Minth Group plans to build a 236,000-square-foot facility in Lewisburg, Tennessee, for injection-molded and chrome-plated auto components, creating 254 jobs. The investment is $87 million.

Poly Gürteks has received project-based investment incentive for a new polymer chips and POY production facility in Gaziantep, Turkey. The investment is planned at 725 million TL and is expected to create 333 jobs.

Universal Alloy Corporation (UAC) is constructing a new facility in Baia Mare, Romania, to produce extruded aluminum tubes and titanium profiles for the aerospace industry. It ordered an induction furnace from Otto Junker for the operation.

Ase Utra has completed a new plant in the Jaama industrial area in Lehmo, Kontiolahti, doubling the company's production surface area and enabling automation investments and increased production capacity.

Jescraft announced it will open a new 28,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Oxford, Connecticut, with an anticipated opening date of March 2020. The facility will initially be set up for assembly and eventually serve as a full-scale manufacturing and warehousing location.

Eli Lilly and Company will invest over $470 million to build a new pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Durham, North Carolina, creating more than 460 jobs.

Toshiba Carrier Corporation announced the establishment of a new manufacturing subsidiary in Gniezno, Poland, with an investment of approximately 3.0 billion Japanese yen. The facility is scheduled to start operation before the end of 2020.

Danfoss, through its Indian subsidiary Danfoss Power Solutions, has invested about €15 million in a Pune facility manufacturing mobile hydraulics products such as electronic controls, pumps, valves and motors for construction, agriculture and off-highway vehicles. The article is dated January 2020.

Oliva Cigars, owned by Belgian supplier J. Cortès, announced the official opening of its Tabolisa 1 cigar factory in Esteli, Nicaragua, the last phase of a three-year project that began in November 2016.

Ball Corporation has invested about US$80 million in a 23,000 sq m aluminum can and lid plant in Guarambaré, Paraguay, which began production in December 2019 and creates over 350 jobs.

Teradyne announced it will start construction of a $20 million new plant in the Coyol Free Zone, Costa Rica, to expand its operations. The facility is expected to be completed in July 2021.

The $20-billion Sadara petrochemical complex, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical, started up in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. It is the largest petrochemical complex ever built in a single stage, producing 3 million tons of specialty chemicals annually.

MKS Group plans to build a plant for block-modular gas piston power stations in the Malaya Sosnovka industrial park near Chelyabinsk, Russia, with an investment of 202 million rubles. The project will create over 60 jobs and is expected to be completed by end of 2020.

Isostatic Toll Services Bilbao SL officially opens a new Hot Isostatic Pressing facility in Abanto Zierbena, Biscay, Spain, with a total investment of €14 million ($15.5 million). The plant features an AIP52 HIP unit, with a second identical system to be installed by December 2020.

PCC Integrated Chemistries GmbH is examining the construction of an ethylene oxide plant and five processing plants at Evonik's Lülsdorf site in Germany, with an investment of €500 million and up to 200 new jobs. Construction is expected to start in autumn 2021.

Rapid Application Group held an opening ceremony for its new 15,000 ft² additive manufacturing facility at its headquarters in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, as part of its growth strategy.

Venari Group, owner of O&H Vehicle Technology, announced plans to open a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Yorkshire next month, with an investment of £4 million and over 70 new jobs.

Optimized Armor has announced plans to establish operations in Rock Hill, S.C. with a $3.7 million investment expected to create 100 jobs.

Nouryon has selected Green Bay, Wisconsin, as the location for a new facility to produce its Expancel expandable microspheres.

Ming Rong Yuan received approval from the Ministry of Economic Affairs to invest NT$1.5 billion to build a factory in Pingtung's Sinyuan Township. The new plant is expected to create more than 100 jobs.

Siemens Healthineers has started its first manufacturing facility in Bengaluru, India, built with an investment of Rs 20 crore. The facility will manufacture mobile C-arm radiology systems and CT systems for India and other emerging markets.

SK Innovation is constructing a $1 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Commerce, Georgia, with 28% of construction completed. The plant will have 9.8 GWh annual capacity, is due for completion in the second half of 2021, with mass production starting in 2022. Batteries will supply Volkswagen and other EV brands.

Changyi Yuhua Textile Materials Co., Ltd. is building a new production facility for automotive microfiber materials in Weifang, Shandong, China. The project, with a total investment of 50 million yuan, will produce 200 million m2 of base fabric and 300 million m2 of automotive microfiber materials annually.

ENF Kyle Technology, a South Korea-based company, broke ground on a $45 million, 75,000-square-foot electronics material manufacturing facility in Kyle, Texas. The company expects to hire 45 to 50 employees in the second half of 2020.

Linde Hydraulics opened a new production plant in Weifang, China, a 36,000m² facility for assembling high-pressure pumps, motors and valve technology, with capacity of 100,000 units per year.

Dunapack Packaging, part of Austria's Prinzhorn group, will invest €52 million in a new corrugated packaging plant in Dunavarsány, about 15 km south of Budapest, with capacity of 240 million m². Production start-up is scheduled for summer 2021.

A planned 40,000-unit-per-year high-end valve project in Lishui Economic and Technological Development Zone, Zhejiang, with total investment of RMB 105 million, will lease a plant from Lishui Heli Pump & Valve Manufacturing. Production is expected to start in March 2021. The report is dated January 17, 2020.

NACHI-FUJIKOSHI announced on January 16, 2020 that it established a new robot factory at its Toyama Plant, with an investment of about 2 billion yen and a site area of about 5,500 square meters. The new plant is already in operation as of January 2020.

CLARK, a forklift manufacturer, invested in a new 4,500 m² headquarters on a 25,000 m² site in the Campinas Technology Hub, Brazil, with potential for future expansion to 10,000 m².

Vorwerk & Sohn Group started production at its new plant in Čačak, Serbia, after an 18-month construction period. The company invested over €60 million in the facility, which features the longest extrusion line in Europe on a built-up area of over 45,000 m².

Clorox plans to build a manufacturing facility in Tabler Station Business Park, Berkeley County, West Virginia, to produce cat litter for Fresh Step and Scoop Away brands, with an expected investment of $190 million and 100 new jobs.

DuPont will spend $28 million to build facilities in South Korea for photoresists used in EUV lithography and pads for chemical mechanical planarization, supporting electronics production.

Kovalska Industrial-Construction Group plans to acquire the Rozvadov Building Materials complex and build a new dry mix production line with annual capacity of 100,000 tons, investing in raw material development and creating hundreds of jobs.

Evonik opened a new multi-purpose silicone production facility in Geesthacht, Germany, after a double-digit million euro investment and less than 18 months of construction.

South Korea's Hands Corporation inaugurated a new plant in Tangier, Morocco, on January 14, 2020, with an investment of MAD 4.3 billion ($450 million). The plant will produce aluminum wheels, aiming for 8 million units annually and creating 1,600 jobs.

Zhengzhou Vtops Machinery Co., Ltd. is building a new factory in Wuzhi County, Jiaozuo, with a planned area of 40,000 square meters, as inspected by local officials.

Chiron Group officially opened its new Precision Factory in Neuhausen, Germany, a €34.5 million greenfield plant for assembling high-precision machining centers with a capacity of 400 units per year.

Canpack has launched its aluminum beverage can factory in Tocancipá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, with an investment of US$150 million. The 75,000 m2 plant can produce about 1.3 billion cans a year, expandable to 1.9 billion, and will serve Peru, Ecuador and the Caribbean.

Chinese multinational Twyford Ceramics opened a 42-hectare ceramic tile factory in Sindia, Senegal, with an investment of 35 billion CFA francs, producing 55,000 m² of tiles per day and creating 1,500 direct jobs.

Ascent Meditech plans to invest Rs 100 crore in a greenfield manufacturing plant in South Gujarat, expected to become operational in May 2020, increasing capacity from 40,000 to 140,000 units per day.

XNRGY Climate Systems, backed by Cerebrus LLC, will build a 350,000 sq ft HVAC manufacturing facility on Montreal's South Shore, creating over 250 jobs. The facility is expected to be operational by Q4 2020.

CDE Global has secured planning permission for a £2.8 million, 41,000 sq ft research and development facility in Cookstown, Co Tyrone.

Edge Innovate has submitted a planning application for a new £4 million facility in Edendork, near Dungannon, Co Tyrone.

Terex plans to build a new £4 million factory on a six-acre site next to the A5 in Omagh, Co Tyrone, to bolster its existing sites. The planning application is expected to be submitted after community engagement in February 2020.

Shell Nanhai and CNOOC Oil & Petrochemicals agreed to build Shell's first commercial-scale polycarbonate factory at their shared chemical base in Huizhou, Guangdong province. The plant will also produce alkyl carbonate products for lithium-ion batteries.

Packaging Corporation of America has built a $26 million corrugated cardboard box plant on a 42-acre Richland site bought from the city for $1.7 million. The plant opened with an estimated 65 workers, with the workforce expected to grow to 100-150.

Ball Corporation broke ground in Rome, Georgia on a new aluminum cups manufacturing facility next to its existing can plant, a multi-year investment of about $200 million that plans to hire approximately 145 employees.

VEGA Americas acquired about 50 acres in Mason, Ohio's Research and Development Park for a new North American headquarters and advanced manufacturing facility.

Hammond Power Solutions officially opened a new 36,000 sq ft warehouse in Reno, Nevada on January 13, 2020, replacing its Compton, California warehouse, to improve shipping lead times and accommodate growing product sales.

Rostselmash is building a new tractor plant on a 14ha site in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, costing an estimated £30 million. The facility will have a production area of 42,000m² and is expected to be operational by 2023.