Russian group Arnest is building an aluminum beverage can plant in Ulyanovsk's Zavolzhye industrial park, with investment above 10 billion rubles, capacity up to 2,000 cans per minute, and first line launch planned for Q1 2024.

CMN Technology is constructing a new factory of about 49,047 square meters in Taizhou Bay New District, Zhejiang, with total investment of 500 million yuan, expected to complete in 2024.

Koastal Eco Industries Co., Ltd., under Singapore's Koastal Group, signed an EPC contract to build a $4.3-million wastewater treatment plant with a daily capacity of 15,000 cubic meters in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. Construction is set to begin in Q1 2024.

A new US$1bn cement plant project has been launched in Karoi Town, Zimbabwe, funded by Chinese investors. The project is a partnership between Labenmon Investments and West International Holding, and will include a 2.7Mta clinker line, a 100MW power unit, and a 0.9Mta grinding station.

AkzoNobel is investing €32 million in a new plant at its Vilafranca site in Spain to produce bisphenol-free coatings for the metal packaging industry. The plant is expected to be operational by mid-2025 and will create around 40 jobs.

Cavendish Ships Stores expanded with a new facility in Segensworth, Hampshire, designed and installed by DCI Refrigeration & Electrical. The project was completed on time and on budget.

Mold-Tek Packaging launched a new production unit in Panipat, Haryana, India, on 3 January 2024, with a Rs350 million ($4.2 million) investment, adding 2,500 mtpa capacity to serve Grasim Industries and the food/FMCG sectors. Commercial production is expected by 31 March 2024.

Gunze Limited is constructing its third medical plant in Ayabe, Kyoto, Japan, with a 3.5 billion yen investment, to increase production of TENALEAF absorbable adhesive barrier sheets. Completion is targeted for February 2025.

Ice Make Refrigeration Limited is initiating a Polyurethane Foam (PUF) manufacturing unit in Dantali, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, with an investment of Rs. 1.10 crores. The plant will have a production capacity of 14,252 square meters of PUF per month. Clearances have been obtained and work is scheduled to begin in March 2024.

Tuopu Group (601689.SH) signed an investment agreement with Ningbo Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee on January 4, 2024, to invest 5 billion yuan in building a robot core components production base on 300 mu of land in Ningbo.

Precision hydraulic componentry maker Oilpath will build a new engineering and manufacturing facility of nearly 3,000 square metres at the Tonsley Innovation District, relocating from Edwardstown. The investment is about AU$7 million.

Sany Group is constructing a new energy sanitation equipment smart manufacturing base in Huaihua, Hunan Province, China, with an investment of 1.2 billion yuan ($167 million). The facility will cover 500 mu (33.3 hectares) and have an annual capacity of 10,000 units, producing smart sanitation robots and new energy vehicles.

Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd held a groundbreaking ceremony for India's largest phenol plant in Haldia, West Bengal. The Rs 3,000 crore project will have a production capacity of 300 KTPA of phenol and 185 KTPA of acetone, and is expected to be completed by Q1 2026.

Taiyo Yuden announced that the first phase of its Changzhou, China factory has begun production. The phase represents a $600 million investment and produces multilayer ceramic capacitors for electric vehicles, with an annual capacity of 21.2 billion units.

The Babcock Wanson Group announced the building of a new 80,000 m² plant in Nérac, France, to increase production capacity for decarbonised process heating solutions. The first phase is scheduled for completion by end of 2026.

Aosheng Pump (Zhejiang) started construction of its high-end valve and fire pump project in Deqing County, Zhejiang, with total investment of 320 million yuan. The plant will produce 20,000 valves and 1,000 fire pumps per year; the ceremony was held on January 3, 2024.

Spanish packaging group Saica, through its UK subsidiary Saica Pack, lodged a full planning application for a 485,000 sq ft corrugated fibreboard factory on a 25-acre site at Invest NI's Carnbane Industrial Estate in Newry. The investment is expected to be in the tens of millions and will relocate its Warrenpoint operation.

Menzel Elektromotoren opened a new headquarters and motor plant in Hennigsdorf near Berlin. The facility has 6,416 m² of hall space and 2,096 m² of office space, and the workforce can expand from 100 to 150.

Turkish steel producer Habaş announced plans to build a downstream cold rolling and tinplate mill with an annual capacity of 900,000 metric tons on a greenfield site near Aliağa, Turkey. Commissioning is due to start in late 2024, according to equipment supplier Danieli.

Aux Group's project to build a smart air-conditioning compressor plant with annual capacity of 30 million units in Wuhu, Anhui, was launched at a provincial start-of-construction event. Total investment is about 5 billion yuan, with completion expected in March 2025 and 3,000 jobs created.

Nanzhen held the groundbreaking ceremony on 2 January 2024 for the second phase of its smart manufacturing center in the Nanjing Binjiang Development Zone, planned for vacuum and compression products with annual capacity of 500 systems.

Liebherr is constructing a $176 million logistics facility in Tupelo, Mississippi, expected to create 180 jobs by 2027. The hub will manage spare parts and products for six of Liebherr's North American product segments.

Shandong Xincheng Pipe Co., Ltd. will initiate construction of a new plant in 2024 at its location in Weishan County, Shandong, to address production capacity bottlenecks and support R&D and mass production of high-end products. The plant will feature advanced automated production lines and green technologies.

Fresenius Kabi opened a state-of-the-art free flex IV bag production facility in Wilson, North Carolina in 2024, part of a nearly $1 billion investment. The plant produces millions of IV bags annually.

MPG launched a new manufacturing plant in Gunung Putri, Bogor, Indonesia, to meet growing demand for high-quality extruded aluminum products. The opening occurred in 2024.

GAF, a Standards Industries company, plans to build a new $300 million shingle manufacturing facility in Newton, Kansas. The plant will create over 130 jobs and is expected to begin production in 2027, reaching full capacity by mid-2029.

SRTX, manufacturer of Sheertex rip-resistant knit, has inaugurated a new fully vertical global headquarters in Montreal spanning 300,000 square feet, more than double its previous facility. The expansion includes in-house extrusion of UHMWPE polymer.

Solesis announced plans to build a new manufacturing site in Costa Rica, its first in the country, dedicated to producing implantable textile components, polymer-based devices, and single-use technologies for the medical device and biopharmaceutical industries. The facility is scheduled to begin operations in spring 2025.

Belgian company Teblick invested €4.3 million in a new 4,000 m² plant in El Far d'Empordà (Girona), relocating from Vilamalla in January 2024, with 15 workers and a planned gradual expansion.

Oliver Healthcare Packaging has commenced construction of a 122,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Johor, Malaysia, its first plant in Asia. The facility is expected to begin operations by end-2024.

Daya Shengxiang Home Furnishing Co., Ltd. plans to invest CNY 2.14 billion in a new plant in Baise, Guangxi, with an annual output of 120,000 tons of aluminum sheets and 40,000 tons of battery foil. The construction period is 20 months.

Tinplate Company of India Limited (TCIL) signed an MoU with the Government of Jharkhand to invest Rs 1,787 crore in a new 300,000 tons per annum manufacturing facility in Jamshedpur, scheduled for commissioning in 2026, creating over 600 jobs.

Schneider Electric is building a EUR 40 million smart plant in Dunavecse, Hungary, with production expected to start in H1 2024. The cornerstone was laid in March 2023.

DMG MORI Manufacturing Technology (Pinghu) Co., Ltd. is building a 106,425 sqm plant in Pinghu, Zhejiang, China, with an investment of 651.69 million yuan. The plant will produce 2,000 five-axis machine tools per year.

Idemitsu Advanced Materials completed construction and started commercial production in November 2023 of a second syndiotactic polystyrene (SPS) plant in Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia, with a capacity of 9,000 tons/year.

Emerson is developing a manufacturing hub at King Salman Energy Park (SPARK) in Saudi Arabia, built by Saudi AMANA. The facility will produce automation products such as control valves and safety systems, with completion expected in late 2024.

Bonfiglioli India has inaugurated a new production plant in Pune, India, to manufacture gearmotors, drive systems, planetary gearboxes, and inverters for industrial automation, mobile machinery, and wind energy.

Loto Garment is completing construction of a new factory near Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, to increase production capacity. The 10,000-square-foot facility will accommodate over 350 workers and eight production lines, with the first phase completed by end of 2023.

Tynor Orthotics inaugurated a new 240,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Mohali, Punjab, India, to produce orthopedic appliances and healthcare devices.

Omega MBBR has established the first Egyptian production line dedicated to manufacturing MBBR media for wastewater treatment plants. The factory is located in the new city of Salhiya, Egypt.

Hystar has announced plans for a new gigawatt-scale factory near Oslo, Norway, with up to 4 GW annual production capacity for electrolysers. The facility will also include office space, with a move scheduled for the end of Q1 2024.

GAZAB announced a new factory in the Damavand 2 industrial zone in Iran to expand manufacturing of pipe fittings, flanges and valves for oil, gas and petrochemical industries. No investment amount or timeline was given.

Sailun Jinyu Group announced plans to build a plant in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, for semisteel radial tires, with an investment of $240 million. Initial annual production capacity is 6 million units, and construction is expected to take 12 months.

LILAMA Corporation installed the generator for the Nhon Trach 4 power plant on December 18, 2023. The Nhon Trach 3 & 4 project is a 1,500MW LNG-fired power plant in Dong Nai province, Vietnam, with a total investment of $1.4 billion.

Lianhong Gerun (Shandong) New Materials Co., Ltd. is investing 6 billion yuan to construct a 200kt/a ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) device and a 300kt/a propylene oxide (PO) device in Lunan high-tech Chemical Industry Park. The project will use LyondellBasell high-pressure tube process technology to produce photovoltaic film materials.

Zhejiang-based pump and valve maker Sevis Pump & Valve signed a project to build a plant producing 100,000 sets per year of ship, ultra-low temperature and marine hydrogen valves on 39 mu of new land in Haiyan Economic Development Zone, with total investment of 200 million yuan and construction starting April 2024.

Hydro will build a new aluminum recycling plant in Torija, Spain, with an investment of over €143 million. The plant will have a capacity of more than 100,000 tonnes of recycled aluminum per year and create 65 direct jobs.

GlobalFoundries opened a new hub facility in Penang, Malaysia, to provide round-the-clock support for its global manufacturing operations.

SCHOTT Pharma held a ceremony marking the start of construction of a new production facility in Jagodina, Serbia, with a double-digit million euro investment. The plant will produce ampoules for injectable drugs, creating 130 jobs initially and up to 350 in later stages.

SIAM Cement BigBloc Construction Technologies Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between BigBloc Construction and Siam Cement Group, expects commercial operations at its first plant in Kapadvanj, Gujarat in 3-4 months. The plant will produce AAC blocks and ALC panels with a capacity of 300,000 cubic meters per year, with a total investment of Rs 65 crore.