Selzer Group and ASA Group signed an agreement to open a factory for transmission system components for hybrid vehicles in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The factory will create 300 jobs, with production planned to start in early 2021.

Panattoni completed construction of a 44,000 sqm forklift assembly plant in Kołbaskowo, Poland, for Kion Group. The facility includes an R&D centre and office, with production fully operational by spring 2021 and 150 employees.

Aipel (Changzhou) CNC Technology Co., Ltd. laid its foundation stone at Jincheng Industrial Park in Jintan, Changzhou, for a new CNC machine tool and robot production facility. The first phase will take 10 months, with monthly capacity of over 500 CNC machine tools and sales revenue exceeding 1.5 billion yuan.

Honeywell opened a state-of-the-art T55 Repair and Overhaul Center of Excellence near its Aerospace headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, to increase throughput and support U.S. Army and international CH-47 Chinook helicopter fleets.

VIOPOL, a Greek polyurethane systems company, is constructing a new state-of-the-art production facility in 2020. No further details on location or investment are provided.

Aero Precision/Kellstrom Defense (AllClear Aerospace & Defense) signed a lease on a new facility in Greenville, South Carolina, which will serve as a hub for inventory and sustainment initiatives. The site will open in late September 2020 and create highly skilled manufacturing jobs.

Aero Precision/Kellstrom Defense announced a $1.2 million investment to establish a new facility in Greenville, South Carolina, creating 21 manufacturing jobs. The facility is expected to be online by September 30, 2020.

Arneg Argentina announced an investment of over $15 million to build a new plant in Alvear, Santa Fe Province, Argentina, and add new production lines for refrigeration equipment, creating about 100 new jobs.

Hangzhou Zhelong Purification Equipment Co., Ltd. plans to invest 5 million yuan to build a new facility in Taiyang Town, Lin'an District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, to produce 150,000 explosion-proof refrigerated compressed air dryers and 50,000 explosion-proof adsorption compressed air dryers annually.

uLab Systems is expanding into aligner manufacturing with a new state-of-the-art facility in Memphis, Tennessee, with initial capacity to produce 3 million aligners per year. Tracy Bailey was appointed Executive Vice President of Manufacturing to oversee operations.

Vulcan Materials Company celebrated the grand opening of its new aggregates quarry in Lexington County, South Carolina. The 553-acre granite quarry includes buffer areas and community features.

Prime Wheel Mexico is investing $70 million to construct a new plant in Baja California for manufacturing aluminum wheels for automotive customers including Daimler Chrysler, Ford, BMW, Tesla, General Motors and Mitsubishi. The project is expected to create up to 2,000 jobs.

West Berkshire Brewery (WBB) transformed a disused barn in Frilsham Park, UK, into a state-of-the-art brewery and beer filling facility. The plant has a production capacity of 50,000 hl/year and includes a 3-vessel CFT brewhouse.

Komatsu Ltd. is building a new seal ring factory at its Himi Plant 2 in Toyama, Japan, with a total floor area of 8,230 m². The factory will produce seal rings for construction equipment components and aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 50%.

Alu Menziken Group built a new greenfield production site in Satu Mare, Romania, including an aluminium casthouse and two extrusion presses. The casthouse has a capacity of 42,000 metric tons annually and created 250 jobs.

CANPACK Group, through its parent Giorgi Global Holdings, announced a $366 million aluminum can manufacturing facility and operations center on a 102-acre site in Olyphant near Scranton, Pennsylvania. The plant is expected to be operating by Q4 2021 and employ over 400 people.

GE Aviation completed a $42 million advanced-manufacturing facility in Ellisville, Mississippi, adding 250 new jobs. The 309,000-square-foot plant houses high-tech kilns for forming composite components.

JD Fields & Company is breaking ground in Houston on a new state-of-the-art spiral weld pipe mill that will produce heavy wall structural pipe for DOT highway, USACE marine and private port/civil sectors.

Chairmans Foods announced a $13 million investment to build a new 75,000-square-foot production facility in Columbus, Georgia, replacing its existing 30,000-square-foot facility. The new facility is expected to be completed and operational by August 1, 2020, and will create 25 new jobs, with plans to employ 110 people by end of 2021.

Construction of the second line of a cement plant with a capacity of 1 million tonnes per year has started in Koytendag District, Lebap Province, Turkmenistan. The project is being carried out by Türkmen enjam and is expected to be completed in 2022.

Dakota Supply Group (DSG) announced plans to open a new branch in Great Falls, Montana, in early fall of 2020.

Marotta Controls opened a new facility in Parsippany, New Jersey, as a dedicated center of excellence for power and actuation systems, consolidating engineering, testing, and manufacturing under one roof.

Synnex Australia announced a $95 million investment to build a new ANZ head office and automated distribution centre in Melbourne, set to be completed in 2023.

Feralloy Corp. plans to locate a $17.5 million steel processing facility on Nucor Steel Gallatin's campus near Ghent, Kentucky, creating 30 jobs. The 60,000-square-foot plant will cut and level steel coils into sheets, with operations starting in October 2020.

Huide New Materials started the first phase of its plant for PU resin, TPU and other products in Ningde, Fujian on June 18, 2020. The first phase has an annual capacity of 100,000 tonnes of PU resin, 20,000 tonnes of TPU elastomer, 10,000 tonnes modified PU systems and 5,000 tonnes of water-based PU.

Industrial distributor Harrington plans to invest over $2.4 million in a 68,000-square-foot regional distribution center in New Haven, Indiana, retrofitting an existing building, by the end of 2024. The company intends to add up to 20 jobs.

Polynt-Reichhold Group announced on July 13, 2020, its decision to build a 50,000 ton capacity greenfield Maleic Anhydride plant at its Morris, Illinois site.

Hana Micron Inc. began operations at a plant in Vietnam for biometric fingerprint sensor packaging, increasing its capacity to 210 units.

BAE Systems opened a new multi-million-pound smart factory in Warton, Lancashire, to support production of next-generation combat aircraft systems like Tempest. The company aims to additively manufacture 30% of Tempest components and use robots for half of assembly.

Lavango opened a new factory in Minsk, Belarus, this year (2020), planned to employ up to 25 people.

Dugong Cimentos' new 1.8Mta integrated cement plant in Matutuine, Mozambique, is 90% complete. The plant represents a Chinese investment of around US$330 million.

Atlantis-Pak began installing the first production line for a high-barrier film plant at the Rostov Aircraft Plant No. 412, with first output expected in Q1 2021.

Czech company Ariete opened a new production and logistics base in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, producing modules for the automotive industry. The investment is about EUR 20 million, and the base currently provides 1,000 jobs with potential for 400-500 more.

PGI will build a new plant in the World Trade Center Industrial Park in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with an investment of MXN 540 million (USD 27 million). The plant will produce aluminum injection, machining, and precision finishing products for automotive customers, creating 270 jobs and starting operations in the first quarter of 2021.

Alpla, a plastic packaging manufacturer, will spend $21 million on a new plant of about 154,000 square feet in a NorthPoint Development warehouse next to Dayton International Airport. The plant is expected to add 50 jobs by April.

Wacker Neuson SE opened a new compact machine plant in Hörsching, Upper Austria, near Linz Airport. The plant will manufacture tracked and wheeled excavators up to 14 tons, wheel and track dumpers, and skid steer loaders. It is the largest single investment in the company's history.

Bio Pappel, Mexico's largest paper manufacturer, is putting into operation a packaging plant in Lebanon, Indiana, with operations expected to begin in July 2020.

Huaxin Cement Jizzakh, a new 2 million tpa cement plant in the Zafarabad district of Uzbekistan, completed a successful trial production run. The project involved $150 million in investment and will create 1,200 jobs.

METLAC Group inaugurated a new production facility inside its plant in Bosco Marengo, Italy, dedicated to manufacturing coatings for the Beer and Beverage business. The facility has 8 mixing vessels with 35 cubic-metre capacity each and a daily production capacity of 280 tonnes.

FeBa Fensterbau GmbH has broken ground on a new administrative and production building in the Rübgarten 2 industrial area in Burbach, Germany. The €7 million investment will create 3,500 m² of production space, tripling current capacity, with occupancy planned for January 2021 and 30 employees.

ACM Research (Shanghai) Inc. began construction of a new 100,000 square meter development and production facility in the Lingang Special Area of Shanghai, China. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on July 7, 2020.

Nature Alu started up a new plant in La Baie, Quebec, built at a cost of $15 million, to produce purified aluminum ingots (99.99% purity). First production is expected at the end of July 2020, with initial capacity of 3,000 to 4,000 tonnes per year and 14 employees.

Cook Medical broke ground on a new facility at the former General Electric plant in Bloomington, Indiana. The company plans to invest more than $100 million and hire over 500 new employees.

Advent Tool & Manufacturing will relocate its headquarters and production from Antioch, Illinois, to a new 25,000 sq ft building in Salem Industrial Park, Salem Lakes, Wisconsin. The company expects to employ 23 workers by 2022.

Glass Flex, owned by Macedonian-Dutch capital, has started operations at a new glass factory in the Technological-Industrial Development Zone in Tetovo. The investment is €9 million, with 300 jobs planned, and the factory produces tempered and specialized glass for export.

Nouryon will build a manufacturing facility at its Ningbo, China site to produce tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) and tert-Butyl alcohol (TBA), with annual capacity of 35,000 tons, scheduled for completion in H2 2021.

Sorrel Medical opened a new manufacturing facility with state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities in Netanya, Israel, to scale production of wearable drug delivery devices. The facility includes an 80m² cleanroom and will increase production capacity to hundreds of thousands of units per year.

OZ Health Plus has purchased a plant from Oerlikon to establish Australia's first manufacturing plant for spunbond and meltblown nonwovens in Queensland. The plant will commence operations in April 2021.

Azbil announced it will construct a new factory building at its subsidiary Azbil Equipment (Dalian) in Dalian, Liaoning Province, to expand production capacity, with completion planned for early 2022. The article states an investment of 4600 million yuan, though its yen equivalent is inconsistent.

Neles has started operations at its new greenfield valve technology center in Jiaxing, China, announced in October 2018. The plant will produce over 100,000 standard valves per year for customers in process industries.