Junion Tech is building a mobile robot and LiDAR project in Suzhou's Wusongjiang Technology Industrial Park, with a total investment of 1 billion RMB. Upon completion, it aims to produce 35,000 smart mobile robots and 150,000 LiDAR units annually.

Mediterranean restaurant chain Cava opened a 55,000-square-foot production and packaging facility in Augusta County's Mill Place Commerce Park, Verona, Virginia. The company invested roughly $35 million in the facility, which centralizes production of packaged dips and spreads.

Admares plans to build a $750 million manufacturing plant in Waycross, Georgia, to produce prefabricated homes and components, with potential incentives of up to $144 million. The facility is expected to produce 5,000-6,000 homes per year.

TCI Manufacturing, a mining equipment company, will open a new production facility in a pre-existing 45,000 sq-ft building at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor, Oklahoma, initially focusing on conveyors and portable material handling equipment, with 6-8 employees.

Luman Auto inaugurated a new greenfield factory in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, for producing friction products such as brake pads and brake liners. The 60,000 sq ft facility started operations on April 1, 2024, with a projected capacity of over 2,000 sets per day and is expected to create around 300 jobs.

LG Chem has partnered with Alkhorayef Group to invest 120 billion won ($86 million) in a reverse osmosis membrane plant in Saudi Arabia, with production targeted to start in 2026.

Lotte Chemical's subsidiary Samwak LFT has started construction of a new compounding plant in Yeosu, South Korea, with a planned investment of over 300 billion won by 2026, targeting 500,000 tons/year capacity and operation in H2 2025.

SambarkLFT, a subsidiary of LOTTE Chemical, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new compounding plant in Yulchon Industrial Complex, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. The plant will produce about 500,000 tons of compounding materials such as ABS and PC annually, with completion expected in 2025.

Shin-Etsu Chemical will establish Shin-Etsu Silicone (Pinghu) Co. Ltd. and construct a new silicone products plant in Pinghu City, Zhejiang Province, China. The total investment is approximately 2.1 billion yuan, with completion scheduled for February 2026.

Changzhou Waston Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. held a completion and project signing ceremony for its Longmen Road base in Wujin High-Tech Industry Zone, with a total investment of 1 billion yuan and over 68,000 square meters of new production space.

Contegra Construction is building a 100,000-square-foot solar-powered manufacturing plant for Manner Polymers in Mount Vernon, Illinois. The plant will manufacture flexible PVC compounds, expand production capacity by 100 million pounds, and create 60 new jobs.

Springsnow Food Group started a new further processing venture with a smart factory in China, equipped with two Marel convenience food production lines, with an annual output of 40,000 tons.

Rockwell Automation announced plans to open a new 98,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Chennai, India. The facility is expected to open in the first half of 2025 and employ about 230 workers.

Changhong Polymer Scientific and Technical plans to invest CNY 11.5 billion (USD 1.6 billion) to build a new acrylic acid plant in Maoming, Guangdong province. The first phase, a pilot plant with 50,000 tons annual capacity each of acrylic acid and acrylates, is expected to start in March 2026.

The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan signed a 30-year contract with Alfalah ul Alamai (AUA), Awfi Bahram, and Al-Maham International Group from Qatar to build a new cement factory in Jabal al-Saraj district, Parwan province. The $220 million project will produce over one million tons of cement annually and create 5,000 direct jobs.

Sumitomo Kenki announced it will build a new factory for excavators within the Yokosuka manufacturing site of parent company Sumitomo Heavy Industries, with a building area of 22,000 square meters, investment of about 6.5 billion yen, and planned production of 2,000 units per year, starting operations in August 2025.

RENK Group AG held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new ~7,000 sqm production site in Shoolagiri Park, Tamil Nadu, for military and civil gearboxes, transmissions and couplings. Opening is planned for Q1 2025.

Packaging maker Venturepak has invested £3m in a new manufacturing facility in Manchester to produce injection-moulded plastic containers for a household brand's ice cream products, previously imported.

Sabah Chief Minister Hajiji Noor announced the groundbreaking of Sabah's largest integrated clinker and cement factory in Kampung Kawayoi Pinangah, Tongod, Sabah, Malaysia. The RM1.2 billion plant is expected to create over 1,000 jobs and boost cement production for export.

Hunan Radk-Tech Hydraulic Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Shanghai Radk-Tech Hydraulic Control System Co., Ltd., officially opened its intelligent factory in the Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone on April 26, 2024.

Schneider Electric's Xiamen Torch Electric Industrial Park (Phase I) started construction in Xiamen, China. The park, with a total investment of about 1.2 billion yuan ($169 million), will become Schneider Electric's largest manufacturing facility for medium voltage equipment worldwide. It is expected to be completed in 2025.

PG Technoplast Private Limited, a subsidiary of PG Electroplast Limited, inaugurated a new air conditioning manufacturing plant in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan. The 200,000 sq ft facility has annual capacities of 360,000 AC indoor units, 360,000 AC outdoor units, and 250,000 window ACs, and creates over 1,000 jobs.

Fortex & Co opened a new factory in Podolsk, Moscow region, producing synthetic knitted nonwoven fabric for mattresses, with an investment of 800 million rubles and capacity of 2,000 tonnes per year.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco, has started construction on the first phase of a $319 million dry pump manufacturing facility in the town of Alabama, Genesee County, New York. The plant is expected to create about 600 jobs.

O-I Glass held a topping-off ceremony for its new glass packaging production facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the first purpose-built plant featuring its MAGMA technology. The company plans to invest up to $240 million in multiple expansion waves and create up to 140 jobs.

German company Phoenix Contact will invest 1,095 million pesos (approx. $60M) to build a new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, to manufacture connectors, cables and sensors. The plant is expected to create 700 jobs.

German company Schunk will invest over US$11.5 million to build a new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, to produce gripping systems and fastening technology. The plant is expected to create 250 jobs.

Kinnegrip announced the upcoming opening of a new factory and warehouse in Kostrzyn, Poland. The preliminary opening date for the warehouse is the week of May 13, 2024.

TS Tech announced that its Indian subsidiary, TS Tech Sun Rajasthan Pvt. Ltd., will build a new plant in Rajasthan to expand automotive seat production for Maruti Suzuki.

InjectPower, a startup specializing in ultra-miniature rechargeable batteries for medical devices, is building a 3,500 m2 plant in Villard-Bonnot near Grenoble. Volume manufacturing is to begin late 2026, ultimately employing 50 people and producing several thousand wafers per year.

Syensqo started construction on a new battery-grade PVDF manufacturing facility in Augusta, Georgia. The plant will be the largest PVDF production facility in North America, creating about 100 jobs and supplying material for over 5 million EV batteries per year at full capacity.

TTM Technologies invested US$200 million (RM958 million) for its first manufacturing plant in Malaysia, located at Penang Science Park. The plant will produce advanced printed circuit boards for networking, data centres, medical, industrial and instrumentation sectors, creating about 1,000 jobs.

Jiangsu Lianbo Precision Technology celebrated the grand opening of its first factory outside China in the Kać industrial zone of Novi Sad, Serbia, with an investment of over €57.4 million and plans to employ 500 workers by 2026.

Hell Energy of Hungary will open a factory in the Alat Free Economic Zone, Azerbaijan, next year with annual capacity of 700 million aluminum beverage cans, under a contract with Azerbaijan Investment Company. The investment is $211 million and more than 300 jobs are planned.

Asahi Kasei has broken ground on a lithium-ion battery separator plant in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada, expected to begin commercial production later. The article is truncated, so the investment value and start date are not stated.

Xinlei Compressor plans a future factory in the eastern new district of Wenling, Zhejiang, with total investment of about 1.2 billion yuan, to produce 800,000 small air compressors, 65,000 screw compressors, 3,000 centrifugal blowers and heat pump units annually.

Yaskawa has begun construction of a new European robotics distribution center and assembly hall for robotic welding systems in Kočevje, Slovenia, with a €32 million investment. The facility is expected to open in fiscal year 2025, and by fiscal year 2027, at least 80% of EMEA orders will be fulfilled there.

Siemens Energy announced a $150 million investment to build a new power transformer factory in Charlotte, North Carolina, creating nearly 600 jobs. Construction starts in 2024 with production beginning in early 2026.

Technonicol has begun construction of a new stone wool plant in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan, with an investment of 55 billion tenge. The plant is expected to launch in April 2026.

Danobat inaugurated a new 12,000 sqm industrial plant at its headquarters in Elgoibar, Gipuzkoa, with a total investment of €20 million. The facility is for high-precision assembly and commissioning.

Centrillium Protein tapped ESI Group USA as design-builder for a 112,444-sq.-ft. greenfield meat processing facility in Midwest City, Okla. The facility is under construction and will open in fall 2024.

Hyundai Mobis has started construction of a battery system plant in Navarra, Spain, to supply the Volkswagen Group. The plant is scheduled to start mass production in 2026, with an investment of around EUR 120 million and an annual capacity of up to 360,000 battery systems.

Walmart will build a milk processing facility in Robinson, Texas, scheduled to break ground later in 2024 and open in 2026. Swisslog will provide an automated storage and retrieval solution for the facility.

Republic Services opened North America's first vertically integrated plastics recycling facility, the Polymer Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Designed and installed by STADLER and Krones, it processes plastic bottles and containers to produce over 50,000 tonnes per year of recycled resins.

Evonik, a global leader in specialty chemicals, inaugurated its new office and R&D premises in Thane, India, on April 23, 2024.

Mobis held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new battery system assembly plant in Navarre, Spain, to supply Volkswagen. The plant is expected to start mass production in 2026 with an investment of 170 billion KRW (approx. EUR 120 million) by 2030.

Hitachi Energy announced an investment of around $180 million in a new state-of-the-art transformer factory in the Vaasa region, Finland. The 30,000-square-meter campus will support clean technology development for renewables and industrial electrification.

ATX Semiconductor Group celebrated the opening of its new manufacturing plant in Batu Berendam, Melaka, Malaysia. The company invested over USD 55 million (RM 258 million) in the facility, which has begun manufacturing activities and is expected to commence massive operations in the first half of 2026.

ArcelorMittal Calvert will secure DOE support to build an electrical steel manufacturing facility in Alabama, USA. The plant will produce 150,000 mt of non-grain-oriented electrical steel annually, creating up to 260 permanent jobs and 1,300 construction jobs.

Modine Manufacturing Company opened a new production facility in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, with an investment of over EUR 27 million. The facility will manufacture coils for commercial and residential heat pump applications, employing over 350 people with plans for over 700 in three years.