OOO 'MK Professional' will build a new plant in Ivanovo, Russia, to produce crawler and wheeled excavators, graders, and bulldozers, with investments of 4.3 billion rubles, capacity of 2,200 units per year, and completion by 2025.

Medicom Group Inc. announced a new 140,000 sq. ft. medical-grade nitrile glove manufacturing plant in London, Ont., with a $165 million investment, creating 135 jobs and producing one billion gloves annually by 2026.

Sanhua Automotive Poland will build a factory in Tychy, Poland, to produce thermal management components for electric and hybrid vehicles. Investment is 160-208 million PLN (€37-48 million), creating up to 350 jobs.

Automotive Stampings and Assemblies Limited (ASAL), a subsidiary of Tata AutoComp Systems, commenced commercial production at its new manufacturing unit in Village Khoda, Sanand, Gujarat.

Biotronik opened a seven-storey, 211,000 sq ft building in Kallang, Singapore, serving as its new Asia-Pacific manufacturing and research hub. The company plans to invest several hundred million dollars and increase headcount to 2,000 over the next five to ten years.

Manikheir Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Medicom Group, will build a facility in London, Ontario to produce medical-grade nitrile gloves, with an annual capacity of up to one billion gloves. The Government of Canada is contributing up to $42 million through the Strategic Innovation Fund.

OOO Terateks plans to invest 245 million rubles to create a production facility for reinforced geosynthetic membrane materials at the site of AO POLIEF in Blagoveshchensk, Bashkortostan. The project will create 60 jobs and is to be completed by the end of 2024.

France's first industrial plant for automated sorting and recycling of textile waste was officially inaugurated at Nouvelles Fibres Textiles in Amplepuis on November 30, 2023. The plant is a partnership between Nouvelles Fibres Textiles, Pellenc ST, and ANDRITZ.

Construction of the first plant in Ingushetia for producing modules for water treatment facilities will begin in December 2023 in Karabulak, with a project cost of 100 million rubles.

Jumo celebrated the topping-out ceremony for its new 'Sensilo' plant in Fulda-West technology park, an approximately €50 million investment. The plant will produce temperature and pressure sensors with 13,000 square meters of production space, with completion planned for end of 2024.

Victor Taichung Machinery Works opened a new $120 million smart factory and headquarters in Taiwan, with a floor area of 64,000 sq. m, including automated manufacturing lines and solar power capacity of 2 MW.

Saica Group started work on a new corrugated board plant in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Barcelona, investing more than EUR 100 million. The plant will combine Saica Pack El Prat and Saica Pack Barcelona and is due to start in spring 2025.

York Container, part of Atlantic Packaging, started up its first greenfield corrugated box plant in Elgin, Illinois, with over 400,000 sq ft of manufacturing space producing corrugated sheets, brown shippers and graphic packaging.

Nantong Baiwei Electric Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Yangtong Electric Complete Set Co., Ltd. have started construction of a 60,000 ton enameled flat wire project in Haian City's Binhai New Area. The project has a total investment of 500 million yuan and will build a 20,000 square meter factory with 30 production lines.

Rongsheng Holding Group started construction of the Jintang New Materials project in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China, on November 30, 2023. The total investment is 76 billion yuan ($10.6 billion), with the first batch of 10 main units expected to be completed by end of 2024 and operations in June 2025.

Brueckner Group Asia-Pacific officially inaugurated a new 16,300 sqm manufacturing and office facility in the WHA Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate, Rayong, Thailand, specializing in stretching ovens for battery separator film lines and clip/chain reprocessing.

Pronar opened its third wheel factory in Narew, Poland, with two fully automated production lines. The investment can double production to 2 million wheels per year.

ZwitterCo, a startup specializing in membranes for industrial wastewater treatment, is building a new Innovation Center to scale up its superfiltration membrane technology.

Kuzeyboru is investing approximately 500 million TL in a new Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer Pipe (CTP) plant in Malatya 3rd Organized Industrial Zone. The facility is scheduled to be commissioned in Q2 2024 and will add annual production capacity of 305,000 tons.

Bonfiglioli Transmissions Pvt Ltd inaugurated a 42,500 sq. meters high-tech smart assembly facility in Pune, India. The facility commenced operations on November 29, 2023, and is almost 80% solar powered.

Demao (Ningde) Nonwovens Technology Co., Ltd. plans to build a factory complex with four buildings (4#-7#) in Jiaocheng District, Ningde, Fujian Province, with an investment of approximately 300 million yuan. The project is in the planning stage with construction expected from Q1 2024 to Q1 2026.

Amkor Technology will build a new advanced semiconductor packaging facility in Peoria, Arizona, with an investment of approximately $2 billion. Apple will be the first and largest customer of the facility, which will package Apple silicon produced at the nearby TSMC fab.

NIFCO South India Manufacturing signed an MoU with the Karnataka government to invest ₹288 crore in a new plant in Gauribidanur, India, to manufacture automotive plastic parts, creating about 400 jobs (65% women).

Tega Industries obtained environmental approval to build its third production plant in Concón, Valparaíso Region, Chile, for manufacturing mill liners, spare parts and services for the mining industry, with an investment of US$32 million. The plant will increase production capacity by 25% and create up to 100 jobs.

TEMICO, a joint venture between TECO Electric & Machinery and Mitsui & Co., has inaugurated a high-efficiency motor factory in Bengaluru, India. The plant occupies 18,500 square meters and will produce e-vehicle powertrains and high-efficiency industrial motors.

DEJONG plans to build a new facility in Prešov, Slovakia, with a capacity of one million tanks. Groundbreaking is planned for 2024, with first products in 2025.

Continental Compounders has invested in plant and machinery near Porto, Portugal, to supply compounds to manufacturers in Iberia, UK, Ireland and the Maghreb region.

China Zhuhai Rover New Material Technology Co., Ltd. is investing 400 million yuan (approx. $55 million) to build a high-end paint coating plant in Zhuhai, Guangdong. The facility will produce 98,000 tons per year of coatings, resins, inks, adhesives, and photoresists.

Jinrui Foodtech Machinery CO, LTD, a Chinese manufacturer of tuber starch and flour processing equipment, is constructing a new factory in Lagos, Nigeria, through its subsidiary Jinrui Foodtech Machinery Nigeria LTD. The factory is expected to be completed by 2024.

Jered, a producer of large components for ships and aerospace, plans to construct a new 10,000-square-foot building in Brunswick, Georgia, with a $45 million investment. The project is expected to create 40 new jobs.

Yodogawa Hu-Tech will build a new fluororesin products factory in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, with an investment of about ¥4.4 billion. The plant will double production capacity and is expected to start operations in March 2025.

Saint-Gobain, through its subsidiary CertainTeed Roofing, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new roofing manufacturing and distribution center in Bryan, Texas. The multi-year project will serve the southern United States.

DBL Group inaugurated Jinnat Textile Mills Ltd, a new spinning mill in Moulvibazar, Bangladesh, with a daily yarn production capacity of 42 tonnes. The $80 million facility processes cotton and manmade fibers for DBL's garment factories.

Byggelement, part of Peab Byggsystem, inaugurated a new 4,500-square-meter factory in Ucklum, Sweden, for producing ECO-Prefab floor slabs with at least 50% alternative binders. The facility has an annual capacity of 500,000 square meters and created about 20 new jobs.

MycoWorks leased a 136,000 square foot facility in Union, South Carolina, with $10 million in NMTC financing from CEI Capital Management, to produce its Reishi and Hyphae mycelium-based textiles, creating 354 jobs.

BOE Technology Group and partners plan to invest 63 billion yuan ($8.81 billion) to set up an AMOLED production line in Chengdu, China. The project will produce high-end touch screens for laptops and tablets.

Hitachi Energy inaugurated a new transformers factory in Bac Ninh, Vietnam, specializing in liquid-filled power and distribution transformers. The factory nearly doubles previous annual capacity and employs over 500 people.

Vitebskie Podemniki (VIPO) plans to build two new factories in Vitebsk, Belarus, to double its workforce and production output. The company invested about $8 million in its base this year.

HIMOINSA, a Yanmar Group company, opened a 5,000 m2 factory in Murcia, Spain, to produce lighting towers and battery energy storage and distribution systems, with a total production capacity of 7,000 units per year.

SIG has opened its €10 million Packaging Development Center Europe at its packaging plant site in Linnich, Germany, on or around 28 November 2023.

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) will invest $233 million to build its first US advanced manufacturing facility in Linwood, Davidson County, North Carolina, to make lithium-ion battery pouches for EVs and create 352 jobs.

Beak & Johnston opened a new A$110 million pastry and ready-meal production facility in Arndell Park, Sydney, with capacity for up to one million meal solutions per week and 180 new jobs.

The Lemi National Cement Factory, a $600 million joint venture between West International Holding and East African Holding Company, is 70% complete and expected to be inaugurated in early 2024, adding 8 million metric tons of annual capacity.

Aluplast is installing fifty high-speed extrusion lines, a mixing plant, R&D facilities and foiling lines at a new site in Poland.

Stada Romania announced that construction of its new medicine factory in Turda, Romania, has reached 70% completion. The investment is over EUR 50 million, and the facility will have a total area of approximately 30,000 square meters.

Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning's subsidiary Johnson Controls-Hitachi Wanbao Compressor (Guangzhou) signed the main terms of an investment contract with Conghua district for a scroll compressor project planned at about 100 mu of land, with investment of RMB 480 million.

Thai Yazaki Electric Wire, part of Yazaki, will build a new aluminium wire production facility at its Suvarnabhumi plant site near Bangkok, Thailand. The investment is approximately JPY 6.5 billion, with construction starting June 2024 and completion by May 2025, increasing melting capacity from 850 to 2,500 tonnes per month.

BDR Thermea Group has begun construction of a new plant in Vranov nad Topľou, Slovakia, to produce heat pumps and hot water storage tanks. The investment is over €60 million, creating 750 jobs, with production capacity of 150,000 heat pumps and 300,000 water storage tanks per year. Production is scheduled to start at the end of 2024.

Gühring Group held the opening ceremony for a new factory in Changzhou, China, built by its subsidiary Guhring (Changzhou) Cutting Tools Co., Ltd. The plant has an annual production capacity of 1 million cutting tools and an annual output value of about 300 million yuan.

Zar Group built the Middle East's largest confectionery plant in Iran for its Zarkam brand, with construction starting in 2018 and production lines launching from 2021 after a COVID-19 delay.