Valmet announced an investment of about US$8 million (R$40 million) in a new plant in Sorocaba, São Paulo, housing its Flow Control and Automation Solutions businesses. Completion is planned for the first half of 2026 and capacity will exceed 12,000 valve assemblies per year.

Valmet is constructing a new facility in Sorocaba, São Paulo, to house a valve production unit and offices for its flow control and automation businesses. The built-to-suit unit will double the size of the existing plant and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2026.

Festo India has begun supplying customers from its new manufacturing facility in Bairamangalam, Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu, from May 5, 2025. The INR 5.2 billion plant is expected to create 2,000 jobs once fully operational.

Neugart GmbH has opened its new Werk 3 production plant at its headquarters in Kippenheim, Germany, after a 20-month build with an investment of over EUR 25 million and 7,000 square metres of floor space.

WIKA opened a new plant in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, on a 3,000 square metre site producing pressure, temperature, level and flow measurement products, with more than 100 jobs planned over the next few years.

Emerson is developing a manufacturing hub at King Salman Energy Park (SPARK) in Saudi Arabia, built by Saudi AMANA. The facility will produce automation products such as control valves and safety systems, with completion expected in late 2024.

Emerson signed with the Wuqing Development Area in Tianjin, China to build a production and R&D base on about 150 acres of industrial land in the area's third phase.

Balluff opened its new greenfield smart factory in Aguascalientes, Mexico, on October 27, 2023. The 7,000 m² site represents a 50 million euro ($53 million) investment to regionalize its supply chain for the Americas.

Balluff is building a new high-volume production plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, starting at the end of 2023, with about EUR 50 million invested. The 15,000 square metre plant will make sensors, accessories, network systems and RFID solutions.

Festo laid the first stone of a new plant in Salinas Victoria near Monterrey, Mexico, with a $100 million investment and three construction phases generating 1,500 jobs. The plant is due to be ready in 2025 and will supply automation solutions to automotive, mining, pharmaceutical and electronics sectors.

IMI's Norgren China opened a automated pneumatic and fluid control manufacturing base in the Wujiang Development Zone. The project has a total investment of US$30 million and a 2025 sales target of 1.4 billion yuan.

ABB is constructing a $100 million, 275,000-square-foot plant and offices in New Berlin, Wisconsin, adding 100 jobs, with opening scheduled for fall 2024 as part of about $170 million US investment.

Emerson is building an innovation and manufacturing hub at King Salman Energy Park (SPARK) in Saudi Arabia, to provide control systems engineering, testing and manufacturing of DP transmitters, control valves and solenoid valves, slated to open by December 2024.

Schmalz India Pvt. Ltd. officially launched a new 1000 sq m manufacturing unit in Bhosari, Pune, for assembling and localizing vacuum handling systems, with an investment of 15 crores.

Bosch Rexroth will build a new 42,000 sq m plant in Queretaro, Mexico, investing about 160 million euros to make mobile hydraulics and factory automation components for North America. Opening is planned for mid-2023, with over 900 jobs after full commissioning in 2027.

Florentine machinery maker PARA is building a new factory in Pistoia, Tuscany, to double its production area. The total investment is €9 million, with workshops due by mid-2023 and offices within 2024.

Festo U.S. announced a new Global Production Center at its 47-acre campus in Mason, Ohio, scheduled to begin production by year end 2022, its first such center in North America.

Premier Tech is investing $33 million in a 165,000-square-foot facility in Montgomery, Alabama, for its Systems and Automation group, serving as its US headquarters. Operations start gradually from March 2023.

Mitsubishi Electric will invest about 2.2 billion Indian rupees through its subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric India to build a factory manufacturing inverters and FA control system products, expected to start operations in December 2023.

J. Schmalz began manufacturing vacuum components and complete vacuum systems for automation and manual handling at its new China headquarters in Taicang on 2022-03-18. The site sits on a plot of about 27,000 square meters acquired in early 2020.

Emerson launched its new manufacturing facility in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, producing solenoid valves, filter regulators and control cabinets to serve customers in Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East and Africa region.

Emerson opened a new 145,000 sq ft integrated manufacturing facility at Mahindra World City in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to make products of its Automation Solutions business for India, Asia and global markets.

Nabtesco has decided on the basic schedule for a new precision reducer factory on land acquired in 2020 in Hamamatsu, Japan, with construction starting in autumn 2022 and the building finished by September 2023. Total investment through 2026 is about JPY 47 billion, and annual capacity is planned to reach 2 million units by 2026.

Transmission Dynamics, owned by JR Dynamics, announced a £4.2m expansion including a new Future Innovation Hub with office and manufacturing facilities in Cramlington, Northumberland, expected to bring 50 jobs.

PE Energy officially opened a 11,000 m2 Centre of Excellence in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, for valve assembly and actuation, metering, pump and compressor solutions, and process automation integration. The facility aims to boost use of local materials and talent.

RORZE Robotech decided to build an additional factory in Hai Phong, Vietnam, to make semiconductor, FPD and life science equipment. The investment is USD 16.2 million, with construction starting December 2021 and completion scheduled for the end of August 2022.

Gen3 Defense and Aerospace is moving into a larger facility in Kent County, Michigan, with a $8.7 million capital investment expected to create up to 269 high-wage jobs. Michigan was chosen over a site in Florida.

Promess, a Michigan maker of sensing and motion control equipment, bought a 45,000-square-foot facility on Lochlin Drive in Green Oak Township and plans to move its Brighton manufacturing there by end of March, with a $4-5 million investment and about 20 new jobs.

Emerson has opened its Emerson Integrated Manufacturing Campus in Talegaon, Pune, Maharashtra, consolidating eight manufacturing sites into one 800,000 square foot facility, with phase 1 integrating over 450,000 square feet.

Japan-based CKD Corporation will establish its first U.S. production site in Austin, Texas, with a $13 million investment creating up to 70 jobs. The facility will make fluid control components for the semiconductor industry and is scheduled to start operations in Fall 2021.

Coins Co. signed an investment agreement with Yeosu city to build a factory on a 9,900 m2 site in the Yulchon 1 industrial complex, producing synthetic pigs and pipe-inspection robots, for 7 billion won, with work planned from January to December 2020 and 15 hires.

L&T Valves Arabia, a subsidiary of L&T Valves, is setting up a manufacturing facility in the Eastern Province near Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The plant is scheduled to start production in October 2019 and will make the full valve range plus automation and digital solutions.

Special machinery maker VWH GmbH held the ground-breaking for a new production center in the Westerwald region of Germany, adding 3,000 square metres of production space by February 2020 with a new plastics technology centre.

Högfors opened a new valve plant in Salo, Finland, built around a Fastems flexible manufacturing system that combines Deckel Maho and Gildemeister machine tools with a Fanuc robot cell. Eight machines were relocated from the old plant and the site is ready for production of butterfly and ball valves.

Emerson opened a new $25 million facility in Jukjeon, Korea, to serve its Emerson Automation Solutions customers in the region.

Swiss instrumentation maker Endress+Hauser will build a 100,000 square foot industrial and office facility in Pearland's Lower Kirby District, employing about 110 staff for its growing US business.

Novus began full operations at its new plant in the Parque Canoas de Inovação, moving 100% of its Porto Alegre operation there. The first-stage investment is R$20 million, and the factory is about three times larger than the previous one.

Lenze laid the foundation stone for its Mechatronic Competence Campus in Extertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, a roughly €50 million investment that will employ more than 800 people. Completion is planned for end 2019 with operation from early 2020.

OMRON announced it will build the second factory of OMRON (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai to expand control equipment and industrial robot capacity, doubling its China production capacity by fiscal 2020. Total investment is JPY1.0 billion.

IMI Precision Engineering held a ground-breaking in Noida near New Delhi for a INR 200 million (about $3.1 million) facility of 67,000 sq ft that will raise production capacity for the Indian market.

Invertek Drives is constructing a 5,500 square metre production facility at Welshpool, Powys, Wales, to raise drive output to more than 400,000 units per year, with completion due next year.

Emerson Process Management has opened a $30 million Americas headquarters for valve automation technologies and a highly automated manufacturing facility in Houston. The facility serves the oil and gas and petrochemical industries.

Emerson Automation Solutions opened a 1,100 square metre manufacturing facility in Dammam's First Industrial City to build control and safety systems and provide engineering, staging, commissioning and field services in Saudi Arabia's eastern region.

Elmo Motion Control began manufacturing servo drives and motion controllers at its own new production facility in Poland in Q2 2015, to serve EU customers.