Broetje-Automation has signed a lease to occupy 43,200 square feet in the Elk Grove Technology Park for its U.S. headquarters and production facility, manufacturing robotic systems and automated composite equipment for aerospace. An opening is planned for October 2019, with 80-100 new jobs expected.

Fenner Dunlop is opening a new conveyor idler manufacturing plant in Brisbane, Australia, alongside its existing operations. The facility will be robotically automated and is expected to be formally inaugurated in October 2019.

The J.M. Smucker Company is set to hold a ribbon cutting on July 31, 2019 for its new Smucker's Uncrustables plant at 2900 Peak Ave. in Longmont, Colorado, with Governor Jared Polis attending.

Rondo Ganahl, a corrugated board and packaging manufacturer, has opened a new digital print production plant in St. Ruprecht an der Raab, Austria, with a €25 million investment. The facility features a Koenig & Bauer Durst Delta SPC 130 single-pass press and started production in April 2022.

Colorcon Inc. has announced an investment to build a new starch manufacturing plant near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The facility will double manufacturing capacity for Starch 1500 by 2026, serving pharmaceutical and nutritional markets.

Continental has officially opened a new Powertrain plant in Wuhu, China, with an investment of almost EUR28 million (US$31.5 million). The facility will create over 600 jobs and produce drivetrain products including thermal management components and sensors.

Japanese garment manufacturer Matsuoka Corp is setting up a new $3 million production facility in Vietnam to reduce reliance on China.

Komatsu Mining Corp. plans to invest approximately $40 million to construct an 85,000-square-foot sales and service facility in Sparwood, British Columbia, Canada. Construction is expected to begin in early August 2019 and conclude by the end of 2020.

CPC broke ground on a new $26 million headquarters and manufacturing plant in Roseville, Minnesota on July 18, 2019. The 132,000-square-foot facility will include a clean room sterile facility and is expected to be occupied in summer 2020.

Balkanlar Plastik began construction of a new factory in Skopje TIRZ 1, North Macedonia, with an investment of 8-10 million euros. The plant will create 80 jobs initially and up to 300 jobs in the final phase.

Waska, a division of Clair Industrial Development Corporation Ltd., will build a fully automated cedar shingle facility in Clair, New Brunswick, supported by a $2.4 million investment from Natural Resources Canada. The plant will create 26 new jobs and sustain over 90 existing jobs.

Yaxin Environmental Protection Equipment Co., Ltd. plans to build a plant in Zaoqiang County, Hebei, with an annual capacity of 600,000 PE-FRP composite water treatment tanks. The project is in the preparation stage.

Silan Microelectronics is accelerating construction of a 12-inch specialty process chip manufacturing line and a compound semiconductor line in Xiamen, with trial production planned for Q4 2019 and 2020 respectively. Total investment is 22 billion yuan.

STULZ announced a new manufacturing plant in Dayton, Tennessee, its second US manufacturing location, expected to create 25 high-skill jobs initially.

Niagara Bottling will invest $68 million in a 420,000-sq.-ft. production plant near the intermodal center in Kansas City, Missouri, creating 50 jobs, with completion targeted for early 2020.

Boerner and TechnoNICOL opened a new construction chemicals plant in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, Russia, with an investment of RUB 650 million and an initial capacity of 10,000 tonnes per year.

Daifuku Wynright Corp. is spending $26 million on a 320,400-square-foot facility in Hobart, Indiana, to consolidate operations from two Illinois facilities. The move is expected to create 582 new jobs by 2021.

Sahajanand Medical Technologies (SMT) announced a new stent manufacturing facility in Hyderabad, India, to be operational by 2020. The investment is INR 2.5 billion (about USD 35 million).

Prowell, a subsidiary of Progroup AG, is opening a corrugated board factory in Drizzona, Italy, next to Imbal Carton, with a 100,000-tonne annual capacity and about 40 new jobs.

Bosch Ltd inaugurated the phase II Bidadi factory near Bengaluru, built with an investment of 31 million euros. The plant will make common rail single-cylinder pumps and high-pressure rails and accommodate almost 2,500 associates by end-2019.

Wynright Corp. plans to open a new $26 million manufacturing facility in Hobart, Indiana by December 2019, consolidating two Illinois plants. The company expects to create up to 582 new jobs by 2021.

Texas Instruments has delayed construction of its planned $3.1 billion semiconductor plant in Richardson, Texas, by two years due to market conditions. Construction is now expected to begin in Q3 2021, with production starting in early 2024.

Motus Integrated Technologies will invest over $15 million and create 90 jobs at a new manufacturing facility in Gadsden, Alabama, producing automotive interior parts and headliners. Construction is expected to start in coming weeks and conclude in mid-2020.

Texfelt has opened a new £9 million, 60,000 sq. ft manufacturing facility in Bradford, UK, to produce Springbond carpet underlay from recycled plastic bottles. The investment has created 13 jobs.

Aurora Organic Dairy opened a 127,000-sq.-ft. milk processing and warehouse facility in Columbia, Mo.

Mountaire opened a $170 million poultry processing plant in Siler City, N.C., employing up to 1,250 people.

Stellar will construct a 300,000-sq.-ft. production and distribution facility for fairlife milk in Goodyear, Ariz.

Mapi Pharma signed a long-term lease at Har-Hotzvim Hi-Tech Park in Jerusalem for a new sterile production plant for GA Depot injectable products. The ~50,000 sq ft facility was previously an FDA-approved facility of Omrix Biopharmaceuticals. Investment in equipment is approximately $13 million, partially funded by a $2.5 million grant.

PT Cipta Mortar Utama, a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain Group, has officially launched its fifth mortar factory in Semarang, Central Java. The factory cost at least 8 million euros and has an annual production capacity of 170,000 metric tons.

Shadrinsk Auto-Aggregate Plant (ShAAZ), part of UMMC, has started construction of an assembly shop for underground mining load-haul-dump machines (LHD). The first phase investment is about 120 million rubles, and the shop is planned to open in 2020.

AKFA Production Facilities opened a new production complex in the Navoi Free Economic Zone, Uzbekistan. The first phase includes an aluminum extrusion plant with 50,000 tons annual capacity and a PVC profile plant with 55,200 tons annual capacity, employing 950 people.

Ekki Homa inaugurated a new plant in Coimbatore, India, to manufacture wastewater pumps, catering to markets in India and neighboring countries.

Nippon Shokubai's subsidiary PT. NIPPON SHOKUBAI INDONESIA held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new acrylic acid plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year and an investment of approximately $200 million.

Italy's Guala Pack is opening a 14 million euro packaging film factory in Romania.

Sasol Ltd opened a new chemical plant in Nanjing, China, its largest expansion project in the country. The $100 million plant more than doubles alkoxylation production capacity to about 150,000 tonnes annually.

AT&S plans to build a new plant in Chongqing and expand its Leoben location, with an investment volume of nearly one billion euros over five years. The new factory will produce IC substrates, with production start planned for end of 2021.

Japanese automotive display maker Nippon Seiki will invest over 80 million PLN to build a new plant in Ksawerow, Poland, creating at least 80 jobs. The facility will produce HUD displays and instrument clusters for cars and motorcycles.

Titan Group, through its subsidiary Titan-Polymer, plans to start construction of a BOPET film and PET granule production facility in the Moglino SEZ, Pskov region, in August-September 2019. The first phase (BOPET film) will have capacity up to 70,000 tonnes/year; the second phase (PET granules) up to 170,000 tonnes/year. Total investment is RUB 19 billion.

Luxshare Precision will invest up to CNY 483 million to build a new subsidiary, Yian Luxshare Co., Ltd., in Nghe An province, Vietnam, to produce connectors, cables and computer peripherals.

PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical plans to invest about $1.1 billion to build a 600,000-ton-per-year ABS project in the Dananhai Petrochemical Park of Guangdong Province, China. The project also includes units for acrylonitrile, methyl methacrylate, and sulfuric acid recovery.

Vestas intends to establish a new nacelle and hub assembly factory in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, combining two existing facilities and quadrupling local manufacturing jobs. The factory is expected to be operational by the end of 2020.

RADA Technologies, a subsidiary of RADA Electronic Industries, plans to relocate to a new 25,000-square-foot facility in Germantown, Maryland, including R&D and manufacturing operations. The company will invest nearly $4 million and create 80 new high-tech jobs by December 2023.

German auto supplier Gerhardi Inc. officially opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Montgomery, Alabama, a $41.6 million plant that will employ up to 235 employees.

Thyssenkrupp announced a new automotive greenfield investment to build an engine components manufacturing plant in Pécs, Hungary. The investment is worth about HUF 17 billion, creating around 200 jobs, with production planned to start in 2020.

Dakkota Integrated Systems announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Detroit, Michigan, with a $55 million investment, to supply parts to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

Covestro received final approval to proceed with construction of a $1.7 billion methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) unit at its plant in Baytown, Texas. KBR has been selected as the engineering, procurement and construction provider.

DMG MORI established a global parts center (PC) at its Iga campus in Iga City, Mie Prefecture, Japan on July 9, 2019. The facility has a floor area of 12,810 square meters and can accommodate 100,000 spare parts.

Electrolux will start production at its new $250 million refrigeration plant in Anderson, South Carolina soon.

OOO Arcto, a resident of the Kanash priority development area, started construction of a plant in Kanash, Russia, to produce commercial refrigeration and ventilation equipment, with a total investment of 441 million rubles and creating about 120 jobs.

ZF Friedrichshafen and Foton opened a joint venture plant in Jiaxing, China, to produce automated commercial vehicle transmissions, including the TraXon system, for the Chinese market.