Havells India Limited plans to set up a new air conditioner manufacturing facility at Sri City, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, with an annual capacity of 560,000 units and an estimated investment of Rs. 250 crore.

Aqua-Aerobic Systems' AquaNereda technology was selected for a new $39 million wastewater treatment plant in South Sioux City, Nebraska. Construction is expected to start by late summer 2021 and be substantially complete by summer 2023.

Xinfengming held the commencement ceremony for a polyester project at its Xinyi industrial base in northern Jiangsu, China. The project involves an investment of 18 billion yuan to build 9 polymerization units and related facilities, with an annual production capacity of 2.7 million tons of polyester products. Completion is planned for end of October 2022.

German AFT Automotive GmbH opened a production plant in Priboj, Serbia, with a €6 million investment. The 6,300 m² plant produces automotive components, currently employing 160 workers with a target of 400 total.

GEA has inaugurated construction of a climate-friendly production plant in Koszalin, Poland. The facility will produce pumps and stainless steel components, employ about 190 workers, and is planned to start operations in 2022.

Pratt & Whitney intends to begin producing high-pressure turbine airfoils for commercial and military aircraft engines at its new North Carolina facility by the second half of 2022.

Munters Group AB broke ground on a $36 million, 365,000 square-foot facility in Botetourt Center at Greenfield, Virginia. The facility will house manufacturing, R&D, and sales for data center cooling and industrial process systems, replacing an existing plant in Buena Vista and retaining all 200 employees.

The North Sea Link, a 730km subsea electricity interconnector between the UK and Norway, is scheduled to be commissioned in 2021. The project is a joint venture between National Grid North Sea Link and Statnett, with an estimated investment of €2 billion.

Samsung Electronics resumed construction on its semiconductor plant in Taylor, Texas, supported by a $4 billion investment for equipment and hiring, with production focused on advanced SF2P process chips.

Ball is set to open its 11th can plant in Frutal, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a R$500 million investment and 1.5 billion cans per year capacity, entering production in Q3 2021.

Heat and Control, Inc. has started construction of a new manufacturing facility in Mexico. The facility will cover 728,554 sq. ft. and include a warehouse, manufacturing, R&D and demonstration center, and offices. It will become the largest of the company's properties once completed.

Vidrio Andino plans to build a new glass manufacturing facility in Galapa, Colombia, with a nominal production capacity of approximately 750 metric tons per day of float glass. The total construction cost is expected to be approximately $160 million through 2022, with expected completion in 2021.

Kemira opened a new dry polymer production plant in Ulsan, South Korea in May 2021, producing dry polyacrylamide (DPAM) products for the paper and board industry. The investment is a joint venture with Yongsan Chemicals.

Korean automotive parts supplier Duckyang will invest $10 million to open its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Braselton, Jackson County, Georgia, creating 285 jobs. The facility will supply battery modules and energy storage systems to SK Battery America.

Nouryon started production at a new manufacturing facility at its site in Ningbo, China, to meet increasing demand for polymers used in packaging, paints and coatings, and construction industries.

Kolmi-Hopen, a subsidiary of Canadian group Medicom, will invest over EUR 40 million to build an automated nitrile glove factory on the former Arjowiggins site in Bessé-sur-Braye, France. The plant will produce up to 2 billion gloves per year and create over 300 jobs.

Becton, Dickinson and Company is building a $200 million high-tech manufacturing plant in Spain. The announcement was made on May 19, 2021.

Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in Central Taiwan Science Park's Erlin site, with total investment of NT$800 billion (approx. US$28.6 billion), first phase to be completed in 2022.

IC Biomedical will open an advanced manufacturing facility near Cartersville, Georgia, with a multi-million dollar investment, creating over 80 jobs. The facility is 75,000 sq ft.

OneCharge Lithium Batteries has opened a new manufacturing facility and headquarters in Garden Grove, California, tripling its manufacturing space. The facility houses all in-house manufacturing, assembly, logistics, a service center, and headquarters.

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) will build a €165 million high-tech manufacturing facility in Zaragoza, Spain, to produce drug delivery devices. The plant will create up to 600 jobs by 2030.

Autoliv announced plans to construct a new steering wheel manufacturing plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The 30,000 sqm facility will employ up to 3,000 people when fully operational.

Saint-Gobain opened a new plaster plant in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China, with an annual capacity of 350,000 metric tons and a total investment of EUR 25 million.

Hydro-Gear, a power equipment drive systems manufacturer, is locating a new operation in Huntingdon, Tennessee, expected to create 375 new jobs.

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. has officially put into operation its smart tower crane manufacturing plant in Changde, Hunan province. The plant has an annual production value of over $3.11 billion and produces a tower crane every 18 minutes.

Toyoda Gosei established a new plant in Monterrey, Mexico, and began production of airbag bags in March 2021. The plant increases annual bag production capacity by about 8 million units.

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative is constructing the 640MW Lowman Energy Center, a gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Washington County, Alabama, to replace a retired coal plant. Construction started in June 2020 and is expected to be completed by June 2023.

AquiGen Real Estate Solutions delivered an 80,000 sq ft factory at Futura Park, Ipswich for Hubbard Products, a commercial refrigeration firm part of the Daikin Group. The factory was completed on March 26, 2021, and Hubbard will move in soon after. Hubbard employs 170 staff with plans to expand workforce by nearly 50% over four years.

Plastipak will build a food-grade recycled PET recycling facility at its Toledo, Spain site, producing 20,000 tons of rPET pellets per year. The project will create about 14 jobs and is scheduled to start production in summer 2022.

Finnish glazing company Lúmon laid the first stone of its new €30 million factory in Antequera, Spain, expected to start production in August 2022, manufacturing around 5,000 sheets of glass per week and employing about 300 people.

DG Innovations opened a new manufacturing facility in Rock Valley, Iowa, consolidating its previous sites in Minnesota and tripling production capacity for its FeelsWarm and TurboFlex heater lines.

Ural Civil Aviation Factory signed an agreement to build a plant in the Ulyanovsk SEZ to produce aircraft components from polymer composite materials, with investments over 700 million rubles and up to 400 jobs. First serial product expected by April 2022.

Ourgin announced a plan to invest about RMB 510 million in a two-piece can production project in Zaozhuang, Shandong, built in two phases. Phase one is expected to produce 800 million cans a year, and phase two adds another 800 million.

Plastipak plans a new recycling facility at its Toledo site in Spain to convert PET flake into food-grade recycled PET pellets, producing 20,000 tonnes per year from summer 2022 and creating about 14 jobs.

Hexcel Corporation will build a flagship Center of Excellence for Research & Technology in Utah, adding up to 150 new high-paying jobs in the next 12 years. The announcement was made on May 13, 2021.

The Zhongsha New Material Park project in Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone, a 260,000 tons/year polycarbonate plant with a total investment of about 10.7 billion yuan, is expected to start trial production in June 2021. The project is a joint venture between Sinopec Group and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation.

Vostok-Agro opened a factory in Chita, Russia, to produce Kodar front-end loaders, with an annual capacity of about 50 units, serving mining and construction enterprises.

Chongqing Shunbo Aluminum Co. plans to build a 5.6 billion yuan ($868 million) production base in Bowang district, Maanshan, Anhui province, with annual output of 400,000 tonnes of green aluminium, 300,000 tonnes of slab, and 200,000 tonnes of other products.

DMG Mori announced it will invest about 6 billion yen to build a new factory near Shanghai, China, to produce 5-axis machining centers. The plant will have an annual capacity of 1,000 units and is scheduled to start operations in 2023.

China Metallurgical Group (CMG) will construct a 5.0 million mt cold rolled coil (CRC) production project for Tangshan Donggang Metal Sheet Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Luan county, Tangshan, Hebei Province, China. The project includes two CRC plants, each with 2.5 million mt annual capacity.

PMS Alüminyum has started excavation for a new €50 million aluminum extrusion plant in Bursa Teknoloji Organize Sanayi Bölgesi (TEKNOSAB), Karacabey, Bursa, Turkey. The first phase of 42,000 sqm enclosed area is planned to be operational by December 2021, with an initial 4,000-ton press.

Bos Concrete is building a new $1 million concrete plant at 2877 Sodus Parkway in Sodus, Michigan, with a groundbreaking on May 13, 2021. The plant will produce 200 yards of concrete per hour and create 12 jobs, with operations expected to begin in July 2021.

Royal Containers is moving its western facility from London to a larger footprint at 400 South Edgeware Road in St. Thomas, Ontario, to address growth and increase capacity.

Dompel, a group from Caxias do Sul, is building Pump América, a plant in Linhares, Espírito Santo, to make pump and trigger plastic valves. Initial investment is R$8 million, rising to R$16 million, with about 100 jobs and production expected from August 2021.

Shinmeiwa (Chongqing) Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. will build a new factory in Chongqing, China, to produce integrated wastewater treatment equipment and high-efficiency bio-membrane fillers. The project has a total investment of CNY 5 million (approx. USD 770,000) and is expected to be completed by 2022.

Changchun NOK-Freudenberg Oil Seal Co., Ltd. kicked off construction of a new seal factory in Changchun International Automobile City with an investment of RMB 520 million. The factory will produce 200 million auto seals per year and is expected to be completed and put into use in April 2022.

Matalco Inc. is investing $53.5 million to build a new remelt facility in Franklin, Kentucky, that will produce 270 million lbs of aluminum alloy billet and slab per year. The company ordered furnaces from Gillespie & Powers Inc. for the site.

Flex-N-Gate Group constructed a new 494,000 sq ft advanced manufacturing facility in Detroit, Michigan, with a total project cost of $235 million. The plant will supply components to Ford Motor Company and create up to 800 FTE jobs.

AIS Water broke ground on a new $7.5 million anode production facility in Tingalpa, Queensland, Australia. The facility is expected to be operational by late 2021 and will create 55 full-time jobs.

EagleBurgmann do Brasil, a Freudenberg Group subsidiary, is moving its headquarters and plant from Campinas to a new factory in Valinhos, São Paulo, with about R$20 million of investment. Completion is expected in November 2021.