Danfoss is investing about €1.5 million in an automated water-based paint line in a 700 square metre area of its mobile hydraulics plant in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. The line will bring painting in-house, previously outsourced, and is expected to create new jobs.

Ingersoll Rand plans to transfer most core product line production from Buffalo, New York to its Mocksville plant by July 2019 and hire about 40 workers across Mocksville and Davidson, NC.

Kaeser Kompressoren is building a 2,300 square metre extension in Gera for refrigerant dryer production, with a total investment of about nine million euros; production could start in June 2019 after topping out on January 20, 2019.

GP:50 is adding 12,000 square feet to its Grand Island, NY headquarters, mainly for its Aerospace Division, and has bought over $500,000 in test chamber, pressure test and turning equipment, with occupancy planned by late February 2019.

Kazankompressormash has begun construction of a new workshop over 11,000 square meters in Tatarstan to produce large compressors with drive power above 25 MW, employing over 300 staff, with first output planned for 2020.

PESCO will invest more than $7.5 million to expand its main production facility by 20,000 square feet in San Juan County, New Mexico, creating up to 180 jobs. New Mexico will provide up to $2.35 million in LEDA funds for the expansion.

Gazprom chairman Viktor Zubkov attended the start of construction of a new multi-building compressor workshop over 15,000 sq m at the Kazanskompressormash plant in Kazan. The shop will make large compressors for natural gas liquefaction and is expected to start operating in 2020.

Allmand Bros., a Briggs & Stratton subsidiary, plans to expand its Holdrege, Nebraska facility with five new assembly lines, a prototyping lab, a new paint system and robotic weld cells. The expansion is expected to be complete at the end of 2019 and add 20 jobs.

E.K. Machine broke ground on a new manufacturing facility for its Power Products division at its Fall River, Wisconsin site, with construction due for completion by June 2019 and 20 new jobs planned.

Rovema started construction of a new assembly hall at its Fernwald, Germany headquarters, with an investment of about EUR 8 million. Final assembly of packaging machines and lines will move into the building by June 2019.

Hamburger Rieger is investing about €370 million in a second paper machine at its Spremberg mill in Brandenburg, adding 500,000 tonnes per year of containerboard capacity. Construction began in September 2018 with completion scheduled for 2020, and about 200 jobs are expected.

KP Linpac ordered a third Infrared Rotary Drum from Kreyenborg to expand thermoformed PET packaging capacity at its Beeskow site in Germany, with delivery planned for early 2019.

Otis inaugurated a new 2,000 square metre building at its Gien plant in Loiret, France, to develop its elevator modernisation and digital innovation activity, with an investment of several million euros.

Danfoss Power Solutions signed an 11,088 sqm office and warehouse lease at Hillwood Wroclaw I BIS logistics park in Bielany Wroclawskie to expand operations at its hydraulics manufacturing site. Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant.

24/7 Compression is opening a new 14,000 square foot facility in Grande Prairie, Alberta, in October 2018, expanding its production and service capacity after the merger with Belair.

Nordson Corporation's Chonburi facility in Thailand has expanded its Xaloy screw and barrel manufacturing capacity with new systems and now also supports the BKG brand with technical service and a new pelletizing lab line.

WIKA India put an extension building at its Pune production site into operation at the end of September 2018, boosting production of level measurement, WEgrid and calibration technology.

Nel ASA is constructing an extension of its Notodden facility in Norway to make electrolyzers, with a planned capacity of 360 MW per year and total investment of about NOK 150 million. The expansion will accommodate a multi-billion NOK order from Nikola Motor Company.

Ruizhi (Qingdao) Precision Electromechanical broke ground in Qingdao's West Coast New Area on a project adding 3 million compressors of capacity, with a total investment of RMB 387 million and about 41,000 square metres of new plant. Output is expected to rise from 9.36 million to 12 million units.

Spanish packaging line maker Canopack is opening a new plant expanding its floor space from 1,800 m2 to 3,800 m2, with an investment of EUR 1.5 million, EUR 600,000 of it for machinery.

Timken is adding new equipment and machinery to its 350,000-square-foot Tyger River Plant in Union County to increase capacity. The expansion is a $2.5 million investment.

Nordson merged its BKG pelletizer and melt delivery equipment businesses into Nordson BKG GmbH, headquartered at a Münster facility that more than triples in space. Full relocation of operations will be completed by fall 2018.

Pregis is investing about US$6 million in a second multilayer blown film line from Windmoller & Holscher at its Pregis Films facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The article is dated May 31, 2018.

Atlas Copco Comptec opened a 63,000-square-foot expansion in Voorheesville, New York, to increase production of large integrally geared centrifugal compressors and turboexpanders. The site's workforce is expected to reach about 340.

Ingersoll Rand plans to invest nearly $30 million in its Mocksville plant in Davie County, North Carolina, and create 25 jobs by the end of 2019. The plant makes rotary, centrifugal and Thermo King air compressors.

Stauff put a new round-cycle machine for pipe fittings into operation at its Werdohl headquarters, part of a 6.2 million euro investment that raises annual capacity from 10 to 15 million parts.

Brazilian air compressor maker Schulz is investing R$150 million over three years to expand production capacity at its Joinville, Santa Catarina plant, having already hired 450 workers in late 2017.

AAE is tripling its production and office space in Helmond, Netherlands, from 10,000 m2 to 30,000 m2 by buying two adjacent buildings, to create a smart industry factory.

Linamar Hungary will invest HUF 8.64 billion (EUR 27.5 million) to create 200 jobs at Orosháza, Békéscsaba and Gyöngyös, extending lifting machinery production and automotive capacity.

NiSource Midstream Services completed a compressor upgrade at its Majorsville compressor station in Dallas, West Virginia, replacing four vintage compressors with four CAT 3606 engines and Ariel JGC4 compressors. The upgrade adds 1,800 horsepower and raises throughput by 70-80 million cubic feet per day.

Argentine farm machinery maker Mainero is adding a 2,400 m2 industrial building, a paint line and robotic welding at its Bell Ville plant. About $30 million has been invested so far, with the rest spent over this year and next.

Linamar is expanding its Linamar Forgings Carolina closed-die forging operation in Wilson, NC, with a $6.8 million investment to make hollow transmission shafts and net-shape differential gears for automotive chassis parts. A $62,000 performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund supports the expansion.

Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Danfoss Turbocor Compressors will build a new facility in Tallahassee, adding 120 advanced manufacturing jobs, with construction starting early 2018 and completion in 2019.

Danfoss is building a new 44,000 sq ft facility at its Turbocor Compressor site in Tallahassee's Innovation Park for about $12 million, with construction expected to start in early 2018 and finish in 2019.

HEROSE has started operating three new CNC lathes at its Bad Oldesloe site, two replacing outdated machines, to expand prefabrication capacity and reduce delivery bottlenecks.

Nuovo Pignone inaugurated a new production line for gas seal panels for centrifugal compressors at its Massa plant in Tuscany. The investment of about EUR 12 million also renovated the site.

VARIOVAC PS SystemPack is building 3,000 square meters of additional production, assembly and office space at its Zarrentin site, creating about 25 jobs. Construction is planned to start at the end of 2017.

Pump maker Lewa has completed two new production halls, totalling about 3,000 square meters, at its Leonberg headquarters, investing over EUR 25 million, mainly for final assembly of large pumps and systems.

Cherat Packaging commissioned a new Windmuller & Holscher universal paper sack line in October, using Mondi sack kraft paper to enter a new market with universal packaging.

Smurfit Kappa started operating a new containerboard machine PM6 at its Los Reyes paper mill in Tlalnepantla, Mexico, in October 2017, adding about 100,000 tonnes a year of capacity for $62 million.

Sulzer's Russian subsidiary Zulzer Khemtek presented an expanded and modernized machinery plant in Serpukhov on 22 September 2017. Investment in the expansion was about 400 million roubles, and headcount is set to rise to 131 by year end.

Aerzen USA, a division of Aerzener Maschinenfabrik GmbH, is expanding its Coatesville facility in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with a $7.5 million project that will add 16 jobs and grow the workforce to more than 110 by year end.

Stece Fjädrar, a Lesjöfors company, is installing a new Waifos SNA 22 machine to extend its wave spring range down to Dy 20 mm, with the machine scheduled to start at the end of September 2017.

New York Air Brake will expand its Premtec Division plant in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, creating 28 jobs and investing over $1 million. The project is supported by a $50,000 One North Carolina Fund grant and could reach 40 jobs long term.

Treofan is investing USD 45 million in a new 5-layer, 10.4m BOPP orientation line at its Zacapu, Mexico plant, due to start in Q4 2018. The line yields a net capacity increase of about 30,000 tons per year, or 50% of current capacity, as an old 1992 line is mothballed.

Warner Electric, a subsidiary of Altra Industrial Motion, announced plans to expand its operations at Park 30 Business Center in Columbia City, Indiana, adding new equipment and new jobs. The number of jobs was not given.

Milacron will invest about $5 million to expand its Greenville, Michigan plant, creating up to 70 jobs as it consolidates machining operations from its Youngwood, Pennsylvania plant.

Bosch Rexroth announced an $80 million expansion of its Fountain Inn hydraulics manufacturing operations in Greenville County, South Carolina, adding a building and land, and expected to create 160 jobs over five years.

Atlas Copco opened a new manufacturing unit at its Cherlapally plant in Hyderabad, India, after investing Rs 80 crore, doubling the plant's capacity and adding about 35 jobs. The unit includes a rock drilling R&D test centre.

Honeywell Process Solutions will add production lines at its Elster Gazelektronika plant in Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod region, to make gas measurement equipment and medium- and high-pressure gas regulators for the Russian market.