Vibracoustic officially opened its new plant in Chongqing, China, on July 18, 2023. The 16,400-square-meter facility, built with an investment of approximately 170 million RMB (21.6 million euros), will manufacture NVH products and employ about 130 people, with potential to reach 650 at full capacity.

Cim Tek Filtration held a ribbon cutting for its new manufacturing facility in Kennett, Missouri, its first manufacturing branch in the state, expected to create 77 jobs.

BVI opened a new state-of-the-art facility in Liège, Belgium, tripling its intraocular lens (IOL) production capacity and integrating R&D and manufacturing.

The Cimenterie de Tambass cement plant in Badaguichiri, Niger, built with an investment of 259 billion FCFA and Chinese partners, will be inaugurated on July 19, 2023. It has a production capacity of 1,650,000 tonnes per year and creates 800 direct jobs.

Jacto finalized construction of a new 96,000 sqm factory in Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil. Production lines will start in September 2023 with full operation expected in January 2024. The plant will be highly automated with 80% robotized operations and a 5 MW solar park.

Al Bidda Switchgear, part of Al Bidda Group, inaugurated a 14,000 sqm switchgear manufacturing plant in the New Industrial Area, Qatar. The facility is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and targets oil & gas, power distribution, and infrastructure projects.

South Korean medical supply company AB Medical will invest $26.3 million to build a new plant in San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico, creating 250 jobs. The plant will produce blood collection tubes and serve Latin American and North American markets.

NOVA Chemicals announced plans to build its first mechanical recycling facility in Connersville, Indiana, to produce recycled polyethylene. The facility, operated by Novolex, will create up to 125 jobs and begin operating as early as 2025, delivering over 100 million pounds of rPE by 2026.

Gebauer & Griller Group (GG Group) will invest nearly BGN 60 million (EUR 29 million) to build a 13,000 m² plant in Ruse, Bulgaria, for high-tech automotive components. Groundbreaking is in 2023, pre-series production starts summer 2024, series production summer 2025, creating about 400 jobs.

Martogg is commissioning its Circular AU food-grade plastic recycling facility in Melbourne, expected to be operational before year end 2023. The plant will reprocess plastic packaging waste into food-grade recycled plastics.

EMAG Group held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in San Isidro Business Park, Querétaro, Mexico. The facility will have 1,800 m² of production space with 30 machine assembly stations and 1,200 m² of office space.

TBEA Shenyang Transformer Group's UHV Bushing R&D and Manufacturing Base, built by subsidiary Shenyang Hexin Bushing with CNY 640 million investment, was commissioned. It will produce 4,360 bushings annually, including ±800kV and ±1100kV DC bushings and 1100kV AC bushings.

Trivitron Healthcare has unveiled a fully automatic radiation protection gloves manufacturing facility at AMTZ in Visakhapatnam, India. The plant has an annual capacity of over 200,000 units and uses lead-free technology.

Wuxi Jinye Complete Equipment Co., Ltd. is constructing a 46,000 sqm modern factory in Wuxi, China, expected to finish at the end of 2023 with full move-in by mid-2024.

SEW-Motors (Suzhou) Co Ltd, a branch of SEW Eurodrive, opened the first phase of its smart factory in Suzhou Industrial Park on July 15, 2023, with an investment of about RMB 600 million and annual capacity of 1.5 million motors. The second phase, with an investment of over RMB 700 million, broke ground and is scheduled to operate in 2024.

Cemacon has inaugurated a new factory in Recea, Sălaj County, Romania, the first of its kind in the country, producing brick slips for building façades. The investment exceeds EUR 14 million, with partial funding of EUR 1.9 million from Norwegian grants.

Nicomac Taikisha Clean Rooms broke ground on a new factory in Chandanvelly, Hyderabad, as part of a combined investment of Rs 575 crore with Daifuku Intralogistics India. The project is expected to create 1,600-2,000 direct jobs and 4,000 indirect jobs.

Daifuku Intralogistics India broke ground on a new factory in Chandanvelly, Hyderabad, as part of a combined investment of Rs 575 crore with Nicomac Taikisha Clean Rooms. The project is expected to create 1,600-2,000 direct jobs and 4,000 indirect jobs.

Novostal will invest about 40 billion rubles to build a plant for hot-rolled sheet production in Shakhty, Rostov region, with an annual capacity of 1 million tons. The project will create over 1,500 jobs.

Amaero International Limited will invest $54.9 million to establish its first U.S. facility in Cleveland, Tennessee, creating 105 jobs. The 130,000-square-foot facility will serve as its flagship manufacturing, R&D and global headquarters for titanium alloy powder production.

Ford Meter Box announced plans to invest up to $300 million in a 300,000-square-foot brass products facility adjacent to its Wabash headquarters, creating up to 126 jobs by the end of 2027.

Azerbaijan Investment Holding and Hungarian company Hell Energy signed an agreement to construct a plant producing aluminium beverage cans in the Alat free economic zone. The cans will be exported regionally and used for bottling on the domestic market.

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre secured £50 million to establish the Compass (Composites at Speed and Scale) facility in Sheffield, with Boeing as the first major research partner. The investment was announced on July 13, 2023 as part of the South Yorkshire Investment Zone.

VA TECH WABAG has commenced construction of the 200 MLD Pagla Energy Neutral Sewage Treatment Plant in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after securing a $100 million order from Dhaka WASA in March 2023. The project was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on July 13, 2023.

Duravit Canada, a subsidiary of German group Duravit AG, will establish a fully automated plant in Matane, Quebec to produce high-end bathroom ceramics. The project is valued at over $90 million and is expected to create 240 permanent jobs, with the plant entering service in 2025.

Dangote Cement announced it is strengthening local production capacity with a 6 million tonnes per annum integrated cement plant in Itori, Ogun State, Nigeria, to increase export capacity and foreign exchange inflows.

Hezhou Token New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. plans to invest 30 million yuan to build a 300,000-tonne-per-year eco-coating plant in Hezhou, Guangxi, China. The plant will produce 200,000 tonnes of eco-coatings, 20,000 tonnes of self-leveling compounds, and 80,000 tonnes of tile adhesives annually.

Elite Material Co. (EMC) announced a RM186 million (approx. $40M) investment for a new factory in Penang, Malaysia, to produce copper clad laminate. The plant will be built in two phases, with initial production capacity of 450,000 units per month starting in early 2025, eventually reaching 900,000 units per month.

Central Moloney, Inc. selected Okaloosa County, Florida for a new 302,000 SF manufacturing facility for pad-mounted electrical transformers. The $50 million project is expected to create 350 jobs.

First Mode announced construction of its first manufacturing facility in Seattle, Washington, USA, to produce zero-emission powerplants and infrastructure for nuGen haulage solutions for mining and rail, with operations starting later in 2023.

Honda announced a $56 million investment to build a new factory at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina, for its HondaJet 2600 business jet. The facility will create 280 jobs with an average wage of $80,000 per year.

Robogistics opened a 27,000 sq ft facility in Tampa, Florida, serving as an engineering, service, and training hub, while manufacturing continues in Texas.

TCP Group held the opening ceremony for its new Red Bull Guangxi production base in Nanning, China. The project involves a total investment of about 1.3 billion yuan and covers 90,000 m² with four high-speed fully automatic production lines.

Rohm announced it will build a new SiC power semiconductor factory in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, by acquiring land and buildings from Solar Frontier. The plant will use 8-inch wafers and aims to start operations by end of 2024.

Siemens announced a new SGD 290 million (USD 216.1 million) factory in Singapore for automation and digitalization products, expected to be completed by 2026 and create over 400 jobs.

Sinoma agreed with Sama Samawa Industries to build a cement factory in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq, with a contract value of US$200 million and production capacity of 7000 tpd (2 Mt/year). The plant is expected to be operational by 2025.

Honda Aircraft Company will invest $55.7 million in a new factory in Guilford County, North Carolina, to produce the HondaJet 2600 Concept light jet, creating nearly 300 jobs.

Altex Tube will open a $110 million steel tubing plant on the Steel Dynamics Inc. campus in Columbus, Mississippi, by mid-October 2023. The 100,000-square-foot facility will produce 100,000 tons of steel tubing per year and create 60 jobs.

Menlo Micro, a microelectronics manufacturer, will invest over $50 million to open its first domestic fabrication facility in Lansing, Tompkins County, New York, creating over 100 jobs.

PENTAX Medical, a division of HOYA Group, announced the establishment of an endoscope manufacturing, R&D and service center in Shanghai, China, under PENTAX Medical Shanghai Co., Ltd. The facility will produce endoscopic solutions for the China market.

Menlo Microsystems will invest over $50 million to retrofit a microelectronics manufacturing fabrication facility in Lansing, Tompkins County, New York, creating over 100 jobs. The facility will be the company's first domestic microelectronics fab.

Akers Packaging has moved its Chicago team into a new 280,000-square-foot facility at 425 Crossing Drive, University Park, Illinois, which houses a new Fosber corrugator and will add converting machines in the third quarter.

Suzhou Matrix Optoelectronics Co Ltd held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 10, 2023, for a 21,000-square-meter integrated magnetic sensor chip research and production base in Fenghuang town, Zhangjiagang. The project has a total investment of 150 million yuan ($20.85 million) and is expected to produce 100 million chips annually.

Zeus, a manufacturer of advanced polymer solutions, opened a new 75,600-square-foot facility in Arden Hills, Minnesota, featuring a cleanroom and R&D lab for catheter design and manufacturing. The multimillion-dollar investment is expected to create at least 100 jobs.

Eversia will build a new 85,000 m² plant in Lorquí, Spain, with an initial investment of €30 million and total investment expected to reach €50 million. Construction starts in July 2023 and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025, increasing production capacity by 50%.

Lubepack, a specialist packer of greases and lubricants, has moved to a new 9,000 sq ft facility adjacent to its sister company Unette Nutrition on Cheshire Green Industrial Park in Nantwich, Cheshire. The move is part of a £4 million investment in premises and equipment over four years.

LS Electric Co. purchased 46,000 sqm of land and a 3,700 sqm building in Bastrop, Texas, to establish its first North American production facility for power distribution systems, with plans for expansion and an R&D center.

CMZ invested €8m to build a new machining plant named Precitor in Elorrio, Spain. The plant started up in late February 2023 and will be fully operational by H2 2023, increasing cylindrical parts manufacturing by 55%.

SMA is building a new production hall, the GIGAWATT Factory, on a 46,000-square-meter plot in Niestetal, which will nearly double production capacity from 21 GW to 40 GW for large-scale solar and storage systems starting 2025.

Southern Coil Solutions will invest $27 million to build a 120,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center for aluminum and steel coils in Warren County, Kentucky. The plant is targeted for completion in December 2023 and will employ 30 people.