LM Wind Power is constructing a factory in Cherbourg, France, to manufacture offshore wind turbine blades up to 107 meters. The facility covers 30,000 m² on an 11-hectare site, with a budget of €53 million, and is expected to create about 550 jobs. Delivery is scheduled for autumn 2019.

YKK Corporation started operation of its second plant in Ha Nam province, Vietnam, on 1 October 2019. The $60 million plant produces zippers and raw materials for the garment sector with an annual capacity of 420 million products.

Smiley Monroe announced a $2 million investment to open a manufacturing facility in Franklin, Kentucky, creating 30 new jobs. The plant will produce endless conveyor belts and Zip Clip products, with production expected to start by January 2020.

WestRock officially opened its corrugated packaging plant in Porto Feliz, São Paulo state, on 3 October 2019, with annual capacity of 400 million square metres and an investment of US$125 million. The output of the Valinhos plant was moved to the new site.

BillerudKorsnäs inaugurated its KM7 board machine at the Gruvön mill in Sweden on 3 October 2019, its biggest investment to date. The machine has a capacity of 550,000 tonnes per year.

Hollister Incorporated announced the grand opening of its new manufacturing facility in Kaunas, Lithuania. Construction began in 2017, and production of ostomy products started in June 2019. The plant will employ 350 or more by end of 2020 and over 500 by 2022.

Ekran-Opticheskie Sistemy (EOS) launched Russia's first production line for gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafers in Novosibirsk, with an investment of 350 million rubles ($5.4 million). The facility has a capacity of 10,000 GaAs wafers per year.

Sunstar Engineering opened a new factory and R&D centre in Rain am Lech, Germany, with a €20 million investment. The facility will focus on adhesives and sealants for the European automotive industry and is expected to employ over 50 people.

Continental Automotive Lithuania opened a new electronics components factory for the automotive industry in Kaunas Free Economic Zone, with planned initial investment of EUR 95 million and expected to employ 1,000 people by 2021.

Apex Core completed work on a new 40,000 sqft production facility in Durham, UK, in October 2019, dedicated to manufacturing prefabricated utility cupboards. Manufacturing started in November 2019.

Fresenius Medical Care's Russian subsidiary FreRus received a construction permit for a $28 million (2 billion ruble) medical device plant in Dubna, Russia. The plant will produce capillary filters and hemodialysis equipment, creating 248 jobs.

Haughton Environmental celebrated the grand opening of its new $4.5 million water treatment and transportation services center in Haughton, Louisiana, creating 15 new jobs.

LignaTerra Global LLC is planning to invest $31 million to build a new mass timber plant in Lincoln, Maine, which will employ approximately 100 people.

Shinhwa Group, a South Korean automotive parts manufacturer, will invest $42 million to establish its first U.S. manufacturing operation in Auburn, Alabama, creating 95 jobs. The plant will initially produce drive shafts for Hyundai and Kia.

Bilsing Automation Ibérica SL announced its move to a new 700 m² facility in Sabadell, Spain, housing 16 employees and serving as its technical and manufacturing center for Spain.

Arctic, part of Turkish group Arcelik, opened a new washing machine factory in Ulmi, Romania, built with an investment of EUR 150 million. The plant can produce 2.2 million washing machines per year and created over 1,400 jobs.

Termelés-Logistic-Centrum (TLC), a subsidiary of German Sennebogen, laid the cornerstone of a 10 billion forint (EUR 30 million) plant in Litér, Hungary, creating 80 jobs. Production is expected to start at the end of 2020.

Chinese company Oral Ceramics has begun construction on a ceramics factory on 37 acres in Bhalwal Industrial Estate near Sargodha, Pakistan, with an investment of $70 million. The unit is expected to begin operations by March 2020.

CANPACK opened a can factory in Colombia in the fourth quarter of 2019 with annual capacity above 1.3 billion cans, making it the first Colombian producer able to supply specialty can formats.

Tetra Pak and Saudi paper maker Al Obeikan Paper Industries announced a joint venture to build a beverage carton recycling plant in Riyadh, with capacity of 8,000 tonnes per year. Tetra Pak is investing 1 million USD, and the plant is expected to run at 50% utilisation by the end of 2020. The announcement was made the week before 8 October 2019.

Infineon Technologies laid the cornerstone for a new semiconductor facility in Cegled, Hungary. The HUF 32 billion investment will create 275 jobs and production is expected to start at the end of 2021.

Lontra opened the first purpose-built advanced manufacturing centre in Napton, Warwickshire, in partnership with Shield Group Engineering, as the first phase of a planned expansion of compressor manufacturing.

Rönesans Holding, Sonatrach and GS E&C signed partnership and license agreements for the Ceyhan Polypropylene Production Plant in Turkey. The $1.4 billion project will start construction next year and create 600 jobs.

A Swedish automotive supplier has cut the ribbon on a new plant in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

IMPRO Americas broke ground on a new manufacturing complex in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with a $120 million investment. The facility will produce high-precision cast and machined components for automotive, aerospace, medical and construction equipment, creating 2,500 jobs over three years.

Nigerian firm PE Energy broke ground on a $30 million plant in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for domesticated valve assembly and metering integration, expected to be completed within months.

Komatsu Mining announced plans to construct a $40 million, 85,000-square-foot sales and service facility in Sparwood, British Columbia. Groundbreaking is planned for early August 2019, with construction concluding by end of 2020.

Terex Corporation opened a new factory in Campsie, near Londonderry, as part of a £12 million investment. The facility will manufacture waste management, mobile conveying, and recycling equipment, creating 100 jobs over four years.

Thinking Robot Studios, a Canadian medical products maker, plans to open an $84 million plant in Buffalo, New York, creating over 88 jobs. The facility will use industrial 3D printing to produce orthopedic implants and bone/joint reconstruction systems, with construction starting in October 2019 and opening expected in fall 2020.

Continental Structural Plastics, a Teijin Group company, announced a new composites manufacturing facility in Seguin, Texas. The project will create 200 jobs and involve over $65 million in capital investment.

MOL Group and thyssenkrupp laid the foundation stone for a new polyol production complex in Tiszaújváros, Hungary. The €1.2 billion plant is expected to start operations in 2021 and produce 200,000 tons of polyols per year.

Emsur, the flexible packaging division of GrupoLantero, inaugurated a new packaging facility in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, in September 2019. The 5,000 m² plant focuses on printing and laminating flexible packaging for dairy and food markets.

STI (Sungdo Engineering & Construction) is nearing completion of a new plant in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, with a 32.5 billion won investment. The plant is expected to start operations in December 2019.

Siemens and Norwegian distribution system operator Glitre Energi Nett will build a digital substation to pilot grid IoT applications.

Jaina Group will invest Rs 1,000 crore over three years to bring back the Sansui brand to India, including Rs 500 crore for a manufacturing plant in Gurgaon, Haryana. Production is expected to start in June 2020 with LED panels.

The Vostokkhimvolokno group of companies opened the Voskresensk-Khimvolokno plant near Ratmirovo village in Voskresensk, Moscow region. The project, started in 2016, involved reconstruction of old and construction of new production facilities on 3.5 hectares, with investments of RUB 1.2 billion. The plant has an annual capacity of 24,000 tonnes of polyester fibre from recycled polymers and will create 130 jobs, expanding to 180.

Agrisolutions held a ribbon-cutting to unveil its new 103,000 sq ft facility in Rock Island on 26 September 2019, with local economic development officials and company executives attending.

Torishima Service Solutions Europe (TSSE), the European arm of Torishima Pump Manufacturing, has leased a 2,550 sq m unit at Clyde Gateway East Business Park in Glasgow as its new European headquarters, bringing 50 engineering jobs. The move was announced on 26 September 2019 on a 15-year lease.

Tribo Hartstoff GmbH is building a production hall in the Immelborn industrial area. The official groundbreaking ceremony has taken place, and the new facility is expected to be completed by the end of 2020.

Gebhardt Intralogistics Group held a groundbreaking ceremony on September 25, 2019 for a new factory building in an industrial park near its main plant in Düren. The 4,000 square meter facility, scheduled for completion in September 2020, will produce storage and retrieval machines, warehouse shuttles, mobile robots, and conveyors.

Yanmar announced the establishment of Yanmar Energy System Europe GmbH (YESE), a full-service energy company headquartered in Marl, Germany, to provide gas-powered generation and HVAC solutions in Europe. The company follows the acquisition of the Eschenfelder KKU Group in April 2019.

Work on MIDHANI's new ₹4,000 crore plant to make high-end aluminium alloy in a joint venture with NALCO at Nellore has begun and would take up to five years.

J.G. Petrucci announced steel topping out at a new 57,000 sq ft warehouse for Permadur Industries dba SISSCO Material Handling in Hillsborough, New Jersey. The facility will streamline operations and increase manufacturing of overhead crane and lift equipment, with completion slated for year-end 2019.

Saclà launched its new industrial settlement in Castello D'Annone, Italy, redeveloping a former abandoned area. The plant, covering 182,000 sqm overall with 23,500 sqm already used, features solar panels and aims for low environmental impact.

MODIG Machine Tool Sweden opened a new facility in Kalmar, Sweden, to cope with increased demand for its RigiMill and HHV machines for aluminum stringers.

Progroup AG announced a new, larger corrugated sheetboard plant in Stryków, Poland, with an investment of about EUR 75 million and more than 50 new jobs, raising total Polish capacity to 520,000 tonnes per year.

De Nora Water Technologies inaugurated a $29 million greenfield electrode manufacturing facility in Mentor, Ohio, USA. The 110,000 sq ft plant will reduce lead time and optimize capacity, with an additional process line planned for implementation in the next two years.

Şenpiliç, Turkey's largest chicken producer, is building a new greenfield processing plant in Kadirli, Osmaniye, with an investment of 400 million Turkish lira ($75 million USD). The plant features a 15,000 bph processing line and includes a feed mill and slaughterhouse.

Ametra Group and Nucon Aerospace established a joint venture production facility in Hyderabad, India, called Nucon Ametra Electronics Systems Ltd. The joint venture involves a €1 million investment and currently employs 20 people, dedicated to mass production of critical components and systems for aerospace and defence.

H&T Presspart inaugurated a new highly automated plant in L'Arboç, Tarragona, producing drug delivery systems and pharmaceutical components such as metered-dose inhaler parts. The plant can produce more than 300 million units a year.