SINOBOOM inaugurated a new manufacturing plant in Guanajuato Puerto Interior, Mexico, with a $150 million investment expected to generate 700 jobs. The plant produces elevated work platforms for logistics, construction, and heavy manufacturing sectors.

Paprec signed a 26-year, €1.3 billion contract with SIETREM to design, build and operate a waste-to-energy plant in Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes, France. The contract was signed on 18 November 2025.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor International Corporation (MCO-I) has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil to supply a footprint replacement steam turbine for its olefins plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The turbine is scheduled to be delivered in early 2027.

Fit Precast, an industrial concrete product manufacturer, will launch a flagship facility in Gaston County, North Carolina, creating 125 jobs with a $102 million investment.

Hitachi Energy began construction on a 20,000 m² expansion of its transformer factory in Ludvika, Sweden, increasing large power transformer capacity by approximately 40% and creating about 300 new jobs. Completion expected in fall 2027.

Velico Medical is finalizing plans for new production facilities in Europe and the Indo-Pacific to manufacture FrontlineODP consumables, each capable of producing up to 250,000 units annually, to meet growing demand.

Butler National's subsidiary Avcon Industries opened a new 33,000-square-foot parts fabrication facility at Newton City-County Airport in Newton, Kansas, to support growing demand for aircraft modifications.

BWF Protec will take over the technical needle felt business of Swiss company Fissco AG on January 1, 2026, strengthening its BWF CoilTec division in brake felts for steel service centers.

Walkinshaw Group officially opened its new $114 million headquarters and expanded manufacturing facility in Dandenong South, Victoria, Australia, creating 155 new jobs. The 100,000-square-metre site consolidates operations and can produce over 10,000 vehicles per year.

Heritage Distribution Holdings, the U.S. platform for Beijer Ref, signed agreements to acquire Key Refrigeration Supply and Dennis Supply Company, two HVAC/R distributors with combined annual sales of approximately $85 million.

Japanese injection moulding machine makers Nissei Plastics Industrial and Toyo Innovex agreed to merge their businesses under a new holding company, Global Moulding Solutions (GMS) Group, via a share transfer planned for April 1, 2026.

Toyota announced a $912 million investment across five U.S. manufacturing plants in West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Missouri to increase hybrid vehicle capacity, creating 252 new jobs. The investment includes adding hybrid-electric Corolla production in Mississippi.

Toyota will invest $57.1 million at its casting plant in Troy, Missouri, creating 57 jobs with a new cylinder head line starting production in 2027, increasing capacity by more than 200,000 cylinder heads.

Nestlé is investing £28 million in its Dalston factory in Cumbria, UK, including a £17.5 million mixing plant and £10.7 million for two new packing lines capable of producing 60,000 frothy coffee sachets per hour.

Otsuka Chemical will build a second plant for its TERPLUS functional polymer at its Tokushima factory, with operations starting in May 2027. The company also acquired intellectual property and manufacturing technology for Kuraray's Clarity acrylic block copolymer.

Bel Group commissioned a biomass boiler from BKtech Group at its Ulzama site in Navarra, Spain, enabling a 15% production increase and two new packaging lines for The Laughing Cow. The boiler is now fully operational.

Sanki will invest about ¥700 million to expand its factory in the Matsue Inland Industrial Park in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, to increase production capacity for large cranes.

Dragsman Cement will invest AMD1.9bn (US$5.0m) in a new cement production line using imported equipment, increasing employment from 10 to 50 staff. The government approved a customs-duty exemption of AMD40.9m.

ARLANXEO has announced a major investment to expand production capacity at its Triunfo plant in Brazil. The project will increase the plant's annual output by nearly 25%, following a previous expansion to 65 kt. The project is scheduled to come on stream in 2027.

Brenntag has acquired Chem Tech Services, Inc., a production chemicals provider for the energy sector in the Permian Basin. The acquired business has sales of over USD 80 million in the past 12 months. Chem Tech will be integrated into Coastal Chemical, a Brenntag platform.

Fermi America has signed two letters of intent with Siemens Energy: one to secure delivery of three F-class SGT6-5000F gas turbines for 2026, and another to collaborate on nuclear steam turbine technologies. The agreements support Fermi's proposed 11 GW AI campus in Texas.

GEA and Romanian technology company RebelDot have announced a strategic joint venture, RebelDot Process Industries, set to launch in January 2026. Headquartered in Cluj, Romania, the new company will deliver bespoke software development services for industrial customers, including AI solutions.

Strata Manufacturing PJSC has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Airbus to manufacture ailerons for the Airbus A320 family. Strata will supply 50% of Airbus demand for A320 family ailerons, manufacturing them at its facility in Al Ain, UAE.

Kaeron, a search fund launched by Frédéric Schilling in partnership with WAD Capital, has acquired Groupe Jordan, an HVAC company in Belgium.

GE Vernova received an order from Enea Group to supply two 9HA.01 gas turbine combined cycle blocks for the new Kozienice gas-fired power plant in Poland. The plant is expected to deliver approximately 1.2 GW of electricity and start operations in 2029.

Beijer Ref acquired two US HVAC/R distributors, Key Refrigeration Supply and Dennis Supply Company, with a combined annual turnover of approximately SEK 800 million. Key Refrigeration Supply operates six branches in Kansas and Missouri; Dennis Supply Company operates 13 branches across Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming.

AkzoNobel and Axalta Coating Systems agreed to an all-stock merger creating a global paint giant with a combined market value of about $17 billion. AkzoNobel shareholders will own 55% of the enlarged group.

Akzo Nobel NV agreed to acquire Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. in an all-stock deal, creating a combined entity with annual sales of almost $17 billion. Akzo Nobel will own 55% of the new company, which will be listed in the US.

Hyosung Heavy Industries will invest $157 million in its Memphis, Tennessee high-voltage transformer plant to more than double production capacity by 2028, making it the largest U.S. transformer plant by capacity.

Carbon-Based Technology (CBT), a Taiwanese carbon fiber composite manufacturer, secured a contract for mass production of the Albatross II unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology.

Rockwell Automation announced plans to build a new greenfield manufacturing site in Southeastern Wisconsin, part of a previously announced $2 billion investment plan. The facility could become Rockwell's largest manufacturing campus globally, spanning over 1 million square feet.

Woojin I&S announced a KRW 9.9 billion contract with Gasaniwill for mechanical construction of a data center in Gasan-dong, Seoul. The contract runs until April 30, 2026.

DuPont held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new MOLYKOTE specialty lubricants manufacturing plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, China. The plant is expected to be operational by early 2027.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia announced a $453 million investment at its Buffalo plant in Putnam County to increase assembly of four-cylinder hybrid-compatible engines, sixth-generation hybrid transaxles and rear motor stators. The expansion will create 80 new jobs and is expected to be completed by 2027.

Southtown Glass Inc has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity construction contract under solicitation MO-R3-PAC-111825-SGI, administered by Sourcewell, for asphalt, paving, and concrete services in Missouri Region 3. The estimated annual contract value is approximately $2 million.

Tetra Pak has doubled its production capacity at its Binh Duong aseptic carton packaging material factory in Vietnam, now capable of supplying over 30 billion units annually across Vietnam and the region.

Thames Water has gone out to tender for a major AMP8 contract covering the supply, installation and commissioning of new sludge holding tanks, digesters, roofs and associated items at various wastewater treatment sites. The contract is divided into two lots.

Vulcan Elements Inc. will invest $918.1 million to build a 1 million-square-foot rare earth magnet factory in Benson, Johnston County, North Carolina, creating 1,000 jobs. The plant will have a production capacity of 10,000 metric tonnes of magnets per year.

Hebei Jinxi Iron and Steel Group placed an order with Primetals Technologies for two continuous slab casters, each with a capacity of 2.5 million tons per year, including a digitalization package. The casters will be installed at Jinxi Steel's plant near Tangshan, Hebei province, with startup scheduled for the end of 2026.

Shenyang MAKA Machine Tool Company is building an Aerospace CNC Machine Tools Smart Factory in Shenyang, China, with an investment of 290 million yuan. The first phase covers 43,000 m² and is expected to be completed in 2026.

The Competition Commission of India approved a combination involving India Resurgence Fund acquiring a stake in Shree Digvijay Cement Company Limited, and Digvijay Cement acquiring a stake in Hi-Bond Cement (India) Private Limited.

The US Defense Logistics Agency awarded Ponderosa Packaging Corp. a contract worth $18,345,000 for containers and packaging supplies, with place of performance in Melville, New York, awarded on November 18, 2025.

Welch Packaging Group of Elkhart, Indiana, announced its merger with ABCOR Packaging of Cleveland, Tennessee, a corrugated products maker serving southeast Tennessee, northern Georgia and western North Carolina.

ITT Gould Pumps completed the second phase of a US$25 million expansion at its Industrial Process site in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, doubling production capacity.

CANPACK Group plans a second aluminum beverage can plant near Barranquilla, Colombia, with about USD 140 million investment, capacity of around 1 billion can bodies a year and about 160 direct jobs. Operations are expected to start in Q1 2027.

Peli BioThermal moved into a 90,100 sq ft facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania, roughly 43% larger than its former site about 10 miles away.

Gaia Biomaterials established a supply hub in Los Angeles for its compostable, microplastic-free materials, created with distributor Mitsubishi International Corp to shorten lead times for US customers.

Averra Packaging doubled the clean room square footage at its thermoforming facility in Salt Lake City to add an inline medical thermoforming machine.

Orbis held a grand opening for its renovated reusable pallet, tote and bulk container plant in Greenville, Texas, with 420,000 sq ft of manufacturing space. The company expects to create 190 jobs within three years.

ITT's Svanehøj business acquired Köhler & Hörter GmbH (KOHO), a family-owned compressor manufacturer in Hagen, Germany, expanding its portfolio beyond cryogenic pumps into compressors for gas applications.