Soudal held the 'first column placement' ceremony for Plant 5, a new 20,000 m² production facility in Turnhout, Belgium. The plant will produce adhesives and mastics, with a €40 million investment, and is expected to start operations in 2023.

SK E&C and Bloom Energy began trial production of solid oxide fuel cells at the Bloom SK Fuel Cell Plant in South Korea. The joint venture, established in January 2020, plans to expand capacity from 50 MW in 2021 to 400 MW in 2027.

OKI will build a new factory in Honjo, Saitama, Japan, with an investment of about ¥6 billion. The factory aims to be Japan's first net-zero energy building (ZEB) for a production facility, with seismic isolation and CLT wood construction. Operations are scheduled to start in April 2022.

Horton Inc. opened a new 112,000-square-foot facility in Oconee County, South Carolina for production of engine cooling systems. The plant will add up to 125 jobs.

SK Innovation will build a new electric battery manufacturing facility in Iváncsa, Hungary, with an investment of approximately $2.3 billion. The plant will create 2,500 jobs and have an annual output of 30 GWh.

Ayante Advanced Materials will invest 120 billion won to build a factory and R&D center on a 77,187 m² site in Gimcheon General Industrial Complex, producing nonwoven fabric and medical protective suits by 2023.

Ball Corporation announced a new aluminium can factory in Frutal, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with an investment of R$500 million and about 100 direct jobs. Production is expected to start in Q4 2021 with capacity of 1.5 billion cans per year.

KB Autosys will invest $38 million to open a 108,000 square-foot factory in Hogansville, Georgia, hiring 180 people. The plant will supply brake pads to Kia, Hyundai, and General Motors. Construction began in January 2021, with production expected to start early 2022.

Quidel Corporation opened a new 128,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Carlsbad, California, dedicated to producing QuickVue rapid antigen tests for COVID-19. The plant will begin operations in the second half of 2021, aiming to produce 600 million tests per year and hire approximately 400 employees.

Draeger Safety UK Ltd, part of The Dräger Group, has officially opened a new production facility at Follingsby Park, Gateshead, to produce FFP3 face masks under a government contract. The multi-million pound site is Dräger's second in the North East.

Kerala Electrical & Allied Engineering Co Ltd (KEL) will inaugurate a new power transformer manufacturing plant at Mamala, Ernakulam, on February 9, 2021, built with Rs 12.5 crore investment, producing transformers up to 25 MVA, 132kV class with annual capacity of 1,500 MVA.

Grodno Glass Plant has started construction of a new plant in the Grodnoinvest Free Economic Zone with an investment of $55 million. The plant will feature a furnace with capacity of up to 220 tonnes of glass per day, designed by Germany's Horn, and is planned to be commissioned in October 2022.

Jiangxi Sitong Heavy Industry Machinery Co., Ltd. plans to invest 120 million yuan to build a new facility in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, with 12,000 m² of production space, to produce 100 intelligent articulated tunneling robots per year.

Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery's subsidiary ASIMCO International Casting (Shanxi) will invest 3 billion yuan to set up a subsidiary and build the ASIMCO Industrial Technology (Yuncheng) Automotive Parts Manufacturing Park. Phase I total investment is about 699.05 million yuan for 10-15L heavy-duty engine cylinder blocks and heads, with annual capacity of 60,000 tonnes.

Electronmash opened a new production complex in St. Petersburg, Russia, for manufacturing digital integrated transformer substations with capacity up to 200 units per year. The company also plans to produce block-modular inverter devices for solar and wind power plants.

Endurance Technologies commenced commercial production at its new plant in SIPCOT Industrial Park, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. The plant will manufacture aluminium die-castings and integrate disc brake components, with an annual capacity of 9,000 metric tonnes of aluminium die-castings and 720,000 sets of disc brake components.

JK Cement Ltd, through its subsidiary JK Cement Works (Fujairah) FZC, set up a greenfield white cement manufacturing plant in Fujairah, UAE. The plant has a capacity of 0.6 MnTPA of white cement or 1.0 MnTPA of grey cement and started commercial production in September 2014.

Zhongxiang City government and Wuhan Shengyu Drainage System Co., Ltd. signed an agreement for a water environment treatment equipment production project with a total investment of 300 million yuan. The plant will produce 1,000 sets of water treatment equipment annually and create 300 jobs.

Société Ciment Côte d’Ivoire (SCCI) inaugurated a new 1.5Mta cement plant in the PK24 Industrial zone of Akoupé-Zeudji, Côte d’Ivoire, representing an investment of XOF60bn (US$110.55m) and expected to create 300 direct jobs and 1069 indirect jobs.

Ellume will establish its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Valencia, California, funded by the $231.8 million government agreement, to increase global production capacity by over 500,000 tests per day.

Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor Co., Ltd. announced on February 1, 2021, plans to invest CNY 12 billion to construct a 50GW (G12) solar-grade monocrystalline silicon material intelligent factory project.

SPINNER Machine Tools began production at a new facility in Bulgaria in September 2020, assembling up to 400 machines per year for Eastern European markets.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will inaugurate a dedicated second LCA plant in Doddanekundi, Bengaluru, on 2 February 2021, with a capacity to produce 16 Tejas aircraft per year, following a CCS approval for 83 Tejas Mark-1A aircraft worth Rs 47,000 crore.

Pekabex has opened a new highly automated precast concrete plant near Gdansk, Poland, expanding its product portfolio to include double walls with and without insulation.

PG Electroplast began commercial production at a new unit in Supa MIDC, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, on 28 January 2021, manufacturing Room Air Conditioner Outdoor Units with an initial capacity of 50,000 units per month (0.6 million per year).

MHS Holdings plans to open a new 181,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to build steel structures for conveyor and sortation systems. The company will invest $7.6 million and create 200 new jobs.

Haier Tech Romania is building its first European refrigeration production facility in Aricestii Rahtivani, near Ploiesti, Romania. The investment exceeds €70 million, and production is expected to start in late spring 2021.

Toyoda Gosei East Japan is establishing a new plant in Ohira, Miyagi to produce radiator grilles and other large painted plastic parts. Construction will begin in April 2021, with production starting around summer 2022.

Lennox officially announced the opening of its third plant in Coahuila, Mexico, with an investment of $180 million. The facility will create 1,600 jobs and has a surface area of 325,000 square feet.

Eastman will invest approximately $250 million to build one of the world's largest methanolysis facilities at its site in Kingsport, Tennessee. The facility will convert polyester waste into specialty plastics and is expected to be mechanically complete by year-end 2022.

Coahuila Governor Miguel Riquelme announced Lennox's third plant in the region, a 375,000 sq ft building with corporate offices being built by Amistad Construction at Amistad Airport Industrial Park.

Oerlikon Barmag Huitong Engineering commissioned a polybutylene succinate (PBS) polycondensation system at Yingkou Kanghui Petrochemical Co. Ltd. in Dalian, China. The system has a daily production capacity of 100 tons and was production-ready within 14 months of contract signing.

Papalotes Steel will begin operations in Colón, Querétaro in November 2021 with an investment of 120 million pesos. The plant will produce 7,000 metric tons of steel per month and create 100 direct jobs.

BOS Innovations has purchased land in London, Ontario to build a new 5,575-square-metre plant, relocating from Dorchester. Construction is planned to start in spring 2021, with production beginning about a year later.

Hainan Huasheng set up a large polycarbonate production facility in Dongfang's industrial zone on Hainan Island, with initial investments exceeding 3.11 billion yuan ($479.6 million). The plant will start mass production in test mode in the coming months, with first-stage annual capacity of up to 520,000 tons of polycarbonate and 448,000 tons of diphenyl carbonate.

KAP Surface Technologies, through its subsidiary Heiche US, is investing a two-digit million amount into a new mega-coating-line in Jasper, Alabama, USA. The plant will have 10,000 m2 of production space and is expected to start pre-series production in Q3 2021, with full ramp-up by 2022 and up to 100 employees by 2023.

ITM Power has moved into its new 1GW electrolyser factory in Sheffield, UK, giving the hydrogen energy solutions manufacturer a powerful cost reduction trajectory.

Material Handling Systems Inc. plans to create 200 full-time jobs with a $7.6 million investment in a new 181,000-square-foot facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The facility will provide steel structures for conveyor and sortation systems.

Rondo Ganahl, a corrugated board and packaging manufacturer, plans to open a new dedicated digital production plant at its site in St. Ruprecht an der Raab, Austria, in autumn 2021, driven by 30% annual digital sales growth from its Koenig & Bauer Durst Delta SPC 130 press.

LyondellBasell and Sinopec formed a joint venture to build a styrene monomer and propylene oxide plant at Zhenhai in Ningbo, China. The plant will have a capacity of 275,000 t/y of PO and 600,000 t/y of SM, targeted for startup at the end of 2021.

Friendship Containers has launched a new production plant on a five-acre plot in the Tatu City Special Economic Zone near Nairobi, making metal cans, closures, injection-molded containers and caps.

Crown Holdings will invest $145 million to build a 355,000-square-foot aluminum beverage can plant in the Commonwealth Crossing Business Centre in Henry County, Virginia, creating 126 new jobs. Virginia state grants of $4 million support the project.

Fintec Glove appointed Pasukhas to construct a RM60 million (€12.3 million) nitrile medical glove plant in Ipon, Perak, Malaysia, with 14 dipping lines and capacity of 3 billion pieces per year. Construction started 1 Feb 2021, production scheduled for six months later.

Spectra Metal Sales, a manufacturer of gutters and metal exterior products, is investing $25 million to build a 150,000-square-foot facility in Temple, Georgia, creating about 200 jobs. The plant is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Shenandoah Valley Organic will establish a second 75,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The new facility will increase production capacity and retail packaging, and create 110 new jobs.

Pretzels Inc. plans a significant investment in the construction of a state-of-the-art production facility inside VenturePark in Lawrence, Kansas. The new 150,000-sq.-ft. facility is expected to be operational in late 2021.

The 840MW Maysān gas-fired combined-cycle power plant is under construction in Maysān Governate, Iraq, developed by Maisan Power Company and CITIC Construction with an investment of £1.6bn ($2bn). Expected to start operations by March 2021 and reach full capacity by early 2022.

Daifuku plans to build a new factory in China to meet soaring demand for automation equipment.

Shin-Etsu Chemical will invest about 130 billion JPY to build a new polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin plant in Louisiana, USA, through its subsidiary Shintech. The plant will have an annual capacity of 380,000 tonnes and is planned to be completed in 2023.

Branofilter GmbH, together with Russian and European partners, plans to build a nonwoven materials production facility in the Special Economic Zone in Kaliningrad, Russia. The investment is over EUR 5.6 million, with planned capacity exceeding 600 tonnes per year of meltblown and composite nonwovens.