Yulista Holding opened a new fixed and rotary wing facility at the Southern Alabama Regional Airport in Andalusia, Alabama, designed for C-130 and B-737 aircraft, with hangars, office, and manufacturing space.

International Automotive Components (IAC) inaugurated a new state-of-the-art plant in Manesar, India, investing over $2 million and employing about 220 people to produce vehicle headliners, center consoles, and instrument panel components.

Daikin Applied Europe has launched a Witness Testing service with a new climatic test chamber at its facility in Cecchina, near Rome, Italy, designed to accommodate all cooling-specific applications.

Spain-based Congelados De Navarra will invest Rs 300 crore to set up a food processing unit in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. The project is expected to generate 400 direct and 5,000 indirect jobs, with production starting 18 months after the foundation stone is laid by end of 2018.

Progroup AG held the ground-breaking for its third paper factory at Sandersdorf-Brehna near Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, on August 10, 2018. The EUR 375 million plant with 750,000 tonnes annual capacity will create 140 direct jobs and use a new Voith paper machine.

Oji Holdings will build a corrugated cardboard factory in Bekasi Regency, West Java, through its joint venture PT Oji Sinar Mas Packaging with Purinusa Ekapersada, with a total investment of 40 billion yen and output of 5,000 tons per month, opening January 2020.

Seven Group Holdings opened a new WesTrac heavy machinery facility in Casula, Western Sydney, built by AMP Capital, to support infrastructure projects.

Siemens Gamesa will build a €70 million wind turbine factory in Aliağa, Izmir, Turkey, on a 40,000 square meter site. The factory will employ about 150 people and is expected to start production in November 2019.

King Elephant Construction Material Industrial Co., Ltd announced plans to invest US$32.6 million to build a cement factory in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, Cambodia.

Murata Manufacturing will construct a new production building at its Wuxi Murata Electronics subsidiary in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, to increase multilayer ceramic capacitor capacity. Investment is approximately 140 billion yen.

OOO Yurginsky Nonwoven Materials Factory in Yurga, Kemerovo Oblast, plans to launch production of nonwoven materials (synthetic padding, holofiber, sherston) in September 2018.

Brimax, a joint venture of Pecam and Brayco, inaugurated a new 9,000 m² plant in Fray Luis Beltrán for producing autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) bricks and panels, with an investment of $30 million. Initial capacity is 120,000 cubic meters per year, with plans to triple capacity.

PT Krakatau Nippon Steel Sumikin (KNSS) held an opening ceremony at its new steel manufacturing plant in Cilegon, Banten Province, Indonesia. The plant has capacity to produce 480,000 metric tons of steel for automotive customers.

LIXIL invested Rs 400 crore in its first sanitaryware manufacturing facility in Bhimadole, Andhra Pradesh, India. The plant has a capacity of 1 million units per year and became operational on August 8, 2018.

Devki Steel broke ground on a multi-billion shilling steel plant in Samburu, Kinango constituency, Kwale County, Kenya. The plant will have capacity to produce half a million tonnes of steel and create over 1,000 direct jobs, to be completed in two years.

A new factory in Yurga, Kuzbass, will produce nonwoven insulating materials (synthetic padding, holofiber, sherston) with an investment of 11.5 million rubles per year. The first batch is planned for September 2018.

Tajik-Chinese joint venture Chzhungtsai Mohir Cement proposed to build a cement plant with annual capacity of 1.2 million tons near the village of Tuda in Boisoun district, Surkhandarya region, Uzbekistan.

Advanced Composites & Metalforming Technologies Inc. (ACMT) announced it will renovate the old Honeywell building in Lynn Haven Industrial Park, Bay County, Florida, for a new manufacturing facility. The project represents a $20 million investment and will create 105 jobs.

Edwards Lifesciences began operations at its initial site in the Shannon Free Zone, Ireland, as part of an €80 million investment plan that will create 600 jobs over several years. The facility will support development and manufacturing of structural heart disease and critical care monitoring products.

Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd. (BFW) inaugurated a smart manufacturing facility in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. The first phase is 35,000 sqft and will double the company's machine building capacity when fully operational.

Daikin Applied Americas announced a $40.3 million investment in a new 300,000 sq ft manufacturing operation in Faribault, Minnesota.

Daisey Koseido completed the Yamaura No. 4 Plant in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, with a total investment of 2.814 billion yen, and will start operations in December 2018, producing generic drugs and export products.

MGX Minerals and PurLucid are deploying their first wastewater and lithium extraction system at a SAGD operation in the Alberta oilsands. Site preparation and integration engineering are near completion.

Synergy Steel announced plans to establish new operations in Lancaster County, South Carolina, with a $2.8 million investment. The 32,000-square-foot facility will manufacture light gauge steel products and create 139 jobs.

Vtor-Kom will build a synthetic fiber production facility in the Malaya Sosnovka industrial park in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. The investment is 550 million rubles, creating 70 jobs, with commissioning planned by end of 2020.

Abiomed opened a new $17 million, 29,800 square-foot innovation center in Danvers, Massachusetts, housing R&D laboratories, a production line, and administrative spaces.

ZCCM-Investment Holdings signed a shareholders' agreement with China Machinery Construction Group (SinoConst) to develop a US$480 million cement plant in Masaiti, Zambia, with a production capacity of 2.1 million tonnes of cement annually and creating about 1,000 jobs.

Holitech Technology signed an MoU with the Andhra Pradesh government to set up a new plant in Tirupati with an investment of $200 million (Rs 1,400 crore) over three years, producing camera modules, touch screen panels, and other components exclusively for Xiaomi.

Inventure Renewables announced an agreement with Wilmar International and Desmet Ballestra Group to begin construction on a new facility in Jiangsu province, China, using Inventure's Soap Carbonate Technology to convert processing residues into Free Fatty Acids.

Toyoda Gosei announced it will build a new factory in Karawang Regency, West Java, Indonesia to produce airbags and fuel system components. Construction began in February 2019, with production starting in November 2020. Total investment is 45 billion yen by fiscal year 2025.

Ziehl-Abegg established a new factory for EC motor manufacturing in the Hohenlohe Business Park, Germany, with an initial investment of EUR 28 million. The facility includes in-house resin production and expanded production area by 7,000 m².

F2A is moving the acoustic activity of its ELYT3 plant from Béligneux to a renovated site in Dagneux, doubling its production area; orders for factory departure move from 20 August 2018.

FibreTuff Medical Biopolymers is opening a new facility in West Unity, Ohio to manufacture its PAPC filament for medical devices. Production is expected to begin in August 2018, and the company plans to hire 20 more people over three years.

Continental Motors Group (CMG) has started foundation work for a new 275,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama, as part of a $75 million plan to transform its operations. The facility will focus on advanced engine and parts manufacturing, including additive manufacturing and automation.

AO NZIV has started implementing a project to create an automated production facility for high-quality basalt fiber thermal insulation materials in Novosibirsk, with a capacity of 15,000 tons per year. The project is expected to be completed in three years.

TCL's subsidiary China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) announced plans to build a second 11th-generation ultra-high-definition display production line (t7 factory) in Shenzhen, with total investment of 42.683 billion yuan. The project company Shenzhen CSOT Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd. will be established with Guangdong Industrial Fund as a strategic investor.

NSG Group, through its subsidiary Pilkington IGP, will open a new processing plant in Białystok, Poland. The plant will have four production lines for insulated glass units and a glass tempering furnace, and will create about 200 jobs.

Drake Enterprises, an auto and heavy truck supplier, announced it will open a second manufacturing facility in Clinton Township, Michigan. The 38,000 sq. ft plant will focus on swaging and will be occupied in September 2018, fully operational by mid-2019.

Coloplast began construction of a 135,000 sq ft warehouse at Peterborough Gateway, UK, to stock 7,000 medical products. The facility will replace its current warehouse and is expected to be completed by August 2020, creating about eight jobs.

Aurora Flight Sciences has agreed to lease about 100,000 square feet in a new MIT building in Cambridge, MA, to serve as a new Aerospace and Autonomy Center.

Toshiba Carrier Air Conditioning will build an air conditioning technology centre in Hangzhou, China, for RMB400 million ($60 million). The facility is scheduled to open in March 2020 and will enhance R&D and manufacturing capacity.

Bostik will construct a new adhesives plant in Japan, complementing its acquisition of Nitta Gelatin's industrial adhesives business.

Memstar Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Citic Envirotech Ltd, has opened a US$15 million, 40,500 sq ft membrane manufacturing facility in Conroe, Texas, USA.

McLanahan Corporation opened an 18,000-square-metre flagship facility in Cameron Park, New South Wales, in August 2018. The facility serves as the company's Asia-Pacific hub and houses 38 staff.

Toshiba Memory broke ground on a new NAND flash memory chip fab complex in Iwate prefecture, with an investment of roughly $9 billion. Operations are planned to begin in 2020.

SILON opened a new production plant in Peachtree City, Georgia, USA, with an investment of $20 million. The plant produces technical compounds for automotive and construction industries, with initial capacity of 7,000 tons per year and 20 jobs created.

GE Aviation's new $200 million facility in Limestone County, Alabama, will mass-produce silicon carbide materials. Production of CMC tape is scheduled to start in Q4 2018, and fiber production around April 2019.

Amgen broke ground on a new next-generation biomanufacturing plant at its West Greenwich, Rhode Island campus. The company expects to invest up to $200 million in the 120,000 square foot facility, which will use innovative technologies to produce medicines for U.S. and global markets.

Fenner Dunlop opened a new steel cord and conveyor belt manufacturing plant in Kwinana, Western Australia. The plant has an initial annual capacity of 330,000 square metres and is the largest single investment in conveyor belt manufacturing in Australia.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy officially inaugurated its nacelle production plant in Cuxhaven, Germany, with a total investment of about €200 million. The plant is expected to employ about 850 people by end of 2018.