Pregis has opened a 128,000 sq ft facility in Garland, Texas, producing protective packaging materials and hosting a customer demo center. The site already employs 44 people, with 40 more to be added later in the year.

Tongyeong Eco Power Corporation, a subsidiary of Hyundai Development Company, is building a 1,012MW gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Tongyeong, South Korea, with an estimated investment of $1.21 billion. Construction is expected to start in 2021 and completion in the first half of 2024.

USG Corporation announced a new 90,000-square foot plant in Denver, Colorado, to manufacture joint compounds and interior finishing products. The facility will employ approximately 25 people and is expected to begin operations in Q3 2021.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. established a new parts remanufacturing plant for medium to large-sized hydraulic excavators on the premises of P.T. Hitachi Construction Machinery Indonesia's Cibitung 1 Factory in West Java, Indonesia. The plant will start operation in June 2021.

Siegwerk inaugurated a new blending center in the Dhaka region of Bangladesh to supply toluene-free inks. The facility has an annual capacity of 3,600 metric tons and employs about 50 people.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids began plans for Phase I of a global transformer design and manufacturing centre in Chongqing, China, with an initial investment of around $230 million.

Advanced Petrochemical signed EPC contracts with Tecnimont to build two polypropylene plants in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, with a combined capacity of over 800,000 tons and a total cost of $485 million.

Polykemi Inc., part of the Polykemi Group, will purchase the Maistro Speculative Building in Gastonia Technology Park and invest $11.8 million to operate a plastics compounds production facility. The plant will create 22 new jobs and is the company's first North American operation.

Carter Wind Turbines, a subsidiary of Carter Wind Energy, will invest $10 million to establish a new wind energy company in Lawton, Oklahoma, creating 300 jobs over five years.

Pilgrim's Pride plans to spend $70 million to build a pet food ingredient processing facility.

Royal Canin plans to invest $390 million to build a pet food processing facility in Lewisburg, Ohio. Completion is expected in fall 2023.

Puritan Medical Products will invest $220 million to build a new manufacturing and distribution operation in Orlinda, Tennessee, creating 625 jobs. The facility will produce swabs for Covid-19 tests.

Moog Controls has begun construction on a £40 million manufacturing and design facility in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. The carbon-neutral facility is scheduled for completion in April 2022 and operational in 2023.

Nikkiso Cryo Inc. has opened a new 15,000 square foot office facility adjacent to its primary production test site in Las Vegas, Nevada, to increase cryogenic pump production efficiency and capability for the global LNG market.

Corobrik's new R800-million brick-manufacturing facility in Driefontein, the Kwastina factory, delivered its first products in April 2021. Both kilns will be in full production by November 2021, with an official launch expected by year-end. The plant can produce 100 million bricks per year.

TE Connectivity inaugurated a new electroplating plant at its Dinkelsbühl, Germany facility, investing EUR 35 million. The plant surface-treats contact elements for automotive electronics, increasing capacity by 50% and creating about 80 jobs.

DMG Mori plans to build a 35,000 sqm highly automated plant for 5-axis milling machines in Pinghu, China, with an investment of EUR 75 million. Annual capacity is over 2,200 machines; grand opening is scheduled for end of 2022.

Titan-Polymer (part of GC TITAN) is building a plant for biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) films in the Mogilino special economic zone, Pskov Oblast. Infrastructure construction for the first phase is completed; over RUB 6 billion has been invested and about 100 of 500 planned jobs created.

Cretex Cos. broke ground on April 9, 2021, for a new 245,000-square-foot medical device contract manufacturing plant in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Construction is expected to be completed by end of 2021, with full operations by end of 2022, potentially housing 350-400 employees within five years.

Schnitzer Steel Industries commissioned a new Advanced Aluminum Separation System in Macon, Georgia, with a total investment of $11 million. The 32,000 sq ft facility will process millions of pounds of recycled aluminum per month.

Gusmer Enterprises, Inc. will invest $38.2 million to construct a 135,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Trivium Corporate Center, Hickory, North Carolina, creating 73 jobs. The plant will produce liquid filtration media and devices for food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.

Crown Embalagens Metalicas da Amazonia signed a letter of intent with the city of Uberaba, Brazil, for a new beverage can factory with about R$500 million investment. Earthworks have begun on a 360,000 square metre site, with 800 construction jobs and 140 operating jobs expected.

Ambuja Cement will complete its integrated greenfield cement plant at Mundwa, Rajasthan, with an investment of ₹2,350 crore. The plant will add 3 mtpa clinker capacity and enable 5 mtpa cement sales.

Vertiv announced a major new facility in Monterrey, Mexico, including a manufacturing plant, test lab, and global business services office. Production is expected to begin in Q1 2022, adding over 430,000 square feet and more than 1,500 jobs.

Olenergies, a French battery manufacturer, will build a positive energy 4.0 factory in the Paris region to produce lithium batteries, with a production capacity of 100 kWh/day in 2021 and 1 MWh/day thereafter.

APEL Extrusions is expanding to Phoenix, Arizona, with a new 323,782 sq ft manufacturing facility and headquarters, featuring modern extrusion and finishing equipment.

Bjelin d.o.o. has begun construction of the world's largest wood flooring factory in Ogulin, Croatia, with an estimated CapEx of €200 million, to produce flooring using Välinge's Woodura technology.

Dawn Equipment, a manufacturer of conservation tillage attachments, has begun moving into a new 75,000-square-foot factory in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a former Caterpillar plant. The company plans to have 25 employees at the site by 2022.

Sacko Holding SA has finalized funding for a $300 million cement plant in Bema, Mali. Construction is scheduled to commence before the end of 2021, and the plant is expected to create 250-300 direct jobs initially.

Wingtech Technology will invest 12 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) to build a factory in Shanghai that makes semiconductors for electric vehicles.

Transasia Bio-Medicals opened a 35,000 sq ft medical devices manufacturing facility at AMTZ in Visakhapatnam, India, with an investment of Rs 30 crore. The facility has an annual capacity of 2 million test kits and will hire 500 employees.

AmSty and Agilyx announced an agreement to develop a jointly owned advanced recycling facility at AmSty's St. James, Louisiana site. The facility will have a capacity of 50-100 tons per day to recycle polystyrene into styrene monomer.

Nidec plans to build a factory in Novi Sad, Serbia, for the automobile industry, covering 26,000 square meters and employing about 300 people. Production is expected to start by the end of 2022. The investment is worth around $2 billion.

STS Group AG, a German supplier of interior and exterior parts for commercial vehicles, will invest $39 million to establish its first U.S. manufacturing operation in Wythe County, Virginia. The facility will create 120 new jobs and supply Volvo Trucks and other automotive customers.

The first Mitsubishi Power M701JAC gas turbine in Southeast Asia began commercial operation at a GTCC power plant in Thailand, part of a 5300 MW project with seven more units under construction.

Taiwan Cement Corp. board approved an investment of up to NT$10 billion (~US$350 million) to build a super battery factory in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Zekelman Industries completed exterior work on a new $150 million, 515,000-square-foot mill in Blytheville, Arkansas for its Atlas Tube division. The mill is scheduled to begin operating in September 2021 and will create about 75 jobs.

Bosch plans to open a new semiconductor factory in Dresden, Germany, in June 2021, with an investment of around 1 billion euros, its largest single investment in its history.

Premier Packaging Corporation will move into a newly built 105,000 square-foot facility in Wiregrass Business Park, Town of Henrietta, Monroe County, New York, and buy new machinery, creating up to 37 jobs.

Sherbourne Recycling Ltd. will construct a new material recovery facility (MRF) on the outskirts of Coventry, England, with a capacity of 175,000 metric tons per year. Machinex will supply the processing equipment, and Clegg Group will build the facility.

Horoyong held a groundbreaking ceremony for South Korea's first mass-production electric excavator plant in Gimje's Jipyungseon Industrial Complex. The company will invest about 25 billion won to build a line with annual capacity of over 3,000 units.

Leuze is constructing a new plant in Malacca, Malaysia, scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2022.

Carlisle Construction Materials is investing $62 million and creating 100 new jobs at a new 455,000 sq ft polyiso manufacturing facility in Sikeston, Missouri.

SMP Automotive Systems Alabama, a Mercedes-Benz supplier, plans a $4.195 million third facility in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, using about 112 employees from Plant 1 and at least four new hires.

Shindengen Kogyo opened a new office in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, consolidating R&D and business operations from its Hanno plant and Otemachi headquarters. The facility is ZEB Ready certified and aims to improve productivity.

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) will invest $65 million to construct a 120,000 square-foot facility in Tucson, Arizona, serving as a final-stage manufacturing and sterilization center. The facility is planned to be operational in mid-2022 and will create approximately 40 new jobs.

Amber Beverage Group signed an agreement with Jungheinrich to purchase EUR15.5 million worth of equipment for a new automated high-bay warehouse in Riga, Latvia, with a capacity of 35,000 pallets.

SIG will build a new carton packaging production plant in Queretaro, Mexico, investing around 40 million euros over 2021-2023 to serve North American markets. The plant is expected to open in Q1 2023 and create about 200 jobs.

Interlink Group AD has started construction of a BGN 39.7 million aluminum profiles plant in Maritsa Industrial Zone near Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The 22,500 sq m first phase will have an annual capacity of 10,000 tons and create 150 jobs, with completion expected by summer 2022.

Hatzopoulos S.A. is constructing a new warehouse at its Stadiou plant, progressing in 2021, to improve warehouse operations and efficiency.