SSE has started construction of the Keadby 2 combined cycle gas turbine power station in North Lincolnshire, UK, a £350 million investment, with Siemens as main contractor.

Cooper Standard opened a new plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, with a $15 million investment, generating 100 new jobs. The plant will use polymer mixing technology to supply seals and rubber packages for the automotive industry.

Scapa Healthcare inaugurated a new 152,000-square-foot medical device manufacturing facility in Knox County, Tennessee on June 3, 2019. The facility is expected to create 100 new jobs over five years.

Senior Aerospace Bird Bellows (SABB) opened a new 'factory of the future' facility in Congleton, Cheshire, to expand capacity for designing and manufacturing precision engineered metal components for civil aircraft. The facility was opened by Business Minister Andrew Stephenson.

Dunapack Rambox is building a 45 million euro packaging plant on an 11.5ha site in Bolintin-Deal, Giurgiu County, Romania, with 180 million square metres annual capacity and 150 jobs. Construction began in October 2018 and operations are expected to start in June 2019.

Werner & Mertz invested 30 million euro in a new production building in Mainz's Rheinallee, its largest investment to date. One production line valued at 4.5 million euro is already running, and Frosch production can be doubled in the final stage.

Grupo industrial mendocino LTN inaugurated a new Friolatina plant in Maipú, Mendoza, for producing insulating panels. The 5,200 m² facility required a US$7 million investment and has an annual capacity of over 1,000,000 m², creating 50 jobs.

Boehringer Ingelheim has opened a new €120 million Respimat manufacturing facility in Sant Cugat del Vallés, Spain. The 17,000 sq m plant will produce 25 million units per year and create approximately 200 new jobs.

Kimura Foundry America Inc. opened a newly constructed 45,000 sq. ft. factory in Shelbyville, Indiana, its first facility outside Japan. Six R&M Materials Handling Inc. overhead crane systems were installed at the facility.

KP Components completed a new dedicated automated warehouse in Denmark in June 2019 to improve logistics and inventory holding for customers.

Packaging company Elpes held an opening ceremony in June 2019 for a modern plant in Lublin that produces laminate tubes, mainly for the cosmetics industry. The article is dated July 1, 2019.

Indian firm Ekki Pumps and Germany's Homa Pumpenfabrik are investing in a new joint venture plant in Coimbatore, India.

Alex Fraser opened a high recycled technology asphalt plant and a glass recycling plant at its integrated recycling facility in Laverton North, Victoria, with a $20 million investment, capable of producing 800 tonnes of construction sand per day and over half a million tonnes of green asphalt per year.

Refcool opened a new plant in the Borovsk site of the Kaluga Special Economic Zone to produce climate and refrigeration equipment for industrial and civil applications, with investments over 437 million rubles.

Ring Plus Aqua established a new plant in Sinnar near Nashik, Maharashtra, to produce flywheel ring gears, with annual capacity of 2 million units. The company announced the plant in a press release dated 31 May 2019.

QuantumFlo, a Wilo brand, bought and renovated an existing building at 2664 Jewett Lane in Sanford, Florida, to serve as its new headquarters and production facility with more than double its previous space. A grand opening celebration is planned for June 28.

Trading and production company FNM ALKAR opened a new production line for geosynthetic nonwoven fabric from polyester fibers at the Plastik plant in Tula Oblast, Russia. The investment was 30 million rubles, with a capacity of 1,800 tonnes per year and 20 new jobs created.

H-E Parts officially opened a new 50,000-square-foot facility in Leduc, Alberta, Canada on May 30, 2019. The facility houses a component reman/repair center for mining equipment and oil & gas products, with capacity to triple production levels.

Absolute Haitian Corporation opened a 116,000-square-foot operations facility in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, to support Haitian International's injection molding machine sales and service in the USA and Canada. The facility includes manufacturing, warehouse, and demonstration space.

Gildan Activewear announced plans to build a large vertically integrated manufacturing complex in Bangladesh, purchased land for USD 45 million. The multi-plant complex is expected to be operational by 2021 and support over USD 500 million in annual sales.

Tyson Foods announced plans to build a $300 million, 400,000 square foot plant in Eagle Mountain, Utah. The facility will initially employ 800 people, expanding to 1,200 within three years, and will cut and package beef and pork for retail.

Fresenius Medical Care broke ground on a new distribution center in Knoxville, Tennessee, which will be its largest on the East Coast. The facility will support over 120 new jobs and allow expansion of the nearby manufacturing plant.

Spanish firm Congelados De Navarra and fertiliser major IFFCO are setting up a quick freezer plant for vegetables in Ludhiana, Punjab, with an initial investment of ₹550 crore. The facility will have a processing capacity of up to 80,000 tonnes per annum and is expected to start production in two years.

Iovance Biotherapeutics has entered into a lease agreement to build a 136,000 square foot commercial-scale production facility at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for TIL cancer therapies. The company expects to invest approximately $75 million over three years and create several hundred jobs.

FANUC is constructing a new plant for machining servo motor parts at its headquarters in Oshino-mura, Yamanashi Prefecture, with an investment of 12 billion yen. The plant is scheduled for completion in September 2019 and operation from 2020, aiming to improve productivity by 20% while maintaining capacity at 150,000 units per month.

Austrian aerospace company FACC is building a factory in Jakovlje, Croatia, to produce interior parts for Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, and Rolls-Royce aircraft. The €33 million investment will create 600 jobs, with construction starting after permits and completion expected by end of 2020, production in 2021.

Stora Enso inaugurated a new production unit for cross laminated timber (CLT) at its Gruvön sawmill in Sweden. The €45 million investment has a capacity of 100,000 m³ annually and created 60 new jobs. Commercial deliveries started in Q1 2019.

Airbus Helicopters and the Hungarian Government have selected Gyula, Hungary, as the site for a new aerospace manufacturing plant to produce high precision metallic parts for helicopter dynamic systems. Production is expected to start in 2021.

Grupa Azoty ZAK S.A. has started up a new multifunctional plant for non-phthalate specialty esters with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes/year in Kędzierzyn, Poland, producing Adoflex and Oxovilen plasticizers.

Fujifilm announced it will construct a new endoscope factory within its Fujifilm Techno Products Sano Plant in Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture, with an investment of approximately 4 billion yen, doubling production capacity. Full-scale operation begins in September 2019.

Mohir Cement Co announced plans to construct a new 0.6 million tonnes per annum cement plant in Jaloliddin Balkhi district, Khatlon, Tajikistan, with an estimated investment of $30 million.

Burcon NutraScience Corporation has announced a joint venture partnership to build a new C$65 million pea-protein and canola-protein commercial production facility in Western Canada. The facility will initially process approximately 20,000 tonnes of peas per year starting in mid-2020.

Burckhardt Compression says a new Shenyang Yuanda Compressor plant in Shenyang, China, will be operational in fall 2020, consolidating two existing plants at a larger site after the old site was converted to residential use.

Impol will build a new 3,000 sqm production facility in Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia, with an investment of nearly EUR 6.5 million. Construction is planned to start in the second half of 2019, with production expected to launch at the end of 2020 or early 2021.

Denso Corp. will invest at least 2 billion yuan ($290.3 million) to build a plant in Nansha District, Guangzhou, China, to produce auto electronic components. Construction starts June 28, 2019, with operational expected in 2021 and mass production in 2022.

CITIC Aluminio Angola commissioned an aluminum profile factory in Viana, Angola, a joint venture between CITIC Construction and CITIC Bohai Aluminum Industries Holding Company, with an investment of US$40 million and annual capacity of 10,000 tons.

Zoomlion India signed an MOU with Khed City to establish a cranes and heavy machinery manufacturing unit at Khed City Industrial Park in Pune, India. The investment is estimated at INR 300 crore.

Okuma has completed construction and started operation of the new Kani Dream Site 3 (DS3) plant, a next-generation smart factory for vertical and horizontal machining centres and double-column machining centres. The plant uses smart machines, robots, and IoT for 72-hour unmanned operation.

Aptiv inaugurated a new factory in Espírito Santo do Pinhal, São Paulo, Brazil, with an investment of R$ 30 million. The 18,600 m² facility produces electrical distribution systems for automakers General Motors, PSA, and Volkswagen.

Duferdofin-Nucor, a joint venture between Duferco and Nucor Corporation, approved an investment of over €150 million to construct a new beam rolling mill at its San Zeno Naviglio facility in northern Italy. The mill is expected to be fully operational by mid-2022, create 150 jobs, and produce over 1 million tons of rolled products annually.

Amcor is reinstalling a food packaging production line in Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, relocated from Goiania, to supply Unilever mayonnaise, ketchup and soup lines. Operations are expected to start in July 2019 with an estimated 70 to 100 direct and indirect jobs.

German pharmaceutical packaging company Geresheimer signed a land lease agreement to build a multi-million euro plant in Skopje's TIDZ free economic zone, with the first phase expected to be completed by end of 2019 or Q1 2020.

ISA TanTec is building a new tannery in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam, covering 28,500 sq. meters, with construction expected to be completed by the end of 2019. The plant will create 1,000 jobs and includes a waste-water treatment system.

Sesco Cement has secured a 40-year lease on seven acres at Port Tampa Bay's Port Redwing site in Gibsonton, Florida, for a US$19m white cement terminal. Construction is expected to take 18 months.

Chinese company Sunny Yi Feng Tiles (Zimbabwe) has started tile production at its USD 120 million plant in Norton, Zimbabwe, with three factories operational. It expects to reach full production soon and create 600 additional jobs.

Hanon Systems formally opened Chongqing Hanon Jianshe Automotive Thermal Systems, a 38,000 square meter joint venture plant in Banan district, Chongqing. It will initially supply variable swashplate compressors and heat pump systems to Changan Automobile.

Y-Tec, Keylex, and Toyotetsu, through their collaboration YKTA, announced plans to locate a new automotive parts manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama, to serve the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA plant. The project involves a $220 million investment and the creation of 650 jobs.

Y-tec Keylex Toyotetsu Alabama (YKTA) announced plans to invest USD 220 million to open a manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama, on the site of the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing assembly plant.

Web Industries plans to build an 84,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in the Arlington Marysville Manufacturing Industrial Center, creating over 70 jobs. The facility will produce composite slit tape for aerospace applications, including Boeing's 787 and 777X.

Cranswick is constructing a new poultry processing plant in Eye, Suffolk, UK, valued at GBP 75 million. The facility will process 1.2 million birds per week and is expected to be operational towards the end of the new financial year.