Eco King, a China-based fiber tableware maker, will invest $80.5 million to open a production facility in the existing dormant industrial plant in Robbinsville, North Carolina, its first in North America. It plans to hire 300 people initially and add 515 jobs over time.

China's Sailun Group and the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone signed a contract to build a tire factory in the Suez Canal Economic Zone. The $1 billion investment will produce 10 million tires annually, with the first phase due in 2026.

The cement plant under construction in Katanda, Kasaï Oriental province, DRC, is scheduled to begin production in February 2026. The first phase, costing $400 million, will produce 300,000 tonnes per year, eventually reaching 1.2 million tonnes.

Bundor Valves agreed to set up a final assembly plant for hydraulic valves at the APOZ zone in Chambers County, Texas, expected to create over 100 local jobs. The press release is dated 13 August 2025 and is promotional in tone.

Hitachi Energy is constructing a new transformer factory at the Hitachi Energy Park in Mustasaari, Finland, as part of a €170 million investment. The plant will double transformer production and testing capacity in Finland and is expected to start operations in early 2027.

Atomsk will start operating the Teplit plant at its Sysert cluster in October 2025, producing lightweight aerated concrete blocks under the Twinblock trademark. The investment was 3.5 billion RUB, including 1.8 billion RUB from a concessional lending program.

The Union Cabinet of India approved proposals for four semiconductor factories by SiCSem, CDIL, 3D Glass Solutions, and ASIP Technologies, with cumulative investment of ₹4,600 crore. The facilities will be set up in Bhubaneswar, Mohali, and Andhra Pradesh, creating 2,034 jobs.

Nidec SYS GmbH, part of Nidec Press & Automation group, opened a new office and production facility in Grafenau, Germany, expanding its high-speed stamping capacity by nearly 60 percent.

Trioworld Group announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Brownsburg, Indiana. The plant is expected to double North American production capacity and create 33 new jobs.

SINBON Electronics Co., Ltd. inaugurated a new facility in Villa de Reyes Industrial Park, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with an initial investment of USD 27 million. The plant will manufacture wiring harnesses and interconnect systems for new energy, automotive, and medical industries.

Atomstroykompleks is preparing to open a new plant called Teplit in the Syasertsky district of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, to produce lightweight gas concrete blocks. Investment was 3.5 billion rubles, and the plant will start operations in October 2025.

QUA, an Aquatech company, inaugurated a new state-of-the-art membrane manufacturing facility in Pune, India, on August 11, 2025. The facility uses advanced manufacturing systems and a zero-discharge plant to produce water treatment membranes.

Ring Power Corp.'s subsidiary Phoenix Products has been issued a permit to build a 231,467-square-foot manufacturing facility in North Jacksonville at a project cost of $24 million. The facility will replace its current 89,000-square-foot plant in Talleyrand.

BPL Medical Technologies inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Bangalore, India, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi presiding over the opening. The facility supports production of medical devices complying with global quality standards.

NDR Auto Components Limited approved a new manufacturing facility in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, with an investment of Rs 27.29 crore. The facility will produce frame structures for 50,000 5-seater cars and seat covers for 78,000 7-seater cars, and is expected to be operational by August 2026.

Safran inaugurated a new titanium compressor blade plant in Marchin, Belgium, representing a €108 million investment. The 10,000m² facility will produce 700,000 titanium compressor blades annually for GE Aerospace's GEnx and CFM International's LEAP engines.

Vivax-Metrotech Corporation announced a new manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia, with an investment of RM48 million that will create 175 high-skilled jobs and produce precision technologies for telecom and utilities.

Salvalco is building a 1,000 square metre aerosol valve factory in the Nakhon Nayok region near Bangkok, Thailand, with contract manufacturing partner Sanit & Sons. The facility is due to be operational in January 2026.

Honda announced plans to establish a new motorcycle manufacturing facility in Aliağa, Izmir, Turkey, with an investment of approximately TRY 760 million (JPY 2.94 billion). The plant will have an initial annual capacity of 100,000 motorcycles, scalable to 200,000, and create 300 jobs. Operations are expected to begin by mid-2026.

Ngoc Diep Aluminium Joint Stock Company held the groundbreaking ceremony for the Dinostar high-quality aluminium plant project at Pho Noi A Industrial Park, Hung Yen Province, Vietnam. The plant will cover 50,000 m2 and increase annual output by hundreds of thousands of tons.

TRUMPF has inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Chakan, Maharashtra, India, with an initial plan to assemble 35 bending machines in 2025.

Nanjing Julong Science & Technology inaugurated its first facility outside China on August 8, 2025, in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico. The US$10 million, 4,540 m² plant created 204 direct jobs and will serve the North American automotive market with modified engineering plastics.

Fukushima Galilei Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory in Konan City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, to develop and manufacture refrigerated and frozen showcases. The plant is expected to be completed in December 2026 and will increase production capacity by about 30%.

Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Private Limited inaugurated a new CRGO Core Processing Centre (12,000 MT/year capacity) and a Surge Arrester Production Line (80,000 units/year) at Rudraram, Telangana, as part of a INR 562 crores investment.

Hitachi Energy is investing 80% of its US$200 million Brazil investment (US$160 million) in a new factory, with inauguration planned for mid-2028. This is part of a plan to double the company's production capacity.

Grasim Industries began commercial production at its 50,000 tonnes per annum epichlorohydrin (ECH) plant at Vilayat, Gujarat, India on October 21, 2026.

RIR Power Electronics Limited has received fiscal support from the Government of Odisha for Phase 1 of its Silicon Carbide semiconductor manufacturing facility in Bhubaneswar. The total project cost is approximately ₹618 crore for both phases, with Phase 1 capex of ~₹65 crore and an eligible government subsidy of ~₹32 crore.

Construction is underway on a new HOERBIGER campus in Delray Beach, Florida, comprising a 197,000 square foot office and manufacturing site for compressor valves, control systems and actuators. Ware Malcomb is providing architecture and interior design services; the announcement was dated 7 August 2025.

IHI and GE Vernova have built a large-scale combustion test facility for ammonia gas turbine development at IHI's Aioi Works in Hyogo, Japan. Testing is expected to start in summer 2025.

Kyungshin Cable de México is investing US$50 million in a new facility in Gómez Palacio, Durango, to produce battery modules for Ford electric vehicles. The project is expected to create 1,000 direct jobs, with production testing scheduled for late 2025.

TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD. has decided to construct a new Pyeongtaek Plant in its consolidated subsidiary TOK Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The Phase 1 construction includes a high-purity chemical manufacturing building with an investment of approximately 12.0 billion yen.

Construction of a high-tech plant for ballast-free railway slabs for Russia's first high-speed railway has begun in Veliky Novgorod. The plant will produce over 100,000 assembly units and 262,000 m³ of reinforced concrete annually, with total investment of 12 billion RUB and over 800 jobs. Completion is expected in Q3 2026.

SOMIC Packaging Inc. has opened its new 48,000-square-foot North American headquarters in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. The facility triples previous capacity and enables local assembly and testing of end-of-line packaging machines.

TWE, a German nonwovens producer, is building a new production site in Bhopal, India, initially housing two hygiene lines for ADL, topsheet and backsheet applications. The site is designed for scalable expansion with space for up to four to six lines.

Amazon subsidiary Zoox opened a new assembly plant in northern California to mass-produce robotaxis. At full capacity, the factory will employ hundreds of people and assemble more than 10,000 robotaxis annually.

Malakhit will build a new plant in Naro-Fominsk, Russia, to produce septic and wastewater treatment systems, doubling production capacity to 30,000 units per year. The first phase investment is about 100 million rubles, creating around 100 jobs.

Kruger Products inaugurated a new LDC tissue plant in Sherbrooke, Quebec, as part of a $377.5 million expansion project. The plant includes a double-wide tissue machine with 60,000 metric tons capacity and two new converting lines, creating 205 direct jobs.

Chinese automotive interior materials manufacturer Kuntai, through its subsidiary Kuntai Hongjing Co Ltd, plans to establish a $13.7 million production facility in Morocco to manufacture car floor mats and carpets, supporting European expansion.

Company O3 will launch a new paint and coating plant in the Rostovskaya special economic zone in 2026. The plant will have an annual capacity of 12,000 tons.

Dangote Cement Plc plans to open a new cement plant in Ivory Coast with a capacity of 3 million metric tons per year, boosting total capacity to 55 million metric tons. The plant is nearly complete and set to begin production.

BirlaNu Limited approved the setting up of a new greenfield fibre cement board plant near Krishnapatnam port in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh. Phase I will add 72,000 metric tons per annum capacity with an estimated investment of INR 1,270 million.

Asahi Kasei Life Science plans to construct a new spinning plant for Planova virus removal filters in Nobeoka City, Miyazaki, Japan. Construction is scheduled to begin in July 2026, with operations starting in January 2030.

Stefanutti Stocks is constructing a large plastic-lined tailings depository for DRDGOLD near Fochville, South Africa, using Bell B30E articulated dump trucks. The facility will be the largest lined tailings depository in the world.

Xuanda Industrial Group is building a green smart factory in Yongjia County, Zhejiang, for pumps and valves, with total investment of 300 million yuan. Completion and production start are expected in 2026, with annual capacity of 12,000 tonnes.

Mindray Medical opened its global second headquarters in Wuhan, China, with a total investment of 4.5 billion yuan (approx. $630 million). The 620,000-square-meter facility in Wuhan Optics Valley Biolake includes R&D and production bases focused on minimally invasive surgery, orthopedics, and cardiovascular devices.

DN Solutions broke ground for a factory in Bengaluru, India, to produce customized machine tools including SVM 4100i vertical machining centers. The company plans to invest over $70 million and hire more than 500 employees by 2032.

GameChange BOS has opened a high-capacity medium voltage transformer manufacturing facility in Taloja, Navi Mumbai, India. The 180,000 sq. ft. factory can produce over 1,800 transformers annually.

Tsubaki Kabelschlepp GmbH inaugurated a new 3,000 square meter manufacturing facility in Bengaluru's KIADB Industrial Area via its Indian subsidiary KabelSchlepp India Private Limited. The plant consolidates cable carrier systems and conveyor/protective covers businesses under one roof.

DIC Corporation resolved to build a new epoxy resins production facility at its Chiba Plant in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The investment plan has been approved by METI, and DIC expects a subsidy of up to ¥3 billion.

ORG Packaging announced on August 1, 2025 that its subsidiary Bena Packaging (Thailand) will build a two-piece aluminium can line with 700 million cans annual capacity at Rojana Ayutthaya Industrial Park, with an investment of about 441.6 million yuan.