Yaskawa Electric is cooperating with Baoshan district on a national major project for semiconductor robots, with an investment of 5 billion yuan. Production is expected to start in October 2019, with annual output value of about 3 billion yuan.

FANUC announced the FANUC 'Super Smart Factory' project in Baoshan, Shanghai, with a total investment of about 2 billion yuan. Construction will start in October 2019, and the facility will add annual output value of 10 billion yuan.

Collins Aerospace announced a strategic investment to develop an aerospace innovation hub in Singapore, featuring a lab for automation, smart factory development, and additive manufacturing. The 15,000 sq ft hub will be located at the Collins Changi MRO Campus, with groundbreaking in August 2019 and expected opening in Q1 2020.

Ajinomoto will spend more than $20 million to build a facility in Brazil for amino acid-based surfactants. The plant is set to open in fall 2020 and will increase capacity by about 20%.

Al Safa Packaging and the Sadulym financial group built a packaging materials plant in Mali with an investment of EUR 30 million, with Al Safa holding 51 percent. The plant has started operating at about 60 percent of total capacity.

Klimaoprema completed construction and equipping of a new production plant in Nova Gradiška, Croatia, with an investment of over 100 million kuna. The plant covers about 18,000 square meters and is expected to create about 100 jobs within 6 to 12 months.

VinFast's first automobile production plant in Haiphong, Vietnam, was ceremoniously opened on June 14, 2019. GROB supplied complete cylinder head and cylinder block manufacturing lines for the plant.

AECC Aero Engine (Zhonghang Power Zhuzhou Aviation Parts Manufacturing Co., Ltd.) has started construction of a new R&D and production campus in Zhuzhou's Aviation City, covering 131 mu (about 8.7 hectares) with a total building area of 26,000 square meters. The project is scheduled for completion by March 2021.

Russian agricultural holding Damate has opened a new turkey meat processing plant in Penza Oblast, Russia, with a planned production capacity of 155,000 tonnes per year. The plant is part of a larger project with total investment of RUB50 billion (US$850 million).

Yoshino Gypsum Co from Japan has begun construction on a $50 million gypsum factory in Phú Mỹ 3 Industrial Zone, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province, Vietnam. The factory will produce 150,000 tonnes of gypsum boards annually in phase one and 30,000 tonnes of gypsum joint compound in phase two, with completion slated for late 2020.

Chinese home appliance giant Konka Group plans to build a CNY30 billion (USD4.4 billion) semiconductor and photoelectric industrial park in Chongqing's Bishan district. The first phase will involve investment of up to CNY7.5 billion.

Joensuun Yrityskiinteistöt Oy will build a new facility worth about 5 million euros at GreenPark business park, to be used by John Deere Forestry Oy. The facility will be completed in June 2020.

Siemens is building a new factory in Mirków near Wrocław, Poland, to produce high-quality control cabinets for Industry 4.0. The plant will create about 150 jobs and produce over 1,000 cabinets annually, with production starting in October 2019.

A healthcare industry park with investment of CNY3.85 billion (USD556 million) started construction on June 12 in Weifang Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, jointly invested by JOFO Group and Procter & Gamble.

Senior Plc opened its second aerospace facility at the Malaysia International Aerospace Centre in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The 180,000 sq ft facility increases manufacturing capacity by 140% and speeds up processes by at least 40%, with RM50 million allocated so far.

ZF officially opened a new factory in Pančevo, Serbia, producing electric motors and components for hybrid and electric drives. The company plans to invest a total of EUR 160 million by 2021, with the plant expanding from 25,000 to 60,000 square meters.

Deutz-Fahr invested 90 million euros to build a new tractor plant called DEUTZ-FAHR LAND in Lauingen, Germany. The plant opened in 2017 and produces high-performance tractors, with Kito providing crane systems and hoists.

Tajik Cement signed an investment agreement for the construction of a new 1.2Mta cement plant in Tajikistan, seeking US$100m in foreign direct investments.

Sibur has commissioned a 100,000-tonnes/yr eco-friendly DOTP plasticizer facility in Perm, Russia. The plant is the largest in Europe and involved an investment of $107 million.

GOEX Corporation will open a new plastic sheet extrusion facility in Iron County, Utah, creating up to 100 jobs and about US$15 million in capital investment over seven years.

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals decided to build a new plant at the Bando Inter Industrial Park in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, producing gravure inks and coating agents, with construction from November 2019 and operations from July 2021.

Modula, an Italian manufacturer of automated storage and retrieval systems, announced a $26.5 million investment in a new manufacturing and logistics hub in Franklin, Ohio, creating 100 new jobs. The facility will produce Vertical Lift Modules with a target capacity of 2,000 units per year.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc., a maker of corrugated packaging, will lease a vacant 197,000 sq ft building on Carrier Corp.'s DeWitt campus and spend $1.4 million to build out and furnish it, creating 11 jobs.

Mexican steelmaker AHMSA partnered with South Korea's Paco Engineering to build a coated/galvanized sheet mill in Monclova, Mexico, with an investment of MXN 400 million ($20.9 million) and a capacity of 90,000 mt/year.

Archroma has officially inaugurated its new Global Competence Center for Automotive & Synthetic Dyeing in Korschenbroich, Germany.

Gripple Automation plans to build a £2 million factory on Foley Street in Sheffield, UK, for making hi-tech assembly machines. The facility will have nine build bays and create five jobs initially, with construction starting in August 2019 and opening in 2020.

CJ HealthCare will invest 100 billion won ($84.3 million) to build a new IV fluid factory in the Osong Life Science Complex, North Chungcheong Province. The 32,893-square-meter plant will produce 55 million saline bags per year, with completion by 2020 and mass production in 2021.

Alutech Group signed an agreement on June 7, 2019 to build a production and logistics complex in the Industrial-Logistics Park of Novosibirsk Oblast. The investment exceeds 1 billion rubles, and the facility will produce industrial and garage sectional doors, roll-up systems, aluminum profile systems, and loading equipment.

Ekki Pumps is setting up a fourth Coimbatore plant, an assembly, testing and painting facility run as a 50:50 joint venture with Germany's Homa Pumps. It will make parts for Homa's production lines and waste water pumps, with production expected within six months. Investment was not disclosed.

Foxpak has opened a new €3 million manufacturing plant in Collon, County Louth, to add capacity for flexible compostable packaging. The opening was reported on 7 June 2019.

Aerojet Rocketdyne officially opened its 136,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Huntsville, Alabama, to produce solid rocket motor cases and hardware for defense and space programs. The facility began construction in late 2017 and the workforce has grown from 70 to over 400.

Harbin Electric Corporation signed an agreement to build a plant in the Kaluga Special Economic Zone for boilers, steam turbines and turbogenerators for thermal power plants. The investment is at least 10 billion rubles, creating about 300 jobs.

Nordex Group and FAdeA celebrated the official opening of a wind turbine production plant in Córdoba, Argentina on June 5, 2019. The plant assembles nacelles and hubs with an annual capacity of up to 500 MW and will employ up to 100 specialists.

Plastikos Medical opened a 25,000-square-foot facility in Erie, PA, dedicated to medical injection molding. Phase I includes 10 injection molding machines in an ISO-7 cleanroom, with Phase II adding 15 more machines.

Berolyuks will build a plant in the Dubna special economic zone to produce composite panels for greenhouse construction. The facility is expected to start in Q2 2021, with investments of RUB 1.3 billion and over 300 new jobs.

Tergus Pharma announced a 100,000-square-foot building for its new headquarters and commercial manufacturing facility in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area, with construction starting July 2019 and opening planned for early 2020. Great Point Partners provided growth equity for the expansion.

FIBC Kazakhstan opened a newly built factory in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, producing railcar liners used to transport Tengiz sulphur, on June 6, 2019.

Sun Hydraulics (Helios Group) opened its Kunshan plant in the German Industrial Park in Zhangpu Town, China, its first and only factory in Greater China. The project has a total investment of $10 million and registered capital of $8 million.

Applied Materials launched its first combined display manufacturing center and laboratory at Tainan's Southern Taiwan Science Park, investing over NT$3 billion (US$95.57 million). The plant includes two cleanrooms and a laboratory and will manufacture 10th-generation LCD and OLED production equipment.

Air Temp de Mexico is establishing a subsidiary, Air Temp of America, in Panama City, Florida, with a manufacturing facility for plastic injection molding of automotive cooling components. Production is expected to start in May 2019 with 10 employees.

Centrex Metals began site works at its Ardmore phosphate rock project in North-West Queensland in preparation for the arrival of a $4 million modular start-up plant fabricated by CDE Global. The plant has a capacity of 70 tonnes per hour.

EFP Corporation will lease a 100,000-square-foot building in Evansville's Vanderburgh Industrial Park and invest in production equipment for expanded foam protective packaging, creating up to 29 jobs by 2021. The facility is planned to be operational by November 2019.

JBS will invest about 100 million reais in building a metal packaging factory and modernising its Lins unit in Sao Paulo state, with about 80 million reais going to the new plant that will make steel and aluminium cans. Operation is planned for the first half of 2020.

Henkel has invested €35 million in a new production plant for aerospace applications in Montornès del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain. The plant will serve as a hub for the European aerospace industry, with first deliveries expected in Q4 2019.

Mondragon Automation Equipment (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Spain's Mondragon Group, broke ground on a new factory in Qiandeng, Kunshan. The plant covers 18 mu (1.2 hectares) with 18,000 sqm of floor space, with an investment of $22.5 million, and is expected to be completed by June 2021.

A consortium of Petrojet and Saipem won a bid to build the first polybutadiene rubber factory in Egypt and Africa, located in the ETHYDCO complex in Alexandria. The project is worth $150 million with an annual capacity of 36,000 tons.

Termelés-Logistic-Centrum (TLC), a subsidiary of Sennebogen, is investing EUR 30.8 million in a 29,000 sqm factory in Litér, Hungary, to produce steel parts for material handling equipment. The factory will create 80 jobs and is expected to be finished by summer 2020.

Lipex Engineering GmbH finalized a contract to build a turnkey basalt fiber production plant in Gukovo, Rostov Oblast, Russia. The plant represents an investment of EUR 50 million, will employ 160 people, and have a yearly capacity of more than 5 tons. Completion is expected within two years.

GE confirmed plans to build a production plant for its 12MW Haliade-X wind turbine in China to meet growing offshore wind demand. The plant will serve the Chinese market, while the Saint-Nazaire, France plant remains the base for projects outside China.

Ardentec will break ground on a new plant (Phase II of Dingxing Factory) in Hsinchu, Taiwan, with an investment of NT$1 billion ($32 million), expected to be completed by end of 2020 and start production in 2021, creating over 500 jobs.