SASA Polyester Sanayi completed commercial operations of a $1.72 billion PTA facility in Adana, Türkiye, with an annual capacity of 1.75 million tons, starting production in March 2025.
Vanguard International Semiconductor, a TSMC subsidiary, is investing $7.8 billion in a new semiconductor plant in Singapore to produce 28nm and 45nm chips for automotive and industrial applications, hiring about 1,500 workers.
Miba opened a new €15 million production plant in Kirchbach, Styria, Austria, for high-tech resistors used in energy efficiency and sustainability applications, doubling production and office space to 9,100 square meters.
Cockburn Cement officially opened its new Kwinana Cement Plant in Western Australia, consolidating operations from two sites into one. The plant has an annual capacity of 1.5 million tonnes and features advanced milling technology and automated quality control.
Nidec Drive Technology will invest about 3 billion yen to build a new press machine plant in Ritto, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The plant is expected to start operations in April 2026, doubling production capacity to 120 units per year.
Ypsomed opened its first dedicated production site in Changzhou, China, with an investment of nearly CHF 150 million. The facility will manufacture up to 100 million injection systems annually for the Chinese market.
Tynor Orthotics has established a new textile unit, Ortech Textiles, in Mohali, Punjab, with an investment of US $36 million. The facility will produce technical textiles for orthopaedic products and is expected to create 1000 to 1500 jobs.
Grundfos announced a multi-million-dollar expansion with a new state-of-the-art pump production facility in Brookshire, Texas. Construction is due to start in early 2026, with first production lines starting in Q4 2027.
FAYAT Group broke ground on a 100,000-square-foot parts distribution center in Fairfield County, South Carolina, with a $13.7 million investment, creating 75 jobs and expected to be operational by Q4 2025.
IKO broke ground on a new 220,000 sq. ft. granule facility for its subsidiary Bismarck Granules in Bismarck, Missouri, with an investment of over $120 million, creating more than 50 jobs.
Protex Water designed, manufactured and commissioned a containerised sewage treatment plant for the new Train Manufacturing Facility in Torbanlea, Queensland. The plant has a flow rate of 35kL/day and provides Class A recycled water for irrigation.
TechnoNICOL has begun construction of a US$25.5m stone wool plant in Ryazan Oblast, Russia. The plant will produce 230,000t/yr of stone wool briquettes from mine tailings and is expected to become operational in April 2026.
XiMo has started construction of an industrial-scale metathesis catalyst plant in Gödöllő, Hungary, backed by a €27.7 million investment from parent company Verbio SE and €5.5 million in Hungarian government subsidies. Production is expected to start in summer 2026, creating 44 new jobs.
Panasonic has added a fourth facility in Europe with the launch of the Panasonic Cold Chain Poland factory, equipped with an in-house R&D team and a refrigeration laboratory set to open in early 2026.
Valvitalia signed investment agreements with Wujiang Economic & Technological Development Zone for a 50-year land use right on a roughly 16,000 sq m site. The EUR 10 million plant will centralise Valvitalia's Chinese production for energy-sector valves. The signing took place June 26, 2025.
ValorFlex Packaging of Kentucky, a subsidiary of ValorFlex Holdings, will establish an advanced flexible packaging manufacturing facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with a $23.4 million investment creating 82 jobs.
Canadian plastics packaging producer E. Hofmann Packaging plans a 100,000-square-foot production facility in Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, with a $43 million investment that will create 164 jobs. Construction is expected to start in 2025 and finish in 2026.
Xinhuilian, a subsidiary of Baicao Chemical, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a semiconductor process equipment R&D and manufacturing base in Wuxi, China. The project has a total investment of CNY 5 billion and is expected to be completed by June 2026, with annual capacity of 300 semiconductor core equipment units.
Hilton Foods Canada is investing $192 million to build its first North American food processing and distribution facility in Brantford, Ontario, creating 150 new jobs. Construction has started.
Benteler Group officially launched construction of a new automotive components factory in Kénitra, Morocco. The 17,000-square-meter facility is expected to be operational by 2026 and will create approximately 400 jobs.
Akvalider signed an agreement to build a plant producing water filtration and purification stations in the Lotus special economic zone in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Investment is 188 million rubles.
Sibur plans to begin commercialization of a new polypropylene production facility (DGP-2) with a capacity of 570,000 metric tons in Tobolsk, Russia, in 2027. Construction started in August 2023, and investments total about 195 billion rubles ($2.5 billion).
Sekisui Chemical is establishing a new injection molding plant in Pune, Maharashtra, India, for its subsidiary Sekisui DLJM Molding. The investment is approximately $3 million, and the plant is expected to start operations in January 2026.
Komatsu established a new subsidiary, KOMATSU PAKISTAN MINING (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED, to provide service and support for the Reko Diq project in Pakistan.
Knauf signed an investment contract to build a dry mix plant in the Zhambyl Region of Kazakhstan. The project involves a total investment of $30.5 million, with a design capacity of 225,000 tons per year, creating 100 permanent jobs.
FICEP Corporation, a subsidiary of an Italian steel fabrication equipment company, will establish a North American headquarters in Forsyth County, Georgia. The $38 million investment is expected to bring 90 new jobs. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 24, 2025.
SL MEX, a Korean automotive lighting supplier, is investing $45 million to build a production facility in Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The plant will produce automotive headlamp modules with an annual capacity of up to one million modules, creating 385 direct jobs.
Kingspan Isoeste inaugurated its largest facility in Latin America in Itá, Paraguay, with a $20 million investment. The 19,139.85 m² plant will produce thermal roofing and panels with an annual capacity of 1.8 million m², creating 150 direct jobs.
Embraer opened new Commercial MRO facilities at Perot Field Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, with a $70 million investment, creating about 250 jobs. A second hangar is scheduled for completion in 2027.
Bonalive, a manufacturer of bioactive glass bone graft substitutes, opened a new factory in Turku, Finland. The facility consolidates production, quality assurance, testing, and product development under one roof, enabling up to ten times the production capacity.
Foodservice conveyor manufacturer Aerowerks is opening its first US operation in Gaffney, South Carolina, with a $10 million investment creating 52 jobs. The facility will design, manufacture and assemble material handling systems.
Liebherr has filed a construction permit application for a new production site in Nambsheim, Alsace, to assemble driver cabs for earthmoving machinery, with investment exceeding €100 million and production starting in early 2028.
EcoGroup will invest 200 million rubles to build a plant producing water treatment chemicals at the Lipetsk SEZ. The plant is scheduled to start operations in Q4 2027 and will create 18 jobs.
Territory of High Technologies plans to build a plant for interactive equipment and industrial robots in Krasnodar, Russia, with investments of RUB 1 billion. An agreement was signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2025.
Hanmi Semiconductor decided to invest approximately KRW 28.5 billion to construct Factory 7, a dedicated state-of-the-art Hybrid Bonder plant for next-generation premium HBM production. The investment period is from August 1, 2025 to November 30, 2026.
Tver region and Dialkon Technologies signed a letter of intent at SPIEF-2025 to build a pipeline valve plant in the Borovlyovo-3 industrial park, with 400 million rubles invested in 2025-2028.
KTM Technology & Innovations (India) Pvt. Ltd. has inaugurated a new 40,000 square metre production facility in Rajkot, Gujarat, with a capacity of 750 machines per month.
A plant for producing aircraft components for civil aircraft, including Boeing, Airbus, and Russian models, will be built at the Titan industrial park in the Moscow region. Total investment is at least 15 billion rubles, with launch scheduled for 2030.
Siemens will construct a 500,000-square-foot carbon-neutral facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce electrical equipment for energy systems, transportation, and data centers. The plant represents a $190 million investment.
OOO Aviatsionny Tsentr (part of GC Protector) will build a plant for aircraft components for foreign and domestic civil aircraft at the Titan industrial park in Leninsky district, Moscow region. Investment is at least 15 billion rubles, with launch planned for 2030, creating about 2,300 jobs.
ArcelorMittal constructed and commissioned a new state-of-the-art steelmaking facility at the Calvert site in Alabama, with 1.5 million mt/year capacity for low-carbon steel and exposed automotive grades, integrated with its HBI plant in Texas.
Ruisu Technology signed an agreement with Anhui Guangde Economic Development Zone to build a 110,000 sqm intelligent manufacturing plant for precision engraving machines, with a total investment of 200 million yuan.
DVI Production inaugurated a greenfield autoclaved aerated concrete (BCA) plant at Iernut, Romania, with a €40 million investment. The facility is fully automated and creates about 110 new jobs.
Kaynes Semicon's OSAT facility in Gujarat is on track to begin commercial production in Q1 of the next calendar year, with pilot line and clean room ready. Equipment installation finishes by July 2025.
Benchmark Electronics inaugurated a new plant in the San Jorge Industrial Park in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico. The facility will increase the company's production capacity by 50% and focuses on medical, telecommunications, and industrial manufacturing.
National Energy Company (NEC) signed an agreement at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 19, 2025, to invest about RUB 3.5 billion in building and equipping a new production site for gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) at the Lipetsk special economic zone. The plant will create over 200 jobs.
Hoerbiger Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Hoerbiger Holding AG, broke ground in April on a nearly 200,000 sq ft plant in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, costing over $70 million, with completion projected for 2026 and 100 additional jobs.
Turkish company UR-SA signed an investment contract with Egypt's SCZone to build a 35,000 square meter industrial textiles and plastic packaging plant in Qantara West, with $20 million investment and 1,000 expected jobs.
Hon Chuan held a topping-out ceremony for the third phase of its aseptic beverage plant in the Taichung Free Trade Port, costing NT$1.92 billion, with completion expected in Q4 2025 and commercial operation in Q2 2026. Total investment in the zone is set to reach NT$8 billion.
At SPIEF 2025, Tula Governor Dmitry Milyaev and Yasnopolyanskaya Packaging Factory signed an investment agreement for a plant producing industrial containers and packaging in Yasnogorsk district. The project involves about 2 billion rubles of investment and around 70 new jobs.