Dedienne Aerospace opened a new 3,000 sqm production facility in Querétaro, Mexico, to support LEAP and GE tooling programs. The plant has been operational since 2019.

Lam Research selected Batu Kawan Industrial Park in Penang, Malaysia for a new 700,000 sq ft advanced technology production facility, with construction starting in early 2020 and first shipment by 2021, creating up to 350 jobs.

Austin-based ePac Flexible Packaging will invest $6.5 million to establish a manufacturing facility in Henrico County, Virginia, creating 35 jobs, as announced by Governor Ralph Northam.

Biffa has opened a £27.5m ($35.8m) PET bottle recycling facility in Seaham, England, capable of processing 57,000 metric tons of PET per year and creating 100 full-time jobs.

Austria's Prinzhorn Group plans to invest about €52 million in a new packaging factory in Dunavarsány, near Budapest, largely supplied with recycled cardboard from its subsidiary Hamburger Containerboard. The plant is planned to open in summer 2021 with about 200 workers and capacity of around 240 million sq m per year.

Big Beverages Contract Manufacturing plans a beverage co-packing facility in a 170,000 sq ft building at The Park-Huntersville, creating 60 jobs. The facility will start with one line producing 1,200 cans per minute.

Parvalux Electric Motors plans to build a new 13,000 m2 factory and headquarters in Poole, consolidating three existing sites. It has bought a 3.54ha site on Cabot Lane, with construction due to start later in 2020 and occupation in 2021.

AT Engine, a joint venture between Aerotech Peissenberg and Grupo Punto Alto, is constructing an aerospace manufacturing plant in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. The $297 million facility will employ 500 workers and produce turbine components for GE and rocket components for the European Space Agency.

Corys Investments, GF Piping Systems and Egypt Gas formed a joint venture to build a new production facility for plastic pipes and fittings near Cairo, Egypt. The plant will have a capacity of approximately 20,000 tons, with commercial production planned to start in 2021.

Bosal Afrika officially opened a new emissions control systems manufacturing plant in Pretoria in February 2020, supplying Ford, Nissan, Isuzu and Volkswagen. The company invested about R25-million to relocate the plant, which produces exhausts, heat exchangers, silencers and manifolds.

Arktura, a California-based architectural products manufacturer, plans to invest $7.3 million to establish a new 134,858-square-foot facility at 1 Precision Way in Ellicott, New York. The project was announced in February 2020.

Evonik Wynca (Zhenjiang) Silicon Material Co., Ltd, the joint venture between Evonik and Wynca, has started construction of a new fumed silica plant in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China, with a capacity of 9,000 tonnes/year and a mid double-digit million euro investment.

Nutmeg Container, a division of Unicorr Packaging Group, has completed refurbishment of a 125,000 sq ft manufacturing and warehouse facility in Thompson, Connecticut, consolidating its wood production there.

Caladrius Holding AB, owner of Hagabergs Mekaniska AB and O. Bodins Maskin AB, has signed a letter of intent to construct a new industrial building in Askersund, Sweden. The facility is scheduled to be ready in December 2020.

Voltas has set up a 60-acre facility in Sanand, Gujarat for manufacturing appliances under the 'Voltas Beko' brand, a joint venture with Turkey's Arçelik. Production will begin with direct-cool refrigerators and semi-automatic washing machines.

Intersurgical officially began construction of a 16,000 sq. m factory in Visaginas, Lithuania, with an initial investment of about €7.5 million. Construction is planned to be completed by end of 2020, with production starting in early 2021.

RepetCo Innovations announced the construction of a PET/PE multilayer packaging recycling plant in Albacete, Spain. The €47 million facility will create 48 direct jobs and have a processing capacity of 75,000 tons per year.

Pitreavie Group is opening a £3.8 million corrugated box manufacturing facility of 57,000 sq ft in Westfield, near Cumbernauld, with operations starting in March 2020 and 35 new jobs.

Abbott is building a $38 million manufacturing facility in Westfield, Indiana, to produce its MitraClip heart device. The plant will expand production capacity for the device.

Latecoere opened a plant near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with an investment of €15 million. The first phase of 5,000 sq m is complete, assembling electrical cabinets for Airbus A350 and A380 models, with a second phase of 4,000 sq m planned for door parts.

BYD Motors will construct a 50,000-square-foot facility in Rancho Dominguez, California, expected to open later in 2020. The facility will house office space, warehouse space, and demo/training areas for its electric forklift business, but will not be used for production.

The Pekabex Group launched a factory for housing construction elements in Gdańsk-Kokoszki, built at a cost of PLN 65 million. The factory can produce up to 500,000 sqm of elements annually and is equipped with fully automated lines.

CIS Global celebrated the grand opening of its new Power Distribution Unit manufacturing facility in Bangalore, India. The 25,000 square foot factory has capacity to manufacture 50,000 PDUs annually and employs over 50 people.

Autoliv and Nissin Brake are jointly constructing a 216,000-square-foot plant in Findlay, Ohio, to supply braking systems to Honda and another automaker. The project is valued at $60 million.

National Cement Co (Devki Group) has launched a new 0.75Mta facility in Salgaa, Nakuru County, Kenya, representing an investment of around KES5.8bn (US$57.5m). The plant will manufacture Simba Cement and generate 700 jobs.

Retech Systems, a manufacturer of specialized furnaces for melting titanium, will relocate its corporate headquarters and operations from California to Buffalo's Northland campus, leasing 48,934 square feet and bringing 36 jobs with plans to grow to 80.

Corbion will invest approximately US$190 million in a new 125,000 metric ton lactic acid plant at its existing Rayong Province site in Thailand, using its gypsum-free technology.

Vialco has opened a new 20,600 square meter plant in Villena, Spain, for the production of painted and lacquered aluminum coils. The €27 million investment includes one of the most advanced production lines in the world, with a planned output of 9,401 tonnes in 2020.

Toyoda Gosei has completed construction of a new automotive sealing plant in Venado, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, with an investment of $31 million. The plant will generate up to 900 direct jobs and begin operations in the coming days.

Devki Group opened a Ksh5.8 billion ($58 million) Simba Cement factory in Salgaa, Nakuru County, Kenya, creating 700 direct jobs. The factory is being expanded to create 300 more jobs by June 2020.

Actega do Brasil, part of Altana, inaugurated a new integrated site in Araçariguama, São Paulo, Brazil, with an investment of around €2 million. The site consolidates administration, production, and R&D from three old locations.

Sumitomo Construction Machinery will invest $33 million to build a second excavator factory in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia, with annual capacity of 2,500 units. The plant is expected to open in 2021.

Porcelanosa Grupo will build a new 100,000 m² plant in Vila-real, Spain, for large-format ceramic production. The plant is part of a €250 million investment plan and is expected to be completed in 2021.

Lohia Group has invested nearly Rs 100 crore in a greenfield aerospace and defence hardware plant in Kanpur, India. Commercial production is expected to start in March 2020.

Precision Castparts Corp. announced it will invest $128 million in two facilities on 31 acres in Mason, Ohio: a concept research and development integration center for its PCC Aerostructures division and a manufacturing innovation center for its SPS Technologies business. The campus is expected to bring 190 new employees.

WEG is starting a project to install a new low-voltage electric motor plant in Hosur, India, with investments of approximately US$20 million. The factory will have 13,000 sqm of facilities, capacity of about 250,000 motors per year, and is scheduled to start operating in 2021, creating about 320 new jobs.

Algerian Energy Minister announced that the investment for a 450,000 tons/year polypropylene plant in Adana, Turkey, has been revised up to $1.4 billion. The plant, a joint venture between Sonatrach and Rönesans Holding, is planned to become operational in July 2022.

Mueller Water Products is building a finished goods brass foundry in Decatur, Illinois, expected to employ 250 workers and increase production capacity for the water infrastructure industry.

Johns Manville announced plans to build a polyiso production plant in Hillsboro, Texas. Construction is expected to begin later in 2020, with completion anticipated in mid-2021, creating over 50 jobs.

Bombardier announced a new 1-million-square-foot global manufacturing centre in Mississauga, Ontario, for final assembly of Global business jets, with capacity to build up to 100 aircraft per year.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences has invested $2 million in a new additive manufacturing facility in Umeå, Sweden, dedicated to serial production of 3D-printed parts for biomanufacturing equipment.

South Korean company Star Boiler signed a memorandum to build a plant in Almaty, Kazakhstan, for production of water heaters and industrial equipment. The total investment is $20 million, with a capacity of up to 6,000 units annually and creation of 300 new jobs.

WesTrac is building a technology training facility in Collie, Western Australia, focusing on autonomous operations. The centre will be the only Caterpillar autonomous training facility outside Arizona, with construction starting in January 2020 and training scheduled to commence in May 2020.

NLMK's strategic planning committee decided to start construction of a transformer steel plant in Aurangabad, India, with investment of $100-150 million and capacity of 65 tonnes per year, construction beginning in H2 2020 and completion by end of 2021.

Mesna industrija Braća Pivac is building a new prosciutto plant in Ravča near Vrgorac, Croatia, with a capacity of 4,500 tonnes and investment over EUR 10 million, expected to complete in spring 2020.

LEM announced an investment in a new production facility in Malaysia to serve customers worldwide from 2021.

Braintronix will invest EUR 5 million in a production unit of industrial robots in the Eurobusiness II Oradea industrial park, Romania. The project includes a production hall, technological lines, and offices, and will create at least 40 jobs.

BASF broke ground on a new regional production center for crop protection products in Singapore. The facility is expected to start production in Q3 2021, with annual capacity of 7 million liters and over 25 employees.

Chinese company Weihai International Economic & Technical Cooperative (WIETC) began construction of a 110,000 cubic meter per day drinking water treatment plant in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The project is financed by the World Bank.

Brazilian dental implant manufacturer S.I.N. Implant System announced an investment of R$ 60 million in a new factory to be built next to its current plant in the Anália Franco neighborhood of São Paulo. The company also began expanding its current facility.