Victrex plc announced a joint venture with Yingkou Xingfu Chemical Company to build and operate a new PEEK polymer manufacturing facility in Liaoning, China. Victrex's share of the investment is expected to total £32 million, with commissioning anticipated in early 2022.

Grillex, formerly Unisite Group, will build a new $3 million manufacturing facility in the Kensington industrial area near Bundaberg Airport, creating 15 new jobs. The 2,680 square metre warehouse and office complex will feature the latest manufacturing technologies.

Dongtai Hanyuan Food Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. announced it is moving to a new factory. The company has two factories with a total built area of 26,000 m².

Polish group CANPACK is building an aluminium beverage can plant in Stribro with an investment of about CZK 2.5 billion, employing up to 160 people, with production planned to start in July 2020.

A high-tech plant for the production of metal-cutting machines will be opened in May 2020 near Kuklen, Bulgaria. The company, with German and Turkish capital, has invested 10 million leva in the facility, which will employ 100 people.

Trivium Packaging and Dutch dairy company Ausnutria B.V. are jointly building a can manufacturing plant in the Netherlands. The facility will be a 'wall to wall' operation.

Progressive Pipe Fabricators, a division of Shambaugh & Son, has broken ground on an 82,000-square-foot custom fire protection fabrication facility in Lawrence County, expected to be operational by July 1 and to employ 50.

CCI Manufacturing USA is investing $21.5 million in an advanced production facility at the Mallard Fox West Industrial Complex in Lawrence County to make brake fluid and engine coolant, creating 28 jobs.

Chantiers de l'Atlantique cut the first steel for the electrical substation (S34) for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, the first in France. The substation will be delivered in 2021 for the 480 MW park developed by EDF and Enbridge.

ECA Group will build a new plant in the port of Ostend to manufacture naval drones for the Belgian and Dutch navies' minesweeper contract. The 5,000 m² facility represents an investment of around €10 million and will be operational in 2022.

IGM Resins started building a new production facility for photoinitiators in Anqing, China, with an investment exceeding EUR 50 million and a finished product capacity of over 10,000 metric tons.

JCET began construction of a 12-inch wafer-level packaging plant in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, with a total investment of 80 billion yuan (about 1.34 trillion won). Phase 1 will have annual capacity of 480,000 12-inch wafers.

INEOS Styrolution announced plans to build a world-scale ABS plant in Ningbo, China, with an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes. Construction is expected to start in 2020 and completion is planned for 2023.

Milwaukee Tools held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new manufacturing plant in Global Park Laguna, Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. The $83 million investment is expected to create over 2,600 jobs, with operations starting in April 2020.

Rolls-Royce opened a new manufacturing facility in Bristol, UK, representing a £25 million investment. The facility will produce fan blades and cases for the new UltraFan jet engines, securing 150 jobs.

Arglass Yamamura, a joint venture between Cambium and Nihon Yamamura Glass, is constructing a $123 million glass container manufacturing plant in Valdosta, Georgia. The plant is expected to start production by November 2020.

Ineos Ltd. plans to build a wholly owned plant in Ningbo, China, to produce ABS plastic. The investment is approximately $800 million.

Avantium Renewable Polymers has signed a letter of intent to build a 5-kiloton FDCA flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl in the Netherlands. The facility will produce plant-based FDCA, a key building block for chemicals and plastics like PEF.

Showa Denko decided to establish a second factory in Shanghai through its subsidiary SSE to produce high-purity nitrous oxide and octafluorocyclobutane gases for electronics, with operations starting in H2 2021.

Techtronic Industries (TTI) will invest $650 million in a new cordless power equipment plant in Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon High-Tech Park, with an initial registered capital of $180 million.

Packaging company Albéa is to open a new plant in Huai'an, China, which will manufacture metal tubes.

Audubon Metals Texas, LLC will build a new manufacturing facility in Corsicana, Texas, representing a $50 million capital investment and creating 100 jobs.

Grupa Azoty Polyolefins handed over the construction site to Hyundai Engineering for the Polimery Police project, a polypropylene and propylene production complex in Police, Poland. The first permit covers the terminal area.

DEUTZ and SANY announced that their joint venture agreement for shared engine production in China has come into effect, with a new factory in Changsha, Hunan, planned to produce around 75,000 engines in 2022, with production starting in 2021.

Akij Food and Beverage Ltd has established Bangladesh's first aseptic plant for fruit drinks at a cost of Tk300 crore in Dhamrai, Dhaka. The plant has a daily capacity of producing 12.96 lakh bottles of Frutika fruit juice and began commercial production on January 7, 2020.

Nan Liu Enterprise, a Taiwanese nonwovens producer, has begun constructing a production site in India. The facility is expected to begin operation in the third quarter of 2020 and will produce wet tissue, face masks, and nonwovens.

Ya'an CNBM, a subsidiary of China National Building Materials Group, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 300 MW cadmium telluride solar glass production line in Ya'an, Sichuan. The total project investment is 3 billion yuan, with the first phase costing 30 billion yuan.

Lenzing Group and Duratex will jointly build a 500,000-ton dissolving wood-pulp plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with startup planned for the first half of 2022. The joint venture is 51% owned by Lenzing and 49% by Duratex, with an expected industrial CAPEX of approximately $1.3 billion.

Empower has awarded a contract for the construction of a $53 million district cooling plant for Dubai Production City, with a total capacity of 47,000 refrigeration tonnes.

Empower has signed a contract to construct its new $76 million headquarters in Al Jaddaf, Dubai, expected to complete in Q1 2021.

Astor began construction of a new factory in Ankara Sanayi Odası 2. Organize Sanayi Bölgesi in 2020. The company also announced a 200 million TL investment to become a world leader.

In 2020, Cielo Azul Cemento opened a premixed concrete factory in Asunción, Paraguay, expanding its business internationally.

Modula opened a new plant in Franklin, Ohio in 2020 with an investment of $30 million.

Victor Taichung Machinery opened a new $120 million smart factory in Taichung City Precision Machinery Innovation Technology Park, Taiwan, moving from its previous factory.

Milwaukee Tool plans to build a $26 million manufacturing plant in West Bend, Wisconsin, to produce hand tools for electricians and utility linemen. The first phase will create 50 jobs, with plans for 100 by 2025.

Transpower Corp Ltd announced the opening of an additional factory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The 21,000 sq ft facility employs over 100 people and manufactures electronic assemblies, wire harnesses, cable assemblies, and performs packaging and final assembly.

Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd. will build its first U.S. manufacturing facility, Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi Inc., in North Mississippi to supply a new Toyota assembly plant in Blue Springs. The $180 million plant will employ 260 workers and begin production by 2010.

Harrison Power LLC plans to construct the $1 billion, 1,085-megawatt Harrison Energy Center natural gas-fired power plant in Cadiz, Ohio, with construction set to begin in 2020.

OMRON Corporation opened AUTOMATION CENTER TOKYO (ATC-TOKYO) in Shinagawa, Tokyo, a flagship factory automation technology center for co-creation with customers.

DS Smith opened a new 550,000-square-foot corrugated box manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Indiana, on January 24, 2020, capable of producing about 30,000 boxes an hour.

ZF opened its first US plant for automatic passenger car transmissions in Gray Court, South Carolina, making the 8HP and 9HP transmissions with about 1.2 million units planned annually and a total investment of about $600 million.

KYB Americas announced a new manufacturing plant in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, to begin with hydraulic pumps for automotive continuously variable transmissions and later make shocks, struts and steering components. The plant is expected to add 130 jobs.

NCI Packaging invested $35 million in a new Auckland factory producing milk powder cans, with production starting at the beginning of 2020. The site includes a Metal Star 3 printing press, the only one in New Zealand.

Mitsui Kinzoku Die-Casting Technology America, Inc. (MKDA) will build a new automotive parts manufacturing facility in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia, investing $20 million and creating over 30 jobs. The facility will focus on electric vehicle components.

Westervelt and Pinnacle Renewable Energy announced a $100 million wood pellet factory to be built in Demopolis, Alabama. The plant is set to start production during the first half of 2021.

Hanaka Group has inaugurated a factory producing 220-500 kV transmission transformers with a capacity of 450 MVA in Bắc Ninh, Vietnam. The project started in 2009 with a total investment of 1,081 billion VND.

ND Paper plans to invest about $49 million to open a corrugated cardboard box plant in Racine County, Wisconsin, creating 88 jobs. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp disclosed the plan.

A-Tech Australia has begun siteworks for a $30 million aluminium extrusion plant on the former Electrolux site in Orange, NSW. The plant will produce windows, doors, curtain walls, facades, pergolas and skylights. Operations are expected to start in Q3 2020, creating 25-30 jobs initially.

Epistar (via subsidiary Yenrich Technology) and Leyard Opto-Electronic plan to set up a joint venture to build a mini-LED and micro-LED production site in Wuxi, China, with a budget of $142 million. Production is expected to begin in 2023, pending final approval.

BOE Technology plans to build a second OLED microdisplay fab in Yunnan, China, with a total investment of $486 million. BOE will invest $257 million, a state-owned development group $28 million, and $200 million will be raised externally. The first line will begin production in 2021, using 12-inch wafers with a capacity of 10,000 wafers per month.