Smurfit Kappa has started construction of its first corrugated packaging plant in Morocco, a 25,000 m2 facility in Rabat, with an investment of over €35 million and about 300 direct and indirect jobs. The first stone was laid on 25 May 2022.

Medline opened a new plant in Malé Bielice, Slovakia, with an investment of 26 million euros. Construction began at the end of 2019 and production started in March 2022. The plant produces disposable medical sets for surgical procedures, with an annual capacity of 2.5 million sets, and currently employs over 200 people, with plans to hire 300 more.

Coloplast inaugurated its second production center in Cartago, Costa Rica, on May 24, 2022, with a total investment of $80 million, and expects to create 700 jobs by 2025.

Hytrol Conveyor Co. announced plans to build a 150,000-SF warehouse and distribution center at the Jonesboro E-Commerce Park in Jonesboro, Arkansas, consolidating three existing warehouses. Construction is set to begin in late June 2022 with completion in spring 2023.

ChemChina's subsidiary Shuguang Rubber Industry Research & Design Institute, in partnership with Haohua Chemical Science & Technology, will establish Sinochem Sanhuan (Guilin) Aviation Tire Co. to produce 100,000 high-performance aircraft tires per year in Guilin, Guangxi Province. The project is valued at €91 million and will be completed in 21 months.

Stellantis N.V. and Samsung SDI signed definitive agreements to establish a joint venture electric-vehicle battery manufacturing facility in Kokomo, Indiana. The plant will invest over $2.5 billion, create 1,400 jobs, and have an initial annual capacity of 23 GWh, targeted to start production in Q1 2025.

Ashirvad Pipes of Aliaxis Group agreed with the Telangana government to build a greenfield plant with a Rs 500 crore investment to make plastic pipes, fittings and accessories. The project is expected to create over 500 jobs.

Ferrotec Holdings Corporation announced a new manufacturing facility at Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Kedah, Malaysia, for electromechanical assembly and advanced material fabrication for semiconductor equipment. The investment exceeds RM500 million, creating about 250 jobs, with operations expected to start in 2023.

South Korean wind tower manufacturer CS Wind opened its second production facility in İzmir, Turkey. The company has invested around $60 million in both facilities in İzmir, and the second factory creates 250 new jobs.

BIO-LUTIONS partners with PulPac to set up a large-scale Dry Molded Fiber production line at its new factory in Schwedt/Oder, Germany. Production is set to start by summer 2022.

Topsoe announced plans to construct an industrial-scale electrolyzer manufacturing plant in Herning, Denmark, with an annual capacity of 500 MW (expandable to 5 GW), expected to start operations in 2024.

Hong Kong Sei Cheng International Group will invest over $100 million to build an essence and spice plant in Nantong Economic and Technological Development Area, China, with construction starting in Q3 2022 and annual output value exceeding 1 billion yuan.

The Hella Minth joint venture opened a second production plant in Jiaxing, China, with an area of 20,000 square meters and initial annual capacity of 3 million components, expandable to 5 million. Total investment is in the low to mid double-digit million-euro range.

Zhonghong Medical held the commencement ceremony for its Cangxi Medical Grade Nitrile Gloves Project in Ziyun Industrial Park, Cangxi County, Sichuan Province. The project involves an investment of 1.866 billion yuan and will build 40 production lines, creating about 1,500 jobs.

Hyundai Motor Group will invest $5.54 billion to open its first fully dedicated electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facility at the Bryan County Megasite in Georgia. The project, with an additional $1 billion from suppliers, is expected to create approximately 8,100 jobs.

South Korean agricultural machinery manufacturer TYM will build a tractor plant in Rome, Georgia at a cost of $20 million. The 13,223-square-meter facility will include component manufacturing and a training center, targeting completion in June 2023, and will help increase annual tractor production capacity to 50,000 units.

Lamipak has started construction of its second Indonesian factory, an aseptic packaging plant in Cikande, Serang, Banten. The plant is designed for 18 billion packs per year in two phases, with 9 billion packs targeted by Q4 2023.

Shinko Electric Industries announced on May 19, 2022, that its new plant in Chikuma, Nagano Prefecture, will start operations in the second half of fiscal year 2024. The plant will produce flip-chip packages for semiconductors, with investment of 140 billion yen for 2022-2025, increasing capacity by 50%.

Milwaukee Tool held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 563,000-square-foot production facility in Grenada, Mississippi. The plant will produce over 100 million SAWZALL blades annually and create over 800 jobs, with opening expected in 2023.

Milliken & Company will begin production at its new clarifier plant in Blacksburg, S.C., increasing capacity of Millad NX 8000 polypropylene clarifier by more than 50 percent. The plant is being commissioned and production is expected to start in fall 2022.

GE Gas Power inaugurated the GE MENA Decarbonization Center of Excellence at its GEMTEC campus in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The event also marked over 10 years of GEMTEC operations and over 5 years of the GESAT joint venture.

OOO Avangard plans to complete construction of a polyester staple fiber plant in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, by end of 2022. The project cost is 3.5 billion rubles, with a capacity of 200 tonnes per day and 250 new jobs.

Daikin Europe N.V. kicked off construction of its new EMEA Development Center in Ghent, Belgium, a EUR 140 million investment. The center will house 400 engineers and 22 test chambers, and is expected to be completed by April 2024.

Rivulis announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art factory in Manzanares, Spain. The 6,000-square-meter facility on 25,000 square meters of land will produce drip irrigation lines for European and African agricultural markets and create local jobs.

Semp TCL Ar-Condicionado inaugurated a new 34,000 m² factory in Manaus, Brazil, to produce air conditioners, with a target of 500,000 units initially and plans to double production in three years, creating about 1,000 jobs.

Blue Star Limited launched a new world-class manufacturing facility in Wada, India, built with a CAPEX of around Rs130 crore, to produce deep freezers and water coolers. The facility has capacity for 200,000 deep freezers and 100,000 water coolers per annum, doubling Blue Star's deep freezer production capacity.

Meggitt plans to build a new 14,500-square-meter aerospace equipment plant in Avrillé, France, with an investment of €26 million. The facility is expected to be operational by late 2024 or early 2025.

Faurecia inaugurated its first Combo Plant in NEXXUS Airport Industrial Park, Nuevo León, Mexico, to produce automotive seats and interiors. The investment was $147 million, and the plant will generate over 1,500 direct jobs.

TeraPlast Group received state aid approval for a €11.2 million investment in a new stretch film production facility in Sărățel, Romania. The plant will have two production lines with a capacity of over 14,000 tonnes per year, and construction will start in 2022.

Sartorius is expanding its UK presence with a new 58,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Havant, Hampshire, to produce downstream processing equipment for injectable drug manufacture.

GOST opened the first phase of its crane plant in Lvovskoye, Seversky District, Krasnodar Krai, on May 17, 2022. The plant produces console, gantry, and bridge cranes, and spare parts for tower cranes, with plans for at least four workshops totaling 10,000 sq m.

Pall Corporation announced on 17 May 2022 the construction of a new manufacturing facility in western Singapore, with an initial investment of over $100 million. The facility will produce lithography and wet-etch filtration solutions for semiconductor manufacturers, creating over 300 jobs. High-volume manufacturing is expected between late 2023 and early 2024.

ABG Mineração announced an investment to build a cement factory in Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The project will create job opportunities in the region.

PG Technoplast, a subsidiary of PG Electroplast, formally inaugurated its flagship air conditioner manufacturing facility in Supa, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. The plant began commercial production in January 2022, with an annual capacity of 1.5 million indoor units and 1 million outdoor units, and created over 1,000 jobs.

Virginia Transformer Corp (VTC) is building a 300,000 square foot transformer manufacturing facility in Chihuahua, Mexico, which will open later in 2022 and manufacture small-power and dry type transformers for renewable energy.

Construction has commenced on a $136 million air conditioner manufacturing facility in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, India, owned by Daikin Industries. The project is expected to be completed by Q3 2023.

DIC Corporation's subsidiary Ideal Chemi Plast commenced construction of a new coating resins production facility in Supa industrial area, Maharashtra, India. The greenfield project will triple production capacity and is expected to begin operating in July 2023.

Marotta Controls opened a 50,000 sq ft Parsippany, New Jersey office and development lab, moving executive and business functions there while keeping production in Montville.

OOO 'GOST' opened the first phase of a plant for manufacturing lifting equipment (overhead and gantry cranes) in the village of Lvovskoye, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The investment was 56 million rubles. The plant will eventually consist of four workshops totaling 10,000 square meters.

Shandong Longhua New Materials started construction of a 1.08 million tons/year PA66 project in Gaocheng County, Zibo City, China. The total investment is 7.3 billion yuan.

Windar will invest €80 million in a new offshore wind tower factory in Poland. Construction of the 120,000-square-meter complex will begin in 2022, with production expected to start in 2024. The plant will produce 100 towers per year for turbines of 14-16 MW and create 450 jobs.

GRI Renewable Industries signed an MoU with Poland's Industrial Development Agency to build a factory in Gdańsk for offshore wind turbine towers. The investment is over €100 million, with annual output of 100 towers for turbines over 13 MW. Production is expected to start in 2024.

HarbisonWalker International is investing $25 million to convert a closed property in Fairfield, Alabama, into a manufacturing, service, and distribution hub for steel customers, with initial capacity of 15,000 metric tons annually, opening before end of 2022.

GE Appliances officially opened a new $70 million water heating plant in Camden, South Carolina, featuring advanced systems and robotics for metal fabrication, welding, and enameling. The plant is vertically integrated and produces gas water heaters for professional contractors.

Greenland Technologies selected Baltimore County, Maryland for a 54,000 square-foot manufacturing facility at 5301 Nottingham Drive, White Marsh, to produce electric industrial vehicles, expected to open in July 2022 and create new full-time jobs.

Intracom is finalizing plans to set up a 0.6Mta cement plant and a 1Mta clinker plant in Kigoma, Tanzania. The factories are expected to be commissioned in 2024 and will create about 10,000 direct and indirect jobs.

EcoPacking is building a 10,000 m2 plant in Lurín, Peru, to make plastic corrugated (cartonplast) boxes for agro-exporters, with inauguration planned for July 2022.

Sabic, through its joint venture Sinopec Sabic Tianjin Petrochemical Company, began pre-commissioning activities at a polycarbonate production complex in Tianjin Binhai New Area, China, with a total investment of RMB 11 billion.

Inform Storage held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new factory in Weihua Industrial Park, Chonburi, Thailand. The $15 million plant will produce tear drop racking, automated equipment, and intelligent logistics robots for overseas markets.

VitrA Tiles, a subsidiary of Eczacıbaşı Group, has opened a new production plant in Bozüyük, Bilecik, Turkey, for large-format porcelain tiles. The plant adds 3.5 million square meters of capacity and uses Industry 4.0 applications.