Kubota will transfer part of its compact track loader production for North America to a new plant in Salina, Kansas, run by subsidiary Great Plains Manufacturing. Mass production is set to start in 2022, with an investment of about $53 million.

South Korea-based Caris is considering building a cement plant in the Beruni region of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. A feasibility study is underway before arranging finance.

Kawamura Electric Industries announced it will build a new plant in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, to increase production capacity of distribution boards and high-voltage receiving equipment by 1.4 times. The plant is expected to start operations in April 2023 with an investment of about 7 billion yen.

Nantong Xingchen's new-generation plant of 30,000 t/y polyphenylene ether (PPE) started up and is running. The project, with a total investment of 1 billion yuan, began construction in August 2018 and brings Bluestar's total PPE capacity to 50,000 t/y, ranking No. 2 in the world.

Futurepump opened its new Chibhda factory on a two-acre campus near Rajkot, Gujarat, ahead of schedule. The facility has tripled production capacity to over 2,000 pumps per month.

John Soules Foods began construction on a new facility in Valley, Alabama, with a total investment of $151 million across three phases. The plant will create over 500 jobs and produce more than 200 million lbs of fully cooked beef and chicken products annually, with completion expected in summer 2021.

Dangote Cement will test run a new $90 million gas-fired power plant in Mtwara, Tanzania, later in August 2020, with full commissioning expected in November 2020. The plant will supply the Mtwara cement factory and reduce reliance on coal imports.

Montague is developing a $64 million greenfield automated packaging and export processing centre in Narre Warren North, Victoria. The 18,000m2 facility will have capacity to process 42 million kg of fresh fruit annually.

Taizhou Zhongteng Chemical Materials Co., Ltd. built a new factory, Jiangxi Yuhang New Materials Co., Ltd, with a total investment of 300 million yuan to meet growing supply demands.

Southern Champion Tray will invest $84.9 million in a new paperboard packaging manufacturing facility at the Centre South Riverport Industrial Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee, creating more than 120 jobs. Construction is expected to start in early 2021 and finish by early 2022.

Canadian flexible packaging company Rootree Inc. opened a second location in Montréal, Québec, to serve French-speaking and Québec-based clients, as the company grows its customer base across North America.

Confluent Medical Technologies opened a new Complex Catheter Design and Development Center in Austin, Texas, to support rapid prototyping and pilot production for electrophysiology and neurovascular catheters.

Interroll completed construction on a second plant on its campus in Hiram (Atlanta), Georgia, with an $11 million investment. The 100,000 sq ft facility provides manufacturing and warehousing space for conveyor and sorter solutions.

Kilsaran's new state-of-the-art precast facility in Arthurstown was officially opened by Minister James Browne.

Nidec Industrial Solutions opened a new $12 million, 67,000-square-foot facility in Cleveland, Ohio, bringing together 130 employees from three separate locations. The facility was occupied in March 2020 and manufactures encoders, controls, and automation systems.

PMS Metal Profil Alüminyum is building its fourth factory on 100 dönüm of land in TEKNOSAB, Bursa, Turkey, with an investment of €50 million. The new facility will enable fully integrated production of aluminum profiles and sheets.

Samsung Electronics will start construction of its third chip fabrication facility (P3) in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, in September 2020. The company plans to invest over 30 trillion won (US$25.2 billion) in the facility, which is expected to be its largest chip fab in Pyeongtaek, with mass production potentially beginning in the second half of 2023.

Zamzam Iran is completing a 22-hectare can-making plant in Kermanshah's Bistoun Industrial Park, with a capacity of 110,000 cans per hour and an investment of EUR 60 million and IRR 1,100 billion. The plant will produce aluminum cans for beverages.

Singular Aircraft is planning a MX$300 million (US$13.4 million) investment to build an aerospace industrial park in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. The first stage will be completed in nine months, with potential to generate 9,000 jobs over 10 years.

PatienTech LLC is opening a production facility in Maysville, Kentucky, with a $1.8 million investment expected to create up to 100 jobs. Equipment deliveries have begun, and the plant will produce smart bed components.

A 500 MVA power transformer is being established in New Mansoura city, Egypt, at a total cost of $27.6 million. The first phase will have a capacity of 300 MVA.

Shayona Cement Corporation plans to construct a new factory in Mzuzu, Northern Region, with a capacity of about 100 metric tonnes per day. The project's success depends on stable electricity supply.

Polish plastics packaging maker TW Plast leased an 8,000 m² hall at Accolade's industrial park in Mińsk Mazowiecki to produce type II surgical masks, reportedly one of Europe's largest such plants.

PRIMED Medical Products announced its intent to establish a new major medical manufacturing facility in Canada for PPE production, including surgical masks and N95 respirators. The facility will create 40-50 jobs and operations are expected to commence by Fall 2020.

Bell Textron Inc. announced the official opening of a new facility in Wichita, Kansas, to support multiple Bell programs and business areas including Engineering, Supply Chain, Professional Manufacturing and Corporate Services.

Oji announced a new corrugated packaging plant in Malaysia with 7 million m² per month capacity on a 42,000 m² site, to be operated by subsidiary United Kotak Berhad at a cost of about JPY4bn. Production is scheduled to start in January 2022.

Macro EMS, part of Macro Group, started construction of a new electronics contract manufacturing plant in the Obukhovo industrial zone of St. Petersburg. The plant will have an area of about 4,000 sq m with an investment of over RUB 500 million, adding three new surface-mount lines to increase production capacity more than threefold.

Ibstock has announced plans to build a new production site in Walsall, West Midlands, UK, for an investment of £45 million. The facility will replace an existing factory and have an output of 80 million bricks per year, with commissioning expected in 2022.

Xi'an Yanliang National Aviation High-tech Industrial Base began construction of 20 key projects on August 4, 2020, with a total investment of 10.66 billion yuan ($1.53 billion), including an aviation processing and manufacturing base by Guanglian Aviation and a technology application center by Xi'an Turbo Technologies.

Tong Engineering completed and commenced operation of its new £3.6 million manufacturing facility in Spilsby, UK. The first phase building is part of a two-phase project on a seven-acre site, featuring increased production capacity and state-of-the-art equipment.

Tri-Seal, a Tekni-Plex business, invested US$1 million in a new closure liner manufacturing plant in Greater Noida, India. The 8,000 sqm facility is 60% larger than the previous location and includes foil laminating, rotogravure printing, and inspection equipment.

Moog is developing a new 184,000 square foot manufacturing facility for its Aircraft Group in Tewkesbury, UK. The facility will incorporate engineering and administration offices and is expected to be operational in 2023.

INVISTA Nylon Chemicals (China) Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 400,000-ton/year adiponitrile (ADN) plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park. The investment is more than 7 billion RMB (over $1 billion).

Japan Polypropylene and its 50:50 joint venture partner IRPC of Thailand started commercial operations at a 140,000 tonnes/year polypropylene compounding plant in Chonburi Province, Thailand. The plant is fed directly from an upstream 300,000 tonnes/yr PP polymerization plant.

RAMPF New Material Technology (Nantong) Co., Ltd. broke ground on a new factory in Nantong, Jiangsu, with an annual capacity of 6,000 tons of potting and sealing materials. The total investment is about 15 million euros, and production is expected to start in the second half of 2021.

Packaging Corporation of America may spend up to $170 million to move its Newark plant from South 21st Street to a new, larger facility on Thornwood Drive, subject to city and county approval. The proposal was reported on August 5, 2020.

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSA) has established a new factory to produce the fifth-generation TF-X national fighter jet, with a total construction plant area of over 63,000 square meters. The factory includes advanced manufacturing technologies like 3D printing and titanium alloy production.

Bajkmont is building a new factory for steel structure production in Rugvica, Croatia, with a total investment of approximately 75 million Croatian kuna (about EUR 10 million). The 14,500-square-meter facility is in the final phase of construction.

The Novotroitsk soda plant was launched in Orenburg Region, Russia, with capacity to produce over 150,000 tons of dry mixtures, 100,000 tons of building lime, and 100,000 tons of soda ash annually. The project created over 400 jobs and was supported by a RUB 1 billion loan from the Single-industry Towns Development Fund.

Woodson Semiconductor Technology will build a $3 billion (3 trillion won) semiconductor IDM project in Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone, producing OLED driver chips, display chips, and CIS image sensors. Construction of the first phase starts in October 2020, with trial production in April 2022. The project is a joint investment by China Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and Taiwan Xinguang International Group.

China Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and Taiwan Shin Kong Group jointly invested $3 billion to build an OLED display chip production project in Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone. The project, using an IDM model, will produce OLED display driver chips, silicon-based OLED display chips, and image sensor CIS chips, with a monthly capacity of 40,000 12-inch wafers and an annual output value exceeding 6 billion yuan.

TBEA Co., Ltd. is investing about $240 million in a green energy industrial park in Vadodara, Gujarat, India, covering 43.88 hectares, to manufacture power transmission and renewable energy equipment. Phase 1 (2012-2020) is operational with 2,000 MVA annual capacity; Phase 2 and 3 are planned.

Angostura commissioned a state-of-the-art Water Resource Recovery and Anaerobic Digester facility in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on August 3, 2020. The multi-million-dollar project was delayed by four months due to COVID-19 border closures.

Pact Group, Cleanaway Waste Management and Asahi Beverages formed a joint venture to build a A$45 million PET plastic recycling plant at the Nexus Precinct in Albury/Wodonga, NSW, expected to be operational by December 2021.

Cielo Azul Cementos y Calizas built a cement plant in Treinta y Tres, Uruguay, with an investment of approximately $140 million and a capacity of 600,000 tonnes of cement per year. The plant became operational in 2021.

Volpi Foods is constructing an 87,000-square-foot meat slicing and packaging plant in Union, Missouri, adjacent to its existing prosciutto plant. The facility is expected to be completed by summer 2021.

Zhongshan JSWAY CNC Machine Tool Company held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new precision CNC machine tool production plant in the Intelligent Industrial Park, Banfu Town, Zhongshan City, China. Construction has fully started.

Airbus established a joint venture, Airbus Helicopters Hungary Kft., with the Hungarian state (30% stake) to build an aircraft parts manufacturing plant in Gyula, Hungary. Production is expected to start in mid-2022.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) plans to invest $7.6 billion to build a new integrated circuit production base at the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area. The joint venture will focus on 28nm and above mature processes, with first-phase capacity of 100,000 12-inch wafers per month.

Canpack has started commercial production of aluminum beverage cans at its greenfield plant in Stříbro, near Plzeň. The plant supplies Plzeňský Prazdroj and will produce about 1 billion cans a year, with an investment above EUR 100 million and over 140 jobs.