Hill's Pet Nutrition has opened a new 365,000 sq ft smart facility in Tonganoxie, Kansas, with an investment of over $450 million, creating more than 100 jobs, to increase wet pet food production capacity.

Amphenol Industrial Operations will open a 58,000 sq ft factory in Mesa, Arizona, to produce junction boxes and connectors for solar panels, creating 50 jobs, with opening expected before end of 2023.

Amkodor-Alga has begun construction of a new plant in Bashkortostan to produce excavators, motor graders, and bulldozers, with investments of 8 billion rubles. The plant will produce about 1,000 units per year and is expected to be completed in 2024.

Amkodor-Agidel has opened a 24,000 square meter plant in Bashkortostan to produce up to 40 grain cleaning and drying complexes per year, creating 500 jobs. The facility was built in nine months.

A new complex for producing nonwoven materials from polypropylene fibers has been launched in Kireyevsk, Tula region, with an investment of nearly 1 billion rubles, including a 705 million ruble loan from the Federal Industrial Development Fund. The facility will produce 16,000 tonnes per year and create 136 jobs.

Industrilås, a manufacturer of handles and locking systems, is opening a new factory in Nässjö, Sweden, to expand production capacity. The facility is being completed in autumn 2023.

Double Q Company Ltd has commenced construction of a new assembly plant on 15 acres along the Mpigi highway in Uganda to increase output of Sinotruk heavy goods trucks, targeting capacity of 1,000 vehicles per year.

Panattoni has started building a tailor-made manufacturing facility for Maxcess in Łubowo, Poland, which will serve as Maxcess's main European plant, enabling employment of up to 350 workers.

Neoteks built and launched a new greenfield plant in Kireyevsk, Tula region, producing multi-layer nonwoven materials from spunbond and meltblown polypropylene fibers. The plant has an annual capacity of 16,000 tonnes, with total investment exceeding RUB 970 million, including a RUB 705 million loan from the Federal Industrial Development Fund.

Xinjiang Zhenghong New Materials Co., Ltd. completed installation of two spunlace nonwoven production lines and began trial production at the Alar Economic and Technological Development Zone. The project has a total planned investment of CNY 170 million for five lines, with CNY 80 million already invested.

Rheinmetall started construction of an F-35 production facility at Weeze Airport in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The plant will produce center fuselage parts for the F-35 fighter jet, with an investment of over €100 million, and production expected to begin in 2025.

Aluminum Dynamics, a joint venture of Steel Dynamics, is constructing a $2.5 billion aluminum mill in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The mill is expected to begin operations in summer 2025 and will eventually employ up to 750 people.

Micron Technology opened a new cutting-edge assembly and test facility in Batu Kawan, Penang, Malaysia. The company previously invested $1 billion and plans to add up to another billion over the next few years to expand factory space to 1.5 million square feet.

JCB, Inc. will construct a new facility to manufacture construction equipment in San Antonio, Texas, with over $265 million in capital investment and more than 1,500 new jobs through 2028.

Quasar Medical announced the grand opening of an 11-floor, 4,400 square-meter manufacturing facility in the Robot Industrial Park in Dongguan, China. The facility will employ up to 2,000 skilled professionals and serve medical device customers.

Tangshan Wenfeng Special Steel Co., Ltd. plans to invest 1.5 billion yuan to build a 2800mm medium plate production line in Caofeidian, Tangshan, China.

Terex Corporation, through its subsidiary Genie, inaugurated a new plant in Ciénega de Flores, Nuevo León, Mexico, with an investment of $140 million. The plant will manufacture steel platforms for lifting and handling cargo and will employ 1,500 people.

Eurasian Mechanical Plant plans to build a high-tech robotic plant for metal processing and milling machine production in Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan, with an investment of 7.3 billion tenge and capacity of up to 9,000 products per year. Launch is planned for 2024.

Pasta Evangelists launched its first UK factory in North Acton, London, with over £13 million investment. The 47,000 sqft facility will produce over 50 tonnes of fresh pasta weekly and employ 60-70 people.

Steelbird Hi-tech India announced plans to invest over Rs 250 crore to set up a new manufacturing facility in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. The plant is expected to be functional within two years, with an initial investment of Rs 100 crore, and will produce over 20,000 helmets per day.

Minnesota-based canning company Lagersmith Can Supply Co. is investing $10 million to build a 25,000-square-foot warehouse and production facility in Bark Creek Industrial Park, Fremont, creating more than 20 jobs over three years.

Gruppo Fanti celebrated the opening of Fanti USA, its first US manufacturing facility, in a former vacant building in the Half Moon Industrial Park in Weirton. The roughly $30 million investment is the company's largest expansion project, and production begins in the coming weeks.

Oilfield equipment maker GulfTek inaugurated a new manufacturing plant in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, under Saudi Aramco's IKTVA program, with USD 20 million committed and a further USD 30 million planned over five years. The site adds 23,000 square metres, bringing production area to about 45,000 square metres.

German compressor maker BAUER opened its new compressor factory in Ghimbav, Brasov County, Romania, which started production in February 2023 and has 150 employees. The 2022-2032 investment plan exceeds 50 million euros and the plant will reach 28,000 compressors per year.

Terex Genie, a U.S. manufacturer of construction platforms and elevators, inaugurated its new plant in Ciénega de Flores, Nuevo León, Mexico. The company invested US$140 million in the facility and will employ 1,500 people to produce three types of people lifts and construction platforms.

EMD Electronics, the electronics business of Merck KGaA, celebrated the grand opening of its new factory in Chandler, Arizona. The 75,000-square-foot facility doubles the company's U.S. manufacturing capacity for equipment that delivers and stores specialty chemicals and gases for the semiconductor industry, representing a $39 million investment.

H55 has commenced construction of its North American premises and Canadian headquarters at Saint-Hubert Airport in Longueuil, Quebec. The facility will include manufacturing, R&D, and customer integration support, with initial battery pack production scheduled for 2024. H55 will invest approximately CAD 100 million over five years.

Charlottetown Metal Products (CMP), a subsidiary of Food Process Solutions, will establish a new Innovation Center in Milton, Prince Edward Island, for developing and testing energy-efficient hygienic food processing equipment. The project is supported by nearly $2 million in federal funding and will create 33 jobs.

Grunwald, a semi-trailer manufacturer, will build a new plant in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region, with investments of 1 billion rubles. Production is planned to launch in mid-2025, increasing total output from 4,000 to 5,000-7,000 units per year.

Stellantis and Samsung SDI announced Kokomo, Indiana as the site for a second battery manufacturing facility under their StarPlus Energy joint venture. The plant will have an annual capacity of 34 GWh, with production start planned for early 2027, creating 1,400 new jobs.

A joint venture between Reliance Aerospace and Dassault will start producing Falcon business aircraft in Nagpur, Maharashtra, by 2025. The first Falcon 2000 LXS is scheduled for unveiling in early 2025, with initial capacity of 18 aircraft per year.

Green Bay Packaging announced that its new 600,000-square-foot corrugator plant in Fort Worth, Texas, is nearing completion this fall. It will replace an older facility built in 1986 and will house a new 110-inch Fosber corrugator.

OXERRA announced plans to build a manufacturing facility for complex inorganic color pigments (CICP) and a comprehensive research center in China, expected to be operational before the end of 2023.

Gazprom Energoholding has started construction of a foundry complex for gas turbine blades in the Uzlovaya SEZ, Tula region. The facility will have a capacity of 34,000 castings per year, with completion planned for 2025 and first production in 2026. Investment is over 13 billion rubles.

Boston Scientific Corp announced on October 10, 2023, that it will build its first factory in China, located in Lingan, to focus on production for the Chinese market. The deal was signed with local authorities.

Yaskawa Electric plans to construct a new factory within its Yahatanishi Plant in Kitakyushu City, Japan, for end-to-end production of industrial robots. The investment is about 20 billion yen, with construction starting in fiscal 2024 and operation expected in 2025, increasing monthly robot production capacity by 1.5 times to 8,100 units.

Chengdu Ailuda Aviation Manufacturing Co., Ltd. plans to invest 1.036 billion yuan to build an aerospace parts intelligent manufacturing and system integration center in Chengdu, China. The project includes facilities for parts manufacturing, special processes, and digital assembly, with capacities of 150,000 parts/year, 500,000 parts/year, and 25,000 assemblies/year respectively.

Mastronardi added two high-tech greenhouse facilities in Richmond and Morehead, Kentucky, representing 120 acres of production.

Georgia-Pacific held a ribbon-cutting for a new $325 million gypsum wallboard production facility adjacent to its existing plant in Nolan County, Texas. The facility will create over 100 new jobs and combined with the existing plant will supply over 1 billion square feet of gypsum products annually.

Shandong Kemalong Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. plans to build a new plant in Jiyang District, Jinan, China, to produce 1,200 high-speed multi-functional CNC machine tools per year. The project covers 69 mu (4.6 hectares) with 38,000 square meters of floor space.

Petronas Chemicals Group will construct Asia's largest advanced chemical recycling plant with a capacity of 33 kilotons per year in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia. The plant is expected to be operational by the first half of 2026 and will convert end-of-life plastics into pyrolysis oil.

Beak & Johnston opened a new $110 million pastry and ready meals production facility in Arndell Park, Sydney, Australia. The 10,000 square metre plant has capacity to produce up to one million meal solutions per week and created 180 new jobs.

FORVIA officially inaugurated its industrial platform in Allenjoie, France, featuring a mass production plant for hydrogen storage tanks with a capacity of 100,000 tanks per year and a car seat assembly site with a capacity of 2,000 car sets per day. The total investment exceeds €250 million and employs over 600 people.

Bosch Rexroth inaugurated a new factory in Pedro Escobedo, Querétaro, Mexico, to manufacture hydraulic pumps for mobile machinery. The €160 million investment is expected to create 900 jobs in the coming years.

Sekisui Chemicals opened its first production facility outside Japan, a $52.8 million synthetic railroad tie plant in Roermond, Netherlands. The plant will produce 100,000 fiber-reinforced polyurethane ties annually, doubling overall capacity.

Futurelife launched a new R75 million manufacturing facility at the Dube Trade Port Special Economic Zone in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The factory will streamline production processes with advanced machinery.

AAG, a manufacturer of CNC routers and waterjet cutting systems, held the grand opening of its new global headquarters and dedicated manufacturing plant in Waterdown. The 105,000 sq ft facility represents a $25 million investment and houses 100 jobs with plans for 50 more.

Nucor Corporation held the grand opening of its $1.7 billion steel plate manufacturing mill in Brandenburg, Kentucky. The 1.5 million-square-foot facility has 1.2 million tons of annual capacity and employs 440 people.

SKF inaugurated a new plant in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, Mexico, with an investment of $67.5 million. The plant is expected to generate 1,200 new jobs.

IPEX celebrated the grand opening of its new 200,000 sq. ft. injection molding manufacturing facility in Pineville, N.C. The $200 million investment is the company's largest to date and created 150 new jobs.