Winbond Electronics Corp broke ground on a NT$335 billion (US$10.92 billion) 12-inch fab in Southern Taiwan Science Park, Kaohsiung, to produce DRAM and flash memory chips, creating at least 2,500 jobs.

Novus began full operations at its new plant in the Parque Canoas de Inovação, moving 100% of its Porto Alegre operation there. The first-stage investment is R$20 million, and the factory is about three times larger than the previous one.

Nippon Shokubai's subsidiary NIPPON SHOKUBAI EUROPE N.V. held a completion ceremony for new plants of superabsorbent polymers (SAP) and Acrylic Acid (AA) in Antwerp, Belgium on October 2, 2018. The new AA plant enables vertical integration of SAP production from raw material in Europe.

Sahajanand Medical Technologies (SMT) will set up Asia's largest cardiovascular stent manufacturing plant at Sultanpur Medical Devices park in Sangareddy district, Telangana, with an investment of Rs 250 crore. The plant will create over 2,000 jobs and have a capacity of 1.25 million stents and 2 million balloon catheters per year.

Multivac has invested US$40 million in a new center for its Slicer Business Unit in Wolfertschwenden, Germany, with completion planned for 2020. The facility will include production space and an application center.

OSYPKA s.r.o. opened a new production facility in Odry, Czech Republic in October 2018, with an investment of nearly EUR 3.9 million. The plant has over 4,000 m2 of production space and 500 m2 of cleanroom, set to double soon.

Dhanlakshmi Group has started up a new factory under Dhanlakshmi Packaging Industries Private Ltd, operational from October 2018. The plant includes an EMBA FFG 245 QS Ultima with DualBox, the first of its kind in India and Asia.

Metsä Spring and Itochu established a joint venture to build and operate a €40 million demo plant in Äänekoski, Finland, to produce wood-based textile fibres. The plant will have an annual capacity of about 500 tonnes and is planned to start up in late 2019.

Dorman Products is opening a new production and distribution facility in Portland, Tennessee, investing more than $55 million and creating approximately 215 jobs. The facility will be over 800,000 sq ft.

Case Construction Equipment dealer ASCO Equipment Company opened its largest location in San Antonio, Texas, on 62 acres with a 42,600-square-foot facility offering sales, parts, service and training.

ACWA Power is building the $1 billion Kirikkale Independent Power Plant, a gas-fired combined cycle plant in Turkey, representing Saudi Arabia's first investment in the Turkish power market.

Brickworks, the Neilsen Group and the Neumann Group formed a joint venture, Southern Cross Cement, to build a circa $50 million cement import terminal in Brisbane. The terminal will have 40,000 tonnes of silo storage and is expected to be commissioned within 18 months.

Memstar Pte Ltd, part of CITIC Envirotech Ltd, opened a membrane manufacturing facility in Conroe, Texas, its first production plant outside Asia.

ABB will invest $150 million to build a robotics factory in Shanghai, with production expected to begin by the end of 2020 and annual capacity of around 100,000 robots. The facility will be ABB's single largest robotics facility globally.

Weber Metals, a division of Otto Fuchs KG, unveiled a new $180 million 60,000-ton forging press at its new 2.5-acre facility in Paramount, California. The press will double employment to 800 jobs and produce parts for aircraft and spacecraft, with the first production part for Boeing's 737 MAX.

MBtech Bohemia, a member of France's AKKA Group, launched operations at its new plant in Plzeň. The facility, valued at 51 million crowns and covering 1800 m2, includes manufacturing and development facilities for jigs, robotic welding, and long-term vehicle testing.

KLA-Tencor Corporation announced plans to establish a new research-and-development center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a total capital investment of more than $70 million and the creation of 500 high-tech jobs over five years.

ITASA built a new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with a EUR 20 million investment, 150 million m2 annual capacity and 50 employees, starting operations in October 2018 with siliconing from February 2019.

NOVUS began operations at a new 5,000+ square meter headquarters and factory in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, on October 1, 2018. The R$20 million investment added machinery and is expected to raise factory capacity by 30%.

SeaCa Packaging, owned by Seattle Tacoma Box Company, broke ground on a polypropylene carton plant in Surprise, Arizona, with a $17 million investment, 65 phase one jobs and completion targeted for April 2019.

Xi'an Yiwei Putai Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. broke ground on a new R&D and production base in Lintong Modern Industrial Cluster, Xi'an. The facility covers 31,173 m², with total investment of about 300 million CNY, and will produce 61,000 tons/year of water treatment chemicals.

Shree Cement is planning to set up a greenfield integrated cement plant in Maldo, Kutch district, Gujarat. The project includes a 2.5 mtpa clinker unit, 3.5 mtpa cement unit, a 20 MW waste heat recovery plant and a 25 MW captive power plant, with an estimated cost of ₹18,376 million.

ACM Research held a grand opening ceremony for its new factory in the Pudong region of Shanghai, China. The facility has 50,000 square feet of floor space and can support an incremental $250 million of annual production when fully loaded.

Spa Track Medical Limited announced the opening of a new UK production facility for its RFID pods used in surgical instrument tracking.

Ta Ti Hsing Machinery Co., Ltd. held a grand opening ceremony for its new factory in Taoyuan, Taiwan on September 28, 2018. The facility will produce tofu and soymilk processing equipment.

Lointek, through Lointek Heavy Industries, S.L., is building a new production plant at the Port of Bilbao with an investment of EUR 5 million. The facility will cover 9,800 square meters and will be used for manufacturing and assembly of large, heavy special parts.

Bonfiglioli Transmission Pvt Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of Bonfiglioli Riduttori S.p.A., commenced operations at a new 1.32 lakh square foot manufacturing facility in Thirumudivakkam, Chennai. The facility has a capacity to produce 75,000 units of gear boxes, gear motors and drive systems per year.

Lenze laid the foundation stone for its Mechatronic Competence Campus in Extertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, a roughly €50 million investment that will employ more than 800 people. Completion is planned for end 2019 with operation from early 2020.

Dunapack Rambox, a subsidiary of Austria's Prinzhorn group, will start construction of a new 22,000 sqm corrugated cardboard plant in Bolintin, west of Bucharest, on land bought in late 2017. Projected annual output is 180 million sqm.

Komatsu announced plans to build a $285-million headquarters in Milwaukee.

Multisorb inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Hyderabad, India, to produce active packaging components for pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The facility has completed validation and will begin production in the coming weeks.

Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning's joint venture with Hisense broke ground on a third factory in Qingdao, China, with a potential capacity of 2 million units per year. Operations are scheduled to commence in November 2019.

ZF Chassis System Sdn Bhd invested RM48 million to construct a new 13,000-sq-metre plant in Pekan Automotive Park, Malaysia, to double production capacity. The plant was officially launched on September 27, 2018.

Momentive Performance Materials Inc. celebrated the official opening of its new NXT silane production facility in the Leverkusen Chempark, Germany. The plant doubles capacity for NXT silanes used in tire manufacturing.

Datwyler celebrated the official opening of its new production plant in Middletown, Delaware, which will produce rubber components for pharmaceutical and biotech markets. The company invested $100 million in the facility, which is expected to create 120 jobs and be fully operational by the end of 2018.

Komatsu Mining Corp. announced plans to build a new, state-of-the-art headquarters and manufacturing campus in Milwaukee's Harbor District, investing nearly $300 million. The 2.5 million-square-foot South Harbor Campus is expected to be completed in 2022.

Sark Bulgaria, a division of Turkish company Sarkuysan, will invest BGN 17 million in a new electric cable factory near Shumen, Bulgaria. The plant will produce cables for the automotive, aviation and defense industries, creating 40 new jobs.

Flex-N-Gate Detroit, an automotive components manufacturer, is building a new 494,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Detroit's I-94 industrial park. The project is supported by an $8 million New Markets Tax Credit investment from Stonehenge Capital and is expected to create 800 new jobs.

Yıldız Demir Çelik, a subsidiary of Yıldızlar Yatırım Holding, opened a flat steel production plant in Kocaeli's Alikahya region with a $300 million investment. The plant has an annual capacity of 1.5 million tons and employs 350 people, with plans to reach 600 employees after the second phase.

AerSale announced the launch of a new business unit, AerSale Parts Manufacturing, in Roswell, New Mexico. The facility is a 17,000-square-foot FAA-approved manufacturing plant for commercial and military aircraft parts.

Gringo will build a production complex for large-unit assembly of forklifts and mini-loaders in the Alabushevo site of Technopolis Moscow in Zelenograd. The investment is 1.049 billion rubles, with first production expected in Q1 2019 and annual capacity of 5,000 units.

Ball Corporation has inaugurated a new beverage can production plant in Cabanillas del Campo, Guadalajara, Spain. Ball invested more than 100 million euros in the facility.

Germany-based canmaker Blechwarenfabrik Limburg has invested €30 million (US$35 million) in a new plant on the outskirts of its home town of Limburg.

Feldmeier Equipment Inc. opened a new $15 million, 133,000-square-foot stainless steel tank factory in DeWitt, New York, replacing its previous facility and planning to grow workforce to 200-250.

Powertech Technology broke ground on a new advanced chip packaging factory in Hsinchu, Taiwan, with an investment of more than NT$50 billion (US$1.68 billion). The plant targets AI, high-performance computing, and connected car applications.

New Deantronics, a medical device manufacturer, is breaking ground on a 200,000 sq. ft. R&D and manufacturing facility in Washoe County, Nevada, with a $40 million investment and over 200 new jobs, expected to open in 2020.

Chinese company Nuctech opened a 6,000 m² production and office facility in Kobyłka, Poland, with an investment of about 40 million złoty, to double production of security scanners and conduct R&D.

Gorbel opened a new manufacturing facility in Goodyear, Arizona, its fourth manufacturing location, adding more than 20 jobs in the first phase with a sizable capital investment.

Danimer Scientific will locate a fermentation facility in Winchester, Kentucky, investing $36.2 million to produce its Noda PHA biopolymer and create 37 full-time jobs. Operations are targeted to start in Q4 2019.

Schlumberger opened a plant in the Lipetsk special economic zone to produce components for electric submersible pumps used in the oil industry, with an investment of 3.8 billion rubles. About 20% of the plant's workforce will be robots.