Transmission Dynamics, owned by JR Dynamics, announced a £4.2m expansion including a new Future Innovation Hub with office and manufacturing facilities in Cramlington, Northumberland, expected to bring 50 jobs.

Gwell is building a branch factory in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, with an investment of about $19 million, covering 150,000 square meters, expected to be completed around June 2022.

Saratov Polymer Materials Plant, a new production facility in Engels, Saratov Region, Russia, started industrial operation on January 21, 2022, with total investments of over EUR 4.8 million and capacity of about 20,000 MTY of polypropylene and polyamide compounds.

Birla Corporation Limited (MP Birla Group) inaugurated its Mukutban cement plant in Maharashtra, built with an investment of INR 2,744 crores. The plant has a capacity of 3.90 million tons of cement per annum and is powered by a 40MW thermal captive power plant.

ExxonMobil and SABIC's Gulf Coast Growth Ventures facility in Portland, Texas, is now fully operational. The $7 billion plant produces polyethylene and mono-ethylene glycol, with a capacity of 1.3 million tons per year of polyethylene and 1.1 million tons per year of mono-ethylene glycol.

STADA Romania announced a €48.3 million greenfield investment to build a new pharmaceutical production facility in Turda, Cluj County, Romania, with a capacity of 100 million packages per year, expected to be completed by October 2024.

Intel announced plans to invest more than $20 billion to build two new leading-edge chip factories in Licking County, Ohio. Construction is expected to begin in late 2022, with production coming online at the end of 2025.

Consto and Nexans have signed a contract for the construction of a new cable factory in Halden, Norway. The project includes 30,000 square meters of production space and a 140-meter tower for cable production, with completion by Q4 2023.

Mirka will build a new three-story factory for power tool assembly in Jakobstad, Finland. The investment is EUR 10 million and the factory is expected to be operational in 2023.

AVIC Power Zhuzhou Aviation Components Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is building a new R&D and production park in Zhuzhou, Hunan province. Phase one investment is CNY 210 million, with construction started in June 2021 and expected completion by November 2022.

The joint venture Shandong Geely Sunwoda Power Battery Co., Ltd. broke ground on a power battery manufacturing base in Zaozhuang, Shandong province. The plant is expected to create over 2,000 jobs and start production by the end of 2022.

Hunting Energy Services and Jindal SAW announced a joint venture to build a premium OCTG threading facility in Nashik, India, with an initial investment of $20-25 million and annual capacity of 50,000 metric tonnes. The facility is expected to be operational by end of 2022.

Romanian construction materials producer Soceram announced a EUR 30 million investment in a new factory in Gorj County, likely in Târgu-Cărbuneşti, to produce autoclaved concrete blocks (BCA).

High Purity New England plans to open a fourth manufacturing facility near its three existing buildings in Smithfield, Rhode Island, funded by a federal contract; the company expects about 350 employees after new hires.

Shupeng Environmental Technology (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. broke ground on a smart integrated drainage system plant in Wujin National High-Tech Zone, Changzhou. The project involves a total investment of 300 million yuan ($47 million) and is expected to be completed by December 2022.

Mobile Climate Control, a provider of mobile thermal solutions for commercial vehicles, is opening a new 220,000-square-foot facility in West Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania, in April 2022. The company is merging three existing U.S. operations from Indiana, New York, and Pennsylvania into the new facility, creating at least 117 new jobs and investing $3.18 million.

Imperial Systems Inc has acquired a former Reznor heating and cooling equipment factory in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, to be renovated for its Imperial Filtration division. The 90,000 sq ft facility will manufacture cartridge filters for industrial dust collection equipment and is expected to bring 50 new jobs in 2022.

Watson-Marlow began construction on a new manufacturing facility in the United States, dedicated to peristaltic pumps, tubing, fluid path solutions and BioPure components. First production is due in late 2022.

Airbus signed an MOU with the city of Chengdu and Tarmac Aerosave to develop a sustainable aircraft lifecycle service centre in Chengdu, China. The facility will cover 690,000 m² and have storage capacity for 125 aircraft, with entry into service slated for end of 2023.

Preparations have started for a new cement plant in Tunuk-Suu village, Batken region, Kyrgyz Republic, with 10 hectares of land transformed. The plant is expected to produce 1.8 million tonnes per year of cement and create 500-1000 jobs, with construction taking two years.

Aerolloy Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PTC Industries, was allotted 20 hectares of land by UPEIDA in the Lucknow node of the UP Defence Industrial Corridor. The company plans to set up a fully integrated material manufacturing facility for exotic materials including titanium, cobalt and nickel superalloys, with a total peak capacity of 5,000 tpa, to be developed in three phases.

Dussur, Saudi Aramco and Doosan Heavy Industries announced a joint venture to build a 60,000-ton-per-year casting and forging facility in Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia, creating about 1,400 direct jobs, with operations expected in Q1 2025.

Eastman announced plans to build a $1 billion polyester depolymerization facility in France, capable of processing up to 160,000 metric tons of plastic per year. The plant will produce polymers for packaging, textiles, and other products.

Lycored, an Israel-based ingredient supplier, has launched a state-of-the-art processing facility in Branchburg, New Jersey. The FDA-registered, cGMP-compliant and NSF-certified facility will house carotenoids, vitamins, minerals, and food ingredients, with capabilities for milling, blending, drying, and coating.

US manufacturer Jabil will build a consumer goods manufacturing and packaging plant in l'Aldea, Baix Ebre, Catalonia, with an investment of EUR 4 million and an initial 50 jobs that could rise to about 100. The plant is expected to start up in the third quarter of 2022.

BCS Automotive Interface Solutions will open a new plant in Queretaro, Mexico in Q2 2022. The company invested MX$1.2 billion (US$60 million) and aims to create 836 jobs by 2025. The plant will supply OEMs including Tesla and General Motors.

Impol Group announced a strategic investment of approximately HRK 183 million to construct a new foundry for aluminium slabs at Impol-TLM in Šibenik, Croatia, with a capacity of 200,000 tonnes per year.

Russian investor OOO Korporatsiya VOLMA BEL will build a cement-perlite panel plant in Zhodino, Belarus, with a capacity of 1 million sq m per year. Investment is about Br25 million, and commissioning is planned for summer 2026.

Evonik will build the world's first industrial-scale facility for manufacturing rhamnolipid biosurfactants at its site in Slovenská Ľupča, Slovakia, with completion scheduled by the end of 2023. The investment is in the triple-digit million-euro range.

Avantium announced construction of a commercial-scale FDCA plant in Delfzijl, Netherlands, with capacity of 5 kilotonnes (5,600 tons) per year. The construction is expected to run from Q1 2022 to end-2023, with commercial production from 2024, funded by €192 million in financing.

United Imaging Healthcare has begun construction of a new R&D and manufacturing base in Shanghai with an investment of USD 490 million. The 420,000-square-meter campus will accommodate 8,000 to 10,000 employees and is expected to be completed by the end of 2024.

Central Moloney Inc. plans to establish a new manufacturing facility in Panama City Beach, Florida, investing more than $20 million. The 140,000-square-foot facility will produce pole-mounted transformers and create over 200 jobs.

WEG has started construction of a new low-voltage electric motor factory in Kocaeli, Turkey, with 7,000 square meters of facilities. The plant is expected to begin operations in the first half of 2022 and will serve Eastern Europe and Turkey.

United Imaging has begun construction of a new manufacturing and R&D base in Shanghai with a total investment of USD 490 million. The campus will cover 420,000 square meters and is expected to be completed by the end of 2024.

Chinese concrete machinery maker JIUHE Heavy Industry is building a new plant and heavy industry machinery industrial park in Jimo District, Qingdao, with a planned total investment of 600 million yuan over 173,500 square meters, with completion expected around March 2022.

NDC held a groundbreaking ceremony on January 12, 2022, for a new hot melt adhesive coating plant in Quanzhou Taiwanese Investment Zone. The total investment is nearly 230 million yuan, with an annual capacity of over 2,000 hot melt adhesive machines and 100 coating machines.

Falco Electronics inaugurated its sixth plant in Umán, Yucatán, with an investment of over 100 million Mexican pesos. The facility will create 250 jobs and manufactures electronic components for Tesla and the aerospace sector.

Hultek, a manufacturer of rubber parts for the automotive and appliance industries, announced it will build a plant of over 100,000 square feet in García, Nuevo León, Mexico, as part of its 40th anniversary. The plant will include over 70 manufacturing machines and automation lines.

POSCO International Corp. announced a $43.6 million plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico, to manufacture EV motor cores, with construction starting June 2022 and completion in H2 2023.

Aluminium Insights began construction of a new aluminum extrusion plant in Syracuse, Indiana, with an investment of about €15.5 million. The plant will feature a 2,920-ton press line and a CNC fabrication area.

Ascend Performance Materials signed an investment agreement to construct a hexamethylene diamine (HMD) and specialty chemicals plant in Lianyungang, China. Construction starts later in 2022, with startup targeted for the second half of 2023.

The Atacama desalination plant, designed and built by GS Inima and Claro Vicuña Valenzuela, was inaugurated by the President of Chile. The project involved an investment of close to $100 million and created over 500 direct jobs during construction.

TANAKA Denshi Kogyo will establish a new plant in Hangzhou, China, to produce aluminum bonding wires for power semiconductors. Operations are scheduled to begin in November 2022, as part of a plan to triple production capacity by 2025.

Nidec will build a new plant in Pinghu, Zhejiang, China to produce gear-grinding machine tools for EVs. The investment is 500 billion yen (approx. $4.35 billion). Production is expected to start in spring 2023.

Nucor announced it will build a new state-of-the-art sheet mill in Mason County, West Virginia, costing approximately $2.7 billion, with 3 million tons annual capacity, creating 800 jobs, construction expected to take two years.

Colombia-based Plastilene Group will establish its first U.S. operation in Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, a $47 million sustainable food packaging research and production facility expected to create 58 jobs.

Bulgarian packaging maker Ate Plast has started construction of its third plant in the Zagore Industrial Zone in Stara Zagora, aiming to double or triple its printed packaging capacity; the investment, initially planned at 10 million leva, is expected to exceed that and completion is due by year end.

B Medical Systems inaugurated its new manufacturing facility in Mundra, Gujarat, India, built with an investment of over Rs.100 crore. The facility has an annual production capacity of 100,000 units of medical cold chain products and is the company's first manufacturing site outside Europe.

Novelis Inc. announced a $365 million investment to build a highly advanced recycling center for automotive aluminum adjacent to its existing plant in Guthrie, Kentucky, with an annual casting capacity of 240 kt of sheet ingot and creating 140 new jobs.

Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) has appointed GEA New Zealand and First Principles Contractors to construct a state-of-the-art dairy processing plant in Tokoroa, New Zealand. The plant will include a spray dryer with capacity of one million litres of milk per day, producing over 45,000 tonnes of milk powder annually.