Continental Capital will build an integrated steel complex in Nuevo León, Mexico, with an initial capacity of 1 million tonnes of special steels per year, expandable to 3 million tonnes. The investment is $2 billion and the complex is expected to be ready in 2023.

Rönesans Holding and Sonatrach plan to build a polypropylene production plant in Ceyhan, Turkey, with an investment of $1.2 billion and an annual capacity of 450,000 tons. The facility is expected to be completed in 2023.

Fabreex opened a new textile production facility in Uzlovsky District, Tula Region, Russia. The investment was 300 million rubles, creating over 80 jobs, and the plant will produce 1,500 tonnes of synthetic and natural knitted fabric annually.

Briggs & Stratton announced it will open a new Advanced Battery Manufacturing facility in Tucker, GA, with four production lines in a 78,000 sq. ft. facility, to start production in mid-2020.

Barry Callebaut broke ground on a new chocolate factory in Novi Sad, Serbia. The plant will have an initial annual capacity of 50,000 tonnes and represent a total investment of $56 million over five years, creating 100 jobs.

Sulzer has opened a purpose-built service centre in Riyadh offering maintenance, repair, reverse engineering and retrofit services for all pump types. The centre sits on the same site as the Sulzer Saudi Pump Company factory.

Catalan packaging maker Alucan plans a new high-speed aluminium packaging line in Belgium with an annual capacity of 40 million units. COFIDES will provide a 3.7 million euro co-investment loan toward a total investment of 13.2 million euros.

Nidec Corp began construction of a new electric motor plant in Jinpu New Area, Dalian, Liaoning province, China. The company is investing 100 billion yen ($931 million) and the factory is expected to begin operating in 2021, producing up to 3.6 million motors per year for new-energy vehicles.

Saab plans to build a $37 million plant in West Lafayette, Indiana, to manufacture fuselages for a new U.S. Air Force training jet. The city has approved tax incentives for the project.

Fancl's subsidiary Fancl Biken opened a new dedicated production plant for Mild Cleansing Oil in Nagareyama, Chiba Prefecture, with an annual capacity of 12 million bottles and an investment of about 3 billion yen.

UFI Filters Group's Hydraulic Division inaugurated a new production plant in Shanghai, China, under the SOFIMA brand, SOFIMA INDUSTRIAL FILTERS CO., LTD.

UFI Filters opened its 19th plant globally, UFI Filters México, an 8,000 sqm industrial site dedicated to producing heat exchangers, battery coolers and battery chillers.

Huhtamaki has launched a new flexible packaging manufacturing unit in 6th of October, Egypt, with a €23 million investment. The facility is a joint venture with Ayman Korra, with Huhtamaki owning 75%.

VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd is going ahead with its new 40,000-units-a-year factory in Bhopal, India, with production set to begin in April 2020.

Gripple Automation is set to open a new £2 million factory on Foley Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield, with staff expected to move in early in the second half of 2020.

General Motors will build a new plant in Brookville, Ohio to produce parts for its 6.6L Duramax diesel V8 engine. The investment is $175 million and the facility is expected to create up to 100 jobs. The plant will machine blocks and heads for the DMAX plant in Moraine.

OOO Sterex Pak is building a new plant in Sterlitamaksky District, Bashkortostan, to produce multilayer aseptic packaging for liquid food products. The investment is 1.7 billion rubles, with a capacity of 100 million packages per month (1.2 billion per year), and is expected to create 110 jobs.

Ibstock announced plans to invest £45 million in a new brick factory at its Atlas site near Walsall, West Midlands, UK. The factory will have an annual capacity of 80 million bricks, with construction expected to start in 2022.

Ningbo Kingfa New Materials started construction on a CNY 10.5 billion project in Ningbo, Zhejiang, to produce 1.2 million tons per year of polypropylene thermoplastic elastomer and modified new materials. Phase I (CNY 6 billion) includes 600,000 t/yr propane dehydrogenation and 800,000 t/yr polypropylene, to be completed by end of 2023. Phase II (CNY 4.5 billion) adds 600,000 t/yr propane dehydrogenation and 400,000 t/yr polypropylene, to be completed by end of 2026.

Lvshineng (Jiangxi) Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. signed a project to invest RMB 500 million in a plant in Anfu, Jiangxi, producing N95 masks, disposable medical masks and protective clothing, with a daily capacity of 600,000 masks. The plant will lease 8,000 sqm of factory space, start renovation on March 4, and begin trial production by March 10, 2020.

Yingke Medical's subsidiary Anhui Yingke will invest RMB 800 million to build a plant for 9.8 billion gloves annually in Suixi, Huaibei, Anhui, starting in 2020 and completing in 2022. Separately, it will invest RMB 24 million for a plant producing 300 million masks and 1 million protective clothing items annually, starting in 2020 and completing in 2021.

Saki Corporation opened a new manufacturing plant in Yamato Koriyama City, Nara Prefecture, for production of 3D automated X-ray inspection equipment. The facility is nearly twice as large as its previous plant and will triple AXI production capacity.

Nouryon and INEOS Nitriles broke ground on new facilities in Germany, with completion expected in 2021-2022.

Saint-Gobain Vietnam has completed construction and officially started operations at the Gyproc Saint-Gobain North Vietnam plant in Haiphong. The 6.6-hectare facility has a capacity of 15 million m² per year and uses Industry 4.0 technology.

Swedish manufacturer Boule Medical AB plans to open a production facility for hematology reagents in the multifunctional park 'Synkovo' in Podolsk, Moscow region. Investment is estimated at 20 million rubles, with first products expected in 2020.

Henan Xinye Textile will spend CNY 120 million to build two high-end non-woven production lines for mask raw materials in an existing workshop. Construction is expected to take six months, with annual output of 25,000 tons.

KION Group announced a joint venture with Weichai Power to build a new plant in Jinan, China, with total investment of about €100 million. KION holds 95% and Weichai 5%. The plant will produce counterbalance forklifts and is expected to start construction by end of 2020 and production in 2022, creating over 800 jobs by 2025.

Australian manufacturing company Dynamic Equipment is establishing a new manufacturing facility in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, creating seven jobs. Invest NI offered £49,000 in support.

Canpack launched its aluminum beverage can factory in Tocancipá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, a 75,000 m2 site with capacity of about 1.3 billion cans per year, expandable to 1.9 billion. The investment is reported at US$150 million.

Equipment NW opened a 7,000-square-foot dealership in Canby, Oregon, becoming the first SANY America dealer in the state. The facility offers sales, service, and maintenance of SANY construction equipment.

Sewtec Automation has begun fitting out a new 75,000 sq ft robotics design and manufacturing facility at Silkwood Park in Wakefield, Yorkshire. The company signed a 15-year lease on the site, which is more than double the size of its current premises, and expects to create 70 additional jobs.

Dangote Cement plans to build a 1.1Mt/yr grinding plant on a greenfield site near the New Owendo International Port in Owendo, Gabon. The $75m facility is scheduled for completion in early 2021.

Enikon Aerospace will open a plant in Vukovar, Croatia to produce plastic interior parts for Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The first 50 workers will be hired in April 2020, with eventual employment of around 200 workers.

Ameri-Precision Metals is opening a new specialty steel manufacturing facility in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, targeting commercial production in April or May 2020. The plant will create up to 100 jobs in its first year.

Niagara Bottling plans a bottling plant in Florence County, South Carolina, with investment of more than $70 million and 70 new full-time jobs. The plant is expected to operate in Q1 2021.

Agricultural machinery manufacturer Bednar FMT commissioned a new assembly plant in the northern Czech region of Hradec Králové in March 2020. The plant features 19 Demag EKKE overhead travelling cranes and two KBK light crane systems.

Liebherr began construction on a $10 million remanufacturing facility in Panama City, Panama, featuring 1,500 m² of production space. The facility is expected to be completed in early 2021 and will support a fleet of ultra-class haulers at the Cobre Panama mine.

Jiangxi ZhanYu Group invested CNY 2 billion to build a 5GW fully automated solar module production line in Yixing, Jiangsu. Phase 1 (1.5GW) will start construction soon.

Lu'an Solar Energy Technology and Jiangsu Seraphim Photovoltaic Systems jointly invested CNY 4 billion to build a 5GW high-efficiency solar module manufacturing plant in Yixing, Jiangsu. Phase 1 (3GW) construction starts April 2020, production in October 2020.

Huansheng PV (a subsidiary of Zhonghuan Semiconductor) started construction of a 3GW G12 high-efficiency shingled solar module production line in Yixing, Jiangsu, with an investment of CNY 3 billion. Production is expected to start in Q3 2020.

Meidensha announced it will build a new factory at its Nagoya Works to increase production capacity for EV drive motor-inverter integrated units, with an investment of about 5.1 billion yen. The new factory will have an annual production capacity of 170,000 units.

NHK Spring Co., Ltd. (Nippatsu) announced on February 28, 2020 that it will build a new automotive seat factory in Frankfort, Indiana, USA, with a JPY 4 billion investment, to meet Subaru of Indiana Automotive's increased production demand. Operations are expected to begin in the first half of 2021.

Nanning Qiaohong New Materials Co., a subsidiary of Nanning Sugar Industry, completed the first phase of its twin-spun new material project in Guangxi-ASEAN Economic and Technological Development Zone, producing 2 tons per day of medical-grade meltblown fabric. The total investment is 375 million yuan.

Spirit AeroSystems opened a new manufacturing facility in Prestwick, Scotland, to produce spoiler wing components for Airbus A320 aircraft, creating over 100 jobs.

Borche Machinery has established a UK subsidiary, Borche Machinery UK Co Ltd, based at the Pensnett Estate in Kingswinford, West Midlands. It is the company's first fully owned subsidiary in Europe.

Unitech PCB (formerly known as 柏承) plans to invest 6000万美元 in a new PCB plant in Nantong, China, with first-phase investment of 800 million yuan, to produce mobile phone boards and SLP.

Smith+Nephew started construction of a new 250,000 square-foot high technology manufacturing facility in Batu Kawan Industrial Park, Penang, Malaysia, expected to create up to 800 jobs over five years.

CROWN Cork and Seal USA celebrated the groundbreaking of a 327,000 sq ft beverage can plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, investing $147 million and creating 126 direct jobs. The plant is scheduled to be operational by Q1 2021.

DS Controls of Veliky Novgorod is moving from servicing pipeline valves to producing them at a site in Leninogorsk, Tatarstan, with opening planned for March-April 2020. The plant plans up to 300 valves per month and 100 new jobs, with expected revenue of about $20 million a year.

NIBE-BIAWAR has moved production into a new plant in the Białystok subzone of the Suwałki Special Economic Zone and opened a training centre. The first investment stage cost over PLN 25 million.