CATO Machinery Industry Co., Ltd. has signed and started construction of a new facility in Jintan, Changzhou, China, for developing and manufacturing high-end five-axis CNC machine tools for new energy vehicles. The total investment is 3 billion yuan, with a first phase on 123 mu of land.
Sany Heavy Machinery officially opened a loader industrial park in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, with an annual capacity of 30,000 units. The total investment was 10.8 billion yuan.
Sage Parts Plus Inc. opened a new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Fountain Inn, Greenville County, South Carolina. The $1.7 million investment is expected to create 73 jobs.
Gormash Global will invest about 9 billion rubles to build plants producing mining equipment in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, with first phase starting in two years and full capacity of 1,000 units per year by 2027, creating 4,000 jobs.
Intel plans to invest up to $4.6 billion in a new semiconductor assembly and test facility near Wrocław, Poland, which will employ 2,000 workers.
Tsementum plans to build a dry mortar plant in Volsk, Saratov region, with an investment of about 500 million rubles, to be commissioned in 2025.
Transmashholding will create an engine-building industrial cluster at the Kolomna plant in the Moscow region, with investments of about 26 billion rubles. The cluster will produce unique engines and is expected to start operations by the end of 2023.
Baltic Industrial Company (BPK) will invest 7 billion rubles to build a new plant for heavy metal-cutting equipment in St. Petersburg's special economic zone. The plant will have a capacity of up to 1,000 machines per year.
Bosch Rexroth opened a new production plant in Brnik, Slovenia, with an investment of EUR 13.2 million. The plant will create 123 new jobs and focus on electrification of mobile applications.
PVS Plastics Technology Corporation will invest $6.9 million to establish its second U.S. facility in Johnson City, Tennessee, creating 26 jobs. The facility will manufacture injection molding plastics for automotive and commercial HVAC industries, supporting customer ebm-papst.
Holcim inaugurated a new mortar plant in Malagueño, Córdoba, Argentina, with an investment of $5 million, covering 1,500 m² and a production capacity of 120,000 tons per year, creating 20 jobs.
Mingda (Bangladesh) New Material Co. Ltd. signed an agreement with BEPZA to invest $76.41 million in a factory in BEPZA Economic Zone, Bangladesh, to produce artificial fabric and other products, creating 2,830 jobs.
Celotech Chemical will invest in a new factory to produce modified starch products, including formulated starch, hydroxypropyl starch, and carboxymethyl starch, with production expected to begin in 2024.
TPK RadiusMed will organize production of high-pressure syringe-injectors in the Dubna Special Economic Zone, with investments of 254.6 million rubles. The plant will create about 40 jobs and produce 520,000 medical devices annually.
Polystyvert is constructing a $3 million pilot plant at its R&D centre in east Montreal to adapt its recycling technology to ABS plastic.
Polystyvert is investing $40 million to build its first full-scale commercial polystyrene recycling plant in Greater Montreal, recycling 9,000 tons of PS waste annually.
RIBUS Inc. opened its first solely owned production facility in Sparks, Nevada, a 15,000+ square-foot plant for clean label ingredients, with increased capacity and new jobs.
Armavir Metallurgical Company plans to build a new foundry and press plant in Armavir, Russia, with investments over 14 billion rubles. The plant will produce up to 90,000 tonnes of aluminum ingots and 72,000 tonnes of aluminum profiles annually, creating 1,000 jobs.
Kerry opened a new 50,000-square-meter taste manufacturing facility in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia. The facility includes a manufacturing site, R&D pilot plant, and sampling hub, and is the company's largest greenfield investment in Southeast Asia.
Prozis will open a new textile production unit in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, to expand its clothing production capacity. The facility is expected to start operations later in 2023 and will create at least 50 new jobs.
Metsä Group has decided to build a new Kerto LVL mill in Äänekoski, Finland, with an investment of EUR 300 million. The mill is expected to begin production in late 2026 and will have an annual capacity of approximately 160,000 cubic metres, creating around 150 new jobs.
Samyang Biopharm has inaugurated a new EUR 26.2 million plant in Gödöllő, Hungary, for manufacturing synthetic suture materials. The facility will create 55 jobs and production is expected to increase from 30,000 km/year to 100,000 km/year.
VARTA AG is investing over €20 million in a new factory for energy storage systems at its Neunheim site in Ellwangen, Germany. Production will start in summer 2023, with capacity up to 100,000 systems per year (over 1 GWh), creating about 120 jobs.
Mubea Aviation held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory in the European Free Zone in Ergene, Tekirdağ, Turkey. The 40 million euro investment will increase production capacity from 4,000 to 12,000 square meters for producing aircraft parts from carbon fibre material.
Viessmann Climate Solutions is building a new €200 million, 50,000-square-meter heat pump factory in Legnica, Poland, as part of a planned €1 billion investment over three years in heat pumps and green air-conditioning.
Aptiv will invest US $40 million in a new factory in El Salto, Jalisco, to manufacture parts for electric vehicles. The plant will create 2,200 jobs and is expected to start operations in September 2023.
Heidelberg Materials celebrated the opening of its new cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana, the second-largest single cement production facility in North America. The plant has a capacity of 2.4 million tonnes of cement per year and represents an investment of over US$600 million.
ZF Group officially settled a new energy vehicle eDrive project in Hunnan District, Shenyang, with a total investment of CNY 1.3 billion. The project will build an eDrive system assembly and inspection production line for Audi's high-end new energy vehicle platform, scheduled to start production in March 2025.
Samyang Holdings' Biopharm Group completed a biodegradable suture yarn factory in Gödöllő, Hungary, with an investment of approximately 28 billion KRW. The factory, built on a 36,000㎡ site, aims to produce up to 100,000 km of suture yarn annually by 2025.
Siemens Healthineers announced plans to invest $428 million to open a new in-vitro diagnostics manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China.
ZF held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new energy vehicle eDrive plant in Shenyang, Liaoning province, with an investment of over 1 billion yuan ($140 million) and expected to employ around 900 people. The plant will produce electric axle drives.
Isotope Technologies Munich SE opened its new NOVA production facility for therapeutic radionuclides in Neufahrn near Munich, Germany, following a €255 million investment round. The facility is the world's largest production site of lutetium-177.
UniTTEC, via its unit Zhejiang Haina Semiconductor, plans to invest CNY 2 billion ($279 million) to build a semiconductor materials factory in Pujiang county, Zhejiang, producing polished wafers in two phases.
ProKidney plans to invest up to $485 million and create up to 330 jobs in a new 210,000 sq ft biomanufacturing facility in Guilford County, Greensboro, North Carolina, for commercial production of REACT cell therapy.
Swedish heat transfer firm Alfa Laval has begun construction of its second production site in San Bonifacio, Verona province, with an investment of about €100 million, to be fully operational in about a year.
Ball Corporation has started production of recyclable aluminium beverage cans at a new plant in Plzeň, Czech Republic, with an investment of over CZK 4 billion; it currently employs 150 and plans to reach 200.
EBARA Corporation built a fully automated 18,450 square metre factory in Fujisawa near Tokyo to produce dry vacuum pumps for semiconductor, flat screen, LED and solar cell manufacturing. The plant is designed to produce more than 20,000 units a year.
Kyashif started production at a new hydraulic cylinder plant in Kardzhali, its fourth plant. The investment is 10 million leva, with a planned rise to 30 million, and 40 workers will be hired.
Dayou AutoParts completed a new steering wheel factory in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with an investment of approximately US$13.6 million. The plant will produce up to 1,200,000 steering wheels per year and create 300 jobs.
L.G. Everist is about 70% complete with construction on a new ready-mix plant near Harrisburg, South Dakota, capable of producing 300 yards per hour. The plant is part of a broader 50-acre industrial development that may include an asphalt plant and recycling yard.
TOMTAŞ Aviation and Technology will invest TL 205 million ($8.6 million) to revive its first aircraft factory in Kayseri, Turkey, to produce aircraft and helicopter parts. The facility will have an annual production capacity of 420,000 kg and employ 50 people.
Swiss Glas Trösch Group announced plans to build a new float glass factory in Lommel, Belgium, on a 35-hectare brownfield site. The investment is several hundred million euros, creating 300 direct and 1,000 indirect jobs, with first production scheduled for 2025.
Danfoss announced the construction of a new compressor and sensor manufacturing facility in Apodaca, Mexico. The facility is expected to be ready by the end of 2024, with initial capacity for 100,000 compressor units, 1.6 million pressure sensors, and 1 million A2L leak detection sensors.
The Zero-Carbon Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Project in Robot Valley Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park, Foshan, China, is scheduled to be completed and accepted in September 2023 and put into operation by the end of 2023. Total investment is 1.2 billion yuan.
BWT Haier Drinking Water Technology Co., Ltd. officially opened its new smart plant in Qingdao International Economic Cooperation Zone on June 9, 2023. The joint venture between Haier Group and BWT Group invested 60 million Euro in the project, which will produce household water purification products and create over 650 jobs.
Rayburn Electric Cooperative broke ground on Rayburn Energy Station II, a $685 million, 570-MW facility using 10 Siemens Energy SGT-800 gas turbines, in Sherman, Texas.
BWT Haier's smart water purification factory was put into production in Qingdao, Shandong province on June 9, 2023. The factory has a total investment of 0.46 billion yuan, a planning area of 61,333 sqm, and a designed full capacity of 2 million units per year for household water purification products.
Nakamura-Tome Precision Industry announced it will complete its largest new factory, named MAGI, in July 2023 with an investment of 2.6 billion yen. The plant will increase production capacity by 35% and introduce robots and AGVs to improve productivity.
Itron, Inc announced plans to establish new operations in South Carolina, creating over 100 new jobs. (Details from article context: Itron is also mentioned as making a major investment, but specific location and amount are not provided in the excerpt.)
Zoomlion started construction of a CNY 1.6 billion 'lighthouse factory' in Chongqing's Longsheng New City to manufacture truck-mounted cranes, with annual capacity of over 20,000 units and 22 production lines.