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BYD announced on 22 December 2023 it will build a passenger-car factory in Szeged, Hungary, its first in Europe, to be built in phases and create thousands of jobs.

Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.

On inaugurated the world's first LightSpray production facility in Zurich, with four robots that spray a one-piece shoe upper from 1.5 km of filament in about three minutes, bringing shoe manufacturing back to Switzerland.

Great Wall Motor began production on 15 August 2025 at its Iracemápolis plant in São Paulo state, a former Daimler site with 50,000 vehicles a year of capacity, with Brazil's president witnessing the first car, a Haval H6 GT.

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein announced that Johnson & Johnson will build a second multibillion-dollar plant in Wilson, a drug product manufacturing facility for cancer and neurology medicines expected to create up to 500 jobs, beside the $2 billion biologics campus it is already building there.

On opened its second LightSpray robot factory near Busan, South Korea, adding 32 robots to lift its LightSpray capacity 30-fold in 2026, with the LightSpray Cloudmonster 3 Hyper as the first shoe sprayed there.

Purina's first factory built from the ground up since 1975, a 1.3-million-square-foot plant making Purina Pro Plan, Purina ONE and Dog Chow, officially opened east of Cincinnati. It is the largest investment Nestlé has made in a Purina plant and employs more than 430 people, heading for 500.

A new Ben & Jerry's pint line at the Heppenheim factory in Germany, part of a €30 million expansion, will make Cookie Dough and Chocolate Fudge Brownie for European demand.

Tesla opened its dedicated Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada on September 24, 2026. Opening coverage gives 1.8 million square feet and a design target of 50,000 trucks annually, rather than verified achieved output.

President Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office at 2 p.m. ET on 28 September 2026 that Mesabi Metallics will invest about $15 billion in a steel plant in Iowa, which the White House calls the largest of its kind in US history and the first mega steel plant built in the country since the 1960s. The plant is due to start producing steel in 2030. Its first phase is put at about 7.5 million tons a year with up to 6,000 construction jobs, rising to 10 million tons a year and at least 1,750 permanent jobs. It will run on iron ore from Mesabi's new mine at Nashwauk on Minnesota's Iron Range, and Iowa lawmakers have discussed tax incentives for a plant in Lee County in the state's southeast. The announcement came weeks before the November midterm elections, as Trump pointed to his 50% steel tariffs as the driver of new US steel investment.

Helix Electric broke ground in Hollywood, Alabama on October 27, 2026. The announced US$45.3 million fabrication campus plans about 160 jobs in its first phase.

Honeywell Aerospace announced a US$500 million, 300,000-square-foot Tempe factory on October 28, 2026, targeting late 2028 opening and about 600 jobs over time.

Curtiss-Wright plans a USD 30 million expansion of nuclear-sensor manufacturing in Round Rock, Texas. It expects more jobs but has not published a headcount or construction schedule.

Hwasung plans a USD 5 million components plant in Florence, South Carolina, creating 32 jobs. Production is targeted for January 2027 and the second half of 2027 in two phases.

Wing announced up to US$125 million in direct manufacturing investment over two years at a 15,000-square-foot Fort Worth facility, with up to 100 jobs. It did not publish a production-start or opening date.

SAIC's MG announced a 200 million euro plant in Galicia, Spain, its first on the European mainland, planned to build 120,000 vehicles a year from 2028 and to create more than 2,000 jobs.

Nestlé's CHF 520 million plant and logistics hub in Mantua, Italy, is due to start making super-premium wet food for cats and dogs for Purina brands in 2029. It will be Purina's 15th production site in Europe, with about 300 jobs expected.