Sandhar will invest EUR 25 million to build an automotive components factory in Prejmer Industrial Park, Brasov County, Romania. The 7,000 sqm facility will produce aluminum parts for the automotive industry, with construction targeted by end of 2021 and production starting in 2022.

The Harbin wind turbine equipment manufacturing base project in Pingfang District, Harbin, China, has started construction. The project, built by Zhejiang Windey and Concord New Energy Group, involves a fixed asset investment of over 3.5 billion yuan and will produce wind turbines of 5 MW and above.

Nucor Tubular Products plans to build a $164 million tube mill in Gallatin County, Kentucky, creating 72 full-time jobs. The 396,000-square-foot facility will produce 250,000 tons of steel tubing annually for construction, infrastructure and renewable energy industries.

Innovation Foods is building a $45 million, 71,000 sq ft facility in Millville, New Jersey, to produce aseptic and ESL oat beverages for Oatly, with opening projected for mid-2022. The facility will create 40 new jobs.

Munters Group AB will invest $36 million in a 365,000 sq ft facility at Botetourt Center at Greenfield, Virginia, to replace its Buena Vista plant. The company plans to retain its approximately 200 workers.

E.ON has brought into operation a 3 MW trigeneration plant that supplies electricity, heat and cooling to Amcor Flexibles' Lugo di Vicenza packaging plant. The plant is expected to avoid over 3,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.

C.R.I. Pumps inaugurated a second uPVC and CPVC pipe plant at Hosur, Tamil Nadu, to serve southern and eastern India. Together with the Gandhinagar plant, capacity is set to reach 40,000 metric tonnes per year.

Skory New Material Technology (Shandong) Co. started construction of a 175,000-ton polyurethane new materials project in Tancheng, Shandong, with total investment of CNY 1 billion. The project includes multiple production lines for polyols, foams, coatings, adhesives, and elastomers.

Panattoni is developing a production and warehouse plant of 31,000 sqm for Reynaers Aluminium in Urzut, near Warsaw, Poland. The facility will include 2,500 sqm of office space and allow for up to 30% more employment.

Shanghai STEP Electric Corporation has opened a robotic super-demonstration factory in Jiading, Shanghai, capable of producing 10,000 six-axis industrial robots and 500 flexible robotic workstations per year.

FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants Inc. will construct a new production plant for pigment dispersions for water-based pigment inkjet inks in New Castle, Delaware, with an investment of approximately $19 million. Construction starts April 2021, completion by 2022.

Valmet Automotive is building its third battery factory in Kirchardt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, for pre-series production of complete battery systems for electric vehicles. The plant will create 160 jobs, with pre-series production starting in the first half of 2022.

Toyobo Co., Ltd. will build a new development and manufacturing base for high-performance polypropylene nonwoven fabrics at its Iwakuni plant in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Construction is scheduled to start in April 2021, with production beginning in July 2022. The investment is approximately 1.6 billion yen, with an annual capacity of 1,200 tons.

Chengdu Aileida Aviation Manufacturing Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for its 'Aviation Parts Smart Manufacturing and System Integration Center' on March 20, 2021. The company plans to invest 1 billion yuan in the project to enhance aviation parts manufacturing and assembly capabilities.

Edwards will invest in a new building in Haverhill, Massachusetts, expected to be completed in Q2 2022, to host an innovation and solutions center for its cryogenic pump and chiller product company, relocating functions from Chelmsford.

The Whalen Company announced the completion of a new 50,000 sq. ft. Cold Point manufacturing facility in Rome, New York. The facility adds 33,000 square feet and two additional lines compared to the previous facility.

MicroPort Medical (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new R&D building at its Jiaxing campus. The building will cover 245,000 square meters and support up to 5,000 employees.

Continental is preparing to open a new plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, to produce components for North America. The plant will employ about 1,000 people.

Legrand is completing construction of a new electrical equipment plant in the Zavolzhye industrial park in Ulyanovsk, Russia, with an investment of 1.5 billion rubles, to employ over 500 people and start operations in September 2021.

Italian Eldor Group will build a new 25,000 sqm open-area, 9,000 sqm closed-area facility in Ege Free Zone, Izmir, for electric vehicle systems, with an investment of 810 million Turkish lira. The plant will create 700 jobs and produce DC-DC converters, battery chargers, energy management modules, and HV starter motors.

Mingyang Smart Energy plans to invest 250,000万元 (approx. $38.5M) in a large offshore wind equipment R&D and production base in Lufeng, Guangdong, producing 300 sets of large offshore wind turbines annually. The project has a 12-month construction period.

The Palestinian Investment Fund, through Sanad Industrial and Jericho Cement Company, plans to build an $85 million cement plant with annual capacity of 1.1 million tons, expected to be completed by 2022.

Alpha Solway has secured £4.8 million funding from South of Scotland Enterprise to build a new state-of-the-art factory in Heathhall, Dumfries, and expand its current facility in Annan. The new factory will create around 300 sustainable new jobs and is expected to be operational in summer 2021.

Cereal Ingredients Inc. (CII) announced it will build a new 80,000 square foot facility in St. Joseph, Missouri, representing an investment of $24 million and creating more than 60 new jobs. The facility is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2022.

Sinocompound Catalysts Co., Ltd. has begun construction on a new production plant in Tongling, Anhui Province, China. The $27 million facility will have an annual capacity of 50 tons of catalysts and ligands, two tons of high-purity chemicals, and precious metal recycling, and is due to open in January 2022.

Faurecia announced the construction of a new industry 4.0 platform in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France for €165 million. The site will produce seats, emission-reduction solutions, and hydrogen storage systems, creating 300 new jobs.

Ahlstrom cut the ribbon on a new $68 million facility in Madisonville, Kentucky, housing a glass fiber tissue production line. The facility, announced in May 2021, will create over 50 new full-time jobs.

CANPACK is building its first US manufacturing plant, a 1.2-million square foot aluminum can facility on a former brownfield site in Olyphant, Pennsylvania, reaching its topping-out stage with over 400 jobs expected within two years.

Haitian Group held the groundbreaking ceremony for a Smart Factory in Shunde County, near Foshan City, Guangdong Province. The total investment is nearly RMB 10 billion, and the facility will focus on advanced component and machinery manufacturing.

Guangdong Homa Refrigerator Co., Ltd. broke ground on a smart manufacturing base for high-end frost-free refrigerators in Nantou Town, Zhongshan, China. The facility will add 3 million units of annual capacity with an investment of CNY 1.2 billion, creating 2,500 jobs.

Knights Brown has been appointed design & build contractor for a £23 million plasterboard factory in Newport, UK, being set up by Associated British Ports. Construction is planned to start in April 2021, creating around 60 jobs.

Matalco Kentucky LLC will invest $53.5 million to establish a brownfield remelt rolling ingot facility in Franklin, Kentucky, creating 60 jobs. The facility will produce alloyed ingots from recycled aluminum and is expected to be operational by mid-2022 with annual capacity of 270 million pounds.

SMIC has agreed with the Shenzhen government to build a new wafer fabrication plant in Shenzhen, China, focusing on 28nm and above technologies, with a capacity of 40,000 12-inch wafers per month. Production is expected to begin in 2022.

Masterplast is building a new EUR 25.56 million spunbond plant at its headquarters in Sárszentmihály, Hungary, to produce raw materials for healthcare protective equipment. The 7,700 sqm facility is expected to be completed by end of May 2021, with production starting in Q3 2021, creating 50 jobs.

Huvis Indorama Advanced Materials (HIAM), a 50:50 joint venture between Huvis and Indorama Ventures, began full-scale commercial production of low melting fiber (LMF) in South Carolina, USA, in March 2021. The facility has an annual capacity of 60,000 tons.

Blue Star will invest ₹250 crore in a new manufacturing plant in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, with an initial production capacity of 500,000 room air-conditioning units per annum. Construction will begin in FY22.

Egyptian sanitary ware and plumbing maker Valio (Faliou) has leased a new 1,200 sq m factory in Tenth of Ramadan City, to start operating in July 2021, adding capacity and a new component line to cut imports.

Cuu Long Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company broke ground on the Benovas Medical Supplies Manufacturing Plant in Vinh Long Province, Vietnam, with a total investment of about $15 million. Phase 1 capacity is 35 million products per month, with operations expected in Q1 2022.

Sona Comstar inaugurated a new differential assembly manufacturing plant in Manesar, Haryana, India. The facility spans 5 acres, will create 720 jobs, and involves an investment of over INR 370 crore.

Pharmaceutical packaging firm Origin has opened a new warehouse in Scunthorpe, about three times the size of its previous 25,000 sq ft site in Melton. The facility has capacity for 4,900 pallet spaces and is currently rented.

Lion Electric announced the construction of a battery manufacturing plant and innovation center in Quebec. The $185 million CAD facility will produce battery packs and modules, with operations planned to begin in early 2023.

Elcogen signed an agreement to develop a 50 MW solid oxide fuel cell and stack production facility at Ülemiste City in Tallinn, Estonia, with construction starting in summer 2021 and costing €6.3 million for the building and €20 million for equipment.

AstenJohnson, a global textile manufacturer, announced it will invest over the next two years to build a 220,000-square-foot nonwovens manufacturing facility in Waco, Texas, its eighth North American location.

Komatsu completed construction of a new Reman (remanufacturing) plant on the head office campus of Komatsu Africa Holdings in Johannesburg, South Africa. The plant remanufactures key components for customers in Southern Africa.

Egypt's General Authority for Roads, Bridges and Land Transport (GARBLT) and Russia's Armastek have formed a joint venture to build Egypt's first Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) factory in Badr City, East Cairo, with an investment of 300 million Egyptian pounds ($19 million). Production is expected to start in Q3 2021.

SK global chemical will form a joint venture with Satellite Petrochemical to build a 40,000-ton-per-year ethylene acrylic acid plant in Lianyungang, China, with a total investment of 200 billion won ($175 million).

Oman Cement Company has received commercial bids from EPC contractors for a new integrated cement plant in Duqm, with a capacity of 5,000 tonnes per day of clinker and an estimated investment of US$250 million.

BT Krans, a resident of the Chulkovo industrial park, will build a production and warehouse complex for lifting equipment in Moscow Oblast with an investment of 400 million rubles, creating 30 jobs.

WearOptimo, in partnership with the Queensland Government, ANU, and ANFF, will invest $30 million to build an advanced technology facility in Brisbane, Australia, for mass production of Microwearable sensor health technology. The announcement was made on March 12, 2021.

Hoshion Industrial Aluminium plans to invest CNY 1 billion (USD 154.1 million) to build a plant in Anhui province, China, through its unit Hoshion New Energy Auto Parts, to produce battery cases and aluminum cases for new energy vehicles. Phase 1 production lines will be ready in March 2021, and the full plant is expected to start production in 2023.