Merck celebrated the topping-out of its new membrane factory in Darmstadt, an investment of more than €140 million that will produce Millipore Express membranes for sterile filters and create about 55 jobs. Construction is due to finish in 2022.

Upfield Canada Inc. is expanding with a new production facility in Brantford, Ontario. The company purchased an existing 164,000 square foot building and will invest in land, infrastructure and equipment. The facility will produce Becel margarine and Violife vegan cheese, and is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2021.

UPM celebrated the official start of construction of a €550 million biochemicals biorefinery in Leuna, Germany, which will produce 100% wood-based biochemicals with an annual capacity of 220,000 tonnes.

Swerock has invested over 100 million SEK in a new factory near SSAB's facility in Oxelösund to produce its own binder from steelmaking slag for ECO-Betong, a climate-improved concrete. The plant is ready for trial runs in October 2020.

GEDIA Automotive Group plans to locate an advanced manufacturing facility in Dalton, Georgia, creating 200 jobs and investing $85 million to produce components for electric vehicles.

Zhenhong bought a 30,000 square metre permanent manufacturing base in the Wenzhou Airport Industrial Zone for CNY125 million (about USD20 million). It plans to move there by May 2022 and consolidate its existing plants.

SÜDPACK opened a new production site in Erolzheim, Germany, after two years of construction. The investment was approximately 40 million euros, and the site includes a fully automated logistics center, with about 100 employees.

MilliporeSigma, a life science business of Merck KGaA, inaugurated a new $14.4 million industrial water treatment plant in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. The facility uses anaerobic digestion and supports future growth at the site.

Aerojet Rocketdyne's new Engineering, Manufacturing and Development facility for large solid rocket motors is officially open for operations in Camden, Arkansas. The facility supports next-generation national security programs.

Food Union has completed a €5.5 million investment to establish a new Kārums curd snack production plant at its subsidiary JSC Rīgas Piena Kombināts in Riga, Latvia. The plant includes new production lines and is part of the Excellence Center of Fresh Dairy Products project.

Vestas will establish a new converter factory in Chennai, India, as part of expanding its manufacturing footprint in the country.

Fripozo is constructing a new frozen food production center in Las Torres de Cotillas, Murcia, Spain, with an automated end-of-line system from Inser Robótica. The plant is expected to be operational by early 2021.

Global Resources International (GRI) plans to invest $9.5 million to open a new medical manufacturing plant in Dothan, Alabama, through its subsidiary Advanced Product Solutions. The plant will produce engineered fabrics, PPE, and injection molded medical products, creating 70 jobs.

OOO Enkor, a resident of the Dubna SEZ, received permission to build a scientific-production complex for electrical equipment for the Moscow metro, with investments of 975 million rubles, to be completed in Q3 2021, creating 220 jobs.

Trillium Flow Technologies is moving its WSP Self-Primer pump line and other operations from Salt Lake City, Utah to a Fresno, California facility that becomes its US pump headquarters. The move is expected to generate more than 50 additional jobs over five years.

Pankl Racing Systems AG broke ground on a new aerospace plant in Kapfenberg, Austria, with 9,000 m² of floor space, planned for 200 employees, and expected to start operations in 2022.

Showa Group broke ground on a new glove manufacturing facility in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. The $12 million investment will more than double glove production capacity by 2024 and create approximately 300 jobs.

Redline Plastics unveiled a new facility in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, for manufacturing plastic products for construction, military, marine and agriculture industries.

Mexican paint manufacturer Berel announced the construction of its second plant in San Juan del Río, Querétaro, with an investment of $38 million. The plant will cover 100,000 square meters and create 250 direct jobs.

Faurecia is building a $3.7 million seat plant in Shanghai, China, to supply Tesla. The plant will produce seats for Tesla vehicles.

Brose will open a location for development and production in Pančevo, Serbia, in summer 2021, with an investment of €120 million. The facility will create up to 1,100 jobs and produce electronics and drives for cooling fan modules.

Komatsu has broken ground on a new headquarters and manufacturing campus in Milwaukee's Harbor District, Wisconsin. The company is investing approximately $285 million in the South Harbor Campus.

SEW-Eurodrive started construction on a new R200 million head office and factory in Aeroton, Johannesburg, with completion scheduled for October 2021 and move-in by January 2022.

Corning signed an investment agreement for a new Environmental Technologies production facility for heavy-duty substrates and particulate filters in Hefei, China, to meet growing demand for emissions control products.

Infineon is building a new wafer fabrication facility named Kulim 2 at Kulim Hi-Tech Park, with capacity for 300 mm wafers, scheduled for completion by end of 2020.

ADM announced plans to construct a new state-of-the-art facility in Valencia, Spain, that will expand its probiotics production capacity five-fold. The facility is expected to be online in 2022.

Showa Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd. (SWCC) has decided to invest approximately 1.6 billion yen to build a new factory for its Chinese subsidiary Jiaxing Showa Electromechanical Co., Ltd. in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China. The new plant will expand production capacity by about 2.5 times and is scheduled to start operations in December 2021.

Motion Industries broke ground on a $11.1 million, 104,000-square-foot shop facility in Irondale, Alabama, housing its fluid power shop, hose and rubber shop and engineering department. The project was announced in October 2020, is expected to finish in Q3 2021 and will create 15 new jobs.

Trillium Pumps merged its Salt Lake City, Utah facility into its Fresno, California plant, making Fresno its North American headquarters for pump manufacturing. The company expects to add more than 50 jobs, with the move to be completed by late 2021.

YPE Vina Co Ltd and Korea Circuit Co Ltd began construction of a $270 million electronic component plant in Dong Soc industrial cluster, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam. The factory will manufacture integrated circuits for Samsung and Apple, is expected to become operational in June 2022, and create approximately 5,000 jobs.

B.C. Organics is planning to build Wisconsin's largest biodigester in Wrightstown, which will collect manure from 13 local farms and convert it into natural gas.

BioVitrum will build a new production and warehouse complex in Gorelovo, Leningrad Oblast, to produce medical equipment, reagents and consumables for oncological diagnostics and bacteriological research. The project is valued at 500 million rubles and will create 200 jobs.

ChemTreat has opened a new 25,000-square-foot applied technology laboratory in Ashland, Virginia. The facility provides advanced analytical equipment for water treatment testing and product innovation, located across from the ChemTreat East Coast manufacturing hub.

DMG Mori has opened a new 4,000 m² Excellence Factory at Deckel Maho Pfronten GmbH in southern Germany for the production of MonoBlock five-axis machining centres. The flow-line assembly uses an AGV transport system, increasing capacity from 600 to 1,000 machines per year.

Empire Cement Packaging Ltd acquired land in Weija, Ghana, to build a 1Mta cement factory costing approximately US$500m. The groundbreaking was in June 2020 and construction is expected to take one year.

Rusken Packaging has opened a new facility in Conyers, Georgia, consolidating its former Canton and Conyers locations under one roof. The site includes a new BOBST Discovery Flexo Folder Gluer and sits next to corrugator supplier Corrugated Supplies Company Atlanta.

Gree Electric's central air conditioner smart manufacturing project in Nanjing Jiangning High-tech Zone began trial production with the first unit rolling off the line. The facility, Gree's 12th global base and its largest central air conditioner base in China, represents an investment of over 10 billion yuan and a planned annual capacity of 6.5 million units.

KION Group opened a new plant in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, on September 29, 2020. The facility, a joint venture with Fujian Haishan Heavy Industry, produces electric forklifts and port vehicles, with a total investment of CNY 500 million.

Jungheinrich is building a new automated logistics centre for Wegmann Automotive at its headquarters in Veitshöchheim, Germany. The project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2021.

NXP Semiconductors has opened a new 150 mm (6-inch) RF Gallium Nitride (GaN) fab in Chandler, Arizona, the most advanced GaN fab for 5G RF power amplifiers in the United States.

U.S. Corrugated plans to buy about 40 acres south of Dover and build an approximately $80 million corrugated cardboard box manufacturing plant bringing 150 jobs to Kent County, Delaware, reported September 29, 2020.

N95 respirator maker Moldex-Metric will retrofit an existing building in Lebanon, Tennessee, for its first Tennessee manufacturing facility, with a $25 million investment and over 200 jobs over three years, announced September 29, 2020.

Chongqing Jiulong Wanbo New Material Technology Co., Ltd. started construction of a special aluminum new materials project in Wanzhou, China, with an investment of 7.5 billion yuan. The project is expected to be completed and put into production in Q4 2021, creating over 1,000 jobs.

Ford broke ground on a new F-150 pickup truck plant at its Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan, with a $700 million investment and plans to hire 300 workers, starting production in mid-2022.

Metso Outotec's new manufacturing site in Šiauliai, Lithuania, has started operations, producing rubber and poly-met wear parts for mining customers. The factory will employ 80 people by the end of 2020.

Bär Cargolift has begun building a factory at the Šiauliai Free Economic Zone for automotive tail-lifts, with construction scheduled for completion in Q1 2021 and over 80 new jobs expected.

Bell Oil and Gas broke ground on a $10 million threading and valve assembly facility at the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos, Nigeria. The integrated plant will provide piping, tubular, valve assembly and fabrication services for the oil and gas industry.

Goodwill of the Heartland converted a former food distribution centre in Coralville, Iowa, into a vegetable oil packaging facility after investing $8 million. The facility has nine full-time employees and began operating after remodelling completed in June 2020.

Saiwei Electronics announced that its 8-inch MEMS international contract production line, built by subsidiary Selex Microsystems Technology (Beijing), has been put into operation with a capacity of 10,000 wafers per month. The line is expected to generate about 800 million yuan in revenue when fully utilized.

Boreton Technology invested 330 million yuan to build a new energy electric equipment project in Shanting District, Zaozhuang. Phase 1 completed with 50 million yuan investment, producing 15 electric loaders by July 2020, achieving China's first mass production of pure electric loaders. Phase 2 will produce 1,500 electric loaders, trucks and mining trucks annually.