Japanese automotive supplier Vuteq plans to invest over $60 million to open a manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama, serving the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA assembly plant. The plant will produce interior and exterior plastic-injected parts and sub-assemblies, creating about 200 jobs.

ArcelorMittal Gonvarri SSC will complete a €27M investment in a new plant in Nitra called Gonvauto, supplying aluminum components for the Jaguar Land Rover car plant.

Vietnamese conglomerate Geleximco is advancing plans for a semiconductor chip plant in Hung Yen province, with construction expected to begin in November 2026 and commercial products targeted for early 2028.

Taihan Cable Vina, a subsidiary of Taihan, started construction on a new 400kV-class extra-high voltage cable plant in Long Thanh Industrial Zone, Dong Nai province, Vietnam. Operations are scheduled to commence in 2027.

Amata City Long Thanh JSC and ITS Investment Co., Ltd. signed a land use right sublease agreement for a new manufacturing facility on approximately one hectare in Dong Nai, Vietnam, with an investment of $10 million. The facility will manufacture advanced electrical and industrial equipment including PLC/SCADA systems, waste heat recovery systems, and flue gas treatment systems.

U.S. energy group GE Vernova plans to invest about $200 million in a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) equipment manufacturing plant in Hai Phong, Vietnam. The plant will manufacture large power transformers for HVDC projects.

Belgium's ASCO Industries plans to invest an initial $20 million in a 6,000-square-meter aircraft components factory in Danang, Vietnam, with potential expansion to $100 million. The facility is expected to begin operations in 2027.

Raytheon announced it will build a 200,000-square-foot facility at its Space and Airborne Systems headquarters in McKinney, Texas, supporting 500 new high-tech jobs. Construction will be completed in late 2020.

Ypsomed AG has started production at its newly built plant in Schwerin, Germany, with an investment of about €81 million. The facility will produce insulin syringes and pump systems, and is expected to create 150 jobs.

Progroup AG held a topping out ceremony for its new paper factory in Sandersdorf-Brehna, Saxony-Anhalt, with €465 million of investment and an annual capacity of 750,000 tons. About 150 direct and up to 350 indirect jobs are being created.

Pidilite Speciality Chemicals Bangladesh, a subsidiary of Pidilite Industries, commissioned a new manufacturing plant at Bhaluka in Mymensingh, Bangladesh on 21 August 2019. The investment is over BDT 550 million.

A Japanese company announced plans to open a $60 million plant in Huntsville, Alabama.

Titanium Industry Co., Ltd. will construct the 'Ube Development Center ST-6 Plant' in Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, to produce ultrafine titanium dioxide particles for cosmetics. The investment is 35 billion yen, with construction starting in July 2020 and completion in September 2020.

Panattoni Europe will develop a BTS forklift factory in Kołbaskowo near Szczecin for Linde, part of the KION Group. The total capital expenditure is over EUR 60 million, and the 44,000 sqm facility will manufacture forklift trucks. First production is expected in 2021, with full capacity by 2023, employing around 150 people.

Press Metal Aluminium Holdings began construction of its third aluminum smelter plant in Samalaju, Malaysia, with an annual capacity of 320,000 tons, expected to be completed within one year.

Panattoni Europe will deliver a BTS facility for Linde, part of KION Group, in Kołbaskowo near Szczecin, Poland. The 44,000 sqm production and warehouse hall will be used to make forklifts, with total capital expenditure over €60 million. Production is expected to launch at the beginning of 2021, creating over 150 jobs by 2023.

Iris Products announced it will construct a new multi-factory complex in the reconstruction industrial park of Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture, with a total investment of 5 billion yen. The factory will create jobs for more than 50 people and manufacture artificial turf, oxygen absorbers, and other products.

Aegg is opening a new warehouse and manufacturing plant at Eye in north Suffolk, with total investment of £6.1 million and 50 jobs created. Phase 2 will add a facility for rigid recyclable plastic food packaging.

Webasto opened a new plant in Irapuato, Mexico to manufacture sunroofs and panoramic roofs, with an investment of USD 28 million.

Alpine Aviation Group, an aerospace-focused advanced manufacturing company, is expanding into Missouri with a new facility in Ozark to assemble wiring harnesses for aircraft, creating 39 new jobs.

Eurolife Healthcare is investing €50 million to build one of the largest intravenous infusion plants in India, as stated by CEO Sandeep Toshniwal.

Swedish refrigeration company Dometic opened a plant in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico, to produce air conditioners for recreational vehicles, creating about 300 direct jobs.

Okura Transport Machinery has begun operations at its Miki No. 2 plant in Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The plant, with a total investment of approximately 12 billion yen, will produce conveyors for logistics lines and initially employ 100 workers.

Wenzhou Xifa Industrial is building a new factory in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, with a construction area of about 40,000 square meters and new high-speed weaving, printing and packaging machines. Completion of the building phase is expected in early November 2019.

Uchiyama Manufacturing Corporation (UMC) will invest $65 million to build a plant in Yucatan, Mexico, to manufacture plastic parts for Mazda and Toyota in the United States. The plant will generate 200 direct jobs and up to 1,000 over five years.

Mintal Group, a Chinese chrome alloy producer, plans to build a $2 billion plant in Nghi Son Economic Zone, Thanh Hoa, Vietnam. The 300-hectare facility will initially produce 1.5 million tons of carbon ferrochrome annually, later adding stainless steel and non-ferrous metals production.

Kion Group AG is building a new production facility for Linde-brand counterbalance forklifts in Kołbaskowo, Poland, with an investment of over €60 million. Construction starts in 2019, operations begin in early 2021, and over 150 jobs will be created by 2023.

Wuxi Enjie New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. is building a new R&D and production base on 402 mu of land in Wuxi, China. The first phase includes 12 imported film production lines, 24 coating lines, and 5 aluminum-plastic film lines, with total investment of 5 billion yuan.

HIROTEC Group announced plans to build a new exhaust production and stamping facility in Fayetteville, Tennessee, with $48 million capital investment and over 100 new jobs.

Panasonic Life Solutions India decided to construct a new factory in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, to manufacture wiring devices, electric wires, and circuit breakers. The investment is 2.946 billion rupees (about 46 billion yen), with operations planned for fall 2021.

Kingdom (Ethiopia) Linen Plc, a Chinese company, is building a $70 million integrated linen yarn plant in Adama, Ethiopia. The first phase will produce 5,000 tons of linen yarn annually, with trial production expected in two months.

Tanyun received approval to build a 2,000-ton-per-year polyvinyl butyral plant in Hubei, China. The project involves an investment of 85 million yuan and three fully automated production lines, with trial production planned for May 2020.

Waldaschaff Automotive Global, a member of China's Lingyun Industrial Company, inaugurated a new plant in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. The facility will manufacture crash management systems for BMW vehicles, with an investment of $20 million and 70 direct jobs.

German investor Niedax plans to build a cable tray production plant in the Fedorovskoye industrial park in Tosnensky District, Leningrad Oblast, with investments of about 600 million rubles. The plant is expected to create about 40 jobs and start production by the end of 2020.

Enovation Controls opened a new integration and light manufacturing facility in Pune, India, to serve local customers with inventory, order fulfillment, and eventually manufacturing of control panels by mid-2020.

The Yinuo Environmental Protection Water Treatment Equipment Industrial Park, with a total investment of 1 billion yuan, has started trial production in Beipiao Economic Development Zone, Liaoning. The park produces water treatment equipment and has signed sales agreements worth 350 million yuan.

Jamestrong Packaging opened a new $15 million metal can manufacturing facility in Wiri, Auckland, serving the infant formula market.

Shanxi Huading Xinquan Medical Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to relocate its entire production base for hemodialysis devices to Wuzhou High-tech Zone in Guangxi, China. The project is expected to be formally signed during the 2019 ASEAN Expo.

Rain Carbon Inc. initiated the phased start-up of its hydrogenated hydrocarbon resins production facility in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany. The €60 million plant has a permitted capacity of up to 50,000 tons per year and is expected to be operational in Q4 2019.

São José Industrial invested more than 50 million R$ (about 10 million GBP) in a newly built production plant in São José do Inhacorá, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, tripling production capacity. The plant covers 16,900 m² of production space and 5,000 m² of administration.

Packaging Corporation of America is constructing a $26 million cardboard box manufacturing plant in the Horn Rapids Industrial Park in Richland, expected to open in mid-November 2019 with 100 jobs.

Magna has opened a $50 million factory in Michigan geared toward cameras.

Meritor announced the opening of a new $36.5 million axle assembly facility at its joint venture Automotive Axles with Kalyani Group, along with a research and development center in Mysore, India. The assembly facility expands production capacity by 25%.

Ineos Styrolution has broken ground on a new acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA) plant in Bayport, Texas, with a production capacity of 100,000 tons per annum. The plant is expected to come on stream by 2021.

ABB opened a new plant in Petrich, Bulgaria, its second investment in the city and fifth manufacturing facility in the country. The 7,400 sq.m. facility will produce low-voltage products and employ 420 people. Investment is about BGN 7 million.

Edwards Vacuum completed construction of a new 75,000-square-foot factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, consolidating its operations and expanding its local workforce by 100 employees to 250.

Shell's Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex in Monaca, Pennsylvania, which will convert natural gas into plastics, is nearing completion. The facility was announced in 2012 and is being built in Beaver County.

AW Texas, a division of Aisin AW Co. Ltd., will invest $400 million to build a new assembly plant in Cibolo, Texas, creating 900 full-time jobs. The plant will supply transmissions to Toyota and other automakers.

OOO Russian Gas Turbines, a joint venture of General Electric, Inter RAO and United Engine Corporation, opened a gas turbine assembly plant in Rybinsk, Russia. Investment in the project is 5 billion rubles.

Eat & Co. completed and started operations at its 'Kanto No. 2 Factory' in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, with a total investment of approximately 35 billion yen. The factory produces all products, primarily dumplings, with a production capacity of approximately 740 metric tons per month.