Sedrus, a Moscow-based dry mortars producer, is planning to commission a new plant in the Ulyanovsk region by the end of 2020. Investments are estimated at about 650 million rubles, with initial capacity of 192,000 tons per year.

Industrial valve maker CIRCOR has opened a new 6,000 square metre plant in China. The city was not named in the article.

Qioptiq, a subsidiary of Excelitas Technologies, held a ground-breaking ceremony on 18 May 2020 for a new factory in Göttingen, Germany. The €25 million investment will add cleanroom capacity for complex optical systems.

Wells, a precast concrete provider, announced the grand opening of a new 122,673 sq. ft. office and production facility in Brighton, Colorado. The facility consolidates two existing Denver plants and increases capacity with long line prestressing forms.

INOX Market North America, a subsidiary of Italy-based INOX Market Service, plans to build a new 139,800-square-foot facility in Delaware County, Indiana, investing over $15 million and creating 100 jobs.

IRIS USA is preparing to start production in fall 2020 at its new 500,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility in Humboldt Industrial Park, Pennsylvania, with an $80 million investment and plans to hire 40 full-time positions initially, with a commitment to create 95 jobs over three years.

INVISTA Nylon Chemicals is progressing with its adiponitrile (ADN) plant at Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, with a groundbreaking ceremony planned for June 16, 2020. The over $1 billion investment will produce 400,000 tons/year of ADN.

Abay Cement Factory, by Abay Industrial Development Association, is constructing a new cement plant in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia with an investment of 8.8 billion birr ($262 million). The plant will have a capacity of 2.5 million tons per year and create 1,500 jobs, with construction 60% complete and operations expected to start in 2021.

Blonde Technology's subsidiary Ningbo Blonde plans to build a 1.2 million ton/year polypropylene thermoplastic elastomer and modified materials plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang, with a total investment of about 6.2 billion yuan ($870 million).

Komatsu Mining Corp announced plans to build a new 2.5 million-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing campus in Milwaukee's Harbor District, with a $300 million investment. The project is expected to be completed in 2022.

Rexam plans to build two £50 million can manufacturing plants, one in Sri City in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, and one in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The investment totals £100 million.

Toshiba Carrier is establishing a new manufacturing subsidiary in Gniezno, Poland to produce air conditioning and heat pumps for the European and UK market. The investment is approximately 3 billion Japanese yen, with production scheduled to start later in 2020.

Siemens has submitted plans for a £200 million ($258 million) train factory in Goole, England, expected to create around 700 jobs. The facility will produce tube trains for London's Piccadilly Line and is anticipated to be in full operation by 2025.

Airbus has broken ground on a new $300 million A220 aircraft assembly facility in Mobile, Alabama. The plant will assemble four A220s per month and create over 400 jobs, with production expected to begin in Q3 2019.

Vestas announced plans to invest in a new turbine assembling and testing facility in Geelong, Australia, at the former Ford Motor factory. The facility will serve Tilt Renewables' Dundonnell wind farm and Global Power Generation's Berrybank wind farm, and will involve a partnership with Marand Precision Engineering.

Boeing opened its first European manufacturing site in Sheffield, UK, with a $51mn investment. The 6,200-square-metre factory will produce actuation system components for the 737 and 767 jets, shipping parts to Boeing's Portland facility in Oregon.

VSMPO-Avisma and Boeing launched a joint venture to open a new manufacturing facility in Sverdlovsk, Russia, with an investment of 5.5bn roubles ($82.3mn). The facility will produce titanium forgings for Boeing commercial airplane programs including the 787 MAX, 787 Dreamliner, and 777X.

Zoomlion started construction on a new 100-hectare excavator factory in Changsha, China. The plant will produce 33,000 excavators annually, worth $2.8 billion, and will use AI and IIoT technologies.

Infineon Technologies announced a €1.6 billion investment in a new fully automated 300mm wafer power semiconductor factory in Villach, Austria. Construction starts in H1 2019, with operations expected in 2021, creating 400 jobs.

ArcelorMittal Tailored Blanks opened a new steel plant in Detroit, Michigan, on February 26, 2020. The $83 million facility covers 310,000 sq ft and will employ over 80 people, scaling to 120.

Novelis has announced plans to build a $300 million aluminium plant in Guthrie, Kentucky, with a 200,000 metric tonne capacity and 125 jobs, producing flat rolled aluminium for automakers.

Kobelco Construction Machinery USA has opened a $41 million hydraulic excavator production facility in South Carolina, with a 156,000 sq ft plant and capacity of 1,800 units per annum.

Autins Group has leased a 47,000 sq ft factory at Birch Coppice Business Park in Tamworth, UK, for its subsidiary Solar Nonwovens Ltd. to manufacture lightweight micro-fibre Neptune insulation material, as part of a £4 million investment.

Construction work has begun on the world's first all-robot factory in China, run by Shenzhen Evenwin Precision Technology Co. The facility will initially be run by 1,000 robots and cut the workforce by 90% to about 200 employees.

Safran and the Telangana government announced a new plant in Hyderabad's GMR Special Economic Zone to make parts for the CFM International LEAP turbofan engine. The €36 million plant is set to employ 300 workers.

Hota Industrial Manufacturing Co held a beam-raising ceremony for a new smart plant in the Chiayi Dapumei Precision Machinery Park, investing NT$4.2 billion (US$140.23 million). Production is expected to start by the end of 2021, supplying EV components for US and European clients.

Quaker Windows and Doors opened a 200,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Eldon, Missouri, dedicated to commercial aluminum window and door production. The plant began operations on May 18, 2020 and will employ more than 150 new team members.

TSMC announced plans to build and operate an advanced semiconductor fab in Arizona, USA, with 5-nanometer technology, 20,000 wafers per month capacity, and over 1,600 direct jobs. Construction is planned to start in 2021 with production targeted to begin in 2024, with total spending of approximately US$12 billion from 2021 to 2029.

Siko, a sensor and positioning systems manufacturer, has opened its new plant in Bad Krozingen, representing an investment of around EUR 13 million.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) selected Arizona for a new advanced semiconductor factory with 20,000 wafer/month capacity. Construction starts in 2021, production targeted for 2024, creating over 1,600 jobs.

Severny Fanerny Kombinat (Northern Plywood Plant) is building a laminated plywood plant in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, with an investment of nearly 2 billion tenge. The plant will produce 18,000 cubic meters of laminated birch plywood per year, creating 150 jobs.

Alageum Electric is building a transformer manufacturing plant in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, on a 17,000 m2 site. The plant will produce 13,000 transformers per year worth 12 billion tenge, creating 300 jobs. Reconstruction is underway.

Rage Corp., based in Hilliard, Ohio, plans to invest $34 million in a new packaging plant in Virginia, where it already operates a plant in Altavista.

Crown Cork and Seal USA, a subsidiary of Crown Holdings, has begun construction on a $147 million, 327,000-square-foot facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Once complete, 126 people will work at the site.

Global auto supplier Marelli will open an interior unit manufacturing plant in Bowling Green, Ohio, hiring 75 employees. The plant will produce about 760,000 bulkhead components per year, with construction completed by early 2021 and first production in May 2022.

NorthWestern Energy will begin construction in July 2020 on an $84 million, 58-megawatt natural gas-fired generation plant near Huron, South Dakota.

South Korean Kyungshin Cables will start building a factory for automotive electronic components in Smederevska Palanka, Serbia, investing €24 million.

Charlotte Pipe and Foundry will build a new cast iron foundry on a 428-acre site in Oakboro, Stanly County, North Carolina, investing at least $325 million, with operations possibly starting in Q3 2023. The company is also evaluating options for its current Charlotte site.

An Phat Holdings plans to build a factory making compostable materials at Nam Dinh Vu Industrial Zone in Haiphong, designed for over 20,000 tonnes per year and slated for completion by end-2021.

HSW's Board of Directors approved an investment of 375m RMB to build a manufacturing and assembly plant in Qingdao, China, with construction starting at end of Q1 2020 and completion within a year.

Sinoma International Engineering announced the construction of a 1.0Mt/yr integrated cement plant with a lime production line in Lubudi Territory, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, costing US$236m.

Hunan Jinlei Southern Cement Co., Ltd. plans to invest 1.5 billion yuan to build a green building materials industrial park in Zixing, including a 5000 t/d clinker production line with annual capacity of 1.5 million tonnes clinker and 2.4 million tonnes cement. Construction is scheduled to start in June 2020.

Staunton River Plastics Inc., a subsidiary of Rage Corporation, will construct a 250,000-square-foot facility at the Southern Virginia Multimodal Park in Hurt, Virginia, with a $34 million investment, creating 200 jobs. Construction begins in summer 2020.

FOEN Group's new aluminum profile project in Hejiang, Luzhou, with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons and total investment of about 2 billion yuan, has started production. The first phase will build over 40 production lines with 120,000 tons annual capacity.

BNS, a Daeyeol Boiler affiliate, signed an MOU to invest 7 billion won to build a new plant in Seosan Auto Valley Industrial Complex by 2022, creating 20 new jobs.

Daeyeol Boiler signed an MOU to invest 22 billion won to build a new industrial boiler production plant in Seosan Auto Valley Industrial Complex by 2022. The company will invest 15 billion won and create 20 new jobs.

Diedrich Roasters announced a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Ponderay, Idaho, consolidating three locations into one plant to produce specialty coffee roasting equipment.

Guizhou Cenwen Chemical is constructing a plant in Weng'an, Guizhou, for 50,000 t/y phthalic anhydride, 20,000 t/y plasticizer, and 100,000 t/y unsaturated resin, with total investment of RMB 762 million. The plasticizer unit is expected to start trial operation in July 2020.

Evonik and Xin'an Group have started construction of a 9,000-ton-per-year fumed silica project in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, with a total investment of 470 million yuan. The plant is expected to start operation in the second quarter of 2021.

Turkish firm Yaris Kabin will establish its first foreign production unit in Iváncsa, Hungary, with an investment of EUR 20.3 million. The facility will manufacture tractor and agricultural machinery cabins, creating 150 jobs, with production expected to start in early 2021.