ITP Aero has inaugurated two new hangars for casting production and logistics in Querétaro, Mexico, following a €28 million investment. The expansion is expected to create 250 jobs over three years.

Koops Automation Systems, a leader in custom automation solutions, is expanding its Greenville County, South Carolina facility with a multimillion-dollar investment, creating new jobs. The expansion will move operations from a leased 45,000-square-foot facility to a larger space.

Electro-Mechanical LLC is investing $16.55 million to expand into a 200,000-square-foot facility in the Bristol-Washington County Industrial Park, Virginia, creating 109 jobs. The expansion will enhance production of switchgears and other electrical apparatus.

Power Services Group opened a new 65,000 sq. ft. steam turbine repair facility at its Gainesville, Georgia campus in October 2024. The expansion doubles operations and includes state-of-the-art repair equipment and R&D capabilities.

BAE Systems will invest £220 million ($285 million) to upgrade its advanced aerospace technologies factory in Rochester, England, creating 300 jobs over five years.

Safran announced plans to invest over €1 billion and hire 4,000 people worldwide to significantly expand its jet engine maintenance network, responding to strong demand for LEAP engines.

Profils Systèmes invested nearly €25 million over four years to modernize its Baillargues facility, including an €8 million expansion with a 5,000 m² building and vertical powder coating line (operational March 2020), and a €17 million investment for a 2,500-tonne extrusion press (commissioned January 2024), creating 40 jobs.

ACTEGA, a specialty coatings manufacturer, is establishing a new 238,000-square-foot facility in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, consolidating four existing premises. The facility is expected to be fully completed in 2025 and will house ink technology development and production for flexible and metal packaging.

Shunsin Technology Vietnam, a Foxconn subsidiary, is applying for an environmental permit for an $80 million chip manufacturing project in Quang Chau Industrial Park, Bac Giang, Vietnam. The facility will produce integrated circuit boards with a capacity of 4.5 million units per year and is expected to be fully operational by December 2026.

Grupo Verzatec opened a new solid polycarbonate production line at IMSA Plastics in García, Nuevo León, with a 100 million peso investment and 3,000 tons annual capacity, and announced an additional 500 million peso investment in the same industrial park.

Bondex, a technical nonwoven manufacturer, is expanding its Edgefield County, South Carolina operations with an $18.8 million investment that will create 13 new jobs. The expansion includes a new needlepunch line and increased production capacity at its facility in Trenton.

Armstrong International has secured a European Commission Innovation Fund grant to accelerate expansion of its Herstal, Belgium manufacturing facility for high-temperature heat pumps. The grant amount was not disclosed.

Vetorial Siderurgia held a groundbreaking ceremony for its third blast furnace at its Corumbá plant. The BRL 200 million investment will add 180,000 tonnes/year of pig iron capacity, a 25% increase, with construction expected to take 18 months.

Enovis opened a new Center of Excellence at its ceramics plant in Mörsdorf, Germany, aiming to double production capacity to better support orthopedic surgeons.

BMW Group Plant Landshut commissioned a new production area in its light metal foundry for electric motor housings for the New Class, concluding an investment of around 200 million euros.

Wirtgen China began construction on the third-phase expansion of its Langfang New Factory in Langfang, China. The investment is over 60 million yuan, and the project is expected to be completed by May 2025 and operational by end of 2025, producing 1,000 sets of cold milling machine core components annually.

DN Automotive will invest 62.1 billion won to expand its high-performance AGM battery plant in Onsan-eup, Ulju-gun, Ulsan. The expansion will be completed by November 2025, adding capacity of 1.5 million batteries per year, all for export.

Sumitomo Bakelite (Suzhou) has completed construction of a new plant for epoxy resin molding compounds for semiconductor encapsulation in Suzhou Industrial Park. The plant will expand total production capacity by 1.3 times and is scheduled to begin mass production in 2025.

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products (MEPPI) is investing $86 million to build a new advanced switchgear factory and expand its power electronics facilities in the Pittsburgh region. The project will create 200 new jobs and retain 806 existing jobs.

Zhejiang Sitong New Material Technology is expanding its polyester capacity by commissioning an Oerlikon Neumag BCF S+ system at its Hangzhou plant. The additional four BCF S+ positions will increase polyester yarn production.

Lanka Corrugated Industries is upgrading capacity at a new 10-acre facility in Millaniya, Bandaragama, with a corrugator line capable of producing 4,000 metric tons of packaging per month.

MRPC, a contract manufacturer of medical device assemblies, has started a $3 million expansion and renovation of Cleanroom 6 in Butler, Wisconsin. The project includes new injection molding machines from Austria and Japan to support high-volume production of liquid silicone rubber and high consistency rubber medical components.

ASG TGM (Techni-Grind Machining) doubled its footprint in Preston by acquiring an additional 11,000 square feet adjacent to its existing facility. The expansion supports a new Tier 1 aerospace contract worth over £1 million annually for machining large aerospace components.

DeZURIK is expanding internal capacity at its Sartell, Minnesota facility, including six new machining centers and doubling assembly capacity for larger valves.

Filtration systems manufacturer M.W. Watermark announced an $8.5 million, 48,000-square-foot addition to its facility in Holland Township, Michigan. Construction is expected to begin next week and finish by June 2025, and the company expects to add jobs.

Texas Instruments began production of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power semiconductors at its factory in Aizu, Japan, quadrupling its internal GaN manufacturing capacity between its factories in the US and Japan.

Prinoth unveiled its expanded production facility in Granby, Canada, with a $25 million investment that nearly doubles the size of the existing plant. The expansion enhances production capacity for crawler carriers and snow groomers.

DENSO announced a $100 million expansion of its manufacturing operations in Athens, Tennessee, adding 54,560 square feet of new production space and creating 200 jobs.

LU-VE Group celebrated the groundbreaking of a 19,000 sqm expansion at its Jacksonville, TX, USA factory to localize dry coolers for data centers and power generation and enhance solutions for sustainable refrigerants. Shipments begin Q1 2026, with full industrial evaporator range launching Q4 2026.

Allison Transmission announced a multi-year, over $100-million expansion of its manufacturing facility in Chennai, India, adding 200,000 square feet to double the existing footprint. The expansion will increase production capacity for on-highway fully automatic transmissions and is expected to be completed in 2025, operational in 2026, and at full capacity in 2027.

Martin Energy Group announced plans to construct a $1.7 million addition to its facility in Tipton, Missouri, to increase production capacity for generator set enclosures. The expansion could create over 200 new jobs in the next five years.

LafargeHolcim Maroc is investing more than 250 million dirhams to expand its cement plant in Settat, Morocco, aiming to increase annual production capacity to over 2 million tonnes by 2025.

PAR Systems broke ground on a new approximately 140,000-square-foot facility adjacent to its current campus in Shoreview, Minnesota. The expansion will boost capacity by 40% and includes a Class 10,000 cleanroom and three process and development labs.

BASF is expanding production capacity of Neopor at its Ludwigshafen site by 50,000 metric tons per year. The new facilities are scheduled to start up in early 2027.

Conner Industries, a Texas-based protective packaging provider, is expanding its Guardian Packaging facility in Dallas by 53% to 100,000 square feet, partly to serve government and Department of Defense contracts.

WUS Printed Circuit (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. plans to invest approximately CNY 4.3 billion in an expansion project for high-end printed circuit boards for AI chips at its site in Kunshan, Jiangsu. The project will be implemented in two phases over 8 years, with phase 1 expected by 2028 and phase 2 by 2032.

BEKO TECHNOLOGIES celebrated the completion of a new production hall in Netphen, Germany, on October 10, 2024. The facility expands capacity and features a photovoltaic system for sustainable production.

Grupa Azoty Polyolefins S.A. has produced 200,000 tons of polypropylene at its Polimery Police installation as part of guaranteed parameter tests. The plant is gradually increasing capacity toward a target of 437,000 tons/year of polypropylene.

Toray Advanced Materials held a groundbreaking ceremony for an IT film and aramid fiber production plant in Gumi, South Korea, with an investment of over $100 million. The plant will produce 300 million m²/year of MLCC release film and expand aramid fiber capacity by 3,000 tons/year.

Henkel is investing around €20 million in 2024 and 2025 to expand and modernize its adhesives plant in Bopfingen, Germany, which produces hot-melt and polyurethane adhesives for packaging and wood/furniture industries.

SIR Industrial Robotic Solutions announced a strategic expansion of its Modena headquarters, adding 1,180.62 square meters (12% increase) to a total building capacity of 9,631.62 square meters. The expansion aims to consolidate offices and operational facilities into a single location.

Toray held a groundbreaking ceremony for an expansion of aramid fiber and polyester film production facilities at its Gumi 5 plant in South Korea, with an investment of over $100 million. The aramid fiber line (Unit 2) will have an annual capacity of 3,000 tons, targeting operation in mid-2025. The IT film line will have an annual capacity of 300 million square meters, with completion in H2 2026.

KBY Industrial México began expansion of its operations at Logistik Industrial Park in Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosí, with an initial investment of over $20 million. The first phase will produce 1,800 kilometers of high-tech automotive cables, creating more than 100 direct jobs. The company plans an additional $100 million investment by 2026, creating 1,000 more jobs.

Toray Advanced Materials Korea held a groundbreaking ceremony to expand IT film (Unit 13 and 14) and aramid fiber (Unit 2) production at its Gumi 5 plant in South Korea. The IT film line will have an annual capacity of 300 million square meters, with completion in H2 2026. The aramid fiber line will have an annual capacity of 3,000 tons, with operation targeted for mid-2025.

Kumho Mitsui Chemicals Inc. has commenced operations at additional MDI production facilities at its Yeosu plant in South Korea, increasing capacity by 200,000 tons/year to a total of 610,000 tons/year. The expansion is to meet growing demand for high-performance MDI used in electric vehicles and insulation materials.

Jiangxi Miya New Materials Co., Ltd. plans to add intelligent extrusion nonwoven production lines, smart embossing (thermal transfer) lines, printing lines, and digital system software at its facility in Ruijin, Jiangxi. The project has an investment of 46 million yuan and is expected to add annual nonwoven capacity of 6,000 tons.

Tyoga Container, a corrugated box manufacturer, has completed a $30 million expansion of its Tioga, Pennsylvania facility, adding five new corrugated converting lines and about 144,000 square feet of space. The state budget awarded the company $1.5 million for the project.

Benecke Changshun Eco Trim, a subsidiary of Continental's ContiTech, opened the third phase of its Changzhou plant, adding 13 million square meters of annual composite material capacity for automotive interior materials.

James Willis Marion Manufacturing is consolidating its Morton, Illinois, operations into its West Terre Haute facility, creating 20 new jobs.

Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) is expanding its business in Asia, appointing Anthony Aw to lead sales and customer engagement in the region. The company is also ramping up to quadruple its manufacturing capacity with a new automated system.