Braskem America announced a new Global Export Hub in Charleston, South Carolina, to provide packaging, warehousing and export shipping for polypropylene. The facility is expected to be completed by Q3 2020 with capacity for 450 million pounds annually.

Olympic Steel opened a new 120,000-square-foot metal processing facility in Buford, Georgia, expanding its southeastern US footprint. The facility adds a Mitsubishi fiber optic laser and a 600-ton Verson stamping press.

Bystronic will assemble its BySmart Fiber 3015 laser cutter at a new 164,894-square-foot facility in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, with a total investment of approximately $30 million. The facility will also include a Customer Experience Center and Americas headquarters.

A company from Azerbaijan plans to build a plant in Mangystau Region, Kazakhstan, to produce cables and transformers. The project is valued at 9.1 billion tenge and will create 150 jobs.

TSMC will invest NT$303.2 billion ($10 billion) to build a new chip testing and assembly plant in Miaoli County, Taiwan. Construction will be completed in May 2021, with first phase production starting shortly after, and initially employing about 1,000 people.

Russian company Penzenskiy Zavod Tochnykh Priborov is launching a new production site at the former Penzneftemash territory on Moskovskaya Street in Penza, making oil and gas equipment and adding over 350 jobs.

Belgian manufacturer Ontex Group will invest $96 million in a new 250,000-square-foot plant at South Rockingham Corporate Park in North Carolina, creating 403 jobs. The announcement was made on June 1, 2020.

Vedanta and Foxconn have signed agreements with the Gujarat government to build an integrated semiconductor and display production complex in Gujarat, with an investment of Rs 1.54 trillion ($19.4 billion). The complex is expected to be operational by 2024.

BAC (Dalian) Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Baltimore Aircoil Company and Dalian Bingshan Group, broke ground on a new factory and Asia-Pacific R&D center in Dalian Hi-tech Zone, with an investment of RMB 250 million. The new plant is expected to begin operations by end of 2021, tripling current capacity.

BAC China, a joint venture between Dalian Bingshan Group and US-based BAC, broke ground on a new factory and Asia-Pacific R&D center in Dalian's High-tech Zone. The investment is 250 million yuan, with the new facility expected to begin operations by the end of 2021 and triple current capacity.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Western Semiconductor Integrated Circuit High-Tech Industrial Park project in Mianyang, Sichuan, with a total investment of 8.026 billion yuan. The project will build an 8-inch wafer fab with an annual capacity of 600,000 pieces.

The JAC-VW joint venture will establish an EV factory in Hefei, China, and launch five more EV models by 2025.

Gemwell Group has started construction of a new factory in Dongtai, Jiangsu province, for the design and manufacture of automatic cable equipment. The total investment is 100 million yuan, and the factory is expected to be completed and put into production in February 2021.

Luoyang Glass' wholly-owned subsidiary CNBM (Puyang) Photoelectric Materials Co., Ltd. started production of its ultra-white solar thermal materials project line on May 28, 2020.

Adani Power received approval from the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission to set up a 1,320 MW supercritical thermal power plant in Madhya Pradesh, with a power purchase agreement with MP Power Management Company Ltd.

Vink Chemicals plans to build a new plant in Schwerin, Germany, for over €20 million, producing industrial preservatives. Construction is expected to start in 2021, with production beginning in 2023, creating 40 jobs.

Hyundai Elevator announced an investment of KRW 127.66 billion to build a new plant in Chungju, South Korea, to improve production capacity and logistics efficiency. The investment period runs until May 30, 2022.

Symrise opened a new production site for flavorings and fragrances in Nantong, China, representing its largest individual investment of €50 million.

WABCO Automotive Control Systems started production of a heavy-duty truck automatic transmission shift mechanism project in Qingdao West Coast New Area, as part of five projects totalling nearly 700 million yuan.

Shandong Xinghua Construction Group put into operation phase one of its Xinghua Logistics Innovation Industrial Park in Qingdao West Coast New Area, as part of five projects totalling nearly 700 million yuan.

Unix Packaging, a California-based beverage contract manufacturer, will invest $19 million to open its first East Coast manufacturing facility in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, creating 226 new jobs.

Cemento Chagres announced the start of operations of its new cement plant in Pacora, Panama. The plant will generate approximately 45 direct and 400 indirect jobs.

Danimer Scientific purchased a location in Winchester, KY in December 2018 and retrofitted it to open the world's first commercial PHA production facility. The facility began operations and sold its first full truckload of PHA resin in January 2020.

Huntsman inaugurated a new 22,000 t/y aromatic polyester polyols plant at its polyurethane systems house in Kuan Yin, Taiwan. The facility processes used PET bottles and is Huntsman's first such plant outside the US.

AAC Technologies signed an investment agreement with Ma'anshan Zhengpugang New District on May 26, 2020, to build a precision components R&D and manufacturing project with a total investment of approximately 3 billion yuan. The project will include a new 100,000-square-meter plant.

Al Sahawa Cement Company, a subsidiary of Oman Cement Company, is establishing a new integrated cement plant in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm, Oman. The total investment is estimated at $212 million, with a 5,000 tpd clinker production unit and a cement grinding unit.

Shanghai Baosteel Packaging plans to build a beverage can plant in Malaysia at a cost of RMB461 million (US$66 million), its second project outside China after Saigon, Vietnam.

Calbee announced plans to build a new state-of-the-art mother factory in Saeki Ward, Hiroshima City, on a 100,000 m² site. The first phase will begin construction in April 2023 and start operations in April 2024, consolidating the Hiroshima West Factory. Investment in land is JPY 3.78 billion.

Typack-Recipet plans to invest US$5 million in a new thermoformed plastic packaging plant in Mexico, expected to be operational within 15 months.

BioPappel announced the start of operations at its new Lebanon, Indiana plant, run through subsidiary US Corrugated Co., its sixth industrial unit in the United States.

GMM Pfaudler Ltd's board approved a greenfield manufacturing facility for Glass Lined Equipment in Hyderabad, Telangana, with an investment of INR 500 million. The facility will add 500 Equivalent Units of capacity and is expected to be completed within 12 to 18 months.

Ningbo Xusheng Auto Technology will invest 1.92 billion yuan to construct an intelligent automation production plant with annual capacity of 10 million lightweight aluminium alloy auto parts. Construction begins in July 2020, completion expected June 2023.

The new Abay Cement Factory in Ethiopia is nearly 60% completed and will boost annual cement production capacity by 2.5 million tonnes. The plant is being developed by Abay Industrial Development Share Company and will start production in 2021.

JM Steel announced it will share the Sinton, Texas location of Steel Dynamics' flat roll steel mill. The company expects to hire 50 employees, and the plant is expected to produce 3 million tons per year using electric arc furnace technology.

Dobrush Paper Factory 'Geroy Truda', part of the holding 'Belarusian Wallpaper', is building a modern plant for coated and uncoated three-layer cardboard in Dobrush, Belarus. First production is expected by the end of 2020, with full capacity by 2022.

Nano Co., Ltd. completed a new production line for LNG power plant deNOx filters at its headquarters in Sangju, South Korea, with an investment of 5 billion won, expecting 10 new jobs and 10 billion won in annual sales.

Centerprice plans to invest $60 million to build a medical device sterilization plant in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The project is expected to create 2,000 direct and 10,000 indirect jobs, with construction starting in July 2020.

O'Neal Steel announced the opening of a new 64,000-square-foot metal distribution center in St. Joseph, MO, beginning operations on June 1, 2020. The facility will initially employ up to eight people.

Alro Steel opened a new 194,000-square-foot facility in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, replacing its previous 66,000-square-foot location. The facility opened in mid-March 2020 and added 15-20 jobs.

Nestlé is investing in its first production facility in Asia for plant-based products in Tianjin, China.

A project to construct a spunbond (geotextile/agrotextile) production facility in Bashkortostan was approved, with an investment of about RUR 188 million ($2.6 million) for equipment and construction.

3H, a smart acupressure bed manufacturer, signed an agreement with Daegu city to invest KRW 30.2 billion to build a production plant and technology research center in the Medical R&D District, creating 300 new jobs by 2023.

DOMO Chemicals announced plans for a new plant in Zhejiang, China, to produce 50,000 tonnes/year of engineered nylon compounds. The company signed a cloud contract on February 20, 2020, and will invest €12 million.

Leimeng Intelligent Equipment (Hubei) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Guangdong Leimeng Intelligent Equipment Group, started construction of a smart machinery manufacturing park in Songzi, Hubei, with a total investment of CNY 490 million. The first phase of CNY 200 million will produce mobile crushing and screening units.

MM Metals USA LLC received approval to construct a facility in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, to produce ferrochrome alloy for jet engines and rockets. The plant will employ 60-70 people and produce 18,000 tons of ferrochrome annually.

Nusaned Investment and SCHMID Group formed a joint venture to build a 3 GWh vanadium redox-flow battery factory in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, with production planned to start in 2021.

Ataro Klima has invested €10 million in a new smart factory near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, which started operations in early 2020. The facility is a metalworking smart factory that operates without people, with a capacity of 6000-8000 tons of sheet metal per year.

Grodno Glassworks plans to build a new glass production facility in the Auls industrial zone, with a glass furnace capacity of 220 tons per day. The project costs approximately $45 million and will create 126 new jobs. Construction is expected to begin in the first half of 2020 and finish in the second half of 2022.

Carpoly has begun construction of its Anhui Mingguang Green Paint Industrial Park project, with a total investment of 1.26 billion yuan. The first phase will produce 240,000 tons per year of water-based paint and dry powder mortar.

Hempel (Haihong Laoren) held a groundbreaking ceremony on 18 May 2020 for a relocated and expanded paint plant in Yantai Chemical Industry Park. The $100 million investment will produce 102,000 tons of environmentally friendly coatings per year, with completion expected in Q4 2021.