EUROPE | MARKET INSIGHT
(CSO) Ireland, the total number of planning permissions granted for industry and manufacturing handicraft projects grew by 7.2% YoY in the first nine months of 2025. Among the other investments in the
region, in November 2025, Volvo Construction Equipment, a Swedish construction machinery manufacturing company announced a plan to commence the construction of a new crawler excavator assembly factory in the first half of 2026 on an area of 30,000m2 Sweden worth SEK700m ($66.3m).
in Eskilstuna,
Furthermore, despite setbacks in 2025
due to high energy costs and the cessation of construction projects, Germany is expected to benefit from the development of lithium extraction plants. In December 2025, Vulcan Energy, an Australian lithium and renewable energy producer, received full funding to build its lithium extraction plant in Landau, Germany. The new plant, funded at €2.2bn ($2.4bn), will extract lithium from geothermal brine, with the first phase aiming to produce 24,000t of LHM per year.
GlobalData is currently tracking industrial construction projects in Western Europe with a total value of $474.9bn, which includes projects from announcement to execution stages. The overall pipeline in Western Europe is skewed towards projects in the earlier stages, with those in the pre- planning and planning stage accounting for 53.2% of projects, totalling $252.7bn in value. In Western Europe, the majority (88.3%) of projects by value are funded by the private sector, followed by a mix of public-private
Western Europe – Industrial construction project pipeline Value by stage ($M)
0
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000 Pre-planning Planning Pre-execution Execution Western Europe – Industrial construction project pipeline Value by stage and country ($M) UK Spain
Finland Sweden Norway Ireland Belgium
0 20,000 40,000 60,000 Pre-planning Planning Pre-execution Execution
Western Europe – Industrial construction project pipeline By country and stage ($M) Country
UK
France Spain
Germany Finland
Netherlands Sweden Denmark Norway Italy
Grand total
Pre-planning 4,031
13,897 -
3,569 3,756 9,130 75 -
735 860
45,503
Planning 40,007 23,982 23,488 14,561 27,084 18,922 9,172 8,067
13,747 11,988
207,196
Pre-execution 23,998 6,633
19,460 8,186 1,893 2,307 6,541 1,543 1,554 1,269
78,593
Execution 31,929 22,666 11,038 27,200 4,262 1,188
11,926 11,633 4,486 1,788
143,561 Total
99,965 67,178 53,986 53,516 36,995 31,547 27,714 21,243 20,522 15,905
474,853
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