Kensa Group officially opened the UK's largest factory dedicated to ground source heat pumps at Mount Wellington Mine in Truro, Cornwall, after investment from Legal & General Capital. The factory has capacity for 30,000 heat pumps a year.

Saica Group has begun operations at a new plant in Hamilton, Ohio, producing corrugated board and packaging. It is the company's first manufacturing site in the US and its tenth country of operation.

CLEMENS Technologies is building a 14,000 m² production and 3,000 m² administration building in Wittlich-Wengerohr, Germany, with an investment of 10.5 million euros. The company says it will double and modernise its production capacity and secure 220 jobs.

Sonoco plans a new protective packaging facility in Bursa, Turkey, to produce Sonopost cornerposts, with production expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2022. It is the company's second Sonopost plant in Europe after one in Sochaczew, Poland.

L-PACK Kashira LLC plans to build a factory worth 2 billion rubles in Kashira, Moscow Region, to make corrugated cardboard and secondary corrugated packaging for milk and juices, with commissioning scheduled for 2024.

Nelissen Steenfabrieken plans to invest at least €100 million to build a new brick factory in Kesselt, Lanaken, with hydrogen-fired ovens, creating 75 jobs. The factory is expected to be operational by 2027.

Saint-Gobain will inaugurate its world's biggest flat glass factory at Bhiwadi, Rajasthan in Q2 2023, built at an investment of Rs 1,200 crore.

Taiwan-based 台欣工業 (Taiwan Xin Industrial) will invest nearly NT$500 million (approx. US$16.3 million) to build a new plant in Fangyuan Township, Changhua County, to produce pin piles and jacket legs for offshore wind foundations.

Billion Industrial Vietnam Co., Ltd. received an investment registration certificate on November 26, 2022 for a $220 million polyester film factory in Phuoc Dong Industrial Park, Tay Ninh, Vietnam. The 20-hectare plant will produce high-quality plastic films.

ABB officially opened its largest robotics factory in Shanghai, China, on December 2, 2022. The $150 million facility covers 67,000 square meters and is fully automated, producing robots.

Goodeng Machinery held a groundbreaking ceremony on November 26, 2022 for its first overseas production base in Thailand-China Rayong Industrial Park, Thailand. The facility will assemble machinery.

Daikin Indonesia has started construction of a new air-conditioner production facility in Cikarang, West Java, with an investment of IDR 3.3 trillion. The plant will have a full production capacity of 1.5 million units per year, with first production scheduled for December 2024. The announcement was made on December 2, 2022.

Brother Machinery India Private Limited plans to establish a machine tools manufacturing unit on 8 acres of land at Japanese Industrial Township, Vasanthanarasapura Industrial Area, Tumkur District, Karnataka. The project received approval from the Karnataka State Level Single Window Clearance Committee in December 2022 and has an estimated value of Rs. 280 crore.

BD inaugurated a new 15,775 sq. meter plant in Tijuana, Mexico, for manufacturing automated medication dispensing cabinets, part of a $1.2 billion global investment plan, creating 500 jobs over two years.

Gilero inaugurated a new medical device manufacturing plant in Tijuana, Mexico, with an initial investment of US$2.5 million, and plans to invest an additional US$4 million by 2024, creating about 350 jobs.

Italian company Telema Holding, through subsidiaries Telark R and Izotalco R, is setting up two facilities in Penza region, Russia. One will produce power contactors for rail transport and industry, the other technical ceramics. Investments total 270 million rubles.

SMS Equipment broke ground on a new C$30 million, 37,000 sq ft facility in Timmins, Ontario, to support its mining and construction equipment business. The facility will include service bays, welding bays, and energy-efficient features.

Construction is underway for a new Emerald Transformer factory in Waco, Texas, on a five-acre site. The facility is anticipated to open in the first quarter of 2023 and will handle single-phase and three-phase transformer repair.

Safran Aero Boosters announced a new titanium compressor blades and vanes plant in Marchin, Liège province, Wallonia, as a €50 million investment in partnership with Belgian and Walloon public investment bodies. The plant is due to be operational in 2025 and employ around 100 people.

Amcor opened its new flexible packaging plant in Huizhou, China, with an investment of almost USD 100 million. The facility is expected to employ more than 550 people and serves food and personal-care customers.

Casa Noastra, manufacturer of QFort doors and windows, is investing over EUR 20 million in a new factory near Craiova, Dolj county, Romania. The facility will produce aluminium carpentry and create over 200 jobs.

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) inaugurated a new medical device manufacturing plant in Tijuana, Mexico, with an investment of $38.6 million. The facility is expected to create 500 new jobs over two years.

Mei Jer International invested approximately TWD 3 billion to build a fully automated SPC stone-plastic composite flooring factory in Tainan, Taiwan. The plant, covering 13,200 ping, began production in 2022 with a monthly capacity of 900 containers.

Mölnlycke opened a RM233 million state-of-the-art surgical glove factory in Kulim, Malaysia, partnering with ENGIE for solar energy and Veolia for water treatment to achieve sustainability goals.

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) inaugurated a new $38.6 million manufacturing facility in Tijuana, Mexico, to produce automated dispensing cabinets. The 15,775-square-meter plant is expected to add 500 jobs over two years, with 75 jobs in Phase I.

Shandong Weida Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. is building a heavy CNC machine tool intelligent factory in Tengzhou, Shandong, with a total investment of 1 billion yuan. The facility will cover 105 mu and produce over 1,500 heavy-duty high-end CNC machine tools annually once completed.

WEG inaugurated a new electric motor production plant in Algeria, operated by WEG Algeria Motors Spa, with a production capacity of over one million motors per year.

Okita Iron Works Co, a Japanese auto parts manufacturer, broke ground on a new plant in the Zhangjiagang Bonded Zone, Suzhou, China, with an investment of 330 million yuan ($47.34 million) and expected annual output of 32,000 metric tons of precision devices.

Chinese company Daye has begun construction of its first plant in Mexico, located in Parque Hofusan, Salinas Victoria, Nuevo Leon. The $120 million investment will generate 2,000 direct jobs, with operations expected to start in July 2023.

Litum has moved its manufacturing operations to a new state-of-the-art facility in the Aegean Free Trade Zone in Izmir, Turkey. The facility, completed in less than five months and now fully operational, can expand production capacity up to four times.

Battolyser Systems will build a new electrolyser gigafactory in the port of Rotterdam, occupying 14,000 m² in the M4H area. The investment is around EUR 100 million, creating over 700 jobs, with capacity up to 1 GW per year. Final investment decision expected in 2023, operation in 2024.

Infineon plans to invest €5 billion in a new 300 mm semiconductor production facility in Dresden, Germany, subject to public funding. The plant could create up to 1,000 jobs and be ready for production in fall 2026.

Lintec & Linnhoff started production of asphalt and concrete batching plants at a new 88,888 sq ft facility in Johor, Malaysia, replacing a previous site. The plant began limited operations in 2021 and ramped up in 2022.

HOERBIGER initiated construction of a new plant in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on 29 November 2022, to house its Compression and Safety operations. The building is due for completion by the end of 2023.

Systemair plans to build a new 14,000 square meter factory in Ukmergė, Lithuania, increasing production capacity nearly 18 times (e.g., from 1,300 to 23,000 ventilation units) and doubling the workforce from 278 to 560 employees.

Komatsu inaugurated a new remanufacturing plant in the La Negra industrial sector of Antofagasta, Chile, with an investment of US$24 million. The plant operates with 100% renewable energy.

Munters announced plans to build a new facility in the U.S. that will house fabrication, assembly, rotor production, an R&D lab, and a service training academy.

INVISTA Nylon Chemicals (China) Co. held the inauguration ceremony for its new adiponitrile (ADN) plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park. The plant represents an investment of over 7 billion RMB (over 1 billion USD) and has a capacity of 400,000 tons per year.

Stada Romania has started construction of a EUR 50 million medicine factory in Turda, Cluj county, Romania. The facility will have an initial capacity of 120 million boxes of pharmaceutical products per year.

Sacko Holding launched construction of a new cement plant in Béma, Mali, with an investment of 488 billion FCFA. The plant will have an annual capacity of 4.5 million tonnes of cement, expandable to 6 million tonnes, and create over 1,000 direct jobs.

M.J Sections Ltd completed and opened a new factory in Halesowen, UK, in 2023. The factory was built to house new heat treatment vacuum furnaces and expand capacity.

Platinum Stairlifts opened a new purpose-built manufacturing facility, Foundry Park in Keighley, UK. The multi-million pound facility will more than double production capacity and create 30 new manufacturing jobs.

Covestro started up a new production plant for Naphthylen-Diisocyanate (NDI) at its Map Ta Phut site in Thailand. The investment was in the high mid double-digit million Euro range and creates over 25 jobs.

The foundation stone was laid for a new 4Mta cement plant in Béma, Mali, by Ciment Sahel Mali SA. The project is financed with CFA388bn ($500M) and construction is expected to take 30 months from January 2023.

Ziehl-Abegg is investing 100 million euros in a new 46,500 m2 US production plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, expected ready for occupancy in 2024, with the existing Greensboro site relocated there in 2025.

Belgium's SABCA inaugurated a new aerostructure assembly plant in Nouaceur, Casablanca province, Morocco. The MAD 180 million ($16.81 million) factory covers 16,000 sqm and creates about 240 jobs.

Diehl Controls opened a new 18,000 sqm research, development and production facility at CTPark Brașov in Romania, with an initial investment of EUR 15 million expected to increase by EUR 40 million over ten years, creating 200 jobs initially and over 600 by end of 2027.

Hyundai Mobis plans to invest $926 million in an EV Power Electric system plant in Bryan County, Georgia, creating at least 1,500 jobs. The 1.2 million-square-foot facility will supply power electric systems and charging control units to Hyundai and Kia plants.

British Euro Packaging Group (EP Group) reportedly will invest nearly €47 million in a new plant at the Port of Marseille Fos, France, to produce paper bags and packaging.

Edwards, part of Atlas Copco Group, is building a 15,000 m2 manufacturing facility in Asan City, South Korea, for vacuum and abatement systems used in semiconductor manufacturing, expected to be fully operational in Q3 2023.