Manitou will invest €60 million in a new 20,000 square metre fabrication welding facility in Candé, France, near its aerial work platform assembly operations. The plant will employ up to 100 new staff and is scheduled for completion in early 2026.

Shanghai Rongrong New Materials Technology Co., Ltd signed an agreement with Baise city government to invest approximately 10.7 billion yuan (about $1.5 billion) to build an alumina fiber manufacturing base in Baise, Guangxi. The plant will have a total planned annual capacity of about 12,500 tons of alumina fiber products, making it the largest single factory of its kind in China.

Turkey's Altrade Company plans to build an aluminum sheet production plant in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan. The first stage investment is about 8 billion Kazakhstani tenge, creating 100 jobs, with a second stage of 9 billion tenge. The plant will produce 18,000 tons of aluminum sheets per year.

Ningbo Tianyi Medical broke ground on a new R&D and manufacturing base in Ningxiang, Hunan, China. The project, with a total investment of about CNY 450 million, will produce hemodialysis consumables, CRRT equipment, and surgical supplies.

Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company (QIMC) will start initial operations of its Gizaz glass container plant in November 2023, with a capacity of 200 tonnes per day and investment of QR320 million.

Cembrane celebrated the grand opening of its new mega factory in Hutto, Texas, for manufacturing silicon carbide membranes for water and wastewater treatment.

Nanoteam held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory in Ulsan, South Korea, to produce thermal runaway blocking pads for electric vehicle batteries. The company will invest 23.2 billion won in the plant, which will have an annual capacity of 12,000 tons and is scheduled for completion in September 2024.

Samruk-Kazyna Construction signed an investment agreement with Lashyn Factory to build Kazakhstan's first tower crane and facade hoist plant in Astana. The facility will produce 35 tower cranes and 20 facade hoists annually, with first output expected in H1 2024. Investment is 1.39 billion tenge.

Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd inaugurated a new wiring harness facility in Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone, UAE. The 11,000 sqm plant employs 500 people and was built with an initial investment of €10 million, producing wiring harnesses for commercial vehicles and exporting to Europe.

TKF, part of TKH Group, opened a new state-of-the-art OFC production facility in Rawicz, Poland, doubling its production capacity for the European market. The 10,000 sqm factory was officially opened on September 6, 2023, and adds over 75 full-time jobs.

SAMSON AG received final approval for its new factory at the Offenbach Innovation Campus, with construction started in August 2023 and completion scheduled by 2026. Production of electronic positioners is planned from October 2024.

TricorBraun opened its Bev-Cap injection moulding facility on Coronation Avenue, Kings Park, in Western Sydney. The project took over six months and cost over AUD 2 million, a joint effort with PB Packaging and Cormack Packaging.

Pratt Industries plans a new 496,000-square-foot corrugated box factory in Warner Robins, in Peach County, Georgia, with more than 125 jobs and over $120 million of investment. Operations are expected to begin in late 2024.

A South Korean company that makes automotive seating announced plans to build a $35 million factory in Metter, Georgia, to supply a new Hyundai Motor Group plant near Savannah. The project is expected to create 300 jobs.

Tezmaksan A.Ş. announced it will invest 15 million euros to build a new factory in Sivas, Turkey, to increase production capacity by 300% by 2024. The first phase of 10,000 sqm is already operational, and the second phase of 18,000 sqm is under construction.

Daikin announced a total investment of Rp6 trillion to build two air conditioner factories in Cikarang, West Java. The first plant (Rp3.3 trillion) will start operations by end of 2023 with capacity of 1.5 million units/year, and the second (Rp2.7 trillion) by 2028 with capacity of 500,000 residential and 200,000 commercial AC units/year.

Clayco broke ground on a $1.5 billion manufacturing facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, for Entek to produce lithium-ion battery separator materials. The project includes four buildings across 1.4 million square feet and is partly funded by a $200 million DOE grant.

Guangzhou Intex Auto Parts Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Toyota Boshoku, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in Xiaohudao Industrial Park, Guangzhou, China. The plant will produce seats and door trims for GAC Toyota, with completion in September 2024 and production starting in 2025.

ENTEK broke ground on a $1.5 billion lithium-ion battery separator plant in Terre Haute, Indiana. The 1.4-million-square-foot facility will produce up to 1.4 billion square meters of separators per year and create over 640 jobs by 2027.

Jayplas will develop a plastic reprocessing facility at the former Toyoda Gosei factory in Swansea, capable of processing at least 100,000 tonnes of plastics a year. The £45 million investment will create over 100 jobs and is being developed in three phases.

Nidec Industrial Automation India Private Limited held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory campus in Hubli-Dharwad, Karnataka, India. The company plans to invest Rs 450 crore ($55 million) in the facility, which will manufacture motors, generators, drives, and system solutions across six plants.

Moog's new £40 million aerospace manufacturing and design centre in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, has reached practical completion. The 208,000 sq ft facility, developed by Barberry Industrial, is expected to be operational later in 2023.

Analytik Jena and its parent company Endress+Hauser laid the foundation stone for a new €45 million campus at the Jena-Göschwitz site. The five-level building will include production, office, and laboratory space, to be completed by fall 2025.

Diehl Controls, part of Diehl Group, held a groundbreaking ceremony on September 5, 2023, for a new production plant in CTPark Brasov, Romania. Production is expected to start in mid-2024, and by 2027 the plant will employ up to 600 people and produce up to 12 million electronic systems annually.

Bulgarian flexible packaging maker Ate Plast opened a new plant in the Zagore industrial zone in Stara Zagora after a 20 million lev investment. The plant has hired 40 people and is expected to double the company's output volumes.

Alleima is investing approximately SEK 250 million in a greenfield cold-finishing facility of over 10,000 square metres at its existing Zhenjiang site. Operations start in 2025 and will serve the chemical and petrochemical segment, including hydrogen tubes.

AeroEdge began construction of a new factory in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, for manufacturing aircraft engine components, with an investment of JPY 1.883 million (approx. USD 12,800) and completion expected by June 2024.

LG Magna e-Powertrain, the joint venture between LG Electronics and Magna, announced a new facility in Miskolc, Hungary. The 284,000-square-foot plant will start production with e-motors in 2026, creating roughly 200 jobs.

Henkel has launched a Battery Engineering Center within its Inspiration Center in Düsseldorf, featuring a Battery Application Center (opened August 2023) and a Battery Test Center (starting 2024). The center supports development of EV battery solutions.

Zhongshan ENG Polymer Materials Co held a groundbreaking ceremony for a Research and Production Headquarters Base for Special High-performance TPU in Minzhong District, Torch Development Zone, Zhongshan, China. The project is invested 600 million yuan and will include 18 production lines with an annual capacity of 20,000 tons of special high-performance TPU.

Emerson is building a 30,000-square-metre manufacturing facility at the King Salman Energy Park (Spark) in Saudi Arabia as part of its localisation efforts. The company already operates valve plants in Jubail, Dammam and Dhahran.

Galvion is investing in a new European production hub in Gdansk, Poland, originally announced in September 2023, scheduled to open later in 2024 to service growing demand for ballistic helmets from NATO countries.

Vaillant Group began series production of heat pumps at its new plant in Senica, Slovakia, in September 2023, with an annual capacity of 300,000 units and a total investment of over €120 million.

GlobalFoundries opened a US$4 billion semiconductor plant in Singapore in September 2023, adding 1,000 jobs and boosting capacity for global production.

Amkor Technology announced its new factory in Yen Phong II-C Industrial Park, Bac Ninh Province, Vietnam, will start operations in October 2023, with an investment of approximately $1.6 billion through 2035.

EMP Shield held a groundbreaking on September 1, 2023, for the Secure Semiconductor Manufacturing plant in Burlington, Kansas. The $1.9 billion facility is expected to create 1,200 jobs.

Boysen Group secured a second large order for battery housings for electric vehicles from a premium automaker and will build a new production plant in Nagold, Germany, investing around €100 million. The plant will create 250 jobs and production is planned to start at the end of 2025.

Daikin started construction of a new heat pump factory in Poland with a total investment of 300 million euros, expected to start production in July 2024 and create 1,000 jobs by 2025 and 3,000 by 2030.

SheaRock Construction Group will build a 30,000-square-foot facility in the Windsor-Essex area of Ontario to manufacture plastic sewer maintenance shafts, investing about $4.29 million and creating 20 new jobs. The plant is targeted to be fully operational by 2026, producing up to 10,000 units a month.

Schaltbau's new NExT Factory in Velden, Germany, will go into full operation on September 1, 2023. It is described as the world's first direct current factory, featuring a photovoltaic system, DC grid, and CO2-neutral production.

Jinyang Industry will invest 80 billion KRW to build a forged parts production factory for internal combustion and electric vehicles in Gyeongju, creating about 160 jobs.

Zipform Packaging opened its new A$8 million manufacturing facility in Dandenong South, Victoria, doubling its production capacity with a linear forming line for composite food packs.

Treplar, a joint venture of Klarpet of Turkey and Triton International Enterprises of the USA, is setting up a food packaging facility in Berkeley County, WV with a total investment of $50 million and about 600 jobs by year three.

BAUER KOMPRESSOREN CHINA established a 7,000 sqm manufacturing facility in Taicang, Jiangsu near Shanghai to meet rising demand for its new BM medium-pressure compressor series.

Bonnell Industries held a groundbreaking ceremony on August 30, 2023, for a new 100,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Dixon, Illinois. The facility is expected to be operational by July 2024.

BioMedical Production, part of India's Erba Group, opened a new production facility in the Dubna special economic zone to manufacture diagnostic medical equipment and consumables. The company invested 54 million rubles and expects to create 25 jobs at full capacity.

SP Meditec has broken ground on a 120,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Peachtree City, Georgia, expected to create 200 jobs and begin operations in August 2024.

Shandong Jitai New Material Co., Ltd. plans to invest 360 million yuan to build a plant in Tancheng Economic Development Zone, Shandong, producing 150,000 tons/year of water-based acrylic resin and styrene-butadiene emulsion, 20,000 tons/year of water-based polyurethane adhesive, 20,000 tons/year of hot melt glue, and 50,000 tons/year of sealant.

Zempack, a JBS company, is finishing construction of its new metal packaging plant in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, with an investment of over R$15 million, creating about 120 jobs, with opening planned for early in the second half of 2023.

Stäubli, a leading global industrial and mechatronic solution provider, opened a $15 million facility in Bengaluru, India.