Italian group Dopla has invested EUR 18 million to open two 10,000 square metre plants at its Polinyà site in Barcelona, making biodegradable cups and plates, with 44 new hires. The plants are already operating, according to the Catalan government.

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Johnson Matthey Poland has built a new automotive catalyst factory in Gliwice, Poland, and plans to hire 400 new employees. The investment was announced in 2018 at 450 million PLN, with 128 million PLN for the building.

Taigene Group inaugurated a new electric motor plant in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, with an investment of US$45.7 million. The plant will produce electric motors for automotive systems and begin production in March 2020.

Advanced Energy Industries announced that its new 178,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia has begun commercial operations. The facility will manufacture precision power supplies and generator products and is expected to employ approximately 550 people.

Leoni Cable inaugurated a new plant in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico, built with a $27 million investment and creating 123 direct jobs. The facility will produce high-voltage charging cables for electric and hybrid vehicles.

AtCorr Packaging is investing $780,950 and creating 31 new jobs by relocating its corrugated sheet plant to a new 130,000 square foot facility at 1320 West Main Street in Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky.

Johnson Matthey Poland has built a new automotive catalyst factory of about 23,000 square metres in Gliwice, Poland, and plans to hire 400 workers, with recruitment starting in March 2020. The construction cost of the plant was 128 million PLN within a wider 450 million PLN investment begun in 2018.

EFACEC is investing $170 million to construct a 470,000-square-foot production facility in Georgia to manufacture core-type and shell-type power transformers. The plant will create 700 jobs and is located on a rail line near a seaport.

Toupret is investing EUR 14 million in a new production unit for paste coatings and a logistics hub in Tigery, France, with the plant scheduled to be commissioned in May 2020.

Atlantis-Pak will establish a new production facility for multilayer barrier sausage casing in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan, with an investment of 2 billion rubles, aiming for full capacity by 2022 and creating about 300 jobs.

Nova Tube & Steel announced plans to open two new pipe and tube mills in Delta, Ohio, investing over $70 million. The 250,000-square-foot plant will create more than 100 jobs and is expected to be fully operational in 2021.

Curbtender, Inc., a manufacturer of refuse collection vehicles, announced the start of manufacturing operations at its new factory in Gothenburg, Nebraska.

SAPA Transmission completed initial construction of a 110,000-square-foot production plant and headquarters in Shelby Township, Michigan, as part of a $40 million investment over five years, with plans to create over 200 jobs.

Grupo Monterrey inaugurated a new automated concrete block plant in Amatitlán, Guatemala, with an investment of $7.1 million. The plant has capacity to produce 96 blocks per minute, up to 138,000 blocks daily and 4 million monthly, employing 80 people.

TTM Technologies opened a new advanced technology center in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, a 40,000 sq. ft. facility for manufacturing substrate-like PCBs. The grand opening was on February 18, 2020, and production started in January 2020.

Nitto Kogyo announced plans to build a new factory in Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, for manufacturing power distribution panels, cabinets, and circuit breakers. The total investment is approximately 200 billion yen, with production starting in April 2024.

SEG Automotive is building a second plant in Szirmabesenyo, Hungary, near its existing Miskolc factory. The new plant will produce start-stop motors, generators, and 48V/high-voltage products, and is scheduled to be at full capacity by July 2021.

Siemens released detailed designs for its £200 million factory in Goole, UK, after submitting a planning application. The 55,000 sq m facility will be built in two phases, with the first enabling construction of the Piccadilly Line train order for London Underground. The factory could open in 2023 and create up to 700 jobs.

LiuGong held a groundbreaking ceremony for its East China base large intelligent mining machinery project in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. The project will build 170,000 sqm of workshops on 500 mu of land, with annual capacity of 3,000 large engineering machines and 4,000 mining machines, with first phase completion by August 2020.

Firth Industries, a Fletcher Building company, opened a new $10 million ready-mix concrete manufacturing plant in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, with capacity up to 900 m³ of concrete per day.

Navien, Inc., the US subsidiary of Seoul-based KD Navien, will invest $77.5 million to establish its first US manufacturing and assembly plant in a former Lumber Liquidators facility in James City County, Virginia, creating 180 jobs.

Construction of a plant to produce advanced rigs for extracting coal-bed methane began on February 24, 2020, in the Jinjiang Industrial Park in Jincheng, Shanxi. The plant is funded by Shanxi Gas Group and Cortech.

Sinopec announced on February 24 it will invest CNY 200 million to build 10 meltblown non-woven fabric production lines in Beijing and Jiangsu province. Two lines in Beijing are slated for partial production in early March.

Hellenic Cables, a subsidiary of Cenergy, is implementing preliminary construction work for a cable factory in South Baltimore, Maryland. The factory will cost around EUR 200 million and is expected to be completed by end-2027, creating 120 jobs.

Innospec has broken ground on a new site for the manufacture of Drag Reducing Agents (DRA).

A complex for the production of polyethylene terephthalate will be built in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. The project cost is USD 700 million, with a capacity of approximately 430,000 tons per year.

Hyosung Heavy Industries (HICO) opened a new power transformer plant in Memphis, Tennessee. The company planned to invest $86.9 million and create 410 jobs in Shelby County over seven years.

INVISTA is progressing on a 400,000-ton adiponitrile plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, a $1.2 billion investment. Construction is planned for 2020 with production start in 2022.

Megaplast launched a new flexible packaging plant of 9,100 square meters in Thiva, Central Greece, part of a 23-million-euro investment program over three years. The plant is expected to employ 70 workers.

Schlumberger opened a manufacturing center in King Salman Energy Park (SPARK) in Dammam, producing liner hangers, packers and GROVE and ORBIT valves. The first phase covers 105,000 square meters and will create more than 200 jobs.

Zhongyu Dingli held a groundbreaking ceremony for a mining equipment project in Weihui, Henan, China. The plant, with a total investment of 1 billion yuan (approx. $140 million), will produce 1,000 sets of mining equipment annually and create 500 jobs.

Nan Pao, a Taiwanese chemical materials supplier, signed an agreement to invest $50 million in a carbon fiber project at the Huai’an-Kunshan industrial zone in Huai’an, China. The new factory will produce carbon fiber materials.

MacLean Engineering inaugurated its first plant outside of Canada, a new production facility in Querétaro, Mexico.

Shorr Packaging Corporation opened a new facility outside Monterrey, Mexico, with on-site warehousing, sales representation, and logistics capabilities. The facility is fully operational and stocked with inventory.

mAbxience, part of Insud Pharma, inaugurated a new biosimilar monoclonal antibody production plant in Garín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The $40 million facility doubles the company's production capacity and created 50 new jobs.

President Joko Widodo inaugurated Asia Pacific Rayon's integrated viscose rayon production facility in Pangkalan Kerinci, Riau, Indonesia on February 21, 2020. The facility represents a total investment of Rp.15 trillion (USD1.1 billion) and has an annual production capacity of 240,000 tons. It is co-located with APRIL Group for integrated pulp supply.

Safran Helicopter Engines celebrated the opening of CAP 2020, a new industrial campus in Tarnos, France, on February 21, 2020. The campus, launched in September 2015 with a total investment of €50 million, includes three new buildings totaling 33,000 m² and houses 1,550 employees. It serves as the hub for the company's global helicopter engine support and MRO network.

DOMO Chemicals announced plans for a new nylon compounding plant in Zhejiang, China, with an investment of €12 million. The plant will have an initial capacity of 25,000 tons/year, expandable to 50,000 tons/year, and production is expected to start in Q4 2020.

Magirus Lohr will move from Hönigtal to a new plant in Zettling, Premstätten near Graz, Austria, with 17,000 m² of space and an investment of €10 million. The plant will include development, production, distribution, and a point-of-sale, and is expected to be operational by 2020.

Gulfstream Aerospace will invest $35 million to build a new 160,000-square-foot service center at Fort Worth Alliance Airport, adding 50 new jobs and relocating up to 200 employees from its Dallas Love Field operation.

The Ministry of Industry and Construction Operations plans to erect a plant for the production of ceramic tiles and bathroom ceramics in Baherden etrap, Ahal velayat.

Samsung Electronics announced that its new V1 semiconductor fabrication line in Hwaseong, Korea, has begun mass production. The line is dedicated to EUV lithography for 7nm and below chips, with cumulative investment reaching $6 billion by end of 2020.

Panacea Medical Technologies, an India-based medical device manufacturer, will invest more than $11.7 million to construct its first U.S. engineering and manufacturing facility in Noblesville, Indiana. The facility will produce Hexatron LINAC Radiation Therapy machines and is expected to create up to 65 jobs by the end of 2023.

Barber-Nichols held a groundbreaking for a new 43,000 sq ft advanced manufacturing facility in Arvada, Colorado, with completion scheduled for early 2021. The company plans to hire more than twenty new full-time employees in 2020.

Shanghai Hengjiu New Materials Co., Ltd. and US-based EG Company broke ground on a 1.69 billion yuan EG multi-fiber blended spunbond nonwoven material project in Zibo, Shandong, on February 19, 2020. The facility is EG's only production line in Asia and produces biodegradable materials for medical, industrial and civil use.

Rongchang Bio held a groundbreaking ceremony for its biopharmaceutical R&D and industrialization project in Yantai, Shandong, with an investment of 5 billion yuan, to be completed by 2023, producing 6 million units of Telitacicept and 3 million units of Disitamab vedotin annually.

Fletcher Building announced a circa $400 million investment to build a new plasterboard manufacturing and distribution facility in Tauranga, New Zealand, for its subsidiary Winstone Wallboards. The plant will create around 100 new permanent jobs and is planned to open in 2023.

Kuraray Co., Ltd. announced it will establish a new MonoSol production facility for PVA water-soluble films in Zimna Wodka, Poland, with an investment of approximately ¥5.0 billion. The facility is slated to start production in mid-2022.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories opened SEL Purdue, a new 100,000-square-foot facility for electric power research, development and manufacturing in West Lafayette, Indiana, with the first product rolling off the line. The $20 million plant is expected to create 300 jobs.