International Semiconductor Consortium (ISMC), a joint venture between Next Orbit Ventures and Tower Semiconductor, will invest $3 billion to set up a semiconductor fabrication unit in Karnataka, India. The plant is expected to generate over 1,500 direct jobs.

Florachem is completing construction of a new state-of-the-art, food-grade manufacturing facility in Jacksonville, Florida, to expand capacity for natural citrus ingredients.

NETZSCH Pumps North America opened a new Houston facility to assemble and test its positive displacement pumps and downhole pumps and grinders for regional oil and gas and water treatment customers. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was scheduled for May 4, 2022.

CSX and Shell Polymers opened a new storage-in-transit yard in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, repurposed from an existing CSX facility. The yard is owned and operated by Shell Polymers to store rail cars and transload plastics.

Texas Instruments broke ground on four new 300-mm semiconductor wafer fabrication plants in Sherman, Texas, with a potential investment of $30 billion. The project could create up to 3,000 jobs, with first production expected in 2025.

Novelis announced a $2.5 billion investment to build a new low-carbon recycling and rolling plant in Bay Minette, Alabama, USA. The facility will have an initial capacity of 600 kilotonnes of finished aluminum goods per year, serving the beverage can and automotive markets.

Utz Brands announced it purchased a new manufacturing facility in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. The announcement was made on April 30, 2022.

BSN Innovations in Packaging announced that its new factory in Indonesia will begin accepting orders in August, producing RFID products with mirror-image machinery and raw materials from its existing production to ensure global consistency.

Echomachinery started operations at its new manufacturing facility in Rui'an Economic Development Zone, Dinshan Phase II, China. The facility spans 33,000 square meters with a total investment of over US$30 million.

Fujian Changsu Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sinolong New Materials Co., Ltd., initiated construction of a high-performance film material project in Quanzhou, Fujian, China. The project has a total investment of over 3 billion yuan and a planned capacity of 180,000 tons.

SK hynix has started construction of the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster in South Korea, a 120 trillion won ($94.9 billion) project with four next-gen fabs. Commercial production is expected to begin in 2027.

XCMG started construction of a new energy mining equipment intelligent manufacturing park in Jungar, Inner Mongolia, with a total investment of CNY 10 billion (approx. USD 1.5 billion). The facility will produce 8,000 units per year of new energy mining trucks, excavators, crushers, graders, bulldozers and loaders.

Shenzhen Energy Group is constructing the 2GW Guangming combined cycle power plant in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The estimated investment is £883m ($1.21bn), with construction started in September 2021 and completion expected in 2024.

Air Transport Components (ATC) announced plans to establish a new MRO facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company will invest approximately $5 million and employ 50 people at the 60,000-square-foot site.

KION North America has opened an Aftermarket Distribution and Training Center in Summerville, South Carolina, tripling warehouse space for spare parts. The facility stocks 30,000 SKUs and supports dealer technicians and sales representatives.

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical has begun construction of a new MXDA (meta-xylylenediamine) plant in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with a capacity of 25 kilotons per year. The plant is expected to start production in mid-2024 and is being built on Huntsman's site.

Moriya Yuso Kogyo (Moriya Transport Machinery) will build two new factories for medium-to-large freight elevators: one near its headquarters in Yokohama's Kanazawa Ward, and another on newly acquired land in the Kanto region. Total investment is about ¥2.3 billion.

Summit Polymers Inc. will construct a $37.5 million manufacturing facility in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, creating 218 jobs. The 140,000-square-foot plant will perform plastic injection molding, paint applications and assembly for automotive manufacturers.

SAERTEX multiCom opened a new production and warehouse building in Huntersville, North Carolina, investing over $20 million and creating more than 40 jobs. The facility produces GRP liners for trenchless pipe rehabilitation.

Haier Smart Home plans to invest CNY 3.07 billion to build a new plant in Jiaozhou, Qingdao, with an annual capacity of 2 million large refrigerators.

Ball Corporation has started construction of a new aluminium beverage can plant in Pilsen, Czech Republic, investing €170 million (CZK 4.5 billion) and creating up to 200 jobs. The plant is scheduled to start operating in early 2023.

Visy announced a new A$150 million corrugated box factory at Hemmant, Queensland, to serve the state's agricultural sector. The projects together are expected to create over 900 construction jobs and 300 remanufacturing jobs.

Visy announced a A$500 million glass food and beverage container recycling and manufacturing facility in Yatala, Queensland, relocating its glass remanufacturing from South Brisbane, expected in 2025. The plant will produce about 1 billion glass containers a year.

Amperetex has opened a full-cycle plant in the Khrabrovo industrial park near Kaliningrad for producing heating conductive thread and materials. Investment was nearly 500 million rubles.

Envision Energy is building a blade factory in India, expected to be completed by Q1 of 2023.

Hydro Aluminum Metals USA, LLC plans to construct a new facility in Cassopolis, Michigan, to support the electric vehicle market. The project represents a total capital investment of $150 million and will create up to 67 jobs.

Medicom, a Quebec-based health-care manufacturer, will open a $120-million plant in London, Ontario, creating 145 jobs. The plant will produce surgical gloves and is expected to begin production in late 2023 or early 2024.

Coverguard, a PPE supplier, is building a new 1,500 m2 head office and 13,000 m2 warehouse in Mionnay, France, to replace two existing warehouses. The facility will use SCALLOG robotics and is expected to be ready by spring 2023.

Eaton announced the construction of a new 16,500 square meter campus in Vantaa, Finland, for its critical power systems, integrating R&D, production, storage, sales and service. The site is expected to be ready by end of 2023 and create up to 100 new jobs.

Baoding Qianxin (Hangzhou) Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. plans a 6-inch semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturing line in Hangzhou, with total investment of 2.8 billion yuan. The project will have combined annual capacity of 1.72 million 6-inch and 8-inch wafers.

Guangdong GDA Valve Technology began construction on its GDA Digital Intelligent Manufacturing Base in Fusha Town, Zhongshan, for R&D and manufacturing of patented valves for smart heaters and ovens. The total investment is 210 million yuan, with expected annual output value of 400 million yuan.

AMD Medicom announced a new subsidiary, Manikheir Canada, to produce nitrile gloves in London, Ontario. The investment is over CAD 120 million and is expected to create 145 direct jobs, backed by an Ontario government purchasing commitment.

Tremco CPG India opened its second manufacturing plant in Alwar, Rajasthan on April 25, 2022. The 50,000 sq.ft facility doubles production capacity for construction chemicals including admixtures, powder products, waterproofing and resin flooring systems.

Wolfspeed officially opened its Mohawk Valley Silicon Carbide fabrication facility in Marcy, N.Y., a 200mm wafer fab for silicon carbide-based semiconductors. The facility will support production for customers including Lucid Motors.

Magna International announced plans to open a new 22,000 sq m manufacturing facility in Kechnec, Slovakia, producing advanced driver-assistance systems and electric vehicle technologies. Operations are expected to start in Q4 2022, creating 100 jobs initially and up to 600 by 2027.

Novares opened a new $1.75 million, 8,014 sq m factory in Santa Ana, Sonora, Mexico, producing plastic tubes and molded parts for automotive emission control and battery cooling systems. The plant consolidates tube assembly from Richmond, Wisconsin, and nearby Santa Ana, and will employ around 400 people.

TTM Technologies held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new printed circuit board manufacturing plant in Penang, Malaysia. The proposed capital investment is USD 130 million through 2025.

KSB opened a 5,000 square meter plant in the Indigo industrial park in New Moscow, funded with about 750 million rubles of foreign investment. It expects to create 110 jobs and produce about 700 pumps in 2019 and 1,200 in 2020.

Pratrivero USA Inc., a division of Pratrivero Nonwovens, is investing $17.6 million to establish a stitchbond nonwoven fabric manufacturing and distribution facility in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, creating 34 jobs.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held on April 23, 2022, for a high-end environmental protection pharmaceutical production base in Ningyang county, Tai'an, Shandong province. The project has a total investment of 1.28 billion yuan ($195.19 million) and will produce high-end fine chemicals, including liquid dyes and plastic colorants.

Nova Tube and Steel, an entity of Nova Steel Inc., is constructing a $105 million facility near Delta, Ohio, to produce hollow structural sections and standard pipe. The facility will create 102 jobs and occupy over 250,000 square feet.

RR Kabel has opened a new switches and switchgear manufacturing facility in Waghodia, Vadodara, India, along with a new corporate office in Vadodara.

Lockheed Martin has opened a new facility in Davidsville, Pennsylvania, to produce parts for F-16 fighter jets. The company plans to hire 80 mechanics and technicians, with 20 already working there.

LGH has opened a new 26,000-square-foot warehouse in Norcross, Georgia, doubling the size of its previous site to serve the Southeast region with lifting, rigging, hoisting, and material handling equipment rentals.

Takamatsu Machinery (TAKAMAZ) started operations at its new Asahi factory in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture on April 4, 2022. The plant, built with an investment of about 3.2 billion yen, will assemble customized CNC lathes and turnkey systems, employing about 150 people.

POSCO held a groundbreaking ceremony for a non-oriented electrical steel sheet plant with an annual capacity of 300,000 tons at Gwangyang Works, with an investment of KRW 1 trillion. Production capacity will increase from 100,000 to 400,000 tons per year by 2025.

Panasonic Life Solutions India opened a new manufacturing facility in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, for its Electrical Construction Material segment. The company invested Rs. 300 crore in the first phase of a total Rs. 600 crore investment.

JCB is investing INR 1000 crore to set up a dedicated exports facility for critical parts and components in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. The plant, inaugurated on April 21, 2022, will create 1,200 direct jobs and will reach full capacity by October 2022.

Hydro broke ground on a new state-of-the-art aluminum recycling plant in Cassopolis, Michigan. The plant will produce 120,000 metric tonnes of aluminum extrusion ingot per year, create 70 jobs, and involve an investment of approximately USD 150 million.

Lynas Rare Earths has begun construction of a new rare earths processing facility in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, which will create 290 construction jobs and up to 128 operational jobs.