Packaging maker Rio Bonito Embalagens will invest R$15 million to build a factory in Bonito, Pernambuco, making egg and poultry and fruit packaging. Works start in January 2019 and operations are planned for February 2020, creating about 1,100 direct and indirect jobs.

The Dow Chemical Co. announced the construction of a new silicone resin plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, China, expected to come online in 2021.

Jushi USA is nearing the opening of its 800,000-square-foot fiberglass manufacturing plant in Columbia, South Carolina, with a $400 million investment. The plant will start production in Q1 2019 and hire 400 workers.

Illinois-based Transparent Container is opening a new production facility in Tijuana's La Encantada industrial park, an 87,750-square-foot plant with 11 thermoforming lines. The company has not disclosed investment or job numbers.

Haakon Industries announced plans to invest $19.6 million in a new manufacturing plant at Enka Commerce Park in Asheville, North Carolina. The custom HVAC manufacturer expects to create up to 160 jobs over five years and will break ground in 2019.

Osho Cement, a joint venture between Osho Ventures and HeidelbergCement, received its first shipment of clinker and gypsum at the Port of Ngqura for its new grinding plant at the Coega special economic zone. The plant is scheduled to open in late 2018.

Systemair HSK opened a new 28,000 m² air handling unit factory in Dilovası, Kocaeli, Turkey, with an investment of EUR 15 million. The plant has an annual capacity of 4,500 units and is the first LEED Gold-certified air handling unit factory in Turkey.

Fluor Corporation completed construction of a high-performance adhesives manufacturing facility for Solvay in Wrexham, Wales. The plant was officially opened on September 20, 2018.

Stanbury Uniforms, Inc. announced plans to open a third production facility in Warsaw, Missouri, to add manufacturing capacity for band uniforms.

Pfeiffer Vacuum Romania, a subsidiary of Germany's Pfeiffer Vacuum, completed a 13 million euro investment in a 4,500 sq m industrial pump production and repair plant in the Nervia park in Apahida, Cluj, adding 26 jobs.

Jining Haitui Heavy Industry Machinery Co., Ltd. opened a new bulldozer plant on 20 September 2018. The 40,000 m² facility has over 100 workers and an annual capacity of 2,000 crawler bulldozers.

B. Braun opened a 400,000-square-foot distribution center in Daytona Beach, Florida, to support increased production at its expanded manufacturing plant. The company pledged 175 new jobs and over $140 million in capital investment.

Novares opened its first North African production plant in Kenitra, Morocco, producing plastic components for automotive customers. The 10,700 m² facility employs 70 people, with plans to reach 225 by 2020.

Steel & Alloy has opened a new state-of-the-art steel processing facility in Oldbury, UK, as part of a £27 million investment. The facility will increase capacity and capability for the UK automotive industry.

Russia's Pervaya Stroitelnaya Kompaniya (PSK) plans to construct a cement plant at the Borisovsky deposit in Petrovsky, Tambov region. Infrastructure preparation is expected in 2019, with processing lines launching in 2025. Capacity will exceed 1.2Mta, with total investment of RUB 10 billion (USD 146.87 million).

Samsung Electro-Mechanics' subsidiary Tianjin Samsung Electro-Mechanics will build a new MLCC production plant in Tianjin, China, with an investment of 573.3 billion KRW (approx. USD 510 million). The plant is aimed at expanding the automotive electronics business.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor's joint venture, Chongqing WanGuo Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd., is expected to start formal production in October 2018 at its 12-inch power semiconductor wafer fab and packaging/testing facility in Chongqing, China. The total investment is $1 billion.

Evonik is investing a double-digit million euro amount to build a new multi-purpose silicones manufacturing facility at its Geesthacht site in Northern Germany. The plant is scheduled to go into operation at the end of 2019.

TECO Electric & Machinery broke ground on a small-motor plant in KCN My Phuoc III Park, Binh Duong Province, Vietnam on July 5, 2018. Mass production is scheduled to start in April 2019, with a target capacity of 300,000 motors per year.

Bosch held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 300mm fab in Dresden, Germany on April 24, 2018. Equipment installation is expected in the second half of 2019.

SK Hynix plans to build a new DRAM fab in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, with construction to be completed by end of 2020. Total investment is estimated to exceed $13 billion.

Cuban-Italian joint venture Vidrios Mariel S.A, formed by Italy's Nelson Servizi and Cuba's Quimi SA, received approval to build a glass container plant in the Mariel Special Development Zone with initial investment of $90 million.

Gidrolica opened a new factory for the production of water drainage systems in Zvenigorod, Russia, on September 19, 2018. The plant is the largest in Europe within the Graspointner GmbH holding and features automated German equipment.

VSMPO-Avisma and Boeing launched a new manufacturing unit in Russia's Sverdlovsk region, a second Ural Boeing Manufacturing joint venture facility, with investment of 5.5 billion roubles ($82.3 million). It will produce titanium forgings for Boeing commercial airplane programs.

Ellwood Group Inc. announced it will construct a $60 million aluminum casting facility at its Ellwood Engineered Castings site in Hubbard, Ohio. The 70,000-square-foot plant will expand the company's materials production capabilities beyond steel.

Ural Boeing Manufacturing (UBM), a joint venture of VSMPO-Avisma and Boeing, opened a new plant in the Titanium Valley special economic zone in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, on September 19, 2018. The plant produces machined titanium parts for Boeing aircraft, including 737 MAX, 777, and 787. Investment was about 5.5 billion rubles.

Europlastex Invest, a resident of the Grodnoinvest Free Economic Zone, will build a new cotton processing plant in Smorgon, Belarus. The €30 million investment is expected to create over 1,000 jobs, with commissioning scheduled in two years.

ABB has started construction of a new 7,400 sq. m. factory in Petrich, Bulgaria, to manufacture low-voltage products. The $4.2 million greenfield investment will create 420 jobs when fully operational.

Energy Absolute plans to invest $3 billion in a battery gigafactory in Thailand. Phase 1, with 1 GWh capacity, is scheduled to open in Q3 2019; phase 2 aims for 50 GWh.

Tristone Flowtech Group launched Tristone Flowtech Brasil Autopecas Ltda in São Paulo in August 2018 to enter the Brazilian automotive market. It plans a local plant of about 5,000 square metres employing 150 people, making engine and battery cooling and aircharge fluid products.

Nilpeter opened a 3,500 sqm manufacturing and development facility with a technology center in Mahindra World City, Chennai. The site houses over 70 employees and will more than double the press manufacturing capacity.

ITP Aero is building a new plant in Derio, Biscay, near its Zamudio headquarters, for Externals components, including aeronautic tubes. The plant is planned to open by late spring 2019 and will host 160 employees, including 60 new hires.

RECOM announced a new facility in Armenia with a total capacity of 700 MW in cells and modules, coming online soon to serve markets such as USA, Middle East and EU.

Kolon Industries Binh Duong Co. Ltd inaugurated a plant in Bau Bang industrial park, Binh Duong province, Vietnam, on September 18, 2018, to manufacture polyester tyre cord fabrics. The plant cost US$220 million and has an initial capacity of 1,400 tonnes per year.

Aerospace parts manufacturer Walbar Engine Components inaugurated a new 35,000-square-foot production facility in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, with a $10 million investment. The plant adds capacity and the workforce in Guaymas increased to 300.

Australian air conditioning manufacturer ActronAir officially opened a new 18,000 sqm manufacturing facility in Marsden Park, Sydney, doubling previous capacity and including 2,300 sqm of testing laboratories.

Medicago started construction of a $245 million commercial vaccine production facility in Quebec City's Estimauville Innovation Area, expected to operate in winter 2021 and produce 40-50 million doses annually.

Suez will build a £100 million energy-from-waste plant near Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, to address treatment shortfalls.

Taiwanese cable manufacturer SINBON inaugurated a new 3,500 m² production hall in Tatabánya, Hungary, with an investment of nearly HUF 1.6 billion. The company plans to add a further 2,000 m² hall within three years.

Spanish dermocosmetics group Sesderma will open a new 18,356 m² facility in Puzol, Valencia on 21 September 2018, tripling production capacity. The company invested EUR 18 million in the construction.

Toshiba Memory Corporation and Western Digital Corporation celebrated the opening of Fab 6, a new 3D flash memory fabrication facility, and the Memory R&D Center in Yokkaichi, Japan. Mass production of 96-layer 3D flash memory began in September 2018.

Work is under way on an 800,000 sq meter, 10 billion yuan industrial estate in Foshan to house three ventures between Midea and Kuka. The complex will have annual capacity to produce 75,000 industrial robots by 2024.

Jaten Robot & Automation opened a new 40,000 sq meter factory in Shunde, Foshan, costing 120 million yuan (US$17.5 million), expected to triple annual production to 10,000 robots.

Continental laid the cornerstone of a EUR 100 million automotive electronics plant in Debrecen, Hungary, creating 450 jobs. Production is expected to start in Q3 2020.

JTEKT Corporation held a ground-breaking ceremony for a new steering system production facility in Tangier, Morocco. The plant will have an annual capacity of 230,000 electric power steering systems and is set to begin production in 2020.

Micron Technology will invest over $41 million to build a new production plant in Hyderabad, India, spanning 180,000 sq ft and expected to increase local employee base to around 1,000.

Sinostar PEC will invest $240 million (RMB 1.2 billion) to construct a polypropylene production plant in Shandong, China. The plant will have a production capacity of 200,000 tonnes per annum and will be built by subsidiary Dongming Hengchang.

Polotsk-Steklovolokno plans to start construction of a new workshop for producing thermo-chemically treated electrical insulation materials in April 2020. The project is valued at 46 million Belarusian rubles (about $19.4 million) and will have a capacity of 2 million meters of fabric per month.

Green Leaf, parent of TerreMax, has completed construction of a new 45,000 sq ft warehousing and order processing facility in the American heartland for its fluid flow products.

Zhejiang Sowinpack held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new PLA (polylactic acid) new material industrial park in Binhai New Industrial Estate, Pingyang County, Wenzhou. The new building will cover over 116,666 square meters.