Electronic components manufacturer Vishay inaugurated a new plant in the Vesta Las Torres industrial park in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The company invested USD 23 million in machinery, equipment and building improvements, and Vesta invested USD 9.3 million in infrastructure. The expansion will create 700 new jobs.

Röhm is constructing a new methyl methacrylate (MMA) production plant in Bay City, Texas, using its LiMA technology. The plant will have a capacity of 250,000 metric tons per year.

Piston Automotive, the world's largest automotive assembly supplier, will open a $10 million facility in Wentzville, Missouri, in late 2022, creating over 200 jobs. The facility will support a contract from General Motors to assemble parts for Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon trucks.

SOPAKCO Inc. is investing $85 million in a new food processing and packaging facility in Laurinburg, North Carolina, creating 440 jobs. The company produces shelf-stable meals and MREs for the military.

Changshu Zhenxin Microelectronics Co., Ltd. held a line-opening ceremony for its MEMS filter chip R&D and production project on October 18. The first phase invested 800 million yuan ($111M) to build a bulk acoustic wave filter chip manufacturing and packaging line with annual capacity of 960 million chips.

Dassault Falcon Jet will build a 175,000 square-foot major maintenance facility in Melbourne, Florida, with a $115 million capital investment, creating 400 jobs.

Tega Industries Chile plans to build a US$32.6 million plant in Concón, Valparaíso region, Chile. The 15,000m² facility will increase the company's Chile production capacity by 25%.

Tenova was awarded a contract by Sinova Global to supply basic engineering for a new silicon metal plant in Tiptonville, Tennessee. The plant will include two submerged arc furnaces and create 140 new jobs.

John Cockerill announced the opening of John Cockerill Environnement Inc., a new subsidiary based in Montreal, Canada, to strengthen its presence in Quebec and Ontario for air and wastewater treatment solutions.

Construction has started on Dongguan's first general aviation manufacturing project, with a $520 million investment by AeroTranscendent's Hong Kong unit and other investors. The plant will produce 200 to 400 aircraft annually, including high-end jets and turboprops, and employ about 1,100 professionals.

Fab-Con Machinery Development Corporation will invest $5.3 million to relocate its global headquarters and manufacturing operation to Salisbury, North Carolina, creating 27 new jobs. The facility will be 90,000 square feet.

SO-PAK-CO, Inc. will invest $85 million to build a state-of-the-art processing and packaging facility in Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina, creating 440 new jobs.

LAUDA Ultra-cool, SL, the Spanish subsidiary of LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG, officially inaugurated a new production site in Terrassa, Spain. The company invested around €7 million in the greenfield facility, creating 4,000 m² of production space and doubling capacity for Ultracool circulation chillers.

IMI Critical Engineering officially opened a new 16,000 m2 factory in Sardinia on 18 October 2022 to manufacture valves and hydraulic actuating systems for petrochemical applications along with IMI VIVO electrolysers; the 45,000 m2 site employs over 200 people.

Aptar beauty + home will inaugurate its new Be One industrial site in Oyonnax, France, in July 2023. The €42 million, 25,000 m² facility will centralize luxury packaging capabilities and is expected to reduce energy use by 45% and CO2 by 58%.

Pinnacle Aerospace, LLC will invest $14.7 million in a new aerospace manufacturing facility in Wellington, Kansas, creating 155 jobs. The plant will produce complex hard metal aerospace components.

Metpacker Ambalaj Makine Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. will build a new machinery production plant in Dilovası, Kocaeli, with a total investment of 58 million Turkish lira. The project includes 33.5 million lira in local investment and 24.5 million lira in imported machinery, creating 30 jobs.

American company Kemet Electronics opened its second factory in the Skopje 1 technological-industrial development zone, with an investment of EUR 25 million. The new facility will create 360 new jobs, adding to the 400 already employed at the first factory.

Akel announced plans to invest 1.05 billion yuan to build a plant in Qianjiang, Hubei, China, with annual capacities of 20,000 tons of polyether amine and 30,000 tons of optical materials (cycloolefin monomers and polymers).

Daikin opened its first factory in Saudi Arabia, a 10,400 square meter facility in Sudair Industrial City, to produce HVAC-R products. The opening was announced on October 17, 2022.

OOO Shakhtinsky Polyester Plant (OOO ShPZ), an investee of OOO Avangard, is completing construction of Russia's first nonwoven polyester fiber plant in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast. The plant cost 4 billion rubles and will produce 200 tonnes of staple fiber per day, with startup expected by end of 2022.

Daiki Axis Corporation Japan and its local counterpart Daiki Axis Environment invested USD 5 million to set up a factory in Gonawala, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, to manufacture Japanese package-type wastewater and sewage treatment products (Johkasou systems).

Visumatic Industrial Products broke ground on October 14, 2022, for a new engineering and manufacturing facility in Versailles, Kentucky. The project includes infrastructure development on 6.4 acres and is expected to be completed by November 2023.

Massa Izolyator Mehru laid the first stone of a full-cycle plant for the production of high-voltage bushings on October 15, 2022.

Borusan Precision Machinery's new plant in Zhuzhou's Xinma Industrial Park is nearly complete and equipment installation is underway. The 500 million yuan project is expected to start production in early December 2022, with an annual capacity of 300 CNC machine tools and annual output value over 300 million yuan.

Great Plains Manufacturing celebrated the grand opening of a new construction equipment manufacturing facility in Salina, Kansas, to produce compact track loaders for Kubota. The $178 million investment has created 150 jobs, with plans to surpass 900.

Vestas Wind Systems announced plans to build a new nacelle factory near Szczecin, Poland, creating up to 700 direct jobs. The factory will serve the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind project.

Midea Group began construction of a heat pump production and R&D base at Clivet's site in Feltre, Veneto, with a €60 million investment. The base is expected to start operating in the second quarter of 2024.

Bizerba opened a new plant in Avondale, Arizona, for label manufacturing, product refurbishment, and a showroom, expanding its Western US presence.

BAE Systems opened a new $150 million, 390,000-square-foot engineering and production facility in Austin, Texas. The campus can accommodate as many as 1,400 employees.

Ningbo Tuopu Group signed an investment agreement to build a new energy vehicle (NEV) core component manufacturing base in Changxing county, Huzhou city, Zhejiang province, China. The company plans to invest at least 2 billion yuan ($278 million) in the facility, which will produce lightweight chassis, lightweight car body, interior functional parts, and automotive electronics for NEVs.

Allnex Austria GmbH opened a new research and development center for coating technology and environmentally friendly synthetic resins in Werndorf, Austria. The company has invested €7 million so far, with an additional €22 million planned, and the center will employ about 350 people.

The ORLEN Group will construct an installation terminal at the Port of Świnoujście for the Baltic Power offshore wind farm, expected to commence operations in 2025.

Vestas will build a new turbine assembly factory in Szczecin, Poland, to manufacture 76 15 MW turbines for the Baltic Power offshore wind farm. The factory is scheduled for completion in 2024 and will employ up to 700 people.

Kamakshi Südpack inaugurated a flexible packaging manufacturing plant at Bavla near Ahmedabad, India, with a Rs 200 crore investment and 24,000 MTPA installed capacity. The plant is expected to be fully operational by January 2023.

Pietro announced a new factory in Koga, Fukuoka, with about ¥6 billion investment, planned to start operating in autumn 2025, consolidating production of dressings and retort sauces.

Indorama Ventures and Toyobo completed a joint-venture plant in Rayong, Thailand, to manufacture high-performance nylon yarn for automobile airbags. The plant will produce 11,000 tons per year, with commercial production targeted for mid-2023.

Swegon constructed a new plant in a modern industrial park near Mumbai, India, nearly four times larger than the existing one. The facility produces precision air conditioners, chillers, and heat pumps.

Toyobo and Indorama Ventures completed construction of a factory in Rayong Province, Thailand, to produce high-performance nylon yarn for automobile airbags. Commercial production is expected to start in mid-2023.

Covestro has broken ground on a new aniline production facility in Antwerp, Belgium, with an investment of over €300 million. The plant is scheduled to be operational in early 2025 and will create around 40 jobs.

Schneider Electric's new 160,000-sq-ft manufacturing plant in El Paso, Texas, is projected to be operational by the end of 2022 and will employ about 400 workers. The announcement was made on October 22, 2022.

Control Techniques, part of Nidec, opened a new 129,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Monterrey, Mexico, on October 12, 2022. The $18.6 million plant will initially produce Commander C drives for the North American market and houses three Nidec businesses.

Bocar Group opened a new plant in Huntsville, Alabama, its first in the U.S., with a $176 million investment in land and construction, 323,000 sq ft of production space and 420 employees expected by end of 2022.

Aramco and NOV launched a joint venture, the Arabian Rig Manufacturing Company (ARM), to manufacture drilling rigs and equipment in Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia. The facility is expected to produce up to 10 drilling rigs per year.

LyondellBasell and 23 Oaks Investments formed a joint venture, Source One Plastics, to build an advanced plastic waste sorting and recycling facility in Germany. The facility will process plastic packaging waste from approximately 1.3 million German citizens per year.

The main structure of the Maojiawan water treatment plant in Sichuan Tianfu New Area, built by Chengdu Tiantou Group, has been completed. The underground plant will have a daily treatment capacity of 140,000 tons.

Ambu hosted a grand opening of its new manufacturing plant in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on October 11, 2022. The 323,000-square-foot facility is Ambu's largest plant and will produce single-use endoscopes and anesthesia products, creating 2,000-3,000 jobs.

Alstom has launched bogie production for regional trains, metros and trams at a new site in Nadarzyn, Poland, with an investment of over EUR 10 million. The facility has an annual capacity of up to 3,000 bogies and will employ 200 people.

Weihua Group started construction of the Weihua Low-Carbon Intelligent Equipment Industrial Park in Changyuan, China, with a total investment of 4 billion yuan, expected to create over 3,000 jobs and produce cranes, reducers, and motors.

Zavod Steklon started operations at a new plant in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow region, for full-cycle production of warehouse equipment and storage systems, with an investment of RUB 300 million and nearly 150 jobs created.