Güntner officially inaugurated a new production plant in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico, its fourth in the country, adding 8,400 m² for manufacturing evaporators and condensers for commercial refrigeration.

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies has inaugurated a new $250 million manufacturing facility in Douglas County, Colorado. The 170,000 sqft plant will produce single-use collection sets for the Rika Plasma Donation System.

Albemarle Corp. inaugurated its third chemical conversion plant, La Negra III/IV, in Antofagasta, Chile. The $500 million investment will double the company's lithium production capacity.

Silan Micro's holding subsidiary Chengdu Silan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. plans to invest 3 billion yuan to build an automotive-grade power module packaging project with an annual capacity of 720,000 pieces. The construction period is 3 years.

Abengoa, in consortium with SEPCOIII, has started commissioning the 600,000 m3/day Jubail 3A reverse osmosis desalination plant for ACWA Power in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The plant will be the first and largest in the world to run on renewable energy from a solar photovoltaic plant.

Yanfeng announced a $17 million investment to build a new auto parts plant in the Davisa Santa María de Ramos Arizpe Industrial Park, Coahuila, Mexico. The 210,000 sq ft facility will produce interiors for electric vehicles and create 1,000 jobs, with operations expected to start in 2023.

Mitsubishi Electric acquired 42,000 m2 of land in Owariasahi City, Japan, to build a new factory for factory automation control system products, investing approximately JPY 13 billion (USD 110 million). Production is expected to start in April 2025.

Collins Aerospace announced the opening of a new additive manufacturing center and expansion of MRO capabilities at its Monroe, North Carolina campus. The company invested $15 million in addition to a $30 million expansion in 2021. The center includes two 3D printers and supports next-generation aircraft.

A new automotive components production facility was launched in Chirchik, Uzbekistan, by IOTA JH Co, a joint venture between JSC Uzavtosanoat and South Korea's IOTA Co Ltd. IOTA Co Ltd invested USD 6.1 million. The plant produces tubes and hoses for automotive air conditioning systems, with daily capacity up to 2,400 units and 120 new jobs created.

Yingjie Electric (300820.SZ) signed an investment agreement with Deyang Economic and Technological Development Zone on June 9, 2022, to build a new energy charging pile manufacturing and electrochemical energy storage business base. The project has a total planned investment of 500 million yuan, to be built in three phases, with annual capacity of 10,000 DC chargers, 150,000 AC chargers and 30,000 KWh of energy storage equipment.

APTIV opened its third plant in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, with an investment of $52.3 million, creating 2,517 new jobs. The plant will produce an average of 2.47 million pieces annually for the North American market.

Dynamic International opened a new U.S.-owned factory in Korea named Smart Machine Tool Korea. First machine tool shipments are expected in April 2019, with production ramping up to 80-100 machines per month by end of 2019.

Teijin Automotive Technologies opened a new 700,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Seguin, Texas, producing plastic truck beds for the Toyota Tundra. The plant, which broke ground in fall 2019, has invested $65 million and hired over 200 employees, producing one truck bed per minute since November 2021.

Smith+Nephew announced plans to build a new research and development and manufacturing facility for its Advanced Wound Management franchise at Wykeland's Melton West business park in East Yorkshire, with an investment of over £80 million. The facility is expected to open in 2024.

New Material Nigeria Ltd, part of the Sinoma/CNBM group, opened a fibre cement board factory in Abuja, Nigeria. The $50 million facility has an annual capacity of 5 million square meters and employs 119 people.

Yanfeng Automotive held a groundbreaking ceremony for its fourth plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico. The company will invest USD 17 million and expects to create 1,000 new direct jobs. Operations are projected to start in March 2023.

MC-Bauchemie India inaugurated a new production site in Halol, Gujarat, India, including a production facility for powder products, concrete admixtures, polymers and resins, plus warehousing, logistics, office space and a laboratory. The plant has a capacity of around 8,300 t of powder products, over 5,500 t of concrete admixtures, 800 t of polymers and 600 t of resins.

Smith+Nephew announced it will build a new R&D and manufacturing facility for Advanced Wound Management at Melton West business park near Hull, UK, with an investment of more than $100 million. The facility will replace the current Hull site and is subject to planning approval.

Viessmann plans a new production site of about 5,000 square metres in Legnica, Poland, for R290 propane-based heat pumps, with a €200 million investment and completion due in 2023.

DS Smith is launching a 37,000 m² corrugated packaging plant in Bełchatów with annual capacity of 180 million m² at the end of June 2022. The project cost PLN 250 million and created more than 200 jobs.

Canpack marked the steel framing completion of its 862,000 sq ft aluminium beverage can plant in Monroe Township, Muncie, Indiana, with plant operations expected in Q4 2022. The $380 million facility is expected to employ about 345 people.

Tianma signed a contract on June 8, 2022 to invest 8 billion RMB ($1.2B) in a new display module production line in Wuhu, Anhui, China. Construction is scheduled to begin in November 2022, with mass production starting in the second half of 2024. The line will support 6.5- to 40-inch professional display modules for automotive, industrial, and IT applications.

Indevco is investing $25 million in a new extrusion plant in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

INDEVCO Plastics has started production at a new 100,000 square-foot greenfield plant in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The company invested $25 million in the first phase and expects to create 50 jobs.

Striker Australia and MAX Plant will construct a new world-class manufacturing facility in Western Australia, trebling their global manufacturing footprint. The $6.8 million project is supported by a $3.4 million grant from the Modern Manufacturing Initiative.

HÜBNER Group is constructing a new low-energy factory in Bangalore, India, for producing folding bellows and gangway systems for rail vehicles. Construction started in September 2021, with completion expected by end of 2022.

Yazaki North America will establish a new automotive wiring harness plant in Ayutla, San Marcos, Guatemala, with production scheduled to begin in January 2023.

Continental and Aconlog held the groundbreaking ceremony on June 8, 2022, for a new production and logistics facility in Alsdorf, Germany, where Continental will manufacture flexible fuel tanks for aerospace and motorsport. The investment is EUR 20 million, with operations expected to start in spring 2023.

Shengu Group broke ground on its compressor supporting industrial park and reciprocating machine production test base in Shenyang, a 160 million yuan project expected to start production by end-2022.

Evoqua Water Technologies opened a 19,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Singapore for its Ionpure CEDI products. The facility will create about 30 jobs and serve the APAC microelectronics and pharmaceutical markets.

Irish electronics company APTIV will invest $14.7 million to install a new plant in Frontera, Coahuila, Mexico, to manufacture electronic harnesses for the automotive industry, generating over 3,200 jobs.

Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme GmbH opened a second production site in Sigmaringen, Germany, in a converted former military hall. The facility initially covers 450 square meters, expanding to 1,300 square meters, and will produce precision cutting tools.

Fortress Technology Europe opened a new 30,000 sq ft manufacturing facility, Stealth House, in Banbury, UK, tripling the company's capacity. The facility will serve as the EMEA headquarters and house nearly 70 food inspection engineering and service specialists.

Mitsubishi Electric is investing approximately 2.2 billion Indian rupees ($56.6 million) to build a new factory automation products plant near Pune, Maharashtra, India. The factory is due to start operating in December 2023 and will manufacture inverters and other factory automation products.

Mitsubishi Electric will invest about 2.2 billion Indian rupees through its subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric India to build a factory manufacturing inverters and FA control system products, expected to start operations in December 2023.

Orion is investing $5 million to build a new factory in Quintana, São Paulo, Brazil, which will enter operation in November 2022. The investment supports the partnership with John Deere.

Health Supply US is investing over $150 million to establish a nitrile glove manufacturing facility called Glove One in Greenville County, South Carolina. The plant will create 600 jobs over five years and have an initial capacity of 4.3 billion gloves annually.

Unipar will invest R$130 million in a new plant at the Petrochemical Complex of Camaçari in Bahia, Brazil, with capacity to produce 10,000 tonnes of chlorine per year, expected to start operating in the first half of 2024.

Pratt Industries, through subsidiary Pratt Corrugated Holdings, will locate a Regional Manufacturing & Innovation Center in Cedar Hill, Texas. The company will invest more than $200 million and employ 150 full-time workers.

Daiki Axis Japan is setting up its second plant in India at Palwal, Haryana, with an investment of Rs 200 crore. The plant will produce 1,000 sewage treatment units using Johkasou technology and is expected to be operational by September 2023.

Hyundai Mobis announced a $1.3 billion investment to build an EV components factory in the US, likely near Hyundai's $5.5 billion EV plant in Bryan County, Georgia. The location is not yet disclosed.

Taihan Cable and Solution signed an MoU to establish a joint venture with Mohammed Al-Ojaimi Group to build an ultra-high voltage cable plant in a high-tech industrial complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It will be the company's first overseas ultra-high voltage cable plant.

DongShin Motech will build its first North American plant in Windsor, Ontario, to supply the Stellantis/LG Energy Solution battery plant. The 170,000-square-foot facility will cost $90 million and employ about 300 people.

Dymax Corporation will invest $46.7 million to build a 100,000+ square-foot manufacturing, warehouse and office facility in Monroe, North Carolina, creating 227 jobs. The company makes adhesives, coatings, and UV-curing equipment.

Ibiden held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new building at its Kawama site in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, to produce high-performance IC package substrates. Total investment is 180 billion yen, with completion scheduled for the second half of fiscal 2023.

Sulzer opened a 10,500 sq ft service centre in Vadodara, Gujarat, India for repairs, upgrades and parts manufacturing of pumps, steam turbines, compressors and expanders. The site has added CNC and balancing equipment.

The Atlas cement plant, initiated by Amadou Sow and Papa Oumar Samaké, broke ground in Dio-Gare, Mali. The $80 million facility will produce 800,000 tonnes of cement per year and create 150 direct and 500 indirect jobs.

Ariens Company will invest $38 million to locate a new manufacturing and warehouse facility in Fayetteville, Tennessee, creating 369 new jobs.

Vina Roma Quang Tri Steel plans to build a new steel plant in Quang Tri Economic Zone, Vietnam, with a total investment of over VND 47 trillion ($2.01 billion). The plant will have an annual capacity of 4.5 million metric tons and is expected to create 4,000 jobs.

Repsol will invest €105 million to build a new ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) plant at its Puertollano Industrial Complex in Spain. The plant will have an annual capacity of 15,000 tons and is expected to be operational by the end of 2024.