MP Materials has started construction on a rare earth metal, alloy, and magnet manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, as part of a $700 million investment to restore the U.S. rare earth magnetics supply chain. The facility will create 150 direct jobs and 1,300 indirect jobs.

JCB India inaugurated a new £100-million factory near Vadodara, Gujarat, to consolidate manufacturing and fabrication of parts for global factories. The plant will generate 1,200 direct jobs and is expected to start full production in October 2022.

East Jordan Plastics, a horticultural container maker, will invest over $44 million in a new 255,500 sq ft facility in Lyons, Toombs County, Georgia, creating 80 jobs.

Longjiang Chemical began construction of a 200,000-ton-per-year bisphenol A plant in Daqing, China, on April 20, 2022. The project involves an investment of 1.362 billion yuan and is scheduled for delivery in July 2023 and production in October 2023.

CBI Ghana Limited signed an $80 million contract to construct a 405,000-ton-per-annum calcined clay cement plant at the Tema Free Zones Enclave in Ghana. The plant will use clay to substitute 20% of clinker.

Kyocera Corporation decided to build the 23rd factory at its Kagoshima Sennai plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, to increase production capacity for organic packages and crystal device packages. The total investment is approximately JPY 62.5 billion, with construction starting in May 2022 and operations beginning in October 2023.

Shandong Longhua New Material plans to invest CNY 7.3 billion (USD 1.1 billion) to build a nylon 66 chip factory in Zibo, Shandong province, with an annual capacity of 1.08 million tons. Construction will be in three phases, with completion expected by June 2028.

METALQUIMIA inaugurated a new 5,000 m2 Machinery Assembly Center in Palol de Revardit, near Girona, on April 20, 2022. The facility will focus on Alt-Protein and Alt-Meat technologies.

NSI, a Tigard, Oregon supplier of gas and chemical equipment to semiconductor makers, is moving to a newly built 62,000 square foot plant in Sherwood, quadrupling its factory space this year.

Van Genechten Packaging (VGP) opened a second plant in Komárom, Hungary, with a 10,000 m2 production building, creating more than 100 local jobs. Production was starting in April 2022, about 14 months after the decision.

Gainwell Engineering will establish a $70 million plant on 35 acres in Panagarh, West Bengal, to manufacture underground mining equipment under the Gainwell brand.

Lineage Logistics opened a new automated distribution center for Smithfield Foods in Olathe, Kansas. The $110 million facility will create 127 jobs.

Pratibha Syntex held a ground-breaking ceremony for its new Greenfield factory, Pratibha Swaraj Pvt. Ltd., in Madhya Pradesh, India. The plant will be developed at an outlay of Rs. 115 crore and provide employment to around 4,000 people.

SEMCORP's first production plant outside China will be built in Debrecen's Southern Industrial Park, employing 440 people, with operations expected to begin in the first quarter of 2023.

Inotek plans to build Russia's first production complex for biodegradable nonwoven material in the Uzlovaya special economic zone in Tula region. The project is scheduled for completion in 2023.

LG Magna e-Powertrain celebrated the groundbreaking of a new 260,000 sq ft plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, to produce inverters, motors, and on-board chargers for General Motors from 2023, creating about 400 jobs.

Matec Group has purchased a new production hub in Mulazzo (Massa-Carrara), Italy, a 12,000 sqm facility where it will produce crushing and screening machines, metal carpentry, decanters, and earth washing machines. The investment will create over 50 new jobs and enable in-house production of previously outsourced products.

Asahi Songwon Colors plans to set up a new plant at Chhatral near Ahmedabad for backward integration of existing products and introduction of new high-value products.

Link Manufacturing opened its 50,000 square foot Plant 4 manufacturing and training facility on its Sioux Center, Iowa campus. The plant is now the manufacturing core for its air management and suspension control products and adds 50 local staff.

Sahajanand Medical Technologies (SMT) opened the first phase of its ₹250 crore global manufacturing and R&D hub at Medical Devices Park in Sultanpur, near Hyderabad. The facility will produce coronary stents and balloon catheters.

Haitian Precision announced it will invest 1 billion yuan to build a high-end CNC machine tool intelligent production base in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, including a production base for key components and an innovation center.

Rand-Whitney held a groundbreaking for a 384,000 square foot packaging facility in Boylston, Massachusetts, designed and built with PROCON. When fully operational it will be able to produce 300 million boxes annually.

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse is investing over €20 million to construct a 10,000 m² building at its Campsas site in Tarn-et-Garonne, France, for heat exchanger production. Construction starts in 2023, with entry into service planned for 2024. The site will double its workforce to 400 employees.

Kempower's new 10,300 square meter factory in Lahti, Finland, is opening on schedule, with first production lines being put into operation. The facility includes assembly lines, a laboratory, test and demo charging fields, and office space.

Tark inc., a maker of pumps and cooling systems, held a ribbon cutting on April 14, 2022 for a new 50,735 square foot facility on Byers Road in Miamisburg, Ohio, moving from Washington Township. The site adds 20,000 square feet of production space and may create up to 3 new positions.

TDM electric plans to build an electrical equipment manufacturing plant in the industrial-logistics park near Novosibirsk, Russia, with an investment of up to RUB 1.5 billion. The plant will produce cable support systems, electrical and mounting products.

Asahiseiki Kogyo will construct a new assembly plant for large press machines at its head office factory in Owariasahi, Aichi Prefecture, with a total investment of about 630 million yen and start of operations in 2024.

Unigel announced a new sulfuric acid production unit in Camaçari, Bahia, with capacity of 450,000 tonnes per year of sulfuric acid and 50,000 tonnes per year of oleum, funded by a BRL 500 million debenture issuance.

Envision AESC will build a $2 billion factory in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to produce battery cells and modules for electric vehicles, creating 2,000 jobs.

APRIL Group is investing IDR33.4 trillion in a sustainable paperboard packaging facility at its Pangkalan Kerinci operations in Riau province, Sumatra. The mill will produce 1.2 million tons of folding box board annually; construction was marked with a ceremony in April 2022.

Pneumostroymashina plans to build a new plant in Yekaterinburg to produce high-end hydraulic motors and pumps, with a estimated cost of 5 billion rubles. Output is expected to rise from 3,500 to 12,000 units per month.

Winstone Wallboard is constructing a new plasterboard plant in Tauranga, New Zealand, expected to be completed in June 2023. The company is operating its existing plants at record levels to maximize supply.

Rondo Ganahl opened a new dedicated digital print production plant in St. Ruprecht an der Raab, Austria, with a EUR 25 million investment. The facility features a Koenig & Bauer Durst Delta SPC 130 single-pass press, and production started in April 2022.

Vedanta chairman Anil Agarwal said the company, in partnership with Foxconn, will set up a semiconductor manufacturing plant in India within two years. The joint venture was previously announced, with Vedanta holding majority equity.

Miwon Specialty Chemical USA Inc. celebrated the grand opening of its new $25 million, 65,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Richland County, South Carolina, its first U.S. location. The plant produces raw materials for inks, coatings, adhesives, and photopolymer printing plates, and is expected to create 25 jobs.

ABB has opened a new robotics manufacturing and development center in Mošnov, Czech Republic, with an investment exceeding CZK 300 million, initially creating 120 jobs. The facility will focus on robotic peripherals and house ABB's global robot repair and refurbishment center.

Miwon Specialty Chemical USA celebrated the grand opening of its 65,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Richland County, South Carolina, its first US site and 13th global location, producing raw materials for inks, coatings, adhesives, and photopolymer printing plates.

Addverb Technologies is establishing a 60,000-square-meter robot manufacturing plant in Noida, India, after receiving $132 million in funding from Reliance Industries. The facility will produce up to 60,000 robots per year and create over 3,000 jobs.

Longhua New Material plans to build a 20万吨/年 electronic-grade ethylene carbonate project in Gaoqing County, Shandong, with a total investment of CNY 320 million. The project will be built in three phases from 2022 to 2026.

Longhua New Material's subsidiary Shandong Longhua Polymer Materials plans to build a 108万吨/年 PA66 project in Gaoqing County, Shandong, with a total investment of CNY 7.3 billion. The project will be built in three phases from 2022 to 2028.

Hana Materials signed an MOU with Chungcheongnam-do Province to invest KRW 300 billion (about USD 246 million) to build a second plant in Asan Digital General Industrial Complex by December 2025, producing electrode materials and silicon rings for semiconductor etching.

Saica Group started corrugated packaging production at its new 360,000 square-foot plant in Hamilton, Ohio, its first U.S. corrugated plant. The plant has capacity over 1,500 MSF/year and is part of a $800 million U.S. investment plan; about 500 jobs are expected.

SK-Precíziós Szerszámgyártó Kft., part of the German Karl Schüssler family company, will build its first factory outside Germany in Sárospatak, Hungary, with an investment of over HUF 2 billion (EUR 6 million). The plant will create nearly 30 jobs and produce 200,000 precision tools per year using 30 CNC machines.

Alfa Balt Balt Engineering is implementing a project for a multi-unit diesel power station in Moscow, including design, manufacture and supply of eight BKEM NORD-1800/0.4-U1 diesel generators.

Imuraya announced it will build a new factory called 'Anotsu FACTORY' in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan, with an investment of about JPY 1.2 billion. The facility will produce tofu, baked goods, sweets, and handle gift/EC packaging, with logistics for three temperature zones. Operations are scheduled to start in early March 2023.

Nucor will invest $350 million to build a new micro mill steel plant in Davidson County, Lexington, North Carolina, creating 180 jobs. The plant will produce steel bar and rebar with an estimated capacity of 430,000 tons of rebar per year.

Carrier announced the construction of a $16 million air conditioning and heating R&D Centre in Villasanta, Italy, focusing on heat pumps, hydrogen boilers and IoT-enabled systems, relocating staff from Lecco and Pescara by end of 2023.

CargoBeamer will start production of intermodal wagons at a former locomotive factory in Erfurt, Germany, with capacity of 500 wagons per year from 2023.

Karat Packaging formed a joint venture with Happiness Moon to build a 180,000 ft² factory in Taiwan, producing compostable foodservice products from bagasse, with production starting in H2 2022.

Continental inaugurated a greenfield plant in Pune, India, manufacturing premium surface materials for car interiors and two-wheeler seats. The investment is about 2 billion Indian Rupee (more than 20 million Euro).