Safran Aircraft Engines will build a new plant in Hyderabad's GMR Special Economic Zone to make parts for the CFM LEAP turbofan engine, with a €36 million investment supported by the Telangana State. Construction starts June 2019, with first parts planned for early 2020 and a workforce of 300.

Mar-Bal Inc. formally opened its new Altraset Composite Technologies production site in Painesville, Ohio, in August 2018. The 110,700-square-foot plant houses five mixing lines and 23 injection presses, with a total investment of about $15 million.

Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company, broke ground on a new 230,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Hudson, Wisconsin, expected to create over 250 jobs and be completed between late 2019 and mid-2020.

Port Said Co. for Electrical Industries – Avena Group announced its new plant in the Port Said industrial zone will start production in April 2019, creating 1,800-2,000 jobs and bringing total investments to EGP 500 million.

Austrian-owned Dunapack Rambox, part of Prinzhorn Group, is building a new corrugated cardboard packaging plant in Bolintin-Deal near Bucharest, Romania, under a project worth about €45 million. The plant is planned to employ around 200 workers and reach 180 million square metres of annual capacity.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to start a new hydraulic equipment plant, Suzhou No. 4, in China around summer 2020. It will take over production of hydraulic components for China from its Nishi-Kobe mother plant in Japan.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries opened a new plant in Bangalore to make pumps and motors for 7-36 tonne construction machinery, doubling its Indian hydraulic capacity to 20,000 units a year. The investment is about 800 million yen and production starts in April 2019.

Remous Print has started building a new smart factory on a business park in Sherborne, Dorset, with a near-£1 million investment. It will consolidate the company's three current sites under one roof, with a planned move around September or October 2019.

Orient Yuhong Construction Materials, a subsidiary of Oriental Yuhong Waterproof Technology, broke ground on a 100,000-tonne-per-year single-component waterproof polyurethane coating project at its existing site in Puyang Industrial Park, Henan. The investment is CNY 101 million (USD 15 million) and the plant is expected to be operational by March 2021.

Henan Oriental Yuhong started construction of a polyurethane coating plant in Puyang, China, with an investment of CNY 700 million and capacity of 40,800,000 sqm/year modified asphalt waterproof membrane, 40,000 tonnes/year waterproof coating, 150,000 tonnes/year mortar, and 30,000 tonnes/year asphalt coating.

Zhanchen New Materials Group started construction of a new high-end environmental coating plant in Puyang, China, with a total investment of CNY 1.7 billion and capacity of 300,000 tonnes/year across multiple phases.

Emnech, part of the Mectec-group, is building a new mechatronic plant in Pécel, Hungary, with a HUF 6.4 billion greenfield project adding an 11,000 sqm production hall to manufacture sensor parts for battery and autonomous systems.

Sovremennaya upakovka plans to build a corrugated cardboard plant in the Stavropol region by 2021, with an investment of about 500 million rubles and 160 new jobs. The agreement was signed at the Sochi investment forum and the plant will be located in the Nevinnomyssk industrial park.

VTC West (Virginia Georgia Transforme) announced the opening of a new innovation center in Chihuahua, Mexico, focused on technical design and engineering of high-voltage transformers. The company has invested over $500,000 in design equipment and training, hired 22 engineers, and plans to hire 50 more over three years.

On July 5, Optima Group officially dedicated its Optima Logistics Center at the Solpark industrial park in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.

Ypsomed is building a new production facility in Schwerin, Germany, with a total investment of €100 million. The building is expected to be completed and production start in summer 2019, creating about 150 jobs in the first five years.

NovaWind, a Rosatom division, will invest 955 million rubles to build a wind turbine components assembly plant in Volgodonsk, Rostov Region, Russia. The facility will create 254 jobs and have a capacity of 96 sets per year.

Saudi Aramco and National Oilwell Varco formed a joint venture, Arabian Rig Manufacturing, to build a world-class onshore rig and equipment manufacturing facility in Ras al-Khair, Saudi Arabia. The facility will span 500,000 square meters, produce 10 rigs per year, and create 1,100 jobs. Commissioning is expected by 2020, with the first rig delivered by 2021.

IPP, a joint venture now part of SCG Packaging, opened a new greenfield packaging factory in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia, on 15 February 2019, equipped with Koenig & Bauer, Heidelberg and Bobst converting equipment.

A €7.7 million construction contract for production building No. 6 at the Ventspils High Technology Park was awarded to SIA Ostas celtnieks by the Ventspils port authority. Immer Digital leases the building to make recyclable packaging materials and plans to expand its investment in Ventspils beyond EUR 11 million.

Hubei Yixin Materials Co., Ltd. started construction of a light curing new material industrial park in Yichang, Hubei, China. The project is jointly invested by Shenzhen Youwei Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. and Hubei Yihua Group Co., Ltd., and will become the world's largest production base for light-curing coatings.

Hubei Youyi New Materials Co., Ltd. has started construction of a UV-curable new materials industrial park in Yichang, Hubei Province, China. The project, with a total investment of 8 billion RMB, will produce photoinitiators, monomers, resins, and water-based UV-curable coatings. Phase I investment is 1 billion RMB.

Artpresto Viet Nam Co., Ltd, a member of Japan's Bandai Namco Group, started construction on a packaging factory in Chau Son Industrial Zone, Ha Nam province, Vietnam. The factory has a total investment of US$5 million and an annual output capacity of nearly 40 million packaging products.

The Shaddix Company is expanding and relocating to a new facility in Vinemont, Alabama. Phase I involves a $2.5 to $3 million investment for site acquisition and construction, with a five-year projection of $5 million. The company will add six to eight full-time positions during phase I.

Liberty Industries Group, part of GFG Alliance, is planning a £120 million alloy wheel factory in Fort William, Scotland, which will take liquid metal from the adjacent Liberty British Aluminium smelter. The plant is expected to create around 400 jobs and produce wheels for at least a fifth of UK-made cars from 2022 onwards.

Aircraft and helicopter parts manufacturer Le Piston Francais plans to open a second factory in Casablanca, Morocco by 2020, investing €5 million. The plant will initially employ 65 people, expanding to 150 by 2024.

Meissner Filtration Products is developing its first European manufacturing facility in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. The project was announced in February 2019 and is expected to be operational by Q1 2020, creating more than 150 direct jobs.

Vestas entered a partnership with Marand Precision Engineering to establish a turbine assembly and testing centre at a former Ford Motor factory in Geelong, Victoria. The facility will assemble drivetrains and hubs for wind farm projects, with an investment of around $3.5 million and more than 20 direct jobs.

Korea Chemical Ind. inaugurated its first production base in China, Korea Chemical Ind. High Performance Materials (Dongguan) Co., Ltd., in Dongguan, Guangdong. The facility has 10 production lines with an annual capacity of 8,000-10,000 tons of nano-injection PBT, PPA, PPS, PC and other modified materials.

ORAS-Aluminium Profile signed an investment agreement with the Republic of Adygea to build an aluminium profile plant in Teuchezh Industrial Park. The project involves an investment of about 3 billion rubles and will create 300 jobs.

Tongkun Group announced on February 13, 2019 that it signed an investment cooperation agreement to invest about 16 billion yuan to build a petrochemical polyester integration project in Jiangsu Rudong Port Economic Development Zone. The project will cover about 2,610 mu of land and produce 2*250 million tons PTA, 900,000 tons FDY, and 1,500,000 tons POY annually.

NCL VEKA, a joint venture between NCL Group and VEKA AG, commissioned a uPVC profiles extrusion plant in Mucherla, Medak district, Hyderabad, at an investment of Rs 50 crore. The facility has 18 extruder lines with a capacity of 24,000 tonnes per year, with plans to expand to 30 lines.

Bühler Inc. completed its new Food Application Center (FAC), with installation and commissioning of equipment begun, and the pilot facility to be fully operational by July 2019. The FAC will feature technologies for processing corn, pulses, ancient grains and other food ingredients.

Cargill Protein opened its new state-of-the-art North American protein office/headquarters in Wichita, Kansas.

Japanese supplier Tachi-S announced a new seat covers production facility in Aguascalientes, Mexico, with a US$4m investment, creating 600 jobs. The plant will have an annual capacity of 356,000 seat covers and is scheduled to begin operations in March 2019.

Rico Auto Industries Ltd. will set up a new manufacturing plant at Halol in Gujarat for components for two-wheelers and four-wheelers, with an initial investment of Rs. 1.1 crore. The plant is projected to become operational from May 2019.

DuPont is investing over $80 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, China, to produce high-end engineering plastics and adhesives. The site is expected to become operational in 2020 with expansion through 2023.

Invotec, a medical device automation company, expanded its international presence by opening a new 730 m² facility in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. The facility will provide assembly, test, and inspection solutions for medical device manufacturers.

Arkema inaugurated a new polyester resin manufacturing facility in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, including a dedicated laboratory. The $15 million investment will serve the powder coating market in India, the Gulf Region, and surrounding countries.

Pátria Investimentos, Shell and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems formed a joint venture to build and operate the 565 MW Marlim Azul gas-fired thermal power plant in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The project involves a US$700 million investment and is expected to go operational in 2022.

Rane TRW Steering Systems, a joint venture of Rane Group and ZF Group, opened a new facility in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, for occupant safety products. The company invested around Rs 400 million, with initial capacity of 0.5 million airbag modules and 1 million seat belt assemblies per year.

Strata Geosystems, a joint venture of Glen Raven Inc., opened a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Daheli, Gujarat, India on February 11, 2019. The plant aims to meet growing demand for geosynthetic products.

Sarens has opened a new crane depot in High Bridge, near Hinkley Point C, with capacity for five cranes and potential for future expansion.

Teklas Bulgaria, a unit of Turkey's Teklas Kauçuk, plans to spend EUR15.3 million on a new manufacturing plant in Vratsa, Bulgaria. The first phase will take six months and initially employ 500 people.

PeroxyChem is about to open what it says will be the world's largest peracetic acid-based wastewater-disinfection system in Memphis, Tennessee. The company is also building a facility to produce peracetic acid on-site, to open at the end of the year.

Essel Propack has inaugurated its first greenfield unit in Kamrup, Assam, with capacity of 275 million laminated tubes annually. Phase-I investment is ₹82 crore and it will employ about 150 people.

Intel has announced a €7 billion investment to build a new semiconductor fab in Leixlip, Ireland, which will employ 1,600 people and have a built-up area of 110,000 m².

Voltas Ltd, a Tata Group company, will invest over ₹500 crore in a new manufacturing facility in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, to produce air conditioners and cooling products. Initial capacity is over one million units, with production expected to start in the second half of 2020.

Aflex Hose, a manufacturer of hoses for automotive and pharmaceutical industries, has started building a new 17,000 m² factory in West Yorkshire, UK. The facility will consolidate five existing sites, include new extrusion lines, and boost capacity by 70%. Construction is expected to complete by end of 2019, with manufacturing starting in Q2 2020.

Packaging and filling equipment manufacturer Tauras-Fenix will invest 3.2 billion rubles in building a new plant in St. Petersburg, with construction planned by 2021. The plant will produce over 250 units of food packaging equipment annually and create 800 jobs.