Egypt Cady Textiles laid the foundation stone for a $60 million, 145,500-square-meter textile factory in the Sokhna Integrated Industrial Zone, Egypt. The facility will produce 50,000 tons of polyester fabric and 8 million pieces of seamless clothing annually.

GC, Kuraray, and Sumitomo held a foundation stone laying ceremony for two projects in Rayong, Thailand: a thermoplastic elastomer and polyamide plant (KGC) and an isobutylene derivative plant, with combined capacities of 13,000 tons/year PA9T and 16,000 tons/year HSBC.

YKK Corporation announced a new $150 million factory for YKK India Private Limited in Tamil Nadu, India, spanning over 800,000 square feet, to serve domestic and export markets.

American & Efird (A&E), an Elevate Textiles-owned manufacturer, opened its 24th manufacturing operation in Chattogram, Bangladesh. The facility includes advanced production lines for spun and filament thread products, R&D capabilities, and has hired over 350 local workers.

Infinited Fiber Company plans to build a commercial-scale factory at the site of Stora Enso's closed Veitsiluoto paper mill in Kemi, Finland. The investment is estimated at €400 million ($420.73 million), creating 270 jobs, with annual capacity of 30,000 metric tons of Infinna fiber. Full capacity expected by 2025.

Hyosung TNC has started production at its bio-BDO plant in Vietnam, built with an investment of nearly $1 billion. The plant uses sugarcane feedstock and Genomatica's technology to produce bio-BDO, with an initial capacity of 50,000 tons per year, scaling to 200,000 tons.

Invista Nylon Chemicals (China) Co. celebrated the full operation of its Asia Innovation Center (AIC) in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, its first R&D center for nylon 6,6 application development in Asia. Invista invested more than $15 million in the 26,000-square-foot lab.

BASF's Surface Treatment business unit, operating under the Chemetall brand, started construction of a new surface treatment site in the Dushan Port Economic Development Zone of Pinghu, Zhejiang province, China. The site is expected to commence operation in the first quarter of 2021.

Progroup AG plans a new corrugated sheetboard plant in Eisfeld, Thuringia, with investment of about 60 million euros on a roughly 87,000 square metre plot, creating more than 50 jobs. Production is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Delphi Technologies opened a new plant in Blonie, Poland, to produce electronic control units (ECUs) for European automobile manufacturers, catering to growing demand for electrification solutions.

Metalloinvest began construction of a ball rolling facility at Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant (OEMK) in Russia. The mill will produce about 43,000 mt of grinding balls annually, with an investment of RUB 1 billion ($14.98 million) and 85 new jobs.

Total Corbion PLA, a 50/50 joint venture between Total and Corbion, officially inaugurated its 75,000 tons per year PLA bioplastics plant in Rayong, Thailand in September 2019. The plant has been operational since October 2018.

Cree, Inc. announced a public-private partnership with New York State to invest approximately $1 billion over six years to construct and equip a new 200mm silicon carbide wafer fabrication facility at the Marcy Nanocenter on the SUNY Poly campus. The project is expected to create over 600 full-time jobs.

Wonder Cement, part of the RK Group, set up its third cement plant at Nimbahera in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh district, built with an investment of Rs.11 billion, increasing total production capacity to 11 mtpa.

Grundfos opened a water treatment facility at its production site in Indjija, Serbia, that will treat and reuse the plant's wastewater using the company's BioBooster technology.

Fujitsu General (Thailand) will launch a new factory (FACTORY-2) in the same industrial estate as its current factory, starting operation on October 2, 2019. The company plans to invest approx. 8 billion yen by FY2021 to increase total production capacity to 3.4 million units annually by FY2022.

Sahajanand Medical Technologies (SMT) will lay the foundation stone for a stent manufacturing unit at the Medical Devices Park in Sultanpur, Sangareddy District, India. The Rs 250 crore facility will have an annual capacity of over 1.25 million stents and create 2200 direct jobs.

Zoomlion broke ground on the excavator machinery park, the first project of its smart industrial city in Xiangjiang New Area, Hunan, China. The park will produce full-series excavators with an annual capacity of 33,000 units and annual output value of CNY 20 billion, with total investment of CNY 100 billion for the entire smart city.

EUROCEMENT group is constructing a new cement plant at the existing Akhangarantsement site in Uzbekistan, with a capacity of 3 million tonnes per year and an investment of US$160 million. Construction is over 90% complete.

Sinoria FABCOM, a subsidiary of CNBM, announced plans to build a fiber cement board manufacturing factory in Abuja, Nigeria. The first line will have an annual capacity of over five million square meters.

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology started construction of an excavator manufacturing base in Changsha, Hunan Province, covering about 100 hectares. The facility is expected to have an annual production capacity of 33,000 excavators and an output value of 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion).

BLZF held a foundation stone laying ceremony for its 120,000 square meter Ninghe industrial base in Ninghe Industrial Park, Tianjin, for oil equipment and high-level valve manufacturing, with an expected investment of one billion RMB and about 1,000 jobs. The article dates the ceremony to July 12, 2012.

Zibo Qixiang Tengda Chemical decided to build a propylene oxide plant with 300,000 tons annual capacity on its own, after originally planning a joint venture with SKC. The investment is nearly CNY 3.8 billion ($524 million) and construction is expected to take two years.

Fibrotex USA is building a $12 million facility in Stearns, Kentucky, expected to create 350 jobs. The company was awarded a 10-year, $480 million contract to supply Ultra-Lightweight Camouflage Net Systems to the U.S. Army.

Air2O is moving into a new 185,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona, in June 2025 and will be operational in the fall. The facility will produce HVACD equipment for data centers, semiconductor manufacturing, and lithium-ion battery facilities.

Milwaukee Tool will build an $86-million power tool factory in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico, creating 2,600 jobs. Construction starts in September 2019 and operations are expected to begin in April 2020.

Industrial Impro (Impro) began construction of a $120 million complex in Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, for high-precision casting and machining of automotive and aerospace components, expected to create 2,500 jobs over three years.

Doosan Bobcat held a completion ceremony for a new compact construction equipment plant in Chennai, India, on August 28, 2019. The plant has an annual production capacity of 8,000 units and will produce backhoe loaders.

Nippon Paint (through its subsidiary Nippon Investment Co.) signed an agreement to build a new materials production base in Yongxiu County, Jiangxi Province, with a total investment of CNY 2 billion (approx. USD 280 million). The plant will be built in two phases over three years, producing 200,000 tons of imitation stone mortar and 3 million tons of specialty dry powder in Phase I, and additional capacity in Phase II.

Doosan Bobcat India inaugurated its first manufacturing facility at Gummudipoondi near Chennai, India, with an investment of Rs 190 crore over five years. The facility has an annual production capacity of 8,000 units and will initially manufacture Backhoe Loaders.

Tedcom Ingeniería Aeronáutica has invested EUR 3.5 million in a new plant in El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, to produce composite components for the Airbus A320 program. The project created 9 new jobs.

Yunnan Kairuite Engineering Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. has launched a mobile crushing and screening equipment manufacturing project in Qujing, Yunnan. The project covers 240 mu, with total investment of CNY400 million, built in two phases. Phase one (CNY200 million) includes factory buildings, offices and assembly lines.

Construction materials producer Soceram SA is building a new BCA (autoclaved aerated concrete) plant in Cordun, Neamț County, Romania, with an investment of €20 million and a capacity of 300,000 m³/year, expandable to 450,000 m³/year. The plant is 90% complete and expected to start operations in April 2020.

D'Orsogna opened a new $64 million processing and packaging plant at Merrifield Business Park in Mickleham, Victoria, creating over 160 jobs. The opening was reported on August 27, 2019.

Fluence Corporation signed a letter of intent with the Yiyang High-tech Zone to build a membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) assembly plant in Yiyang, Hunan, China. The plant will produce 120 Aspiral L4 units per year, with first shipments expected by end of 2019.

termotek GmbH, a subsidiary of technotrans SE, has opened a new production facility in Baden-Baden, Germany, tripling production capacity. The company invested ten million euros over 14 months in the new site.

Corona inaugurated a new 600-square-meter plant for producing adhesives, mortars and ready-mix compounds, and a 4,000-square-meter distribution center in Barranquilla, Colombia. The facilities will serve the northern region of the country.

Vuteq USA plans to invest over $60 million to open a manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama, to supply interior and exterior plastic-injected parts to the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing plant. The project will create 200 jobs.

GKN Aerospace is inaugurating a new factory in Trollhättan, Sweden, on August 30, 2019, to manufacture nozzles for the Ariane 6 rocket. The investment is over 200 million SEK, and production will begin in 2019.

TBM began construction on August 26, 2019 of its second domestic LIMEX plant in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, with about 25,000 tonnes annual output and operations planned for winter 2020, employing around 60 local workers.

AT Engine, a German-Mexican joint venture, will open a plant in Hermosillo, Sonora, in October 2019 to manufacture turbine components for aircraft and rocket parts for the European Space Agency, with a $250 million investment and 500 new jobs.

Bridgestone opened a new radial tire plant for construction and mining vehicles in Rayong, Thailand, operated by subsidiary Bridgestone Specialty Tire Manufacturing (Thailand). The plant has a production capacity of approximately 35 tons per day and is the first such plant in Asia outside Japan.

AUX held a structure completion ceremony for its smart manufacturing base in Rayong, Thailand, on August 24, 2019. The project totals 1.5 billion yuan and will produce high-end air conditioners for Southeast Asia.

DaikyoNishikawa U.S. (DNUS) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its first North American manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama. The $110 million plant will supply parts to the nearby Mazda-Toyota Manufacturing U.S. plant.

Ice Make Refrigeration has launched a greenfield manufacturing project near Ahmedabad (Bavla-Rajkot Highway) for continuous PUF panels and commercial refrigeration solutions.

Norden Machinery, a global supplier of tube-filling machines, is building a new 20,000-square-meter factory in the Snurrom district of Kalmar, Sweden. The first spade was taken on August 23, 2019, and the facility has expansion potential up to 30,000 square meters.

Shandong Derun New Material Technology Co., Ltd. completed a project for annual production of 30,000 tons of new medical nonwoven materials in Dezhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shandong. The project passed completion inspection on August 23, 2019.

Aegg is preparing to open its first major UK warehouse near Eye, Suffolk later in 2019, with a 60,000 sq ft facility and a planned plastic food packaging plant. GBP 3.1 million is being invested, creating 50 new jobs.

DaikyoNishikawa US (DNUS) held a groundbreaking for its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama, a $110 million facility that will produce plastic automotive parts for the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA assembly plant and employ about 380 people.

Würth Elektronik iBE BG will build a new plant in Belozem, Bulgaria, on 8-10 decares of land, increasing production capacity by about 20%. Construction is expected to start in about a year and finish in 1.5 years.