Thermotraffic Ltd., a UK subsidiary of Nichirei Logistics Group, completed an expansion of its Wrexham logistics center on September 28, 2026. The expansion adds approximately 48,000 tonnes of capacity, bringing the center's total capacity to approximately 77,000 tonnes, and introduces the company's first automated warehouse to improve efficiency and safety in cold-chain logistics.
Toshiba Information Equipment Philippines has expanded production lines at its Laguna Technopark facility and shipped its first nearline HDDs for data centers. The company aims to approximately double total annual production capacity on a storage-capacity basis by FY2027 versus FY2025, supporting demand from generative AI and cloud services.
Nippon Express Bangladesh, a group company of NIPPON EXPRESS Holdings, opened the Nippon Express Bangladesh Air Freight CFS in Gazipur, Bangladesh, near Dhaka International Airport. The facility consolidates previously separate warehouse functions and includes four truck docks, 24-hour security monitoring and safety equipment to support air-freight exports and temporary storage.
TOPPAN opened its first overseas FC-BGA substrate production facility at its Singapore subsidiary, Advanced Substrate Technologies, to supply large, high-layer-count substrates for AI, machine learning and network equipment. The first phase covers approximately 70,000 sqm within a roughly 95,000 sqm facility, with production scheduled to start in December 2026 and more than 200 engineers and technicians employed.
Mitsui Fudosan, through Mitsui Fudosan (UK) Ltd, started construction on September 17, 2026, on a major mixed-use redevelopment at London King's Cross. The project will add a British Library extension of approximately 100,000 sq ft and approximately 600,000 sq ft of office, laboratory and commercial space, with completion planned for 2032.
Tokyo Tatemono, through its Thai subsidiary, has joined SCX Logistics Leamchabang2, a joint development with SCX Corporation in Chonburi Province near Laem Chabang Port. The project will develop three buildings totaling approximately 41,652 sqm, comprising two bonded rental factories and one general/bonded warehouse, with completion scheduled for May 2027.
Kawasaki Kisen has completed the newly built LNG carrier Puteri Kelantan for the PETRONAS group at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China. The vessel is owned through a joint venture and has an approximately 174,000 cubic meter tank capacity; a sister ship, Puteri Negeri Sembilan, is scheduled for completion in November 2026.
Toyoda Gosei will establish a new factory at the Bidkin Industrial Park in Maharashtra, India, to produce bumpers, instrument panels, airbags, steering wheels and resin fuel-filler pipes. Production is scheduled to start in the first half of 2029, supporting capacity expansion by Japanese automakers including Toyota Kirloskar Motor.
Hankyu Hanshin Properties, through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary Hankyu Hanshin Properties USA LLC, completed the Buford Creek Business Center logistics facility in the Atlanta metropolitan area on August 28, 2026. Developed jointly with Trammell Crow Company, CBRE, Keihanshin Building and Nittetsu Kowa Real Estate, the facility supports last-mile delivery and regional distribution, with ceilings up to 12.2 m and numerous truck bays.
TOPPAN group's Italian film manufacturer Irplast has installed a new production line using Bruckner's LISIM simultaneous biaxial-stretching technology to produce high-function BOPP film for recyclable monomaterial packaging. The new line is intended to strengthen global supply, with commercial production targeted by the second half of 2026; total plant capacity will reach up to 30,000 tonnes per year.
West Holdings, Mitsui & Co. Realty Management, e-dash and JERA Cross have agreed to develop more than 10 MW of rooftop solar generation at underused roofs of logistics and other facilities by March 2028. The equipment-leasing model will supply on-site and surplus off-site renewable power to offices, commercial facilities and hotels across the real-estate fund portfolio.
Nippon Steel's European subsidiary U. S. Steel Kosice will invest approximately €900 million in a new electric arc furnace and oxygen plant at its Kosice steelworks in Slovakia. The electric arc furnace will have annual capacity of approximately 1.6 million tonnes and is scheduled to start operations in 2030; the oxygen plant is scheduled to start operations in 2029. The project will receive €350 million in subsidies from the EU Modernisation Fund through the Slovak government.
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo has completed the first-phase Pyeongtaek plant operated by its Korean subsidiary, TOK Advanced Materials, in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The facility includes a high-purity chemicals production building, warehouse and ancillary facilities, and is scheduled to begin operations in the first half of 2027 to supply semiconductor customers locally.
Mitsui Fudosan's Taiwanese subsidiary has decided on its first logistics facility project in Taoyuan as it enters logistics development as a fourth business area. The announcement does not disclose the project's investment amount, capacity, contractor, or construction schedule.
Punch Industry will invest in a Japanese-made electron-beam processing machine at its consolidated subsidiary, Punch Industry (Dalian) Co., Ltd., in Dalian, China. The equipment will expand capacity for custom mold components and precision micro-machined products, supporting confirmed new and expanded orders from an undisclosed global mold manufacturer serving beverage-container and medical-consumables markets. The machine's own price is undisclosed under contract with the vendor; the company separately plans approximately JPY 500 million in related capacity investment across the multi-year Value Creation 28 plan period, of which this machine is only part.
SOLIZE PARTNERS and its Indian affiliate opened an AI Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, India, to conduct research and development combining manufacturing engineering, 3D data and 3D printing with AI. The lab will serve as a global R&D, talent-development and technology hub focused on design support, predictive maintenance, defect detection, industrial AI/IoT and robotics applications.
Toyota Boshoku Automotive India, Toyota Boshoku's Indian subsidiary, will build a new plant in the Bidkin Industrial Park in Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, to produce automotive seats and other components. The approximately 4 billion Indian rupee (approximately 7 billion yen) investment is scheduled for completion in October 2027, with production planned to start in the first half of 2029 for supply to Toyota Kirloskar Motor's new plant.
Murata Electronics (Thailand), a production subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing, will invest approximately ¥6.2 billion to build a new production building on its existing site in Thailand. Construction is scheduled to start in September 2026 and the building is expected to be completed in November 2027, including production equipment to meet rising demand for EMI noise-removal filters.
Kansai Electric has begun commercial operation of the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind power project in Germany, in which it participates alongside Gremont Partners and other investors. The offshore facility comprises 83 wind turbines located approximately 70 km from the coast, with total capacity of 913 MW.
Iino Kaiun completed construction of the 93,000 cubic meter LPG/ammonia Very Large Gas Carrier LUMI AURORA at Hanwha Ocean's Okpo shipyard in South Korea. The LPG dual-fuel vessel is the company's third of its kind and is designed to reduce CO2 emissions while supporting winter navigation in the Baltic Sea.
Oriental Consultants Global (OC Global), through the jointly funded project company PT. Akuakultur Konawe Nusantara, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a whiteleg shrimp aquaculture facility in Polewali Village, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The facility is scheduled to start construction in August 2026, be completed by the end of May 2027, and begin shipments in July 2027, with planned annual production of approximately 1,300 tonnes and future expansion to approximately 4,000 tonnes.
Renesas Electronics has opened a Physical AI and Robotics Lab in Beijing to support customer demonstrations, validation and co-development of next-generation robotics systems. The R&D facility will integrate hardware, software, AI models, control, power, sensing and system-level validation, serving as a hub from proof of concept through large-scale deployment.
ADEKA will build a new manufacturing plant for its high-performance TRANSPAREX clarifying agent at the third plant of subsidiary ADEKA KOREA CORPORATION in Wanju County, South Korea. The plant will be built in surplus space at an existing semiconductor-materials facility to secure supply as demand expands; construction is scheduled to run from December 2026 to June 2028, with operations beginning in November 2028.
Suzuki Motor Corporation held the opening ceremony for its Indian subsidiary Maruti Suzuki India's newly built four-wheel vehicle plant in Kharkoda, Haryana. The facility currently has annual production capacity of 500,000 vehicles and is planned for expansion to approximately 1 million vehicles; the opening notice documents a completed manufacturing capex project.
Hankyu Hanshin Properties and CRE, together with Singapore's Sembcorp Development, completed five newly constructed logistics buildings at Sembcorp Logistics Park (Dinh Vu) in the Dinh Vu Industrial Park in Hai Phong, Vietnam. The project comprises six buildings including one acquired existing warehouse, with approximately 86,200 sqm of leasable area; construction started in June 2025 and was completed in August 2026.
Fujifilm Business Innovation began full-scale operation of its Circular Manufacturing Center in Laguna, Philippines, which it opened in July 2025 to refurbish used multifunction printers collected across the Asia-Pacific region. The facility started shipping refurbished ApeosPort-VII C R series machines on July 30 and has an exclusive area of approximately 500 sqm.
Megmilk Snow Brand Vietnam, a subsidiary of Japanese dairy company MEGMILK SNOW BRAND Co., Ltd., held an opening ceremony on July 9, 2026, for a newly constructed factory producing processed cheese. The Vietnam manufacturing and sales base is intended to capture growing local demand and support expansion into neighboring Asian markets.
Tokuyama held the opening ceremony for a new semiconductor-grade polysilicon plant operated by its wholly owned subsidiary Tokuyama Vietnam in the Phu My 3 Special Industrial Park, Ho Chi Minh City. The facility will crush and wash polysilicon and serve as an overseas supply-chain hub, with trial operations and quality verification to follow.
PT Mulya Energi Lestari has started commercial operation of its 3.4 MW run-of-river Pungga small hydropower plant in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The facility supplies renewable electricity to Indonesia's state-owned utility PLN under a long-term power purchase agreement and is expected to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 8,863 tCO2 annually; EnBio Holdings participates through its jointly managed investment vehicle Alamport Renewables.
Yokowo's Chinese subsidiary Dongguan Youhua Communication Parts Co., Ltd. established a new anechoic chamber at the factory site of its affiliated manufacturing company in Dongguan, Guangdong. Test operation began in June 2026, with full operation scheduled for the end of June, enabling local evaluation and analysis of automotive antennas for GNSS, ETC, 4G, 5G and V2X applications.
Hanwa established HANWA STEEL SERVICE TIJUANA, S.A. DE C.V. in Rosarito, Baja California, its second coil centre in Mexico, and began full operations in August 2026. The site covers 38,086 sqm with 9,420 sqm of buildings and cuts and sells thin steel sheet for the Tijuana-Mexicali border region, where manufacturers supplying the United States are concentrated. Coil-centre functions previously run from San Diego Vista Steel Service in the United States transfer to the new operation at the end of August 2026. No investment amount was disclosed.
Mitsui Kinzoku plans to acquire land near its existing Malaysian plant and establish a new site from 2031 onward to expand production of VSP high-frequency printed-circuit-board copper foil and MicroThin carrier-supported ultra-thin copper foil. The new site is planned to add monthly capacity of 1,200 tonnes of VSP foil and 4 million sqm of MicroThin foil, supporting rising AI, semiconductor and data-center demand.
Sekisui Chemical opened a design center in Shanghai in July 2026, operated by Sekisui Interlayer (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., to support automotive manufacturers with CMF design, simulations, sample production and prototype evaluation. The center combines the group's laminated-glass interlayer technology with Chinese mobility design trends and is intended to support development from concept through mass-production studies.
Lion has approved construction of a new pharmaceutical plant through its wholly owned Vietnamese subsidiary Merap Lion. The facility will produce prescription and over-the-counter solid-dose medicines, including tablets and granules, with operations planned to begin in the second half of 2030.
Yakult Honsha will introduce solar power generation at its Philippines Yakult No. 2 factory to promote decarbonization. The project is the Yakult Group's first initiative to use Japan's Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM).
Aichi Steel held the groundbreaking ceremony for a new forging plant at partner Vardhman Special Steels in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. The plant will add a hot rolling mill line, with mass production targeted for FY2028; the investment amount was not disclosed.
ASB Machinery will invest in its wholly owned Indian production subsidiary, ASB INTERNATIONAL PVT. LTD., to expand machining equipment for mold manufacturing, introduce automation, and renovate an existing factory building. The investment will launch a fourth factory and significantly increase production capacity; implementation is planned during FY2027 using internal funds.
Kyowa Manufacturing's European subsidiary, Kyowa Europe, held an opening ceremony for a new factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, on July 16, 2026. Built on a new site as the company's second expansion in Bulgaria, the facility targets twice the previous production efficiency to meet growing demand for motorized rollers and control systems used in conveyor and logistics systems.
CULTA will establish new research and development facilities in Kashiwa, Chiba, and Tsukuba, Ibaraki, focused on climate-adapted crop breeding, cultivation technology and stable seedling supply. The facilities will include sunlight-powered and artificial-light plant factories, laboratories, cultivation research greenhouses and a nursery building, with operations scheduled to begin sequentially from September 2026.
Daido Metal plans to invest approximately ¥4 billion by fiscal 2027 in a new plant building at its existing Mexico site, with production equipment to be added separately. The expansion is intended to increase output of generator-engine bearings used in data centers. Building work is planned to begin in autumn 2026 and production in 2028.
Furukawa Electric will invest approximately JPY 100 billion in manufacturing equipment, land and buildings in the United States, Brazil, Japan and India to expand optical-fiber and rollable ribbon-cable production. The projects are scheduled to begin mass production sequentially from the second half of fiscal 2028, with rollable ribbon-cable capacity expected to approximately double from the end of fiscal 2025, driven by data-center and generative-AI demand.
Kyoei Steel revised the planned investment in Vinton Steel's Texas melt shop and rolling-mill upgrade from $327 million to $437 million, citing higher material, logistics and construction costs. The new melt shop is planned for 360,000 net tons a year. Construction started in July 2026; melt-shop operations are targeted for July 2027 and integrated commercial production for October 2027. The company describes its planned direct billet transfer welding and rolling process as a world first.
Mitsubishi Materials will invest approximately EUR 50 million to expand tungsten scrap processing capacity at H.C. Starck's flagship Goslar, Germany facility from 5,000 tonnes/year to 7,000 tonnes/year. New equipment construction will begin in 2026 and be completed in 2028. Post-investment, the facility is expected to source virtually all its tungsten feedstock from recycled material, strengthening Europe's critical minerals supply chain resilience.
Mitsubishi Electric will establish MEHITS US, a new subsidiary in Mason, Ohio, in August 2026 to manufacture cooling systems for data centers. The company will invest approximately $30 million to refurbish and convert an existing automotive manufacturing facility, targeting production startup in April 2027 with planned annual capacity of approximately 6,000 units by 2030.
Mazda has opened its first Indonesian complete vehicle assembly factory in Citeureup, Bogor Regency, West Java, through local partner PT Eurokars Motor Indonesia (EMI) and PT Eurokars Produksi Pratama (EPP) on July 28, 2026. Mazda invested over IDR 400 billion to build the roughly 65,000 sqm facility, which will produce the CX-30 model for the Indonesian and regional markets.
Daiichi Kogyo Seiyaku decided on capital investment to strengthen its supply system for low-dielectric resin materials used in high-end servers, amid surging demand driven by data center and high-speed communication infrastructure expansion. The investment, targeting domestic and overseas production sites, totals approximately ¥10 billion and is planned to begin operation from fiscal 2027 onward.
E-commerce support firm Itsumo has launched two new fulfillment centers dedicated to TikTok Shop: one in Noda, Chiba and one in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, both operational since April 2026. Combined the two raised-floor warehouses provide capacity for about 350,000 shipments per month, designed to handle the sudden order surges typical of live-commerce sales, with plans to expand further fulfillment sites nationwide.
Resonac Holdings will make an additional investment of approximately ¥15 billion at its Resonac HD Singapore subsidiary to expand hard disk media production capacity, driven by growing AI and cloud-driven demand for datacenter storage. Combined with a prior May 2026 expansion announcement, total capacity will rise 44% from about 160 million disks to about 230 million disks per year, with production lines to be brought online progressively from 2029. Resonac, a key merchant supplier of hard disk media to HDD makers, has also agreed on a price revision with customers to reflect the investment.
Fogel, an equity-method affiliate of Japan's Hoshizaki Corporation, held an opening ceremony on July 23, 2026 for its new commercial refrigerator factory in Villa Canales, Guatemala. The new plant, built since October 2023, has 1.8x the annual capacity of the existing facility (400,000 units/year at full operation) and will support expanded sales across Latin America; Hoshizaki plans to raise its stake in Fogel to 51% to make it a consolidated subsidiary.
JX Advanced Metals will invest about JPY 4 billion to expand processing capacity for sputtering targets used in advanced logic, HBM, and 3D-NAND chips at its South Korean subsidiary JX Korea. The investment introduces new processing equipment accumulated across the group's Japanese sites, roughly doubling the site's processing capacity versus FY2025 levels, with phased startup expected from FY2027 to meet booming AI data center-driven semiconductor demand.
Mitsui Fudosan announced plans to expand beyond logistics facilities into data centers and automated logistics, positioning itself as an 'industrial developer.' The company plans total investment of about ¥600bn across data center projects nationwide, with roughly ¥300bn already invested; new development is underway in the Kansai-Hokusetsu and Kanto-Tama areas, part of 7 facilities in progress nationwide, targeting completion of the full investment plan by FY2035.
Japan's Meiko Corporation (Ayase, Kanagawa) will inject USD 20 million (about JPY 3.26 billion) into its Hanoi-based consolidated subsidiary Meiko Electronics Quang Minh (MKQC), raising its capital to USD 30 million. The funds will be used to build a third factory at MKQC's Quang Minh industrial park site as part of Meiko's mid-term growth investment plan, with the capital injection due August 25.
Fujifilm and its India subsidiary FUJIFILM India signed a non-binding MoU with the Indian government on July 3, 2026 to explore establishing a semiconductor materials manufacturing facility in India. The move aims to strengthen collaboration with Japanese and Indian industry to build a robust local semiconductor supply chain, supporting India's 'Make in India' initiative.
Japanese cross-border e-commerce support firm TheNewGate has established a subsidiary, TheNewGate Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., in Singapore and opened a local warehouse to provide local fulfillment services for Shopee sellers. The facility will handle storage and reshipment of goods, including cancelled/returned items, to reduce cross-border logistics costs for small Japanese exporters.
Yasuda Warehouse's local subsidiary PT. JAYA YASUDA INDONESIA held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 7, 2026 and began construction of a new warehouse in the MM2100 Industrial Estate, Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia. The project supports the company's mid-term plan to expand its logistics network in Southeast Asia and enter Indonesia's domestic distribution market, leveraging the site's proximity to Jakarta for import/export cargo handling.
Anpha-AG Joint Stock, a Vietnamese subsidiary of Japan's Konoike Transport group, began operating a new ambient and chilled warehouse adjacent to its existing facility in Tay Ninh Province, southern Vietnam, investing JPY 527 million. The new facility handles food products and ingredients, integrating with the existing cold storage to create a three-temperature-zone logistics system, raising combined storage capacity to 26,600 pallets across 15,676 sqm of floor space.
Aida Engineering will build a new factory in Auburn Hills, Michigan, consolidating the production bases of its subsidiaries Dallas Industries and HMS Products to establish integrated press-line supply in North America. Investment is approximately $33 million (about JPY 5.3 billion); completion is planned for end-2027 with operation starting during FY2028.
Oval Corporation has completed construction of a new factory for its consolidated subsidiary Hefei Oval Instrument in Hefei, Anhui Province, China. The plant, with a site area of about 3,300 sqm and total floor area of about 6,400 sqm, will produce flow meters to meet steady demand in the Chinese market driven by lithium-ion battery, marine, chemical, and energy sectors, complementing existing plants and optimizing the group's global production network.
Asahi Kasei's Taiwan subsidiary Hua Xu Technology has completed a new slitting facility in the Guantian Industrial Park, Tainan, for its Sunfort photosensitive dry film resist used in advanced semiconductor packaging, at an investment of about JPY 2 billion. The plant expands Hua Xu's overall slitting capacity by roughly 1.4x, with a design allowing expansion up to about 2x current capacity to meet growing demand tied to AI-driven chip packaging.
EIZO, a major monitor maker headquartered in Ishikawa Prefecture, plans to construct a new factory near Mumbai, India, with shipments expected to start as early as July 2028. The plant will target medical, aviation control, and video production monitor markets, and will house the headquarters functions of EIZO's Mumbai sales subsidiary established in 2023.
NHK Spring (Nippon Hatsujo) plans to invest approximately JPY 15 billion in a new production building at its Thai subsidiary NHK Spring (Thailand)'s Wellgrow plant in Chachoengsao to increase production capacity for HDD suspensions, a key component. The building is scheduled for completion in December 2027, and will raise the site's HDD suspension capacity by up to 1.6x; the company plans roughly JPY 35 billion in total investment across further phases to meet rising demand from AI-related data centers.
Megmilk Snow Brand's Vietnamese subsidiary held an opening ceremony and began operations at its newly built processed cheese plant in Tay Ninh Province (formerly Long An Province), southern Vietnam. The 1.5-hectare facility supports the company's mid-term plan to strengthen overseas expansion, targeting Vietnam's growing cheese market driven by rising incomes and Westernizing diets, with plans to later expand into neighboring countries.
Kawai Musical Instruments Mfg. announced completion of a new third factory in Karawang Regency, West Java, Indonesia, built by its local subsidiary Kawai Indonesia to produce electronic pianos. The plant, with a total investment of JPY 4 billion, introduces labor-saving and automation equipment to boost production capacity and quality, supporting Kawai's mid-term plan to raise its global electronic piano market share to 24.4% by 2035.
Toyota Motor North America announced construction of a new plant building at its Texas vehicle plant, set to begin operations in 2030. The facility will handle part of the production of the Tacoma pickup truck, currently strong in US demand, shifting output from Mexico. Total investment is $3.6 billion (approx. JPY 580 billion).
Yaskawa Electric's European robotics subsidiary will build a new logistics facility (ERDC) in Kocevje, Slovenia, and relocate/expand its YASKAWA Ristro production and development operations to the same site. The investment aims to strengthen Europe's robotics business by consolidating logistics, reducing delivery lead times and costs, and expanding manipulator production capacity to up to 850 units, while broadening application coverage to construction and agricultural machinery beyond automotive.
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India will invest about ¥25bn (approx. INR 15 billion / Rs 1,500 crore) to add a third production line at its second plant in Tapukara, Alwar district, Rajasthan, on newly acquired adjacent land of about 74,000 sqm. The line will build 125cc and 160cc scooters and light motorcycles with annual capacity of 670,000 units - lifting the plant's total capacity to about 2.01 million units - create roughly 2,000 jobs, and start operation in 2028.
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