The Fallon Company and Shawmut Corporation announced a new domestic manufacturing operation in West Bridgewater, MA, to produce N95 respirators. The facility will have capacity for up to 180 million masks per year and create 300 jobs, supported by a $2.7 million state grant.

Qatar Cool signed a contract with Gulf Contracting Company to construct its 5th cooling plant on The Pearl Qatar. The plant will provide 18,000 tons of refrigeration to Gewan Island, serving 659 residential units, 73 villas, 11,000 sqm of retail space, and 15 multi-use buildings.

RC Treatt & Co has completed a new digital factory at its global headquarters in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in partnership with Siemens Digital Industries. The facility will employ more than 200 people and is yet to go live.

L&K Biomed held a groundbreaking ceremony for its second factory at Daewoo Frontier Valley in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. The factory will produce Expandable Interbody Fusion Cages and other spinal implants, with completion targeted for end of February 2021.

Jingaoli Group broke ground on a new materials industrial park in Laoling, Shandong, China, with a total investment of 1.16 billion yuan (approx. $176 million). The park will produce powder coatings, polyurea materials, and other products.

Caljan opened a new 145,300 sq. ft facility in Latvia, doubling production volumes and reducing delivery times across Europe.

Caljan invested in new production facilities in Wisconsin, US, and Latvia, boosting total annual capacity to more than 3,000 telescopic conveyors to meet e-commerce demand.

Precision ADM Quebec will invest more than $2 million in a new Gatineau facility to manufacture CANSWAB nasopharyngeal swabs, with a capacity of 8 million swabs per month, and also produce respirators and masks.

Ocean Minerals Investment JSC will begin construction of the Dai Duong cement plant in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, on October 22, 2020. The first phase, Dai Duong No 1, has an investment of VND 4.3 trillion and a capacity of 2.3 million tonnes per annum.

Chervon Auto is building a greenfield factory in Miskolc, Hungary, with an investment of over EUR 50 million. The plant will produce up to 2 million automotive parts per year and create nearly 150 jobs.

Siemens Healthineers will invest Rs 1,300 crore to build a new R&D and manufacturing campus in Bommasandra, Bengaluru, India. The campus is expected to open in 2025 and will create 1,800 jobs.

SK Engineering & Construction opened a new fuel cell manufacturing plant in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, for its joint venture Bloom SK Fuel Cell with Bloom Energy. The facility's annual generating capacity is projected at 50 MW in 2021, growing to 400 MW by 2027.

The Federal Government of Nigeria announced that the $1.5 billion steel plant by African Natural Resources and Mines (African Industries Group) in Kaduna State is nearing completion and will produce one million metric tonnes of steel annually.

Komatsu Mining Corp. broke ground on a new state-of-the-art headquarters and manufacturing campus in Milwaukee's Harbor District, investing approximately $285 million. The facility will include a heat treating department.

SEKISUI CHEMICAL will build a synthetic railway sleeper (FFU) production plant in Roermond, Netherlands, expanding capacity 1.8 times and reducing delivery times to Europe. Construction begins in 2021, production in Q1 2023.

M.E. Nikkiso Vietnam held a groundbreaking ceremony for a medical tubing manufacturing factory in Dung Quat Economic Zone, Quang Ngai. The project has a total investment of VND 920 billion (USD 40 million) and is expected to start operations in Q1 2022, creating about 2,050 jobs.

Progroup and Krystals have started operating a joint packaging park in Ellesmere Port near Liverpool, linking Progroup's corrugator with Krystals' packaging production. Progroup's investment in the corrugated board plant and packaging park totals more than £90 million.

Komatsu Forest is constructing a new 40,000 m² factory called 'Komatsu Forest One' in Umeå, Sweden, to expand production of forestry machines. The facility will include a factory hall and six floors of office space, aiming to be carbon-neutral.

Emerson will open a new manufacturing facility in Ash Flat, Arkansas, investing $35 million and creating about 245 jobs within four years.

Yantai Universal Machine Tool Equipment Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for its high-end CNC machine tool functional components industrial base project in Fushan District, Yantai. The project involves an investment of 500 million yuan and is expected to achieve annual sales revenue of 600 million yuan.

Aquagenics Technologies is relocating its headquarters, R&D and manufacturing operations to a 530,000 square foot campus in Michigan City, Indiana, investing over $10 million and creating 100 new jobs. The company expects to close on the property and begin migrating operations in Q4 2020.

Keyter Intarcon Genaq announced the start of construction for a new industrial facility in Lucena, Spain, before the end of 2020. The first phase, costing 26 million euros, will build a 35,000-square-meter plant and office building. The project will unify 15 existing facilities and increase the workforce to 600 employees.

Impro Precision began construction of a Precision Machining Plant and a Sand Casting Plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, as part of a new production base. The total investment for phase one is over US$100 million, with US$56 million estimated for 2020. The Precision Machining Plant is scheduled for completion in late 2020 and production in Q1 2020, while the Sand Casting Plant is scheduled for completion in Q1 2021 and production in Q2 2021.

Mah Sing Group is diversifying into glove manufacturing, planning to spend RM150 million on its first glove factory.

Metafrax Group intends to start ammonia, urea and melamine production at its Gubakha site in December 2021, with design capacities of 308,000 tons of ammonia, 575,000 tons of urea and 40,000 tons of melamine per year.

Faurecia will build an automotive components plant in SEZ Togliatti, Russia, creating 513 jobs with a total investment of over 410 million rubles. First production stage is planned for early 2021.

Fox Automation Technology held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new NT$1 billion (US$34.53 million) plant in Jhunan Science Park, Miaoli County, to produce key semiconductor components. Trial production is expected in Q1 2022.

RTS Power Corporation Ltd. announced a new steel wire plant with a capacity of 1500-2000 metric tonnes per month, involving an investment of approximately 35 crore rupees.

Daimay Automotive inaugurated its second plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico, with an investment of USD 86 million, and broke ground on a third plant with an additional USD 30 million investment. The third plant is expected to start operations in March or April 2021, creating 1,000 new jobs.

Cheng Ding Precision, a subsidiary of Foxconn, broke ground on its second plant in Zhunan Science Park, Taiwan, with a total investment of TWD 1 billion. Trial production is expected in Q1 2022, creating 400 jobs.

The University of North Dakota and Johnson Controls dedicated a new $75 million steam plant, built through a public-private partnership, which will reduce CO2 emissions by 40,000 metric tons per year.

Alstom inaugurated a new 3.4-hectare site in Fez, Morocco, for manufacturing and assembly of electrical cables and cabinets, with a total cost of 48 million MAD. The site currently employs 400 people and is expected to create 350 additional direct jobs by 2023.

Enapter announced plans to build its first mass-production facility, the 'Enapter Campus', in Saerbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capable of producing over 100,000 AEM electrolyser modules per year.

Taixing Yuxin New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. started construction of a ultra-high-strength aluminum alloy auto parts project in Huangqiao Economic Development Zone, Taixing, Jiangsu. The project has a total investment of 108 million yuan and will produce starter housings, new energy vehicle motor housings, and aluminum alloy mechanical parts.

Taixing Yuyhao New Material Technology Co., Ltd. started construction of a ultra-high-strength aluminum alloy auto parts project in Huangqiao Economic Development Zone, Taixing, Jiangsu. The project has a total investment of 1.08 billion yuan and will produce starter motor housings, new energy vehicle motor housings and aluminum alloy mechanical parts.

Saica Group held a groundbreaking on a 350,000 sq ft corrugated packaging plant in Hamilton, Ohio, its first US plant, representing a $72 million investment and expected to create 64 jobs.

Panattoni has started construction of a 12,000 sq m built-to-own factory for Danfoss Poland in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, to produce refrigeration and air-conditioning components, with completion planned for November 2021.

Panattoni has started construction of a 12,950 sqm factory for Danfoss Poland in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland. The facility will produce components for refrigeration and air conditioning units and is scheduled for completion in November 2021.

Harvey Performance Company opened a new 79,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Gorham, Maine, to house Helical Solutions product manufacturing and serve as an innovation hub.

Puritan Medical Products will open a new manufacturing facility in Pittsfield, Maine, to produce flocked swabs for COVID-19 testing, funded with $51.2 million from the CARES Act. The facility is expected to employ 200 workers and produce 50 million swabs per month.

KION Group is building a smart forklift plant in Jinan, Shandong, China, with a total investment of CNY 5 billion. The first phase, investing EUR 200 million, will produce 40,000 high-end new energy forklifts annually, with completion expected in 2021 and 800 jobs by 2025.

Danfoss started construction of a new production hall at its site in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, on 13 October 2020, which is expected to create 400 jobs. The plant will make solenoid valves for water installations.

NAI announced the opening of a new manufacturing plant in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, to produce interconnect devices including cable assemblies, harnesses, and box builds. The facility will occupy nearly 38,000 square feet with an option to double capacity, and operations are scheduled to begin in February 2021.

Symbios Orthopédie is investing over CHF 50 million to build a new 12,000 m² production plant at Y-PARC Swiss Technopole in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. The plant will double employment from 150 to 300 within five years.

Mecafor has finished construction of a new 3,000m2 production hall in Kikinda, Serbia, investing around 3 million euros, and plans to employ 180 additional people to produce aircraft parts.

Clark has started mass production of IC engine counterbalanced forklifts at its new plant in Hai Duong, Vietnam, with a capacity of 10,000 units per year, serving North American, European and Australian markets.

SIG SAUER is poised to acquire a multi-building campus of up to 210,000 sq ft in Rochester, New Hampshire, to relocate its Dover operation and expand manufacturing, with about 300 new jobs expected.

ABB Ltd announced it will start running new robotics factories in Shanghai next year, designed to produce 100,000 industrial and service robots annually, serving both Chinese and overseas markets.

MilliporeSigma held a topping-out ceremony for a new membrane production plant in Darmstadt, Germany. The $165 million facility will produce membranes for aseptic filters and is expected to create 55 jobs, with construction completion targeted for 2022.

Knauf France and F-Scott family groups are investing €60 million to build a plasterboard manufacturing plant at the port of Fos-sur-Mer, with an annual capacity of 30 million m², creating 70 jobs. Construction begins in October 2020, with commissioning expected in 2022.