Coster Group announced the opening of a new production facility in Cabreúva, São Paulo, Brazil, as part of its expansion in South America. The news item is dated 5 March 2025.

Crown Europe opened a 23,000 square metre logistics hub in Puurs, Belgium, developed with Gilbert de Clercq transport company to serve food, beverage and aerosol customers in the Benelux region.

Germany-based Aerotech Peissenberg Corporation, in a joint venture with Mexican company Grupo Punto Alto, is building a $200 million plant in Hermosillo, Sonora, to manufacture turbine components for General Electric and Rolls Royce engines, creating 400 aerospace engineering jobs.

Elementia and Plycem announced the construction of a new Cementos Fortaleza plant in Esparza, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, with an investment of $17 million and a capacity of over 250,000 tonnes, creating more than 200 direct and indirect jobs.

Link Ready-mix, a subsidiary of Blue Ocean Group, has obtained a new ready-mix batching plant at No.21/1, Kandy Road, Navatkuli, Jaffna to support the group's construction projects in the Northern province.

The Molecor-Titan Consortium launched a new industrial plant in Paraguay for the production of TOM® Oriented PVC pipes, with an investment of approximately US$6 million and initial production capacity of 3,000 tons per year.

Henkel will launch a multi-million euro 3D printing facility in Tallaght, Ireland, focusing on materials for industrial vat polymerization techniques. The facility will employ 40 scientists and engineers.

German company Accomplast officially opened its new production plant 'Injection Moulding Prilep' in the Alinci industrial zone in Macedonia, with an initial investment of 1.2 million euro and a planned additional 3 million euro to create 150 jobs. The plant will produce car parts for brands including Audi, Bentley, BMW, and Jaguar.

Shanxi Huaxiang Group and US-based JDH jointly invested 400 million yuan in a Sino-American JV project in two phases, capable of producing 20,000 tonnes a year of high-end pump, valve and pipe fittings with 160 million yuan in sales and 800 new jobs.

Changbao Oman Oil Pipe Company opened a $20 million tubing threading and finishing plant in the Sohar Free Zone, supplying oil country tubular goods to Petroleum Development Oman, with a capacity of 50,000 tonnes a year.

Schaeffler opened a new plant in Svitavy, Czech Republic, producing thermal management modules for the automotive industry. The investment is about EUR 100 million and is expected to create 900 new jobs within three years.

Rinnai America Corporation, a subsidiary of Rinnai Corporation, announced plans to build a new 300,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Griffin, Georgia, to produce residential and commercial tankless gas water heaters. The company will first use an existing factory in April 2018 before moving to the new facility.

Tan A Dai Thanh Group started construction of the first phase of the Stroman Pipes and Fittings Southern Plant in Long An, Vietnam, with a total investment of $70 million and design capacity of 150,000 tonnes per year.

Boge Rubber and Plastics inaugurated a new auto parts plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with an investment of 100 million pesos and the creation of 200 direct jobs. The plant will manufacture rubber-metal components for chassis and engine mounts, as well as plastic components for the automotive industry.

Alfa Laval plans to invest at least $15 million to build a 68,000-square-foot competence center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, to manufacture spiral and air-cooled heat exchangers. The project will create about 100 jobs and is expected to be completed by late 2018.

Maxmoduler Produktion AB is opening an additional production facility in Lycksele, Sweden, to increase capacity and meet strong demand. The new facility is planned to be operational at the turn of the year 2017/2018 and will initially create 10-15 jobs.

Osram Licht AG commenced operations at its new LED chip manufacturing facility in Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Malaysia, costing €1 billion and creating 1,500 jobs. The facility will manufacture LEDs for automotive, smart lighting, and infrared applications.

The AP MedTech Zone (AMTZ) is constructing a medical devices manufacturing park on 270 acres in Nadupuru, Visakhapatnam, with an investment of over ₹1,000 crore (approx. $154 million). The first phase is estimated at ₹350-400 crore.

NSK Ltd. inaugurated its newly built Cheonan plant in Cheonan City, Korea, on October 20, 2017. The plant expands manufacturing capacity for high-precision needle bearings using state-of-the-art automated facilities to meet growing demand, particularly from the Chinese auto market.

LPW Technology has opened a new £20 million state-of-the-art metal powder manufacturing facility near Liverpool, UK, designed to produce clean titanium, nickel, cobalt, aluminum, and steel alloys for additive manufacturing.

Grupo Sprea's subsidiary Ddchem confirmed a plan to invest over R$ 50 million to build a new factory in Serra, Espírito Santo, Brazil, to produce epoxy resins and hardeners for export.

Alvimedica held a groundbreaking ceremony for its third factory in Çatalca, Istanbul. The new facility will cover 7,500 square meters of production area and increase capacity for drug-eluting stents and balloons.

OSRAM GmbH opened its first factory in Bulgaria near Plovdiv, investing 50 million leva (approximately $30 million) and creating 900 jobs. The plant produces electronic ballasts, drivers and LED modules.

Stanley Black & Decker is planning to open a massive 300,000 sq ft manufacturing plant in the US, increasingly integrating robotics and 3D printing into its manufacturing processes.

TBS Engineering, a UK-based lead-acid battery machinery maker, is expanding with a new purpose-built facility in Gloucestershire costing £15 million ($19.6 million). The 100,000 sq ft facility will become operational in spring 2018 and will serve as the global head office.

Contract manufacturer Pepin Manufacturing, Inc. broke ground on a new 18,000-square-foot facility at 400 Commerce Drive in Wabasha, Minnesota, adding 10,000 square feet of manufacturing space. The plant is expected to open in 2018.

Japanese manufacturer Moriroku Technology inaugurated its production facility in Guanajuato Puerto Interior industrial park, producing interior plastic components for Volkswagen. The $20 million plant started operations in March 2017 and employs 190 workers.

Rockfon, part of the ROCKWOOL Group, officially inaugurated its new 130,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Marshall County, Mississippi, for stone wool acoustic ceiling panels. The plant started production in July 2017 and represents a $40 million investment, employing about 90 people.

Norsk Titanium formally dedicated its 67,500-square-foot manufacturing plant in Plattsburgh, New York, which produces FAA-approved structural titanium components for the aerospace industry using rapid plasma 3D printing. The facility opened in September 2016 and has nine Rapid Plasma machines installed, with eleven more to be delivered by end of 2017.

Braidy Industries expects to break ground next quarter on a $1.3 billion rolling mill in Kentucky that would start up in 2020. The mill will have an annual capacity of 370,000 tons, producing aluminum sheet for automotive and aerospace.

Siasun Robot and Automation Co Ltd opened an industrial park in Shenyang, Liaoning province, with a total investment of nearly 2 billion yuan ($302 million). The park includes a digital intelligent factory with annual capacity of 10,000 robots.

CILAS, a joint venture between Souakri Group and LafargeHolcim, inaugurated a new cement plant in Biskra, Algeria on October 17, 2017. The plant has a capacity of 2.7 million tonnes per year and represents an investment of DZD 35 billion (USD 305 million).

Novosibirsk Artificial Fiber Plant (NZIV), part of Rostec, announced plans to build a new production facility for basalt fiber thermal insulation materials. The plant will have a capacity of 15,000 tonnes per year, with investments of 600 million rubles. Construction starts in 2018, with launch expected by end of 2020 and full capacity in 2021.

Faurecia's new plant in San Jose Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico, has started trial production runs. The $48 million facility will manufacture exhaust systems and is expected to begin formal operations by end of 2017, with a ribbon-cutting in Q1 2018.

Lealea Enterprise will build Taiwan's first biaxially oriented nylon (BOPA) films plant in Changhua County through subsidiary Li Ling Film Co Ltd, with an investment of about NT$7 billion. The first phase is to be completed in Q1 2018 with monthly capacity of 800-1,000 tonnes.

Magna International will build a new paint shop in Maribor/Hoče, Slovenia, to support its contract manufacturing facility in Graz, Austria. The $100 million facility is expected to begin operations in 2019 and create 400 jobs.

Insulet Corporation has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Acton, Massachusetts. The $100 million investment is expected to create hundreds of jobs, with production planned to begin in 2019.

Baoding Jiuding Baohu Electric Co., Ltd. signed an agreement with Shunping County to build a smart grid electrical equipment manufacturing project in Shunping Economic Development Zone. The project has a total investment of 1 billion yuan and will create 400 jobs.

Shangwei Healthcare Products plans to build a new site in Heze, Shandong, with 5.5 billion annual capacity for NBR gloves and 12 billion annual capacity for PVC gloves. The project has €206 million investment and is expected to create over 3,000 jobs.

Robotics and Drives opened a new Solutions and Training Centre in Mullingar, Westmeath, Ireland, to support its robotics and automation services for manufacturing.

Fanuc UK opened a new £19 million, 107,000-square-foot headquarters at Ansty Park in Coventry, bringing robotics, machine tools and factory automation under one roof. Street Crane supplied three overhead cranes for the facility's workshop.

Osram Opto Semiconductors will inaugurate a new LED epitaxial wafer and chip factory in Kulim, Malaysia on November 23, 2017.

Arthrex will invest $69 million to establish a 200,000-square-foot production facility in Sandy Springs, Anderson County, creating 1,000 jobs by 2025. Construction is expected to begin in Q1 2018 and complete by early 2019.

Kanazawa Murata Manufacturing completed the transfer of land and buildings from Sony in Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture, and established the Nomi Plant to expand production capacity for electronic components.

Shandong Intco Medical Products plans to invest at least $152 million to build a project in Huaibei, Anhui, with annual capacity of 28 billion high-end medical gloves, to be completed in two to three years.

Bastian Solutions, a Toyota-owned material handling and robotics integrator, will invest over $8 million to construct a 90,000-square-foot manufacturing center in Westfield, Indiana, creating up to 87 new jobs by 2020.

Murata Manufacturing will build a new production building at its Wakura Murata Manufacturing site in Nanao, Ishikawa, with construction starting February 2018 and completion targeted January 2019 at about JPY 3.5 billion.

Toly Group plans to build an 8,000 m2 factory in South Korea next year at a cost of EUR 13 million.

Toly Group plans a new 15,000 m2 factory in Malta for 2018 costing EUR 15 million, which will raise its Maltese production capacity by 50%.

Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor Co. and Zhejiang Jingsheng Mechanical & Electrical Co. signed an agreement with the Wuxi government to build an integrated circuit silicon wafer production base worth about USD 3 billion, with first-phase investment of USD 1.5 billion.