MedTechServis won a 1.378 billion ruble offset contract to build a test strip production facility in Primorsky Krai, investing about 300 million rubles over two years, with first delivery by November 2025.

AutoStore opened a new assembly factory in Rayong Province, Thailand, to support global market expansion, particularly North America. The factory is expected to double manufacturing capacity within the first year.

Changzhou Power Station Auxiliary Equipment Co. broke ground on a 50,000-set-per-year high-end valve control system plant on a 79-mu site in the Wujin National High-tech Zone, Changzhou, at a ceremony on June 13, 2024.

SF Trade, a Turkish company, is installing a new 4,072 m² production plant at Tanger Med's TAC platform in Morocco to manufacture textile products for the automotive sector. The investment is 51 million MAD, creating 418 jobs.

Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Daikin Applied, broke ground on a new $121 million, 460,000 sq ft energy-efficient manufacturing facility in Tijuana, Mexico. The facility will produce HVAC cooling solutions for data centers and is expected to create over 1,150 jobs, with production starting in June 2025.

Alliance Air Products began construction of a new energy-efficient manufacturing plant in Tijuana, Mexico, with an investment of approximately $121 million. The facility will produce ventilation and air conditioning products for data center cooling and is expected to create 1,150 jobs, with completion scheduled for June 2025.

Theragenics, parent company of Arrotek Medical, began construction of a $10 million medical device manufacturing facility in Costa Rica. The 5,500-square-meter plant will produce high-precision components and is expected to be fully operational by Q2 2025, creating 500 jobs.

Soleno is constructing a new plant in Saratoga, New York, with a $22 million investment. The plant will produce KUSTOMFLO large-diameter HDPE pipes for water management, using Krah Pipes technology. Construction has begun and the plant is expected to open later in 2024.

Tenax Panel inaugurated a new sandwich panel factory in Dobele, Latvia, on May 30, 2024. The €13 million investment will double production volume to 1 million m² of sandwich panels per year and create 30 new jobs.

Caldic is building a new green field factory in Jägersro, Malmö, Sweden, consolidating two Nordic factories and the Nordic headquarters. AFRY has been awarded the EPC contract for the production processes. The plant will produce dry and liquid food ingredients such as aromas, compounds, food colorants and sugar blends.

SCHOTT Pharma opened a new production facility for prefillable glass syringes in Lukácsháza, Hungary, after a EUR 76 million investment and 1.5 years of construction, creating over 120 jobs.

POSCO International held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 11, 2024 for a new drive motor core plant in Brzeg, Poland. The 100,000-square-meter facility is expected to be completed by mid-2025, with full-scale operations starting in the second half of 2025, initially producing 1.03 million drive motor cores for Hyundai and Kia electric vehicles.

Armtec will invest over $27 million to construct a new manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, Ontario. The project is supported by close to $3 million in Ontario government funding and will create nine new jobs.

Powersmiths, a member of the Socomec Group, has opened a new factory in Brampton, Ontario, dedicated to producing high-efficiency transformers. The facility will create new jobs and increase capacity.

Freudenberg Medical is investing more than $50 million in a new Hemoteq AG production facility in Aachen, Germany, tripling its manufacturing footprint to 130,000 sq ft. The facility will create over 150 new jobs by 2026.

De Nora Italy Hydrogen Technologies, controlled by Industrie De Nora, started construction of a Gigafactory in Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy. The facility will produce electrolyzers for green hydrogen, with a capacity of 2 GW by 2030, creating about 200 direct jobs. Completion is expected between end of 2025 and early 2026.

Guangdong Yigu New Materials Co., Ltd. plans to invest CNY 1 billion to build a new high-end new materials intelligent manufacturing headquarters project in Gaoming District, Foshan. The plant will produce tile adhesives, fillers, and waterproof coatings with an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes, creating 300 jobs.

MKS Instruments announced plans to build a Super Center factory in Penang, Malaysia to support wafer fabrication equipment production. The facility will be constructed in three phases, with groundbreaking expected in early 2025.

Edwards Lifesciences plans to build a new factory for medical material production in Moncada, Valencia, Spain. The project is declared a Strategic Territorial Project and is expected to bring thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of euros in investment.

BorgWarner inaugurated its third plant in Coahuila, Mexico, with an investment of US$46.4 million and 350 new jobs. The plant makes starter coils, thermostats and chillers.

Construction has begun on a mega desalination plant in Lamharza Essahel, Morocco, led by Acciona in consortium with Afriquia Gaz and Green of Africa. The plant will have a capacity of 300 million cubic meters per year and involves an investment of EUR 887 million.

TSM Metal Works will invest $500,000 and create 20 jobs in a new 30,000-square-foot metal fabrication facility in Crossville, Cumberland County, Tennessee. It is the company's first out-of-state expansion.

Winholt Equipment Group's new Florida manufacturing facility, its fourth in the U.S., is set to open in July 2024. It will add manufacturing and supply chain capacity in the Southeast.

SIAM Cement BigBloc Construction Technologies Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between BigBloc Construction and SCG International, inaugurated commercial production at its first plant in Kheda, Gujarat, India. The facility, with an investment of INR 65 crore, has a capacity of 250,000 cubic meters per annum and produces AAC walls and blocks.

A cooperation agreement was signed at SPIEF-2024 to build a plant in Tula Oblast for producing water treatment facilities and equipment, with an investment of 535 million rubles and 50 new jobs.

Moeve (formerly Cepsa) started construction of a new isopropyl alcohol (IPA) plant in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, Spain. The plant, with a capacity of 80,000 tons per year, requires an investment of €75 million and will be the first in Spain to use green hydrogen.

Innoplate, a 50/50 joint venture between Schaeffler and Symbio, has inaugurated a new production site for fuel cell bipolar plates in Haguenau, France. Initial capacity is 4 million BPP annually, with a target of 50 million by 2030.

Huake Lvqing Company's new energy sanitation equipment manufacturing base in Huadu Auto City commenced production, with an expected annual output of 1,000 sets of compression garbage containers/stations and 500 sets of new energy sanitation vehicle bodies, valued at CNY 250 million.

Guangzhou Huadu General Group held a groundbreaking ceremony for its smart production headquarters and hydrogen energy equipment base in Huadu Auto City, with a planned investment of CNY 400 million. The project will produce commercial elevators, escalators, and hydrogen energy equipment, with an expected annual output value of CNY 1 billion.

Tetra Pak opened its aseptic packaging material plant in Chakan, Maharashtra, India, in May 2013 after construction began in February 2011. The project cost about EUR 120 million and the plant has annual capacity of more than 16 billion carton packages.

Briolf Group, a Spanish coatings and adhesives company, announced plans to invest over $30 million in its first US production plant in Monroe, North Carolina. The project will create 100 direct jobs and is expected to start production in about two years.

CEMENtum signed an investment agreement with Saratov Oblast to build a precast concrete products plant with an investment of 600 million rubles, creating 68 jobs (combined with the cement expansion).

Briolf USA LLC, subsidiary of Spanish group Briolf, will build its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. The company will invest $30.5 million and create 100 jobs.

RSE opened a new facility in Deephaven, Evanton, within the Inverness & Cromarty Firth Green Freeport zone. The company invested £1.2 million in advanced equipment, including a 3D Robotic Plasma Cutting Machine, for the 2-acre site.

Tsementum signed an investment agreement with the Saratov Oblast government to build a plant for reinforced concrete products (ZHB I) with an investment of 600 million rubles. The plant will produce barrier blocks, bridge beams, and piles.

Anglo American's Mogalakwena mine in Limpopo, South Africa, commissioned a Komatsu P&H 4800XPC electric shovel, the first of its kind in Africa. The machine will increase total volumes moved by 35 million tonnes per year.

Polymplast Group will build two production complexes in the Tula region of Russia, with investments exceeding 12 billion rubles and creating over 700 jobs. The complexes will produce high-tech polymers for import substitution.

Sber will finance the construction of a casting and pressing plant for aluminum profiles in Armavir, Russia, with a total investment exceeding 21 billion rubles. The plant will have a capacity of 60,000 tonnes per year.

Protector Group signed an agreement to build a production facility for components for Boeing 737 and Airbus A-320 passenger aircraft near Domodedovo Airport in Ramenskoye, Moscow region. Investment is about 3.5 billion rubles, creating 800 jobs, with completion in 2026.

Gormash Global signed an agreement to build two plants in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region, producing mining equipment including dump trucks, drilling rigs, and loaders. Investment is 42 billion rubles, creating nearly 2,000 jobs, with first phase launch in 2025 and full capacity in 2027.

Hoffmann Green announced the start of construction of H-KSA 1, its first production unit in Saudi Arabia, located in Rabigh. The unit is part of a 22-year licensing agreement with Shurfah Group to build four units in the country.

Saint-Gobain is building a dry construction mix factory in Gargždai, Lithuania, on a 1.9-hectare site, with two production buildings, a warehouse, and administrative facilities. The first phase, including production and warehouse, is expected to be completed by early 2025. Investment is several million euros.

An investor will build a water treatment system production plant in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, with an investment of 2 billion rubles. The first phase is expected to launch by the end of 2025, and full capacity by 2026, creating 200 jobs.

CEMROS will invest 2 billion rubles to build a plant producing gas-concrete blocks in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. At full capacity, the plant will produce up to 450,000 cubic meters of products annually.

Packaging supplier Invopak opened its first manufacturing plant in Hyde, Manchester, making tinplate containers such as UN-approved cans and lever lid tins. The EUR 5 million investment was made in response to post-Brexit supply chain issues.

DPD officially opened a new 12,000-square-meter parcel distribution hub in Loures, Portugal, on June 5, 2024. The hub, equipped with a Fives automated sorting solution, can sort up to 10,000 parcels per hour.

DEACERO announced the construction of a new steel mill and rolling mill in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico, with an investment of $600 million. The plant will produce structural profiles and add 1 million tonnes of annual capacity, creating 1,000 direct and 2,500 indirect jobs. Operations are expected to start in February 2026.

Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and NXP Semiconductors announced a joint venture to build a 300mm semiconductor wafer fab in Singapore. Construction will begin in H2 2024, with mass production expected by 2027. The initial investment is $7.8 billion, creating 1,500 jobs.

AeroEdge completed construction of a new plant (Building B) at its headquarters in Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan, on June 5, 2024. The facility will mass-produce aircraft engine parts other than LEAP engine blades, with mass production expected to start around end of 2024. Investment was about 1.9 billion yen.

IQ Lab held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 8-inch power semiconductor fab in the Busan Power Semiconductor Small Head Specialized Complex. The company will invest 100 billion won to build a factory capable of producing 30,000 8-inch power semiconductors annually.