Energa, a PKN Orlen subsidiary, has started construction of the 745MW Ostroleka C combined-cycle gas turbine power plant in Ostroleka, Poland. The project has an estimated investment of zl2.5 billion ($642 million) and is expected to begin operations in 2025.

Ube is beginning basic design for a plant in Louisiana with capacities of 50,000 tonnes/year of dimethyl carbonate and 40,000 tonnes/year of ethyl methyl carbonate.

XP Power began construction on its Asia III manufacturing facility in Perak, Malaysia, with a Phase 1 investment of RM228 million over 5 years. The facility is expected to be fully operational by Q2 2024 and employ approximately 1,200 people.

PKC Wiring Systems, part of the Motherson Group, opened a new production plant for automotive cable harnesses in Požarevac, Serbia. The plant is expected to employ around 900 people.

Godrej Aerospace plans to invest ₹250 crore to build a new facility at Khalapur, Maharashtra, for defence and aerospace manufacturing, expected to be completed in three years. The company also set aside ₹100 crore for R&D over the next two years.

Taiwanese hydraulic valve maker Winner Hydraulics is building a brand-new factory to increase production capacity more than five times in coming years. Its Scandinavian partner WTB Control is expected to grow with it.

Shenghong Chemical's new material project officially started construction in Lianyungang Xuwei New District, with a total investment of about 21.6 billion yuan. The project will build 700,000 tons/year of EVA, including photovoltaic-grade EVA units, and other facilities to produce high-end polyolefins and polyols.

A Mitsubishi Power-led consortium completed the 450MW Rades C combined cycle power plant near Tunis, Tunisia, owned by STEG. The plant provides about 10% of Tunisia's installed capacity and is hydrogen-ready.

Cristalux inaugurated a new 5,000 m² glass processing plant in Rosario, Argentina, with an investment of over $5 million. The plant uses technology from China, Italy and Brazil, and doubled employment to about 40 workers.

Indeck Energy Services, with partners KOSPO and DL Energy, started commercial operation of the Indeck Niles Energy Center in Niles, Michigan. The 1.1 GW natural gas-fired combined cycle plant uses GE equipment and has a 25-year service contract with GE.

Shenghong Chemical New Materials project officially started construction in Lianyungang Xuwei New District on September 7, 2022. The total investment is about 216 billion yuan, planning to build 700,000 tonnes/year EVA and other facilities.

Canadian Premium Sand entered an option to purchase agreement with the City of Selkirk for 121 acres of land to develop a patterned solar glass manufacturing facility. The facility is expected to support up to 300 manufacturing jobs in its first phase.

Maruichi Stainless Tube Texas Corporation will build a 125,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Seguin, Texas, with a $75 million capital investment. The facility will produce seamless stainless steel precision tubes for the semiconductor industry, creating at least 106 jobs, with groundbreaking in Q1 2023 and operations starting in Q1 2024.

Aviation Corporation Rubin opened a new production facility in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, to manufacture carbon composite parts for MS-21 and SSJ-NEW aircraft. The investment was 1 billion rubles, with 661 million rubles provided by the Industrial Development Fund.

Toromont Industries Ltd. announced construction of a new 137,000 sq. ft. remanufacturing facility in Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario, scheduled to open in early 2024, creating 150-200 skilled trades jobs.

Daikin broke ground on a new R&D center in Suzhou Industrial Park, China, with an investment of 1 billion yuan (approx. $140 million), scheduled for completion in 2024.

Nelipak Healthcare Packaging will build a new flexible packaging production site in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, its first in the Americas, with about $20 million capital investment and roughly 80 new jobs.

Visy plans a A$500 million glass food and beverage container recycling and manufacturing facility in Yatala, Queensland. The three Queensland projects are expected to create 900 construction jobs and 300 operational jobs.

BASF started production at the first plant of its giant complex in Zhanjiang, southern China. The plant will produce 60,000 tonnes of engineering plastic compounds per year for the automotive and electronics industries.

Liebherr Group opened a concrete mixer plant near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with an investment of 17 million euro. The plant covers 37,000 sq m, employs 120 people, and will produce 500 concrete mixers per year.

Holcim Maroc's new Agadir-Souss cement plant in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco is now operational. The plant has a production capacity of 1.6 million tonnes of cement per year and represents an investment of 3 billion dirhams.

Böwe-Elektrik GmbH is building a new 6,559-square-meter production and office facility in Bolesławiec, Poland, to replace its current site. The new building will increase production capacity and is expected to be completed by summer 2023.

SK Hynix announced on September 6, 2022, that it will build a new semiconductor fab called M15X in Cheongju, South Korea. Construction starts October 2022 on a 60,000 sqm site, with completion targeted for early 2025. The company plans to invest 15 trillion won over 5 years.

Steel Dynamics Inc. will build and operate a 650,000-metric-ton aluminum flat-rolled mill with two satellite recycled aluminum slab centers. The company will own over 94% of the mill through a joint venture with Unity Aluminum.

BD will invest $25-30 million to build a new medical device processing facility at Four Oaks Business Park in Johnston County, North Carolina. The 30,000 sq ft facility will employ 22 people initially, with construction starting in 2023 and operations by late 2024.

MULTIVAC opened a new production factory in Tsukuba, Japan, with an investment of around EUR 20 million. The facility has 5,100 m² of production space and includes a Test Center with five times the capacity of its predecessor. It opened in July 2022.

Sapphire Float Glass (Tanzania) Company Limited is building a glass factory in Mkuranga, Tanzania, with an investment of over TZS 720 billion. The factory will produce 700 tons of glass per day and is expected to start production in April 2023.

T/CCI Manufacturing will convert a 200,000-square-foot former Borg-Warner factory in Decatur, Illinois into a center making cooling devices for electric vehicles, with more than $20 million of investment and 50 added jobs. The company will also set up a climate innovation center with Richland Community College.

BYD Semiconductor's Changsha branch announced that its 8-inch auto-grade chip production line has been installed and commissioning is underway, with production expected in early October 2022. The project, started in April 2020, has a planned total investment of 1 billion yuan ($144.5 million) and a targeted annual capacity of 500,000 auto-grade chips.

PHD Guindastes announced a R$20 million investment to build a new 13,000 m² factory in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, to unify its headquarters and two branches. Construction is expected to start in 2023.

Topas Advanced Polymers held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant to produce recyclable plastic granulate at the Leuna chemical site, with an investment of over €200 million.

ABB Group is finalizing commissioning of a new $150 million robotics factory in Shanghai, expected to be operational within a few months. The facility will include an R&D center and produce robots for Asia.

Hydro held a groundbreaking ceremony on September 1, 2022, for a new aluminium recycling plant in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. The facility will have an annual capacity of 90,000 tonnes, cost EUR 88 million, create about 80 jobs, and is expected to start production in Q1 2024.

Galant Group has set up a cement factory in GIDA, Gorakhpur, with an investment of INR 150 crore. The plant has a monthly capacity of 60,000 tonnes and is expected to start production in September 2022, creating about 400 direct and indirect jobs.

Asic Robotics AG built a new production facility of 7,243 square meters in the Buchmatt industrial area in Burgdorf, Switzerland, at an investment of about CHF 10 million. The facility houses the newly founded subsidiary Ambis Solutions AG and created 45 new jobs.

Grob is building its sixth production plant near Bangalore, India, with an investment of EUR 6 million, on a 4,675 m² site, initially creating 300 jobs. The plant will replace the current Hyderabad office.

Zhuhai Dapeng Chemical Co., Ltd. plans a new adhesive construction project in Jinwan District, Zhuhai, Guangdong, with an investment of 260 million yuan, producing 20,000 t/a modified polyurethane adhesive, 30,000 t/a water-based polyurethane adhesive, and other products. The environmental impact report has been accepted.

Tanis Milling Technologies is building a turn-key milling project in South Sudan with a capacity of 600 TPD, including a 500 TPD maize mill and a 100 TPD wheat mill. The project is 50% complete.

Korea Seal Line and Ulsan City signed an investment memorandum of understanding for a new metal bellows seal factory in the GW General Industrial Complex in Ulju-gun. The 7.8 billion KRW project is scheduled to begin construction in February 2023 and finish in October.

Precision Castparts Corp. subsidiary Titanium Metals Corp. is converting a former Century Aluminum site in Ravenswood, West Virginia, into a renewable energy-powered titanium manufacturing facility. The project is expected to be complete in late 2024.

Ziehl-Abegg started construction of a new EUR 50 million plant in Lodz, Poland in autumn 2022.

Skyjack opened a 35,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Tianjin, China, in September 2022, initially focusing on smaller DC scissors, with a second phase launched.

MM Forgings will invest ₹200 crore in a new plant in Oragadam to make traction motors for EVs and auxiliary motors for heavy vehicles.

Micron Technology announced plans to invest approximately $15 billion through the end of the decade to construct a new leading-edge memory manufacturing fab in Boise, Idaho. The fab will create over 17,000 new American jobs, including about 2,000 direct Micron jobs.

Dunapack Packaging has started trial production at its new corrugated packaging plant in Dunavarsány, Hungary, after an investment of almost HUF 24 billion, creating more than 100 jobs.

DS Smith has started production at its new 34,000 sqm packaging plant in Castelfranco Emilia (Modena), Italy, with a corrugator and three converting machines running. The plant will eventually have 10 production lines and over 200 million sqm of annual capacity.

Brisbane City Council has approved Visy's AUD 150 million corrugated cardboard box manufacturing plant at Hemmant, 11 km from the Brisbane CBD, part of its Queensland investment program.

Beijing Scinovo Membrane Technology Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a membrane water treatment equipment manufacturing project in Yangzhou High-tech Zone, with total investment of 100 mu of land, expected to produce 3,000 sets of membrane water treatment equipment annually and achieve sales of 1 billion yuan.

Toi Medical announced it will build a new plant in Minami-ku, Kumamoto City, to produce a salt that is not absorbed by the body. Construction starts in October 2022, with operations beginning in April 2023. Total project cost is about 300 million yen.

Scott Bader held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new $16 million manufacturing site in Mocksville, North Carolina. The adhesive and gelcoat plant aims to be fully operational in 2023 and is expected to create 27 new jobs.