EDS GLOBAL has started construction of its second factory in the Sakarya region of Turkey for the production of hydrophore and expansion tanks. The facility will feature full automation and robotic press lines.

Georgia-Pacific bought a third HP PageWide T1190 corrugated web press for its Hummingbird digital print business, to be installed later in 2021 at a new site opening in Arizona. The investment is described as multimillion-dollar.

GCM Industries started construction of a 0.64Mta cement plant in Kossodo, Burkina Faso, with an investment of XOF73.9bn (US$136.6m). The plant is expected to come online in 13 months and employ around 700 people.

Aerion broke ground on its new global headquarters and production campus at Orlando Melbourne International Airport in Florida, a $300 million investment on 110+ acres. The facility will be used for research, design and production of the AS2 supersonic business jet, with production slated to begin in 2023 and 675 jobs expected by 2026.

Dart Aerospace opened a new manufacturing center in Chihuahua, Mexico, with an investment of $3.6 million and 70,000 sq ft of space. Operations began in October 2020, and the facility is expected to create 107 new jobs.

Ball Corporation plans to begin construction in spring 2021 of a €170 million aluminum beverage can plant at Pilsen Digital Park, with operations due in October 2022 and up to 200 jobs.

Formosa Plastics USA is planning to build a new $120 million ethylene dichloride/vinyl chloride monomer reactor unit at its Point Comfort, Texas, complex, with the Louisiana complex also a possible site. The company is seeking tax breaks from local authorities.

Panasonic Life Solutions India started construction of a new electrical equipment manufacturing facility in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, with an investment of ₹600 crore over two phases. The plant is expected to employ about 600 people and commence operations by April 2022.

Hayward Quartz Technology Inc., a US-based semiconductor supplier, received an investment license for a $110 million plant in Da Nang, Vietnam, to produce quartz, ceramic, and silicon components. Construction will start in Q2 2021, with operations beginning in 2023.

Samsung plans to invest more than $10 billion to build a new chip factory in Austin, Texas, capable of producing 3nm chips, to meet demand from Qualcomm, Intel, and Tesla. The total investment over the factory's operation is expected to be $116 billion.

A new medical equipment plant will be built at the Titanium Valley special economic zone in Yekaterinburg, Russia, by investor Otdel Meditsinskoy Tekhniki. The plant will produce vacuum blood collection systems, consumables for intensive care, and hospital furniture, with 165 jobs and planned launch in 2023.

NPO Penta Group, a resident of Technopolis Moscow SEZ, will build a 18,000 sqm plant at the Alabushevo site to produce consumables for ventilators, blood transfusion systems, and blood collection containers. Investment is 1.69 billion rubles, with construction starting in late 2021 and production launch in 2023, creating over 270 jobs.

Valeo North America will occupy an existing facility on Perimeter Way in Bessemer, Alabama, investing $5 million and creating 70 jobs, with full production expected by June 2021.

Winstone Wallboards has commenced construction on a new plasterboard manufacturing and distribution facility in Tauriko, Tauranga, New Zealand. The plant is scheduled to open in 2023 and will create around 100 new permanent jobs.

TianDingFeng Holdings Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 300-mu nonwoven fabric plant in Changde, Hunan, China. The 1.6 billion yuan project will build 16 polyester base fabric lines and 2 fiberglass yarn base fabric lines, with annual capacity of 80,000 tonnes of polyester base fabric and 20,000 tonnes of high-strength fiberglass yarn polyester base fabric.

Weir Group will build a new service centre in Port Hedland, Western Australia, to support the Iron Bridge project and future growth.

Finnish mining company Terrafame received environmental approval for its battery materials factory in Sotkamo, Finland. The plant will produce nickel sulfate and cobalt sulfate for electric vehicle batteries.

Mennekes Electric opened a new 10,000 sqm factory in Miroslava, Iasi, Romania, to produce charging cables for electric vehicles. The investment was about EUR 11 million, and production is expected to start in January 2021, creating 150 jobs by end of 2021.

Sedibelo announced the construction of a 110,000 t beneficiation plant at Pilanesberg Platinum Mines, using Kell technology to reduce energy consumption by 82%.

Xi'an Chida Aircraft Parts Manufacturing Co., Ltd. started construction of a 25,000 m² aircraft parts manufacturing center in Xi'an Aviation Base, with a Phase I investment of CNY 380 million. The facility is expected to be completed and operational by end of 2021, creating over 500 jobs.

UZIN UTZ North America Inc. announced the location of its second U.S. dry mortar facility in Waco, Texas. The 125,000 sqft plant will produce self-leveling compounds, patches, thin sets, and grouts, with an investment of $34 million and creation of over 40 jobs.

Zhongfu Shenying (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Zhongfu Shenying, plans to invest 515 million yuan in a facility in Shanghai's Lingang New Area for aviation resin and carbon fiber intermediate products. The project covers 50 mu and was established on January 6, 2021.

Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies began construction of its second cement plant in Bournezeau, Vendée, France. The €22 million facility will have a capacity of 0.25 million tonnes per year of low-carbon cement, with commissioning scheduled for the second half of 2022.

The main structure of Qingdao HKC's six-inch wafer semiconductor power device project in Jimo, Qingdao, has been topped out. The project, with a total investment of 2.9 billion yuan, is expected to be put into production by the end of 2020, with an annual production scale of 2.4 million chips and 1 million advanced encapsulated chips.

VIVAQUA built a new plant in Anderlecht, Brussels, to manufacture polyester and fiberglass shells for sewer renovation. The plant has been operational since September 2020 and was announced on January 21, 2021.

Fushite Hydraulic broke ground on Jan 21, 2021 on a 2.2 billion yuan project in the Shangrao Economic Development Zone to produce 50 million hydraulic parts a year and create over 500 jobs.

As part of its 2021-2025 strategic plan, INTARCON plans to build a new production plant of 20,000 square metres of factory and office space to optimise manufacturing service.

Sawafi Borets, a joint venture of Sawafi Al-Jazeera and Borets, broke ground on a 21,000m2 headquarters and submersible pump production facility at King Salman Energy Park in Saudi Arabia, with annual capacity of 500 ESPs and up to 100 staff.

A joint venture of Colonial Chemical Inc., Sadeem Investments, and Earth's Reservoir for Oil and Gas broke ground on a specialty chemicals manufacturing plant in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The plant will produce phosphate esters, ether carboxylates, imidazolines, and alkanolamines for lubricants and oilfield chemicals.

Colonial Chemical, Inc. announced the start of construction of a new specialty chemicals manufacturing plant in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, as a joint venture with Sadeem Investments and EROG, with operations expected to commence in Q4 2021.

A new plant for electrical products is being built in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, with a cost of 10 billion tenge, capacity of 13,000 transformers per year, and 300 new jobs.

AMI Ingrédients started construction of a new 10,000 m² production plant in Tauxigny, Indre-et-Loire, investing €13 million. The facility, including two clean rooms and expanded R&D lab, is expected to be delivered by end of 2021.

Gyeongnam QSF signed a KRW 155.4 billion investment agreement with Gwangyang Bay Free Economic Zone Authority to build a cryogenic quick-freezing system food plant and logistics center using LNG cold energy in Daesong Industrial Complex, Hadong, creating 150 jobs. Completion is targeted for 2023.

Mercator Medical's board approved the construction of a new nitrile glove factory in Thailand, adjacent to existing plants. The investment is about 155.95 million PLN, with a monthly capacity of 65 million industrial gloves. Production is expected to start at the turn of 2021/2022.

Saint-Gobain India – Gyproc has commissioned a new manufacturing facility for ceiling tiles at Jhagadia, Gujarat, with an investment of Rs 83 million. The plant, commissioned in September 2020, has an annual capacity of 6 million square meters.

Duravant's new operating company nVenia, formed by combining Arpac, Hamer-Fischbein and Ohlson, will operate from a newly built 256,000 sq ft facility in Wood Dale, Illinois, planned to open in April 2021.

BHS Corrugated acquired an 18-hectare property in Weiherhammer, Germany, for a logistics park; the first project is a €40 million automated spare parts logistics center planned to go live in early 2023.

OAO Polymir plans to start construction of a new ethylene-propylene unit with a capacity of 300,000 tonnes per year in 2023. The project is valued at $500 million.

Phoenix Contact E-Mobility is building a new 15,000 square meter production facility in Rzeszów, Poland, with first production start expected in 2021. The plant will produce e-mobility components.

Plug Power selected Rochester, New York, to host its PEM stack and electrolyzer Innovation Center, a gigafactory expected online by mid-2021. The facility will produce over a gigawatt of electrical output, including 7 million MEAs/plates, 60,000 stacks, and 500 MW of electrolyzers per year.

Resource Fiber plans to invest $3.6 million in a full-scale bamboo products manufacturing facility in Sulligent, Alabama, creating 111 jobs. The plant will produce engineered bamboo products such as laminated timbers.

Pool manufacturer Steinbach plans to invest EUR 100 million over five years to build a new plant in Lower Austria, creating 300 jobs. The company will relocate some production from China to Austria.

Boyd Corporation announced an expanded presence in North America with a newly built 40,000 sq. meter facility in Juarez, Mexico, featuring automated manufacturing for thermal management and engineered material solutions.

Daikin Industries has signed a 42 billion won (approx. $38 million) investment MOU with Chungcheongnam-do and Dangjin City to build a semiconductor manufacturing gas production plant in Dangjin's Songsan 2 Foreign Investment Zone. The plant will produce high-purity gas for semiconductor manufacturing, with production starting in October 2022.

Polymerals announced the construction of a plant in the Pymes Industrial Park in Torreón, Coahuila, with an investment of $10 million, expected to generate 175 direct jobs and over 2,000 indirect jobs, and double production from 7,500 to 15,000 hectares by 2022.

Dow has completed a $69 million silicone resin plant in Zhangjiagang, China, with an annual capacity of 12,000 tons of high-value-added silicone resin, its first overseas silicone resin facility outside the US.

Crown's Brazilian subsidiary CROWN Embalagens plans a two-line plant in Minas Gerais to make two-piece aluminum beverage cans. At full operation the plant will add 2.4 billion cans of annual capacity, starting production in Q2 2022.

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Azerfloat CJSC inaugurated a new thermoforming sheet glass plant at the Sumgayit Chemical Industry Park in Azerbaijan, with a total investment of EUR 100 million and annual capacity of 80,000 tons.

Renqiu Liyang Compressor Manufacturing has received government filing and land approval for a new CNY 200 million plant on 52.7 mu in Renqiu Economic Development Zone, Cangzhou, Hebei. The plant is designed to produce 30,000 compressors a year.