Violeta group opened the Corspack corrugated cardboard packaging factory in Grude, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 29 October 2024. The investment is reported at over EUR 40 million, with capacity of about 60,000 tonnes per year on one shift.

HellermannTyton held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new precision manufacturing facility in Chennai, India, expected to be completed by Q3 2025, creating about 100 jobs.

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. (MEPPI) announced an $86 million investment to construct a new 160,000-square-foot Advanced Switchgear Factory in Western Pennsylvania. The factory will initially produce vacuum and gas circuit breakers, and is expected to employ over 200 workers at full capacity.

Tata Advanced Systems Limited and Airbus inaugurated the Final Assembly Line complex for C295 aircraft in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. The facility will produce 40 of 56 aircraft for the Indian Air Force.

HR Smith Group, through its subsidiary TechTest Ltd, is building a £6m advanced manufacturing centre on Skylon Park in Herefordshire. The 31,000 sq. ft. facility will create up to 50 jobs and house machine shops, an apprentice school, and an advanced components facility.

Burkert Fluid Control Systems India has inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Talegaon MIDC, Pune, spanning 50,000 sq.ft. The facility can produce over 30,000 valves and 500 systems annually, and will employ up to 32 people by end of 2024.

Hanon Systems announced a new plant in Woodbridge, Ontario, to produce electric scroll compressors for hybrid and battery electric vehicles, with capacity of up to 900,000 units annually and about 300 planned jobs. Production is expected to start in the first half of 2025.

Knauf Egypt inaugurated its third gypsum board factory in Egypt with an €80 million investment, with a production capacity of 60 million square meters per year.

TCPL Packaging plans to establish a greenfield packaging facility near Chennai in Southern India, close to major industrial manufacturing hubs. No investment value or timeline was given.

Rehrig Pacific celebrated the grand opening of a 264,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Buckeye, Arizona. The facility, built on a 35-acre site, is expected to create about 115 full-time jobs and can be doubled to 500,000 square feet in the future.

Dexcom is building a state-of-the-art continuous glucose monitoring manufacturing facility in Athenry, Co Galway, Ireland, representing a €300 million investment over five years. The facility will create approximately 1,000 jobs and is on target for completion in 2026.

Modine officially opened a new 29,000m² Airedale factory in Bradford, UK, dedicated to producing precision cooling products for data centres, including computer room air handlers and fan walls. The site started production two months ahead of schedule and boosts UK data centre cooling capacity by 150%.

Sinoma International's subsidiary Handan Sinoma Construction, along with Nanjing Fiberglass R&D Institute, BNBM Group and Barkfon Industrial, will invest in a joint venture to build a 50,000-ton-per-year rock fiber board production line in Handan, Hebei.

Sinoma Science & Technology's subsidiaries Taishan Fiberglass and Nanjing Fiberglass R&D Institute will jointly invest CNY 1.302 billion to build a new facility in Tai'an, Shandong, with an annual capacity of 26 million meters of specialty fiberglass fabric.

Ondupack SAU, part of CL Grupo Industrial, launched a new corrugated board factory in Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres, Spain, with an initial capacity of 60 million m² per year and a planned 200 million m² project capacity. The 60,000 m² plant is equipped with Fosber, BOBST and Emmepi machinery.

Vipal Borrachas held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new industrial plant in Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil. The facility will produce tires with a capacity of 750,000 units per year, and the company will also expand existing motorcycle tire and rubber compound production lines.

Armstrong International opened a new 29,000-square-foot industrial heat pump manufacturing facility in the U.S., assisted by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Defense Production Act Program.

Spiroflow, part of Automated Handling Solutions, opened a new 60,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Darwen, Lancashire, UK. The facility represents 25% of Spiroflow's manufacturing capacity and serves customers globally.

Amper has started construction of a new factory in the Morás industrial estate in Arteixo, A Coruña, with an investment of over €15 million. The factory will increase manufacturing capacity from 2 GW to 4 GW annually for power conversion equipment.

Esautomotion took possession of the industrial area for the new Sangalli Servomotori production plant in Villasanta, Italy. The 3,000 m2 facility will triple production capacity with robotized islands, and transfer of activities from Monza is expected by September 2025.

MKS Instruments celebrated the groundbreaking of its super center factory in Penang, Malaysia, on a 17-acre plot spanning 500,000 sq ft. The facility will create approximately 1,000 jobs, with the first phase scheduled for completion in the first half of 2026.

TMC Transformers USA Inc. will invest more than $15.3 million in a new dry-type transformers manufacturing facility in Waynesboro, Georgia, creating at least 110 jobs. The new plant is expected to be operational at the beginning of 2026.

Jiangsu Railteco Equipment Co commenced construction of an intelligent production base for rail transit core components in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province. The project involves a total investment of 500 million yuan ($69.04 million) and will have an annual capacity of 200,000 units.

Ascend (Aoshengde) opened its Lianyungang nylon 66 production base on October 23, 2024, with a total investment of approximately 4.2 billion RMB. The first phase produces hexamethylenediamine and specialty amines with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons.

Iterum (formerly PET Baltija) opened a new PET bottle processing plant in Olaine, Latvia, with a capacity of 80,000 tons per year. The company invested over €10 million in the new factory, with total investments exceeding €35 million.

SLG Group started construction on a AED 200 million manufacturing, warehouse, and corporate office facility spanning 1.37 million sq.ft. at Dubai Industrial City. The facility will have an annual production capacity of 90,000 tonnes of milk powder and 10,000 tonnes of butter, and is expected to create 300 new jobs.

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. celebrated the grand opening of its $65 million ADS Engineering and Technology Center in Hilliard, Ohio. The 110,000-square-foot facility is the largest stormwater engineering center in the world and includes product development, hydraulics, and materials science labs.

Mainspring Energy announced plans to build a $175 million next-generation power generator plant near Pittsburgh International Airport in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

Bell Textron is considering a $429 million plant in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce components for the V-280 Valor attack aircraft. The city is proposing tax breaks, but no final decision has been made.

Mexstamp announced a 70 million peso investment to build its second plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, to increase production of 56 types of automotive parts.

Boco Topco New Materials Technology Ltd. is building a silicone project at Weifan, China, with a planned investment of 300 million yuan. The project is 40% complete, expected to finish by end of 2025, and will produce silicone coupling agents, blending agents, and lubricants, creating over 200 jobs.

EPACK Durable will invest $30 million in the first phase of a new manufacturing facility at Sri City, India, dedicated to producing air conditioners for Hisense. Production is slated to begin in June 2025, with a target capacity of 1 million units by 2027-2028.

Alleima has decided to establish a new production facility in Penang, Malaysia, for its medical business, focusing on ultra-fine medical wire manufacturing. Site preparations start end of 2024, with first commercial deliveries in 2026.

Evapco Group inaugurated a new plant in Sorocaba, Brazil, with an investment of R$200 million, creating 800 jobs over three years. The facility produces ventilation systems for cooling towers, mining, tunnels, and data centers.

Knauf inaugurated a new plasterboard production site in Fos-sur-Mer, France, a €80 million project. The facility spans 20,000 m², will employ 80 people, and has an annual capacity of 30 million m² of plasterboard.

Fibratex is building a complex in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, to produce staple fiber with a capacity of 6,000 tonnes per year. Construction is expected to be completed in May 2025, with a cost of 1.8 billion tenge.

Talchyktex is constructing a plant in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, to produce woven polypropylene geotextile with a capacity of 10 million square meters per year, and in a second phase, 50,000 wagon liners per year. The project is located in a private industrial park.

Medtronic signed an agreement on October 18, 2024, for the Medtronic Kangdi Surgical Integration Base project in Changzhou, China, to advance localized innovation and manufacturing of surgical products.

Hungarian-based 77 Elektronika has launched a $2 million manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China, to produce LabUMat and UriSed automatic urine analyzers. The facility plans to produce 300 units in the first year, scaling to 1,000 units annually.

Hubei Kaiyi Petrochemical Equipment Manufacturing broke ground on 18 October 2024 on a 150 million yuan Kaiyi Industrial Park in Jiangxia, Wuhan, for a specialized high-pressure valve production line, relocating its operations there.

WEG inaugurated a new manufacturing site in Santo Tirso, Portugal, on October 17, 2024. The facility spans over 100,000 square meters, with 45,000 square meters covered, and will house a High Voltage Solutions Center for medium- and high-voltage motors and frequency drives, as well as a research and development center.

Danosa inaugurated new industrial facilities in Pombal, Portugal, with an investment of over 10 million euros, creating more than 80 jobs. The plant will produce XPS and EPS thermal insulation materials with an annual capacity exceeding 330,000 m³.

CRRC's medium- and low-voltage power device industrialization project in Yixing, Jiangsu, with a phase 1 investment of 5.9 billion yuan, has been completed and put into operation. The plant can produce 360,000 8-inch medium- and low-voltage component substrates per year.

AURA AERO Inc. plans to build a 500,000-square-foot manufacturing and assembly plant at Daytona Beach International Airport in Volusia County, Florida, creating over 1,000 jobs.

AHS & AMP has officially opened a new 60,000 sq ft state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Darwen, Lancashire, representing 25% of its global manufacturing capacity and serving customers across the UK, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Bonfiglioli Transmissions Pvt. Ltd. will invest ₹100 crore in a new facility for light and medium gear motors in Pune, expected to become operational by 2026.

Beontag has opened a new state-of-the-art facility in Trotwood, Ohio, representing a planned investment of $80 million. The facility will quadruple Beontag's North American output capacity, with capability to ship up to 3 billion RFID tags and 2.9 billion sq ft of materials per year by Q4 2025, and employ over 220 people.

Premier Tech Water and Environment has opened a new production and commercialization site in Montbrison, France, for sustainable wastewater treatment and rainwater management solutions. The site will create nearly 10 jobs and was supported by a €130,000 grant from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Bonfiglioli Transmissions Pvt Ltd laid the foundation stone for a new Industry and Automation facility in Cheyyar, Tamil Nadu. The 25-acre plant, expected to begin operations by 2025, will be one of the largest gearbox manufacturing facilities in India and is set to generate 150-200 new jobs.

Torgovy Dom ADL is nearly finished building a four-storey plant in Raduzhny, Kolomna, for pipeline valves, with 98% construction readiness. Investment is about 600 million rubles and 40 jobs are planned, with completion expected in October 2024.