Sekisui Chemical announced plans to build a new factory in Roermond, Netherlands, to produce FFU synthetic wood railway sleepers. Construction starts in 2021, production in Q1 2023, creating up to 50 jobs.

Foshan Shunde HanChen Cold & Hot Equipment Co., Ltd. is building a new energy-saving commercial water dispenser manufacturing center in Xingtan, Foshan, with a total investment of 29.05 million yuan. The project includes a 4,930.64 sqm factory and 2.2 million yuan in equipment.

Norden Machinery is moving into a new 20,000 m² factory at Snurrom in Kalmar, Sweden, with a budget of approximately 250 million SEK. The factory will be operational from January 2021 and has capacity to grow by 25 percent.

Showa Denko Materials will build a new CMP slurry factory at its subsidiary SDMKR in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, as part of a total investment of approximately 20 billion yen. The factory is scheduled to start operation in October 2021.

Polyethylene Containers Inc. of El Dorado, Arkansas, acquired a 246,000-square-foot former Cooper Standard automotive plant in Los Angeles and is adding a line of 5-gallon pails. The development was reported on December 8, 2020.

Rheem Manufacturing Company is scheduled to open a new factory in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in early 2021 to manufacture commercial HVAC equipment. Serv-I-Quip has shipped testing and filling equipment to the site.

ITM Semiconductor will invest 54.8 billion won to build its fifth factory for battery protective circuits in Bac Ninh, Vietnam, to meet rising demand from wireless earphones and other devices.

A Korean company, together with a Russian partner, signed an agreement to build a production facility for heating and air conditioning systems in the Ulyanovsk special economic zone, with an investment of 100 million rubles and 50 new jobs.

Hindalco Industries announced plans to set up a 34,000-tonne aluminium extrusion plant in Silvassa, India, at an investment of Rs.730 crore.

Inland Packaging announced a new third facility near the La Crosse Regional Airport in La Crosse, Wisconsin, bringing new jobs. Full production is planned by May 2021.

OPT Automation held a groundbreaking ceremony for its OPT Automation Products (East China) Production Base in Leyu Town, Zhangjiagang. The project covers 20,000 square meters with a total investment of USD 20 million, expected to produce 50 million parts per year.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia officially opened a new state-of-the-art facility in Wacol, Brisbane, housing the Brisbane branch and a parts distribution warehouse, after a $37.5 million investment.

An industrial park will be built on the site of Shadrinsk Auto Aggregate Plant (SHAZ) in Shadrinsk, Russia, with construction starting in Q2 2021 and full capacity by 2024, costing about 300 million rubles.

PGI will invest 540 million Mexican pesos to build a new plant in the Word Trade Center Industrial Park in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The plant will produce aluminum injection products, machining and precision finishes for automotive brands, and will create 270 jobs.

L&T Valves Arabia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of L&T Valves, is setting up a manufacturing facility in the Eastern Province near Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia, to make its full valve range from October, supporting Saudi Aramco's IKTVA programme.

Bengbu city and the 214 Research Institute signed an agreement to build an 8-inch MEMS manufacturing and microsystem integration facility. The project has a total investment of 1 billion yuan, a construction period of 2 years, and will have annual capacity of 50,000 MEMS wafers and 400 million MEMS chip packaging and testing.

Indorama Ventures, through its subsidiary Indorama Polyester Industries, entered into a 50:50 joint venture with Toyobo to build a new plant at Rayong, Thailand, for production of polyamide 66 airbag yarns. The facility will have an annual capacity of 11,000 tonnes.

Envases Group announced plans for its first aluminum can production and distribution center in Waco, Texas, with 120 jobs and over $100 million in capital investment. Opening is projected for late 2021.

Tobermore completed a new £10 million block paving manufacturing facility, which is now operational. The factory increases production capacity by over 30% and has created dozens of local jobs.

Weir Group will build a new service centre in Port Hedland, Western Australia, to support the Iron Bridge magnetite project. The centre will create employment and training opportunities.

ALAGEUM ELECTRIC will invest 7.6 billion tenge to build a transformer production plant in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, creating 300 jobs. Production is planned to start in May 2021, with full cycle by end of 2021.

Star Cement announced an INR4.5 billion (US$61 million) investment to build a new 2Mta grinding unit in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. It will be the company's first facility in the state.

Tamarack Aerospace Group announced the opening of its Tamarack East Coast Transformation Center at Aiken Regional Airport in South Carolina, offering installation of ATLAS Active Winglets.

Plastic packaging provider Comar is developing a new manufacturing facility of about 159,000 square feet in Vineland, New Jersey, to expand capacity from its Buena site. Groundbreaking took place in November 2020 with completion expected in March 2021.

YBA Kanoo and US-based Clarke Valve are coordinating to build a production line for Shutter Valves in Saudi Arabia. The plan would bring assembly and servicing closer to regional customers, as reported on December 2, 2020.

Cytiva opened a new 80,000 ft² manufacturing facility in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA in December 2020 for producing Xcellerex XDR bioreactors. The facility is part of a $500 million five-year global expansion plan and will create approximately 200 jobs.

Austrian aeronautical company FACC began construction of a factory in the Jakovlje North 2 zone in Croatia to produce aircraft parts. The investment is worth 33 million euros and is expected to employ 450 people in the first phase.

J inTech America, a supplier of interior automobile parts, announced plans to invest nearly $4.5 million in opening its first U.S. advanced manufacturing facility in West Point, Georgia, creating 70 jobs. The announcement was made in December 2020.

Makino Group has started construction of its first global automotive parts precision machining machine tool base in Caidian Economic Development Zone, Wuhan, China. The project involves a total investment of 1 billion yuan (approx. $154 million) and is expected to produce 600 machine tools annually. Phase 1 is scheduled for completion in April 2022.

Nordex Group has started production at a new mobile concrete tower plant in Motilla del Palancar, Spain. The facility covers 120,000 square meters, employs 250 people (to increase to 300), and produces 50 concrete tower segments per week (equivalent to two 120-meter towers).

Danish company Rose Holm will invest $1.35 million to establish its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Henrico County, Virginia, creating 10 new jobs.

Tuopu Group announced plans to invest up to EUR 30 million to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary and build a factory in Poland to serve automotive customers in Germany and neighboring countries.

Shin-Etsu Chemical will invest about 3 billion yen to build a factory in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, to mass-produce bismaleimide resin for 5G applications, with production starting in 2021.

Russian commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturer Brandford launched the first phase of a new production site in Kostroma, Russia, with a 15,400 sqm building on 5.5 hectares. Investment was 800 million rubles, and the project is expected to reach full capacity in 2023, creating 1,300 jobs.

Hyundai Transys announced it will invest more than $240 million to build a new 620,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in West Point, Georgia, creating 678 jobs for transmission production.

Unibloc Pump moved its headquarters and manufacturing to a new Kennesaw, Georgia facility at 1650 Airport Road. The site is three times larger than the previous Marietta building and adds R&D, service and warehouse space.

Guangzhou Wanbao Compressor held a groundbreaking for a refrigerator compressor factory in Conghua district, Guangzhou, with about 1 billion yuan invested and capacity of 21 million units per year. Production is scheduled to start in October 2021.

Camfil Group is building a new state-of-the-art facility in Taicang city, Jiangsu province, China, as part of expanding its global operations.

Cold Chain Technologies opened a new 255,000-square-foot facility in Lebanon, Tennessee, dedicated to manufacturing thermal packaging solutions for COVID-19 vaccine distribution. The facility includes Koolit refrigerant manufacturing and work cells for KoolTemp EcoFlex.

Cemix, a subsidiary of Lasselsberger, reported that its new plant for white cement and dry building mixtures in Bashkortostan, Russia, is in the final construction stage, with capacity of 200,000 tons of white cement and 300,000 tons of building mixtures annually, creating 200 jobs.

Mondi will open its first South American paper bags plant in Cartagena, Colombia, in January 2021, with one production line of about 50 million bags per year, serving chemical, food and cement customers.

Progroup's PM3 containerboard paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Germany, started operating in August 2020 and has reached more than 2,000 tonnes a day, with full run-up expected by the end of Q2 2021 and output of up to 750,000 tonnes a year.

Maxscend Microelectronics plans to invest CNY 800 million to build a new semiconductor manufacturing base in Wuxi, Jiangsu, to improve RF SAW filter production capacity.

Keyuan Holdings signed an agreement to invest CNY 6 billion in a 1.1 million-ton-per-year ABS new materials project in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, to be built in two phases over five years.

Jafron Biomedical Technology Group held a groundbreaking ceremony for its 'Jinding Industrial Park' project in Zhuhai on November 29, 2020. The project involves an investment of CNY 1.5 billion and is expected to achieve an annual output value of CNY 4 billion upon completion.

Austrian manufacturer BMTS started production at its new factory in Novi Sad, Serbia on November 25, 2020. The factory has an annual capacity of two million turbocharging units and represents a total investment of EUR 15 million.

Shiva Cement, a subsidiary of JSW Cement, plans to invest around $200 million in a new integrated cement plant in Sundergarh district, Odisha. The plant will include a 1.36Mt clinker unit, 1Mt/yr grinding unit, 8MW WHR unit, and is scheduled for commissioning by March 2022.

Haulotte Group announced the opening of a new 44,000 sqm plant in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, to expand local production of telescopic and articulated booms. Construction began in October 2020, with opening scheduled for first half 2022.

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. inaugurated its East China Smart Manufacturing Base in a ceremony, with a total investment of CNY 2 billion, covering 143 mu, and an annual output value of CNY 4 billion, producing tower cranes.

Brazilian group Panozon Ambiental S/A opened a new factory in Piracicaba, São Paulo, investing R$ 1.5 million for water and air treatment with ozone.