Rönesans Holding and Sonatrach signed a deal to build a $1.2 billion polypropylene production plant at the Ceyhan Petrochemical Industry Zone in Adana, Turkey.

Continental Motors broke ground on a 275,000 sq ft advanced manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama, investing $75 million. Initial operations begin June 2019, full production by end of 2020.

First steel was cut at the COSCO yard in Zhoushan, China, for the Karish and Tanin FPSO, which will operate offshore Israel. First gas is scheduled for Q1 2021.

Mecc Alte UK will invest over £3.2 million to open a third UK site in Oakham, East Midlands, with 33,000 sqft of manufacturing, warehouse and distribution space to support its alternator business and sister company Cabel UK. The facility opened in November 2018.

Ros electronics, part of Rostec, will build Russia's first full-cycle medical injection needle plant in Yaroslavl Oblast with an investment of 797 million rubles. The plant will produce up to 700 million needles annually and create over 150 jobs.

DynaEnergetics, a business of DMC Global, opened a 74,000 sq. ft manufacturing, assembly and administrative facility in Blum, Texas, expanding production capacity for the DynaStage well perforating system.

Derong Chemical, a subsidiary of Guangdong Demei Fine Chemicals Group, will invest CNY3.3 billion (USD475 million) to construct a hydrocarbon factory in Zhoushan, Zhejiang. The plant will produce over 400,000 tons of C5 and C9 aromatic hydrocarbons annually, with completion scheduled for H2 2020 and full production by early 2021.

Samsung SDI America Inc. will build a $62 million electric vehicle battery pack manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan, creating 461 jobs. It will be the company's first high-volume automotive battery pack plant in the U.S.

Polytec Group received a contract to produce vehicle underbody panels and other automotive components for a German premium carmaker and will build a new plant in East London, South Africa, with an investment of €10 million. Production is set to start in 2021.

Freudenberg Medical will invest more than $3 million to build a new 36,000 sq. ft. medical manufacturing facility in Beverly, Massachusetts, which will also serve as its global headquarters. The facility is expected to be operational in the second half of 2019 and employ about 70 people.

Norsk Kylling has invested €185 million in a new poultry processing plant in Orkanger, Norway. The plant will use equipment from Meyn and Cabinplant and is expected to open in 2021, with machinery operational by 2020.

Cv International has consolidated operations into a new 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Prineville, Oregon, with 6,000 sq ft of office space and 30,000 sq ft of expansion-ready manufacturing space.

Siemens has signed a long-term lease for a 67-acre site at Goole 36 to build a £200 million factory to manufacture and commission trains for the London Underground Piccadilly line. The factory will create 700 jobs and aims to start phased development in late 2019.

GE Healthcare opened a biotechnology manufacturing center at the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst campus in Stevenage, UK, which will produce a fiber-based biopharmaceutical purification platform from the first half of 2019.

Prowell is building a new corrugated sheet board plant with a £75 million ($96.2 million) investment in Ellesmere Port, England. Construction began in November 2017, with production expected in Q4 2018 and about 45 jobs created.

GMM Pfaudler Group signed an investment project with Jiangsu Liyang Economic Development Zone on 26 November 2018 to build a 20,000-square-metre factory and 3,000-square-metre office on 43,000 square metres of land in Liyang, China, for manufacturing glass-lined process equipment.

The Dow Chemical Company opened a new world-class polyol plant for rigid polyurethane foam in Rayong, Thailand. The facility has a designed annual capacity of 79,000 tons.

Steel Dynamics announced plans to construct a new electric-arc-furnace flat roll steel mill in the southwestern United States, with an annual capacity of 3 million tons and an estimated investment of $1.7-1.8 billion. Construction is expected to begin in 2020, with operations starting in the second half of 2021.

Maple Leaf Foods is investing $660 million in a new state-of-the-art poultry processing facility in London, Ontario, supported by a $28 million government investment. The facility will create 300 construction jobs and employ 1,340 full-time workers by 2023.

New Plastics Plus, a custom thermoform manufacturer for medical devices, is spending about $7.2 million to build a new 91,000 sq ft facility in St. Michael, Minnesota, creating about 10 jobs.

BMTS Technology officially inaugurated its China Headquarters and R&D Manufacturing Base in Taicang, and established a new headquarters in Shanghai's Xuhui District in 2025.

Construction of a Ytong factory has started in Tbilisi, Georgia, with a joint investment of 50 million GEL by Partnership Fund, Archi Group and Xella Group. The factory will open next year, employ over 200 people and produce 160,000 cubic meters of aerated concrete blocks annually.

Hengxing Science & Technology will invest CNY3 billion ($432 million) to construct a silicone product base in Dalad, Inner Mongolia. The two-phase project will produce 120,000 tons of high-performance silicone polymer annually, with the first phase taking 18 months.

B&B Crane Service LLC, a North Carolina-based industrial company, announced plans to establish operations in Horry County, South Carolina, with a $10 million capital investment. The company will create 48 new jobs and retain 52 existing employees, locating in Loris Commerce Park and a second future location at Ascott Valley in Conway.

Liberty Diversified International has begun construction on a new $45 million facility for its Omaha Box Company subsidiary in Papillion, Nebraska, to make custom corrugated cartons and displays. The plant is slated for completion in 2019.

Högfors opened a new valve plant in Salo, Finland, built around a Fastems flexible manufacturing system that combines Deckel Maho and Gildemeister machine tools with a Fanuc robot cell. Eight machines were relocated from the old plant and the site is ready for production of butterfly and ball valves.

ABB announced a $150 million investment to build the world's most advanced robotics factory in Shanghai, China. The Kangqiao manufacturing center is expected to begin operating by the end of 2020.

French company Badotextile has launched production at a new factory in Topola, Serbia, built on the site of the former Sivara factory. The company has invested over €1.5 million and expects to produce 350,000 pairs of trousers annually for the French market.

Belden Inc. opened a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chakan, India, with a total investment of Rs. 250 crore ($35 million). The first phase was completed in September 2018, and the facility will provide over 300 jobs at full capacity in 2019.

Swiss company Sika launched a plant to produce dry construction mixes in the Sumgayit chemical industrial park, Azerbaijan. Initial investment was $3.5 million (article says $3.5bn, likely a typo for million), creating 60 jobs, with initial capacity of 40,000 tonnes per year.

voestalpine's High Performance Metals Division started a new EUR 40 million forging line at its Kapfenberg site in October 2018, enabling production of materials for rotating aircraft turbine components. The line will process around 20,000 tons of material annually.

MULTIVAC Bulgaria Production opened a new €18.8 million parts and components production facility near Sofia, Bulgaria, in June 2018, creating approximately 150 jobs.

Four South Korean-invested companies started construction of automotive spare part manufacturing plants in DEEP C 2A Industrial Zone, Hai Phong, with a total investment of US$32.3 million. The plants are expected to begin operation in September 2019.

The Xinshiye CNC Machine Tool Industrial Park, a CNY 1.2 billion project in Zhongxiang, Hubei, is under construction with 100,000 m² of new factory space. It is a joint investment by Hubei Tiezheng Machinery and Zhongxiang city government, aiming for completion by end of 2018 and production start in March 2019.

German cardboard maker Progroup invested £74 million in a new 327,000 sq ft corrugated sheet plant in Ellesmere Port, UK, replacing its existing site and creating 51 jobs. Construction completes in December 2018.

Porcher Industries inaugurated a new 24,000 sqm manufacturing site in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, with a $50m investment, initially producing 8 million sqm of material for airbag production.

Dowty Propellers has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility at Gloucester Business Park, UK, incorporating Brilliant Factory technology. The site is expected to be operationally ready by the end of 2019.

Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies inaugurated its new cement plant in Bournezeau, Vendée, France. The EUR10m pilot project is expected to produce 50,000t of cement with reduced CO2 emissions.

TCL Corp will start manufacturing appliances and components from next year at its upcoming Rs 2,000 crore plant in India.

Haier Appliances India has finalised plans to invest Rs 3,000 crore in a new plant in Noida that will manufacture components and premium models.

Safran Aero Composite inaugurated a plant in Commercy, France on November 24, 2014, dedicated to producing 3D RTM woven composite fan blades and cases for the LEAP engine. The plant is part of a network of three production facilities built in partnership with Albany International.

Komatsu Africa Holdings opened a new R985-million industrial hub in Germiston, Johannesburg, on November 22, 2018. The 300,000 m² campus includes head office, training centre, equipment workshop, and parts distribution centre. Construction of a component remanufacturing facility will begin in April 2019 with completion in 2020.

Fabril Scavone will invest in a new nonwovens plant in Itatiba, São Paulo, with a monthly capacity of 500 tonnes. The plant is expected to start operations in 2020 and will create over 50 direct jobs.

Komatsu African Holdings unveiled a new R985 million industrial hub in Sunnyrock, Germiston, east of Johannesburg. The 300,000 m² campus includes head office, training centre, workshop and parts distribution centre.

PSA AVTEC Powertrain, a joint venture of Groupe PSA and AVTEC Group, opened a greenfield facility in Hosur to make transmissions and BS VI engines, with an investment of ₹600 crore and 800 new jobs.

Holtec Asia signed an MOU with the Maharashtra state government to establish the Holtec Heavy Manufacturing Division (HHMD) in India, a facility to fabricate safety-related equipment for nuclear power plants and heavy weldments for other industries.

Beijing Yandong Microelectronics Co. Ltd. (YDME) partnered with SilTerra Malaysia to set up an 8-inch wafer fabrication plant in Beijing, with an investment of 4.8 billion yuan (RM2.9 billion). The plant will cover 73,260 square metres and is expected to be in operation by Q1 2019 with a monthly output of 50,000 wafers.

MedTechServis opened a plant in Irkutsk, Russia, producing glucometers and test strips for blood sugar measurement. Investment was about 500 million rubles, with capacity for over 300 million test strips per year and 70 employees.

Pandrol Rahee Technologies, a joint venture between Pandrol and Rahee Group, opened a new 3,500 m² rail fastening production plant in Hyderabad, India. The facility includes an automated clip forming line and is expected to produce 4 million clips per year.

Era Polymers Corporation, an Australian polyurethane manufacturer, will open its first U.S. industrial facility in Stanley, North Carolina, investing $9.2 million and creating 20 jobs.