Stephenson Gobin (SG) opened a new 20,000 sq ft manufacturing plant in Attibele, near Bangalore, Karnataka, India, to produce electromagnetic brakes, clutches, and fire door safety products, expanding capacity for the automation sector.

Grupo Maratá will invest R$ 400 million to build a new food and beverage factory in Alagoas, Brazil, creating about 600 direct and indirect jobs. The mill will be one of the six largest in the country.

PDW (Performance Drone Works) officially opened Drone Factory 01, a new 90,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama, to produce tactical drones, creating more than 500 new jobs and enabling production of 350 C100s and 5,000 AM-FPVs per month.

The Moroccan Competition Council approved the establishment of a new joint industrial facility named Mafaco Tesca Textile SA, a partnership between Moroccan Mafaco and French Tesca Group Covering Materials SAS, located in the industrial zone of Kenitra, Morocco.

Bombardier inaugurated a new 46,000 sq. ft. component manufacturing facility in Moorpark, California, replacing its previous Los Angeles-area operations. The facility produces components for Global 7500 and Global 8000 business jets.

Modine has inaugurated a new facility in India, covering over 100,000 sq. ft., to produce Airedale by Modine data center cooling equipment for the APAC market.

Vaillant Group has opened a new heat pump production plant in Senica, Slovakia, with a EUR120m investment. The facility started production in H2 2023 and has a maximum annual capacity of 300,000 heat pumps.

Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) plans to invest ZAR3bn (US$160m) in a new integrated cement plant in Riebeek West, Western Cape, with 1.5Mta capacity. Commissioning is targeted for late 2026 or early 2027.

Guangdong Angelen New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. topped out its new manufacturing base in Yanjin County, Xinxiang, Henan, China. The CNY 520 million facility will produce 100,000 tonnes per year of high-solid environmentally friendly coatings and water-based coatings for automotive applications. Trial production is scheduled for December 2025.

stow Group will invest $36 million to establish a new manufacturing facility in Gordon County, Georgia, creating approximately 200 jobs. The 240,000-square-foot plant will produce industrial racking systems, with operations expected to begin in 2026.

Dutch flexible packaging manufacturer Royal Vaassen leased nearly 13,000 sq m of warehouse space and about 600 sq m of office space at the Hillwood Oleśnica logistics park, which is now fully leased. AXI IMMO advised on the transaction.

Librelato inaugurated a new semi-trailer manufacturing plant in Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil, with an investment of R$ 10 million (approx. USD 1.8 million). The plant has an initial capacity of 8 units per day and will start operations on August 25, 2025.

Millicent Manufacturing PR LLC established operations in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, with a $45.5 million investment, creating over 70 jobs for innovative women's health products.

Terumo Puerto Rico inaugurated a new plant in Caguas, Puerto Rico, with a $45 million investment, creating 180 jobs for manufacturing the Angio-Seal vascular closure device.

RP1, a Rossko group company, is completing construction of a plant in the Titanium Valley SEZ in Verkhnyaya Salda, Russia, to produce brake discs and calipers. The investment exceeds 9 billion rubles, and the plant will create about 500 jobs. Production launch is planned for 2026.

Avgol Nonwovens will build a new Reicofil 4 spunmelt line at a new site in Dimona, Israel. The 4.2-meter line will add about 18,000 tons of capacity to serve hygiene markets in the Middle East and Europe.

Norafin Industries (Germany) GmbH officially opened its first North American manufacturing facility in Mills River, North Carolina, on August 20, 2025. The 75,000 square foot building represents an $18 million investment.

BluePrint Automation (BPA) celebrated the first pile driving for a new plant in Woerden, Netherlands, on May 24, 2016. The first phase will cover 13,000 m2, expandable to 27,000 m2 on a 42,870 m2 plot, and will integrate Racupack.

DEEPAL, an NEV brand under Changan Automobile, and StarPower started production at their joint venture Chongqing Anda Semiconductor in Chongqing, China. The plant will produce automotive-grade power devices for new energy vehicles.

Xingyu officially launched the Intelligent Automotive Electronics and Vision System Industrial Center and Benniu Base Project in Changzhou, China. The project includes six main factory buildings with a total floor area of approximately 250,000 square meters, and at full capacity will produce about 10 million intelligent lighting assemblies annually.

ZACROS Corporation is expanding production of its CUBITAINER molded bag-in-box containers into a new facility in Wuxi, China. Operations are set to begin in April 2026.

Terumo Medical Corporation opened a new 64,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Caguas, Puerto Rico, to produce ANGIO-SEAL Vascular Closure Devices. The $45 million investment is expected to create approximately 180 jobs.

Mahindra confirmed the installation of a new tractor factory in Dois Irmãos (RS), Brazil, with a total projected investment of R$100 million, capacity of up to 9,000 units per year, and forecast of 120 direct jobs. The initial phase plans an investment of R$55 million and start of construction in 2025.

Chinese automotive lamp manufacturer UTAS-Nova has begun construction of a new €43 million ($49 million) plant in the VESTA Industrial Park in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The plant will produce exterior lighting systems for the global automotive industry.

Nidec Global Appliance is constructing a new manufacturing facility in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (Aurangabad), Maharashtra, with an investment of over USD 120 million. The plant will have an annual capacity of six million Embraco compressors and create around 1,000 direct jobs.

Abbott announced plans to build a new cardiovascular device manufacturing facility in Georgia, expected to be completed in 2028. This follows a $500 million investment in U.S. manufacturing and R&D announced in April 2025, creating 300 jobs.

Maxlion held a grand opening ceremony for its new factory in Haining, China. The facility, with an investment of RMB 120 million, covers 20,000 square meters and has an annual production capacity of 5,000-8,000 forklifts.

Runpeng Semiconductor, a subsidiary of China Resources Microelectronics, has commissioned a new 12-inch power semiconductor production line in Shenzhen, China. The investment is RMB 22 billion (€2.86 billion), with annual output of 480,000 wafers.

NEC Group's subsidiary LZVO held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in Gryazi, Lipetsk Oblast, to produce gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) for 110-500 kV. Investment exceeds RUB 3.5 billion, creating over 200 jobs.

Chemofast Anchoring GmbH held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new production and logistics site in Willich, Germany. The facility will have approximately 18,200 square meters of hall space and represents an investment of around EUR 50 million. Completion is planned for March 2027.

Stepptex Ges.m.b.H., a joint venture between Norafin Industries and Trans-Textil, has started production at a new facility in Absam, Tirol, Austria, on August 18, 2025. The plant produces high-quality quilted composites for heat and cold protection, government clothing, outdoor and sportswear, mattresses, and technical applications.

Ceratizit India has broken ground for new production facilities in Uluberia, Kolkata, and Bommasandra, Bengaluru, as part of a multi-phase capacity expansion.

Mahindra Brasil signed a contract to build a new tractor factory in Dois Irmãos, Rio Grande do Sul, with an initial investment of R$55 million and a projected total of R$100 million over five years. The plant will triple capacity to 9,000 tractors per year and create 200 new jobs, with construction starting in September 2025.

K·Line, a subsidiary of Liebot Group, started construction of a new 20,000 m² plant in Lliçà de Vall, Barcelona, with a €25 million investment, expected to be operational by end of 2026, tripling production to 1,500 windows per week and creating 100 jobs.

Inventtech EOOD, a Bulgarian packaging machine manufacturer, will build a new high-tech facility with a customer training center in the Southern Industrial Zone of Plovdiv. The plant will be on a 7,300 sqm plot with 2,500 sqm built-up area, expected to be completed by end of 2026.

Busch Vacuum Solutions plans a 60,000-square-foot regional hub in Tempe, Arizona, for repair, service and overhaul of vacuum pumps and systems. Operations are scheduled to begin in October 2025.

Risong Technology plans to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary, Guangzhou Risong Robot Technology Co., Ltd., to focus on high-precision, high-speed six-axis parallel robots and embodied intelligent robots. The subsidiary has passed internal review.

Schütz Container Systems held the grand opening of its new 370,000-square-foot production facility in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a $166 million project expected to create 185 jobs over five years. The site will later add reconditioning of used industrial packaging.

Siemens is building a new production plant for 60-Hertz gas turbines at its existing facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, with an initial investment of approximately $135 million. Production is slated to start in the fall of 2011.

Hempel A/S has inaugurated its new office in Pune, India, which will accommodate colleagues primarily within Digital and Finance.

Tata Electronics, in partnership with Taiwan's PSMC, is building India's first large-scale commercial wafer fab in Dholera, Gujarat. The $11 billion facility will produce 50,000 wafer starts per month and is expected to commence operations by late 2026.

Nantong Lanhe Nonwoven Materials Co., Ltd. invested 500 million yuan to build a production base for functional nonwoven filling materials in Sanxing Town, Haimen, with annual capacity of 50,000 tons. The facility is in trial production.

Electrovaya's Ellicott Gigafactory in Ellicott, New York remains on track to begin cell manufacturing in the middle of 2026.

Ambev plans a glass bottle factory in Carambeí, Paraná, with an investment of R$870 million, near its Ponta Grossa brewery. Operations are planned to start in the last four months of 2025.

Hikoki Power Tools India, a subsidiary of Koki Holdings, will invest Rs 700 crore in a new manufacturing facility at SIPCOT Industrial Park in Mahindra World City, Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu. The plant is expected to generate 1,302 direct and indirect jobs.

Yaskawa plans to build an 800,000-square-foot industrial robotics production facility in Franklin, Wisconsin, for high-volume robot production on U.S. soil.

Saint-Gobain commenced construction of a gypsum wallboard plant in Oragadam, near Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The plant will also produce plaster, mineral wool insulation, acoustic insulation panels, and float glass.

ABB announced a CA$130 million investment to establish a new 340,000 square foot manufacturing and R&D facility in Montreal, Quebec, consolidating operations from Iberville and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

Grupa Azoty has completed a new polypropylene production facility in Police, Poland, with an annual capacity of 438,000 tonnes. The plant includes a PDH unit for propylene production.

Flair Packaging acquired a second 35,000-square-foot production and warehouse plant in Calgary, Alberta, to house its flexible packaging converting equipment. It also installed a 10-color flexographic press and a solventless laminator at its existing Calgary plant.