facility and 60 jobs over five years, with completion expected by 2025.
Plasser American will dedicate a 45,000 sq ft office building as the first phase of a $52.6 million expansion of its North American headquarters and manufacturing center in Chesapeake, Virginia, adding 98 jobs and doubling production capacity with an 82,000 sq ft plant.
Zhejiang Mingrui Machinery moved production from three sites into a new 50-mu plant in Ruian, Wenzhou, whose construction began in October 2020 and was completed in late 2021.
Harmonic Drive Systems will invest about JPY6.5bn (USD70 million) at its Ariake plant in Nagano Prefecture to raise strain wave gear output from 150,000 to 220,000 units per month by August 2022.
Endress+Hauser dedicated its expanded Maulburg, Germany site, a roughly 46 million euro project adding a production and office building and parking garage, used for level and pressure measurement technology.
Kelvion Inc. will expand its operations at Forks of the River Valley Industrial Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, with a $3.8 million project expected to create 74 jobs. Production of heat exchangers for refrigeration and data center markets will increase.
Atlas Copco Comptec opened a 63,000-square-foot expansion in Voorheesville, New York to make large integrally geared centrifugal compressors and turboexpanders, bringing the workforce to about 340.
Chapin International will increase investment in its Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky operation to $13.9 million and double job creation at the facility to 200 full-time positions.
Inovair has added three Mazak CNC mills and three Okuma CNC lathes to its Lenexa, Kansas manufacturing campus in the past year to support on-time delivery of its blowers and compressors.
HORSCH Maschinen GmbH is investing about €17 million to build a new assembly hall and office building of roughly 11,000 square metres at its Ronneburg, Thuringia site, groundbreaking on 27 July 2021 with completion planned by spring 2022.
Cryostar is investing EUR 15 million of its own funds to build a ninth 1,600 m2 hall at Hésingue, Haut-Rhin, for assembling and testing turbines and compressors, doubling capacity for these products, with 25 hires planned and commissioning expected end of 2022.
Zhongmi Holding said it plans to buy production equipment for its Riji Seal and Huayang Seal units to expand capacity, with about 15 million yuan of new investment. The added capacity is expected to generate 100-200 million yuan in annual output value.
SAMSON USA, headquartered in Baytown, Texas, has completed installation of a Flexible Manufacturing System with 2 horizontal machining centers and a 24-pallet robotic loading system built by MCM of Italy, increasing its manufacturing capacity.
Prinz is building a three-storey production hall of 1,200 square metres at its Albrechtsberg site in Loosdorf, housing machine construction, a coating system and offices. The company calls it its largest investment in its history.
Thimm, a packaging and display manufacturer, invested around ten million euros to expand its Všetaty plant in the Czech Republic with a new 134-metre MF-A corrugator from BHS Corrugated. The installation raised corrugated cardboard capacity at the site by up to 30%.
Brazilian compressor maker Schulz plans to invest over R$150 million this year to expand product range and production capacity at its Joinville units, Schulz Automotiva and Schulz Compressores. Work includes new Industry 4.0 machinery, expanded production lines and a new electric motor and aluminium casting area.
Nord-Lock Group expanded its Expander pivot business factory in Åtvidaberg, Sweden by 130% to 3,500 square metres, adding production, a technical center and high-volume order handling. The expansion is expected to let Expander increase its order volume eightfold.
Amarillo Gear has added a new Hyundai 600 mm horizontal machining center to its production line in Amarillo to increase capacity for pump drive and smaller cooling tower gearbox models. The article is dated March 2, 2021.
Fan maker ebm-papst is investing almost EUR 20 million in three new buildings at its headquarters in Mulfingen and Mulfingen-Hollenbach, Baden-Württemberg, including R&D space and a machinery building. Construction is expected to take about 15 months for two of the buildings.
Moog will invest $10.7 million to move existing jobs and equipment from Blacksburg to a larger building in Falling Branch Corporate Park in Montgomery County, Virginia, adding 80,000 square feet and 75 new jobs.
Corken Inc. will expand its Oklahoma City facility and relocate operations from Chicago, consolidating with Liquid Controls under the name Advance Flow Solutions. The plan creates 120 jobs over five years and seeks an incentive of up to $300,000 from the city.
Sundyne expanded its manufacturing and testing facility in Dijon, France by 1,200 square metres, adding space for package assembly and full unit tests on larger machines. The expansion was announced on 2 February 2021.
Sullair completed a roughly $30 million expansion in Michigan City, Indiana, including a new 80,000-square-foot fabrication shop that increased compressor manufacturing capacity and added more than 25 full-time jobs. The project was completed in February 2021 and reported on its first anniversary.
Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme plans a new production hall with office units at its Waldkraiburg site, consolidating three local plants into a campus. Groundbreaking was planned for the first quarter of 2021.
PFF Group invested over £2m in custom-built machines from Hanbury-Autogil and hired 100 staff at its Washington, Tyne and Wear site to make disposable polythene aprons under a UK Department of Health and Social Care contract for 360 million aprons. The announcement is dated 5 January 2021.
Packaging equipment manufacturer Viking Masek is expanding its Oostburg, Wisconsin facility to double production. It is the third expansion of the site in five years, reported on December 1, 2020.
Kaeser Compressors is expanding its Boisbriand site near Montréal, boosting warehousing capacity by 50% as part of Industry 4.0 investments in compressed air technology.
Oldham-based Ribble Packaging completed a £3.5 million investment project including a warehouse extension and new corrugator and fanfold stacker machinery, raising line speeds and capacity. The project ran from February to early September 2020.
GEA will invest around EUR 30 million to expand its Koszalin, Poland plant into a center of competence for pump production and comprehensive machining, as part of optimising its production network.
SKF is investing approximately $23 million to move tapered roller bearing manufacturing from China to an existing manufacturing site in Mexico. The move is part of its North American manufacturing consolidation announced September 24, 2020.
SKF is investing approximately $28 million to expand and automate manufacturing at its Sumter, South Carolina factory, which will consolidate production from Avon, Ohio and North Charleston, South Carolina. The investments take 12 to 18 months to implement.
Hydraulic component maker STAUFF has put into operation the second of several planned CNC turning centers at its Werdohl Ehrenfeld site to produce STAUFF Connect steel pipe fittings. The investment was in the mid six-figure euro range.
HAUG Sauer Kompressoren AG broke ground on an expansion of its St.Gallen-Winkeln production in Switzerland, adding an 800 m2 hall for oil-free piston compressors, with an investment of several million and new jobs. The article is dated 2020-07-13.