Kubota has started production at a new small construction machinery manufacturing plant in Salina, Kansas, with an investment of $53 million and about 190 new jobs. Future expansion could bring total investment to $124 million and 90 additional jobs.

Visy began operations at its $25 million glass beneficiation plant in Gawler, South Australia, announced in October 2022. The plant will recycle 150,000 tonnes of post-consumer glass each year.

Enovis celebrated the opening of a new 40,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas on September 27, 2022, which will employ an additional 100 team members to support demand for reconstructive hip, knee and shoulder implants.

Seco Tools inaugurated a 2,500 m² manufacturing plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico, with a $2 million investment. The plant will produce industrial cutting tools and is expected to create over 100 jobs.

Miba opened its first battery production plant, VOLTfactory #01, in Bad Leonfelden, Austria. The 3,900 m² facility has an annual capacity of 500 MWh (about 20,000 battery systems) and represents an investment of EUR 80 million in the electrification business.

Ballard Power Systems announced a $130 million investment to build a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) manufacturing facility and R&D center in Shanghai's Jiading District, with annual capacity of 13 million MEAs. The facility is planned to be operational in 2025.

Brox Boiler & Burner Company, through its Russian representative Broks, plans to build a plant in Furmanov, Ivanovo Oblast, to produce industrial steam boilers. Investment is 680 million rubles, creating 62 jobs, with launch expected by end of 2024.

SAVALT Group plans to build a new plant in Verkhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, for producing stretch film and polymer-sand products, with an investment of 800 million rubles and creating 100 jobs.

RP Masiello began a design/build project for Unified2 Global Packaging in Sutton, Massachusetts, comprising two steel-frame warehouse and manufacturing buildings totaling 1 million square feet with 160 loading docks.

BMW Manufacturing revealed a new $100 million, 1-million-square-foot shipping and receiving center on its Spartanburg County campus on September 29, 2022.

KLA Corporation announced plans to build a new R&D and manufacturing center for its SPTS division in Newport, Wales, with a capital investment of more than $100 million. The 200,000 square foot facility will accommodate up to 750 employees.

Schneider Electric held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new smart factory at GMR Industrial Park in Hyderabad, Telangana, with an investment of INR 300 crores. The first phase is expected to be completed in September 2023, creating 1,000 jobs.

Siemens is building a new plastic injection plant in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico, with an investment of 955 million pesos. The project will create 450 new jobs and increase production to 874,000 plastic pieces per day.

ASK Chemicals inaugurated a new production facility in El Carmen near Monterrey, Mexico, to produce high-performance binders and coatings for the Mexican market. The plant will start with binder production, followed by coatings in the coming months.

Ramco Cements inaugurated a new cement factory at Kalvatala village in Nandyal district, Andhra Pradesh, with an annual capacity of 2 million tonnes, built with an investment of Rs. 1,790 crore.

Continental celebrated the grand opening of its new automotive manufacturing facility in New Braunfels, Texas, representing an investment of more than $110 million (about €100 million). The 215,000-square-foot plant will manufacture ADAS products and create more than 500 jobs.

flexfactory AG is building a new test, training and sales center with robot-supported test cells in the Reutlingen Technology Park, Germany, to market the new flexfeeder X series.

China Glass Holdings announced that a 500-ton-per-day float glass production line at its Kazakhstan base has been ignited and is expected to start drawing glass in mid-October 2022. It is the first float glass line in Kazakhstan.

Munters relocated operations from Buena Vista, Virginia to a new 34,000 m2 factory in Daleville, Virginia with twice the manufacturing capacity and more than 150 new jobs, its largest plant in the Americas.

Crane inaugurated its new 10,000 square meter Engineered Check Valves factory in Satara, Maharashtra, India, which directly employs about 100 people and serves chemical, oil and gas, petrochemical and energy customers.

Meggitt plans a €35 million, 14,500 square meter factory at the Baratonnière site in Avrillé near Angers to replace its current plant, with the move expected at the beginning of 2025.

Grundfos held the opening ceremony for a €20 million water pump plant in Inđija, Serbia, with 17,600 square meters of space, all production aimed at export, and headcount rising from 800 to about 1,050.

IperionX Ltd. announced plans to establish Virginia's first titanium demonstration facility in Halifax County, with an $82.1 million investment expected to create 108 jobs. The three-year project includes a $12.5 million first phase and a $69.6 million expansion phase.

Cariflex Pte. Ltd. broke ground on a 6.1-hectare site in Jurong Island, Singapore, to construct the world's largest polyisoprene latex plant. The combined investment for the first phase and pre-investment for the second phase is over US$350 million.

Daejin Advanced Materials USA Inc. will invest $10.2 million to establish its second U.S. manufacturing and processing facility in Cumberland City, Tennessee. The facility will produce process trays for electric vehicle batteries and create 83 new jobs.

XCMG Machinery's port machinery high-end intelligent industrial development project new manufacturing base in Xuzhou, China, is fully put into operation, with an annual capacity of 2,000 sets of port machinery and an annual output value of 3.6 billion yuan.

Aekyung Specialty Paint signed a KRW 10 billion investment agreement with Gwangyang City to build a new plant producing insulation coatings for electrical steel sheets, with annual capacity of 7,000 tons, starting construction in the first half of 2023.

Hubei Taihe Petrochemical Equipment broke ground on a smart manufacturing plant for ultra-low temperature valves on 90.36 mu of land in Zigui, Hubei, with planned investment of 286 million yuan and completion expected in October 2023.

Quarra Stone will break ground on September 28, 2022 for a $19 million, 25-acre corporate campus in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The 65,000-square-foot facility will double production capacity and create 34 new jobs.

Indian company Flex PET is setting up a polyester resin manufacturing plant in Egypt's Sokhna zone with a total investment of $110 million.

Paulig opened a new tortilla factory in Roeselare, Belgium, with an investment of EUR 45 million, creating over 60 new jobs.

Yorkshire Water started operations at its first new wastewater treatment works in 20 years at Withernsea, using Aero-Fac technology from Gurney Environmental. The nature-based system uses windpower and has a low carbon footprint, serving 7,500 to 15,000 population.

GKN Aerospace inaugurated a new aero-engine parts repair facility in Johor, Malaysia, with a USD 35 million investment. The facility, operating since 2020, focuses on servicing engine low-pressure compressor components and is expected to create 300 jobs within five years.

The JOSKIN Group, a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, announced plans to build a new 15,000 m² factory on a 6-hectare site in Sanem/Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, to increase production capacity.

US company CANDID opened its first mass design and manufacturing plant for dental aligners in Tijuana, Baja California, managed by TECMA Group of Companies. The plant is expected to generate over 750 direct jobs in five years with projected sales of more than $1 billion.

Nordson Medical opened a new plant in Tecate, Baja California, with an investment of over $20 million. The 58,000 sq ft facility includes Class 8 clean rooms and began operations in February 2022, with an official inauguration on September 23, 2022.

Ellerhold AG is building a new 12,000 m² cardboard factory at its headquarters in Radebeul, Germany, with about EUR 20 million invested in the building and machinery. Completion is expected by end of 2022, and the plant will shift the company's focus toward packaging production.

Dobot has opened its Shandong Rizhao smart factory, a 53,000 square meter cobot manufacturing plant, which produced its 10,000th cobot on September 24, 2022.

Ice Make Refrigeration plans to invest Rs 45-50 crore to set up a greenfield manufacturing unit in Gujarat. The project is expected to be fully operational in 12-15 months.

Global Filter opened a new production facility and headquarters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, consolidating two previous sites into one 55,000 sq ft larger facility with new machinery, increasing production capacity by 300%.

Austal USA celebrated the start of construction on its first steel ship, a U.S. Navy Navajo Class Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ship (T-ATS 11), at its facility in Mobile, Alabama.

CRRC Times Electric announced plans to build two factories for low and medium-voltage power semiconductor devices in Zhuzhou and Yixing, with a total investment of CNY 11.2 billion. Each plant will have a capacity of 360,000 devices per year, with a construction period of two years.

Geven-SkyTecno and Ethiopian Airlines inaugurated a new joint venture facility, Ethiopian Sky Technologies, in Addis Ababa for manufacturing insulation blankets for Boeing 737 MAX airplanes. Ethiopian Airlines holds 51% and SkyTecno 49%.

Kruger Packaging has completed construction of its 400,000-plus square foot Elizabethtown plant in Kentucky, costing $114 million, and started producing corrugated paper.

Komatsu held a grand opening for a new $37-million facility in Sparwood, British Columbia, which will service mining equipment for western Canada and beyond. Construction started in 2019 and was delayed by the pandemic; about 150-200 local residents have been hired.

Haarup Maskinfabrik, a Danish producer of concrete industry equipment, is investing 41 million Danish kroner in a new factory in Washington state, USA, initially housing sales, service, and warehouse staff, with plans for future production.

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada announced that its new aircraft manufacturing facility, De Havilland Field, will be located in Wheatland County, Alberta. The facility will assemble DHC-515 Firefighter, DHC-6 Twin Otter, and Dash 8-400 aircraft, and is expected to create up to 1,500 jobs.

POSCO Chemical and OCI began construction of a joint venture plant in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, to produce 15,000 tons per year of pitch, a battery anode coating material. The 96.3 billion won ($69.2 million) facility is expected to be completed by 2023.

Taiwanese firm Richy, with Egypt's Al Arabi Group, plans an air conditioner compressor plant in the Kom Abu Radi industrial zone in Beni Suef, Egypt, with total investment of $33 million and a capacity of 6 million compressors per year. Production is planned to start in 2024.

German containerboard maker Progroup plans a new corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Cessalto, Italy, next to packaging maker Ondulkart, with an investment of more than 90 million euros and around 65 new jobs. Construction is planned to start in spring 2023 with production by the end of 2024.