Manitowoc opened a new Potain factory in Chakan, India, which started production in Q1 2018. The facility produces MCT 85 and MC 125 tower cranes with improved efficiency.

Cranswick PLC plans to build a £54 million ($69 million) greenfield poultry processing plant in Eye, Suffolk, UK, with a capacity of 15,000 birds per hour. The facility is scheduled for completion in late 2019 and could create up to 400 jobs.

Airbus announced plans to build a new assembly plant in Mobile, Alabama, to produce A220 aircraft, adjacent to its existing factory, with construction expected to begin in 2019 and first delivery in 2020.

Scania will build a new foundry in Södertälje, Sweden, with a total project cost of EUR 165 million, financed by a EUR 75 million loan from NIB. The foundry will increase capacity from 30,000 to 90,000 tonnes per year. Construction is planned to start in January 2019.

Lithuanian company Beltekhnika presented an investment project to establish agricultural machinery production in Armenia, with a new factory to be built on the basis of Hayelektromash. First-stage investment of USD 5-7 million is planned, with work starting December 1, 2018.

Agrifac Machinery, part of Exel Group, has built a new factory in Steenwijk, Netherlands, to increase production capacity and double turnover. The plant consolidates multiple facilities under one roof.

Covestro announced it will start construction of a new chlorine plant in Tarragona in Q1 2019, with an investment of €200 million. The plant is expected to be completed by end of 2020, and an MDI production line expansion will finish in 2022.

CarbonLite Industries will build a third facility in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania to produce food-grade rPET pellets, under a contract with Nestlé Waters North America. The facility is expected to be in full production by early 2020.

Omron opened a new Robotic Innovation Lab at its UK headquarters in Milton Keynes, representing a £600,000 investment and creating five new jobs, to demonstrate industrial robots for packaging applications.

The aviation industry Jianghang Aviaco healthy living electrical appliances smart factory project broke ground in Anqing Economic Development Zone on November 18, 2018. The total investment is 500 million yuan, with phase one budgeted at 110 million yuan to build production lines for reverse osmosis water purifiers, medical-grade oxygen concentrators, injection molding automation centers, and smart warehouses, with an annual capacity of 500,000 units.

Jiangsu Sanye Refrigeration Equipment Co., Ltd. began construction of a new factory on November 18, 2018, in Xuzhou Economic Development Zone. The 70-mu (approx. 4.7 hectares) facility will have over 30,000 sqm of production space and an annual capacity of 30,000 units.

Elsewedy Electric Algeria inaugurated a manufacturing plant for electric cable accessories in Algeria, costing $1 million and capable of producing 100,000 units per year.

TAMCO, a brand of City Electric Supply, broke ground on a 420,000-square-foot manufacturing and assembly facility in Port St. Lucie, Florida, with over 50% dedicated to warehousing and order fulfillment. The facility is due to be completed in September 2019.

La Moderna, Mexico's largest pasta manufacturer, opened a new $50 million facility in Texas to expand into the U.S. market.

Siemens opened a new 300,000 sq. ft. turbine service center in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, with a $32 million investment. The facility supports approximately 150 employees and consolidates Power Generation Services work from two previous locations.

FORSOLID MANUFACTURY S.L. plans to build a mineral plexiglass factory in Olivenza, Spain, with an investment of 8-10 million euros, creating 30-80 jobs. The plant will have a capacity of 40,000 tonnes per year and is expected to start production in about eight months.

Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. broke ground on a jointly owned automotive production plant in Huntsville, Alabama. The $1.6 billion facility will have capacity to build 300,000 vehicles per year and create up to 4,000 jobs, with production starting in 2021.

Morchem, a family-owned polyurethane adhesive producer, has begun building a new factory on a 30,000 m² plot in Fontanar, Guadalajara, Spain. The initial investment is €20 million, and the first phase will create 14 direct jobs.

BM Bioscience Technology GmbH, a joint venture between MedTec Holding GmbH and Biolight Healthcare GmbH, held a topping-out ceremony for its production facility in Laage, Germany. The €10 million plant will produce complete filter systems, starting with dialyzers, and is expected to begin production in early 2019, creating about 35 jobs.

Refcool announced the construction of a new refrigeration equipment plant in the special economic zone of Kaluga region, Russia. The plant will cover 4 hectares with 8,000 m² of production and warehouse space, and will have four production lines for industrial and climate refrigeration.

Wanhua Chemical announced it will build a new $1.25 billion MDI manufacturing complex in Convent, St. James Parish, Louisiana, with a capacity of 400 kilotons per year. Construction is set to start in 2019 and operations to begin in 2021.

EMAG (China) Machinery Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase of its high-end CNC machine tool project in Jintan Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu province, on December 1, 2018. The total investment is 4.9 billion yuan, with phase one investment of 3.08 billion yuan, and will produce 3,000 high-end CNC machine tools annually with expected annual sales over 10 billion yuan.

Gestamp Automocion SA opened a new EUR 50 million ($56.58 million) production facility in Tianjin, China, named Gestamp Auto Components (Tianjin) Co Ltd, bringing its China count to 11 production facilities and 2 R&D centers.

Expro opened a new purpose-built facility in Baku, Azerbaijan, costing $5 million, with 8,500 square metres of office and workshop space for 30 employees. It will provide integrated subsea services in the region.

CarbonLITE plans a new 200,000-square-foot rPET processing facility in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania, expected to be in full production by early 2020. It is expected to produce 80 million pounds per year of food-grade rPET pellets.

Emerson's Metran plant in Chelyabinsk will build a second production building of about 20,000 sq m on the northwest side, with construction starting May 2019 and completion by end-2020; experts estimate costs above $50 million.

Emerson opened a new $25 million facility in Jukjeon, Korea, to serve its Emerson Automation Solutions customers in the region.

Packaging and processing equipment maker tna opened a new 80,000 sq ft manufacturing centre in Boronia, Victoria, built for almost $8 million, and targets over $1 billion in sales within five years.

Oxiteno celebrated the official opening of its first alkoxylation plant in Pasadena, Texas, on Nov. 14, 2018, with an annual capacity of 375 million pounds.

Komatsu Mining Corp. announced plans to build a new headquarters and manufacturing campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a $285 million investment. The project is expected to create more than 400 jobs and be completed in 2020.

USA Rare Earth Inc. selects Cherokee County, South Carolina, for its first South Carolina operation with an undisclosed investment.

Mosdorfer LLC selects Oconee County, South Carolina, for its first U.S. operation with a $44.55 million investment creating 107 new jobs.

Detpak USA selects Spartanburg County, South Carolina, for its first U.S. manufacturing operation with a multi-million-dollar investment creating over 50 new jobs.

UFP Packaging invests $5.31 million in a new Cherokee County, South Carolina, operation, creating 136 new jobs.

Tyson Steel Building Products selects Pickens County, South Carolina, for its first South Carolina operation with a $15.15 million investment and approximately 20 new jobs.

Adeptus USA selects Anderson County, South Carolina, to establish its first South Carolina operation with a $215.56 million investment and 217 new jobs.

Systemair HSK opened a new €15 million factory in Dilovası, Turkey, with an annual capacity of 4,500 air handling units. The facility is the largest investment by the Swedish Systemair group in the last two years and is LEED Gold certified.

McLaren Automotive opened a £50 million ($65 million) Composites Technology Centre in Rotherham, England, to produce carbon fibre chassis, moving production from Austria. The facility is expected to create over 200 jobs when it reaches full production in 2020.

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) plans to start trial production at its NAND flash memory fab in Wuhan, China by the end of 2018, with mass production targeted for early 2019. The total investment is $24 billion, and Phase 1 capacity target is 300,000 wafers per month.

Urano has begun construction of a new plant in Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture, with a total investment of approximately 3.3 billion yen. The 11,000 sqm facility will produce aircraft parts and semiconductor manufacturing equipment components.

TE Connectivity officially inaugurated its factory in Timisoara, Western Romania, on November 14, 2018. The EUR 6 million investment includes 6,000 sqm of production facilities and 1,200 sqm of warehouses, and started with 70 employees producing temperature sensors for the aeronautic, medical and automotive industries.

Building products group F2A opened a new 3,600 m² factory for acoustic products in Dagneux, France, bringing its total to four plants and over 170 employees.

Air Liquide signed a memorandum of understanding to invest $10 million in a new industrial gas production plant in Cheonan, South Korea. The plant will be built on an 18,000-square-meter site in a foreign investment zone.

German automotive wiring group Kromberg & Schubert officially inaugurated a new plant in Kenitra, Morocco, with an investment of 450 million dirhams (approximately €40 million), expected to generate over 3,000 jobs. The plant specializes in manufacturing electrical wiring harnesses for the automotive industry.

ABB officially launched production at its ABB Xiamen Hub in Xiamen, Fujian province, on November 13, 2018. The hub, built with $300 million in additional investment, integrates R&D, engineering, manufacturing, sales and service, and employs 3,500 people.

Combilift opened a new €50 million global headquarters and manufacturing facility in Monaghan, Ireland, with 46,500 square meters of space to double production.

Eaton broke ground at the KIADB Aerospace SEZ near Devanahalli, Bangalore, to build its first Indian aerospace manufacturing facility on 2.75 acres, investing Rs 60 crore in the first phase. The site is expected to be operational in the second half of 2019 and employ 110 people.

Evonik commissioned a new multi-layer coextrusion plant for PMMA flat films in Weiterstadt, Germany, with a double-digit million euro investment. The plant produces the largest available format worldwide (2,700 mm width) and has created new jobs.

Schneider Electric partnered with Lidl to deliver Finland's largest industrial microgrid and building automation system for Lidl's new 60,000 m² distribution center in Järvenpää, Finland. The center will start operations at the beginning of 2019.

Infineon is investing €1.6 billion in a new semiconductor factory in Villach, Austria, to produce power semiconductors on 300-mm thin wafers. Production is scheduled to start in early 2021, and the facility will include R&D space for about 600 experts.