Changyu Aerospace held a groundbreaking ceremony for its aerospace key metal components production line project in Xi'an Economic and Technological Development Zone. Phase 1 investment is 250 million yuan, including precision forging lines and aircraft engine parts production.

TROQ Chuangjie Electronics held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in Jinhua, Zhejiang, with a total investment of 300 million yuan. The facility will produce 2 billion quartz crystal electronic components annually, with completion expected in 2024.

Dongyeon Autotech signed an MOU with Busan city to invest 26 billion won (approx. USD 20 million) in a new second plant in Gijang-gun, Busan. Construction starts October 2023 with completion targeted for May 2024, creating 40 new jobs.

Hong Kong-backed Benepack Hungary is building an aluminium can factory in Makó's industrial park, with a €65 million investment whose foundation stone was laid on 26 September 2023. The plant is due to open in September 2024 with 120 jobs and capacity of up to one billion cans a year.

Chinese company Sunstrong announced an initial investment of $20 million to build a plant in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico, which will supply Milwaukee Tools and generate about 500 direct jobs in the short term.

Johnson & Johnson MedTech announced plans to build a 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Alajuela, Costa Rica, focusing on heart rhythm solutions and orthopedics, with construction starting in 2023 and adding about 3,000 jobs over three to five years.

Aundé, the last French manufacturer of automotive textile, will move to a new plant in Saint-Quentin, France, to be delivered next summer. The site will produce technical textiles for the automotive and railway markets.

LEONHARD KURZ has opened a new production facility in Vietnam, investing approximately €37 million. The plant will produce decorative products for automotive, consumer electronics, and home appliances, with additional capacity of 15 million square meters per year from 2024.

Micron Technology has begun construction of a $2.75 billion semiconductor assembly and test facility in Sanand, Gujarat, India. The plant is expected to be ready by December 2024.

HD Hyundai Electric signed an MOU with Jeollabuk-do Province and Gunsan City to build a wind turbine plant in Gunsan, with a joint investment of about KRW 100 billion with GE Vernova Offshore Wind Korea. The plant will produce nacelles and generators, creating about 150 jobs, and is planned to be established by 2026.

Viega will build a 180,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant for ProPress and MegaPress fittings in Shalersville, Ohio, with about $200 million of investment, expected to be operational in early 2025 and to create more than 68 jobs.

Paradigm 3D opened a $5.44 million (Dh20 million) 3D-printing facility in Jebel Ali Industrial Area, Dubai, the first in the Middle East certified for aerospace parts under EASA Part 21G. It has an initial capacity of 2,000 additively manufactured parts per year.

Daifuku Automatic Conveying Equipment (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. has completed a new factory in Suzhou, China, for automated transport equipment for semiconductor and LCD industries, with expected annual output value of about CNY 1.5 billion next year.

HIHO Wheel México inaugurated a new plant in Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato, for the production of aluminum automotive wheels. The investment is $100 million and is expected to create 600 direct jobs.

Xusheng will invest $350 million to build a new plant in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, producing precision aluminum alloy auto parts and industrial components. The project is expected to create 1,200 jobs.

Lantmännen Unibake launched a new production plant in Nowa Sól, Poland, its third bakery in the country and second largest in Europe, with three production lines for fast food bread.

DePre, a joint venture of DeRoyal Industries and Premier Inc., will invest $10.3 million to establish a headquarters and manufacturing facility in Powell, Tennessee, producing medical isolation gowns and creating 26 jobs.

MycoWorks began production at its new manufacturing facility in Union, South Carolina, capable of scaling up to grow millions of square feet of its leather-alternative material Reishi using Fine Mycelium technology.

Sovremennye Tekhnologii Gazovykh Turbin (STGT) and Tsentr Vosstanovleniya Lopatok (TsVL) plan to build a plant in Villozskoye, Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, for producing turbine blades and repairing gas turbine components. Investment is 6.4 billion rubles, creating 100 jobs, with completion by 2025.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan commissioned the $311 million Sapphire Float Glass factory in Mkiu village, Mkuranga, Tanzania. The factory, owned by Wangkang Investment Group, produces 700 metric tonnes of building glass per day and currently employs 750 people, with plans to create 1,650 jobs upon completion.

Orimex, a glass importer, is investing over 100 million dirhams to build a glass processing unit in Drarga near Agadir, Morocco, to produce construction and appliance glass. The project is expected to create 50 skilled jobs.

Bayer announced the opening of a new production facility in Turku, Finland, to increase production capacity of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs). The 250 million euro investment will utilize automation and robotics to create efficiencies and increase capacities.

Guangzhou Zengxin Technology Co., Ltd. held a topping-out ceremony for its 12-inch advanced smart sensor and specialty process wafer manufacturing line in Zengcheng, Guangzhou. The first phase investment is 7 billion yuan, with total investment reaching 37 billion yuan. Production is expected to start in 2025.

Wanhua Chemical held a completion ceremony for its second-phase membrane project at the Yantai Industrial Park. The project increases production capacity for reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, and other membrane products.

Swire Coca-Cola Ltd. began construction of a new bottling plant in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, with an investment of 2 billion yuan (€260 million). The 116,000 sqm facility is expected to be completed by end of 2025 with 13 production lines.

Attika signed an agreement with Leningrad Oblast authorities to build a new plant in Tosnensky District for producing liquid and powder epoxy resins. The first phase (liquid resins) is scheduled for November 2024, the second (powder resins) for October 2025. Investment exceeds 900 million rubles, creating 48 jobs.

Viessmann is building a 40,000-square-meter heat pump factory in Legnica, Poland, with an investment above EUR 200 million, with UNITY Consulting supporting planning and production start targeted for Q3 2023.

Ando Tekko, a manufacturer of precision reducer parts for industrial robots, will build a new factory in Gobo-cho, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The first-phase investment is approximately ¥5 billion, with the plant expected to start operations in autumn 2027, doubling production capacity.

Dexin Chip Technology Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a high-power device wafer R&D and production base in Suzhou Industrial Park. The project has a total investment of 5 billion yuan, with phase I fixed investment of 1.4 billion yuan, planning a 6-inch production line with a capacity of 70,000 wafers per month.

Mitsubishi Electric India held a groundbreaking ceremony for its first air conditioner and compressor manufacturing unit in Ponneri, Chennai. The company plans to invest Rs 1,891 crore in the facility, with mass production expected to start in October 2025 and an initial annual capacity of 300,000 air conditioners and 650,000 compressors.

MöllerTech Automotive Parts Langfang held a commencement ceremony for a new 10,000-square-meter plant in Langfang, China, which will produce upper pillars for automotive interiors, with production starting in December 2023.

Dow announced the startup of a new MDI distillation and prepolymers facility at its Freeport, Texas site, replacing capacity from La Porte and increasing product supply by 30%.

Tesla supplier Hota Industrial Mfg. Co will invest $99 million to build its first plant outside Asia in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Construction is expected to begin in early 2024.

Grupa Hager opened a new production plant in Bierun, Poland, with an area of 21,500 sq m. The investment cost was about EUR 50 million, and the plant will produce products for electrical power distribution.

Egypt's SCZONE signed a contract with Rolling Plus for chemical industries to build a €1 billion tyre manufacturing plant in Ain Sokhna, producing 7 million tyres annually and creating 1,000 jobs.

Xinnuo Precision Machinery (Anhui Xinnuo Precision Machinery Co., Ltd.) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its 'Large Intelligent CNC Machine Tool Manufacturing Project' in Huangshan, which will produce gantry and horizontal machining centers to expand capacity.

Contegra Construction is building a 220,000-square-foot production facility for AZZ Precoat Metals in Washington, Missouri. Completion is scheduled for spring 2024, with production anticipated to start in 2025, creating about 88 jobs.

Silfab Solar will invest $150 million in a new solar cell manufacturing plant in Fort Mill, South Carolina, creating 800 jobs. The facility will produce 2 GW of cells and 1.2 GW of modules annually, with operations starting in Q3 2024.

Heartland Water Technology has completed construction of its new 30,000 square foot Robert E. Cawthorn Technology Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The facility features commercial-scale HelioStorm gasifier and Heartland Concentrator technologies.

Skanda Aerospace Technology, a collaborative effort of Raghu Vamsi Machine Tools and U.S. firm Rave Gears, inaugurated an aerospace gear and gear boxes manufacturing facility in Hyderabad. The first phase investment is ₹75 crore, with plans to invest an additional ₹150 crore over two to three years. Employment is projected to increase from 150 to 1,000 over three years.

Travipos SA will invest ₹100 crore to build a modern concrete sleeper manufacturing plant in New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal.

Spanish building materials manufacturer Travipos SA will invest ₹150 crore to build an ethanol plant with a daily capacity of 200,000 litres in Siliguri, West Bengal.

OFS Technologies has begun construction of a production complex for high-tech oilfield service equipment in Tyumen, Russia, with an investment of about 3 billion rubles. Commissioning is scheduled for 2025.

Diehl Controls opened its second plant in China, in Qingdao's Huangdao district, on September 18, 2023. The company is investing more than 23 million euros in the new subsidiary DCQD, which will produce electronic systems.

TECO held the inauguration ceremony for its new efficient low-voltage motor plant in Cienega de Flores, Nuevo Leon, Mexico on September 18, 2023. The plant occupies 11,000 square meters and will produce 150,000 HP1-HP250 motors per year for the North American market.

Collier County has approved a $1.5 million incentive for Dialum Glass to build a $20 million advanced glass processing facility in Ave Maria, Florida, the company's first U.S. facility, expected to create 80-100 jobs.

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has inaugurated its third manufacturing plant in Tijuana, Mexico, with a $100 million investment, creating 1,000 new jobs, focusing on production of respiratory hospital products.

Tex-Tech Industries will hold a groundbreaking for a 170,000 sq ft facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to serve as the primary manufacturing site for its Engineered Composites division. The project involves $41.7 million in investment and is expected to create 59 jobs over five years.

Joby Aviation plans to build its first scaled manufacturing facility at Dayton International Airport in Ohio, capable of producing up to 500 aircraft per year. The company will invest up to $500 million and create up to 2,000 jobs, with construction expected to start in 2024 and the facility coming online in 2025.

Angola-based PureGlass established its first regional production headquarters in the Sajaa Industrial Area in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, for tempered and laminated glass production.