Soudal, a Belgian manufacturer of polyurethane aerosol foams and sealants, will open a new factory in Bogorodsk Industrial Park, Russia, in Q1 2020. The 40,000 sqm facility represents a EUR 20 million investment and will have capacity for 50 million aerosol cans per year.

The Atotonilco Wastewater Treatment Plant, the world's largest wastewater plant at $786 million, is being constructed outside Mexico City to treat 60% of the city's wastewater for safe crop irrigation. The plant is being built by consortium SAHM.

Multivac Group has broken ground on a new factory for its subsidiary TVI Entwicklung und Produktion GmbH in Bruckmühl, Germany. The 9,000-square-metre complex includes a production hall and customer centre, with completion planned for May 2020.

中怡国际 (EcoGreen International) through its subsidiary 中怡化工 signed multiple construction and equipment procurement agreements for a new plant at Gulei Chemical Park in Fujian, China, to produce fragrance ingredients and functional materials. Total contract values exceed CNY 360 million.

German machinery maker KraussMaffei Group GmbH is building a new plant in China that will double its capacity there, as the company expects China to become a larger R&D and machinery export base.

BASF plans to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethane plant at its new integrated Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. The engineering plastics plant will add 60,000 metric tons per year of capacity by 2022.

Korean implant producer Dentium inaugurated its first ICT Vina Factory in Da Nang Hi-Tech Park, built on 2ha with a $20 million investment, with capacity for 11.7 million implant products annually.

Parex Group inaugurated a new industrial plant in Limpio, Paraguay, representing a $4 million investment. The plant has an annual production capacity of 60,000 tonnes per shift, up from the previous 40,000 tonnes, and can eventually produce over 100,000 tonnes per year.

Future Line LLC plans to construct a new 30,000 square foot facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with $3.8 million in new capital investment.

Siculus, a subsidiary of Facebook, plans to construct a large data center facility adjacent to its current footprint in Altoona, Iowa, with $400 million in new capital investment and 31 jobs.

Borealis officially opened a new polypropylene compounding plant in Taylorsville, North Carolina, adding 66 million lbs of capacity for thermoplastic olefin and short glass fibre compounds used in automotive parts. The plant came on stream in early Q1 2019.

Inventive LLC will build a new 65,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mountain Home, Idaho, along with a 20,000-square-foot corporate office center, to produce towing products, offroad gear, and fishing products. Construction is expected to be complete by September 2020.

A joint venture between Lotte Chemical USA and Westlake Chemical Corp. opened a new chemical plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The 250-acre facility produces monoethylene glycol (MEG) with an annual capacity of 700,000 metric tons, making it the world's largest MEG plant. Development costs were $3.1 billion, and it is expected to generate 250 permanent jobs.

Nabtesco Corporation decided to build a new factory for precision reducers in Hamamatsu's third Miyada district. The first phase (46,900 sqm) will start construction in autumn 2022 and complete by September 2023, with production capacity expanding to 2 million units per year by 2026. Total investment is about 47 billion yen.

Aisin AW will invest up to $400 million to build a new plant in North Carolina, USA, to produce automatic transmissions for SUVs and hybrid transmissions for EVs. Production is scheduled to begin in September 2021 with an annual capacity of 200,000 units, creating 900 jobs.

Sundaram-Clayton Limited (SCL) unveiled its first U.S. manufacturing operations in Dorchester County, South Carolina, a greenfield aluminum die-cast foundry built with a $90 million investment. The facility will create up to 230 jobs and begin production in September 2019.

Shandong Shitian Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new energy excavator industrial park project in Jining National High-tech Zone. The first phase covers 150 mu (10 hectares) with an investment of 600 million yuan, targeting an annual production capacity of 3,000 units.

Halton Group opened a new 40,000-square-foot production unit in Kentucky, close to its existing plant, for manufacturing air handling units.

ACL Airshop held the grand opening of its new manufacturing center in Greenville, South Carolina, for air cargo products such as Unit Load Devices.

Micronics Engineered Filtration Group has opened a new 56,000 square foot filtration media manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, dedicated to liquid and dry filtration filter media products.

Richard Kablitz GmbH commissioned a new photovoltaic system on the roofs of its facility in Lauda, feeding clean electricity into the plant grid.

Construction of the Pancevo combined-cycle thermal power plant began in March 2019, with commercial operations expected in 2020. The €180 million ($209 million) plant will have 208MW electric capacity and 121 GCal heat capacity.

ebm-papst is taking over an existing production building in Johnson City, Tennessee, to make fans for refrigeration and HVAC applications from September 2019. It also bought 12 hectares to build a new plant there, planning to invest about USD 37 million and employ up to 200 people over five years.

Opus Packaging Group plans a 170,000 sq ft corrugated packaging manufacturing facility in Park 130, Whitestown, Indiana, investing nearly $3 million and creating up to 43 jobs by end-2022. Construction was underway in May 2019 with completion expected by July 2019.

A project to build a plant with annual production of 3,000 sets of European-style crane trolleys in Changyuan County, Henan Province, with total investment of 350 million yuan. The project is seeking a joint venture partner.

Truetzschler opened a new customer and technology center for nonwovens in Egelsbach, Germany, featuring two complete production lines for inline carding and spunlace-crosslapper.

Pilkington IGP opened a new glass processing plant in Białystok, Poland, with an investment of €9 million. The 10,000 sqm facility houses four production lines and created 200 jobs, doubling the previous workforce.

PTS Diagnostics opened its new 135,000 square foot global headquarters and manufacturing hub in Whitestown, Indiana. The facility features expanded manufacturing and office space and has led to hiring in R&D, operations, and manufacturing.

Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama celebrated the grand opening of a new cylinder head machining plant in Montgomery, Alabama. The $388 million investment created 50 new jobs and supports production of over 650,000 engines per year.

Odelo, a Mercedes supplier, confirmed it will invest €40 million to open its first factory in Bulgaria, located in the Kuklen Industrial Zone near Plovdiv, with batch production expected to start by the end of 2018.

Tongkun Group plans to invest CNY 16 billion (USD 2.4 billion) to build new production facilities for purified terephthalic acid (TPA) and polyester in Rudong, Jiangsu Province. The first phase includes two TPA lines of 2.5 million t/y each, plus FDY and POY lines, with construction starting end of 2019 and completion end of 2022.

JCB is investing INR 650 crore in a new factory in Vadodara, Gujarat, India, its sixth in the country. The plant will manufacture engineered components and sub-assemblies for global production lines, with production beginning next year.

Lenze announced its new Mechatronic Competence Campus (MCC) in Extertal, Germany, costing approximately $57 million. The facility covers 81,000 square feet and will house about 800 employees currently spread over three locations.

Rohrer is building a new thermoforming facility in Tijuana, Mexico, to serve U.S. consumer goods and packaging customers who have moved manufacturing to the border region. The plant is expected to employ nearly 200 people at full production.

Trench Group's HSP US affiliate began dry-type transformer bushing assembly at a new $60 million facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, with full production scheduled for July 2026, creating up to 140 jobs.

DaikyoNishikawa US announced it will build a $110 million auto parts manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama, its first U.S. plant. The facility will create approximately 380 jobs and produce plastic automotive parts, with construction starting in July 2019 and production slated for 2021.

Rockwell Automation announced plans to build a new greenfield manufacturing site in Southeastern Wisconsin, part of a $2 billion investment plan. The facility will span over 1 million square feet and be equipped with advanced automation and robotics.

French automotive supplier Eurostyle Systems will build a second industrial unit in Tangier Automotive City free zone, investing over 100 million dirhams (approx. €9.3M), to produce large plastic components for the automotive industry, with inauguration planned for 2020.

DaikyoNishikawa Corporation announced it will construct a new factory in Huntsville, Alabama, USA, to produce large resin parts for vehicles manufactured at the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing joint venture. The investment is approximately $110 million, and production is planned to start in CY2021.

Hematite Inc., a Canadian automotive supplier, announced plans to establish a production facility in Fayetteville, Tennessee, with $11.5 million in capital investment and 70 new jobs.

SOCMA's Xizhuang Base was approved as a Fujian Province Key Strategic Emerging Industry Project with a first-phase investment of 15 million CNY. The base is planned to start production in the second half of 2019.

Anord Mardix held the grand opening of a new 91,000 sq/ft facility at Northlink Business Park in Dundalk, representing an investment of €4.5 million, to consolidate fabrication and assembly of power distribution equipment under one roof.

Groupe Atlantic built a new heating equipment plant in Rayong, Thailand.

Groupe Atlantic built a new heating equipment plant in Izmir, Turkey.

Groupe Atlantic invested €15 million to build a new heating equipment plant in Kutaisi, Georgia, to serve Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani and Kazakh markets.

Tederic Machinery has moved into its new headquarters and '4.0 Smart Factory' in Hangzhou and opened a new production plant in Jiaxing, China. Together they can produce up to 8,000 injection molding machines per year.

Evonik will build a new polyamide 12 (PA12) facility in Marl, Germany, and expand transparent polyamides production, with a total investment of approximately €400 million. The PA12 facility is scheduled for completion in H1 2021 and will increase PA12 capacity by over 50%.

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) announced a ₩68.7 billion investment to build a new factory in Goseong, South Korea, to enhance civil business competitiveness. The investment period runs until December 2020.

Mennekes will invest over EUR 10 million in a greenfield factory in Miroslava, Romania, to produce charging cables for electric cars, with RON 17.6 million state aid.

Fanuc plans to invest 3.5 billion yen ($28.3 million) in a new plant to mass-produce equipment for high-end lenses, targeting demand from 5G smartphones and self-driving cars.