Factory groundbreakings, CHIPS Act awards, gigafactory openings, and every public step the industrial base takes back. Dated, sourced, and tagged by company and category.
Smackover Lithium amended its binding Trafigura agreement to add an optional 4,000 metric tonnes per year of battery-quality lithium carbonate, bringing possible customer commitments for the South West Arkansas project to 20,000 tonnes per year. The partnership says the offtake workstream is complete while financing and a final investment decision remain pending.
Amprius received a U.S. Department of War grant of up to $75 million to retrofit an existing U.S. electric-vehicle battery line for high-energy-density cells intended for unmanned aircraft systems. The company says completion is planned for early 2028; most award funding remains subject to future appropriations and milestone acceptance.
Trioworld opened its first U.S. plant in Brownsburg, establishing domestic flexible-film production with 40 employees and capacity intended to double the company's North American output.
Abingdon Health opened a Madison manufacturing hub that expands its domestic capacity for rapid diagnostic tests and end-to-end med-tech contract development and production.
IMA Life opened a 120,000-square-foot Tonawanda production and office complex, doubling its prior footprint and expanding U.S. capacity for freeze-drying and aseptic-processing equipment.
Voortman Steel Machinery opened its expanded Monee facility, a $51.4 million project expected to create more than 50 jobs and strengthen its U.S. CNC machinery operations.
Amazon will equip a 585,000-square-foot Greenwood facility for fabrication, robotic welding, powder coating, and assembly, creating 300 skilled jobs ahead of a planned 2028 launch.
Power Electronics began work on a 53-acre Houston campus designed for up to 40 GW of annual power-conversion equipment capacity and more than 400 new jobs.
Leading Edge Manufacturing is adding a full night shift at its Youngsville and Broussard facilities, expanding sheet-metal capacity while creating 20 direct jobs and retaining 62 positions.
Inteva Products plans to open a new Auburn Hills operation in late 2026 and begin production in spring 2027 to support localized automotive manufacturing and sequencing programs.
Schreiber Foods will build a new process-cheese plant in Carthage, investing more than $267 million and targeting a 2028 opening with about 100 new jobs.
Imperial Irrigation District's El Centro Generating Station selected ROTEC systems to recover cooling-tower wastewater for onsite reuse and reduce discharge.
Modine is hiring up to 300 workers across two shifts to ramp production of Airedale data-center cooling systems at its Franklin, Wisconsin plant.
Vulcan Elements was selected to supply domestically produced neodymium-iron-boron magnets for the Army's SkyFoundry initiative to manufacture small drones in Pennsylvania.
Federal permitting is complete for a 111-mile Mississippi natural-gas pipeline designed to add 1,175 Mdth/d of transportation capacity for Southeast markets.
Louisiana Economic Development finalized more than $4.5 million in FastSites investments for a heavy-load hardstand at the Central Louisiana Regional Port and added warehouse capacity at the Natchitoches Parish Port. The work supports manufacturing, logistics, fabrication, storage, and industrial recruitment.
The North Dakota Industrial Commission approved $611,862 in matching grants for a woody-biomass utilization project and a field-ready direct-ethanol fuel-cell demonstration. The state said the projects build on its agriculture, energy, and manufacturing base.
The Elmet Group signed a long-term agreement to take more than 1,000 metric tonnes of tungsten concentrate per year from Tungsten West's Hemerdon mine. The material is intended for conversion and delivery into Elmet manufacturing operations in Maine, Michigan, and Ohio.
Wilson Pipe & Fabrication will invest $3.5 million to more than quadruple its facility footprint in Norfolk and create 15 advanced-manufacturing jobs. Eight of the new roles will be trainee and apprenticeship positions supporting maritime and industrial-defense work.
Pirelli will expand its Rome, Georgia, manufacturing complex in two phases, first adding advanced robotics and then a traditional manufacturing process. The company expects most hiring to begin in 2029 and projects full operations in 2033.
Hammond Power Solutions signed a long-term lease for a new Fort Worth manufacturing facility serving U.S. demand for large standard and custom-engineered transformers. The company expects to invest about C$50 million in the initial phase, with staged production beginning in late 2027.
The U.S. Small Business Administration awarded $8.9 million through its SCALE program to 18 organizations in 17 states. The two-year grants will help small manufacturers address supply constraints, grow production, and enter strategically important supply chains.
Okonite will build an approximately 552,000-square-foot manufacturing plant on its existing Orangeburg property, adding 105 jobs to meet demand for high-voltage electric cable products. Construction is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026 and take roughly two to three years.
Sunshine Silver Mining & Refining expanded its consolidated mineral-rights position in Idaho's Silver Valley by about 14,100 acres to roughly 38,000 acres and initiated a multi-year, 45,000-meter surface drilling program. Initial targets are East Sunshine, Rock Creek, and Pine Creek.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published a Notice of Intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for the Arctic copper-zinc-lead-gold-silver project in northwest Alaska. The notice formally starts NEPA review and public scoping under a coordinated federal and state permitting schedule.
The U.S. Department of Energy issued emergency orders directing NIPSCO, CenterPoint Energy and MISO to keep specified units at the R.M. Schahfer and F.B. Culley generating stations available to operate. The orders take effect September 20 and run through December 18, 2026, preserving dispatchable capacity in the Midwest grid region.
The U.S. Department of Energy issued a Federal Power Act Section 202(c) emergency order authorizing Duke Energy Carolinas to dispatch specified resources and, as a last resort, direct backup generation to operate during elevated grid stress. The order covered North and South Carolina through September 21.
Kikkoman Foods held the grand opening for a 240,000-square-foot soy sauce plant in Jefferson, Wisconsin, its third U.S. production site. Brewing began in May, shipments are scheduled for October, and Kikkoman plans about $560 million of investment at the site over ten years.
Louisiana Innovation secured $1.5 million annually for five years from NIST to expand Louisiana Innovation Labs through the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. With required state and partner matches, the statewide advanced-manufacturing initiative represents more than $15 million of total investment.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services established a recurring department-wide forecast of anticipated purchases covered by the Make PPE in America Act, giving domestic PPE manufacturers an official demand signal for capacity, hiring and investment decisions.
TECHnista plans to invest $15.1 million and create at least 22 jobs in Danville, Virginia, leasing a 30,000-square-foot building to expand education and workforce programs serving defense and advanced manufacturing industries.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority approved $1.8 million in tax credits for Pratt Industries' planned first Iowa manufacturing facility in Bondurant. The $97.6 million corrugated-packaging project includes more than $80 million of manufacturing equipment and is expected to create 105 jobs.
Lockheed Martin presented Germany's first F-35A at its Fort Worth, Texas production facility. The aircraft is the first of Germany's 35-aircraft program of record, with the first eight slated for training use in Arkansas before aircraft begin arriving in Germany in late 2027.
Attalon shipped the first Valaris high-energy laser subsystem produced for an international end-use requirement from its Bloomfield, Connecticut manufacturing facility to a U.S. customer supporting an allied defense program.
Andelyn Biosciences said its Columbus, Ohio facility is manufacturing Fayuvi for commercial supply, the first FDA-approved gene therapy produced with Andelyn's AAV Curator platform process.
Fleet Readiness Center East opened a more than 700,000-square-foot aircraft repair complex at North Carolina's Global TransPark, adding depot-level capacity for C-130 and HH-60W military aircraft and roughly 400 projected skilled jobs.
Pittsburgh-based CorePower Magnetics completed a $10.6 million equity round to expand domestic manufacturing capacity and move advanced inductors and transformers for AI, grid and industrial power systems toward volume production.
Michigan selected 26 companies for a combined $2 million in grants and services supporting product development, prototyping, testing and manufacturing readiness across mobility, defense, aerospace and advanced manufacturing.
Steel Dynamics reported that all three cold mills at its Columbus, Mississippi aluminum flat-rolled products complex are operational, while commissioning continues on finishing lines ahead of commercial shipments.
GlobalFoundries and Marvell expanded a multi-year agreement to add silicon-germanium manufacturing capacity at GlobalFoundries' Burlington, Vermont fab for next-generation optical connectivity used in AI and cloud infrastructure.
KIHOMAC announced a $25 million expansion of its Oklahoma City operations centered on an approximately 130,000-square-foot facility that will increase aerospace and defense support capacity near Tinker Air Force Base.
Mesabi Metallics began startup of its Nashwauk, Minnesota iron ore mine and pellet plant, which is designed to produce up to 7 million tons a year of direct-reduction-grade pellets for domestic steelmaking.
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories purchased an industrial building in Post Falls, Idaho, where it plans to manufacture critical-infrastructure electronic devices and initially create about 250 manufacturing careers.
BAE Systems received $16 million in Defense Production Act Title III funding to qualify its RH45 radiation-hardened technology, with chip manufacturing at GlobalFoundries' Malta, New York facility.
Juanita's Foods acquired a 120,000-square-foot facility in Santa Fe Springs, California, that will become its primary manufacturing site after a phased transition from Wilmington.
Blue Whale Materials reached mechanical completion of its integrated lithium-ion battery processing line in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, raising annual feedstock capacity from 14,000 to 20,000 metric tons as commissioning continues.
Reckitt announced an up-to-$600 million, multi-year transformation spanning a North America innovation campus in New Jersey and expanded OTC medicine manufacturing capacity in North Carolina.
IBM company Anderon finalized a $1 billion CHIPS and Science Act award to accelerate research and scale access to quantum wafer manufacturing at its 300-millimeter foundry in Albany, New York.
Frymaster will invest $11.5 million in a newly acquired 300,000-square-foot Shreveport facility, adding production and fabrication capacity while creating 47 direct jobs and retaining 511 positions.
Flux Steel Works unveiled plans to convert a former specialty-steel plant in Louisville into a grain-oriented electrical steel mill designed for more than 260,000 tons of annual capacity and over 200 manufacturing jobs.
U. S. Steel received the final air permit needed to advance construction of its $475 million quench-and-tempering facility at Fairfield Tubular Operations, with full production targeted for 2029.
TMEIC opened its Twinwood manufacturing facility in Waller County, adding U.S. capacity for industrial UPS systems, medium-voltage drives, and other power electronics while creating more than 200 jobs initially.
Hitachi Energy announced a $528 million transformer factory in Gallman that will more than double its local production capacity and create more than 700 jobs, with production scheduled for 2029.
Sicona Battery Technologies will invest $10.3 million to establish its first U.S. facility and headquarters in New Orleans East, creating a domestic base for silicon-carbon anode materials and 32 direct jobs.
Taber Extrusions opened its $85 million Russellville expansion, adding a 10,000-ton direct extrusion press for aerospace, defense, and heavy-industrial profiles and an expected 70 jobs.
Youngstown-based Agilis Air announced $1.4 million in early funding to support production of its Remora tactical drone, certifications, and deliveries against its Army pipeline. The company also entered the U.S. Army UAS Marketplace's Cleared tier; it says the Ohio-built Remora uses a fully U.S., NDAA-compliant supply chain.
The U.S. Navy placed a production delivery order valued at up to $200 million for Castelion to manufacture, assemble, test, and deliver an initial lot of Blackbeard hypersonic weapons. Work will be performed at Castelion's Project Ranger campus in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and its Torrance, California, facility.
Titomic USA was awarded a $5 million U.S. Air Force contract to supply, integrate, and commission a TKF 1000 high-pressure cold spray system at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. The turnkey capability will support depot-level repair, restoration, additive manufacturing, and other sustainment work, with delivery scheduled for the third quarter of 2027.
Holly Poultry opened a new 80,000-square-foot production facility in Anne Arundel County dedicated to branded and private-label retail products. The company says the operation significantly expands retail production capacity and is expected to create 140 net new jobs.
The Defense Department issued a final environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact for Crucible Metals' planned integrated non-ferrous smelting and refining facility in Clarksville, advancing federal review of a project intended to produce critical minerals and semiconductor-grade sulfuric acid from primarily North American feedstock.
The U.S. Economic Development Administration awarded $7.9 million for business-park utilities in Redding, California, and $3.2 million for roadway improvements in Renville County, Minnesota, with both projects explicitly intended to support local manufacturing, jobs, and private investment.
The U.S. Army awarded Olin Winchester a contract valued at up to $788.4 million to procure 5.56 mm, 7.62 mm, and .50-caliber ammunition through September 2031, sustaining a major demand signal for domestic small-caliber munitions production.
Vicor is acquiring a 334,000-square-foot building in Merrimack and a separate 54-acre site in Hooksett for ChiP Fab-2 and Fab-3, which together are planned to approach one million square feet and expand U.S. power-component capacity for AI infrastructure.
Moog plans to invest nearly $12 million and add 89 jobs over five years at its West Valley City manufacturing hub, which produces advanced defense systems, weapon turrets, and missile-control components.
Stöbich Fire Protection Systems is investing $2.53 million in North Charleston to manufacture and assemble its GX Smoke Curtain in the United States, shifting production from Germany and creating 33 jobs.
Precision CNC manufacturer Machine Sciences plans to establish a 48,000-square-foot Cedar Park operation, investing $31.9 million and creating 70 jobs to supply complex components for space, aerospace, and defense applications.
ARRAY Technologies opened a 216,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Albuquerque that is roughly three times the size of its prior local site, expands domestic solar-component production, and supports approximately 300 jobs.
Nitradyn received a $581 million U.S. defense contract to design, build, and commission a domestic IMX-104 explosives facility in Graham, Kentucky, with planned annual capacity of approximately 8 million pounds.
Northrop Grumman opened its East Gate 3 manufacturing facility in Layton, expanding production capacity for the B-21 Raider as part of an approximately 845,000-square-foot next-generation aircraft campus.
The Export-Import Bank of the United States signed a $280 million credit agreement with CesiumAstro under its Make More in America initiative, supporting expanded U.S. production of satellite communications systems in Austin.
Cyclic Materials opened a 144,000-square-foot Mesa facility capable of processing up to 25,000 metric tons of magnet-bearing end-of-life products annually, adding a new domestic source of recycled rare earths and other industrial metals.
Quantinuum finalized a $100 million agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to address manufacturing bottlenecks for scalable trapped-ion quantum computers, including domestic fabrication of ion traps, electronics, lasers, and optical components.
Clark Pacific broke ground on a phased, 110-acre prefabricated building-systems plant in Coolidge, Arizona; the completed site is expected to triple the company's production capacity, with final-phase completion scheduled for spring 2027.
Telit Cinterion announced an 8,000-square-foot Bristol operation for domestic assembly, testing, quality assurance, and fulfillment of selected 4G and 5G cellular IoT modules and customer products, with production planned to start in October 2026.
Astemo Americas plans to invest more than $112 million at its two Berea plants to increase hybrid electric-vehicle motor production, adding nearly 300,000 square feet of production and warehouse space and an expected 114 jobs.
Chobani announced approximately $1.2 billion of investment over five years in a 1.5-million-square-foot Allentown manufacturing and warehouse campus, with more than 900 jobs planned and production under Chobani expected to begin in 2027.
The U.S. Department of War signed seven-year framework agreements with General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems and Lockheed Martin to expand manufacturing of missile-interceptor components, targeting triple PAC-3 MSE capacity and quadruple THAAD capacity.
The U.S. Department of War announced a $100 million follow-on preferred-equity investment in Atalco to sustain the Gramercy, Louisiana alumina refinery and fund capital work aimed at restoring its 1.2-million-metric-ton nameplate capacity.
Trilogy Metals executed definitive agreements with the U.S. Department of War for an approximately $35.6 million strategic equity investment tied to exploration and development of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects in northwestern Alaska.
SK hynix broke ground on its first U.S. high-bandwidth-memory production hub in West Lafayette. The advanced packaging fab and R&D testbed are expected to support about 1,000 operating jobs, anchor more than 100 supply-chain partners, and begin mass production in the second half of 2029.
Rolls-Royce completed a decade-long modernization of its Indiana manufacturing, assembly, and test network, adding full-engine ground-test capability in Indianapolis and an altitude-test facility in West Lafayette for U.S. defense and commercial propulsion programs.
Cleveland-Cliffs and the U.S. Department of Energy finalized a revised $1 billion investment plan for Middletown Works, including a blast-furnace rebuild, AI-enabled controls, on-site power generation from process gas, and protection of roughly 2,300 Ohio steel jobs.
Siemens announced new manufacturing facilities in Pendergrass, Georgia, and Grand Prairie, Texas, to expand domestic production of low-voltage electrical and power-distribution equipment. The combined program is expected to create more than 1,500 jobs.
Octapharma received final approvals for its first U.S. manufacturing and production campus in Rock Hill. The 50-acre project is expected to create more than 1,500 jobs and establish domestic production of plasma-derived critical-care therapies used in emergency preparedness.
Peak Energy selected a 183,000-square-foot Sacramento facility for up to 4 GWh of annual sodium-ion storage-system capacity. The company plans to invest up to $71 million, create roughly 240 jobs, and begin production and shipments in the first quarter of 2027.
JetZero broke ground on an 8 million-square-foot manufacturing and final-assembly campus at Piedmont Triad International Airport. The company plans to produce its Z4 all-wing aircraft there and create as many as 14,500 jobs over the next decade.
Siemens Mobility opened its passenger-rail manufacturing and services center in Lexington with production underway. The plant is expected to employ more than 500 people and source parts from more than 75 North Carolina suppliers.
UCB selected the Rowen development near Dacula for a 460,000-square-foot biologics manufacturing campus. The company's first U.S. manufacturing facility is expected to create about 330 permanent jobs and use automation, robotics, and AI across production.
SB Energy, AEP Ohio, and the U.S. government announced a framework to redevelop the former Portsmouth uranium-enrichment site in Pike County with 10 GW of generation, a 10 GW computing campus, and $4.2 billion of new transmission infrastructure funded by SB Energy.
Applied Optoelectronics began construction on a 210,000-square-foot Sugar Land manufacturing plant for optical transceivers used in AI data centers and broadband networks. The company plans up to $300 million of local investment and 500 automated-production jobs.
Century Aluminum joined Emirates Global Aluminium's Inola project under a joint-development agreement, increasing planned annual capacity to 750,000 metric tons. The first new U.S. primary aluminum smelter since 1980 would more than double current domestic output, subject to final engineering, power, and joint-venture agreements.
Boeing's North Charleston 787 Dreamliner line sustains 7 aircraft per month, a key step toward the 10/month industrial target.
Form Energy hits its 1,000-hire workforce milestone at the Weirton iron-air battery plant, rebuilding a steel-town industrial workforce.
Boeing finalizes the MQ-25 Stingray production line readiness at its St. Louis facility ahead of Navy low-rate initial production.
Samsung completes its $17B Taylor, Texas fab shell and tools, targeting 2nm node output for US customers and the CHIPS Act cluster.
Stoke Space expands its Kent, Washington footprint to accelerate Nova second-stage production ahead of first orbital attempt.
Relativity Space completes a full mission-duration test of the Aeon R engine in Mississippi, clearing Terran R for integrated stage tests.
El Segundo-based Castelion secures Series A to build US hypersonic missile production at aerospace-startup cadence and cost.
Varda's second in-space pharmaceutical manufacturing mission returns safely, marking a cadence milestone for commercial reentry.
Anduril selects a 500-acre Pickaway County site for Arsenal-1, a 5M sq ft factory designed to hyperscale autonomous defense systems.
TSMC's first Arizona fab hits volume production on N4 nodes for Apple and AMD, validating the Phoenix cluster as US leading-edge logic.
Neros Technologies secures an Army contract to deliver thousands of US-built Archer FPV drones, reshoring a supply chain dominated by China.
Enovix consolidates pilot production in Fremont ahead of Malaysia Fab-2 ramp, prioritizing US engineering-to-production loops.
Commerce finalizes the largest CHIPS Act direct funding commitment to Intel, tied to fabs in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon.
Micron breaks ground on the first of four planned leading-edge DRAM fabs in upstate New York, the largest US semiconductor investment ever announced.
Saronic stands up its first dedicated surface-vessel production line, targeting thousand-unit throughput for the Corsair-class drone boat.
Applied Materials breaks ground on its Equipment and Process Innovation Center in the Bay Area, anchoring US semi equipment R&D.
Autonomous aerospace machining startup Hadrian opens its second Torrance facility, expanding capacity for defense and space primes.
Apex opens Factory One in Los Angeles, scaling Aries and Nova satellite buses on a lean aerospace production model.
Epirus secures Army contract to supply Leonidas high-power-microwave systems for counter-swarm defense at forward bases.
Narrow permitting reform reduces NEPA review timelines for CHIPS Act-backed semiconductor projects, unlocking stalled Ohio and Texas sites.
Palantir expands its Maven Smart System ceiling with the Army, scaling AI-driven targeting software across combatant commands.