Solventum completed a EUR 33 million modernization of its medical device production site in Kamen, North Rhine-Westphalia, renewing building infrastructure and increasing production capacity. The site is Solventum's largest outside the USA and produces nonwoven materials for tapes, bandages, and dressings.

Ekstrapak invested EUR 3.5 million in three new nonwoven textile lines at its third plant near Veliko Tarnovo, including a EUR 1.5 million spunbond line commissioned in April 2024 and two meltblown lines installed in 2023. The company is also preparing to build a fourth plant for paper bags.

Berry Global announced investments in three European sites (Offranville, France; Osnago and Sirone, Italy) to increase healthcare production capacity by up to 30%, including new ISO7 cleanroom spaces.

Amcor Flexibles North America announced its largest-ever expansion of dairy production capacity, enhancing printing and converting capabilities in Northeast Wisconsin over the next 18 months. The investment targets growing demand for flexible dairy packaging.

AkzoNobel's Changzhou factory started a new intelligent automated dosing system, part of a project to produce 2,000 tonnes/year of high-performance waterborne coatings and upgrade manual dosing to automated systems.

L3Harris Technologies announced an agreement with Orange County, Virginia, to fund the expansion and modernization of its solid rocket motor production site. The $41.2 million investment will include new facilities, equipment, and the hiring of 80 new employees over three years.

Fibrebond Corporation announced a $50 million expansion and enhancement of its production facility in Webster Parish, Louisiana, on April 18, 2024. The project includes a new 297,000-square-foot production facility and is expected to retain more than 450 existing jobs and increase total production capacity by more than 50 percent.

Metso is expanding its rubber and Poly-Met factory in Concón, Chile, by installing a mega-class compression press that will increase production capacity for large mill liners by 30%.

Byggelement inaugurated a new factory in Hallstahammar, Sweden, for manufacturing concrete wall elements with reduced cement content, representing a SEK 300 million investment and creating 40 jobs.

BMW Group is investing an additional €200 million in its Landshut plant to build a new production hall for aluminium housings for the Neue Klasse electric drive unit. The investment brings total spending at the site since 2020 to around €1 billion, and annual production capacity for aluminium housings will increase by about 30%.

Suncall Kikuchi is expanding its factory for EV power distribution busbars in Kikuchi City, Kumamoto Prefecture, with an investment of 700 million yen. Construction started in January 2024 and operations are expected to begin in November 2024, with an annual production capacity of 120,000 vehicles.

Terumo Medical Corporation is investing $30 million to expand its manufacturing capabilities in Caguas, Puerto Rico, with a new 64,000-square-foot facility to meet global demand for its Angio-Seal vascular closure device. Completion is targeted for summer 2025.

Zekelman Industries will invest up to $120 million to expand the manufacturing capabilities of its subsidiary Atlas Tube in Blytheville, Arkansas. The project will enable production of inline steel tube galvanizing products in size ranges not currently available in North America and bring total employees to over 300.

The packaging workshop of the Wilmar (Qingdao) Food Industrial Park Phase I Project, with a daily output of 2,900 tons, was successfully launched on April 17, 2024.

Böcker has broken ground on the second phase of its production facility expansion in Werne, Germany, including a service area, final inspection hall, 3,800 sq m logistics centre, and 1,700 sq m warehouse, with completion due by March 2026.

Boryszew Group plans to double production capacity of aluminium conductors by 2025 at NPA Skawina and expand alloy product capacity at WM Dziedzice.

Boryszew Group's strategy includes building new production capacity in the Automotive Segment in China.

TECHNONICOL completed a modernization stage at its Construction Films plant in Ryazan, Russia, opening a new geotextile production line with an investment of about 358 million rubles, creating 15 jobs and enabling waste-free production.

O-I Glass is investing approximately $120 million to expand its plant in Zipaquira, Colombia, creating about 100 new jobs and advancing sustainability, flexibility and productivity.

GE Vernova and Sonelgaz amended their joint venture agreement to expand GE Algeria Turbines (GEAT) in Ain Yagout, Batna, to manufacture high and extra-high voltage substations and grid automation equipment, supporting Algeria's energy transition and creating jobs.

Ochsner opened a new production facility in Dietach, Austria, as a competence center for large-volume outdoor units of air-to-water heat pumps. The facility, with about 6,000 m² of production and storage space and an outdoor area of about 10,000 m², involved an investment in the single-digit million euro range and will employ about 50 people.

Southern Water is undertaking a £31 million upgrade of its Horsham Wastewater Treatment Works in West Sussex, UK, which began in September 2022 and is expected to be completed in spring 2025. The project includes new inlet screens and Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors to improve effluent quality and capacity.

PARA srl officially opened an additional 8,000 sqm manufacturing facility in Quarrata, Italy, as part of a €10 million investment. The expansion will increase production capacity and staff by 50% to 150 people, targeting a turnover of over €50 million.

Tyrolit held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of Plant 5 at its production facility in Stans, Austria. The 1,700 m² addition will house an innovative fully-automatic production line for high-tech grinding tools used in hard-coated brake discs. Completion is expected in autumn 2024.

GeoSM Group launched a new production line for geomembrane at its facility in Ilyinogorsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, with an investment of 115 million rubles. The line produces waterproofing materials for construction and environmental projects.

Metsä Board invested €230 million in its Husum mill in Sweden to modernise and expand folding boxboard machine BM1, raising annual capacity to 600,000 tonnes. The upgraded machine was inaugurated in April 2024.

OQ Chemicals achieved mechanical completion of its 'Propel' project at Bay City, Texas, providing key infrastructure and high-purity propionaldehyde to support Röhm's new methyl methacrylate plant at the same site.

Celanese started up a new vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) unit in Nanjing, increasing capacity by 70 kt, and completed global redispersible polymer powders debottlenecking projects.

Celanese Corp. started up a new 1.3 million-ton acetic acid expansion at its Clear Lake, Texas plant in March 2024, which it believes to be the lowest-cost and lowest-carbon footprint acetic acid facility in the world.

The Kaliningrad region's Ministry of Urban Policy granted Grünwald Ost permission to build a second production hall as part of the second phase of a machinery plant in the Khrabrovo industrial park. The two-story facility will have an area of 1,820 sq m.

Nidec Press & Automation broke ground on an expansion that will quadruple its Queretaro, Mexico service facility, adding 8,600 square meters of production space, with completion expected by end of 2024 and about 40 local hires planned.

Ibercisa Deck Machinery plans to invest between €2.5 million and €3 million over three years to expand its factory in Vigo, Spain, by 1,000 square meters and quadruple electrical capacity to 1 MW. The company expects to add 10-15 new jobs.

The Phase III expansion project of Boeing Tianjin Composites Co., Ltd., Boeing's first joint venture in China, was officially put into operation on April 12, 2024. The expansion, launched in 2019, doubles the production capacity of the Tianjin plant and adds 58,000 square meters of floor area.

JBS announced a R$150 million investment to double the daily processing capacity of its Campo Grande II plant in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, from 2,200 to 4,400 animals, and double the workforce from 2,300 to 4,600 employees. The expansion will make it the largest beef plant in Latin America.

Corky's Food Manufacturing will create 28 new jobs in Memphis, Tennessee, as part of an expansion.

Benteler Steel plans a $21 million expansion of its facility at the Port of Caddo-Bossier in Shreveport, Louisiana, creating 49 jobs.

Hometime Factory expanded its plastic hanger production facility with a new, larger injection molding workshop to increase capacity and efficiency in response to growing demand.

TD Deutsche Klimakompressor (TDDK) held a topping-out ceremony for the sixth construction phase of its Bernsdorf, Saxony plant, adding 17,500 sq m of building area for electric refrigerant compressors, with the shell due to be completed by end 2024.

Aquila Września, a subsidiary of VPK Group, has started construction on a new production hall of about 13,000 square metres at its Września plant in Poland; the investment value was not disclosed.

EPL America will invest $37.4 million in building upgrades and new machinery at its 200,000-square-foot Danville, Virginia facility, adding 24 jobs and expanding into beauty and cosmetic laminated tubes.

Atlas Copco is proposing a $30 to $40 million expansion of its Voorheesville, New York facility, adding a six-story addition to make larger CO2 compressors and about 50 jobs.

Highbury Canco Corp. is investing over $26.5 million to modernize its facility and increase processing and warehouse capacity in Leamington, Ontario.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies announced a $1.2 billion expansion of its biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Holly Springs, North Carolina, adding 680 jobs. The expansion is expected to come online early in 2028.

Alstom announced a HUF 6 billion development program to increase production capacity by 40% at its Mátranovák bogie frame factory in Hungary, adding nearly 150 jobs and upgrading machinery. The support contract was signed on April 11, 2024.

Danish textile company Tytex plans to move its production from the Chemes industrial park to the municipal Guttmanová zone in Humenné, Slovakia, with an €8 million investment to expand its existing smaller facility there, consolidating all 520 local employees.

Renesas Electronics held a ceremony on April 11, 2024, to restart its Kofu factory in Yamanashi, Japan, for power semiconductor production. The factory, closed about 10 years ago, has been converted to a 300mm wafer line with a JPY 90 billion investment, aiming to double power semiconductor capacity by 2025.

Toagosei America Inc. plans to expand its operations in West Jefferson, Ohio, with a $105 million investment to build a new acrylic polymer manufacturing facility supporting battery markets, creating 50 jobs.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aero Engines completed the expansion of its Nagasaki Plant, more than doubling the building size to 11,000 m². The expansion adds thermal barrier coating equipment and enables fully integrated combustor manufacturing.

Sulzer has opened new pump production lines in Easley, South Carolina, making submersible sewage and grinder pumps with US materials and labour. The CHF 10 million investment supports Build America Buy America compliance.

Protomet Corporation will expand its footprint in East Tennessee by establishing engineering and manufacturing operations in Rockwood, Tennessee. The company will create 250 new jobs and invest $25 million to acquire and retrofit the former Albahealth building.