Suzhou Yisibei Environmental Protection Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. opened a new 7,000-square-meter factory in Suzhou, China, for R&D and production of intelligent industrial wastewater treatment equipment modules.

Gringo, a subsidiary of Grosstek, will start construction in 2020 of a forklift manufacturing plant in the Zelenograd special economic zone. The plant will produce mini- and forklift trucks, with completion planned for 2021.

Zandbergen officially opened a new co-manufacturing facility in Zoeterwoude, Netherlands, dedicated to producing Beyond Meat's plant-based products, including the Beyond Burger and Beyond Sausage.

BMTS Technology will start production in September 2020 at its new turbocharger plant in Novi Sad, Serbia. The facility has 24,000 square meters and the company plans to employ 500 people in the future.

TopPop Packaging has opened a 30,000 sq ft FDA-registered contract manufacturing center in Marlton, New Jersey, producing shelf-stable alcohol-infused ice pops and pouch packaging with capacity above 50 million pouches per year.

SM Steel broke ground on a KRW 150 billion steel plate production plant in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. The plant will have an annual capacity of 100,000 tons.

Medicom Group announced plans to open a second mask production facility in Beaucouzé, France, near Angers, to serve European demand. The plant will start operations in early July 2020, tripling mask production capacity at the two sites in Angers.

Medicom Group announced plans to open a second mask production facility in Beaucouzé, France, as Medicom Kolmi-Hopen Engineering, to serve incremental demand across Europe. The new plant will start operations in early July 2020.

Xpeng Motors opened its Zhaoqing Xpeng Motors Intelligent Industrial Park in Guangdong Province, spanning 3,000 acres with 264 industrial robots across five workshops. The factory was built over 15 months and is run by a 600-person team.

Xingyu Automotive Lighting Systems is investing €60m in a new factory in Nis, Serbia, to produce LED headlights for cars. The factory will be completed by February 2021 and will employ 1,000 people.

Tetra Pak will invest 700 million yuan ($98.9 million) to build a large intelligent closure facility in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, expected to be operational next year. The plant will produce DreamCap closures with an annual capacity of 10 billion caps.

Progroup and Krystals Premier Packaging will invest £20m (€22m) to create a packaging park at Progroup's sheetfeeding site in Ellesmere Port, UK. Progroup will invest in site infrastructure and Krystals in a new production facility.

Logoplaste plans a $35 million, 100,000-square-foot rigid plastic packaging facility on about 16 acres in Lima, Ohio, creating 37 jobs initially and 51 within three years.

Ammeraal Beltech will invest $19 million to construct a new production plant in Buford, Georgia, creating 83 jobs. The facility will manufacture synthetic conveyor belts.

Sun.King Electronics and its subsidiary SwissSEM Technologies AG held the commencement ceremony for an IGBT power semiconductor production base in Jiashan Economic and Technological Development Zone. The first phase will build 2 IGBT wafer backside production lines and 5 testing lines, with an annual capacity of 2 million IGBT modules.

CZM Foundation Equipment has opened a new 48,000 sq.ft. headquarters in Ellabell, Georgia, on 16 acres. The facility will allow the company to double production output to 100 machines per year within 5 years and increase workforce by 25%.

Saint-Gobain will build a new dry mortar plant in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, Russia, with an investment of about $5 million. The plant will produce 60,000 tonnes of dry mortars per year under the Weber-Vetonit brand, with production expected to start in April 2021 and full capacity by end of 2021.

Prime Beverage Group, a new contract beverage manufacturer, will invest $68 million to open its first manufacturing facility in Kannapolis, North Carolina, creating 231 jobs in a 300,000 square foot plant.

Cérélia, a European leader in ready-made doughs and baked goods, will invest over $29 million to build a new 150,000-square-foot production facility in Whitehall, Ohio. First production is expected in Q1 2021, with 120 employees initially.

Adler Pelzer Group (APG) will open a new 100,000-square-foot facility in Oregon, Ohio, investing $10 million and creating about 80 jobs. The plant will manufacture acoustic and thermal components for the automotive sector.

Element 13, LLC, a new start-up, will construct a 60,000-square-foot aluminum billet manufacturing facility on 15.5 acres in Wayne County, Indiana. The investment is $15.8 million.

China Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and Xinguang International Investment Co., Ltd. signed an investment agreement with Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone for the Wusheng Semiconductor IDM project, with a total investment of $3 billion (RMB 21.24 billion). The project plans to produce 40,000 12-inch wafers per month for AMOLED display driver ICs, silicon-based OLED ICs, and CIS chips, with construction starting in Q4 2020.

DiversiTech Corporation is opening a concrete manufacturing plant in Leesburg, Lake County, Florida, with an investment of over $2 million and a commitment to create at least 25 jobs.

Pharma folding-carton maker Faller Packaging plans a new plant in Waldkirch, described as its largest investment in company history, after sales and orders rose during the crisis.

Strata Manufacturing, a Mubadala company, completed construction of the Strata Solvay Advanced Materials (SSAM) facility in Al Ain, a joint venture with Solvay. The 8,500 sqm facility will produce aerospace-grade pre-impregnated carbon fibres for Boeing's 777X programme.

CNH Industrial officially opened a new plant in Cesena, Italy, to manufacture mini excavators and crawler loaders, including electric models. The company invested EUR 12 million in the facility, acquired from Sampierana SpA in late 2021.

Konka Group announced a plan to invest CNY 1.648 billion to build a new refrigeration home appliance industrial park and a smart home appliance production base in Xinxiang, Henan Province, China. The projects include a CNY 1.02 billion refrigeration park and a CNY 320 million smart home appliance base.

Menarini announced a €150 million investment in a new pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Italy, described as the most modern and among the largest of the Group.

内蒙古铁辰工程机械设备有限公司 is building a plant in Jungar Economic Development Zone, Inner Mongolia, to assemble 1,000 unmanned mining vehicles annually. The total investment is CNY 500 million, and the project is under construction.

Oerlikon's Manmade Fibers segment commissioned a new state-of-the-art logistics center with a lift center in Neumünster, Germany, for its Oerlikon Neumag and Oerlikon Nonwoven business units, offering over 250 m² of storage space for more than 25,000 parts.

Ahangarancement JSC and Russia's Eurocement Group started construction of a plant for high-grade dry cement in Uzbekistan. The project costs $160 million, will create 400 jobs, and produce 3 million tons annually. Commissioning is scheduled for September 2020.

Brukspecialisten is establishing Sweden's first large-scale recycling facility for facade bricks in Halland. The plant will have capacity for several million bricks per year and is expected to start full production in autumn 2020.

TUBES plans to open a facility in Bordeaux in the second half of 2020, and will prepare a production location in California from Q1 2021.

Harbin Electric Corporation will build a plant in the Lyudinovo site of the Kaluga SEZ to produce steam turbines and turbogenerators for power units, with an investment of 10 billion rubles and creating about 300 jobs. The agreement was signed on June 3, 2020.

UBC Group plans to build a production facility in the Nizhnekamsk industrial park, investing over 1 billion rubles. The project was approved by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov on June 3, 2020.

Aliplast opened a new plant in Modena, Italy, for the treatment and recycling of rigid plastics. The highly automated facility can produce up to 30,000 tonnes per year of recycled polymers (HDPE, PP) from rigid plastic waste, with low environmental impact.

Members of ACG Group AB set up a new nonwovens fabric converting and single-use garment making-up plant in Borås, Sweden, in just three weeks. The plant employs 80 staff in a 2-shift operation and produces 692,000 finished medical garments per month.

HRC (China Hengrui) will establish a high-performance aerospace composite parts production base in Changshu High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Jiangsu. Phase 1 investment is US$100 million (registered capital US$33.8 million), covering 20,000 sqm with autoclave, OOA and thermoplastic forming technologies.

Bosch Malaysia signed a land purchase agreement in Batu Kawan Industrial Park, Penang, to build a manufacturing facility for semiconductor and sensor testing. Construction starts in 2021, with production commencing in 2023, and about 400 employees expected.

Texas Instruments began construction of a new 870,000-square-foot 12-inch wafer fab in Richardson, Texas, with a planned total investment of $3.1 billion. The facility is expected to start operations in 2024 and will create 625 jobs.

Rheem announced it will begin producing commercial air conditioning units in Dubai, UAE, early next year, creating up to 20 new jobs. The facility will manufacture the Renaissance Xcede line of commercial rooftop units.

Kedi Color (Guangdong Kedi New Material Technology Co., Ltd.) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Mingguang Kedi project in Mingguang, Anhui, China. The facility will produce 30,000 tons of nano water-based pigment pastes, 10,000 tons of water-based functional coatings and inks, and 5,000 tons of nano masterbatches annually. Investment is CNY 320 million, with production expected to start in 2021.

HRC signed an investment agreement with the Changshu local government to establish a serial production center for advanced composite parts for the aeronautic and railway industries. Phase I will have a production area of 20,000 sqm with a registered capital of USD 33.8 million.

Milwaukee Tool purchased 22 acres in West Bend, Wisconsin, to build a 94,700-square-foot manufacturing facility valued at $10 million, creating 50 jobs within three years.

Honeywell announced it will open a new facility in Dhahran Techno Valley, Saudi Arabia, to produce portable and fixed gas detectors, with full production expected in 2022.

Dönsa Tekstil's new socks factory in Yozgat Organized Industrial Zone started production at the end of May 2020. The 20,000 m² facility has a monthly capacity of about 6 million pairs of socks, with potential to expand to 54 million pairs.

Siemens Gamesa is building a 20-hectare offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant in Le Havre, France, which will be the first in the world to manufacture all main offshore wind turbine components under one roof.

BASF started piling work for the first plants at its $10 billion integrated project in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China. The first units include an engineering plastics production unit and a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) manufacturing plant to serve local Chinese and Asian markets.

Climaveneta India commissioned a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Narsapura Industrial Area, Bangalore, India. The 150,000 sq ft plant became fully operational in June 2020, producing air-cooled and water-cooled screw chillers and data center products.

MP Filtri opened its new US headquarters in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, a 30,000 m2 facility with production, assembly, laboratory, and office space, to support expansion in the US market.