Allen Bros., a Rainier partner, invested $35 million in a new hybrid apple packing facility in Selah, Washington.

Hormel Foods will spend $60 million to open a new facility in a renovated building in Papillion, Nebraska, which will make Spam, Skippy peanut butter and other products.

Champion Petfoods held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new 426,246-sq.-ft. petfood facility in Acheson, Alberta, Canada. Work began on the facility in 2017.

Snowy Hydro Limited received NSW Government approval to start construction on the Polo Flat segment factory in Cooma, which will produce 130,000 concrete segments for the Snowy 2.0 tunnel. The company will invest $55 million during the five-month construction period, creating 30 construction jobs and 125 operational jobs.

Dymax Corporation will buy about 16 acres in the Gastonia Technology Park and invest up to USD 21.5 million to build an advanced manufacturing operation, creating about 59 jobs within five years.

Shrinath Flexipack agreed to build its first Middle East factory on a greenfield site in KIZAD Polymers Park, Abu Dhabi, with an AED 55 million investment, producing 30,000 tonnes of plastics per year.

Ricon, a subsidiary of the Grimme Group, has built a new logistics center for sieve and conveyor belts in Rieste, Germany, with an investment of EUR 3.5 million. The facility includes a 7,000 sqm hall and an 800 sqm intermediate hall, with capacity for 7,200 belts.

Siemens has opened a new highly-automated maritime battery factory in Trondheim, Norway, to meet growing demand for electric ferry propulsion. The line can supply batteries for 150–200 ferries per year.

GCL System Integration Technology Co., Ltd. (GCL-SI) announced a plan to build a 60GW module factory in Hefei, Anhui Province, with a total investment of 18 billion yuan. The project will be built in four phases from 2020 to 2023, with the first phase expected to start operation in 2020.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems began commissioning of T-Point 2, a new combined cycle power plant validation facility at Takasago Works in Hyogo, Japan. The facility will validate the 1650°C-class JAC gas turbine and is expected to achieve over 566 MW output with nearly 64% efficiency.

StrongPack Ltd. established a greenfield non-alcoholic contract packaging operation in Nigeria, installing four Sidel lines over two years, including a can line, two PET lines and a PET line with Sidel's Actis coating system. The article is dated April 3, 2020.

Gülsan Holding commissioned its MAV Elyaf Nonwoven Spunbond production facility in Çorlu, Tekirdağ, in April 2020 with an investment of 95 million euros. The factory will produce 36,000 tons of nonwoven fabric per year.

Chongqing Yingtian Chuangwang Industrial Co. signed an agreement to build a 1.5 million-unit high-efficiency energy-saving air conditioner production plant in Wuzhou High-tech Zone, Guangxi. The project has a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan and will be built in two phases.

BMW Brilliance, the joint venture between BMW Group and Brilliance China Automotive, began construction of a new Tiexi plant on April 1, 2020. The 3.2 km² plant will have flexible assembly lines for BEVs, PHEVs, and fuel-powered vehicles, and is part of a €3 billion investment to increase total annual capacity to 650,000 units from the early 2020s.

Arglass, a sustainable glass manufacturer, is building its first U.S. plant in Valdosta, Georgia, with a $100+ million investment. The plant will produce custom food and beverage glass containers and is expected to create hundreds of jobs.

Inner Mongolia Xuyang New Materials Co., Ltd. is building a multi-phase plant in Huolinguole, Inner Mongolia, with a total investment of 3.8 billion yuan. Phase I (5万吨 spherical aluminum powder) started trial production on May 1, 2020; Phase II and III are planned.

Standridge Color Corp., a Georgia-based thermoplastics color and additive concentrate manufacturer, will move a new manufacturing facility to Lufkin, Texas. The company plans to invest millions of dollars and hire 15-20 employees, with operations starting by Q3 2021.

Milwaukee Tool will open a new vertically integrated manufacturing plant in West Bend, Wisconsin, expanding its U.S. footprint.

Suzhou Neway Valve Co. began construction in April 2020 of a smart high-performance valve factory in Suzhou High-tech Zone, with phase one investment of RMB 350 million due for completion in May 2021 and total capacity up to RMB 1 billion.

Meidensha is opening a new manufacturing facility of about 60,000 sq ft in Laurens County near Greenville, SC, in April 2020, to expand production of 72kV and 145kV vacuum circuit breakers through subsidiary Meiden America Switchgear.

Robertet has invested R$ 48 million (about EUR 8 million) to build a new factory in Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil. The plant triples production and storage capacity and was officially inaugurated at the end of March 2020.

B&WBC signed a contract on March 31, 2020 to build a new high-end boiler manufacturing plant in Tangshan Caofeidian Industrial Zone, with an annual output value of 700 million yuan and nearly 300 jobs.

Yorkshire Water has begun construction on a new Aero-Fac wastewater treatment works near Withernsea, as part of a £26 million scheme to move the existing plant inland due to coastal erosion. The plant will serve nearly 15,000 people.

Chongqing Wankai New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. held a commissioning ceremony for the first phase of its 1.2 million tpa food-grade PET plant in Fuling, Chongqing. The total investment is CNY 3.6 billion, with phase one costing about CNY 2 billion. The project will create over 800 jobs.

Sinopec Yizheng Chemical Fiber started up a 500-tonne-per-year meltblown fabric production line on March 29, 2020, after 35 days of construction. The line has over 95% domestic equipment, and 16 lines are expected to be fully operational by May 2020.

GTA Semiconductor (Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing) opened a new CNY39.5 billion ($5.1 billion) wafer factory in Shanghai's Lin-gang Special Area, with capacity for 60,000 eight-inch, 3,000 12-inch, and 5,000 six-inch wafers per month, reaching mass production in 2020.

Detmold Group has reached an agreement with Australian governments to supply 145 million respirator and surgical masks, investing over $1 million and hiring up to 160 extra staff at a new facility in Brompton, South Australia. Production will start by May 2020.

Universal Alloy Corporation has put its Sunshine Aerospace Components Factory in Da Nang, Vietnam into operation. The $170 million facility will produce over 5,000 aerospace components for Boeing and other customers, with phase 1 operational and phase 2 expected in April 2020.

Prince Rubber and Plastics acquired a new 45,000 sq ft facility at 45 Hazelwood Drive in Buffalo, NY, and completed the move in August 2020 to expand production, inventory capacity, and shipping efficiency.

Peab has been commissioned to build a new carbon dioxide neutral factory and office building for Komatsu Forest in Umeå, Sweden, worth SEK 650 million. The factory will manufacture the next generation of forestry machines and is expected to open in 2021.

Saudi Arabia's petrochemical company and SK Gas Petrochemical will build a propane dehydrogenation and propylene facility in Jubail Industrial City, with a combined investment of $1.8 billion. The plants will produce over 1.6 million tonnes of propylene and polypropylene annually, with commercial operations expected by the second half of 2024.

OOO NPO Tekhnokompleks is preparing to launch production of block-modular water and wastewater treatment stations and reverse osmosis units at the Petrovsk advanced development territory in Saratov Oblast, with investments of 12-13 million rubles.

Shandong Linglong Tire plans to invest CNY4.9 billion ($691 million) in a new tire factory in Changchun, Jilin province, China. The plant will produce 12 million semi-steel radial tires, 2 million all-steel radial tires, and 200,000 all-steel re-tread tires annually by 2025.

Flamco, an expansion vessel maker owned by Aalberts, is relocating its offices, distribution centre and expansion vessel production from Bunschoten to a new building in Almere, Netherlands. The first pile has been driven and the move is expected in Q1 2021.

Universal Alloy Corporation Vietnam has put into operation a $170 million aerospace component manufacturing plant in Da Nang, Vietnam, with a design capacity of 12,470 metric tons per year. The plant will supply over 4,000 components to Boeing.

Türkmen senet business entity opened a plant in the industrial zone of Ak Bugday etrap, Turkmenistan, producing span bond nonwoven material with an output of 2,500 tons per year, using locally produced polypropylene.

COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages signed an agreement with Guian New Area on March 27, 2020 to build a beverage factory with two soft drink production lines and a 270 million yuan investment. Completion is expected by end of 2021.

Millitec Food Systems Ltd has invested £1.2 million in a new 20,000 sq ft factory in Draycott, Derbyshire, which will create around 40 new jobs. The site makes food production equipment and supports its planned expansion.

Kanga Loaders USA has established a facility in Dyersville, Iowa, to support its expansion into the North American market. The company launched its range of compact utility loaders at the ARA show in February 2020.

Wetterbest, part of TeraPlast Group, inaugurated a new production facility in Băicoi, Romania, following an investment of 44.5 million lei. The plant has an annual capacity of 10 million square meters of metal tile and created 42 new jobs.

SKC completed construction of a high-end blank mask factory in Cheonan, South Korea, with an investment of about 43.0 billion won, and began producing prototypes for customer certification. The factory is part of a planned semiconductor material cluster.

Irkutsk Oil Company (INK) selected Turkish contractor Gemont to build the Irkutsk Polymer Plant (IZP) in Ust-Kut, Irkutsk region. The 650,000 t/yr polyethylene plant involves an investment of 168 billion rubles and is expected to start operations in 2023.

TeraPlast Group opened a new Wetterbest factory in Băicoi, Romania, with an investment of 44.5 million lei. The factory will employ over 350 people and have an annual production capacity of 10 million square meters of metal tile.

myenergi announced plans for a new 15,500 sq ft flagship headquarters on a £2.6 million business park development in Lincolnshire, UK. The move will increase production and manufacturing capacity.

Exel Composites is building a new manufacturing facility in Kapfenberg, Austria, with an estimated cost of EUR 7 million. The project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2020.

VINCI Construction Grands Projets is designing, building, operating and maintaining phase 1 of a wastewater treatment plant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a peak capacity of 34,000 cubic metres per hour. The plant will serve about 1.4 million people.

HUBER SE, as part of a consortium, commissioned one of the largest sewage sludge belt drying plants worldwide at the Bello wastewater treatment plant in Medellin, Colombia, with a contract value over EUR 44 million.

Xinfengming Group plans to build a production project for functional polyester fibers and PTA in Zhejiang Dushan Port Economic Development Zone with an investment of CNY 13 billion (USD 1.8 billion). The project includes 4 million tons of PTA and 2.1 million tons of differentiated and functional fibers per year.

SuperPower, a subsidiary of Furukawa Electric Co., will build a new 47,000 sq ft operations center at the Airport Business Park in Glenville, New York. A.E. Rosen has been chosen as the electrical contractor.

Dunapack Packaging, part of the Austrian Prinzhorn Group, plans to invest about EUR 52 million in a new packaging plant in Dunavarsány, near Budapest, Hungary, scheduled to open in summer 2021 with 200 workers and capacity of 240 million square metres. The plan was reported on March 23, 2020.