Voltamp Transformers Ltd began construction of a new power transformer manufacturing facility in Jarod, Vadodara, Gujarat, with a capital outlay of Rs. 200 crore. The first phase will have an annual capacity of 6,000 MVA.

Tri-Wall Group is investing 70 million leva in a new corrugated board and packaging plant near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, through its local unit Tri-Wall Bulgaria, with completion expected by mid-2026 and 250 to 300 jobs created.

Medline Industries announced a $250 million investment for a new plant in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, with 68,000 square meters, creating 3,000 direct and 600 indirect jobs. The first stone was laid on January 30, 2025.

Toray Plastics (China) Co. Ltd. is establishing a new production site for high-performance resin compounds at the premises of Toray Resins (Foshan) Co. Ltd. in Guangdong Province. The facility is scheduled to begin operations in April 2025.

Egyptian startup Simplex secured $13 million in funding from Saudi Arabia's National Industrial Development Center to build a CNC machine factory on a 20,000-square-meter site in Riyadh. The factory is planned to start operating in the first quarter of 2026.

Hunan Zhiren Refrigeration Equipment Co., Ltd. signed an agreement to build a Zhibo refrigeration equipment production base in the Hunan Engineering Machinery Supporting Industrial Park in Miluo, China. The project covers 20 mu (approx. 1.33 hectares) with an investment of 100 million yuan (approx. USD 13.8 million) and is expected to achieve total output value of 380 million yuan within three years of operation.

Egyptian deeptech company Simplex CNC has announced plans to build a $13 million factory in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to manufacture CNC machines. The factory will be built on a 20,000 square metre site and is expected to begin operations in Q1 2026.

Ecosan announced an investment of R$80 million to build a new facility in the Sorocaba Technology Park, Brazil, creating 400 direct and indirect jobs. The plant will include an engineering center, research and innovation center, and a water analysis laboratory, with inauguration expected in the first half of 2026.

International Paper announced a new greenfield box plant in Waterloo, Iowa, near protein-segment customers and with freight access to one of its mills. Construction is expected to begin in 2025.

Medline will construct a new plant in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, as announced by Index (National Chamber of the Manufacturing and Export Industry). The project results from collaboration with authorities to retain investments.

British Steel has opened a GBP26 million (USD32 million) forklift mast manufacturing facility at its Skinningrove site in the United Kingdom. The facility includes CNC lathes, automated bandsaws, and a warehousing system.

Knauf Insulation started production at its new glass mineral wool factory in Târnăveni, Romania. The EUR 140 million facility has a capacity of over 75,000 tons per year and employs over 100 people.

Bolton Adhesives will construct a new state-of-the-art production facility at the Rheinmünster Chemical Park in Germany. The plant, designed for sustainability and automation, is expected to be operational by the end of 2027.

OOO Gallant, a resident of the Linevo ASEZ in Novosibirsk Oblast, plans to complete construction of the first phase of a medical device plant in 2025, with total investment of about 310 million rubles, producing over 600,000 medical devices and 600,000 cosmetic products annually.

Craftsman Automation approved a new manufacturing facility at SIPCOT Industrial Park in Shoolagiri, Hosur, India, costing Rs. 150 crore, to boost aluminum products capacity by 15%.

IMI plans a $38 million manufacturing facility in Lake Forest, California, to support its IMI CCI actuator and control valve brand, self-funded by selling its Rancho Santa Margarita site, with the move targeted for early 2026.

CG Power & Industrial Solutions Ltd board approved investment of Rs.712 crore in a greenfield power transformer manufacturing plant with annual capacity of 45,000 MVA, expected to commission by FY28 (March 31, 2028).

Italian water systems group Idrobase announced it will relocate part of its production from Ningbo, China to a new plant in Algeria, making it a hub for African operations.

Fapomed, a Portuguese manufacturer of surgical gowns and medical devices, is constructing a new 10,000 sqm industrial building in Felgueiras, Portugal. The facility will replace existing premises and increase production capacity, with completion expected in March 2025.

Ruskran plans to build a new plant for lifting equipment in the Omsk special economic zone 'Avangard', with an investment of 300 million rubles and creation of at least 80 jobs.

CANPACK Group broke ground on 28 January 2025 on a greenfield aluminum beverage can plant in Uttar Pradesh, India, with an estimated investment of $150 million (INR 13 billion) on 60 acres in an integrated manufacturing logistics cluster.

Spanish solid surfaces manufacturer Cosentino Group bought 330 acres at Cecil Commerce Center in Jacksonville for $20.39 million and plans a two-phase, $370 million manufacturing facility. The first phase, costing $270 million, will begin construction in January 2025 and start operations in 2028, initially hiring 180 employees.

ANDRITZ has commissioned a teXline bast fiber line at Ekolution's new factory in Malmö, Sweden, producing hemp fibers and nonwoven felts from industrial hemp.

DN Solutions, a global machine tool leader, announced plans for a new factory and R&D center near Bengaluru International Airport as part of a 600 crore INR ($70 million) investment. The 100,000-square-meter facility will start construction in 2025 and begin operations in 2026, hiring over 500 local employees by 2032.

CTS Cement Manufacturing Corp. has opened its largest production facility in Cordele, Georgia, increasing overall packaged goods production capacity by 25% and creating more than 30 local jobs.

Quality Pack Caspian, a project of an Azerbaijani investment company with Hungary's Hell Energy, will build a plant in the Alat Free Economic Zone to produce aluminum beverage cans. Annual capacity will be 700 million cans.

PT Honay Ajkwa Lorentz and PT Tambang Mineral Papua held a groundbreaking ceremony for the HONCEN Capex Site in Mimika Regency, Central Papua, where a cement and a ceramic factory will be built. The total investment is Rp3.1 trillion, and the factories will utilize tailings from PT Freeport Indonesia.

PROK has officially opened a new specialist manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, to produce conveyor rollers, including the PROK HDPE composite roller with visual wear-indicator technology. The facility was inaugurated on January 24, 2025.

KASFAB Tools Pvt. Ltd. is opening a new facility in Doddaballapura, near Bengaluru, India, on January 27, 2025. The initial investment is ₹20 crore, with an additional ₹250 crore planned for expansion. The plant will produce 200-500 pieces of equipment annually and initially employ 50 people.

Tata Electronics partnered with Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) to build India's first AI-enabled semiconductor fab in Gujarat. The facility will produce up to 50,000 wafers per month and create over 20,000 jobs.

Lantania has begun construction of a new wastewater treatment plant in Villanueva de la Torre, Guadalajara, Spain, under a €4.6 million contract from the Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha. The plant will serve 14,000 inhabitants.

NEO Battery Materials signed a lease for 8 acres at Windsor Airport to build Canada's first advanced silicon anode manufacturing facility, with initial investment of CAD 69 million and total investment of CAD 120 million over 8 years. The plant will produce 5,000 tons of silicon anodes annually and create over 100 jobs.

Weber-Hydraulik has moved into a new owned building in Konstanz-Reichenau, investing around EUR 5 million in a valve technology site with 1,730 sqm of production space and 180 sqm of development space. The building uses photovoltaics, a heat pump and concrete core activation.

Grupo Bauminas has announced the installation of an industrial unit in the Zona de Processamento de Exportação in Senador Guiomard, Acre, Brazil, with an investment of R$ 30 million. The plant will produce aluminum sulfate for water treatment and is expected to start operations within 12 months, creating 60 direct jobs.

German company Ziemann Holvrieka inaugurated a new plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico, with an investment of $20 million. The plant will manufacture stainless steel tanks and parts for the fermented beverage and liquid food industries, creating 150 direct jobs.

Paul Bauder GmbH & Co. KG opened a new €12.5 million production plant in Landsberg, Germany, for its liquid plastic product BauderLIQUITEC, including research labs. The plant was inaugurated on January 23, 2025.

S-Oil signed an MOU with Ulsan City to build a 121MW natural gas self-powered facility at its Ulsan plant in Onsan National Industrial Complex. Construction will begin in February 2025 and be completed in December 2026.

UHP Technologies, part of KAS Group, will inaugurate a 20,000-square-foot semiconductor equipment manufacturing plant near Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru. The parent company plans to invest ₹2.5 billion over the next six to twelve months.

LiuGong India has started work on a new manufacturing facility in Pitampur, India, expected to be operational by Q3 2025, increasing capacity from 3,200 to 7,000 machines.

Inotek is building a new production complex in the Uzlovaya special economic zone in Tula region, Russia, to produce Spunlace nonwoven material for hygiene products, with investments over 2.2 billion rubles and completion by end of 2025.

Brother Machine Tools inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Tumakuru, Karnataka, India, to produce the Speedio series of compact machining centers, with the first machine delivered to V Oak Engineers.

Bailixin Semiconductor (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. has received approval for a 6-inch MEMS wafer manufacturing line project in Lishui, Zhejiang. The total investment is 1.3 billion yuan, with construction from 2024 to 2026.

Apache, a leading Argentine manufacturer of seeders, will inaugurate a new 3,600 m² plant in the Parque Industrial Oeste of Las Parejas on February 26, 2025, to produce new seeder models and assemble small tractors.

MP Materials has commenced commercial production of neodymium-praseodymium metal and trial production of automotive-grade sintered NdFeB magnets at its Independence facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The facility is expected to produce approximately 1,000 metric tons of finished NdFeB magnets per year, with a gradual ramp beginning in late 2025.

Beverage packaging maker REV Copack is investing $3.1 million to move from its Jenkins Township site to a larger Pittston-area facility, going from two to at least four production lines. Pennsylvania is providing a $1.5 million PIDA loan and a $55,000 WEDnetPA training grant, with at least 132 new jobs committed.

The Egyptian Cabinet granted Huhtamaki Egypt a Golden License for a new 21,700 sqm molded fiber packaging factory in Sadat City, Monufia Governorate, valued at about EGP 1.5 billion including EUR 24 million foreign investment. Production will include paper fruit trays, cup carriers and egg cartons.

Shanghai TopNC Technology Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new high-end CNC equipment production, R&D and operations headquarters in Xinzhuang Industrial Zone, Shanghai. The 40-mu (2.67-hectare) facility will have 37,150 sqm of floor space and focus on five-axis machine tools for aerospace and new energy vehicles.

M.A.i announced market entry in Mexico, signaling its start in the North American market as part of its expansion strategy.

M.A.i officially opened a new location in Penang, Malaysia on February 13, 2025, to strengthen its presence in Southeast Asia.

Theragenics, parent company of Arrotek Medical, opened a new 4,000-square-meter facility in Coyol Free Zone, Costa Rica, for producing specialized medical needles, guidewires, and components. The $10 million investment is expected to create over 500 jobs.