Valeo broke ground on a $225 million high-tech plant in McAllen, Texas.

Valeo opened a new assembly line for vision cameras at its Sanand plant in India.

Valeo opened an AI development center in Cairo, Egypt, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary in the country.

Valeo North America Inc. will break ground on a new $20 million, 75,000-square-foot facility in Zane Twp., Logan County, Ohio, creating 85 jobs. Construction starts July 2020, completion by winter 2020, operational by spring 2021.

Yorkshire Water, with Gurney Environmental and Stantec, started construction of a new Aero-Fac wastewater treatment plant near Withernsea, UK. The plant will serve nearly 15,000 population equivalent and is the largest Aero-Fac system in the UK.

Airbus broke ground on its first U.S. airplane assembly plant in Mobile, Alabama. The $600 million factory is expected to employ 1,000 people and begin production of the A320 jet around 2015.

Grupo Romagnole invested over R$12 million to install a new business unit, Acrom, in Mandaguari, Paraná, Brazil. The facility can process over 4,000 tonnes of steel per month, producing slit and profiled steel with hot-dip galvanizing for the photovoltaic market.

Nordex Group announced it will complete construction of a new concrete tower production facility in Motilla del Palancar, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, in August 2020. The factory will create an average of 250 direct local jobs.

Accel International Holdings will build a new 150,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Port St. Lucie, Florida, creating 125 jobs by 2021 with a total capital investment of $55 million.

VVDN inaugurated its Global Innovation Park in Manesar, Haryana, India, a 10-acre facility for R&D and electronics manufacturing, with plans to hire 100,000 people over three years.

DEUTZ Corporation opened a new 160,000-square-foot Sequence Center at 596 Bonnie Valentine Way in Pendergrass, Georgia, on July 2, 2020. The center stores parts and engines for value-add products and Xchange remanufactured engines, and has its own production capabilities for value-add kits and Power Packs.

Miwon Specialty Chemical Co. USA broke ground on a 65,000 sq. ft. production facility in Pineview Industrial Park, Columbia, South Carolina. The $20 million plant is expected to be completed in early 2021 and will create 25 new jobs.

Cama Group completed a new R&D and manufacturing centre for packaging machinery in Shanghai, China, to meet increased demand in Asia. The facility will produce a new machine series called CCM (Cama China Manufacturing).

Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) and Saudi-based Engineering Dimension International Investment LLC (EDII) signed a joint venture agreement to set up an integrated cement and clinker plant in Sunamganj, Bangladesh. The plant will have a capacity of 12,000 tonnes of clinker and 3,000 tonnes of cement per day.

The 1.95GW South Helwan supercritical power plant in Helwan, Egypt, was completed in July 2020 with the performance test of Unit 3. The $2.4 billion project was developed by Upper Egypt Electricity Production Company and created approximately 4,000 jobs.

Medicom opened a 60,000-square-foot mask factory in St-Laurent, Quebec in July 2020, with about 30 employees, expected to grow to 100. The plant supports contracts with Quebec and Canada.

Rossari Biotech commissioned a greenfield facility at Dahej, India, in July 2020 with a total investment of Rs. 90 crore. The facility has an installed capacity of 1.32 lakh MTPA and is expected to be fully operational by March 2021.

Miwon Specialty Chemical Co. USA broke ground on a $20 million, 65,000-square-foot production facility at Pineview Industrial Park in Richland County, South Carolina. It will be the company's first U.S. plant, producing raw materials for UV and electron beam markets, and is expected to create 25 jobs.

Quaker Windows and Doors opened a new manufacturing plant in Eldon, Missouri. The projected total investment is $65 million, and the facility is expected to create nearly 300 new full-time jobs once fully developed.

Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corp and Saudi-based Engineering Dimension International Investment have agreed to build a cement plant under the name Saudi Bangla Integrated Cement Co Ltd, with a clinker capacity of 12,000 tpd and cement capacity of 3,000 tpd, expected to provide 700 jobs.

Spain's Saica Group will build its first North American facility, a corrugated manufacturing plant in Hamilton's Enterprise Park near Cincinnati, Ohio, investing nearly $72 million and creating 64 jobs. Construction is expected to start in September 2020 and take eighteen months.

Ball Metal Beverage Container, a division of Ball Corp, signed a lease for 165,000 square feet at the Monroe Logistics Center in Monroe, Ohio, relocating its distribution operations from Trenton. The landlord is Industrial Developments International.

Shick Esteve opened a new technology center in Kansas City that will test and demonstrate its mixing automation, process controls and industrial Internet of Things technology.

Intrachem Pvt Ltd is constructing a multi-million dollar mining consumables factory in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, which will supply explosives to the local mining industry and save US$20 million annually in imports. The first phase is set for commissioning in September 2020.

Plaspo and Juwang Industry signed investment agreements to build manufacturing plants in the Saemangeum Industrial Complex, South Korea, with a total investment of 19.4 billion won. Plaspo will invest 11.1 billion won in a power conversion equipment plant, and Juwang Industry will build a switchboard plant. The projects are expected to create about 60 new jobs.

Chicago-based General Truck Parts & Equipment will open its first operation in Michigan at 2686 3 Mile Road in Walker, investing over $500,000 and creating 7-10 new jobs in three years.

Chinese MRO GAMECO will construct new component and composite repair facilities at its Guangzhou base, investing about CNY600 million ($84.8 million), with both units operational by June 2022.

Ju Teng International's indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Suzhou Dazhi signed a construction contract to build a new plant in Suzhou, China, with a total consideration of RMB 413 million. Construction is planned to start on July 1, 2020 and be completed by March 31, 2021.

Gaosen Packaging is constructing its fourth beverage can plant in China at Xinzheng in Henan province, invested at RMB350 million (US$50m). It plans trial production of two-piece beverage cans by the end of the year.

Phoenix Contact E-Mobility is building a 15,000 m2 production facility at the Rzeszow-Dworzysko science park in Poland, developed by Panattoni, to make AC and DC charging cables. Completion is expected by end 2020 or early 2021, with production starting in early 2021 and the workforce growing to over 250.

Kexin Electronics signed a project to build a semiconductor R&D and production base in Hangzhou's Economic Development Zone, with a total investment of 600 million yuan. The facility will produce 6-inch GPP chips, 6-inch epitaxial wafers, and TVS chips.

Sinoma International Engineering Co. Ltd. and its subsidiary Hengya Cement Co. Ltd. plan to construct a $1 billion cement plant and power station in Tanga, Tanzania. The factory will produce 7 million tons of cement annually, with 70% for export.

Madhav KRG Group, in association with the International Zinc Association and supported by Hindustan Zinc, launched Asia's first continuous galvanized rebar manufacturing facility near Gobindgarh, Punjab, India. The plant has an annual capacity of over 30,000 tonnes.

Sensirion has selected a site in Debrecen, Hungary for a new sensor factory, with groundbreaking on 30 June 2020. Production is scheduled to start by Q3 2021, creating about 50 jobs initially, expanding to 200 by 2025. Announced on 29 June 2020.

W. R. Grace & Co. has opened a new 8,200 square-meter colloidal silica plant at its Worms, Germany facility, doubling worldwide production capacity and adding 25 high-tech manufacturing jobs. The opening was announced on June 29, 2020.

Wansai Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for its 'annual 4 million sets OEM brake pads and smart manufacturing digital production line project' in Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province. The project involves an investment of CNY 65 million (about $9.2 million) and is expected to be completed and operational by 2022.

Ascensores Tresa has opened a new 8,000-square-meter factory in the Lloreda area of Gijón, Spain, with an investment of EUR 8 million. The facility will triple manufacturing capacity and is expected to be fully operational by July-August 2020.

Ellwood Aluminum, a subsidiary of Ellwood Group, produced its first test casts of 14-inch diameter aluminum rods at its new $72 million aluminum cast house in Hubbard Township, Ohio. Full production is expected by January-February 2021, with some customers supplied as early as September 2020.

Elektroland Defence will build a Bomb Destruction Robot Production, Test, Training and R&D Centre in Gölbaşı, Ankara, Turkey. Construction is planned to start in July 2020 and be completed in 4 months.

Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, opened a new 40,000-square-foot facility in Georgetown, Kentucky, to support engineering and distribution of advanced material handling technologies such as autonomous vehicles.

Florida Can Manufacturing LLC, a subsidiary of CC1, plans to build a $120 million advanced manufacturing plant in Winter Haven, Florida, creating 160 new jobs. Construction is expected to begin in summer 2020, with operations starting later in 2021.

Braskem has completed construction and started commissioning of its polypropylene production unit Delta in La Porte, Texas. The $675 million plant has an annual capacity of over 450 ktonnes and is Braskem's first in the United States.

WestMedGroup opened a production workshop for medical equipment in the Dubna Special Economic Zone, investing over 80 million rubles, producing wall and ceiling medical consoles and quick-release valve systems.

Medicom Group announced plans to open a new mask manufacturing facility in the United Kingdom, producing hundreds of millions of respiratory and medical masks under the Kolmi brand, in partnership with the British Government.

PRI·MED Medical Products announced the development of a new manufacturing facility in Vientiane, Laos, for single-use medical PPE. The facility broke ground in February 2020 and is expected to be operational in the first half of 2021, employing over 300 people.

Millerbernd Manufacturing is building a 110,000-square-foot modular facility in Winsted Industrial Park, Minnesota, to consolidate its ring and cylinder production and add 100 jobs. Completion is expected in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Unilever laid the groundwork for a new China food production base in Taicang, Jiangsu, with a total investment of 100 million euros. The site, scheduled to start operation in early 2022, will initially produce Wall's ice cream with annual capacity of 150,000 metric tons.

Creative Flooring Solutions (CFL) will invest more than $70 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Calhoun, Georgia, creating 300 jobs.

ArcelorMittal is constructing a new rolling mill in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico, with an expected capacity of 2.5 million tonnes of hot-rolled products. The plant will serve automotive, construction, and other industries.

Tosyali Algérie plans to start construction in early 2021 of a 120-hectare steel plant in Bethioua, Oran, with a capacity of 2 million tonnes per year, targeting the automotive and home appliance industries.