Medline opened an 800,000-square-foot distribution center in St. Peters, Mo., costing $74 million, and a 1.4 million-square-foot distribution center in Grayslake, Ill., costing $125 million.

Isikel will build a 196,000-square-foot facility in Katy, Texas, by fall 2022, with capacity to manufacture about 440 million nitrile gloves per year.

Health Supply US announced plans to establish a new manufacturing facility in Greenville County, South Carolina, investing $150 million and creating 600 jobs. The facility, operating as Glove One, will produce 4.3 billion nitrile gloves per year and is expected to be complete by January 2024.

AWM Amaroo opened a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at 9 Malta Street, Fairfield East, Australia, designed to increase capacity, efficiency, and sustainability. The facility features solar panels, a 280,000-litre water tank, and locally sourced materials.

Fibrasa signed a letter of intent with the Pernambuco government to build a new plastic bucket factory in the Polo Empresarial of Abreu e Lima, with R$70 million in private investment and about 100 jobs expected.

WIKA has built a new production facility in Ghaziabad near New Delhi, where about 250 employees make switches, transmitters, bellows systems and instrument components.

Weir ESCO has broken ground on a new foundry in Xuzhou, China, to add capacity for ESCO ground engaging tools. Production is scheduled to start in late 2024, ahead of full production in 2025.

LOTTE Aluminium Materials USA LLC will build its first U.S. aluminum foil manufacturing facility in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with a $238.7 million investment. The plant will produce 36,000 tons of cathode foil for EV batteries and create 122 jobs, with operations expected to begin in 2025.

DMG MORI is building a 20,000 sq m highly automated production plant for turning and milling machines in Cairo, Egypt, with an annual capacity of over 1,000 machines. The joint venture DMG MORI GEMAS will be built near Cairo Airport.

Brilliant Polymers inaugurated a new state-of-the-art plant at its Ambernath site on 2 July 2022, doubling total capacity to 45,600 metric tons. The investment was over Rs 100 crore (US$ 12.5 million).

OQ Chemicals signed a final investment decision to support Röhm in constructing a world-scale methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant with a design capacity of 250,000 tons per year at OQ Chemicals' production site in Bay City, Texas. The plant will use Röhm's LiMA technology and is slated to be mechanically complete by Q1 2024.

Cementos Molins, through its subsidiary Calucem, will build a calcium aluminate cement factory in New Orleans, Louisiana, with an investment of $35 million. The plant is expected to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2023 and will create 228 jobs.

Three new biomedical manufacturing plants will open in the Pechatniki site of the Technopolis Moscow special economic zone by the end of 2022, with total investments of nearly 2 billion rubles and creating about 200 jobs.

Automotive parts distributor Automann Inc. is opening a new 367,000-square-foot facility in Paulding County, Georgia, creating more than 150 jobs. The facility will serve as a Southeastern hub.

Machine and equipment maker Kubota will build a new 650,000-square-foot facility in Gainesville, Georgia, investing $140 million and adding 500 jobs. The facility will double production capacity and open in 2024.

Renewable energy solutions provider Qcells is investing $171 million to build a solar-module manufacturing facility in Whitfield County, Georgia, creating 470 jobs. The facility is expected to open in 2023.

Guangzhou Cable Factory Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Greater Bay Area Transmission and Distribution Industrial Park in Nansha District, Guangzhou. The project involves an investment of 1.37 billion yuan and a construction period of two years, covering 200,000 square meters.

Emerson celebrated the official opening of its 277,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Ash Flat, Arkansas, on July 29, 2022. The $35 million investment will produce Greenlee specialty tools for electrical tradespeople, with a goal of creating up to 285 jobs over four years.

China Aero Engine Gas Turbine Co., Ltd. (AECC Gas Turbine) started construction of a manufacturing and testing center in Shenyang, China, on July 28, 2022. The project has a total planned land area of 128,000 square meters and a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan.

Novelis Corporation secured a deal with Baldwin County Commission for 2,000 acres of land at the South Alabama Megasite, with a $2.5 billion investment. The project, code-named Project Skyfall, will break ground on September 30, 2022, and is expected to create at least 1,000 jobs, with aluminum production targeted by 2025.

Airbus officially inaugurated its new factory in Gyula, Hungary, on July 28, 2022. The 13,000-square-meter plant, built with a budget of around HUF 2.2 billion, will produce precision steel and titanium components for helicopter structures and door panels.

DuPont opened a new Liveo Healthcare Solutions manufacturing facility near Moncks Corner, South Carolina, for producing flexible medical tubing. The plant employs 25 workers and is expected to double that by mid-2024. DuPont invested about $66 million to reopen the factory.

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

Grupa WB, Poland's largest producer of communication and drone systems for the military, will open a new production plant in Skarżysko to manufacture drone components. The factory will initially employ 50 people, with potential for up to 500 jobs.

A new production cluster formed by the merger of assets from Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and Cheboksary Tractor Plant will begin producing road-building machinery in August 2022. Planned output by year-end is 120 units, including bulldozers and pipelayers.

Cytiva opened a new 126,200 ft² site in Burnaby, British Columbia, to expand manufacturing capacity of aseptic filling workcells by over 200%, with production fully transferred by end of 2022.

Unilock will invest $55.6 million to establish a manufacturing campus in Hanover County, Virginia, with up to four production facilities, creating 50 new jobs.

DL Chemical's subsidiary Kraton started construction of a new polyisoprene latex plant on Jurong Island, Singapore. The world's largest such plant is built on 61,000 m² of land and targets commercial production in the second half of 2024.

Sinopec and INEOS Tianjin will form a 50/50 joint venture to build a 500,000 tonnes/year high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in Tianjin, China.

Cariflex Pte broke ground on a new polyisoprene latex plant on Jurong Island, Singapore, with an investment of over US$350 million. The plant will be the world's largest polyisoprene latex plant, serving medical and consumer markets.

CGC Inc., the Canadian division of USG Corporation, announced plans to build a new wallboard manufacturing plant in Wheatland County, Alberta, with a CAD 210 million investment. Construction is projected to begin in 2023, creating over 100 long-term jobs.

Jakson And Company filed an IEM application to set up a manufacturing unit for power generators in Delhi, with an annual capacity of 1,900 units. The project is in the conceptual/planning stage.

Opal Group, backed by parent Nippon Paper Group, is building a highly automated 47,000m2 corrugated cardboard packaging plant at a greenfield site in Wodonga, Victoria, as part of a total $140 million investment. Sod-turning took place in July 2022.

Jiangsu Tongkun Hengyang Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Tongkun Group, started production at its new plant in Shuyang, Jiangsu, with a total investment of 15 billion yuan. The plant will produce 2.4 million tons of filament and staple fiber annually, with expected annual output value of 30 billion yuan and nearly 10,000 jobs.

Castem Co., Ltd. and its subsidiary Castem Vietnam held the completion ceremony for a new factory in Quang Ninh Province, Northern Vietnam, in January 2026. The factory will manufacture lost-wax precision casting parts for semiconductors, precision machinery, and construction machinery. Mass production is planned by end of May 2026, with a second phase by end of 2028 targeting 1 million units per month.

Aldes has launched construction of a new 10,000 m² production site in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, expected to be completed by 2028.

New Material Nigeria Limited, part of the Sinoma/CNBM group, opened a new factory in Kuje, Abuja, Nigeria, to produce fibre cement boards with an annual capacity of 5 million square meters, employing over 120 Nigerians.

Nestle started operations at its new coffee processing plant in Veracruz, Mexico, its largest instant coffee site globally. The plant cost $340 million and can process 670,000 bags of coffee per year, producing Nescafe instant coffee primarily for the US market.

Stavian Quang Yen Petrochemical JSC plans to invest $1.5 billion in a polypropylene plant in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. The plant will produce 600,000 tonnes of polypropylene annually, with commercial operations starting in Q4 2026.

Otsuka has constructed a new factory for needlepunch nonwoven fabric in Japan, operational since April 2022, with a production capacity of 2.4 million square meters per year. The factory specializes in fender liner material for the automotive market.

Jeil M&S (formerly Jeil Machinery) held a completion ceremony for its new Gimhae plant in Hallym-myeon, Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The plant, with an investment of KRW 15 billion (about USD 11.5 million), will produce battery mixing equipment. The company expects sales to more than double from KRW 82.5 billion in 2021 to around KRW 170 billion from next year.

Kraft Heinz announced the Picasso project, a €70 million investment to build a new 23,000-square-meter sauce manufacturing plant in Alfaro, La Rioja, Spain, adjacent to its existing facility. The project is expected to create 39 new permanent jobs and will become the group's main production factory in Europe.

Continental announced a new factory in Novi Sad, Serbia, to open in September 2023. EUR 140 million has been invested in two factories, and employment is expected to triple from 1,000 to 3,000.

WEG plans a new electric motor factory in Santo Tirso, Portugal, investing EUR 23.5 million to build 22,600 sq m. The plant is due to start operations in Q1 2024 and create about 100 jobs, and it will absorb production from WEG's Maia site.

Canpack announced a new greenfield aluminium beverage can plant in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, with a total investment of about BRL 710 million (USD 140 million) and around 140 direct jobs. Construction is expected to start in Q4 2022, with operations from Q1 2024.

Solvay plans to invest in a new facility to produce electronic grade hydrogen peroxide in Casa Grande, Arizona, to supply the U.S. semiconductor market. The facility will be fully powered by renewable electricity.

NPO Ekosistema will build a production and demonstration facility for water treatment equipment in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, with an investment of 1 billion rubles. The 1,800 sqm building is expected to be completed by autumn 2022 and will create 186 jobs.

Vedanta Group and Foxconn will jointly invest ₹1,66,800 crore (approx. $20.5 billion) to set up a semiconductor and display manufacturing unit in Talegaon, Maharashtra, on a 1,000-acre site. The project will be executed in three phases.

OQ Chemicals has taken a final investment decision to build propionic aldehyde capacity and infrastructure to support Röhm in constructing a world-scale methyl methacrylate plant at OQ Chemicals' Bay City, Texas site. The plant has a design capacity of 250,000 tons per year and will use Röhm's LiMA technology, with mechanical completion slated for Q1 2024.

NPF Micran and TVEL will open a gallium nitride microelectronics factory in TOSER Seversk, Tomsk Oblast, with an investment of 18 billion rubles. The plant aims for 3 billion products per year by 2025.