Airbus Helicopters' Qingdao facility, which broke ground in May 2017, is the first H135 final assembly line outside Europe. The total investment is EUR 100 million, and it will deliver 100 H135 helicopters to China under a framework agreement signed in June 2016, with a total value of about EUR 600 million.

Ball Corporation will build a new aluminum cups manufacturing plant in Rome, Georgia, investing more than $200 million and creating more than 180 jobs, with completion expected in Q4 2020.

Novo Nordisk completed and donated a $40 million regional industrial wastewater pretreatment facility to the Town of Clayton, North Carolina. The facility will serve Novo Nordisk's API manufacturing plant and can be expanded to treat 450,000 gallons per day for other biopharma companies.

PT Twink Indonesia High Voltage has inaugurated a new plant in Bogor, Indonesia, to produce vacuum circuit breakers and gas insulated switchgear. The investment is IDR 500 billion, targeting sales of IDR 500-600 billion and creating 100 jobs.

Braskem is nearing completion of its Delta polypropylene production line in La Porte, Texas, with 75% of mechanical construction finished. The facility will have a capacity of over 450 kilotons annually and is expected to begin production in the first half of 2020.

LANXESS officially inaugurated a new compounding plant in Changzhou, China, producing Durethan and Pocan high-tech plastics for automotive and electrical/electronics industries.

Vinalopó Aluminio Color (Vialco) started production at a new aluminum coil factory in Villena, Spain, with 20,600 square meters of built space. The €27 million investment was made by shutter manufacturers Giménez Ganga and La Viuda, with a capacity of 20,000 tons per year.

Europal, a Belgian corrugated cardboard packaging supplier, will invest several million euros in a new greenfield plant in Tournai, to be fully operational by summer 2020. The plant is expected to create about 40 high-tech jobs.

Stik-Pak Solutions, a subsidiary of M&H Holdings, has broken ground on a $14.3 million facility at Summit View Business Park in Rocky Mount, Franklin County. The first 50,000 sq ft phase is due by mid-2020, with 50 to 60 more employees planned.

Agromat, with an American technical partner, will build a float glass factory in Borodyanka, Kiev region, with a €300 million investment. The plant will have a capacity of 600 tonnes per day and create 300 jobs.

Al Tasnim Cement Products Division has launched a new ready-mix concrete plant in Duqm, Al-Wusta, Oman, with an installed capacity of 425 m³/h. The plant is located in the Special Economic Zone and will serve major infrastructure projects.

A resident of the Technopolis Moscow SEZ will build a plant in Alabushevo to produce consumables for ventilators, blood transfusion systems, and blood collection containers. Investment is RUB 1.69 billion, with production start in 2023 and over 270 jobs created.

OSO Polymers agreed a 10-year lease on an 87,000 sq ft property in Leeds for a plastics recycling plant that will also serve as its new headquarters. Work is underway.

McLaren Packaging and Swanline Group's joint venture CorrBoard Bioenergy has invested GBP 5.5 million in a renewable energy plant fuelled by organic waste. It will supply heat and power to CorrBoard UK's corrugated board production in Scunthorpe.

Scm Frigo, a subsidiary of Beijer Ref, will build a new 13,000-square-meter production plant in Sant'Angelo di Piove di Sacco, Italy, with an investment of 12 million euros. The plant is expected to be ready by March 2021.

Mitsubishi Electric will start construction of a new plant on the premises of its subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Automotive India in Gujarat, India, to produce motor-control units, exhaust gas recirculation valves and giant magnet-resistance sensors.

Pratt Industries announced in 2017 a new containerboard mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio, which is slated to open in October 2019. The mill is expected to consume about 400,000 tons of recovered fiber annually once fully operational.

Bibica Corporation opened its fourth factory in Long An province, Vietnam, featuring a state-of-the-art processing line supplied by Rieckermann and Reading Bakery Systems. The line can produce 1,000 kg per hour (220,000 crackers per hour).

Continental started production at its new automotive electronics components plant in Kaunas, Lithuania, with initial investment of €95 million and plans to reach 1,000 employees by 2021.

LUMEL SA has started construction of a new industrial automation plant in Zielona Góra, Poland, costing PLN 30 million, with commissioning planned for June 2020.

Romanian poultry business Morandi is building a new processing plant with a capacity of 4,000 broilers per hour, supplied by Marel Poultry. The plant will handle plucking, evisceration, chilling, cut-up and deboning.

Wacker Group officially brought a plant for manufacturing pyrogenic silica on stream at its Charleston, Tennessee site. The facility has an annual production capacity of 13,000 metric tons, with investments totaling around $150 million and creating 50 new jobs.

Panasonic Life Solutions India plans to invest Rs 600 crore over the next few years to set up its eighth manufacturing facility in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, to produce indoor air quality, wiring device and home automation solutions. The plant is expected to go on-stream in two years.

Dalian YiSheng Investment Co is planning to start up its new PET bottle plant in Dalian, China on 18 October 2019. The plant has a production capacity of 300,000 tons/year.

Panasonic Life Solutions Vietnam began construction of its second factory in Binh Duong, Vietnam, with over $45 million investment, to make ceiling and ventilation fans and start operations in January 2021.

VijaiElectricals Algérie has selected Batimetal Engineering & Construction to build its first factory for manufacturing large power transformers (40 MVA, 400 kV) at the Electro-Industries site in Azazga, Algeria. The contract is valued at 1,660,855,133 DZD (approx. USD 12.4 million) with a 16-month construction period.

JTEKT Corporation opened a new plant in Tangier Automotive City, Morocco, for steering systems. The investment was MAD 220 million (approx. €20 million), covering 11,300 square meters, creating 90 jobs, with production expected to start in 2020 aiming for 300,000 units in the first year.

TW Metals, a subsidiary of O'Neal Industries, opened a new metal distribution and processing facility in the Rzeszów-Dworzysko Technology Park, Poland, with an investment of 22 million zł (approx. $5.8 million). The plant will create 60 jobs.

Japanese refrigeration company Mayekawa has officially opened a new 5,000 m² production plant in Smederevo, Serbia, its second factory in Europe. The plant commenced production earlier in 2019 and focuses on compressor packages for industrial refrigeration.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems has signed an agreement to establish a new automotive air-conditioning manufacturing facility in Changshu, China. The factory, to be a wholly-owned subsidiary, will have an annual capacity of 500,000 units and is scheduled to begin operations in 2022.

Muehlbauer Automation will receive €3 million in state investment aid to build a new technology base for engineering services and R&D, including testing of 3D printing technology. Total investment planned by 2021.

Porsche Werkzeugbau will receive €2 million in state investment aid to build a new automation and robotics center near Horná Streda, Slovakia. The company plans to invest nearly €14 million by end of 2020 and create 34 new jobs by 2023.

Sika started operations of a new mortar plant at its existing site in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, expanding its portfolio of locally manufactured products.

Brenntag North America announced the grand opening of its new Coatings & Construction Technology & Innovation Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Yushin Chemical (Osaka) will build a new factory in the Cosmo Park Kada industrial park in Wakayama City, Japan, to expand production capacity for functional coatings. The investment is expected to be 934 million yen for buildings and equipment.

Fenner Dunlop has opened a new idler manufacturing plant alongside its existing operations in Brisbane, Australia. The facility is robotically automated and will produce steel rollers for conveyor systems, reducing lead times from overseas supply.

President Julius Maada Bio laid the foundation stone for the SONOCO Plant for manufacturing baking equipment in Wellington, east of Freetown, Sierra Leone. The complex will also include a flour production facility with a capacity of 2,500 metric tonnes per day and a skills training centre.

Handtmann Light Metal Casting is building a new aluminium high-pressure die-casting plant in Kechnec, Slovakia, with an investment of €90 million. The plant will produce up to 800,000 clutch housings annually and start production in 2021.

Bosch is constructing a new 300-mm semiconductor fab in Dresden, Germany, with an investment of around €1 billion. The plant is expected to start pilot production by end of 2021 and will employ up to 700 people.

WestMedGroup plans to build a plant in the Dubna SEZ, Russia, to produce innovative medical equipment. The project involves an investment of over 103.5 million rubles and will create over 100 jobs. Construction is expected to start in spring 2020.

Raysut Cement (Pioneer Cement) will build a 1.2Mta greenfield cement plant near Tbilisi, Georgia, with an investment of US$200 million. Construction is scheduled to begin on 15 November 2019.

StrongPack Ltd set up a greenfield non-alcoholic contract packaging operation in Nigeria, installing four Sidel lines over two years, including a can line, two PET lines and one PET line with Sidel's Actis coating system. The announcement was made on 8 October 2019.

Elevate Textiles and its brand American & Efird celebrated the grand opening of a new thread manufacturing facility in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam. The plant added over 150 jobs and began operations on June 1, 2019.

PT Oneject Indonesia began construction of its second plant in Cikarang, Bekasi, with a total investment of Rp350 billion. The plant will produce 900 million auto-disable syringes and 1.2 billion safety needles per year.

Standard Ready Mix, a subsidiary of Lyman-Richey Corporation, opened a new ready-mix concrete plant in Sioux City, Iowa, replacing an old plant.

Enviva expects to invest approximately $175 million to construct a wood pellet production plant at the Port of Epes Industrial Park in Sumter County, Alabama, creating at least 85 full-time jobs. Construction is expected to begin in early 2020 and take 15-18 months.

Maple Leaf Foods will open a $660-million chicken processing plant in London, Ontario, employing 1,450 people, with operations expected to start in 2021.

Zoomlion has established a new mobile crane production line in Italy, entirely designed and built locally, marking a return of Italian manufacturing in the sector. The line is part of three production lines (forklifts, tower cranes, mobile cranes) dedicated to the European market.

Arglass Yamamura officially broke ground on a new container glassmaking plant in Valdosta-Lowndes County, Georgia, USA. The facility will create 150 jobs, have a production capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year, and is expected to start furnace operations in Q4 2020 and be fully operational in Q1 2021.

Prayosha Uganda Limited launched a multi-million shillings toughened glass plant at Nalukolongo in Kampala, Uganda, the only such plant in the East African market.