Factory groundbreakings, CHIPS Act awards, gigafactory openings, and every public step the industrial base takes back. Dated, sourced, and tagged by company and category.
Mobilicom engaged a U.S.-based contract manufacturer in Phoenix to onshore production of its cybersecure datalink products for defense drones and robotics. The company describes this as its first U.S. manufacturing operation; initial domestically manufactured products are expected by the end of 2026 but were not yet reported as delivered.
FIXX Energy reported that its Smyrna, Tennessee, facility has produced more than five million lithium iron phosphate prismatic battery cells since converting to LFP production in April 2025. The company equates the cumulative output to roughly 5 GWh of energy-storage capacity and says the cells are deployed in U.S. battery-storage projects.
TE Connectivity announced an investment of more than $60 million in a 135,000-square-foot research and manufacturing facility in Henrietta, New York, for high-density fiber array units. The company expects the site to open in spring 2027, ramp manufacturing through 2031 and employ more than 800 people in engineering, manufacturing and management.
Eli Lilly broke ground on a $3.5 billion injectable-medicines and device manufacturing site in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania. The company says the facility will make products including investigational retatrutide, is expected to create 850 permanent jobs and about 2,000 construction jobs, and is targeted to begin operating in 2031.
Georgia-Pacific began work on an approximately $20 million expansion at its Anchor Packaging facility in Paragould, Arkansas. The project adds two thermoforming lines plus related equipment and infrastructure to increase U.S. production of polypropylene and PET foodservice containers; startup is scheduled for late 2027.
BASF inaugurated the completed final phase of its methylene diphenyl diisocyanate production expansion at its Geismar, Louisiana, Verbund site. The company says the approximately $1 billion project nearly doubles the site's annual MDI capacity to about 600,000 metric tons and also increases local aniline capacity for North American industrial customers.
Modine began commercial production of 2 MW and 3 MW Airedale chillers at a new 682,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Grand Prairie, Texas. The first production line is operating, while the company's additional line and shift targets remain future plans.
Suniva said construction is underway on an approximately $600 million solar-cell manufacturing facility in Laurens County, South Carolina. The building shell is complete and interior buildout began in late September. The project is planned to add 4.5 GW of annual capacity and approximately 560 advanced-manufacturing jobs, with initial production expected in late 2027.
ES Foundry said its Greenwood, South Carolina, operation has shipped more than 1 GW of domestically manufactured crystalline-silicon solar cells. The company reports that the operating facility has 3 GW of annual manufacturing capacity, marking a commercial-production milestone for the domestic solar supply chain.
HyProMag USA said the first major process equipment arrived at its rare-earth magnet recycling and manufacturing facility in Northlake, Texas. The delivery advances the planned domestic NdFeB magnet operation while detailed engineering, permitting, and contractor selection continue.
Alphabet's Wing announced up to $125 million in direct manufacturing investment over two years at a 15,000-square-foot Fort Worth facility designed to build tens of thousands of delivery aircraft annually and add up to 100 jobs.
Callaway Golf announced a $15 million advanced titanium 3D-printing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, intended to establish dedicated U.S. production capabilities for custom titanium golf products beginning in 2028.
BWXT signed an agreement supporting a $714.5 million expansion at its Jonesborough, Tennessee, facility to produce high-purity depleted-uranium metal for the National Nuclear Security Administration, with 181 planned jobs.
The Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital provided 6K with a conditional loan commitment of up to $250 million to support construction and development of its PlusCAM cathode-material production facility in Jackson, Tennessee.
USDA Rural Development awarded a combined $408,410 to Very Good Meat Company and Bluebird Locker for processing and packaging equipment intended to expand regional meat capacity, including a projected packaging-capacity increase of up to 40% at Bluebird Locker.
Ahlstrom completed a Line 3 equipment and process-control upgrade at its Kingston, New York, manufacturing facility, increasing capacity and flexibility for depth-filtration media used in pharmaceutical, food-and-beverage, and industrial applications.
VITREUS USA began operations at a Newberry production facility for ceramic surface-finishing materials, establishing the German manufacturer's first North American operation with an $800,000 investment and 15 planned jobs.
The Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital announced a conditional $75 million loan commitment to Halo Industries to expand silicon-carbide wafer manufacturing in Santa Clara, California, for power-electronics and defense supply chains.
The National Nuclear Security Administration qualified the Y-12 National Security Complex to resume production of binary alloy, restoring a domestic source for the material used in radiation cases after two decades of reliance on a limited legacy stockpile.
The Andersons signed a definitive agreement to acquire Harvestone Low Carbon Partners' three operating ethanol plants in North Dakota and Indiana for $915 million. If the transaction closes, the company would add about 215 million gallons of annual ethanol capacity, expand its renewables platform by more than 40 percent, and own a combined production network with about 730 million gallons of annual capacity.
Lonza signed a definitive agreement to acquire five operating U.S. contract-development and manufacturing sites from Merck KGaA. The transaction would more than double Lonza's U.S. CDMO footprint from four to nine sites, add about 1,100 employees, and expand domestic capabilities for bioconjugates, payload-linkers, viral vectors, lipid nanoparticles, liposomes, PEGylated proteins, and aseptic fill-finish services.
Sonoco announced a two-year, $40 million modernization and expansion of its Richmond recycled-paperboard mill. The project is designed to add about 9,000 tons of annual capacity while improving sheet formation, quality controls, pulping, water systems, and automation; construction is expected to begin in early 2027.
Lockheed Martin announced a $420 million capital expansion of its Camden manufacturing operations that is expected to add 650 full-time jobs over five years and increase production capacity for PAC-3, THAAD, and Precision Strike Missile systems. Arkansas's economic-development agency described the November 2 action as a new expansion distinct from the Munitions Acceleration Center that broke ground in January.
TOTE Services selected Hanwha Defense USA to build one Medium Landing Ship at Hanwha Philly Shipyard under its U.S. Navy and Marine Corps vessel-construction contract. The $269 million award includes options for three additional ships, with construction scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2027.
Centrus Energy completed and began shipping the first new centrifuge made at its Oak Ridge, Tennessee, plant for final assembly in Ohio. The shipment advances the company's multibillion-dollar uranium-enrichment expansion and follows its work to assemble an exclusively domestic supply chain for the centrifuge program.
The U.S. Department of Commerce issued antidumping and countervailing duty orders covering van-type trailers and specified subassemblies from China. The orders are applicable October 28, 2026, following final Commerce findings and an International Trade Commission determination that dumped and subsidized imports materially injured a U.S. industry.
nVent announced a new 400,000-square-foot manufacturing site in Goodyear, Arizona, for prefabricated electrical buildings used by power utilities, data centers, and industrial customers. Production is expected to begin in mid-2027, and the company expects the operation to employ more than 200 people when fully operational.
EDGE Industrial Technologies announced its acquisition of Salinas, California-based Harvest Blade, adding industrial-blade resharpening and supply capabilities for food processing and packaging customers. The completed transaction extends EDGE's U.S. resharpening footprint from its Pennsylvania operation to the West Coast.
The Partner Companies announced its acquisition of F&B MFG, adding a roughly 100,000-square-foot Phoenix operation with more than 200 employees and vertically integrated hydroforming, tooling, heat-treatment, brazing, welding, machining, and assembly capabilities. The acquired company produces engine and auxiliary-power-unit components for defense and commercial aircraft and also serves semiconductor and transportation customers.
Made Scientific and CARR Biosystems announced a partnership to deploy multiple UniFuge single-use centrifugation systems across Made Scientific's Princeton, New Jersey, and East Norriton, Pennsylvania, facilities. The systems will support automated cell harvesting, washing, concentration, and formulation as the CDMO brings 3D bioreactor capacity of up to 200 liters online for mesenchymal-stem-cell and feeder-cell programs.
Avanti Helium reported that civil work and site preparation at its Sweetgrass project are largely complete, the processing-facility building is under construction, gathering pipelines are complete, and major helium-recovery equipment is preparing to move to the Montana site. The company characterized the work as a transition from site development into physical plant assembly ahead of testing and commissioning.
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority announced approval of a $60.56 million, five-year tax-credit award supporting Amneal Pharmaceuticals' planned expansion of eight Piscataway buildings into an integrated manufacturing campus. Amneal plans more than $240 million in eligible capital investment over three years and expects the project to create more than 330 full-time jobs while expanding capacity for transdermal patches, biosimilars, and pharmaceutical injectables.
UFP Industries announced an agreement to acquire Apache Products' operating assets and Silsbee, Texas, real estate for approximately $27 million. The deal would add a 165-person pallet operation with about $55 million in annual sales to UFP Packaging's PalletOne network and expand industrial-packaging capacity for Gulf Coast manufacturing, energy, and petrochemical customers.
The U.S. Economic Development Administration announced its intent to award $24.8 million in disaster-supplemental funding to the Additive Manufacturing and Advanced Materials coalition in southwest Virginia. The proposal would create an advanced-manufacturing certification program, add process-optimization equipment, train 2,000 workers, and is backed by $195 million in total commitments.
Audi announced a plan to invest around $4 billion in its first U.S. production site at the Middle Georgia Mega Site, subject to approval by the relevant Volkswagen Group committees. The company projects approximately 4,500 jobs and annual capacity of up to 200,000 vehicles, with production planned for the early 2030s.
Valmont Industries announced an additional $45 million investment at its Jasper, Tennessee, facility to increase production of engineered steel transmission, distribution, and substation structures. The project is expected to create 84 jobs and extends a smaller 2024 expansion whose hiring target the company reached early.
U. S. Steel's board approved full funding for a new hot strip mill at the Edgar Thomson Plant near Pittsburgh. The company says the project would raise annual capacity from about 2.2 million to about 3.5 million tons; construction remains subject to permits, with initial production targeted for late 2029.
A presidential proclamation concurred with the Commerce Department's finding that wind-turbine imports threaten national security and directed Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative to pursue agreements with trading partners. The proclamation requires a progress update within 180 days but does not itself impose a new wind-turbine tariff.
New Jersey Community Capital closed a $15 million New Markets Tax Credit financing transaction supporting a 34,500-square-foot addition to ResinTech's Camden, New Jersey, manufacturing and warehouse campus. The approximately $18.6 million project is expected to retain 259 jobs, create 100 permanent jobs, and support production of water-treatment resins.
Fortera and MLC announced plans to build Fortera's first commercial low-carbon cement plant at MLC's Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, lime operation. The proposed plant is designed to capture carbon dioxide from lime production and manufacture 300,000 tons of ReAct cement annually.
FormFactor opened its Farmers Branch, Texas, manufacturing facility to expand U.S. production capacity for advanced semiconductor probe-card technologies. The company says the site adds manufacturing scale and operational flexibility for high-performance-computing and advanced-packaging test demand.
Hyundai Translead expanded its planned investment in two Will County, Illinois, manufacturing facilities to a total of $600 million and 3,750 full-time jobs. The revised commitment adds a third production shift and increases the prior plan by $150 million and 1,250 jobs.
Carrier announced plans to invest more than $600 million over three years in a more than 1-million-square-foot manufacturing and engineering center in Fort Worth, Texas. The company expects the site to begin operating in 2027, add domestic capacity for air- and water-cooled commercial chillers, and create 1,500 jobs.
Peak Energy closed a $108 million Series B led by General Motors Ventures, saying the new capital will help scale domestic manufacturing and fulfill more than $1 billion in commercial agreements as its 4 GWh Sacramento sodium-ion storage factory moves toward production.
The Nuclear Company announced Prosperity One, a proposed nuclear campus in Lewis County, Kentucky, where it has site control and plans initial engineering, environmental, interconnection, and federal licensing work for as many as six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors.
Westinghouse announced an approximately $1 billion investment to build a commercial-scale Low Enriched Uranium Plus fuel factory beside its Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility in Hopkins, South Carolina. Construction is underway, with operations targeted for 2030.
United Therapeutics opened its third designated pathogen-free facility in Houston to produce investigational xenografts and support eventual commercial-scale organ manufacturing after regulatory approval.
Micron announced strategic funding for Indium Corporation to expand refining and high-purity materials manufacturing in Rome, New York, restarting domestic processing of critical minerals used in advanced semiconductor production.
Centrus acquired Westerman Holdings for approximately $116 million, bringing a key U.S. manufacturer of centrifuge casings and other nuclear, energy, and industrial equipment into its domestic supply chain.
A Department of Homeland Security acquisition rule implementing Make PPE in America requirements took effect, codifying domestic sourcing restrictions and multi-year contracting provisions intended to sustain U.S. production of critical protective equipment.
PurposeEnergy commissioned an operational industrial pretreatment and anaerobic-digestion facility in Minster, Ohio, designed to process up to 250,000 gallons of manufacturing residuals per day and supply renewable biogas to Danone's nearby yogurt plant.
Fodere America selected Monroe County, Mississippi, for a production-representative prototype plant intended to recover titanium dioxide, vanadium pentoxide, and other products from domestic industrial residues.
Conair will add fabrication, machining, and powder-coating capacity in a long-vacant Franklin facility through a $9.75 million expansion expected to create 126 jobs and retain 273 positions.
ITT Goulds Pumps will establish its first Tennessee location in Memphis, investing $31 million in a manufacturing and distribution center and creating 57 jobs.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced its intent to provide up to $50 million in Defense Production Act funding for a Virginia Energy-led project using advanced reconductoring and dynamic line ratings to add an estimated 290 megawatts of transmission capacity across Appalachian Power's Virginia system.
The Texas Workforce Commission awarded two Skills Development Fund grants to Tarrant County College and local employers: $282,392 to train 104 DrinkPAK II workers in beverage-production roles and $179,960 to train 60 GEV Wind Power US workers as composite-repair technicians.
Lockheed Martin delivered a domestically produced C-130J-30 Super Hercules from its Marietta, Georgia facility to the U.S. Navy for conversion into the E-130J Phoenix II, the service's next-generation airborne nuclear command-and-control platform.
Automation Alley received a Phase I task order with a base and option valued at $7.5 million to design and validate a secure system for streaming protected manufacturing instructions to a distributed network of additive-manufacturing equipment for U.S. Army sustainment.
The National Nuclear Security Administration approved the performance baseline and authorized full construction activities for the main processing building at the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility in South Carolina, advancing a second U.S. site for war-reserve plutonium-pit production.
Caterpillar allocated up to $10 million from its Building the Future Workforce Initiative to expand hands-on manufacturing pathways and industry-technician training in North Carolina through partnerships with Central Carolina Community College and the Sanford Area Growth Alliance.
North Carolina's Rural Infrastructure Authority approved a $1 million grant for sewer and water improvements at the Southeast Regional Airport Authority Industrial Park to support Great Southern Wood Preserving's planned $40 million lumber-treatment manufacturing facility, with 29 jobs tied to the grant.
Fujifilm will invest $18 million to expand copper-interconnect CMP slurry production and add multi-product CMP slurry manufacturing capabilities at its Mesa, Arizona semiconductor-materials site. The new production facilities are intended to bridge product development and commercial manufacturing, with the expanded production line scheduled to begin operations in 2027.
DigiKey announced a $100 million, 18-month investment to expand capacity and automation at its 2.2 million-square-foot product distribution center in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. The program adds high-volume picking capacity and automated packing operations to support same-day fulfillment for electronic components and automation products.
Per Scholas and The Campbell's Company announced a 15-week Advanced Manufacturing Technician training program in Greater Milwaukee, backed by a $500,000 Campbell's investment. The inaugural cohort will prepare 25 learners for entry-level manufacturing and industrial-technology careers through more than 400 hours of training and industry-recognized safety credentials.
Daikin Applied opened its expanded 191,000-square-foot Modular Solutions manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona. The expansion grows the company's modular manufacturing footprint from 58,000 square feet and increases production capacity for factory-built hydronic and electric systems by approximately 150%.
GlobalFoundries was selected as technology provider and operator for two planned semiconductor fabs at its Malta, New York campus. Japan will fund the initiative, with an initial roughly $10 billion investment for a 300mm fab expected online in 2029 and an additional roughly $10 billion contemplated for a second fab. The company says the two fabs would each add about 900,000 300mm wafers of annual capacity, while the first is expected to break ground later in 2026.
American Battery Solutions introduced its Aventor high-voltage battery platform, designed, engineered and assembled in the United States with domestically sourced cells. Customer samples are planned for 2027, followed by a first-quarter 2028 production start with initial capacity of 6,000 packs, or about 0.7 GWh annually.
X-Bow Systems said Leidos selected it to develop and produce solid rocket booster motors for the U.S. Army's Low-Cost Containerized Munition. The work will move through design, qualification testing, and static-fire testing before planned full-rate production in 2027, adding a domestic propulsion supplier to a program intended for high-volume missile production.
Walashek Industrial & Marine plans to invest about $5 million in its Norfolk operations, add 40 jobs, expand boiler-support capacity, and establish local maintenance and modernization support for Navy LCAC hovercraft.
GSK plans to invest more than $800 million in an Upper Merion biologics manufacturing and R&D hub with commercial-scale production, a pilot plant, quality-control labs, and more than 300 new jobs.
Solstice Advanced Materials plans a $49 million expansion of its Buffalo research campus, adding next-generation refrigerant, thermal-management, toxicology, and energy-storage laboratory capabilities plus 12 jobs.
Amca announced a firm-fixed-price contract with U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal to rapidly engineer, qualify and produce components for an Army priority missile system. Initial work will cover radar and power assemblies, with engineering and qualification testing in El Segundo, California, and production scaling across Amca's eight certified U.S. factories.
GlobalFoundries announced a five-year, $2 billion manufacturing agreement with TSMC to create a U.S.-based supply of silicon interposers for TSMC's CoWoS advanced-packaging ecosystem. GlobalFoundries plans to add fabrication capacity at its Malta, New York, site, with volume production expected to begin ramping in the first half of 2028.
Nucor announced an additional $105 million investment to expand production at its Towers & Structures facility in Crawfordsville, Indiana. The project, which remains subject to regulatory and other approvals, would add more than 120,000 square feet of manufacturing space, increase capacity for utility poles and related grid products, and create 100 jobs.
X-Bow Systems announced a prototype agreement with a potential value of $69.7 million to develop and qualify a solid rocket motor booster for a next-generation U.S. Navy weapon. The agreement includes $50.4 million for a 12-month development phase and a $19.3 million qualification option, and funds rate tooling for a line capable of producing up to 500 motors annually at X-Bow's Luling, Texas, site.
BD announced a partnership with the U.S. government that directs $3 billion of a broader multiyear U.S. investment toward manufacturing expansion at strategic domestic sites. The company said the plan would add approximately 5 billion essential medical consumables annually to U.S. production, lift its domestically supplied share to roughly 80 percent, and make all BD needles used in America domestically with American-made steel.
Traditional Medicinals began tea production at its new $47 million, 110,000-square-foot facility in Franklin County, Virginia. The plant is the company's second manufacturing site and establishes an East Coast production base alongside its existing California operation.
CAMINUS will manufacture Amprius-designed silicon-anode pouch cells at its Indianapolis facility under a contract announced October 5. Qualification builds are underway, and the companies plan to begin volume production in the first quarter of 2027 for aviation, defense, and uncrewed-system customers.
EMD Electronics opened a 38,000-square-foot research and development facility in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, with eight laboratories for semiconductor-materials discovery, qualification, scale-up, and technology transfer. The facility is part of a $200 million multi-state U.S. electronics investment program.
Simpson Strong-Tie broke ground on a new facility in Fulton, Missouri, investing more than $19 million and adding 24 jobs. The project will consolidate the company's equipment-solutions operations for saws, automated marking systems, and truss-fabrication equipment.
Bayer announced plans to invest $2.2 billion in a new modular pharmaceutical manufacturing campus in New Albany, Ohio. The company expects about 600 permanent jobs; a drug-substance module is planned to become operational in 2031, followed by a drug-product module in 2034.
Adeptus USA selected Anderson County, South Carolina, for its first operation in the state, a $215.56 million wood-products manufacturing facility. The project is expected to create 217 jobs and begin operations in the second quarter of 2027.
Safran Power Units announced an investment to double capacity at its Grand Prairie, Texas, facility for missile and drone turbojet engines. The company plans a new assembly line for the TR40 engine family, with the added capacity expected to come online in 2028.
Sherwin-Williams opened its expanded architectural-paint and coatings plant in Statesville, North Carolina, now the company's largest plant in North America. The project added nearly 50,000 square feet of improvements, automation upgrades, four rail spurs, and related production and logistics infrastructure.
SANY Nutrition Group held the grand opening of its Jonesboro, Arkansas, food-manufacturing facility, where protein-snack production is underway. The company invested more than $30 million and expects the operation to create more than 150 jobs within three years.
Saronic Technologies broke ground on its Port Alpha manufacturing facility at the Port of Brownsville, a planned shipyard for autonomous and manned vessels. Texas officials say the project represents more than $3 billion in private investment and is designed for an initial 150,000 gross tons of annual shipbuilding capacity.
Caterpillar intends to invest approximately $1 billion in North Carolina, including a new technology-enabled manufacturing facility in Sanford. The plant is planned to increase production of compact track loaders and telehandlers and create advanced-manufacturing career opportunities.
Collins Aerospace announced a multi-million-dollar, 14,000-square-foot expansion of its West Des Moines manufacturing facility, which produces fuel-distribution systems and ships more than 25,000 engine nozzles monthly. Construction is scheduled to begin in late September 2026 and finish by mid-2027, with additional hiring planned through 2027.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit for Tennessee Valley Authority's planned 300-megawatt BWRX-300 small modular reactor at the Clinch River site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. GE Vernova Hitachi described it as the first U.S. construction permit issued for a BWRX-300 project.
Attalon announced a nearly $13 million expansion of sapphire manufacturing capacity and technical capabilities at its Murrieta, California, operation. The investment targets domestically produced sapphire components for electro-optical and infrared defense applications.
Hertha Metals closed a $133.65 million Series A financing, including a $65 million U.S. government equity investment through the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program's Economic Defense Unit. The financing is intended to support construction of Hertha Chalyx, a planned 10,000-tonne-per-year facility for steel-grade and magnet-grade high-purity iron.
U. S. Steel accepted delivery of a fiber-optic laser beam welder for the pickle line at Great Lakes Works in Ecorse, Michigan. The equipment is a key part of a $28.3 million upgrade intended to improve reliability and efficiency and support production of more advanced high-strength steel grades.
King Technology opened a 208,000-square-foot manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution center in St. Peters, Missouri, consolidating operations at its second location. The company invested at least $17 million and expects to add 40 workers over three years.
Virginia officials and Avio USA broke ground on a 900,000-square-foot manufacturing complex at the Southern Virginia Multimodal Park in Hurt. Avio plans to invest more than $500 million and projects more than 1,500 jobs to produce solid rocket motors for defense, tactical propulsion, missile, and commercial-space applications.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vulcan Elements was selected to supply domestically produced neodymium-iron-boron magnets for the Army's SkyFoundry initiative to manufacture small drones in Pennsylvania.
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.
Modine is hiring up to 300 workers across two shifts to ramp production of Airedale data-center cooling systems at its Franklin, Wisconsin plant.
Imperial Irrigation District's El Centro Generating Station selected ROTEC systems to recover cooling-tower wastewater for onsite reuse and reduce discharge.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.