Meghmani Finechem, a subsidiary of Meghmani Organics, commenced commercial production at its chlormethane plant in India on July 4, 2019. The plant has a capacity of 40,000 tonnes and cost ₹160 crore to set up.

TechnipFMC announced the completion of construction of a new Boehringer Ingelheim Respimat plant in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain. The plant will produce up to 30 million inhalation devices annually and create over 200 jobs.

US-based Universal Alloy Corporation began construction in March 2019 of a $170 million aircraft components factory at Danang's Hi-tech Park, in two stages with the first due in December 2020. The company plans to recruit 1,200 skilled workers.

Reifenhäuser Group started construction of a 3,000-square-meter production and assembly hall for flat dies at its Troisdorf headquarters, investing nearly €7 million. The hall is scheduled to open in spring 2020.

JSR Micro, Inc. has begun construction on a new state-of-the-art facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, to expand semiconductor materials manufacturing capabilities, with an estimated investment of USD 100 million. Operations are scheduled to start in 2020.

Safran announced the construction of a new aircraft carbon brake plant in Feyzin, near Lyon, France, to strengthen production capacity of Safran Landing Systems. The plant will incorporate Factory 4.0 technologies and add up to 200 new employees.

Alo, a supplier of agricultural machinery, will establish operations in Mauldin, South Carolina, with a $6 million investment creating 44 jobs. The facility will include distribution, steel fabrication, and assembly, and is projected to come online in October 2019.

Yamaha Marine Precision Propellers broke ground on a 54,000 sq ft propeller manufacturing plant in Greenfield, Indiana, expected to be completed in mid-2020 and add 30 jobs. The expansion could raise propeller output by more than 40,000 a year.

CRI Pumps is setting up wholly owned subsidiaries in the US and Mexico, with an assembly facility in Houston estimated at around $5 million, to cut US lead times from 120 days to under 5. It also plans a California facility within six months.

Raysut Cement Company and MSG Group of Companies will establish a cement grinding plant in Berbera, Somaliland, with a capacity of 1 million tonnes per year and an investment of $40 million. Raysut Cement will own 55% and MSG 45%.

Oxea will build a new world-scale production plant for carboxylic acids in Oberhausen, Germany. The plant will double current production capacity for isononanoic acid and increase total carboxylic acid capacity by over 30%.

Schwing Stetter India (SSI) commenced local manufacturing of construction and mining equipment with a new excavator plant in Cheyyar, Tamil Nadu. The plant, built with an investment of Rs 230 crore, can produce 2,500 excavators per shift and is expected to hire 500 people.

T.B.Fruit has begun building what it says is the largest berry and fruit processing plant in Europe in Poland, with an investment of EUR 40 million.

Bunge, in partnership with Spain's Daksa group, will invest $14 million to build a corn processing plant on a 2.96 hectare site in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

Turkish company Odesa Hydraulic plans to invest $5 million in a new plant in the Odesa region, Ukraine, making hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, pipes and metal products, and to create about 200 jobs.

AQUA Electrical Appliances Vietnam opened a new drum washing machine factory in Bien Hoa II Industrial Park, Dong Nai Province. The $21.5 million plant has an annual capacity of 500,000 front-loading washing machines and began operating on July 5, 2019.

Rusal and Braidy Industries signed an agreement to build an aluminum flat-rolled products plant in Ashland, Kentucky. Rusal will invest $200 million for a 40% stake, and the plant is expected to start operations in 2020.

AE Aerospace officially opened its new 16,500 sq ft factory at Network Park, Birmingham, with four times the capacity of its previous site, supported by a £1.75M funding package from Lloyds Bank. The company plans to create 20 additional jobs.

CIRCOR signed an investment agreement to build a new facility in the Weihai Economic and Technological Development Zone, China. The announcement was dated July 5, 2019.

Cefla's Engineering Business Unit is general contractor for TeaPak's new 12,000 square metre plant in Imola, Italy, for Yogi Tea Group. The estimated €25 million investment will double current output, which exceeded 40 million packs in 2018.

Oji Fibre Solutions (OjiFS) opened a $72 million corrugated packaging factory in Yatala on the Gold Coast, supported by the Advance Queensland Industry Attraction Fund. OjiFS also plans three satellite manufacturing sites in other Queensland locations.

RSB Transmissions has begun construction of a propeller shaft manufacturing facility in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, India, with an investment of ₹180 crore. The plant is expected to be commissioned by January 2020 and will create about 200 jobs.

NOJA Power, in partnership with its South African distributor RWW Engineering, has commissioned a new production facility in Laser Park, South Africa, to assemble recloser controls for the Eskom contract.

Leister AG has built a new production facility in Sarnen, Switzerland, for CHF 25 million. The facility was opened on July 4, 2019.

Hongshi-Shivam Cement, a joint venture between China's Hongshi Cement and Nepal's Shivam Group, completed a $350 million cement plant in Nawalparasi, Nepal, in May 2018, with a capacity of 6,000 tonnes of clinker per day.

A new glass production factory in Tetovo, North Macedonia, will begin production in October 2019. The 9,000 sqm facility, currently under construction, will produce tempered and other specialized glass and employ around 300 people. Construction started at the end of 2018 and should be completed by July 2019.

Hamamatsu Photonics will construct a new factory building at its Shingai Factory in Japan to produce opto-semiconductors, X-ray image sensors, and X-ray flat panel sensors. The $60 million facility is expected to be completed by August 2020 and will have a predicted production capacity worth approximately $250 million.

Deufol will build a HUF 7 billion packaging and logistics plant in Debrecen, which will also serve as its Southeast Europe regional hub, with a HUF 1.4 billion government subsidy. The project will create 120 jobs and phase one construction is set to begin in July 2019.

Tetra Pak opened its €120 million greenfield aseptic carton packaging material factory in Binh Duong province, Vietnam, on 3 July 2019. The expandable plant serves domestic and export markets in ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand.

Chengtian Weiye Technology announced plans to invest CNY676 million (USD98.2 million) to build a semiconductor chip production base in Cixi high-tech industrial development zone, Zhejiang province, China. The base will produce chips for telecoms and financial payments.

Kingfa Sci. & Tech plans to invest CNY10.5 billion (USD1.5 billion) to build a petrochemical plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China. The plant will produce 1.2 million tons of propylene, 1.2 million tons of polypropylene, and 400,000 tons of modified polypropylene annually.

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific announced plans to open a third manufacturing facility in Tilburg, Netherlands, for cell culture media production. The facility will occupy a 250,000 square foot building and add capacity of 320,000 kg/year for dry powder and 470,000 L/year for liquids.

Catapult Environmental has opened the Berland Complex, its third water management facility, southwest of Fox Creek, Alberta. The facility can process, recycle and dispose of 2,000 cubic metres of water per day and is connected to Montney and Duvernay operators via pipeline.

Nissin Foods plans to invest about CNY 180 million to build a new packaging materials production plant in Zhuhai, China, on a 30,000-square-meter site acquired through the purchase of Zhuhai Lianzhi Technology. The plant is expected to be completed in 2021.

Ikano Industry, a Polish company, acquired 78 hectares in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, to build a new auto-parts plant for foam-based comfort products, with an investment of $170 million and expected to create 2,000 jobs. Construction begins in autumn 2019, with full operation within three years.

Unilever, Arnest Group and the Tula region government signed a trilateral agreement at the St Petersburg forum in June 2019 to set up export-oriented contract manufacturing of cosmetic and household products in Novomoskovsk, to be run by Aerosol Novomoskovsk within three years.

Mecalac, a designer and manufacturer of compact construction equipment, opened a new 14,000-square-foot facility in Norfolk, Massachusetts, serving as its North American headquarters. The facility centralizes offices, inventory, parts, and service, and includes a training center. It opened in July 2019.

UPM is constructing a new eucalyptus pulp mill near Paso de los Toros in central Uruguay. The project was confirmed in July 2019 and construction is underway as of February 2020.

Optima Nonwovens officially dedicated its new Optima Logistics Centre in the Solpark industrial park in Schwäbisch Hall. The company invested about EUR 20 million in the project, which offers about 6,000 square metres of space and an office wing for 150 employees. The centre has been in full operation since the start of March 2019.

Mallard Manufacturing opened a new 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Maquoketa, Iowa, on July 1, 2019, dedicated to producing carton flow rack systems to meet rising demand.

Deepak Nitrite, through its subsidiary Deepak Phenolics, commissioned a mega-scale petrochemical plant in India with capacity to produce 200,000 MTPA of phenol and 120,000 MTPA of acetone, with a capital investment of INR 1,400 crore. The plant has been operating since the last quarter of FY 2019.

Okuma established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Okuma (Changzhou) Machine Tool, in Changzhou, China, to assemble CNC lathes and vertical machining centers. Total investment is 880 million yen, with monthly production starting at 10 units in October 2019 and increasing to 75 units by 2022.

Formosa Flexible Packaging America, a Hotai company, obtained a new manufacturing facility in San Fernando Valley, California, on July 1, 2019, its first manufacturing subsidiary in the United States.

VIDEOTON EAS Kft., a subsidiary of VIDEOTON Holding, opened a new production facility in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, for electronic component insertion and electromechanical assembly. The opening ceremony was held on June 30, 2019.

UZTM-Karteks, a division of Uralmashzavod, will create a service center with production of spare parts for excavators at the Kemerovokhimmash site in Kemerovo Oblast. An agreement was signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2019).

Super Products broke ground in April 2019 on a new $15 million, 170,000-square-foot facility in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, consolidating its manufacturing and customer support operations. The facility is expected to be operational in early 2020.

Dielectric Manufacturing announced a new 100,000-square-foot facility in Richfield, Wisconsin, replacing its current location in Menomonee Falls. Groundbreaking is July 3, 2019, with completion expected in spring 2020.

J-POWER USA started construction of the Jackson Project, a 1,200 MW natural-gas-fired combined cycle facility in Will County, Illinois, with Kiewit as EPC contractor and MHPSA supplying turbines.

Fastprint Circuit Tech signed an agreement to build an integrated circuit substrate plant in Guangzhou for about CNY 3 billion (USD 436.2 million), with investment in two phases.

Gestamp inaugurated a new plant in Nitra, Slovakia, to manufacture aluminum exterior panels and structural components for Jaguar Land Rover. The company invested approximately €130 million in the facility, which employs about 200 people.