SMIC will build a 100,000 wpm, 28nm fab in Nanjing costing $9 billion, via a joint venture with the Lin-gang Special Area of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Company TOPOL-ECO opened a new plant in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, for the production of wastewater treatment equipment with a capacity of over 2,500 units of serial products.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) announced plans to invest $8.87 billion to build a new chip fabrication plant in Shanghai's free-trade zone.

Superior Boiler opened 'Plant 3', a 75,000-sq-ft renovated facility in Hutchinson, Kansas, to house its watertube division relocated from Richmond, VA. The first watertube boilers will be completed by the end of September 2021.

Winbond Electronics Corp is building a new 12-inch DRAM fab in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with a planned investment of NT$335 billion (US$12.08 billion) over 10 years. The fab is expected to begin small-volume production in July 2022 and regular production in October 2022, with a target capacity of 35,000 wafers per month.

Jumbo is building a 40,000 square metre automated fresh food logistics centre in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, with WITRON. The facility will supply stores in the Netherlands and Belgium with fresh items starting in early 2024.

Page Industries will set up a manufacturing facility for men's innerwear in Ramdaspur, Cuttack District, Odisha. The project is expected to be completed by March 2023.

ePac Flexible Packaging announced construction of its first Australian manufacturing facility in Melbourne, with an investment of A$7m ($5.1m). The plant is expected to begin operations in Q4 2021 with a capacity of 36 million m² of flexible packaging per year.

Decom srl, a manufacturer of gas turbine and compressor baseplates, started transferring to a new plant in Salerno in 2021, with a production area more than tripled compared to its historic site.

Samuel, Son & Co. announced plans to open a new 140,000-square-foot automotive processing facility in Querétaro, Mexico, equipped with a slitter and related capabilities. Construction is expected to be completed by Q4 2021, with full production in January 2022.

Cargotec subsidiary Hiab plans to invest over €50 million in a new factory in Dundalk, Ireland, to manufacture Moffett truck-mounted forklifts, creating 100 manufacturing jobs. Production is expected to begin in 2023.

Intermezzo Meat has taken occupancy of a fully renovated facility in Borne, Netherlands, for its meat processing operations.

Tribe Technology, an Australian company, is opening a new design and manufacturing facility at Enterprise Way, Mallusk, Northern Ireland, to produce autonomous drill rigs for the minerals industry. The project is expected to create 120 engineering jobs over five years.

Ørsted and Siemens Gamesa inaugurated a nacelle assembly facility at the Port of Taichung, Taiwan, the first of its kind in Asia-Pacific. Assembly work started in August 2021.

Veolia Water Technologies is developing and constructing a new regeneration and recycling service centre and mobile assets in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, to support its mobile water services offering in the Middle East.

Allpax, a PROMACH brand, completed its move to a new Covington, Louisiana facility, more than doubling its office and manufacturing area from 40,000 to 86,000 sq ft.

Dhunseri Poly Films, a subsidiary of Dhunseri Ventures, announced a Rs 1,250 crore flexible packaging film factory at Panagarh Industrial Park in West Bengal. The first phase will make BOPET film with 45,000 TPA capacity, with commercial operations expected by March 2023.

Boeun County signed a 12 billion won expansion investment agreement with Puremann, which will buy land and build a second factory in the Jangan industrial complex to enter the new materials business. Puremann currently makes automotive and refrigeration refrigerants.

Nouryon plans to build a new production facility in Southeast Asia for Bermocoll ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose (EHEC) with a capacity of 15-20 kilotons. Final site selection is expected in Q4 2021, construction in late 2022, and startup in mid-2024.

Italian automotive supplier PROMA will invest US$6.4 million to build its first Mexican plant in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, for manufacturing and assembly of seat components, body assemblies and suspension cross members. The facility will create 250 jobs.

Valmet successfully started up a new kraftliner production line, PM 27, at Klabin's Puma Project in Ortigueira, Paraná, Brazil on August 30, 2021. The line is part of Klabin's Puma II project, which aims to produce 910,000 tonnes of packaging paper annually.

Sumitomo Chemical announced it will build a new photoresist plant in South Korea with an investment of over ¥10 billion. Construction will start in September 2021, with production beginning in fiscal year 2024, to supply advanced semiconductor materials.

LS Cable & System is investing 120.2 billion won to build a fourth plant in Donghae, Gangwon Province, South Korea, to produce extra-high-voltage cables. Construction starts in September 2021, with operations expected in December 2023, creating about 100 new jobs.

Grupo PROMA will invest 130 million pesos to construct a plant in the San Miguel de Allende Industrial Park, Guanajuato, Mexico. The facility will produce seat structures for electric vehicles for the North American market, creating over 250 direct and indirect jobs, with operations expected to start in 2022.

Bachl plans to build a new plant for mineral-wool insulation panels. No further details on location, investment, or timeline are provided in the article.

Hengli Hydraulic plans a CNY1.2 billion project in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with annual capacity for oil cylinders, special cylinders and hydraulic pumps and motors. No construction schedule was given.

Matalco Inc. started production at its new $80 million remelt and casting facility in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. The plant can produce over 250 million lbs of billet or rolling ingot per year and will create nearly 80 jobs.

Vaillant will build a new €120 million plant in Senica, Slovakia, to produce heat pumps. Construction will start in early 2022 and completion is expected in autumn 2023, creating 900 jobs.

Ciner Group, through its subsidiary Ciner Glass Maden Kimya Sanayi Ticaret A.Ş., will invest 1.9 billion Turkish Liras to build a glass bottle manufacturing facility in Sincan, Ankara, with an annual capacity of 237,250 tonnes. The investment was announced in the July 2021 investment incentives list published on August 30, 2021.

Klingele Paper & Packaging Group is building a corrugated sheet plant in the Diamniadio industrial estate near Dakar, Senegal, with production expected in summer 2022 and about 45 jobs. The EUR 7.5 million investment is partly financed by DEG.

Jiangsu Bohuan Conveying Machinery Co., Ltd. began trial production at a new 13,000-square-meter plant in Sheyang County, Yancheng. The project involved an investment of 220 million yuan.

Holding Company Elektrozavod opened a new transformer plant in Ufa, Bashkortostan, with investments over RUB 5 billion. The plant produces power and distribution transformers up to 220 kV and will employ over 2,000 people.

Siemens Healthineers inaugurated a manufacturing facility for molecular diagnostic kits in Vadodara, Gujarat, India, with a production capacity of 25 million tests per annum. The facility was inaugurated on August 27, 2021.

Siemens AG and Power Machines opened a new gas turbine plant in Gorelovo, Leningrad Oblast, through their joint venture Siemens Technologies Gas Turbines. The plant produces gas turbines of 50-307 MW and compressors.

Shibaura Machine will launch a new Smart Factory at its Elk Grove Village, Illinois tech center in Fall 2021, featuring automated all-electric injection molding machines and IoT technology.

Yanfeng completed construction on a new manufacturing site in Kragujevac, Serbia, for seat components. The plant will launch production by summer 2022 and create about 500 new jobs.

U.S. Medical Glove Company signed a 15-year lease on a former Caterpillar factory in Montgomery, Illinois, to establish a nitrile glove machine fabrication and glove production facility. The factory will house up to 80 glove machines and 12 chemotherapy glove lines, with annual capacity of 8.1 billion gloves and 1 billion chemotherapy gloves, creating over 3,000 direct jobs.

Multivac is investing €20 million (US$22 million) in a new operations building for packaging and bakery sectors in Tsukuba, Japan. Construction began in May 2021 and is expected to conclude in summer 2022.

General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) is constructing the 671MW Tripoli West simple-cycle power plant in Tripoli, Libya. Construction started in June 2021 and commissioning is expected by August 2022.

Tunxi High-Pressure Valve Co broke ground on a project producing 10,000 tonnes of industrial forgings per year in the Huangshan high-tech zone, Anhui, China, on August 26, 2021. The project includes a 10,000 square metre plant and about 30 new machines.

Chapin International, a maker of compressed air sprayers, plans to acquire a 496,000-square-foot facility on the South Danville Bypass in Boyle County, Kentucky, investing $8.25 million and creating 100 full-time jobs.

Sungwoo Hitech purchased a 375,000 sq ft building in Telford, Tennessee for USD 8.75 million and plans to invest over USD 40 million to produce stamped metal parts for General Motors. The plant will create over 200 jobs, with hiring starting in March 2022.

Gematek, part of the B. Braun group, plans to build a production and logistics complex for medical devices in the Lazurnaya industrial zone, Tver region. The project is expected to attract 3 billion rubles in investment and create over 250 jobs, with construction starting in 2022.

Ryerson Holding Corporation is building a 215,000-square-foot facility in Centralia, Washington, to relocate its Renton operations. The plant will process and distribute aluminum, stainless steel and carbon steel, and is expected to be operational by Q3 2022, creating 50-60 jobs.

Fortune Group is setting up its sixth paints manufacturing unit at Cheryal near Patancheru, Hyderabad, with an investment of Rs 75 crore. The fully automated plant will have a total annual capacity of 200,000 metric tonnes, with the first phase of 150,000 MT expected to be completed by end of 2021, creating 150-200 jobs.

Liddell will invest 60 million pesos to build a new plant in Monclova, Coahuila, for manufacturing trailers and pre-mixed concrete plants, creating 300 jobs. Construction is expected to start in 2021 and the plant to open by mid-2022.

Peel Ports Clydeport signed an option agreement with XLCC for a 70-acre facility at Hunterston PARC in Ayrshire, Scotland, to produce HVDC subsea cables, with investment of £370 million and creation of 900 permanent jobs.

Blackmer, a maker of rotary pumps, gas compressors and centrifugal pumps, plans a new manufacturing facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Its parent company expects to invest more than $7 million and create 50 jobs, and the company received a $350,000 MEDC grant.

Haite Power Co. is building a hydraulic pump and valve production plant in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, with a planned capacity of 400,000 hydraulic pumps and 800,000 hydraulic valves per year. The project is listed with an investment of about 2.091 billion CNY and is in main construction stage.

SK Siltron CCS announced a new facility in Monitor Township, Michigan, to manufacture silicon carbide wafers for electric vehicles. The company will invest $302 million and create up to 150 jobs.