Standard Profil Group opened a new plant in Jingzhou, China, with a EUR 6 million investment, producing two million sealing profiles per year for automakers. The company plans to hire 300 staff by the end of the year.

Firmenich opened its largest flavor manufacturing plant in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone, Jiangsu, on March 20, 2019. The first phase cost $75 million and has an annual capacity of 12,000 metric tons.

Gerresheimer will manufacture its Duma and Triveni plastic pharmaceutical containers at a new plant in Changzhou, China, with production starting in the second half of 2019.

Yantai Dunhan Bush Compressor Co. has invited tenders for construction of its intelligent compressor factory in Yantai, Shandong, with planned investment of about 100 million yuan and a 14-month schedule.

Zhengmao Valve Co. has completed and commissioned its new 15,000 sq m factory in the Tangtou industrial zone of Oubei town, Wenzhou, a 50 million yuan investment for a special industrial valve production line.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to start a new hydraulic equipment plant, Suzhou No. 4, in China around summer 2020. It will take over production of hydraulic components for China from its Nishi-Kobe mother plant in Japan.

SIG has opened a new Tech Centre close to its packaging plant in Suzhou, China, to help customers develop new product concepts and packaging solutions. The report is dated 7 February 2019.

Avingtrans subsidiary Hayward Tyler formally opened a new 3,250 m2 factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China, to manufacture performance-critical pumps and expand service. The announcement is dated 16 January 2019.

Fluid Control (Suzhou) Co. announced commissioning dates for a new valve accessory production project in Suzhou Industrial Park, with total investment of 103.3 million CNY and annual output of 76,400 sets of valve actuators.

GEA launched a new flow components production facility in Suzhou, China in late 2018, with 12,000 square meters of production space and 1,320 square meters of office space. It moved valve and pump machining and assembly from Shanghai in November 2018.

Hunan Xiaoaisi Fluid Control Equipment broke ground on October 28, 2018 on a 120 million yuan valve production project in Yueyang's Chenglingji new port area, covering 28 mu of land and 20,000 square meters of buildings.

Metso decided to invest about EUR 10 million in a new green-field valve technology center in Jiaxing, China, expected to start operations in spring 2020.

thyssenkrupp commissioned the world's first commercial plant using its PLAneo technology to make polylactide bioplastic in Changchun, China. The plant is operated by Jilin COFCO Biomaterial, a COFCO subsidiary, and started production in October 2018.

ContiTech opened a RMB70 million (about €10 million) plant in Changshu, China, producing 3D blow-moulded thermoplastic elastomer hoses for turbochargers used by automotive OEMs. The plant is Continental's fourth site with this technology and was set to start mass production in Q3 2018.

Master Fluid Solutions announced a new metalworking fluids blending plant in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, China, its largest investment globally, which will double its China capacity and is expected to be fully commissioned by the end of 2020.

Shanggao Valve Group held a groundbreaking ceremony on August 12 for its Haining base, a 12,000-tonne-per-year control valve EPC project in the Shanghai Caohejing development zone, to be built over three years.

Danfoss inaugurated its flagship district heating facility in Anshan, Liaoning Province, China, with an investment of 170 million RMB. The plant produces control valves, stations and heat exchangers and expands the Anshan campus fivefold.

OMRON announced it will build the second factory of OMRON (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai to expand control equipment and industrial robot capacity, doubling its China production capacity by fiscal 2020. Total investment is JPY1.0 billion.

German safety valve maker Leser established a production and sales facility in Tianjin, China, at a cost of €6 million. The investment was made in the year before the article.

Valvoline plans to build its first plant in China, a 80,000-square-meter blending and packaging facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, with about $70 million investment. Production is expected to begin by the end of 2020 with capacity above 30 million gallons of lubricants annually.

Miba plans to build two new plants in China over the next four years, investing EUR 100 million. The company also reported record fiscal 2017-2018 revenue of EUR 888 million and plans for more than 2,000 additional jobs worldwide.

Jebsen-TCG Automotive Systems (Dalian) opened a 5,000 square metre plant in Dalian with an investment of RMB 30 million, raising oil and water pump capacity to 4 million units a year and adding electric water pumps.

Zhejiang Huizheng Automatic Control Valve signed a project with a total investment of 120 million yuan to build an automatic control valve production line in the Chengxi port area of the development zone, targeting 50,000 sets a year. The signing took place on 13 April 2018.

Suzhou Neway Valve Co. started a forging project with a total investment of 1 billion yuan in the Green Casting Technology Industrial Park in Zhuchi Town, Liyang. The first phase targets an annual capacity of 50,000 tons.

Miba Power Electronics Group will invest around EUR 10 million in a new high-power resistor production plant in Qingxi near Shenzhen, China. The plant is to employ about 300 people and begin operations in mid-2019.

Jiaxing Fengwo Turbo Technology began construction on a turbocharger plant in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, with a total investment of about 1.05 billion yuan. The plant will make 1.5 million gasoline engine turbochargers per year and is scheduled for a 10-month build.

BorgWarner Emissions Systems (Ningbo) opened a new 50,000 square meter design and manufacturing facility in Jiangshan, Yinzhou District, Ningbo, to make EGR systems, ignition coils and thermal heaters for automotive customers in China. The plant replaces the older Ningbo emissions facility.

Punch Powertrain inaugurated a 100,000 m² factory in Ningbo, China, completed in January 2018 after eight months of construction, to produce its VT3 CVT. It is the company's second plant in China.

Endress+Hauser has opened a 16,500-square-meter third plant in Suzhou Industrial Park, west of Shanghai, for about EUR 44 million. The facility adds capacity for flow measurement, liquid analysis and temperature measurement, and includes a large calibration facility.

Korean automotive supplier Hanon plans to build its third compressor plant in Dalian, China. The article text provided gives no investment, capacity or job figures.

Sichuan Feiqiu Group signed an investment agreement with the Zigong High-tech Zone Management Committee to build a valve R&D, manufacturing, testing and sales base in the Banchang industrial park. The total planned investment is 320 million yuan, with the first phase at about 240 million yuan and a one-year construction period.

Sichuan Juyi Heavy Industry, a unit of Dalian Qianyi Group, broke ground in Deyang on December 11, 2017 on phase one of a turbo compressor production line invested at 580 million yuan, due to start production by June 30, 2019.

Shanxi Huaxiang Group and US-based JDH jointly invested 400 million yuan in a Sino-American JV project in two phases, capable of producing 20,000 tonnes a year of high-end pump, valve and pipe fittings with 160 million yuan in sales and 800 new jobs.

Nittan Valve is establishing a local subsidiary, Rizhao Nittan Valve, in Rizhao City, Shandong Province, to produce small engine valves, with planned capital of about 8 billion yen.

Italian listed company IPH Group began trial production at its new Shiqi, Dongguan plant after relocating its Guangzhou hydraulic valve operations, with a total project investment above 100 million yuan and expected annual output value of 170 million yuan within five years.

Del Shares (Delar) plans a project in Fuxin, Liaoning to add 1 million automatic transmission oil pumps a year, with a total investment of about CNY 337.9 million.

Shijiazhuang Kangpusi Compressor Co. held a groundbreaking on 23 May 2017 for a new 120 million yuan plant in Luancheng, Shijiazhuang, Hebei. The 18-month project will make permanent magnet variable-frequency and mobile air compressors, with annual output of over 7,000 units.

The Continental-HASCO joint venture Continental Huayu Brake Systems (Chongqing) started operation at a new 80,000 square meter plant in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, with over CNY 600 million invested, to make brake calipers, vacuum boosters and electric parking brakes.

MAHLE opened its new air conditioning compressor plant in Changshu, Jiangsu, relocated from Suzhou with doubled capacity. Equipment investment has reached RMB 180 million, with further investment planned.

Wenzhou Dingxin Valve Co. plans to produce 500 tonnes of check valves a year at a leased 1,800 m² workshop in Longwan District, Wenzhou, with a total investment of 1 million yuan.

Su Salt Group's high-parameter long-distance pipeline valve project in the county industrial park, with total investment of 500 million yuan on 190 mu of land, is due to start first-phase production in April 2017. Output will supply PetroChina and Sinopec.

hGears signed a lease for a new 17,000 sqm miniGears Suzhou plant at 9 Yangpu Road in Suzhou, China, to support e-mobility growth. The site's inauguration is planned for October 2017 and hGears plans investments of more than EUR 3 million.

Thyssenkrupp plans to produce springs and stabilizers at a new plant in Pinghu, China, according to an Automotive News report dated 2017-01-26.

The CSSC Wärtsilä Engine joint venture formally opened a 20,000 m2 production plant in Lingang, Shanghai, producing large-bore and medium-bore marine diesel and dual-fuel engines with planned capacity of 180 engines per year.

Yangquan Pump & Valve Group broke ground on its relocation project in the Zhangzhuang new industrial park of Pingding County, Shanxi, on December 14, 2016, with a first-phase investment of 445 million yuan.

Inteva Products has opened a new manufacturing facility in Zhenjiang, China, making closure systems and motors and electronics for customers. The plant already employs more than 600 people.