LiangGu Valve Group is preparing a fully intelligent special valve factory in Wenzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone with annual output of 100,000 sets and a total investment of 668.78 million yuan. The project has submitted a feasibility report and a land application, and construction is expected to take two years.

Komatsu celebrated the official opening of its new 58-acre Milwaukee campus, including a 430,000-square-foot manufacturing facility for large mining machine components and a 180,000-square-foot office building.

Komatsu Mining is ramping up production at its new $285 million campus in Milwaukee's Harbor District. Manufacturing started in March 2022, and an official opening is planned for later in June 2022.

Southern Province Cement Company started work on a new cement plant in Jazan, Saudi Arabia, with a capacity of 5,000 tonnes per day. The board also approved infrastructure for a second 5,000-tonne-per-day line at the same site, aiming to boost total capacity to 10,000 tonnes per day.

Takeuchi Manufacturing (U.S.) purchased an existing 156,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and office building in Moore, South Carolina, for $34.4 million. The facility will produce compact track loaders, creating around 100 jobs, with a start date expected before the end of 2022.

Fujikura announced a double investment of $21.8 million to open two new plants in Piedras Negras and Múzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico, producing cables and harnesses for the automotive sector. The plants are already in operations and will create 4,257 new jobs.

Yazaki North America is building a pilot project factory in Ayutla, Guatemala, with an investment of nearly US$10 million. Production is expected to start by January 2023, creating up to 1,000 jobs.

GlobalWafers plans to build a state-of-the-art 300mm silicon wafer factory in Sherman, Texas. The multi-stage facility will be 3.2 million square feet, support up to 1,500 jobs, and reach production of 1.2 million wafers per month. Construction is expected to start later in 2022.

Eickhoff Wind Asia, a subsidiary of Gebr. Eickhoff, has opened a new wind gearbox assembly facility near Chennai, India. The plant will initially assemble up to 900 gearboxes per year, with plans to ramp up to 1,500. Investment is ₹640 crore.

Kubota's US subsidiary KIE will build a new factory in Hall County, Georgia to manufacture tractor implements, increasing annual capacity from 100,000 to 210,000 units. Investment is about 18 billion yen.

ABB opened a new $6 million manufacturing hub in Bac Ninh, Vietnam, replacing its 10-year-old facility. The plant will annually supply 2,000 ABB Unigear medium voltage switchgears and 700 plug-and-play modular systems.

Manitou Group's new 18,000m2 rough-terrain aerial platform production unit in Candé, France, has been in operation since end of 2021. SERE Maintenance equipped it with 15 overhead cranes.

Canpack announced a new aluminum caps factory in Manaus, with construction scheduled to begin in 2023. The investment value was not stated.

Eastey, a shrink-packaging equipment maker owned by Engage Technologies, moved its sealer and tunnel manufacturing into a 50,000 sq ft building in Big Lake, Minnesota, announced June 1, 2022.

JOST Brasil inaugurated a new 3,500 square meter industrial plant in Campinas, São Paulo, with about R$11 million of investment to expand capacity and develop new products for buses, trucks and implements. The opening took place on June 1, 2022.

Haitian International is investing around EUR 100 million in a 365,000 m2 plant in Ruma, Serbia, to produce up to 2,500 injection molding machines annually, with construction starting in winter 2022 and completion scheduled for early 2025.

Merck announced on May 31, 2022 its intention to build an Advanced Semiconductor Integration Site in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, China, with an investment of 550 million yuan ($82.1 million), marking its largest single electronics investment in China.

Polymplast launched a new production complex at its Novomoskovsk site in Tula Oblast, Russia, doubling capacity for dry functional additives. The project cost over 1 billion rubles and created 80 jobs.

RWE Generation SE and Kawasaki Heavy Industries plan to build a 34 MW hydrogen-powered gas turbine at RWE's Emsland power plant in Lingen, Germany. The plant is expected to become operational in mid-2024.

The Guoneng Anji Meixi 2×9H-class gas turbine new construction project with a total investment of about 3.3 billion yuan has been approved. The project will be built at the former Meixi Power Plant site in Anji, with an installed capacity of about 1.56 million kilowatts. Construction is planned to start in December 2022.

Westfall Technik opened a new medical molding plant in Antioch, Illinois, equipped with Wittmann robots and sprue pickers, featuring three clean rooms and 15 injection molding machines.

Biomerics announced the opening of a 2,000 sq. ft. Balloons & Balloon Catheters Centre of Excellence in Galway, Ireland, creating approximately 40 jobs over five years.

SanoRice Group announced a €30 million investment in a new production facility in Nowa Sol, Poland, to increase annual capacity by over 5,000 MT and create up to 50 jobs initially.

Lingang Metals Company is constructing a new cold rolling complex at its plant in Linyi, Shandong Province, China. The US$190 million facility will have annual capacity of up to 600,000 tonnes of stainless steel coils.

SEW Eurodrive (China) Investment Co., Ltd. signed an investment cooperation agreement with TEDA to invest $150 million in building an intelligent manufacturing base in Tianjin, China, producing motors, reducers, inverters, and servo control systems.

DuPont announced the opening of its new DuPont Liveo Healthcare manufacturing site in Cooper River, South Carolina, to expand biopharma silicone tubing capacity. The site created 25 jobs initially, with 25 more expected over two years.

Gattefossé will break ground on its first North American manufacturing facility in Lufkin, Texas, on June 8, 2022. The plant will produce lipid-based specialty ingredients for personal care and pharmaceutical industries, with an investment of over $50 million, and is expected to be operational in 2024.

Mitsubishi Electric will invest £89.6 million in a new plant in Manisa, Turkey, to manufacture air conditioning and heat pump systems. Production is expected to begin in February 2024, increasing annual room AC capacity by 310,000 to 1.1 million units and adding 100,000 air-to-water heat pumps.

Li Auto signed an agreement to build a power semiconductor R&D and manufacturing base in Suzhou Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Jiangsu province. Construction is scheduled to commence in mid-June 2022 and be completed in 2022, with trial production expected in May 2023 and formal production in 2024. The plant targets a capacity of 2.4 million half-bridges annually.

Kerry has opened a new taste manufacturing facility in Hammarsdale, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with an investment of R650 million. The facility increases Kerry SA's output capacity by 40% to 40,000 tons per annum, with future expansion to 50,000 tons per annum.

Huaxia Bishui Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for its high-end environmental protection equipment manufacturing base in Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone on May 29, 2022. The base involves a total investment of 390 million yuan and is expected to achieve annual output value of 1.5 billion yuan.

Baolai New Materials is building a 600,000 tonnes/year ABS resin and supporting project in Panjin, China, with total investment of 10.69 billion yuan. One production line was handed over on April 17, 2022, and the other two lines are expected to be handed over in June 2022, with trial production in September 2022.

Nidec announced plans to build a new flagship factory in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province, China, for E-Axle traction motor systems with an annual capacity of 1 million units. Construction starts in October 2022, production in October 2023, and full-scale production in FY2024.

SolarA is building an aluminum profile plant in Abovyan, Armenia, with an investment of $15 million. The plant will produce frames for solar panels and aluminum doors/windows, creating about 200 jobs. Opening is planned for November 2022.

Polyplast Severo-Zapad launched a new polycarboxylate production line in Kingisepp, Leningrad Oblast, on May 27, 2022. The company plans to double capacity with a second line in Q4 2022, investing a total of 2.8 billion rubles, with an additional 1 billion rubles for the expansion.

Kimpur completed project design for a new production facility in Düzce Gümüşova OSB, Turkey, with a total investment cost exceeding $15 million and annual capacity of 65,000 tons. The facility will produce polyurethane systems, recycled polyester polyol, and EVA granule raw material.

MetabioMed announced on May 27, 2022 that it will invest 10 billion won to build a new factory to increase production capacity. The investment period is from June 1, 2022 to December 30, 2022.

Meta Biomed has decided to invest 10 billion KRW to build a new plant on idle land at its headquarters in Osong-eup, Cheongju, South Korea. Construction is expected from June 1 to December 30, 2022.

Sweden-based EMPE Diagnostics plans to invest EUR 25 million to set up a global production facility for tuberculosis diagnostics kits in Genome Valley, Hyderabad, with a capacity of 2 million kits per month. Initial investment of INR 25 crore will create 25 jobs, with further investment of INR 50 crore adding 150 jobs.

The first two Mitsubishi Power M501JAC gas turbines manufactured in North America have reached commercial operation at the 1200 MW Jackson Generation Project, a combined-cycle power plant in Elwood, Illinois. The turbines were manufactured at Mitsubishi Power's Savannah Machinery Works.

Schneider Electric announced plans to set up a second state-of-the-art facility near Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad, Hyderabad, India, at an investment of ₹300 crore. The plant will manufacture connectors, switches and breakers for energy management and automation products, generating about 1,000 jobs.

OOO Russian Water Treatment opened the first assembly workshop of a water treatment plant in Ekazhevo, Ingushetia. The total plant cost is 50 million rubles and will create 80 jobs.

Manna Capital Partners will build and operate an aluminum can sheet rolling mill and recycling center in Los Lunas, New Mexico, in alliance with Ball Corporation, which will sign a long-term supply agreement and take a minority equity stake in the mill.

Hunan Juren Chemical Hi-technology Co., Ltd. signed and started construction of a 50,000 tons/year green biodegradable caprolactone project in Yueyang, Hunan, China, with an investment of 1.2 billion RMB. The plant is expected to be completed and put into production in July 2023, creating nearly 100 new jobs.

Hans Kissle Company, a fresh foods manufacturer, announced it will build a new manufacturing facility in Gaston County, North Carolina, investing $42.2 million and creating 219 jobs.

Intuitive, a leader in robotic surgery equipment, plans to invest over BGN 80 million (€40 million) in a new production base in Parvomay, Bulgaria, to manufacture 3D endoscopes for the Da Vinci surgical system. The facility will create over 100 jobs, with potential to reach 300.

Nextil invested $41.6 million in a new textile factory in San José Pinula, Guatemala. The 25,000 square meter facility will focus on knitting and is expected to start operations in the coming weeks, becoming the group's main fabric factory.

Kimteks Poliüretan (KİMPUR) broke ground on a new production facility in Gümüşova Organized Industrial Zone, Düzce, with an investment of approximately 250 million Turkish lira. The plant will have an annual capacity of 65,000 tons, including polyurethane systems, recycling, and EVA granule production, and will use solar energy.

Isu Petasys will invest 83.8 billion won to build a fourth manufacturing plant for high-layer printed circuit boards in Dalseong Industrial Complex, Daegu, with construction starting in June 2022 and operations beginning in H2 2023, creating 100 new jobs.

Aliaxis announced a €48 million investment for a greenfield manufacturing plant in Telangana, India, creating 500 jobs. The facility will use Industry 4.0 technologies to support water supply and preservation infrastructure.