Tubi USA Inc. launched a Mobile Modular Extrusion system for on-site HDPE pipe production and established a new manufacturing site in Bartow, Florida, with two plants now fully operational. Each modular factory has 20 million lb annual capacity and can extrude pipe up to 48 inches in diameter.

The first phase of Yangjiang Qiangli's 100,000-ton aluminum alloy strip and 20,000-ton composite project in Yangjiang High-tech Zone is scheduled to be completed by the end of next month and officially put into production by the end of 2020. The first phase includes a 50,000-ton aluminum plate and strip production line.

Nidec will invest about 200 billion yen ($1.9 billion) to build an electric vehicle motor factory in Serbia, targeting production of 200,000 to 300,000 motors per year by 2023.

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has begun construction on a new 16,000 square metre purpose-built workshop in Perth, Australia. The facility is scheduled for completion in 2021.

Wilo USA held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 244,000 sq ft headquarters and production facility in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation started operation of a large-scale carbon capture facility at the Mikawa Power Plant in Omuta, Japan. The facility can capture over 500 tons of CO2 per day, more than 50% of the plant's daily emissions.

Gebhardt Intralogistics Group has opened a new 4,000 square-metre plant in Sinsheim-Dühren, Germany, for manufacturing shuttles, storage and retrieval machines, and conveyors.

Atria is investing about EUR 155 million to construct a new poultry processing plant on its existing site in Nurmo, Finland. The investment includes new slaughtering, cutting and packaging lines and will increase poultry production capacity by approximately 40%.

Jokey Group is building a new production facility in Murcia, Spain, for its Jokey Treplás subsidiary, investing about 12 million euros, to replace the Molina de Segura plant and double capacity, with operation expected in early 2021.

NPO Akonit opened a new plant in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan, Russia, to produce conveyor rollers and metal structures. The investment was 800 million rubles, and the plant has an annual capacity of 1 million conveyor rollers, creating 134 jobs.

Tata Group, through its new entity Tata Electronics, will invest Rs 5000 crore to build a manufacturing plant for iPhone parts in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India. The facility is expected to employ 18,000 people by October 2026, with 90% women.

Lucite International is designing and developing a multibillion-dollar chemical plant, Alpha 3, on the US Gulf Coast to produce MMA (methyl methacrylate), the main building block of acrylic. The plant is expected to be fully operational in 2025.

A semiconductor and silicon conductive materials production base and a Changzhou R&D center, with a total investment of 500 million yuan, will be built in Changzhou National High-tech District. The R&D center will focus on high-temperature silver paste, low-temperature silver paste and semiconductor materials. Annual sales after reaching full capacity are expected to exceed 2 billion yuan.

Nova Steel USA Inc. plans to locate a tube manufacturing facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a $70 million investment creating 110 jobs. Initial phase opens summer 2021.

STMicroelectronics, IME and Ulvac have agreed to create and operate an R&D wafer processing line focused on piezoMEMS within ST's wafer fab in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. The Lab-in-Fab is set to be operational in Q2 2021 with volume production expected by end of 2022.

HSIL Ltd. announced a ₹220 crore investment in a new greenfield facility for AGI Glaspac to manufacture specialty glass in Bhongir, Telangana. The plant will have a capacity of 150 tonnes per day with five lines and is expected to be operational by September 2022.

Kioxia Corporation announced it will begin construction of a new fabrication facility (Fab7) at its Yokkaichi Plant in Mie Prefecture, Japan, to expand production of 3D Flash memory BiCS FLASH. Construction is expected to commence in spring 2021, with the first phase completed by spring 2022.

ZF has launched serial production of S-Cam4.8 cameras at its new electronics plant in Częstochowa, Poland. The facility currently employs 100 people and is located in the Katowice Special Economic Zone.

U.S. Corrugated of Delaware chose Dover, Delaware as its preferred location for a new $80 million, 457,000 sq ft box-manufacturing plant creating 159 jobs, with state grants of over $3 million under consideration.

Beijing Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) started construction of a high-end boiler manufacturing base in Caofeidian, Hebei, China, with a fixed asset investment of CNY 512 million ($76 million). The facility is expected to start production in 2022, producing ultra-supercritical boiler components, waste-to-energy boilers, biomass boilers, and solar thermal heat exchangers.

Simmons Machine Tool Corporation established the Niles Technical Application Center at its Albany, New York facility to offer Niles-Simmons machines to North American customers. A Niles-Simmons N30 MC multi-axis turning center will be installed in Q1 2021.

Varmora Granito Pvt Ltd is setting up two greenfield plants at Morbi, Gujarat for manufacturing large format glazed vitrified tiles. The Rs 300 crore investment will create 35,000 sq m per day capacity, expected to be commissioned by April 2021, generating 1,200 direct and indirect jobs.

Nestlé Purina PetCare announced a $550 million investment to build a new pet food factory in Williamsburg Township, Ohio. The 1.2 million sq.-ft. facility will produce dry dog and cat food brands and employ more than 300 people by 2024.

Toyobo Co. Ltd. agreed to set up a joint venture with Indorama Polyester Industries PCL to build a new plant for nylon 6,6 airbag yarns on the IPI factory site in Rayong Province, Thailand, with operations starting in Q1 2022.

Nitya Electro Controls (NEC) Group commenced production at its new wires and cables manufacturing plant in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on October 25, 2020. The plant is the largest of its kind in the state and will produce 100% made-in-India products using German technology.

Salcomp has started operations at the former Nokia plant in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, with an initial investment of Rs 500 crore and 5,600 employees. The plant will manufacture chargers for Apple, with plans to ramp up investment to over Rs 1,000 crore and 15,000 employees.

Duqm International Cement Projects Co is preparing to launch a $435 million integrated cement plant in the Special Economic Zone in Duqm, Oman. The plant will have a capacity of 3.5 million tonnes per year and is due to start operations in 2023.

Amber Enterprises is creating two greenfield facilities near Pune and in South India, funded by a Rs 400 crore QIP. The plants will manufacture air conditioning components and finished goods.

Sahasra's group company Infopower Technologies, a joint venture with Taiwanese MiTac Holdings, will invest Rs 210 crore in a new plant in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, to produce 25,000 motherboards per month for data centres.

Sahasra is setting up an integrated circuit packaging plant for memory in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, with an investment of Rs 140 crore. The plant will produce 40 million ICs annually and is expected to begin operations in Q2 2021.

Oldcastle APG announced a $25 million greenfield concrete masonry plant in Ridgeway, South Carolina, dedicated to Belgard hardscape units, with a projected payroll of 100 employees.

Toyobo and Indorama Polyester Industries (IPI) will establish a 50/50 joint venture, Toyobo Indorama Advanced Fibers, to build a new plant for automobile airbag yarns at the IPI factory site in Rayong Province, Thailand. Operations are expected to start in Q1 2022.

Ball Corporation approved a US$90 million investment to build a new aluminum can production plant in Frutal (MG), Brazil, its eleventh plant in the country, to meet rising demand for canned beer and new beverage categories.

Komatsu's new remanufacturing centre in Tunney Industrial Estate, Edenvale, South Africa, spans 11,372 m² and features a flagship overhead crane system supplied by RGM Cranes and Güralp. The facility is part of Komatsu's new campus.

Thai Medical Glove, a subsidiary of Thonburi Healthcare Group, plans to invest 35 billion baht to build four rubber glove factories in Thailand with 150 production lines in phase one, starting production in late February 2021. Phase two will add 150 more lines in mid-2021, for a total capacity of 600 million boxes per year.

Duqm Cement Projects International (DCPI) will construct an integrated cement manufacturing facility in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm, Oman, with a capacity of 3.5 million tonnes per year and an investment of $435 million. The plant is expected to be operational by Q1 2023.

The government of Bashkortostan opened a new plant by Sterex Pak LLC for multi-layer aseptic packaging in Sterlitamaksky District on October 24, 2020, with investments of 1.87 billion rubles, creating 110 jobs and capacity of up to 100 million packages per month.

Zhongli Machinery (EP Equipment) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Zhongli Intelligent Industrial Park in Anji, Zhejiang Province. The project involves a total investment of 12 billion yuan, covering 321 mu (about 214,000 sqm) of land, with a planned building area of 327,806 sqm. The facility will produce 300,000 electric forklifts, tractors, pallet trucks, stackers and other electric warehouse handling vehicles annually, along with 1 million sets of mechanical parts.

Hörmann LLC celebrated the grand opening of a 325,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in White County, Tennessee. The company invested approximately $64 million in the project, which was announced in 2018.

Empirical Foods held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new ground beef processing facility in Garden City, Kansas. The facility represents an investment of up to $250 million, is expected to be operational in 2023, and will bring about 300 new jobs.

Nucor Corp. broke ground on a $1.7 billion steel plate manufacturing mill in Brandenburg, Kentucky. The 1.5 million-square-foot facility will have 1.2 million tons of annual capacity and create 400 full-time jobs. The mill is expected to open in 2022.

Lely North America, a subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Lely Group, broke ground on a new headquarters in Pella, Iowa. The project investment is estimated at $20-22 million, with the facility expected to open in Q1 2022.

Jiangsu Zhiyuan Semiconductor held a groundbreaking ceremony for a large-power discrete device project in Tongshan District (Xuzhou High-tech Zone), Xuzhou. The project, with a total investment of CNY 3 billion, is expected to produce 380 million semiconductor devices annually.

Crane held a groundbreaking ceremony on October 23, 2020 for a new Engineered Check Valves factory in Satara, India, planned to open in October 2021 and produce Noz-Chek and Duo-Chek valves up to 84 inches.

Tornos Xi'an inaugurated a new plant in Xi'an, China, on October 22, 2020. The plant has a total surface area of 3,000 square meters and will produce the CT 20 machine. The event was originally planned for early 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19.

Architectural Profiles Ltd (APL) is building a new 400m by 120m facility at Hautapu near Cambridge, New Zealand, with a $250 million investment, consolidating multiple Hamilton sites.

BTL Industries Bulgaria is building a high-tech factory for electronic medical equipment in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with an investment of BGN 20 million, expected to create 200 new jobs.

Vtor-kom is planning a second investment project to build a complex for collection, treatment, disposal and burial of waste of hazard classes III-V in Kopeysk. The site has been selected and engineering surveys and design documentation are underway.

Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies, plans to invest approximately $650 million through 2027 in a new manufacturing facility in Buncombe County, North Carolina. The operation is intended to create 800 new positions.

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad inaugurated the General Electric Algeria Turbine (GEAT) complex in Ain Yagout, Batna, a $168 million joint venture between Sonelgaz and General Electric to manufacture gas and steam turbines.