Lasselsberger and its Russian affiliate Cemix are building a dry mortar production plant in the Abzelilovsky district of Bashkortostan, Russia. The plant will have a capacity of 424,000 tons per year and includes white cement and microcalcite facilities, with total investments of 2.2 billion rubles. Launch is expected on July 1, 2020.

Turck Group announced a new production site in Poland to serve the European market starting in 2020, and an expansion of its production in Tianjin, China.

Arglass is constructing a $123 million greenfield glass manufacturing plant in Valdosta, Georgia, with a capacity of over 125,000 tonnes per year. EME's engineering is in final stages; furnace startup is expected end of 2020, full operation by Q1 2021. The plant will employ 150 people.

Huahong Group is building an integrated circuit research, development and manufacturing center in Wuxi National Hi-tech District with a total investment of over $10 billion. Construction began in March 2018 and first photolithography machines were installed in June 2019.

Huntsman started construction of a custom-built factory in Tianjin's Nangang Industrial Zone, with a total investment of 130 million yuan ($18.3 million), to produce polyurethane mixtures, expected to be completed by end of 2019 and start production in early 2020 with annual capacity of 70,000 tons.

Toyoda Gosei announced a 1.8 billion yen ($16.8 million) investment to build a new airbag factory in Thai Binh Province, Vietnam, with construction starting May 2020 and operations beginning October 2021, creating 700 jobs initially and up to 2,000 by 2023.

Mueller Water Products announced a $41 million investment in a 233,000-square-foot existing facility in Kimball, Tennessee, that will bring 325 jobs over five years.

Flack Global Metals announced plans to build a new coil coating and downstream processing facility adjacent to Big River Steel in Osceola, Arkansas. The facility will cost approximately $150 million and create more than 150 jobs, with construction expected to begin in summer 2020 and production in late 2021.

ITP Aero has inaugurated a new factory in Derio, Bizkaia, Spain, with an investment of €14 million. The plant started with 115 employees and plans to increase to 160 workers due to higher demand for aerospace components.

PreZero Polymers, a joint venture between ACI Plastics and PreZero, will open a mixed rigids recycling facility in Westminster, South Carolina, with an investment of about $10 million. The plant will process 50 million pounds of mixed rigids per year and is expected to start operations in Q2 2020.

Baker Hughes broke ground on its first chemicals manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia at the PlasChem Park in Jubail and agreed to supply feedstock chemicals from Sadara Chemical Company. The announcement was dated November 26, 2019.

Scania is building a new foundry at its Södertälje plant in Sweden to produce engine blocks, investing about SEK 1.6 billion. The foundry is due in 2020 and will triple capacity to 90,000 tonnes of molten iron per year.

Hexion Inc. completed construction of a new Application Development Center in Shanghai, China, to foster innovation in its specialty portfolio.

Foster Semiconductor signed an agreement with the Xiangdong District government to build a 6-billion-yuan smart manufacturing industrial park in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, focusing on integrated circuits, microelectronics, satellite navigation, 5G, and smart manufacturing. The first phase includes a 3.5-billion-yuan Longxinwei semiconductor project for chip packaging and testing.

Canadian automotive supplier Axiom Group Inc. will invest $20 million to establish its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Toledo, Ohio, creating 250 jobs.

Dangote Cement plans to invest $60 million to build a cement manufacturing facility in Lome, Togo, with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes. The plant will use clinker from Togo and Nigeria and serve domestic and foreign demand.

Corobrik plans to build a new R200 million brick manufacturing facility north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, likely to be in production by 2022.

Corobrik is building an R800 million mega brick factory in Driefontein, South Africa. The plant is expected to be in full production by November 2020, creating 60 permanent jobs.

Mazoon Dairy is building a technologically advanced, fully-integrated dairy and juice production facility in As'Sunainah, Oman, with an investment of OMR100 million ($260 million).

Takamatsu Machinery announced on November 11, 2019, it will invest ¥3.5 billion to build a new factory. Construction starts in April 2020, with operations beginning in April 2021.

Dangote signed a deal to build a cement factory in Togo at a cost of around US$60 million. Construction is set to start in Q1 2020, with production beginning by end of 2020.

Rivacold America, part of the Italian Vitri Alceste Group, officially inaugurated a new 7,000 square meter facility in Buford, Georgia. The plant has 4 production lines for condensing units and 1 line for packaged systems, with a yearly potential of 120,000 pieces.

Sulzer has opened a new Houston Service Center in Pasadena, Texas, with a large pump repair shop, lifting capacity for large machines and automated welding. The center focuses on oil and gas customers.

Grupo Industrial Ferruz will invest 15 million euros to consolidate all its sites into a new 130,000 sq m plant in the Parque Tecnológico de Reciclado in Zaragoza, doubling production capacity and creating 75 jobs. The article's text refers to 2018 timelines, so the date may be inaccurate.

Algerian ministers laid the first stone for a new factory in Azazga, Tizi-Ouzou, to manufacture large power transformers. The joint venture between Electro-industrie and Vijai Electricals will cost 4.7 billion dinars, create 358 permanent jobs, and produce 115 units per year with a total capacity of 8300 MVA.

The Federal Ministry of Transportation and CCECC held the ground-breaking ceremony for a railway wagon assembly plant in Kajola, Ogun State. The plant will have capacity to produce 500 wagons per year and generate about 5,000 jobs.

Siemens held the groundbreaking ceremony for its most advanced distribution transformer factory in Guangzhou, applying Industrie 4.0 standards. The new factory is estimated to be completed and put into operation by 2021, doubling production capacity and relocating existing facilities of Siemens Transformer (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd.

Citizen Machinery, a subsidiary of Citizen Watch, will invest about 3 billion yen to build a new automatic lathe factory in Shandong, China. The plant is expected to start production in February 2021, with monthly capacity of 350 units, doubling current output.

Zhejiang Bofang Jiaxin Integrated Circuit Technology Co., Ltd. signed an agreement to build a large-scale GaN RF device and power device production base in Jiaxing Science and Technology City, with a total investment of 2.5 billion yuan ($354 million) on 110 mu of land. Full production is expected to generate annual sales of over 3 billion yuan.

The Siemens-Türkerler-Kalyon consortium will commission a $100 million wind turbine factory in İzmir Aliağa Organized Industrial Zone by end of November 2019. The plant will produce 100 nacelle units annually, equivalent to 500 MW capacity, and create 500 jobs.

Corbec Steel announced a $40 million investment to build its first Ontario plant in Hamilton, a 100,000 sq ft hot-dip galvanizing facility with annual capacity of 100 million pounds, creating about 100 jobs.

GE Renewable Energy officially inaugurated the LM Wind Power blade factory in Cherbourg, France, which manufactures 107m long blades for the Haliade-X 12MW offshore wind turbine. Production started in early 2019 and five blades have been delivered for prototyping.

DC Norris North America, a provider of industrial food processing equipment, relocated its North American headquarters to a new 7,500-square-foot office and warehouse in Traverse City, Michigan, to accommodate planned growth.

Heineken built a greenfield brewery in Meoqui, Chihuahua, Mexico, with about 5 million hectoliters annual capacity and 500 direct jobs, a roughly 400 million euro investment; KHS supplied four of the six lines.

Hanwha Energy and HDC Holdings signed a partnership to build a 1,012 MW combined cycle power plant and a 200,000-kiloliter LNG tanker in Tongyeong, South Korea, with a total investment of 1.4 trillion won ($1.21 billion). Commercial operation is expected from early 2024.

Evonik officially opened its new multi-purpose silicones manufacturing facility in Geesthacht, Germany, for adhesive and sealant solutions.

Berry Global Group commercialized and started shipping product from its Reicofil R5 asset in Nanhai, China, for the hygiene market.

Niagara Transformer announced plans to open a new $3.3 million research and development facility in Cheektowaga, New York, next month.

Hanwha Aerospace plans to build a third factory in Vietnam to produce airplane engine parts for Rolls-Royce, following a contract to supply core components for Rolls-Royce's latest engines for 25 years from 2021, valued at 1 trillion won.

Galderma received a manufacturing license from the Swedish Medical Products Agency for a new state-of-the-art facility at its Center of Excellence in Uppsala, Sweden, to produce its QM1114 liquid botulinum toxin.

Starlim, the world's largest liquid silicone processor, opened a new plant in Nantong City, China, on October 11, 2024, with a total investment of EUR 30 million. The plant will produce silicone parts via injection molding for mobility and life sciences.

Siemens Healthineers inaugurated a manufacturing facility in Bangalore, India, to produce mobile Cios Fit C-arm radiology systems and computed tomography systems. The company invested Rs 20 crore in the 5,000 sqm facility, which already has 70 employees.

Eaton opened its first aerospace manufacturing facility in Bengaluru, India, with a $10 million investment in Phase I, producing hose assemblies and fluid distribution products for Boeing and Airbus.

CellMark Chemicals announced a new 52,000 sq ft facility for CellMark Ingredients in Naugatuck, CT, expected to become operational in Q2 2020.

Interroll will build a new plant in Obrigheim, Germany, with €40 million investment, 15,000 sqm production space, and about 150 employees. Operations are planned to start by January 2021.

Etex Group is investing £140 million in a new plasterboard manufacturing facility at Royal Portbury Dock in Bristol, UK. The plant is expected to start operations in 2022, subject to planning approval, and will create around 50 new jobs.

Grupo Acerero began operations at its fifth sheet plate manufacturing plant in Mexico, built over 30 months with an investment of $85 million. The plant has an initial capacity of 400,000 tons per year, with a goal to reach 1,000,000 tons.

KONE Elevator India inaugurated a new elevator manufacturing facility in SIPCOT Industrial Park, Sriperumbudur near Chennai, built at an investment of INR 450 crore, employing around 600 people.

KHS broke ground on a new plant and service center in Kunshan, China, a roughly 10,000 square metre factory with a total investment of about €10 million. The groundbreaking took place October 17, 2019.

BioDirection, Inc. leased a 9,000 sq. ft. facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico to manufacture a key nanosensor component of its Tbit System for concussion diagnosis. The facility is expected to be fully operational within several months.