Proterra announced plans to open a new EV battery system manufacturing plant in Greer, South Carolina. The company will invest at least $76 million and expects to create more than 200 jobs. The factory is expected to launch in the second half of 2022.

DMG MORI held a ground breaking ceremony for a new highly automated and digitalized production plant in Pinghu, China. The 35,000 m² plant is scheduled to open in spring 2023 and will create 300 jobs.

KLUBB opened a new 13,000 m2 facility in Croissy-Beaubourg, France, dedicated to manufacturing truck-mounted aerial work platforms, with a goal to increase total production to 1,700 platforms per year.

A new, larger medical device manufacturing facility is under construction for VEM in Thailand and will open in 2022.

Alstom announced a EUR 10.5 million investment to develop a new 13,000 m² production line for board transformers at its facility in Fez, Morocco. The line will have a capacity of up to 200 transformers per year and is expected to be operational in 2023.

Hydro is building a new aluminium remelt facility at its extrusion plant in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. The €88 million facility will have an annual capacity of 90,000 tonnes and is expected to start production in Q1 2024.

CMR Surgical announced plans to open a new large-scale manufacturing facility in Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK, to meet demand for the Versius Surgical Robotic System. The 7,044.8 sq. m. site will initially house up to 200 employees.

Camfil USA announced plans to build a new 350,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Kilgore, Texas, investing more than $50 million and adding over 200 jobs within five years.

Intel Corporation will invest 30 billion ringgit ($7.1 billion) in a new state-of-the-art facility in Penang, Malaysia, to expand manufacturing capabilities for advanced semiconductor packaging technologies.

Asahi Kasei, Asahi Kasei Advance, and Teijin Frontier established Asahi Kasei Airbag Fabric Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Thai Binh Province, Vietnam, to manufacture airbag fabric with a capacity of 20 million m²/year. Operations are scheduled to begin in the first half of 2024.

Four new 100-foot-gauge container gantry cranes arrived at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal in the Port of New Orleans, part of a $112 million investment.

Hermit Aerospace, a subsidiary of German industrial company Hermith GmbH, will build a new production facility for additive wire in the priority development area (TOSER) of Glazov, Udmurtia, Russia. The investor will invest about 1.2 billion rubles and create 68 jobs.

Star Micronics announced it will build a new plant at its Star Micronics Manufacturing Dalian facility in China, with an investment of about 650 million yen. The new plant will be used for machine tool assembly and will increase production capacity to 300 units per month, a 25% increase. Operations are expected to start in February 2022.

Perigee Aerospace, a small space launch vehicle manufacturer, will invest KRW 13 billion to build a production base in Okcheon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. Construction completion is targeted for April 2022, and the facility is expected to create about 100 jobs.

Shaoxing Yuanlong Chemical Fiber plans to start up a PET film plant in 2022.

Hengli Chemical Fiber Co Ltd plans to start up a 600,000 tons/year PET chips plant in 2022.

Yipu New Materials Co Ltd plans to start up a 300,000 tons/year PET bottle grade plant in September 2022.

Chongqing Wankai New Materials Co Ltd plans to start up a 600,000 tons/year PET bottle grade plant in H1 2022.

Sinopec Yizheng Chemical Fiber Co Ltd plans to start up a 500,000 tons/year PET bottle grade plant in Q1 2022.

Tyson Foods announced a new fully-cooked facility in Danville, Virginia, as part of its capacity expansion.

Nexperia Malaysia held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 4-storey semiconductor facility in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. The company plans to invest an additional RM1.6 billion by 2026 for building, equipment and automation, and expects to hire 700 skilled workers. The facility will feature 11,000 sqm of clean room space and is anticipated to be operational by mid-2022.

Hubbard Products commenced manufacturing at its new £3.3 million, 7,500 m² commercial cooling equipment factory in Futura Park, Ipswich, UK. The factory increases production space by nearly 60% and plans to recruit 60 additional workers.

Shyam Metalics expects to receive clearances for commissioning an aluminum foil plant in West Bengal with a proposed installed capacity of 0.03 MTPA, expected to start commercial operations in December 2021.

MP Materials announced it will build a 200,000 sq. ft. greenfield rare earth metal, alloy and NdFeB magnet manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The facility will have capacity to produce approximately 1,000 tonnes of finished NdFeB magnets per year and create more than 100 skilled jobs.

Private company Vitebskie Podemniki plans to commission an innovative production facility for cargo cranes in 2022, with an investment of over $4.5 million. The new plant will produce cranes with lifting capacity from 16 to 100 tons and create 60-100 jobs.

Zhuhai Yuexin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Yueya Semiconductor, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new CNY 3.5 billion high-end RF and FCBGA packaging substrate manufacturing project in Zhuhai's Fushan Industrial Park. The plant will produce Via Post, embedded, and FCBGA substrates.

Surface Solutions Group (SSG) announced it will establish a new operation in Costa Rica dedicated to advanced coating processes for the international medical device industry.

ePac Flexible Packaging opened its first production facility in the ANZ region in Melbourne, Australia, installing two HP Indigo 25K digital flexible printing systems. The plant is located at the Newlands Road food manufacturing hub in Coburg.

Samsung chose Taylor, Texas as the site for a new $17 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility. The plant will produce advanced logic chips for mobile, 5G, HPC, and AI applications, creating over 2,000 high-tech jobs. Construction begins in early 2022 with production target in second half of 2024.

Zep Inc. completed and started up a new AFCO production facility in Kingman's Industrial Park, Arizona, to serve western US customers in the food and beverage processing industry, with about 25 jobs expected over two years.

The Sserora Brewing signed an investment MOU with South Chungcheong Province for a 50 billion won craft beer plant in Boryeong's Ungcheon industrial complex. The highly automated plant, planned to start in August 2022 and be complete by 2024, will produce about 74 million liters a year.

Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products' new $15 million greenfield manufacturing facility in a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, will enable the company to more than double its manufacturing output for engineered flooring panel and shelving products.

JR Automation opened a new facility in Holland, Michigan, representing a $1,075,595 capital investment and expected to create 28 high-paying jobs over two years.

Jinlei Co. signed an agreement with Dongying Economic and Technological Development Zone to invest 60 billion yuan (approx. $9.4 billion) in a three-phase project to produce 400,000 tonnes per year of offshore wind core components, with Phase I costing 2.5 billion yuan for 150,000 tonnes capacity and an 18-month construction period.

Stoford and Logicor let the newly completed 108,091 sq ft L108 warehouse at Liberty Park, Widnes, to an international packaging company on a ten-year lease for sustainable packaging production.

Bizerba USA announced the spring opening of a new plant in Avondale, AZ, that will manufacture labels and produce key equipment for weighing and labeling solutions. The facility will create 40-50 new light industrial jobs when it opens in April 2022.

Hanwha Cimarron broke ground on a $130 million manufacturing plant in Opelika, Alabama, to produce carbon fiber-wrapped high-pressure storage tanks. The plant will employ 261 people.

Toyota Motor North America announced the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite in Liberty, North Carolina, as the location for its new $1.29 billion automotive battery plant, Toyota Battery Manufacturing, North Carolina, expected to create 1,750 jobs and start production in 2025.

BYD began construction of a new industrial park for NEV components in Xi'an, China, on December 5, 2021, with a total investment of 15 billion yuan ($2.355 billion) and scheduled to start operation in 2024.

ADB Safegate broke ground on a 175,000-square-foot Center of Innovation in Gahanna, Ohio, investing $1.5 million and adding 24 jobs. The facility is scheduled to open in October 2022.

Elsewedy Electric inaugurated its Al Suwaidi Industrial Complex in Tanzania, including factories for cables, wires, transformers, and meters, with total investments of more than $35 million.

Texas Instruments announced plans to build a 300mm wafer multi-fab complex in Sherman, Texas, with up to $30 billion investment. Construction on the first two fabs will start in 2022, with production expected to begin in 2025, creating over 3,000 jobs.

Crane ChemPharma & Energy, a business of Crane Co, broke ground on a new Saunders valves factory in Cwmbran, UK, dedicated to Saunders products, with opening planned for 2022.

Nashville Box, LLC will invest $3.3 million to set up corrugated box manufacturing operations in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee, creating 48 new jobs.

Grupo Raymundo da Fonte inaugurated a new bleach factory in Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with an investment of R$ 100 million. The facility has a capacity of 500,000 boxes of bleach per month and is expected to generate 400 direct and indirect jobs by end of 2022.

Custom Alloy Corporation signed a long-term lease at Badin Business Park in Stanly County, North Carolina, to produce critical components for U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers. The company will invest $8.1 million and create 40 jobs.

Simplex for Industrial Solutions and Software announced a new 5,000 sqm CNC machine factory in the 10th of Ramadan City Industrial Zone, Egypt, with planned investments of EGP 100 million to raise production and export to about 15 countries over three years.

SSE has provided a £15 million debt investment to support the construction of a new offshore wind tower manufacturing facility at Port of Nigg in Scotland. The £110-120 million plant, being built by Global Energy Group and Haizea Wind Group, will be capable of manufacturing up to 135 next-generation offshore wind towers per year and create 400 direct jobs.

SSE provided £15 million debt investment to support the construction of a £110-120 million offshore wind tower manufacturing plant at Port of Nigg, Scotland, by Global Energy Group and Haizea Wind Group. The facility will create 400 jobs and produce up to 135 towers per year.

COLVEN inaugurated its new Industrial Plant 2 in Guadalupe Norte, Santa Fe, Argentina. The plant houses assembly lines for VIESA ecological coolers and will later host plastic injection and tooling areas.