Klabin started operations at its Figueira Unit corrugated board factory in Piracicaba, Brazil, a R$1.6 billion investment with annual capacity of 240,000 tons.

Vallourec unveiled a new Tubular Management Services (TMS) Yard at its site in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, solely serving customer Saudi Aramco. The yard covers 38,000 m² including a new 848 m² inspection facility.

Company Alfa-Metall has launched the first phase of a casting-rolling mill in Belokalitvinsky district, Rostov region, Russia, with capacity of up to 14,000 tonnes of aluminum strip per year. Investment was about 1 billion rubles, creating 34 jobs.

BFW has launched a new manufacturing facility in Devaganapalli, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, with an investment of Rs 200 crore. The facility can produce 10,000 CNC machines annually and spans 54 acres.

Can-One USA opened a 180,000-square-foot beverage can manufacturing plant in Nashua, New Hampshire, able to produce more than 2 billion aluminum cans a year. PROCON handled architecture and general contracting, and The Kane Co. developed the property.

Anduro completed a new 155,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for woven BOPP and flexible plastic packaging. The company says the site more than doubles its capacity.

Nilit Group will invest tens of millions of dollars in a joint venture with Shenma Group to build a new nylon yarn production facility in Pingdingshan, Henan Province, China. The plant will produce textiles for the automotive industry with a capacity of 20,000 tons.

Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd. (BFW) has inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Devaganapalli, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, set up at an investment of Rs 200 crore. The plant can produce 10,000 units of CNC machines annually.

Domo Chemicals has started up a new factory in China, south of Shanghai, with an investment of 14 million euros. The facility will allow the company to double its Chinese production capacity in the short term.

CN Co., Ltd. (CNI) has set up a production line for manufacturing Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) at a new facility in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam. The factory is expected to begin operations in December 2024.

SDLG, part of Volvo Group, launched its first wheel loader production facility in Bengaluru, India. The plant has capacity to manufacture 1,000 machines per shift annually and produces five different products.

Ekstrapak is preparing to build a fourth plant for paper bags near its third plant, with land acquisition nearly complete. The factory is expected to start operations in about two years.

Hanmi Semiconductor opened its 6th factory in the Juan National Industrial Complex, Seo-gu, Incheon, securing a production capacity worth 1 trillion KRW including an HBM TC bonder production line. The company also placed a 20 billion KRW order for core component processing equipment.

AMANN Group Germany opened its first production plant in Ranipet, India, described as a state-of-the-art and sustainable site for sewing and embroidery threads.

Visteon opened a new manufacturing plant in Borj Cedria, Tunisia, with $15 million infrastructure and $50 million equipment investment. The plant will create 700 jobs and produce automotive components.

Teijin Automotive Technologies will celebrate the opening of a $110 million facility in Huntington, Indiana on May 4, 2024. The 164,000-square-foot plant will employ 110 initially and up to 225 at full capacity.

Solvay announced the opening of its Alve-One production unit in Rosignano, Italy, on April 18, 2024. The facility produces a chemical blowing agent for the thermoplastic foaming industry, targeting automotive, footwear, building & construction, and consumer goods sectors.

LionsBot International celebrated the grand opening of its state-of-the-art cleaning robots factory in Singapore on April 18, 2024. The 4,908-square-metre facility, Southeast Asia's largest for cleaning robotics, has five times the manufacturing capacity of the previous site and can produce up to 4,000 robots annually. The company invested about SGD 12 million in the factory.

Novares (Noveastern) held the opening ceremony for a new injection molding plant in Pinghu, Zhejiang, China on April 18, 2024. The company invested CNY 110 million in the facility, which will serve automotive customers including SAIC-GM, Ford, Bosch, and BMW.

Hammerer Aluminium Industries (HAI) and LS Cable & System held a ground-breaking ceremony on 17 April 2024 for a new production hall in Gumi, South Korea. The EUR 46 million facility will produce aluminium components for electric vehicles starting in 2025.

Gormash Global will launch production of mining equipment in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region, in 2025, with investments of 40 billion rubles and 2,000 jobs.

WEC Group has commenced construction on a new 60,000 square foot heavy machining and nuclear fabrication facility in Walker Park, Blackburn, with a £10 million investment. The facility will be equipped with six large CNC machining centres and is expected to create 60 new jobs.

The Investment Council of Novosibirsk Oblast approved a project by OOO ZPA 'Record' to build an industrial automation plant in Novosibirsky District. The investment is about 500 million rubles, with production planned to start in 2025 and full capacity of about 1,000 units per year by 2029.

Dalian Heavy Industry Equipment Group's large wind power casting intelligent manufacturing base in Wafangdian, Dalian, Liaoning, was officially put into operation on April 18, 2024. The project cost 2.575 billion yuan, started construction in May 2023, and has an annual total production capacity of 300,000 tons of large high-end castings.

Synopex Vietnam held an inauguration ceremony for a new manufacturing plant in Yen Phong Industrial Park, Bac Ninh province, on April 17, 2024. The factory produces components for automotive electrical systems, water filters, air filters, and membrane filters.

HUBER Technology, Inc. celebrated the grand opening of its new manufacturing facility in Denver, North Carolina on April 17, 2024. The $41 million, 140,000-square-foot facility will allow on-site manufacturing of around 40 products in 2024, expanding from 7 products previously manufactured in the US.

Liaoning Zhizeyuan Technology Co., Ltd. started construction of a plant in Yingkou Liaohe Economic Development Zone to produce 2 million square meters of nanofiltration membranes and 50,000 water purification systems annually. The total investment is 500 million yuan, with phase one (250 million yuan) expected to start production by end of 2024.

GE Vernova announced a new Monitoring and Diagnostics Centre in Iraq focusing on electrification software, which will also train local engineers.

Elixir Aircraft opened its first US site at Sarasota Bradenton Airport in Florida, focused on reassembly of aircraft for US customers, with plans to employ approximately 200 staff.

Elixir Aircraft opened a new 10,700 sq ft production site in Aytré near La Rochelle, France, dedicated to OneShot composite parts production, already employing 26 people.

Wienerberger is building a state-of-the-art, CO2-neutral concrete roof tile plant in Hejőpapi, Hungary. The cornerstone was laid in April 2024, and production is scheduled to start in the second half of 2025.

Çukurova İstif plans to establish a facility in Kemalpaşa, İzmir, for the production of 1,360 electric/diesel forklifts, 510 battery-powered stackers, and 500 generators annually. The project involves an investment of over 6 million Turkish lira and will employ 25 people.

DMG Mori announced it will start full operation of a new factory in Iga, Mie Prefecture, in May 2024. The factory, with a total investment of 5.5 billion yen and floor area of 5,600 m², will process parts for machine tools, reducing processing time by two-thirds and equipment footprint by 55%.

Liebherr Components (Dalian) Co., Ltd. inaugurated a new production facility in Dalian, China on March 19, 2024. The 44,000 m² plant involved an investment of €110 million and produces gearboxes, slewing bearings, and hydraulic cylinders.

LS Materials' subsidiary HAIMK held a groundbreaking ceremony for a factory at Gumi National Industrial Complex in Gyeongbuk, South Korea, to mass-produce aluminum battery case parts for 300,000 EVs starting Q1 2025. The investment is approximately KRW 75 billion.

Perstorp inaugurated a new facility in Stenungsund, Sweden, that purifies municipal wastewater for reuse as cooling water at its Oxo production plant, saving 1.1 billion liters of freshwater per year. The investment supports Perstorp's Project Air and sustainability targets.

Makino Milling Machine announced a new assembly plant for large machining centers in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, with a total investment of 21 billion yen. The plant will double production capacity and is expected to start full operation in early 2026.

Poclain opened a new factory in Spilamberto, Italy, as a center of excellence for axial piston pumps. The 7,500 square metre site adds 40% more machining and assembly capacity and supplies pump sister plants in North America and China.

Pacific Industrial will build a new plant on the site of its Kita-Ogaki factory in Kanzaki area of Gifu Prefecture to make valves for electric vehicles, with about 14,900 square metres of floor space and operations planned from March 2025.

Mitsubishi Electric has opened a new manufacturing facility for factory automation systems in Talegaon, Maharashtra, India, with an investment of 2.2 billion INR (24.5 million EUR). The plant will produce inverters and other FA products.

Tailift Machine Equipment (Qingdao) Co., Ltd., a Toyota Group subsidiary, opened a new forklift manufacturing plant in Jiaozhou, Shandong, China. The new facility, which began production in 2023, has an annual capacity of 20,000 units and is expected to reach 110,000 units when fully operational, with an estimated annual output value of 6 billion yuan.

Babcock Wanson will invest over €20 million to build a new factory in Nérac, France, to support the growth of its electric boiler range.

Johnson Thermal Systems (JTS) broke ground on a new 172,700-square-foot manufacturing facility, Plant #2, in Nampa, Idaho. The facility will produce packaged power solutions and is part of JTS's expansion plans.

Westrock Coffee opened its 570,000-square-foot roast-to-ready-to-drink beverage manufacturing facility in Conway, Arkansas, ahead of schedule on April 16, after a $315 million investment.

Packem Umasree, a Brazil-India joint venture, inaugurated its first Indian plant near Ahmedabad on 16 April 2024 to make 100% rPET bottle-based FIBC jumbo bags, with monthly capacity of 600 metric tons and about 700 jobs.

Nidec GPM Merbelsrod is investing 14 million euros in a new plant in Merbelsrod, southern Thuringia, and is hiring new staff. The plant is being built in record time.

Hanwha Aerospace held a groundbreaking ceremony on April 15, 2024, for a $30 million, 16,530 m2 facility in Changwon, South Korea, to manufacture GE Aerospace F414-GE-400 engines for the KF-21 Boramae aircraft. The factory is expected to be operational by 2025, producing approximately 300 engines annually.

Thermax announced the opening of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Pune for water and wastewater treatment solutions. The facility spans two acres and can be scaled to double its capacity.

Raufoss Technology, part of CAG-Holding, received approval to proceed with a project to build a new factory on Raufoss, Norway, with a cost frame of about 300 million Norwegian kroner. The factory will house a new smelting line and production equipment.

Greif is finalizing construction of a bulk corrugated manufacturing plant in Dallas, Texas, scheduled to open in spring 2024. The plant will mainly make triple wall sheets and jumbo boxes for industrial and agricultural customers.