Medline México inaugurated a new plant in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, with a $16.2 million investment, creating 930 jobs.

Doosan Bobcat broke ground on a new plant in Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León, with a $300 million investment, creating 800 jobs, and expected to start operations in 2026.

Copeland Compresores inaugurated a new plant in Arteaga, Coahuila, with a $22 million investment, creating 900-1,000 direct jobs.

Segezha Group is building a paper packaging facility in Ploiesti, Romania, part of a EUR 10 million investment, adding up to 65% capacity, to about 160 million paper sacks a year, with commissioning planned for March 2022.

Zoomlion's smart industrial city in Changsha, China, will complete installation and commissioning of its medium-large excavator assembly line and produce the first excavators on December 31, 2020. The excavator park has an annual capacity of 50,000 units and annual output value of 30 billion yuan.

MasterBrand Cabinets Inc. is opening a Southeastern U.S. manufacturing and distribution facility near Jackson, Georgia, expected to add nearly 400 jobs when it opens in 2021.

Matalco started production at its new $80 million aluminum plant in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, on November 19, 2020. The plant can produce 240 million pounds of aluminum annually and employs 80 permanent workers.

Cantrell•Gainco Group opened a new corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility in Gainesville, Georgia.

Mark Anthony Brewing plans to build a new state-of-the-art brewery and production facility in Columbia, S.C. with a $400 million investment.

BrandD Foods, maker of frozen meat products, opened a new facility valued at about $15 million in Sumter, Ga.

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. is planning a highly automated logistics center in Hernando, Miss. with WITRON Logistik + Informatik GmbH; startup is planned for August 2023.

Company Inotek plans to build a nonwoven fabric production facility in the Uzlovaya special economic zone with an investment of about 2.5 billion rubles, creating over 70 jobs. The plant will produce 11,000 tons per year of eco-friendly nonwoven fabric for personal hygiene products.

Yingke Medical announced plans to invest 660 million yuan to build a facility with an annual output of 13.1 billion PVC high-end medical gloves in Xiayi County. The board approved the investment agreement on December 30, 2020.

Yaskawa Electric Corporation held a groundbreaking ceremony on December 29, 2020 for Yaskawa (Changzhou) Mechatronics System in Wujin High-tech Zone, Changzhou, with a total investment of over $100 million. The new facility will integrate R&D and production of servo motors, controllers and other products.

Heiche Surface Technologies announced plans to open an advanced metals coating facility in Jasper, Alabama, creating at least 73 jobs. Construction is expected to begin in coming weeks, with operations starting by October 2021.

Walsin Technology is establishing a new vehicle capacitor plant in Malaysia through its Kamaya Electric subsidiary, dedicating most of its 2021 capital expenditure to the initiative.

The City of Selkirk's $35.2 million wastewater treatment plant, under construction since 2018, is expected to begin operations in summer 2021. The plant will handle 12 million litres per day and serve up to 11,000 additional residents.

Major construction has begun on the 32 mgd Big Creek Water Reclamation Facility in Roswell, Georgia, replacing an existing 24 mgd facility. The $300 million project is being undertaken by a joint venture of Archer Western and Brown and Caldwell.

Zhaoqing Pengkai Environmental Protection Equipment Co., Ltd. plans to invest RMB 500 million to build a modular assembled wastewater treatment integrated system project in Zhaoqing High-tech Zone, Guangdong. The project will produce 200 sets of Pengkai Round (PKR), 250 sets of Pengkai Tower (PKT), and 380 sets of Pengkai Box (PKX) annually. Construction is scheduled from December 2021 to December 2023.

Yangjiang Dongfang, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dongfang Cable, plans to invest approximately RMB 575 million to build an ultra-high voltage submarine cable southern industrial base. The project will have an annual production capacity of 300 km of UHV AC/DC submarine cable.

Promess, a Michigan maker of sensing and motion control equipment, bought a 45,000-square-foot facility on Lochlin Drive in Green Oak Township and plans to move its Brighton manufacturing there by end of March, with a $4-5 million investment and about 20 new jobs.

Chinese group Citic Dicastel inaugurated its second aluminum wheel production plant in Kenitra, Morocco on December 26, 2020. The €350 million plant will produce 6 million wheels annually and create 1,250 jobs.

Citic Dicastal Group inaugurated its second plant at the Atlantic Free Zone in Kénitra, Morocco, on December 26, 2020. The plant, with an investment of EUR 350 million, will double production capacity to nearly 6 million aluminum wheels per year and create 1,250 jobs.

Sanyuan Petrochemical's subsidiary Yuanjin New Materials started construction of a 20.8 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) integrated project in Hangzhou Bay Shangyu Economic Development Zone, Zhejiang, China. The project includes two 750,000-tonne/year PDH units and three polypropylene units totaling 1.25 million tonnes/year.

Refractarios Kelsen S.A., a subsidiary of CALCINOR, opened a new plant for fired dolomite bricks in Aduna, Guipúzcoa, Spain. The 6,000 square meter expansion involved an investment of close to 20 million euros and will increase production capacity by over 25,000 tonnes.

CG Power and Industrial Solutions inaugurated a new smart motor manufacturing facility in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India. The 4,200 sqm plant will manufacture smart electric motors from 75 kW to 1000 kW for domestic and global markets.

Premium Guard Inc. (PGI) announced plans for a $27 million plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, to manufacture aluminum injection products for Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen. The plant is expected to be operational by Q1 2021 and will create 270 jobs.

BUA Cement signed an agreement with Sinoma CBMI to build three new cement plants of 3Mta each in Edo, Sokoto and Adamawa states, Nigeria. The $1.05 billion project will bring BUA's total capacity to 20Mta and is expected to be completed by end of 2022.

Persán has acquired land in Wróblowice, Poland, to build a new factory with an investment of €40 million. The plant is expected to be ready by early 2023, doubling packaging lines and increasing production capacity by 70%.

Jabil Healthcare will invest $38 million to build a 180,000-square-foot facility in East Flat Rock, North Carolina, to produce plastics for the pharmaceutical industry. The project is expected to create 150 jobs by 2025 and begin operations in 2022.

Danfoss Turbocor Compressors will add a new 65,000 to 90,000 square-foot manufacturing and R&D facility at Innovation Park in Tallahassee, Florida. The $48 million project is expected to create about 239 high-wage jobs.

Ball Corporation will build a new aluminum beverage packaging plant in Jenkins Township near Pittston, Pennsylvania, investing more than $300 million over multiple years and creating about 230 jobs. Production is scheduled to start in mid-2021.

EEW American Offshore Structures will invest $250 million to build a manufacturing plant for wind turbine towers at the Paulsboro Marine Terminal in New Jersey. The plant will create 500 jobs and initially supply Ørsted.

Follmann Group's Russian subsidiary OOO Follmann will invest 500 million rubles to build a paint production plant for the wallpaper industry in the Bogorodsky industrial park, Moscow region. The project is planned until 2022.

Elkom LLC launched a new plant for the production of wall and floor electrical cabinets near Ufa, Bashkortostan, with an investment of 650 million rubles. The plant aims to create up to 209 jobs and reach design capacity by 2026.

Blue Star Power Systems moved into a new $13 million, 85,000-square-foot facility in North Mankato, Minnesota, for manufacturing diesel and gaseous generators, employing nearly 100 people.

Kedali Hungary Ltd., a subsidiary of Shenzhen Kedali, will invest EUR 40 million in a new factory in Gödöllő, Hungary, to produce aluminum structural components for Samsung SDI. Trial run is expected in spring 2021, with serial production peaking by 2024, creating 330 jobs.

Nippon Steel and ArcelorMittal executed a definitive agreement to build an electric arc furnace at AM/NS Calvert in Calvert, Alabama, with an investment of approximately $775 million and capacity of 1.5 million metric tons per year, scheduled to start operation in the first half of 2023.

American Fuji Seal plans a 260,000 sq ft shrink sleeve label plant in Hickory, North Carolina, investing at least $52 million and creating 101 jobs over five years.

Kedali Hungary Kft. will invest EUR 40 million to build a new factory in Gödöllő, Hungary, to produce aluminium structural components for Samsung SDI, with trial run expected in spring 2021.

The Timken Company announced the start of production at its new manufacturing facility in San Jose Iturbide, Mexico, which manufactures tapered roller bearings using advanced automation and manufacturing technologies.

Ineos Styrolution broke ground on a new 600,000-tonnes/year ABS plant in Ningbo, China. The facility is expected to be operational by 2023.

Diversified CPC International completed Phase I of its new Beaumont, Texas plant at Iron Horse Terminals, which began commercial operation in late November 2020. The company invested $10 million in Phase I.

Machine tool maker Eltek Korea signed a 12.1 billion won investment agreement with Okcheon County to build a factory in Okcheon Techno Valley, Chungbuk, by 2025, and to relocate its headquarters and plant from Geumsan.

Entegris announced a $200 million investment to build a new 27,000-square-meter manufacturing facility in Kaohsiung Science Park, Taiwan. Construction is expected to begin in early 2021 with initial operations in late 2021.

Tvitec System Glass plans to invest €50 million in a new glass ceramic factory (Rocalux brand) in the El Bayo industrial park in Cubillos del Sil, El Bierzo, Spain. The plant will create 50 jobs and is expected to be built in two years.

Industrial automation specialist Sewtec Automation has completed its move to a new 75,000 sq ft design and manufacturing facility in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The company signed a 15-year lease and expects to create up to 70 additional high-skilled jobs.

Gattefossé is investing 30 million euros to build a new manufacturing plant in Lufkin, Texas, to produce lipid-based specialty ingredients for personal care and pharmaceutical industries. Construction will begin in 2021, with first deliveries expected in 2024.

Starpower Semiconductor will invest CNY 229 million ($35.1 million) to build a production line for automotive silicon carbide power modules at its existing plant in Jiaxing, China. The line is expected to start operation within 24 months.

Sahajanand Medical Technologies (SMT) is setting up Asia's largest stent manufacturing facility in Sultanpur, Sangareddy, with an investment of Rs 250 crore. First stents expected in April or May 2021.