BQE Water Inc. completed commissioning of a metal recovery plant at the Guoda gold smelter and refinery owned by Zhaoyuan Gold Smelting Co., Ltd in Shandong, China. The plant treats arsenic-laden acidic bleed streams and recovers copper and zinc using ChemSulphide technology, entering continuous operation in September 2018.

NSG Group announced the location of a new 500,000 square foot float glass manufacturing plant in Troy Township, Ohio, near First Solar's site. Construction will begin in spring 2019, with operations expected in the second half of 2020, creating 125-150 new jobs.

DS Smith plans a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Indiana, with $106 million investment and 140 jobs by December 2020, after city council approved tax abatements.

Hunan Xiaoaisi Fluid Control Equipment broke ground on October 28, 2018 on a 120 million yuan valve production project in Yueyang's Chenglingji new port area, covering 28 mu of land and 20,000 square meters of buildings.

Uniprom is building a new alloy factory at the Kombinat Aluminijuma (KAP) site in Montenegro, with an investment of EUR 11 million. The factory will produce 30,000 tons of special alloys and employ 54 workers, with operations starting in February 2019.

Advanced Airfoil Components, a Siemens joint venture, opened a new 210,000-square-foot plant in Hillsborough County, Florida. The plant will produce precision metal components for gas turbines and is expected to create 350 jobs over five years.

Phillips-Medisize closed on 34 acres in Hudson, Wisconsin, to build a 180,000-sq. ft. FDA-regulated manufacturing facility with over $40 million investment, supporting at least 200 jobs.

SES Engineering Services was appointed to deliver a new £10.7m cryogenic facility, warehouse, and protective coatings laboratory for Akzo Nobel at its Gateshead site, with work starting in October 2018.

Zoomlion officially launched its access division at a new factory in Wangcheng District, Changsha, Hunan Province, with five automated production lines and an annual production capacity of 12,000 scissor lifts. The company targets 6,000 unit sales in 2019, generating about RMB500 million ($72 million) in revenue.

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

CANPACK opened its new beverage can manufacturing plant in Nuh, Haryana, India, with capacity of 950 million cans per year and about 160 jobs.

Metso decided to invest about EUR 10 million in a new green-field valve technology center in Jiaxing, China, expected to start operations in spring 2020.

Boeing opened its new Fabrication factory in Sheffield, its first manufacturing site in Europe. The £40 million, 6,200-square-metre facility produces actuation system components for the 737 and 767 jets and employs 52 people.

KOLON BASF innoPOM Inc., a 50:50 joint venture between KOLON PLASTICS and BASF, started operations at its new polyoxymethylene (POM) production plant in Gimcheon, Korea. The plant has an annual capacity of 70,000 metric tons and represents an investment of KRW 260 billion (approximately USD 220 million).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will build a new factory on the site of its Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works Oye Plant and lease it to U-MHI Platech, a maker of injection molding machines. Construction starts December 2018, completion March 2020, with transfer by July 2020.

U-MHI Platech Co., Ltd. announced it will lease a new manufacturing plant for injection molding machines to be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at its Oye Factory in Nagoya, Japan. Construction starts December 2018, completion March 2020, with operations transferring from the Iwatsuka Factory in July 2020.

Gibela, the Alstom-led joint venture, officially opened its 53,000 m² train manufacturing plant in Ekurhuleni, South Africa. Built at a cost of R1 billion, the plant will produce 580 modern commuter trains for South Africa, with peak production of 62 trains per year.

SSE and Siemens broke ground on the Keadby 2 combined cycle gas turbine plant in Keadby, UK, a £350 million investment with 840 MW capacity using Siemens HL gas turbine technology, scheduled for commercial operation in 2022.

Transneft has commissioned a plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia, to produce high-voltage electric motors for mainline oil pumps. The plant is operated by AO Russkiye Elektricheskiye Dvigateli (AO RED), a joint venture between Transneft (51%) and Konar (49%).

Bulgaria's Sigmatech has broken ground for a $30 million centre for aircraft turbine parts production.

Chromaflo Technologies announced plans to build a new pigment dispersion manufacturing facility. The target timeline is to produce trial batches in early January 2019, with full production soon thereafter.

A new plant for producing high-voltage electric motors and generators opened in Chelyabinsk, Russia, as a joint project between Transneft, Konar, and Nidec. The plant will produce up to 300 electric motors per year, primarily for oil pipeline pumping units.

BORG Automotive plans a new factory in Lublin, southeast of Warsaw, to add remanufactured automotive parts capacity because its existing Polish plant will be fully utilized by 2019.

Sigmatek EOOD broke ground on a $30 million research and production complex for aircraft engine parts in Burgas, Bulgaria, expected to create over 200 jobs within a year.

President Museveni commissioned the Sukulu project in Tororo, Uganda, a $620 million comprehensive industrial park by Guangzhou Dongsong Energy Group, producing cement, steel, glass and fertilizers. Phase 1 is completed; phase 2 is expected by July 2019.

The head of Sociedad Accidental Imasa Polysius said the 1.3Mt/yr cement plant in Potosí, Bolivia, is more than 45% complete, with the half-way mark expected by end of October 2018. The plant costs around US$240m.

Codex GmbH opened a new tile adhesive manufacturing plant in Ulm's Donautal district after 15 months of construction, with production capacity of about 1,600 bags per hour.

CPI Radant Technologies Division opened a new radome manufacturing facility in Hudson, Massachusetts, doubling its manufacturing capacity for high-volume production of radomes for in-flight entertainment and connectivity applications.

Continental opened a new automotive hose manufacturing plant in Qingdao, Shandong province, China. The company invested almost US$35 million in the 84,000 sq m facility, which will produce high-quality automotive hoses mainly for the local market.

Chiron Group is investing over €30 million in a new Precision Factory in Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany, with capacity for 450 machines per year and 220 employees. Operations are set to begin in autumn 2019.

Chiron Group is building a new plant in Taicang, China for over €10 million, tripling local production capacity and creating 190 new jobs. Production is expected to start in the first half of 2019.

Silan Electronics and Xiamen Semiconductor Investment Group officially started construction of two 12-inch specialty process chip production lines and a 4-6-inch advanced compound semiconductor production line in Xiamen, China, with a total investment of approximately USD 3.18 billion.

Universal Fibres, a US-based chemical fiber producer, will invest $8 million in a new factory in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland. Production is expected to start in February 2019, with plans to hire 60 people initially and up to 170 eventually.

MGX Minerals announced that engineering partner PurLucid Treatment Solutions delivered the first commercial-scale 750 barrel per day petrolithium and advanced wastewater treatment system to a centralized facility north of Edmonton, Alberta. The system is in final electrical connection and expected to begin processing wastewater in early November 2018.

Thyssenkrupp has commissioned the world's first commercial polylactide (PLA) plant using its PLAneo technology in Changchun, China, operated by Jilin COFCO Biomaterial Corporation, a COFCO subsidiary. The plant produces standard PLA types for packaging, fibers, textiles, and engineering plastics.

Hexa-Lotos, a subsidiary of Hexa, will commission the first phase of a polymer fabric plant in the Lotos special economic zone in Astrakhan, Russia, by the end of 2018. Investment is RUB 330 million, with first-phase capacity of 60 tonnes per month.

thyssenkrupp commissioned the world's first commercial plant using its PLAneo technology to make polylactide bioplastic in Changchun, China. The plant is operated by Jilin COFCO Biomaterial, a COFCO subsidiary, and started production in October 2018.

Ascent Aerospace officially opened its first plant in Mexico, a 50,000 sq ft facility in Mexicali, Baja California, with a $22 million investment. The plant creates 100 jobs initially, expected to double.

Dutchland Plastics opened a new 50,000-square-foot factory in Canastota, New York, creating 45 new jobs, producing gas tanks and fenders for Ferris Industries.

Huvis Indorama Advanced Materials, a joint venture between Indorama Ventures and Huvis Corp., is launching new manufacturing operations at Auriga Polymers' campus in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, with a $48 million investment and 50 new jobs, producing low melting fiber with 60,000 tons annual capacity.

FPS Food Process Solutions, a Canadian food processing equipment company, opened a new parts and service center in Cartersville, Georgia, its first U.S. office, to support self-stacking spiral freezers.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov opened a gas chemical complex in Kiyanly, Turkmenistan, producing polyethylene and polypropylene. The $3.4 billion project was implemented by Turkmengas with LG International, Hyundai Engineering, and Toyo Engineering.

Spanish cooperative Ampo inaugurated a new 12,500 square metre machining plant in Idiazabal, Gipuzkoa, built with a €22 million investment. It will machine valves in-house and add 20 jobs.

European Springs & Pressings, a Lesjöfors company, bought a new site of about 2,000 square metres in Penryn, Cornwall, to serve its industrial spring business. It is planned to be fully operational from Q4 2018 with over 20 staff.

BD inaugurated a new factory in Curitiba, Brazil, for BD Vacutainer vacuum blood collection tubes, with an investment of R$130 million and capacity of 150-200 million tubes per year, creating over 40 direct jobs.

Kyocera has started construction of a new manufacturing facility at its Kawasaki complex in Kanagawa, Japan, to increase production capacity for conductive and insulation pastes by 50%. Investment is approximately 2.6 billion yen ($23.1 million).

Packaging company Visy is building a $99 million corrugated cardboard plant in Truganina, Melbourne's West, that will make cardboard from recycled paper for the local food and beverage market. The Victorian government says the investment will create 85 new jobs.

Siemens Gamesa and the Grand Port Maritime du Havre signed an agreement to prepare for the installation of two factories to manufacture offshore wind turbine blades and nacelles in Le Havre, France, with 750 jobs expected and commissioning by 2021.

Sika announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility in Querétaro, Mexico, which includes an integrated logistics center and will produce acoustic treatments and body structural products.

IPM Foods is launching NaturPak Pet and moving to a new 162,000-square-foot packaging facility in Janesville, Wisconsin, opening in mid-2019. The $20 million project will more than double staffing to over 100 by 2020.