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.

UACJ Automotive Whitehall Industries will take over a former Walgreen's distribution center in Flagstaff, Arizona, for a new plant manufacturing parts for electric vehicles. The company plans to invest up to $60 million and create 120 jobs in the first year, with 350 jobs within five years.

Grodno Glassworks JSC started construction of a new glass production facility in Auls, Belarus, with a planned launch in October 2022. The plant will cost around $55 million and have a furnace capacity of up to 220 tons of glass per day.

GE Renewable Energy announced plans to open a new blade manufacturing facility in Teesside, UK, operated by LM Wind Power, to produce 107-meter offshore wind turbine blades for the Haliade-X turbine. The plant is expected to create up to 750 direct and 1,500 indirect jobs, with production starting in 2023.

Cook Medical Group and Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana plan to build a $15 million, 40,000-square-foot medical device manufacturing plant on the northeast side of Indianapolis, creating 100 jobs. Construction is expected to begin in March 2021.

Stellantis has inaugurated a new production unit at its Fiat Automotive Complex in Betim, Brazil, to manufacture the GSE Turbo engine family. The first phase required investments of R$400 million and has an initial capacity of 100,000 engines per year.

Australian Strategic Materials (ASM) signed a memorandum of understanding with Chungcheongbuk-do Provincial Government and Cheongju-si City Government to build its first rare earth processing plant in South Korea. The plant will initially produce high-purity neodymium-iron-boron powder and titanium powder.

Private investors plan to build the Lemi National Cement Industrial Complex in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, including a 10,000tpd cement plant and other factories. The US$2.2bn project is owned by East Africa Holdings with China's West International Holding as a partner; construction is expected to take 5-7 years.

Solvay has started a new Electronic Grade production facility (EG20) for high-purity hydrogen peroxide at its Bernburg site in Germany, serving the semiconductor industry.

KIRCHHOFF Automotive, a German automotive supplier, will invest $15 million to set up a 101,000-square-foot factory in Lawrenceville, Georgia, creating 73 jobs. The facility will assemble metal components for customers like BMW and Mercedes-Benz.

Jiangsu Topband Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Anhui Zhihong Purification Technology Co., Ltd., officially started construction of the 'annual production of 300,000 sets of water treatment equipment and accessories project' in Nantong National High-tech Zone. The first phase investment is CNY 200 million, total investment CNY 500 million. The first phase is expected to be completed and put into operation at the end of August 2021.

Zhejiang Kangnuo Auto Parts Co., Ltd. signed a project agreement with the municipal government on March 8, 2021, to build a facility producing 2.2 million aluminum wheels and 30,000 tons of aluminum sheet annually, with a total investment of 310 million yuan ($47.74 million).

Bosch has completed a successful test run of fully automated silicon wafer production at its new semiconductor plant in Dresden. The company is investing around €1 billion in the facility, which will produce automotive microchips, with official opening planned for June 2021 and series production starting at the end of 2021.

TSMC plans to build six 300mm wafer fabs in Arizona with a total investment of $35 billion, tripling the cost of the previously announced project, with monthly capacity reaching 100,000 wafers.

Continental Automotive Serbia opened a new factory in Novi Sad, Serbia, with an investment of €140 million. The facility will produce instrument panels, displays, and smart control systems for cars, and will employ more than 500 workers.

Jiangsu Kelida Power Equipment Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a production base for 30,000 sets of smart high-voltage switches per year in Danyang High-tech Zone.

Lithuanian HVAC&R manufacturer Refra is expanding with a new 12,000m2 factory in Vievis, which will eventually double production capacity. Production starts at the end of March 2021.

Intel is investing $200 million in a new development campus in the Matam industrial park in Haifa, Israel.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger confirmed that Intel has begun building a new chip plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, with an investment of $10 billion.

Dow plans to build a $250 million specialty chemical plant in Zhanjiang, China, producing polyurethane and alkoxylates with a capacity of about 250,000 metric tons per year.

Pengkai Environmental Equipment Smart Production Base, a 50-mu facility with a total investment of about 500 million yuan, broke ground in Zhaoqing High-tech Zone. It will produce automated energy-saving environmental protection equipment and is expected to achieve an annual output value of 600 million yuan.

Sandvik Group is investing USD 15 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Menghe Town, Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, China. The new factory is expected to be ready for trial production in May 2021 and reach designed capacity in the second half of the year.

Addverb Technologies inaugurated India's largest exclusive robot making factory in Noida, Sector 156, built on 2.5 acres at an estimated cost of Rs 75 crore. The facility manufactures industrial robots for packaging, courier segregation, and hospital applications.

Bethel Automotive Safety Systems (WBTL) is investing $50 million in a new plant in Alianza Industrial Park, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. The first phase will build over 20,000 sqm facility for aluminum casting and machining of chassis components, commissioning in Q3 2022, creating about 550 jobs.

Egypt's Engineering for Electromechanical Works (MRZ) will build a new factory in 6th of October City for manufacturing main distribution boards, with an initial investment of 100 million Egyptian pounds ($6.4 million).

A new plant for electrical equipment will be built in the Almaty industrial zone, Kazakhstan, with first phase opening in May-June 2021. The project costs 187 million tenge and will produce over 600 units of electrical products per year.

Sumitomo Chemical will build a new polypropylene (PP) resin plant in Poland, with an annual capacity of 30,000 tons. The investment is expected to be hundreds of millions of yen, and the plant is planned to be completed and operational in spring 2022.

Honeywell is building a 27,000 sq.m. factory in Chorzów, Poland, to produce automated logistics equipment such as conveyors, sortation systems, and palletizers. The opening is planned for April 2021, creating 100 jobs.

Chemence announced the opening of the Chemence Center of Excellence, a 30,000 sq.ft. research and development facility in Alpharetta, Georgia, focused on adhesive technology innovation for medical, electronics, and OEM industries.

Guangdong Hande Precision Machinery began construction on its Section 2 compressor industry park in Yuanzhou town, Boluo County, Huizhou, as part of a batch of 17 industrial projects. The reported investment for the project is about 1.2 billion RMB, and the event took place on 3 March 2021.

Hisense announced a $260 million investment to build a home appliance industrial park in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. The park will cover 252,600 square meters, produce refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, and kitchen appliances, and create over 7,000 jobs in five years.

Gree Intelligent Equipment (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. plans to build a new HVAC plant in Caidian Economic Development Zone, Wuhan, with 6 production lines and annual capacity of 3.66 million air conditioners. Total investment is 1.9 billion yuan.

Colquímica Adhesives opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Charlotte, North Carolina. The $12 million plant will produce hot melt adhesives for personal hygiene, packaging, and product assembly industries, creating about 30 jobs.

Chaney Enterprises announced the opening of its Amelia Concrete Plant in Virginia, located at 23002 Old River Drive. The plant will create about a dozen new jobs and is the company's fifth concrete plant in the Richmond-Hampton Roads market.

Sany Heavy Industry is building a smart manufacturing project in Chongqing's Liangjiang New Area with a total investment of 5 billion yuan. The first phase is expected to start production on July 1, 2021, producing intelligent excavators and other construction machinery with an annual capacity of about 40,000 units.

Spinnova and Suzano will invest an estimated €50 million to build the first commercial-scale Spinnova production facility in Jyväskylä, Finland. The joint venture will produce sustainable fibre from wood and waste, with production expected to start in 2022.

Russian company Morton signed a cooperation agreement with German Bilfinger Water Technologies to build a water treatment equipment plant in the Moscow region. Morton will invest about EUR 50 million, with the site to be selected by end of March 2021.

Volvo Construction Equipment is building a 66,000m2 test and demonstration area for electric autonomous transport solutions at its Customer Center in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The facility includes a secure track with charging infrastructure and 5G connectivity, and is expected to open by autumn 2021.

Enkor, a resident of the Dubna Special Economic Zone, is building a plant for electrical equipment for the Moscow metro. The investment is approximately 975 million rubles, and completion is planned for Q4 2021. The facility will create 220 jobs and produce switchgear for traction substations.