Project Bulletin

Just weeks after Amkor Technologies announced its $2 billion semiconductor packaging and testing facility in Peoria, Arizona, yet another industry investment has been made in the state.

Korea-based biopharmaceutical company Celltrion announced last week its plan to invest $230 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Yesan County, located an hour and a half outside of Seoul, South Korea, in the province of Chungcheongnam-do.

Last week, Eli Lilly and Company announced that it would bring a new manufacturing facility to the town of Alzey in southwestern Germany.

To prepare to better serve local and global markets, DHL Express has completed a $400 million expansion at its nearly 20-year-old Central Asia Hub (CAH) in Hong Kong.

Power management company Eaton is preparing to double its production capacity in both El Paso and Nacogdoches, Texas.

Last week Texas Instruments began construction on its $11 billion, 300-mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in Lehi, Utah.

Yesterday, Ontario-based solar manufacturer Canadian Solar Inc. announced plans for an $800 million solar photovoltaic cell facility in Jeffersonville, Indiana

Last week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and other state officials announced that Louis Dreyfus Company would be investing $500 million in a new soybean processing facility in Wyandot County.

In a signing ceremony held in Seoul, South Korea, last week oil refiner GS Caltex and trading company Posco International Corporation announced their new $193 million bio feedstock refinery joint venture.

Under the name “Project Lion,” Slovakia-based energy equipment company InoBat is bringing its second Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) facility to Cuprija, Serbia.

Sweden-based EV battery manufacturer Northvolt AB has announced plans to invest $5 billion in a new 420-acre integrated lithium-ion battery gigafactory just outside of Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Pharmaceutical manufacturer ST Pharm recently held its groundbreaking ceremony for its second oligonucleotide plant in the South Korean city of Ansan, located in Gyeonggi Province.

Last week, the California city of Riverbank, located in Stanislaus County on the outskirts of Modesto, gained a long-awaited boost to its green economy, according to Riverbank Mayor Richard O’Brien.

n a conversation with Site Selection Senior Editor Gary Daughters, Georgia Department of Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson said, “the most amazing advances and cutting-edge technologies right now are coming out of South Korea.”

If you thought semiconductor investments would slow anytime soon globally, you would be wrong. While targeted investments seem to gear toward 300-millimeter chip productions, Infineon Technologies AG is making moves to expand its Malaysia site into the world’s largest 200-millimeter SiC Power Fab.

Last week, San Diego–based DNA sequencing pioneer Illumina Inc. announced the opening of a new office and Illumina Solutions Center in Bengaluru, India. Senior executives from the company and its longtime channel partner Premas Life Sciences cut the ribbon together.

Only two weeks after announcing its intention to build a fifth U.S.-based vertically integrated photovoltaic solar module plant somewhere in the country (and one day after this Site Selection Snapshot highlighting a clean energy manufacturing surge), First Solar, Inc. on August 10 announced it had selected the Acadiana Regional Airport in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, for what is believed to be the single largest capital investment in the area’s history.

Currently based in Concord in the Vaughan region with distribution centers in Brampton, Ontario; Illinois and New Jersey and a U.S. head office in California, Highlight Motor Group plans to move its HQ to a new development in Bradford West Gwillimbury (BWG), located in Simcoe County just to the north of the primary Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

The Deccan Herald reported yesterday that Foxconn Technology Group subsidiary Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) would make this 6,000 job investment in the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu, near Chennai, to produce electronic components for mobile phones.

This global IT services company founded 20 years ago by four friends in a Buenos Aires bar now has more than 27,000 employees working in 25 countries, and last year became the global platform supporter for FIFA+ and regional supporter of FIFA World Cup.

Indian radial tire maker JK Tyre & Industries Ltd. has announced the completion of the first phase of capacity expansion of its manufacturing facility in Banmore, Madhya Pradesh.

To help expedite its exports to South Asian countries, German company Viessmann has just completed the construction of its first heating appliance manufacturing factory in Tinh Dong Nai, Vietnam.

Intel Corporation continues to grow across the United States and globally, recently announcing an investment in its third European country.