Ground has been broken on a teaching facility for advanced manufacturing, designed for the University of Maine by UK architect Grimshaw in association with engineers SMRT of Singapore and the…

Work on company’s first manufacturing site in Brazil shut down; Contract with Jinjiang Construction Brazil terminated. Brazilian authorities have rescued 163 Chinese workers being held in “conditions analogous to slavery”…

The US Department of Defence (DOD) has included Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) to its list of “Chinese military companies”. The move will prevent the company from fulfilling…

German consultant Drees & Sommer has described how it is steering a €650m conversion of BMW’s main factory in Munich to prepare it for producing cars with electric-only drive systems…

Taiwanese chipmaker Foxconn plans to build one of the world’s largest assembly plants for US tech company Nvidia in Guadalajara, Mexico, Reuters reports.  The plant will bundle Nvidia’s GB200 superchips…

UK construction tech startup Automated Architecture (AUAR) is shipping two of its robotic “pop-up micro-factories” to the US in its first foray into automated housebuilding in North America. Packed into…

French drugmaker Sanofi has confirmed its plan to spend €1.3bn on an insulin factory at its site near Frankfurt, website BioProcess International reports. The 36,000-sq-m plant will replace a previous…

Ethiopia has doubled its cement-making capacity with a mega-factory in the Amhara region in the north of the country, Addis Insight reports. The $600m Lemi National Cement Factory will produce…

Siemens Mobility has announced plans to build a $60m factory in New York State to manufacture high-speed trains for the Brightline West route between Las Vegas and southern California. The…

The European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) has broken ground on its €10bn chip fabrication plant in Dresden. The plant will get €5bn in state aid from Germany and €3.5bn from…

Chinese lifting equipment manufacturer Sinoboom has broken ground on a 186,667-sq-m factory in Silao, central Mexico. It will have the capacity to produce 20,000 units a year, including scissor lifts,…

French engineer Alstom has acquired Duray Ulasim Sistemleri, a manufacturing plant in Bursa, northern Turkey. Some 200 staff work at the site, which makes components for rail systems that are…

Vietnamese EV-maker VinFast has broken ground on a $200m factory in Subang in West Java. The plant, which will have a maximum capacity of 50,000 vehicles a year, will contain…

Turkish officials anticipate an agreement with Chinese EV and battery maker BYD to build a $1bn plant near Izmir in the west of the country, Automotive News Europe reports. Recep…

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, the firm behind the highly sought-after diabetes treatment Ozempic and obesity treatment Wegovy, will spend $4.1bn on a new factory in North Carolina. The 1.4 million-sq-ft…

US-headquartered equipment maker Bobcat has broken ground on a $300m, 700,000-sq-ft factory in Mexico. The plant will produce select compact track and skid-steer loader models. It is designed by US-based Shultz + Associates Architects,…

UK equipment maker JCB has broken ground on a 67,000 sq m, $500m factory in San Antonio, Texas. Set on a 400-acre plot, the factory will build Loadall telescopic handlers,…

South Korean aerospace and technology company Hanwha Systems has broken ground on a 11,500-sq-m satellite factory on Jeju Island about 100km offshore in the East China Sea. According to The…