PT Jotun Indonesia broke ground on a new water-based paint factory and warehouse expansion at the MM 2100 industrial estate in Cibitung, West Java. The $50 million project is expected to be fully operational by Q2 2024.
LafargeHolcim Maroc's new cement plant 'Agadir-Souss' in Taroudant province, with an annual capacity of 1.6 million tonnes, became operational in 2021. The investment was 3 billion dirhams.
Pilgrim's Food Masters completed a new 16,000 sq ft factory at its site in Carran Business Park, Enniskillen, UK. The £5m facility will produce Fridge Raiders products and is expected to start production in July 2022.
PetroVietnam Power (PV Power) is developing the Nhon Trach 3 and 4 combined-cycle power plants in Dong Nai province, Vietnam. The $1.4bn project will have a capacity of 1.5GW and use GE 9HA.02 gas turbines, with operations expected by 2025.
Danish hydraulic cylinder manufacturer Lind Jensen Machinery (LJM) has set up its first factory in India at Oragadam II in Chennai, with an investment of €2 million. The facility will produce hydraulic pitch, lock cylinders, and accumulators for the wind turbine industry, and is expected to begin trial production by the end of July 2022.
Emerson has inaugurated an expanded facility in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, to manufacture Rosemount pressure and temperature transmitters and manifolds, adding production capacity to serve its key customers in the Kingdom. The announcement was made on June 24, 2022.
Gainwell Engineering opened its first U.S. location in Fayette County, West Virginia, and is building a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. The first phase is underway and expected to be completed in 2023.
Eaton opened a new industry design center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, featuring an advanced lab for design and development of electrical solutions. The facility supports Eaton's $3B R&D commitment by 2030.
Altech Chemicals signed a contract with German developer Kuttner GmbH to build a high purity alumina (HPA) coating pilot plant in Schwarze Pumpe Industrial Park, Saxony, Germany. The plant will produce 120 kg per day of Silumina Anodes battery coating material.
Henkel has inaugurated a new 28,700-square-meter adhesives plant in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, Mexico, with an investment of EUR 33.2 million. The facility produces hot-melt adhesives under the Technomelt brand.
Nanya Technology held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new semiconductor fab in New Taipei City's Nanlin Technology Park. The investment is approximately NT$300 billion, with construction scheduled to be completed by 2025, creating 3,000 new jobs.
Edwards, part of Atlas Copco, inaugurated a new 16,000 m2 vacuum pump plant in Asan City, South Korea, to serve global semiconductor manufacturing. Production began in June 2022 and the plant will create about 150 jobs.
Frontmatec, after acquiring Aira Robotics, plans to open a new 10,000 m² plant in Cardona, Spain by 2024. Initial investment is €7 million, with total investment exceeding €20 million by 2030, creating over 100 jobs.
Okinawa Autotech will invest Rs 500 crore to set up a new manufacturing plant in Karoli, Rajasthan, with an annual production capacity of 10 lakh units. The plant will be fully operational from October 2023 and employ more than 5,000 people.
A $14.9 million mining machinery workshop on a 3.5-hectare lot in the Gap Ridge industrial estate in Karratha, Western Australia, has been approved for Metso Outotec.
Lamor signed an agreement with Resiclo to construct a chemical recycling plant for plastics in Kilpilahti, Porvoo, Finland. The first phase will have an annual capacity of 10,000 tons, with construction expected to begin in H2 2022 and commissioning in 2023. Lamor will invest EUR 1.2 million for a 50% stake in the project company.
Highly Marelli's Wuhu plant in Anhui province, China, has begun operation after its first mass-produced heat exchanger rolled off the line on 20 June 2022. The plant will produce HVAC units and heat exchangers for new energy vehicles, with annual capacity of 800,000 HVAC units and 7 million heat exchangers.
Construction of the Wuxi Aerospace Industrial Park commenced on June 21, 2022, in Wuxi National Hi-tech District, covering 4.5 million square meters. The park will focus on space, aviation, and aerospace services.
Construction of the Wuxi Aerospace Industrial Park and Wuxi Hyatech's key aero engine component manufacturing center began on June 21 in Wuxi National Hi-tech District. The industrial park covers 4.5 million square meters, and Hyatech's center involves a total investment of CNY 1.5 billion ($223.53 million) with annual capacity of 2.1 million compressor blades and 6,500 sets of rotating and structural parts.
ABB E-mobility inaugurated a new Center of Excellence in San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy, with a $30 million investment. The 16,000 m² facility is the company's largest production site for DC charging stations, doubling production capacity with 10,000 additional units per year.
ABB E-Mobility opened its largest DC fast charger production center in Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy. The 16,000 square meter facility represents a $30 million investment, with 3,200 square meters for R&D, and will produce over 10,000 additional DC chargers per year.
Vector Fabrication Inc. received an investment license for a $60 million MEMS and PCB factory in Đà Nẵng Hi-Tech Park, Vietnam. The first phase will begin in Q1 2025, with MEMS production slated for Q1 2027.
Wilo SE officially opened its Wilo USA headquarters in Cedarburg with a 244,000-square-foot building that expands manufacturing and production, after a ribbon-cutting on June 21, 2022.
Keiding, Inc., a Milwaukee-based maker of molded pulp protective packaging, is opening a second factory at N90 W14507 Commerce Drive in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, creating 20 manufacturing jobs. The facility is expected to open in November 2023.
Sprinkles Donut Shop is investing $606,998 in a new 10,919-square-foot central industrial kitchen at 3453 Quincy Street in Jamestown Charter Township, Michigan. The kitchen is expected to directly create 10 new jobs and enable wholesale production.
Infinited Fiber Company (IFC) will invest €400 million to build a commercial-scale factory for its Infinna fiber at a former paper mill in Kemi, Finland. The plant is expected to reach full capacity of 30,000 metric tons by 2025.
Evoqua Water Technologies inaugurated a new 30,000 sq ft facility in Warrington, UK, serving as its global center of excellence for UV disinfection solutions, relocating from Wigan and expanding manufacturing and R&D capabilities.
Enameru will build Russia's first fully automated paint and coating plant in St. Petersburg, including a research center. Investment is 1.7 billion rubles, creating 100 jobs.
Shree Cement Limited approved setting up an integrated cement plant in Dachepalli, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, with clinker capacity of 1.5 MTPA and cement capacity of 3.0 MTPA, requiring an investment of INR 25,000 million. The capacity is expected to be added by the quarter ending December 2024.
Aurubis AG broke ground on a €300 million multimetal recycling plant in Augusta, Georgia, with capacity to process 90,000 tons of complex recycling materials annually, creating over 120 jobs and expected to be operational by mid-2024.
Rusclimate signed an agreement to build an industrial park 'IKSEL-Sarapul' in Sarapul, Udmurtia, with investments exceeding 1.5 billion rubles, creating over 400 jobs. The plant will produce high-tech climate equipment on a 15,500 square meter site.
Akkermann Cement plans to invest US$442 million in constructing a 3.5Mt/yr cement plant in Kaluga Oblast, Russia. The project is expected to be completed in late 2027 and will create 400 jobs.
Tecnicolón is concluding construction of a new 3,000 m² factory in Colón, Buenos Aires, with an investment of over ARS 50 million. The move to the new plant is planned for July or August 2022.
W-SCOPE Corporation's subsidiary W-SCOPE CHUNGJU PLANT announced it will start capital investment of approximately €700 million to build a lithium-ion battery separator plant in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. The plant will start supplying products from the second half of 2024, with annual production capacity of 1.2 billion m² by 2025.
BVT (OOO BVT) signed an agreement to build a complex for producing industrial and domestic water treatment equipment in the Esipovo industrial park, Solnechnogorsk, Moscow Oblast. The investment is 1 billion rubles, with construction starting in Q4 2022 and production launch in 2026, creating 200 jobs.
OOO Turkov will build a plant for industrial refrigeration and ventilation equipment in Kondrovo, Kaluga Oblast, with an investment of 150 million rubles, creating over 160 jobs.
SEW's华南 manufacturing base in Shunde, Foshan, officially opened on September 16, 2022. The facility, with a total investment of $300 million, covers 160,000 square meters and is expected to produce 450,000 gearmotors annually, with an annual output value exceeding 5 billion yuan.
FACC AG inaugurated a new plant in Jakovlje, Croatia, for manufacturing lightweight components for aircraft cabin interiors. The plant started operations in December 2021, and FACC plans to expand the workforce from 170 to 600 employees by 2025.
FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants, Inc. celebrated the opening of its first U.S. dispersion manufacturing facility in New Castle, Delaware, a $19 million investment that will create over 21 jobs. The facility produces aqueous ink inkjet dispersions.
Blaenau Gwent council approved plans on June 16, 2022 for Ciner Glass to build a £390 million glass container factory at Rassau Industrial Estate in Ebbw Vale, Wales. The project is expected to create about 600 skilled jobs at the site and up to 500 more during construction.
OOO AtlasMash will build a metalworking and machine tool complex in Staraya Kupavna, Bogorodsky District, Moscow Region. Investment is RUB 1.2 billion, construction starts in Q4 2022, launch by end of 2029, creating 80 jobs.
Otis officially inaugurated its new factory in Donostia (San Sebastian), Basque Country, with a 20 million euro investment that makes elevator motors and safety systems. About 80% of output will be exported, and the plant had been operating for a couple of months.
Governor Alexei Dyumin and TBKO signed an agreement at SPIEF on June 16, 2022 to build a plant in the Uzlovaya special economic zone producing 18,000 gas cylinders per year. The investment is about 1.6 billion rubles and about 150 jobs will be created, with commissioning planned within three years.
Illinois-based Rockford Spring Company will invest $10.3 million to locate new manufacturing operations in an existing facility at 1100 Garrett Parkway in Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee, creating 62 jobs. The announcement was made on June 16, 2022.
Repsol will invest €35 million to build a new crosslinkable polyethylene plant at its Tarragona industrial complex in El Morell, with an annual capacity of 27,000 tonnes. The plant is expected to start operations in 2024.
RAK Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited announced an investment of Tk902 crore to build a new tiles factory in Gazipur. The factory will have a capacity of 15,000 square metres per day and create around 1,500 jobs, expected to start operations by 2025.
ACCTEK's new factory in Dezhou, Shandong, has been officially put into use. The company invested 30 million yuan in the construction, covering 10,000 square meters.
Ball Corporation announced a new aluminum can manufacturing plant in Chilca, Peru, with capacity of over 1 billion beverage cans a year. Start-up is planned for 2023 and the plant will create more than 100 direct jobs.
JDR Cable Systems reached final agreement under the UK government's OWMIS scheme for financial support for its £130m subsea cable factory in Cambois near Blyth, Northumberland. Construction starts in summer 2022 with opening planned for 2024 and 171 jobs expected.
Enex Srl will establish a new €10 million, 7,500 m² factory in Breda di Piave, Treviso, Italy, to produce medium- to large-size CO2 refrigeration units. The first production line is expected to be operational in September 2022, with the full plant operational in the first half of 2023.