Pegatron Corporation will open its first factory in Batam, Indonesia, a $40 million project to make wireless chips and semiconductors for routers. The factory will be located in the Batamindo Industrial Park.

Tradebe has launched a new hydrocarbon terminal at the Energy dock in the Barcelona port, with 29 tanks totaling 453,000 m³ capacity, after investing €65 million.

Dongguan Thailight Semiconductor Lighting Co., Ltd. (Inogeno) held the foundation ceremony for a new industrial park in Hengli Town, Dongguan, China. The project has a total investment of 250 million yuan and a planned building area of nearly 80,000 square meters.

Trinseo opened a new compounding factory at its Hoek site in Terneuzen, Netherlands on June 26, 2019, replacing the old compounding plant at Terneuzen Industrial Park. The investment supports R&D, sustainability, and employment.

AAC Technologies has signed an investment agreement with Chongqing Liangjiang New Area to build a smart manufacturing park. The project involves a total investment of $800 million and is expected to start construction in 2020.

CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd. inaugurated its first factory in Morocco's Kenitra, an aluminum wheel production unit with an annual capacity of 6 million units, requiring an investment of 350 million euros.

Voith's subsidiary VolgaHydro opened a new production plant for hydropower turbines in Balakovo, Russia, with an investment of just under $39.7 million. The facility has created 100 jobs and is expected to employ another 100 in the future.

BillerudKorsnäs started production at its new KM7 board machine at Gruvön Mill in Grums, Sweden. The 350-meter-long machine has a capacity of 550,000 tons per year and produces liner for fruit boxes, bag-in-box, and frozen products. The investment grew from 5.7 to 7.6 billion SEK.

Lenzing Group approved the construction of a state-of-the-art lyocell fiber production plant in Prachinburi, Thailand, with a capacity of 100,000 tons and an investment of approximately €400 million. Construction will start in fall 2019, with production commencing towards the end of 2021.

Loibl, a bulk material handling technology company, will build a new facility in Oberschneiding, Germany, on a 52,000-square-meter site. Construction is set to begin in 2026, with relocation planned for 2029.

CanSemi's first 12-inch chip factory in Guangzhou has entered final commissioning, with mass production expected in September 2019. The facility will focus on 90nm-180nm technology products with a capacity of 40,000 wafers per month.

HMC Polymers announced plans to construct its fourth polypropylene (PP) plant at the Map Ta Phut site in Rayong Province, Thailand. The new unit will have an annual capacity of 220,000 tons and is scheduled to come online by 2022. HMC has licensed LyondellBasell's Spherizone technology for the plant.

Japanese packaging maker Takigawa opened its nearly $46 million, 180-job flexible packaging and high-performance films plant in Bardstown, Kentucky, its first US facility, with a 180,000-square-foot operation.

Benepack Belgium, a joint venture of CPMC and Haoneng, is investing over EUR 50 million in a can production plant in Genk, Belgium, creating 150 jobs and receiving a EUR 3 million Flemish subsidy.

Avellana Gold has built a new enrichment plant at the Muzhievo polymetals deposit in Transcarpathia, Ukraine, with a capacity of 500,000 tons per year. The plant is part of a project to restore mining operations and improve the ecological situation.

Collins Aerospace appears set to open a marine composites manufacturing plant in North Jacksonville, leasing a 140,400-square-foot building and planning to hire over 100 people. The project involves $21 million investment and $1.64 million in incentives.

Littelfuse broke ground on a new power semiconductor assembly plant in Lipa City, Philippines. The facility will add over 200 jobs and is expected to be completed in 2021.

Kerry Group inaugurated a new €20 million production facility in Tumkur, India, for its Taste & Beverage Systems. The facility supports 150 new jobs, with plans for an additional 150 jobs at full capacity.

Benteler has opened a new plant in Mos, Spain, to produce rear-axle components for PSA. The plant will start operations in July 2019 and create 175 jobs. It is Benteler's first smart factory in Southern Europe.

SOFIE Inc. broke ground on a 30,000 sq ft Radiopharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Totowa, New Jersey. The facility will be suitable for efficient manufacturing of multiple therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals and is expected to be fully US and EU compliant.

Packinov, a manufacturer of packaging machinery, has moved into a new 4,175 m² facility in Beynost, France, with an investment of €1.7 million. The company plans to expand its workforce from 26 to about 30 employees by end of 2019.

African Circle Pollution Management Limited commissioned an $8 million (N2.9 billion) liquid waste management treatment plant at Port Harcourt Dockyard in Rivers State, Nigeria, on June 22, 2019. The facility operates under a 20-year Build Operate and Transfer agreement with the Federal Government.

Nexteer Automotive will officially commission a new electric power steering plant in Morocco on June 26, 2019. The factory, built on 18,000 m², is expected to create 500 jobs and is the company's 25th factory worldwide.

Pries Enterprises announced the opening of a new anodizing line in Independence, Iowa, on October 1, 2019, following a year of construction on a 50,000 square foot expansion.

Bosnalijek opened a new production plant for non-sterile semi-solid and liquid medicines in Sarajevo, with an investment of about 50 million KM, increasing production capacity to 34 million packages, five times more than before.

Tong Engineering has started building a new two-phase factory in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, with a £3.6 million first phase and a £500,000 grant from the Greater Lincolnshire LEP. The site is expected to create 26 jobs and add over 20% capacity.

Gardner Aerospace has completed work on a new 45,000 square metre factory in Chengdu, China, and is investing around £100 million in equipment. The facility will manufacture aerospace components, starting with Airbus wing detailed parts.

Construction has commenced on the 180MW Berrybank Wind Farm in Western Victoria. The $276 million project will use 43 Vestas turbines, with towers supplied by Keppel Prince in a $30 million contract, and create 213 construction jobs.

Irish packaging group Smurfit Kappa will invest $34 million in two stages to build a new corrugated cardboard plant in Baja California, Mexico, creating 200 new jobs.

GE Appliances is investing $55 million to build a new smart warehouse in Jackson County, Georgia, creating 100 jobs.

GE Appliances is investing $32 million to build a new Southern Logistics Center in Murray County, Georgia, creating 100 jobs.

Foxconn Technology Group started placing concrete for the foundation of its first manufacturing facility at the Mount Pleasant campus in Wisconsin. Production is scheduled to begin in Q4 2020.

JC Group plans to start operations of its new steel strip plant in Escobedo, Nuevo León in August 2019, with a capacity of 1,200 tons per month and 25 new hires.

TLC Kft., part of the German Sennebogen group, is building a new plant in Litér, Hungary, investing over EUR 30 million in capacity expansion and machinery modernization, creating 80 new jobs. The plant will focus on welded heavy steel structural component production.

UTD Cement, a joint venture of two Germany-based companies and a private investor, will build a $400 million cement plant in Farishky district, Jizzakh, Uzbekistan. The 4Mta plant will create 1500 jobs and is scheduled for construction from 2019 to 2021.

Dooil Cap signed an investment MOU with North Gyeongsang province and Yecheon county to invest 20 billion won over three years to build a plastic packaging plant at Yecheon's second agricultural industrial complex. Completion is targeted for 2022.

TE Connectivity opened its second factory at Tangier Automotive City on June 19, 2019. The plant, which started production in December 2018, specializes in plastic injection systems and technical cable components for industrial and heavy vehicle markets in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd (Baosteel) will begin test production at an aluminium alloy casting and deep processing plant in Henan province in mid-2020. The first phase has a capacity of 300,000 tonnes per year and involves an investment of 6.14 billion yuan ($889.35 million).

Vicem Hoàng Mai Cement Joint Stock Company plans to build a cement factory in Hoàng Mai 2 Industrial Zone, Nghệ An, with a capacity of 3 million tonnes per year and an investment of over VND 6.67 trillion ($287 million). The project received approval in principle in May 2019.

Chemours formally inaugurated its $300 million Opteon YF production facility in Ingleside, Texas, near Corpus Christi, tripling its Opteon YF capacity. Production started in February 2019.

USA Rare Earth broke ground on a new rare earth metal and magnet manufacturing facility in Blacksburg, South Carolina. The $1.2 billion investment is expected to create about 490 jobs, with production capacity of 6,400 tpa of sintered NdFeB magnets and 5,000 tpa of strip-cast metal, commissioning targeted to begin in 2028.

Czech energy group Energo-Pro opened a new plant in Ankara, Turkey, to manufacture turbines, generators, and other equipment for hydroelectric power plants. The investment was EUR 25 million (approx. CZK 640 million), and the plant has 53 employees.

LAB Medical Manufacturing plans to open a new product division at James Island Business Park in Charleston, South Carolina, with $5 million investment and over 30 jobs, starting operations by September 1, 2019.

BYD's subsidiary Ningbo BYD Auto Co., Ltd. received approval for a 565 million yuan electric forklift production base in Fenghua, Ningbo. The project will have an annual capacity of 50,000 new energy electric forklifts.

Special machinery maker VWH GmbH held the ground-breaking for a new production center in the Westerwald region of Germany, adding 3,000 square metres of production space by February 2020 with a new plastics technology centre.

Chinese company ZL EOR Chemicals and Omani firm Oman Development Petroleum launched the first polymer production factory in Oman, located in Salalah. The $20 million facility has an initial capacity of 15,000 tons per year, expected to be operational within a month.

Epiroc held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 1,400 m² treatment plant for rock drills in Örebro, Sweden. Continuous production is scheduled to start in late 2020.

VBC | Manufacturing – Hamlet, a division of Volumetric Building Companies, will open a manufacturing facility in Hamlet, North Carolina, creating 130 jobs and investing over $12 million. The plant will produce modular units for high-density residential construction.

Nature Alu will build a $13.9 million aluminum purification plant in Saguenay, Quebec, with support from Canadian and Quebec governments. The plant will produce 3,000-4,000 tonnes of 99.99% pure aluminum annually starting June 2020.

Kara Holding, with Swiss and Austrian partners, will build a lyocell fiber factory in the Gaziantep Industrial Zone with a total investment of 400 million euros. Initial annual capacity is 20,000 tons, with plans to expand to 80,000 tons.