Soosan Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. announced a USD 25 million investment in its Chinese subsidiary Shandong Soosan Breaker Co., Ltd. to build and expand a large-scale production base for hydraulic breakers and construction machinery attachments in China. The new 50,000 m² intelligent manufacturing facility is scheduled to commence operation in the second half of 2026.
Parent company KSB Mining invested $44 million to expand GIW's slurry pump manufacturing plant in Grovetown, Georgia, which added a foundry expansion of 77,000 square feet and two new furnaces. A ribbon-cutting for the expanded plant was held on Wednesday, most likely 6 April 2022.
GIW Minerals, formerly Georgia Iron Works, is opening a 70,000-square-foot, $44 million expansion at its Grovetown, Georgia campus that is expected to add more than 100 jobs and triple production capacity. The grand opening is scheduled for April 6, 2022.
Takeuchi Construction Machinery (Qingdao) began production of 40,000 sets a year of small hydraulic excavator and loader components in Qingdao West Coast New Area, as part of five projects totalling nearly 700 million yuan.
Metso is installing a mega-size compress press at its Trelleborg factory in Sweden to increase consumables wear parts capacity, with production starting in May 2020; the first of three similar presses has a series value of EUR 10 million.
Sandvik Mining & Rock Technology has made significant investments in its Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone plant since moving production there in 2014, including a 2017 expansion of its shot blasting area.
Weir Minerals completed moving Delta Industrial valve manufacturing into its St Louis, Missouri facility, adding 5,000 sq ft of manufacturing space, 15,000 sq ft of warehouse space and extra shifts and staff.
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.