Streit Groupe is building a manufacturing plant in Comonfort, Guanajuato, Mexico, with a $20 million investment. The plant will produce 2 million center housings for turbo chargers and is expected to become operational by end of 2019, creating 160 jobs initially.

Varroc has inaugurated a new factory in Tanger Automotive City, Morocco, dedicated to producing headlights and taillights. The plant will create 650 jobs by 2024 with an initial investment of EUR 45 million.

Cranswick Poultry is building a new greenfield primary processing plant in Eye, Suffolk, UK. Marel Poultry will supply a 15,000 bph processing line with all machinery and technology.

INEOS announced plans to build a new £150 million facility at its Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, UK, to produce Vinyl Acetate Monomer (VAM), creating 40 new jobs and doubling the workforce.

Saudi Readymix commissioned a concrete factory with two central batching plants in Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia, with a production capacity of 2,000 cubic meters of readymix concrete per day, to support the King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries project.

Drylock Technologies plans to build two new production sites in Europe for baby diaper core technology and raise €200 million to expand operations.

ProFlow, Inc. opened a new factory in North Haven, Connecticut, exclusively for manufacturing chlorine dioxide generators for Ecochlor's ballast water management system, boosting delivery capacity to over 200 units per year.

The START Centre and Memsift Innovations are jointly building a pilot plant at a semiconductor company in Singapore that uses a novel tri-bore hollow-fibre membrane to treat industrial wastewater, reducing liquid waste by over 90% and recovering precious metals.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plans to invest $4.5 billion to build a new assembly plant in Detroit and add production at five existing Michigan facilities, creating nearly 6,500 jobs.

Harsco Industrial IKG broke ground on a new 12,000 sq m grating production plant in the Advance Querétaro Industrial Park in El Marqués, Mexico, with an investment of about 17 million dollars and 158 initial jobs. The plant will supply industrial grating to Mexico and Latin America.

Pratt Industries will invest more than $20 million to finish and expand a shell building in Botetourt Center at Greenfield, Virginia, for manufacturing and converting corrugated boxes and displays, eventually employing 50 people.

Yantai Dunhan Bush Compressor Co. has invited tenders for construction of its intelligent compressor factory in Yantai, Shandong, with planned investment of about 100 million yuan and a 14-month schedule.

Lijiang Biotechnology held a groundbreaking ceremony for a disposable blood perfusion device project in Weixian, Hebei, China. The project has a planned investment of 200 million RMB and is expected to be completed in 2021, with an annual capacity of 1 million devices.

Shendi (Shenzhen Shendi Semiconductor) started construction of a production line for MEMS gyroscope series inertial sensors and chips with an annual capacity of 120,000 wafers. The project has a total investment of CNY 1 billion, with CNY 402 million planned for 2019.

Bunting Magnetics Europe has constructed a new recycling test facility at its Master Magnets manufacturing operation in Redditch, UK. The 122-square-meter facility houses magnetic separators and an eddy current separator.

FlexBlow is building a new 3,500 m² manufacturing facility in Kretinga, Lithuania, to produce 8-cavity Hybrid SBM machines. The plant will incorporate Industry 4.0 technologies and is expected to start operations in July 2019.

START Centre and Memsift Innovations are jointly building a pilot plant at a semiconductor company in Singapore that uses a novel tri-bore hollow-fibre membrane to treat industrial wastewater, reducing liquid waste by over 90% and recovering precious metals.

Source Photonics opened a new fabrication facility in Jintan, China, with a total investment of over $50 million, doubling its capacity of Indium Phosphide lasers and related components.

Siemens Gamesa confirmed plans to build a wind turbine factory in Le Havre, France, with construction starting in early 2020 and production expected by end of 2021. The plant will create 750 jobs.

Dal Holding Investment Co. will build a 1.8Mta cement plant in Kazakhstan's Aktobe region, representing an investment of KZT101bn (US$268.8m). Construction is set to begin in April 2019.

Siemens Numerical Control (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. (SNC) signed an investment agreement with Lishui Economic Development Zone to build a digital factory in Nanjing, with an additional investment of over 800 million RMB. The factory is expected to start production in 2020.

Martin GmbH, a specialist in excavator attachments, is building a new 10,000 m² facility in Ludesch, Austria, for production, administration, warehouse, and training. The €14 million investment will relocate operations from Braz to Ludesch, with completion expected in summer 2020.

Alvimedica, a Turkish medical device company, will open a new stent production facility in Turkey in March 2019. The plant will produce 900,000 stents per year at full capacity, create 1,000 jobs, and help the company expand into the Middle East market.

Nanjing Electric High-Voltage Bushing Co., Ltd. participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for a new ultra-high-voltage composite bushing manufacturing plant in Nanjing, China. The project involves a total investment of RMB 200 million and is expected to be completed by the end of 2019.

Nice inaugurated a new 6,200 sqm electronics plant in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil, with an investment of approximately 20 million BRL. The facility will produce electronic components for gate automation, security, and access control solutions.

Yaskawa Electric Corporation started operations at the Yaskawa Solution Factory, a new production plant at its Iruma site in Japan, to manufacture Sigma-7 servo drives and serve as an IoT validation facility.

Mecaro Co., Ltd. has signed a construction contract for a new factory in Pyeongtaek, with an investment of 15 billion KRW. The factory will be built on a 9,159 m² site with a total floor area of 10,236 m², and is scheduled for completion in December 2019.

Hanwang Microelectronics (Liaoning) Co., Ltd. has completed and started production of China's first 8-inch MEMS backend production line in the Shenfu New District. The line is expected to produce 20 million MEMS chips annually, generating sales of 200 million yuan.

Septodont, through its subsidiary Sofic, will build a new 6,000 m² dental needle factory on the Causse zone in Aussillon, France, with a total investment of EUR 15 million. The new facility will double the current surface area and increase production capacity by 50%.

Dal Holding plans to build a 1.8Mt/yr cement plant in Aktobe region, Kazakhstan, as a joint venture with Aktobe Civic-Entrepreneurship Company. The project is valued at around US$270m and construction is scheduled to start in April 2019.

Amkodor-Onego, a subsidiary of Belarusian holding AMKODOR, will invest 18 billion rubles to create a production facility for wheeled harvesters and forwarders at the former Onega tractor plant site in Karelia, creating over 500 jobs. Work begins in February 2019.

Togo North America Inc., a subsidiary of Japan's Togo Seisakusyo Corporation, will invest $11.4 million to establish a production facility in Portland, Tennessee, creating 58 jobs. The plant will produce hose clamps and is expected to start operations in Q4 2019.

Insumos Industriales S.A., a new company, will set up a fish crate factory in the Trelew industrial park using Chinese machinery to make about 1,200 crates per day, employing ten people initially. A second machine would double output and add ten more jobs.

Himatsingka commenced trial production at its new greenfield terry towel plant in Hassan, Karnataka, with an installed capacity of 25,000 tonnes per annum. Commercial production is expected in the first half of FY20.

RSK Technology held a completion ceremony for its new 1,487 m² factory in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, built on a 3,305 m² site. Construction started in July 2018 and finished in February 2019.

Invista signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park to construct a 400,000-ton adiponitrile (ADN) plant in Shanghai, with an estimated investment exceeding $1 billion. Construction is expected to start in 2020, with startup by 2022.

Osem has opened a new Bamba (peanut butter puffs) plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel. The plant has a production line capacity of one million bags per day, expected to expand to 1.5 million bags per day by the end of 2019.

Fripozo started construction of a new production centre in Torres de Cotillas, Murcia, with an investment of EUR 41 million. The facility is expected to be operational by mid-2020, creating 70 new jobs and increasing capacity by 175% to over 44,000 tonnes annually.

Chemoxy plans to build a £10 million cosmetics factory in Billingham, Teesside, to produce paraben-free preservatives. The plant is expected to create up to 190 jobs and come online in late 2019.

PT Asahimas Flat Glass Tbk completed construction of a new flat glass factory in Cikampek, West Java, with an investment of JPY 17,250 million and production capacity of 210,000 tonnes per year. The company aims to increase total flat glass production to 720,000 tonnes per annum.

ACG Group opened a new capsules manufacturing plant in Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with an investment of approximately R$350 million (US$94 million). The 14,000 sqm facility will generate about 500 new jobs and serve pharmaceutical and nutraceutical customers in Latin America.

GKN, through its Powder Metallurgy subsidiary, broke ground on a new GKN Sinter Metals plant in Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato, investing over $20 million. The 6,000 sqm facility will produce metal parts via sintering and start operations in August or September 2019, with initial capacity of 16 million pieces per year and 200 workers at full operation.

CPMC and Haoneng formed a joint venture in Genk, Belgium, to build a new facility producing recyclable aluminium cans and labels for beverage makers. CPMC will invest EUR 60 million and recruit about 150 staff.

OJI Group began construction of its third Cambodian corrugated container factory, OJI Packaging Cambodia, in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, with an estimated investment of JPY 3 billion. Planned operations start in January 2020.

Zhengmao Valve Co. has completed and commissioned its new 15,000 sq m factory in the Tangtou industrial zone of Oubei town, Wenzhou, a 50 million yuan investment for a special industrial valve production line.

Magellan Aerospace Corporation opened a new 100,000 square foot manufacturing and assembly facility in Devanahalli, near Bangalore, India. The plant will specialize in high-speed milling and turning of aerostructure and aeroengine components, creating up to 120 jobs.

Ontex Group NV officially opened its new production facility in Radomsko, Poland, with an investment of €16 million. The 26,000 m² factory started with one production line and plans to expand to four lines by 2020, employing at least 170 people.

Daikin Airconditioning India is in the final stages of locking its third manufacturing facility in South India. The facility will serve growing local consumption and exports to SAARC countries, East Africa, and the Middle East.

OMK ordered a new seamless pipe mill from Danieli to be built at its Vyksa Steel Works in Russia. The mill will produce 500,000 metric tons per year of seamless casing, tubing, line pipe and industrial pipe. Commissioning is scheduled for 2021.

Rosenberger Optical Solutions & Infrastructure (Rosenberger OSI) opened a new 4,000 m² production site in Apodaca, Mexico, with an investment of €3 million. The plant will employ up to 350 people and has a total capacity of three million assemblies.