Jonaco Machine, a Demmer affiliate, opened a new 39,000-square-foot production facility in Shakopee, Minnesota in 2021. The expansion adds capacity for precision machining serving medical, aerospace, and defense industries.

HögforsGST built a new zero-energy factory in Leppävirta, Finland, with a €5 million investment. The facility uses a HybridHEAT system with heat pumps, geothermal energy, and solar power.

PRESS GLASS, a Polish glass manufacturer, plans to establish a new factory in Kaunas Free Economic Zone, Lithuania, to produce insulating glass units for its residential division. Production is scheduled to begin in 2022/23, with 240 new jobs planned.

Stik-Pak Solutions held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new manufacturing facility in Franklin County, Virginia, as part of a $10 million investment that will create 52 new jobs.

Finnish company PKC Wiring Systems plans to open two new factories in Pozarevac, Serbia, to produce wiring systems for commercial vehicles. The investment in the first year will exceed EUR 3.1 million, and the company aims to hire 500 workers.

Pure Development has begun construction on a 280,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility for GE Aviation in Beavercreek, Ohio. The facility will produce gas turbine engine components and is expected to be completed by Q1 2022 and fully operational by end of 2022.

Pratt Paper LLC will build a $400 million corrugated box recycling and paper mill complex in Henderson, Kentucky, expected to employ 321 people within five years. The 1 million square foot site is on a 200-acre plot along Kentucky 425.

Sunhearrt Group and Ajanta Oreva Group have formed a joint venture to build India's largest vitrified tile plant at Samakhiyali, Gujarat, covering 99 acres with capacity to produce 51,000 square meters per day. A separate legal entity, Sunshine Vitrious Tiles P Ltd., will be formed.

Lamb Weston announced plans to build a new french fry plant at its existing site in Kruiningen, Netherlands, with an investment of approximately EUR 200 million, adding 180,000 mt per year capacity and creating over 50 jobs. The plant is expected to be operational in Q1 2023.

Q'Apel Medical announced it will move its headquarters to a new 35,000-square-foot facility at 4245 Technology Dr, Fremont, CA, featuring a 10,000-square-foot clean room, to support growth and international expansion.

Harlequin Tanks has opened a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in East Kirkby, built on an old airfield at an investment of £2.2 million. The facility features advanced rotomoulding machinery and is expected to add 30 new employees.

SENNEBOGEN Multi Line GmbH & Co. KG has moved into its new Plant 4 in Wackersdorf, Germany, a 15,000 m² facility with a 1,300 m² assembly hall, where telehandlers (model 355 E) are being built. The plant was refurbished and production started at the end of 2019.

Evoqua Water Technologies announced an investment in a new Sustainability and Innovation Hub in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, an 18,000 square-foot facility for research and development of water treatment technologies, scheduled to open in fall 2021.

Brother Industries built a new plant at its Xi'an facility, which produces cutting machines, this spring.

DMG Mori Seiki's new plant in the suburbs of Shanghai will be opened in 2023, and a new plant at its Tianjin facility will start production in 2025, doubling Chinese machine tool production capacity.

Japanese robot manufacturer FUJI will invest hundreds of millions of yen to set up two new plants in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, aiming to increase annual production capacity to 350 units by 2023, an 80% increase.

Siltronic AG has decided to build a second 300 mm silicon wafer fab at its site in Singapore, with a capex of around EUR 2 billion until the end of 2024. Construction is planned to start in 2021.

RAUMEDIC plans to invest €50 million to build two new production facilities at its Helmbrechts headquarters, focusing on silicone tubing for the pharmaceutical industry. Construction of the first building is expected to start in spring 2022, with both plants onstream by 2025.

Brooks Instrument has opened a new manufacturing, engineering and service center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, to produce mass flow controllers for semiconductor manufacturing. The company says the move raises its global production capacity by close to 30 percent once at full scale.

Ball Corporation will invest $383.8 million to build an 800,000 sq ft aluminum beverage can plant in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, creating 220 jobs. The plant will join Red Bull and Rauch's beverage manufacturing hub in Concord.

AeroAggregates broke ground on a new production facility in Dunnellon, FL, to manufacture ultra-lightweight foamed glass aggregates from post-consumer recycled glass. The plant is expected to begin operations in October 2021.

Al Bayader International secured medium-term financing from HSBC to build a 450,000 sq ft food packaging industrial complex in Sharjah's Al Sajaa Industrial City, expected to be completed in 2023 and quadruple capacity to over 120,000 tonnes.

Dangote Cement Plc has completed its 6 million metric tonnes per annum cement factory in Okpella, Edo State, Nigeria, built at an estimated cost of $1 billion. The plant is set for commissioning and is expected to employ at least 6,000 workers.

Manitou Group has built a new 18,000 m² plant in Candé, France, with an investment of €26 million. The facility will produce thermal and electric all-terrain access platforms and is expected to double production.

SEW-EURODRIVE is constructing a new R200-million head office and factory in Aeroton, Johannesburg, South Africa. The 25,000 m² facility will provide three times more space than its current office and will be Industry 4.0-compliant.

FCS Group held a beam-raising ceremony on July 22, 2021 for a new plant in Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New District, China. The plant will be built by FCS (Ningbo) Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Taiwan-based plastic injection molding machine manufacturer.

IPEX announced a major investment in a new 200,000 sq ft injection molding plant in Pineville, North Carolina. The facility will use Industry 4.0 and AI, and is expected to create over 150 jobs.

American Technology Components Inc. plans to invest $17.6 million in a new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Elkhart, Indiana, creating 68 jobs over three years.

Kureha Corp. will build a new PVDF plant in Changshu, China, with an annual capacity of about 10,000 tons. The plant is due to be completed in spring 2024 and begin operations in summer 2024.

CANPACK Group announced on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 plans for its first U.S. facility, a 908,000-square-foot aluminum can plant and North American Center of Excellence in Olyphant Borough, Lackawanna County, with about $366 million invested and around 400 jobs, expected to be operational by year end.

Piovan Group is building a 10,000-square-meter facility in Suzhou, China, to produce automation systems for plastics, food powders, and refrigeration markets. The site will serve as the reference headquarters for all the Group's branches in the Asian region.

GlobalFoundries announced it will build a second factory at its Fab 8 site in Malta, New York, and invest $1 billion to boost chip output to address the global chip shortage.

Kinwong celebrated the grand opening of two new manufacturing factories in Jinwan District, Zhuhai City: an HLC (high-layer count) factory with a designed capacity of 1.2 million square meters, and an SLP (substrate-like PCB) IC substrate factory with a designed capacity of 600,000 square meters. The total investment was 5 billion RMB.

Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC) unveiled its G-Cell energy storage unit factory in Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate, Rayong Province, Thailand. The facility has an initial capacity of 30 MWh and is the first in Southeast Asia to use SemiSolid technology.

Pregis announced an $80 million investment in a new 168,000 square foot blown film extrusion facility in Anderson, South Carolina. The plant is expected to create 120 jobs and become operational in September.

DexCo (formerly Duratex Group) announced construction of a high-tech ceramic coatings factory in Botucatu, São Paulo, with R$600 million investment and 10 million m²/year capacity. It will create 350 direct jobs and start production by 2023.

The Kaifei civil aviation structural parts manufacturing joint venture, involving COMAC, GKN Aerospace and AVIC, broke ground in Jingjiang, Jiangsu province. Phase 1 investment is 3.6 billion yuan, covering 360 mu, producing aircraft structural parts such as horizontal tails and fairings.

Lockheed Martin opened the Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center in Titusville, Florida, a 55,000 square-foot advanced manufacturing facility renovated with nearly $20 million investment to expand Orion spacecraft production for NASA's Artemis missions.

Nephron Pharmaceutical Corp. launched Nephron Nitrile, a new company that will produce three billion nitrile gloves annually at its Saxe-Gotha Industrial Park facility in West Columbia, South Carolina. The $100 million+ investment is expected to create 250 jobs, with production starting by early 2022.

Beckhoff Automation officially opened a new office in downtown Milwaukee inside the Global Water Center, expanding its presence in the Great Lakes region. The 3,660-square-foot facility includes space for sales, engineering, support and training.

Sarstedt announced the start of commercial production at its new plant in the Maryino industrial park in St. Petersburg, Russia, with investments of about 1.5 billion rubles. The plant currently produces capillary blood collection systems.

Health Supply US is locating its unit-dose flexible packaging division at 205 Raceway Drive in Mooresville, Iredell County, North Carolina, investing over $2.5 million and creating up to ten jobs.

Perth-based crane lifting and logistics automation company Roborigger opened a new manufacturing facility in Wangara, Western Australia, to scale production for global demand. The facility was officially opened by Innovation and ICT Minister Don Punch.

SK Siltron CSS announced plans to invest USD 300 million and create up to 150 jobs in Bay City, Michigan over three years to build a new plant for manufacturing and R&D of advanced semiconductor wafers for electric vehicles.

Amsino Medical Group opened a new $32 million North American distribution and manufacturing hub in Aurora, Illinois. The 222,000-square-foot facility will house all production and distribution of medical devices and is expected to create 110 permanent jobs.

US-based Medline is building a new plant for disposable sterile surgical sets in Partizánske, Slovakia, with construction to finish in autumn 2021 and production starting in Q1 2022. The project involves an investment of approximately EUR 26 million and is expected to create 300 new jobs.

Wacker Group has started construction of a new alcoholysis coating plant at its Nünchritz site in Germany. The plant will produce key precursors for silicone-based building protection products and binders for facade paints and industrial coatings. The investment is around EUR 30 million, and the plant is expected to be operational by the end of 2022.

Pratt & Whitney opened a 60,000 square-foot ceramic matrix composites (CMC) engineering and development facility in Carlsbad, California. The facility will serve as a CMC Center of Excellence and is expected to create over 60 new jobs.

Beijing Oriental Yuhong Waterproof Technology Co., Ltd. signed an agreement to invest 2.5 billion yuan in a new plant in Yangzhou Chemical Industrial Park to produce 400,000 t/year VAE emulsion and 100,000 t/year VAEP redispersible powder. The project will be built in two phases, with the first phase to be completed within 16 months of site readiness and the second by October 1, 2025.

Kval Inc., a door machinery manufacturer, is partnering with Titan Development on a 52,500-square-foot build-to-suit manufacturing facility at Titan's Innovation Business Park Phase 2 in Hutto, Texas. The announcement was made on July 13, 2021.