Hebei Jinliu New Materials Co., Ltd. is constructing a plant in Hebei, China, with an annual capacity of 40,000 tonnes of film and 50,000 tonnes of nonwoven fabric. The project started construction in March 2021 with a total investment of 670 million yuan (about $105 million) and will create 300 jobs.

Castool Tooling Systems, a division of Exco Technologies, opened a new 40,000 sq. ft. production facility in Kenitra, Morocco, to serve customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Aries Clean Technologies has achieved mechanical completion of the Aries Linden Biosolids Gasification Plant in Linden, New Jersey. The fluidized bed gasification plant, the largest of its kind in the world, will process 430 tons of biosolids daily and create 16 permanent jobs.

BWX Technologies will build and upfit a center for manufacturing and R&D adjacent to its Campbell County facility, creating 97 jobs. The $65 million investment over three years will relocate 150 employees and house nuclear services and microreactor design divisions.

Jungheinrich is building a new plant in Chomutov, Czech Republic, for reach truck production, with a budget of €60 million, creating over 350 jobs. Construction starts in 2022, production begins in 2023.

Eaton is opening its sixth assembly facility in Juarez City, Mexico, creating over 500 jobs, as part of a $100 million North America manufacturing investment. The facility will assemble miniature circuit breakers, with partial production starting in April 2022 and full capacity by Q1 2023.

Aluminum Insights is investing $17.5 million in a new 76,000-square-foot aluminum extrusion facility in Syracuse, Indiana. Site construction is underway, with equipment installation starting in early January and expected to be operational in April.

AMP, part of the Ardagh Group, will build a beverage can-making plant at Global Point in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, representing an investment of about $200 million. Operations are expected to start in 2023.

Ovivo announced a $25 million investment to build a 110,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Hutto, Texas, to produce Cembrane silicon carbide flat sheet membranes. The facility is expected to be operational by early 2023 and create nearly 100 jobs.

DASIN Machinery celebrated the successful connection of the last main girder of its new factory in Caotun, Nantou, Taiwan, on November 18, 2021, marking a milestone in construction.

Watson-Marlow has broken ground on a 150,000 sq ft manufacturing facility at Devens, Massachusetts, for peristaltic pumps, tubing and fluid path products. The site is expected to create over 150 positions.

J.M. Smucker announced an investment in a new manufacturing facility in McCalla, Alabama to accelerate growth of its Smucker's Uncrustables products. No investment amount or job numbers were given in the source.

Shanghai WPG broke ground on a smart water product R&D and integrated manufacturing base in the Su-Xi-Tong Science and Technology Industrial Park, Nantong, with a total investment of CNY 2 billion and covering about 350 mu.

Eternit will invest R$165 million to build a new roofing tile factory in Caucaia, Ceará, Brazil, expected to start operations in the first half of 2023, creating 132 jobs.

Goss Auto Parts Ltd. is building a $5-million, 30,000-square-foot plant in Strathroy, Ontario, initially employing 12 people by summer 2022. The facility is the first of three expansions planned to reach 60 jobs by 2026.

Construction of NOVA Chemicals' $2.5 billion polyethylene manufacturing facility on Rokeby Line in Sarnia, Ontario is over 80% complete, with a late 2022 start-up target. The plant will create 150 permanent jobs and produce about one billion pounds per year.

FACC Solutions Croatia has completed construction of a new factory in Jakovlje, Croatia, with an investment of 33 million euros. Production of composite components for Airbus, Boeing, and Rolls-Royce aircraft is expected to start in one month.

A new factory producing spunbond nonwoven fabric is being built in Ivanovo, Russia, with an investment of over 200 million rubles. The first phase will create 45 jobs, and equipment installation is underway.

IMEX, the industrial unit of Angola's Webcor Group, opened a new US$9.5 million woven polypropylene raffia bag processing facility. The plant has a capacity of 60 million bags a year and tripled IMEX's production capacity.

L3Harris opened a new $110 million, 330,000-square-foot facility in Waterdown, Ontario, Canada, to produce Wescam MX-Series electro-optical and infrared imaging systems. The facility currently employs 1,250 people, with plans for 1,500 by end of 2025.

CHIMEI officially commissioned a new ABS production plant in Zhangzhou, China, with an initial capacity of 450,000 tonnes per year, to be increased to 600,000 tonnes. This raises CHIMEI's total annual ABS capacity to 2.6 million tonnes.

Nemera is building a new manufacturing facility in Szczecin, Poland, on 5 hectares with 3,400 m² of clean room space. The facility will produce drug delivery devices, including prototypes and clinical batches, and is expected to open by fall 2022.

Alstom inaugurated a new components manufacturing facility in Coimbatore, India. The facility spans 15 acres with an installed capacity of 2.1 million hours, creating 10,000 direct and indirect jobs, with an average investment of EUR 25 million.

Coromandel International will set up a sulphuric acid plant at its fertiliser complex in Visakhapatnam with a daily capacity of 1,650 tonnes, at an investment of ₹400 crore. The plant will increase total sulphuric acid capacity to 6 lakh tonnes per year.

ICP Industrial Solutions Group announced the start of manufacturing expansion in Bhiwadi, India, with site preparation underway. The new plant will produce high-performance packaging coatings, with production expected by March 2022.

POSCO will invest 1 trillion won to build a plant in Gwangyang capable of producing 300,000 tons of non-oriented electrical steel annually. The plant is expected to be completed in 2025, expanding POSCO's total capacity to 400,000 tons per year.

Polymer-Gruppe signed a contract to purchase a 17.5-hectare plot in Idar-Oberstein for a new bioplastics production facility. The company plans to invest EUR 30-50 million, create about 300 jobs, and achieve a capacity of 100,000 tons per year.

Sellite Blocks received planning permission to build a foamed glass manufacturing facility on the edge of Great Heck, Yorkshire. The 24-metre-high plant will turn waste glass into thermally-efficient building blocks.

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) broke ground on a €165 million manufacturing facility in Zaragoza, Spain, to produce pre-fillable syringes. The site is expected to open in late 2023 and create 150 local jobs by 2024.

Startup 86 Pearson Lane will establish its first manufacturing location in Lexington, Tennessee, investing $16 million and creating 155 jobs. The company will buy the Ayers Building and expand the facility by 60,000 square feet, with operations expected in early 2022.

Flexicare Lanka, a subsidiary of UK-based Flexicare Group, set up a $15 million medical device manufacturing facility in Bandaragama, Sri Lanka. The plant is fully operational, employing over 600 people in its first phase, with 90% of production for export.

GRI is constructing a new mixing plant in Mirigama, Sri Lanka, with a capacity of 200 tons per day and an investment of $25 million. Two of six mixing lines are operational, with completion planned for mid-2022.

Haribo is constructing its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, with 400 jobs expected in the first phase and production starting in the second quarter of 2023.

PTC Industries laid the foundation stone for an integrated metal manufacturing facility in Lucknow that will produce key raw materials in titanium and other exotic alloys for aerospace applications, reducing India's dependence on imports.

Aerolloy Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of PTC Industries, inaugurated a new aerospace and defence manufacturing facility in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, the first private sector defence manufacturing facility in the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor. The facility will manufacture components for aircraft engines, helicopters, drones, submarines, and more.

Romaco Group, a subsidiary of Truking Technology, officially opened its new plant in Bologna, Italy on November 12, 2021. The 17 million euro facility was completed in the first half of 2021 and increases production capacity for packaging machinery.

Full Gauge Controls announced it will build a new factory in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, with investments of R$27 million, over 30,000 sq. meters of space, and creation of 200 new jobs. Construction is expected to begin in the first half of 2022.

IQM Quantum Computers has opened a new fabrication and cryogenic characterization facility in Espoo, Finland, dedicated to quantum processors. The pilot line has started and is expected to reach maximum production capacity during 2022.

Bauder will build a new production facility for bitumen roofing membranes and PUR rigid foam boards in the Axioparc business park in Drusenheim-Herrlisheim, France, for around EUR 60 million.

Celadon Development Corporation will invest over $155 million to open a North American headquarters and a recycling and advanced manufacturing facility in Chatham County, Georgia, creating 117 jobs. The plant will make recycled brown pulp from old corrugated cardboard, with Phase 1 producing 450,000 tons per year per line.

Nikkiso announced it will build a new factory for dialysis blood circuits on the site of Miyazaki Nikkiso in Miyazaki, Japan, with a total investment of approximately 7.3 billion yen. The factory will have a production capacity of 16 million units per year and is expected to start operations in July 2024.

Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) announced the launch of SAMI Composites LLC, a composite manufacturing facility south of Riyadh International Airport. The facility will produce composite parts for aerospace sub-assemblies and create around 100 jobs.

Nevro Corp. inaugurated its first global manufacturing operations in Costa Rica, located in the Coyol Free Trade Zone in Alajuela. The company expects to invest approximately $21 million by the end of 2022.

Rheem inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Dubai, UAE, to produce commercial rooftop air conditioning units. The facility is operated by Rheem MEA Manufacturing LLC and began production in November 2021.

Anaconda Equipment has broken ground on a new 31,330 sq. ft. factory in Ardboe, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The facility will include a paint shop, blast area and assembly area, increasing production capacity by up to 30% and creating jobs.

Collins Aerospace officially inaugurated its new 279,000-square-foot interiors facility in Lenexa, Kansas. The facility is double the size of the previous one and serves as the US center of excellence for galley inserts, oxygen systems and lighting product lines.

Schneider Electric announced an investment of over $100 million to build three new manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Mexico, hiring more than 1,000 employees to produce electrical products for data centers, infrastructure, and homes.

Sources Alma announced the opening of a third rPET plant in Charleroi, Belgium, with a capacity of 20,000 tons per year, expected by early 2023.

Sources Alma inaugurated its Roxpet Centre recycling unit in Saint-Yorre, France, with an €80 million investment, creating 30 jobs and producing 20,000 tons of rPET per year.

Firmenich and MG International Fragrance are building a new regional perfumery production hub on the MG International campus near Istanbul, Turkey, with a CHF47 million investment. The 15,000 sqm facility will provide 20,000 metric tons of additional capacity and is expected to become operational before the end of 2023.