Samvardhana Motherson Peguform (SMP) Automotive plans to open a factory in the Dobricevo industrial zone of Cuprija, Serbia. The factory will be built on a 44-hectare lot and employ 450 people.

Reliance Power and JERA are developing a 745MW LNG-fired combined-cycle power plant in Meghnaghat, Bangladesh, through their joint venture Reliance Bangladesh LNG & Power. The plant is expected to be commissioned in 2022.

Ball Corporation plans a new aluminum beverage packaging plant at the former Techneglas site in Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, creating about 230 jobs with an investment of about $360 million over multiple years.

Stanley Black & Decker announced a new $40 million manufacturing plant in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico. The 47,000-square-meter facility will produce power tools and create at least 2,500 jobs by end of 2021, with production starting as early as Q1 2021.

LyondellBasell and Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group completed Phase I of a polyolefin plant in Panjin, China, with an investment of USD 2.6 billion. The plant produces polyethylene, polypropylene, butadiene, and other chemicals.

MAXAM Tire announced the launch of phase one production at a new advanced and automated solid tire factory, serving material handling, skid steer, telehandler and loader segments.

Lindner Recyclingtech held a groundbreaking ceremony on 18 September 2020 for a new 45,000-square-metre headquarters and manufacturing facility in Spittal-Ost, Austria, doubling its capacity.

Elektromontaż Wschód completed electrical installation work for a new EGGER chipboard factory in Biskupiec, Poland.

Daikin plans to build a third manufacturing plant in South India to support its existing plants in Neemrana, Rajasthan, and supply both African and domestic markets.

LyondellBasell and China's Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group have started up their 50:50 joint venture polyolefin complex in Liaoning, China. The facility has a capacity of 1.1 million metric tons per annum and will produce materials for the domestic China market.

Georgia-Pacific announced it is building a $285 million gypsum wallboard production facility near Sweetwater, Texas, adjacent to its existing plant, with startup expected in late 2022 and 120 new jobs.

Grupo Petrópolis' greenfield brewery in Uberaba, Brazil, built with Krones as general contractor and Steinecker brewing lines, started production in September 2020 and reached nearly 6 million cans in a single day in February 2021.

Messer is building a new air separation plant in Vila-seca, Tarragona, with a €35 million investment, producing 2,400 tonnes per day of oxygen, nitrogen and argon, with startup planned for December next year.

Qingdao HKC Microelectronic Co., Ltd. is building a 6-inch new power device production line in Qingdao, Shandong, with a total investment of 2.9 billion yuan. The facility will produce 2.4 million chips and 1 million advanced packaged chips annually.

DAK Americas, a subsidiary of Alpek, is building a 200,000-metric-ton PET plant in Cape Fear, North Carolina.

Alpek is building a 450,000-metric-ton-per-year purified terephthalic acid plant in Altamira, Mexico, scheduled to start up in early 2007.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has built a new $40 million, 120,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Lenexa, Kansas, dedicated to producing viral transport media for COVID-19 testing. The plant was completed in six weeks and adds over 300 jobs, with production capacity of 8 million units per week.

Novo Nordisk launched an insulin pen production line in Iran, the first of its kind in West Asia and East Mediterranean region. The project involved an investment of €70 million and is expected to create at least 150 jobs, producing up to 25 million insulin pens in the first year.

Hyundai Mobis is building its third electric vehicle core parts plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, investing 35.5 billion won (US$30 million). Construction starts in September 2020, with mass production of 150,000 EV module parts per year expected from the second half of 2021.

Ellwood Aluminum, a division of Ellwood Group, constructed and started up a new secondary aluminum casthouse in Hubbard, Ohio. The facility represents the company's first entry into aluminum melting and casting.

Petronas Chemicals Group and LG Chem signed an agreement to build a Nitrile Butadiene Latex (NBL) manufacturing plant at the Pengerang Integrated Complex in Johor, Malaysia. The plant will have an annual capacity of 200,000 tonnes, with construction starting in 2021 and production in 2023.

Siemens invested NOK 100 million ($11.36 million) to open a flexible, highly automated battery factory in Trondheim, Norway. The factory will develop and manufacture energy storage solutions for marine and offshore oil and gas applications.

MFG Solutions announced it will open a new facility in Guanajuato, Mexico, creating 10 jobs. The company manufactures rivets, screws, nuts and other joining products.

Creation Technologies announced it will build a new 205,000-square-foot plant in Hermosillo, Mexico, creating 800 jobs. The plant is scheduled to be operational in Q3 2021.

Milwaukee Tool opened a new $83 million factory in Torreón, Mexico, creating jobs. The plant is part of a wave of new foreign factories in Mexico following the USMCA trade pact.

Soosan Energy Solution completed construction of a new factory in Vietnam for aluminum polymer capacitors. The plant will begin mass production in November 2020, increasing total capacity to 300 million units per year.

FNA Compressors opened a new 36,000 sqm production plant in Haiyan, Zhejiang province, China, its fifth worldwide, employing over 600 people.

German company SMP Automotive, part of Samvardhana Motherson Group, started construction of a car parts factory in the Dobricevo Industrial Zone in Cuprija, Serbia. The factory will employ 450 workers and is expected to be completed by June 2021.

SMP Automotive, a group company of Samvardhana Motherson Group, will build an automotive parts plant in the industrial zone Dobricevo, Ćuprija, Serbia. The plant will employ 450 workers and is expected to complete by June 2021.

Advanced Insulation invested over £8 million in a new 65,000 sq ft factory in Gloucester, UK, to increase capacity for subsea buoyancy products. The company signed a ten-year lease and will transfer buoyancy production from Plymouth to the new facility.

A large refrigerated warehouse complex for Maersk was put into operation in Saint Petersburg, with a total capacity of over 40,000 pallets and a centralized CO2 transcritical refrigeration system of about 2 MW capacity.

LiuGong held the opening ceremony for its East China base large-scale intelligent mining machinery project in Changzhou on August 28, 2020. The project will have an annual output of 3,000 large engineering machines and 4,000 mining machines, with total investment expected to create an industrial cluster worth over 10 billion yuan.

Kuttler Automation Systems (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. held the foundation laying ceremony for its new factory building in Suzhou Industrial Park on August 28, 2020.

Stora Enso plans to build a pilot plant at its Fors Mill in Sweden to produce Cellufoam, a fiber-based foam material for protective packaging. Design and engineering have started, with completion expected in Q4 2021.

Maxam Tire has opened a new advanced and automated solid tyre production facility in Vietnam. Phase one production has launched, and future expansion is being considered.

HELUKABEL's new production and logistics facility in Changzhou, China, covering 25,000 square metres, went into operation at the beginning of 2024, expanding the company's manufacturing capacity in Asia.

Suzhou Yinghuate Scroll Technology Co., Ltd. began construction of a production base for one million scroll compressors per year in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, with a total investment of 200 million RMB and 28,000 square meters of floor space.

Turkish polyester producer Sasa and US-based Koch Industries signed an agreement to build a $935 million purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant in Adana, Turkey. The plant will have an annual capacity of 1.5 million tons and create 400 jobs, with completion expected in 2022.

A $59 million manufacturing factory is coming to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to produce battery trays for electric vehicles. The facility will create over 200 jobs.

Chongqing Mechanical & Electrical's joint venture plans to invest approximately CNY 1.051 billion to build a large power transformer manufacturing base, insulation processing center, and global transformer design center in Liangjiang New Area's Yufu Industrial Park, Chongqing. The project is expected to be completed by December 2022.

Progroup started operating its new PM3 paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, with a containerboard paper machine of 750,000 tonnes annual capacity, raising its output to about 1.85 million tonnes.

Arkhbum JSC is preparing a new corrugated board plant in Ulyanovsk for 2021, with BOBST supplying two packaging production lines worth an investment of €14.2 million.

TSMC announced it will build a new facility in Hsinchu County, Taiwan, to produce 2nm process wafers. The R&D center is already under construction.

CFD Research Corporation broke ground on a new 13,125 square foot Engineering Test Facility in Hollywood, Alabama, with completion expected in January 2021.

DURA Automotive Systems will open a $59 million manufacturing facility in Muscle Shoals, Alabama to produce battery trays for electric vehicles, creating 279 jobs.

Softmed has spent more than $30 million on a new factory in Campbellfield, Melbourne, with a production line capable of making at least 240 million surgical-grade face masks per year.

Perlen Packaging, the Packaging Division of CPH Group, will build a new PVdC film coating plant at its site in Anápolis, Brazil, with a capacity of 6,500 tonnes per year, expected to start operations in Q1 2022. The investment is in the higher single-digit millions.

Petronas Chemicals Group (PCG) and LG Chem will build a 200,000 tons/year nitrile butadiene latex (NBL) plant at the Pengerang Integrated Complex in Johor, Malaysia. Construction is set to start in 2021 with production scheduled to begin in 2023.

Smoothie maker innocent is building its first own bottling plant in the Port of Rotterdam, a greenfield CO2-neutral factory with an investment of US$250 million.

Emma Sleep Co. announced a $2 million investment to open a new export factory near Guadalajara, Mexico, creating 100 jobs.