Magna, an Austrian company producing upholstery for car seats, is due to open a new plant in Aleksinac, Serbia. The number of jobs is not specified.

Toyo Tires will open a production facility in Indjija, Serbia, with an investment of approximately EUR 390 million, creating around 500 new jobs. The opening is expected in October 2020.

China's Hengyi Petrochemicals plans to build a 1.65 million tons/year ethylene plant, a 2.5 million tons/year PTA unit, a 280,000 barrels/day refinery, and a 2 million tons/year PX facility in the second phase of its project in Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei. Construction may take three years.

Sumitomo Chemical announced on September 15, 2020, that it will set up a polypropylene compounding plant in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, as its fifth polypropylene production base in the country. The plant is expected to start operations in 2021.

GE Renewable Energy, EDF Renewables and Enbridge celebrated the production of the first Haliade 150-6 MW nacelle for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm at the Montoir-de-Bretagne assembly plant. The 80-turbine wind farm is expected to become operational in 2022.

German company Mennekes is investing €10 million to build a factory for electric vehicle charging cables in Miroslava, near Iași, Romania. The plant will create 300 jobs and is expected to start production in 2021.

GSE has been selected to design and build a 23,000 m² industrial facility for LISI Aerospace Forged Integrated Solutions in Haute-Marne, France, for manufacturing forged aerospace parts. Construction is expected to begin in Q1 2021.

Kibing Group signed an agreement to invest 108 billion yuan in a new materials industrial park in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, producing photovoltaic glass, pharmaceutical glass, and electronic glass, to be built in two phases.

Wilo USA is building a 250,000 sq ft headquarters and manufacturing campus on Highway 60 in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, with opening planned for early 2022.

Galam, a global manufacturer of ingredients, opened two new production plants for sc-FOS (fructo oligosaccharides/oligofructose) with a capacity of thousands of tons.

Remeo is constructing an advanced automated material recovery facility in Vantaa, Finland, featuring 12 robotic arms from ZenRobotics. The facility will process 120,000 metric tons of C&D material and 60,000 metric tons of C&I waste annually.

Nvidia plans to expand ARM's Cambridge headquarters and build a world-class AI research facility, supporting healthcare, life sciences, robotics, self-driving cars and other fields.

Granite opened the Big Rock Aggregate and Asphalt Plant in Llan, California, capable of producing 11 aggregate materials simultaneously and recycling 134,000 gallons of water per hour. The plant serves northern and western Los Angeles, Ventura, Kern, and San Bernardino counties.

Nevro Corp will establish a 35,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Costa Rica with $11 million in capital expenditures from 2020-2023. The plant is expected to be validated and approved in 2022.

Zibo Qixiang Tengda Chemical signed an investment agreement with Qinzhou Government to build a new material production base in Qinzhou, Guangxi, with total investment of CNY 12.2 billion. The project will be completed in two phases, producing maleic anhydride, MEK, NBR, PDH, propylene oxide, and iso nonyl alcohol.

A newly commissioned Shenyang plant of Burckhardt Compression's Chinese unit, with 86,000 m2 of production area on 153,000 m2 of land, replaces two older city-centre sites. Operations are set to begin at the end of September 2020.

Hubbard Products, a UK-based refrigeration equipment manufacturer and Daikin group member, has broken ground on a new 7,400m² facility at Futura Park in Ipswich. The company plans to relocate from its current 4,600m² site in early 2021.

Saertex GmbH & Co. KG is building a new production site in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to meet growing demand for lightweight materials in the region. The plant was originally planned to open by end of 2020 but has been postponed to early 2021 due to the pandemic.

Titan-Polymer signed a financing agreement with Gazprombank to build a plant in the Moglino SEZ, Pskov region, producing BOPET film (72,000 t/yr) and PET granules (210,000 t/yr). Total project cost is 16.7 billion rubles.

Freudenberg Medical completed construction of a new 36,000 sq. ft. medical manufacturing operation in Beverly, Massachusetts, serving as its global headquarters. The facility includes Class 8 cleanroom space for molding and assembly of medical devices and components.

Tongxin Cheng (同芯成) started construction of phase one of its integrated circuit project in Shaoxing, China, with planned monthly capacity of 65,000 wafers. Total investment is 9.692 billion yuan across two phases.

Braskem started commercial production at its new polypropylene production line in La Porte, Texas, with annual capacity over 450 kta. The $750 million investment created 50 permanent jobs and employed 1,300 during construction.

Chinese company Mingyang announced an agreement with the State Government of Ceará to build a factory for offshore wind turbines, with an initial investment of R$300-400 million, expected to create around 2,000 jobs and be installed between 2022 and 2023.

Münzing is investing €35 million to build a new production plant for wax and polymer emulsions in the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park in Elsteraue, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 9, 2020, and production is expected to start by the end of 2021.

BETA Kimya held the groundbreaking ceremony for its GEBKİM Campus in Gebze, Turkey, an integrated production facility for high-tech adhesives. The investment is 315 million TL, with annual capacity of 150,000 tons and expected to employ 500 people.

Arkhbum Tissue Group, a subsidiary of Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill, opened a new plant in the Vorsino industrial park, Kaluga region, Russia, for producing sanitary-hygiene products and base paper. The total cost was 11.5 billion rubles, and the plant includes Flootech wastewater treatment facilities.

Industrial automation specialist Sewtec Automation completed its move to a new 75,000 sq ft design and manufacturing facility in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The facility consolidates all 120 employees under one roof and is expected to create up to 70 additional high-skilled jobs.

Berry Ace Packing (Jiaxing) Company Limited has opened a highly automated packaging factory with an investment of over RMB 200 million (US$30 million). The first phase has a total construction area of 24,721 sqm, including clean rooms.

Westfield Fluid Controls, an affiliate of Westfield Hydraulics, will invest $5.1 million to relocate a manufacturing operation from San Fernando, California to a 30,000-square-foot facility in Lafayette, Louisiana, creating 67 direct jobs.

East African Holdings is working with foreign investors to open a new cement factory in Ethiopia with capacity of 5,000-8,000 tpd, to be implemented in Q3 of Ethiopia's New Year starting 11 September 2020.

Aptiv, an Irish multinational, will start construction of a greenfield automotive parts factory in Zaječar, Serbia, in November 2020, creating 2,100 jobs. The plant will have 30,000 m² of production space.

Yamaichi Electronics officially opened its new production plant in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, with over 7,000 m² of floor space, replacing its previous facility. Production started in April 2020.

Graphic Packaging opened a highly automated 1.2 million sq ft folding carton factory in Monroe, Louisiana, consolidating two plants and three warehouses. The 180 million US dollar investment will convert more than 1.4 billion beverage cartons a year.

Meltblo France, a newly created company, will start commercial production of meltblown nonwovens in April 2021 at a new facility in Brognard, France. The €4.5 million investment will create 22 jobs and produce 500 tons of meltblown per year.

UG Healthcare has started work on a new manufacturing facility in Seremban, Malaysia, which will add 1.2 billion pieces of gloves per annum capacity. The facility is expected to be completed by end of June 2021.

OOO KAMAZ Veichay, a joint venture of KAMAZ and Weichai Power, has launched serial production of diesel and gas engines for ships, locomotives, and generators at the Tutayev advanced development territory in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Over 100 million rubles have been invested, with total planned investment of about 770 million rubles.

Evroklima RUS, a refrigeration equipment company, plans to build a plant for air conditioning systems in the Kaluga region of Russia. Investment is 180 million rubles, creating 67 jobs. The company has been granted resident status of the special economic zone.

Bosch and Electra Consumer Products plan to set up an HVAC manufacturing facility and technology park in Ashkelon, Israel, investing NIS 100 million (about $29.6 million). The plant is due to open in early 2022 and employ 300 people.

Auputo Automation Products held a foundation stone laying ceremony for a future factory project in Hengli Town, Dongguan. The project plans to invest 0.3 billion yuan ($30 million) to build a 30,000 square meter digital factory.

Arabia Holding, in partnership with Alazaizy Group, has launched a cement bricks factory with investments of EGP 45 million. The factory targets a production capacity of 22,000 units per day to supply the Sun Capital project.

Alteo partnered with Veolia to design, build, and operate a biological wastewater treatment unit at its specialty alumina plant in Gardanne, France. The unit has a capacity of 300 m³/h and cost nearly €6 million.

Ball Corporation operates a beverage can and lid plant in Guarambaré, Paraguay, with total investment of about US$80 million and over 350 jobs, serving Bolivia and northern Argentina.

German industrial concern Magnetec has opened a manufacturing plant in Moldova's Balti Free Economic Zone following a $5 million investment. The plant will employ 70 and is operated through local subsidiary Magnetec Components SRL.

Tsilinderrus signed an agreement to build a plant for portal and horizontal milling machining centers in the Kaluga special economic zone. Investments are 1.5 billion rubles, creating about 100 jobs.

Paulig intends to invest EUR 45 million in a new tortilla production facility in Roeselare, Belgium, to strengthen its Tex Mex market leadership in Europe. Production is expected to start in spring 2022.

Komatsu Mining is constructing a $285 million headquarters and manufacturing campus in Milwaukee's Harbor District, including a 430,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and a 176,000-square-foot office building. The South Harbor Campus will produce mining shovels and is expected to start with approximately 600 employees in 2022.

Acnova Oy opened a new modern factory in Tuusula, Finland, on 1 December 2024, expanding its Private Label production capabilities for cosmetics, household chemicals, and nonwoven-based wipes.

Beijer Ref is constructing a new 22,000 sqm Support Centre at Altitude Industrial Estate, Bankstown, New South Wales, which will serve as the Australian headquarters, including a national distribution centre, office space, training academy, refrigerant decanting plant and refrigeration equipment manufacturing facility.

INEOS Styrolution announced plans to build a greenfield ABS plant in Ningbo, China, with an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes. Construction is expected to start in 2020 and be completed in 2023.

Freudenberg Performance Materials is installing a new sustainable spunlace line in Tayuan Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, to produce nonwovens for diverse markets. The line features AI technology and a recycling system to reduce CO2 emissions.