ConMet celebrated the grand opening of its new hub assembly facility in Nanjing, China on December 11, 2018. The 128,000+ sq/ft facility has three production lines with two additional lines available for future expansion.

HG Nonwoven Machinery Co., Ltd has a new project in Turkey to install a 3.2m SS PP spun-bond fabric production line. The line is expected to start at the end of 2018.

Chongqing Xin Runxing Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Guangdong Runxing Technology, began construction of a plant in Zhongxian, Chongqing, to produce 5,000 CNC machine tools annually. The project is part of a larger high-end equipment manufacturing industrial park.

Siemens Numerical Control (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. (SNC) will invest over 800 million RMB to build a new digital factory in Nanjing's Lishui Economic Development Zone, with capacity to triple.

TERMOKOOL Group has presented its new REFKUL plant in Borovsky District, Kaluga Region, Russia. The 12,000 m² facility will produce chillers, precision air conditioners, and refrigeration units, with a planned monthly output of 220 units.

Rhino Health LLC, under Jungwoo Rubber & Plastic, will build a $49 million, 124,000-square-foot nitrile rubber glove manufacturing facility in Church Rock, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. The project will create up to 350 jobs.

SK Hynix will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its M16 plant in Icheon, South Korea on December 19, 2018. The company will invest over 15 trillion won ($13.2 billion) in construction and equipment, with completion expected by October 2020.

The SDF Group built the most modern tractor factory in Europe under the Deutz-Fahr brand in Lauingen, Bavaria, with an investment of €90 million. Production started in 2016.

HIROTEC America, an automotive Tier 1 supplier, will invest $40 million to construct a new manufacturing facility in Fayetteville, Tennessee, creating over 100 jobs. Construction starts Q2 2019, operational Q3 2020.

Zavod Elektroapparat, a subsidiary of Elektroapparat, received resident status in the St. Petersburg special economic zone for a project to build a high-voltage gas-insulated equipment plant. The investment is 1.5 billion rubles, and production is planned to start by early 2023.

Ramco Cements is establishing a greenfield grinding plant in Odisha with a capacity of 0.9 mtpa at a cost of INR 515 crore, including a railway siding. Commissioning is expected by September 2019.

Ramco Cements laid the foundation for a 3.15 mtpa greenfield cement plant in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, with an investment of about INR 1,500 crore. The plant is expected to be completed within 15 months and create 300 direct and 1,000 indirect jobs.

Spanish company Windar Renovables and Russian partners Rusnano and Severstal have opened a plant in Taganrog, Rostov region, for manufacturing wind turbine towers. The investment was about $12 million, and the factory will produce towers for up to 300 MW of onshore wind capacity per year after 2020.

Aeropak d.o.o. has opened a new factory in Palic, Serbia, with 10,000 m² of production and warehouse space, producing tinplate aerosol cans. Total production capacity exceeds 35 million units annually.

Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik (KLM) plans to build a new production and construction building with 5,300 m² of space in Tuttlingen, Germany, with an investment of €10 million. Construction is set to start in spring 2019 and take about one year.

Nippon Paint China signed an investment agreement to build an industrial coatings and resin plant in Nangang Industrial Zone, Tianjin, with an investment of approximately RMB 960 million.

WilMarc, a US maker of PVC-free and DEHP-free fittings, tubing and filters for medical devices, has opened a new manufacturing facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, with automated tubing extrusion equipment. The press release is dated December 8, 2016.

Oji Holdings and Purinusa Ekapersada have set up a joint venture to build a corrugated packaging plant about 50 km east of Jakarta, with Oji holding 55%. The investment totals JPY 4 billion (about €31 million) with start-up expected in January 2020.

Asia Pulp & Paper's Purinusa Ekapersada and Oji Holdings agreed a US$35 million joint venture, PT Oji Sinar Mas Packaging, to build a corrugated converting factory in Bekasi City, West Java. The plant is expected to start in January 2020.

UFI Filters has inaugurated its first European thermal management plant in Opole, Poland, doubling its global heat exchanger capacity by 2023. The 42 million PLN (about 10 million euro) investment is expected to create 250 jobs within five years.

Amcor has commissioned its seventh manufacturing plant in India, in Bharuch, Gujarat, to make flexible laundry packaging for Hindustan Unilever under a seven-year agreement. The plant adds about 40% to Amcor's Indian capacity and is expected to employ 180 people by December 2019.

Traxys Cometals Processing, Inc. is constructing a new 105,000-square-foot facility at Yellow Creek Port in Burnsville, Mississippi, to produce alloying agents for aluminum and steel. The $10 million investment will create 25 jobs.

Linamar Hungary Zrt. will invest HUF 17.6 billion to build a new 10,000 sqm plant in Békéscsaba, Hungary, creating 250 jobs. The plant will produce electric drivetrain systems for Daimler cars.

Adani Defence & Aerospace and Elbit Systems inaugurated the Adani Elbit UAV Complex in Hyderabad, India. The 50,000 sq. ft. facility will manufacture Hermes 900 and Hermes 450 UAVs, starting with carbon composite aero-structures.

Continental is setting up a plant at Kesurdi industrial zone in Pune, Maharashtra, on 12,000 sq m of land. The plant will manufacture premium surface materials for the automotive industry with an initial annual capacity of 5 million sq m. Investment is Rs 180 crore (~$25 million). The factory is slated to go on stream in 2020.

Holroyd Precision Rotors, a division of Precision Technologies Group, has opened a new production cell in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, to supply compressor screw rotors to North American industrial air, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment producers. The facility represents a $12 million investment.

Packaging Corporation of America is set to buy a 42-acre city-owned site in the Horn Rapids Industrial Park in Richland for an estimated $1.9 million and plans a 400,000 to 450,000 sq ft manufacturing facility creating about 150 jobs, with opening expected in early 2020.

Nippon China signed a contract to build a high-end industrial coatings and coating resin project in Tianjin's Nangang Industrial Zone, with a total investment of about 960 million yuan, covering an area of about 193,000 square meters.

Liulian Group has started construction of its second production base, Anhui Lanlan New Materials factory, in Anqing, Anhui, China. The plant will have an annual capacity of 75,000 tons of eco-friendly resins and coatings, with investment of 3 billion RMB and 18 months construction period.

Guangzhou Deni Carburetor Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Zhanjiang Deni Vehicle Parts, held a ceremony on December 12, 2018, to start construction of a 14,000-square-meter plant in the Industrial Park in Chinizhen, Huadu, Guangzhou, with an investment of CNY 285 million.

Graham-Field celebrated the grand opening of its new global headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, a 7.45-acre facility uniting corporate offices, a showroom, distribution center, and manufacturing for therapeutic support surfaces and specialty seating. The $10 million investment increases manufacturing capacity.

REDO Water Systems is investing 1 million euros to build a new factory in Szikszó, Hungary, creating 50 new jobs. The plant will produce environmentally friendly water disinfection technology and is expected to be completed by the end of 2019.

Vestas has opened a blade production facility in Ulyanovsk, Russia. The factory will produce more than 55 blades in 2019 for V124 turbines with capacities of 3.6MW, 3.8MW and 4.2MW.

HonFei Flight Technology Co Ltd, a joint venture between AVIC Xi'an Flight Automatic Control Research Institute and Honeywell Aerospace, opened a 10,000-square-meter factory in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, to produce flight control systems for the C919 passenger jet.

Interroll Group announced plans to expand production capacities for conveyors and sorters by building a new factory in Kronau, Germany, with an investment of approximately €40 million. The new site will include 15,000 square meters of production area and 1,700 square meters of office space.

Siemens subsidiary Materials Solutions officially opened a new £27 million additive manufacturing facility in Worcester, UK, on December 12, 2018. The factory will produce high-performance metal parts using Selective Laser Melting technology.

PT Purinusa Ekapersada, an Asia Pulp & Paper company, and Oji Holdings agreed a $35 million joint venture to build a corrugated container converting factory in Bekasi City, West Java, expected online in January 2020. The announcement was dated 2018-12-12.

Healthcare US Co., Ltd., a memory-foam mattress manufacturer, announced a $45 million investment to build a 650,000-square-foot facility in Winnsboro, South Carolina, creating 250 jobs. The facility is expected to launch in Q1 2019.

Dominion Energy announced the commissioning of the 1,588MW Greensville County Power Station in Virginia, a natural gas-fired plant built with a $1.3 billion investment.

VEGA Americas will build a 100,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing center in Geismar, Louisiana, with a $22.4 million capital investment, creating 120 new direct jobs.

Rainmaker announced a 60 million peso investment to build a plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, for assembling wastewater treatment and water purification systems, creating 250 jobs.

Pegatron Corporation announced a $330 million investment to install a new specialized plant in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, creating 1,000 new jobs. The project will develop over 2026-2029.

Whirlpool officially opened its new dryer manufacturing plant in Łódź, Poland, as the final step of its 2015-2018 Industrial Plan for Poland. The total investment reached almost EUR 293 million.

W International, a manufacturer of large welded metal fabrications, will locate a new 451,000-square-foot production facility at the Bushy Park Industrial Complex in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The $35.2 million investment is expected to create more than 600 jobs.

DrinkPAK is building two new beverage production facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, at Eagle Parkway and Carter Park East. The Carter Park East site is 1.4 million square feet and is planned to create 450 jobs.

Palmer Johnson broke ground on a 20,000 sq. ft. equipment reconditioning facility in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, set to open in June 2019. The center will increase production capacity 15-20 times current levels.

F and H Food Equipment Co. is nearing completion of a 60,000 sq. ft. distribution center and headquarters in Springfield, Missouri, costing $4 million. The company will move from its current location in January or February 2019.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics will build a multi-layer ceramics capacitors (MLCC) factory in Tianjin, China, expected to be completed in 2019 and start operation in 2020.

Samsung SDI will invest $800 million to build a power battery plant in Tianjin, China, covering 100,000 square meters, for energy storage systems, electric cars and electric tools.

GKN Aerospace will build a new Global Technology Centre in Bristol, UK, with a £17m commitment from GKN and £15m from the UK government. The 10,000 sq metre facility, expected to open in 2020, will host 300 engineers and focus on additive manufacturing, advanced composites, assembly and industry 4.0.