Cimpor Global Holdings signed an agreement to establish a modern gypsum factory in Kribi, Cameroon, with a capacity of 1200 tpd and an investment of EUR 60 million.

Forgemasters has begun construction of a £350m machine shop on Weedon Street near Meadowhall, Sheffield, to house 17 large vertical turning lathes for making nuclear-grade castings and forgings for the UK defence programme. The building is expected to be complete in 2028.

YIT has signed a project management contract with Hitachi Energy to construct a new production and technology centre in Vikby, Mustasaari, Finland. The EUR 105 million project includes a transformer plant and will double Hitachi Energy's transformer production capacity in Finland.

Palm Beach County approved Hoerbiger Corp. of America's plan for a 197,000-square-foot, $60 million manufacturing facility on 23 acres west of Delray Beach, where more than 400 people are expected to work 24 hours a day.

Shanghai Boiler Works, a subsidiary of Shanghai Electric, officially launched a large-scale high-end equipment manufacturing site project in Penglai Wind Power Industrial Park, Yantai, Shandong. The total investment is CNY 2 billion, with the initial phase of CNY 310 million.

GKN Aerospace opened a new 162,000-square-foot repair solutions facility in El Cajon, California, relocating 300 employees and planning to hire 50 more. The company invested about $55 million in construction and machinery.

Sanctuary Systems, LLC will create 118 jobs at a new facility in Fremont, North Carolina, with a capital investment of $4.9 million. The company develops fiber technology and nonwoven materials for health, medical, filtration and thermal insulation products.

ABB opened a new manufacturing and R&D facility in Nottingham, UK, as part of investing in more sustainable operations.

President of Mozambique Filipe Nyusi inaugurated the first cement factory in Niassa province, located in Chimbunila district. The $20 million plant, built with Mozambican and Chinese capital, has a capacity of 200,000 tonnes of Portland cement annually and currently employs 100 workers.

Yokohama Rubber held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Hangzhou Qiantang Yokohama Tire Co., Ltd plant in China. The factory is expected to begin operations in 2026 with an initial capacity of 9 million passenger car tires per year, eventually reaching 14 million tires annually. The investment is reported as US$500 million.

Portuguese automotive components manufacturer Grupo ERT will build a second production unit in Morocco to meet growing customer demand. The final investment decision will be made in 2025, and the plant could be operational within 12-18 months.

Duguit Technologies has inaugurated La Fabrique, a new production site in Magenta, Marne, France, with an investment of EUR 2.4 million, housing 15 employees transferred from Épernay, to increase production capacity for bottle freezing, robotics, and glass bottle handling.

South Korea-based ALUKO Group will locate its first US manufacturing facility in Jackson, Tennessee, to produce aluminum battery casings for Ford's BlueOval City, creating 55 jobs with a $36.3 million investment.

Trelleborg will inaugurate a new manufacturing unit for aerospace sealing systems at Midparc in Nouaceur, Morocco, on June 9, 2026, with an investment of about MAD 120 million and creating 150-200 jobs.

Polyplastics (Nantong) Co Ltd held the opening ceremony for a new factory in Nantong Economic and Technological Development Area, with a total investment of $561 million, to produce 180,000 metric tons of polyoxymethylene (POM) engineering plastics annually.

The Maoming Acrylic Acid Industrial Park project officially commenced construction on December 16, 2024, in Maoming Zero-Carbon Industrial Park. The total investment is 11.5 billion yuan. The first phase is expected to be completed by end of 2025, with production ready by May 2026.

Taiwan-based Tailift Group signed an agreement to establish a logistics robotics and smart factory in Wuxi New District on December 16, 2024. The project will produce autonomous transport robots, automated warehouses, and sorting robots.

NOVONIX received a conditional commitment for a $755 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a synthetic graphite manufacturing plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with initial capacity of 31,500 tonnes per annum, creating 450 operational jobs.

Novo Nordisk announced plans to invest 8.5 billion Danish kroner to establish a new finished production facility and warehouse in Odense, Denmark. The site will cover over 40,000 m² and produce medicines for rare diseases like haemophilia. Construction has commenced and is scheduled to be completed in 2027, creating 400 permanent jobs.

Apro Semiconductor completed a new factory in Gumi, South Korea, with an investment of 72 billion won. The plant will produce 8-inch gallium nitride (GaN) epi-wafers, with annual capacity expanding to 20,000 wafers by 2025, creating 50-70 new jobs.

Chief Minister Mohan Majhi announced plans for a Rs 40 billion cement factory in Malkangiri district, Odisha, expected to create around 2,000 direct jobs. The project is part of broader industrial development efforts in the region.

Delipast will build a medical device manufacturing plant in the Mogilino SEZ, Pskov region, with an investment of 810 million rubles. The plant is expected to start production in Q2 2026, creating 60 jobs and producing over 16 million medical devices annually.

Portuguese packaging manufacturer Intraplás announced a new production plant in Van Wert, Ohio, with a total investment of around €40 million. The plant will use extrusion, thermoforming and printing technology, is scheduled to start operations in summer 2025, and will create more than 50 local jobs.

Bell Textron Inc. announced a new 447,000 sq. ft. factory in the Denton County region of Fort Worth, Texas, dedicated to component manufacturing for the U.S. Army's Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). Facility readiness for Low-Rate Initial Production is planned by 2028.

Suchi Semicon formally inaugurated its Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test facility near Surat, India, with a capacity to produce 3 million chips per day. Trial production is expected to begin in January 2025, with commercial production in the first quarter of the next financial year.

Plibrico celebrated the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art refractory production facility in Oak Hill, Ohio. The facility expands production capacity and enhances operational efficiency for the refractory industry.

Aoshen Spandex (via Duzhong Spandex) signed a contract on December 14, 2024, for a spandex fiber and new materials project in Lianyungang, China. The project, with a total investment of 7.5 billion yuan, will produce 220,000 tons/year of spandex and 2,000 tons/year of SPU new materials in three phases.

IMI Norgren, a British multinational in control valves, invested approximately R$258 million in a new factory in Sorocaba, Brazil. The facility will expand operations for Latin America and is expected to grow employment from 40 to 700 workers.

The world's first 660 MW high-efficiency ultra-supercritical circulating fluidized bed power generation unit, developed by Harbin Electric Corporation, successfully completed a 168-hour full-load trial operation at the Binchang power plant in Shaanxi, China.

Chemours has signed an agreement with PCC GulfChem, a subsidiary of PCC SE, to build a $540 million chemical plant at its titanium dioxide site in DeLisle, Mississippi. The facility will produce chemical feedstocks, specialty chemicals, silicon and silicon derivatives, creating at least 84 jobs.

KP Aerospace Vietnam opened a factory at Da Nang Hi-Tech Park with an investment of USD 20 million. The facility will produce aircraft parts for Boeing 787 and 737 Max, supplying Boeing, Airbus, and Korean Air.

Daikin Industries Indonesia completed and inaugurated a full-scale air conditioner factory in Cikarang, West Java, with an investment of Rp 3.3 trillion ($206 million). The factory has started production, targeting 1.5 million units annually by mid-2025 and creating 2,500 jobs.

ARDEX Australia officially opened its new Oceania headquarters at The YARDS Estate in Kemps Creek, New South Wales. The $140 million facility includes a powder manufacturing tower, silo tower, research labs, and warehouse, and is targeting a 6 Green Star rating.

Emerson held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in the Bafar Norte Industrial Complex in Chihuahua, Mexico. The facility represents an investment of approximately $22.5 million and is expected to generate 600 direct jobs.

BENTELER Group is building a new automotive plant in Wyoming, Michigan, to manufacture battery trays and other metal components for electric vehicles for a US automaker. Production is scheduled to begin in 2026, creating around 150 jobs.

Taiyuan Heavy Industry Co., Ltd.'s new energy intelligent forklift manufacturing project in Shanxi, China, has completed the main steel structure of its plant, with annual capacity of 130,000 forklifts.

TMA AUTOMATION Sp. z o.o., a subsidiary of the ENGEL Group, has started construction of a new office and production building near Gdansk Airport in Poland, aiming to double its workforce and expand automation capacity.

Shlekler (Shandong) Pump & Valve Manufacturing Co. plans a new valve manufacturing facility in Zhangdian District, Zibo, Shandong, with an investment of about CNY 26.47 million. The project is in design stage with construction scheduled from Q4 2026 to Q4 2028.

TekniPlex Consumer Products opened a 200,000-square-foot specialty molded fiber facility in Van Wert, Ohio, representing a $40 million investment. The company plans to hire at least 100 people at the plant, its eighth specialty molded fiber plant.

Mitsubishi Electric established MELCO HVAC US, Inc. under its US holding company to convert a Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America plant in Maysville, Kentucky into a compressor factory. The investment is about $143.5 million, with production planned to start in October 2027 at a capacity of 1 million units per year.

Объединенный машиностроительный завод ЛВМ, a nuclear-industry equipment maker, became a resident of the Novgorod special economic zone and plans to produce pump spare parts, pump units and piston compressors for nuclear plants there. The project is valued at RUB 1.3 billion and is expected to create 120 jobs.

JCB will begin construction of a 720,000 sq. ft. factory in San Antonio, Texas, on February 1, 2025. The $184 million project, codenamed 'Project Sky', will create 1,500 jobs and produce lift and access equipment.

The Chantreuil group is building a new plant in Bayeux, France, with an investment of €3.5 million, and acquiring a new automated machining line for €3 million, to increase production capacity by 60% for aerospace and nuclear clients.

Dr Narayan Sharma's Oms International announced a Rs 100 crore investment to set up a greenfield robotics manufacturing factory in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. The factory will produce about 150 robots annually.

Ekstel from Ajdovščina has opened a new nonwoven textiles factory in Sežana, Slovenia. The investment is worth €5.5 million, partly financed with own funds, a long-term loan and a European subsidy. The fully automated production line will enable expansion into filtration, packaging and hygiene industries.

Greenville Manufacturing Kentucky, a maker of equipment for agriculture, forest products and biomass sectors, will relocate to a new $16.2 million facility at Paradise Regional Industrial Park in Muhlenberg County, creating 250 jobs. Construction begins December 2024 and completion is expected in November 2025.

Medical Dawlia Limited inaugurated Tanzania's first syringe manufacturing factory in Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam. The facility, a Turkish-Egyptian joint venture, produces syringes, IV drips, and polypropylene sutures and has already supplied one million syringes to the Medical Stores Department.

Mesnac announced plans to invest $20 million to build a manufacturing facility in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, under the provisional name WYKO Tire Technology Mexico. The facility will manufacture rubber processing equipment and other machinery for mechanical parts and components.

Webuild inaugurated Roboplant 2 in Bovino, Italy, one of the world's largest automated facilities for producing tunnel lining segments for the Naples-Bari high-speed railway. The plant can produce two segments every 7 minutes at full capacity, creating around 450 jobs across four facilities.

Warsaw Chemical is investing in a new 220,000-square-foot facility in Warsaw, Indiana, to support future expansion. The facility will also house production moved from the acquired Magic Finish line.