Mecc Alte UK announced a £3.2 million investment in a new 33,000 sqft facility in the UK to support its alternator business and sister company Cabel UK. The facility will open in November 2018.

American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) will invest €20 million in a new plant in Viladecans, Catalonia, Spain. The facility will produce shock absorbers for engines for car manufacturers such as Renault, BMW, and Porsche, and is expected to be operational by January 2019.

Magneti Marelli has launched construction of a shock absorber plant in Tangier, Morocco, with an investment of MAD 405 million, creating 500 jobs, expected to start production in 2019 with annual capacity of 6 million units.

ROCKWOOL (North America) broke ground on its second stone wool insulation manufacturing facility in the US, located in Ranson, West Virginia. The 460,000 sq. ft. facility represents an investment exceeding US$150 million and will create around 150 jobs.

China's Zhejiang Yongjin Metal Technology Co will invest 1.81 billion yuan ($276 million) to build a precision stainless steel processing project in Yangjiang, Guangdong province. The project is scheduled to launch by end of 2020 with annual capacity of 680,000 tonnes.

Wilton Group has opened a £3m coatings facility for offshore and wind turbine components at Port Clarence Base, operated by Universal Coatings. The facility was officially opened by Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen.

Novo Nordisk officially opened its first tablet production facility in Måløv, Denmark, on June 26, 2018. The plant will produce semaglutide tablets for type 2 diabetes patients.

Manitowoc opened a new Potain tower crane factory in Chakan, near Pune, India, with production starting in Q1 2018. The facility replaces an older plant and has the same capacity on a smaller footprint.

US packaging materials and equipment provider Shorr Packaging moved into a new facility in the Los Angeles area to meet growing regional demand. It will serve customers in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.

Luxembourg-headquartered United Caps plans to invest about €20 million to build its first UK factory in Dinnington, South Yorkshire, making beverage and dairy closures. Production is expected to start at the end of 2019.

Prime Equipment Group, a poultry processing equipment maker, plans to move its Central Ohio manufacturing and offices to a new facility at 2001 Courtright Road in Columbus, investing over $6 million and creating 20 jobs.

Interceramic inaugurated its tenth production plant in San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato, a US$80 million facility for tile production. It will start with 8.6 million square meters per year.

PolyMirae Company Ltd. announced a joint venture with SK Advanced to build a new 400,000 ton/year polypropylene plant in Ulsan, South Korea, with operations expected to begin in the first half of 2021.

Scapa Healthcare opened a new 152,000-square-foot medical device manufacturing facility in Knoxville, Tennessee, to support its growth strategy and house equipment from technology transfers.

Sieyuan Electric will invest $6.7 million to build a power equipment plant for gas insulated switchgears in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, India. The 18-month construction project will produce 420 kV and below GIS products, targeting full-capacity operation by 2022.

Bosch has laid the foundation stone for a new 300-millimeter wafer fab in Dresden, Germany, with an investment of roughly €1 billion. The plant will employ up to 700 people and is scheduled to be completed by late 2019, with production starting in early 2020.

Huaxin Cement Narayani has signed a project investment agreement with Investment Board Nepal to establish a $140 million cement plant in Dhading, Nepal, with a daily production capacity of 3,000 tonnes.

Clariant officially opened two new, fully owned additives facilities at its site in Zhenjiang, China.

Bell Equipment (Deutschland) GmbH celebrated the groundbreaking for a new manufacturing complex in Hörselberg-Hainich, Germany. The company is investing €13 million in buildings and production facilities, creating over 100 new jobs. Production of assemblies and vehicle components is expected to start in mid-2019.

Copper State Fluid Power opened a new Tucson, Arizona facility offering sales and repair of hydraulic and pneumatic equipment and parts, with planned e-commerce parts sales.

ZF Friedrichshafen AG will build a €100 million plant in Pancevo, Serbia, to produce electric motors and components, starting operations in 2019.

Memstar USA will open a $31 million, 40,500-square-foot manufacturing facility in Conroe, Texas on June 29, 2018. The plant will initially employ about 35 people, eventually expanding to 80.

Grupo Antolin opened a new 368,000 sq-ft factory in Shelby, Michigan, to produce door panels and overhead systems for FCA's Ram truck. The company invested over US$70m and employs more than 800 people at the plant.

Coal producer Banovici plans to build a 1.1Mt/yr cement plant for €250m in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Work is planned to begin in 2019.

Gezhouba Shieli Cement plans to commission its 1Mt/yr cement plant in the Kyzylorda region, Kazakhstan, in December 2018. The US$188m unit will produce oil well cement.

General Motors broke ground on a new $65 million parts processing center in Burton, Michigan, which will replace an older facility and serve as the main induction point for ACDelco and Genuine GM service parts. The facility is expected to be completed in 2019.

JATCO will establish JATCO (Suzhou) Automatic Transmission Ltd. in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, China, as its second CVT production plant. Production is expected to start at end 2019 with annual capacity of 480,000 units and about 1,000 employees. Capital expenditure is 6.4 billion yen.

Novomet will launch a new production line for high-temperature submersible cable at the Velta site in Perm, Russia, in autumn 2019. The company plans to invest 600 million rubles and create 70 jobs, with initial capacity of 180 km of cable per month.

UNITED CAPS, a caps and closures manufacturer, held an open house on June 21, 2018 celebrating its extended R&D facility in Messia, France, featuring a new Nescafé Gold closure developed with Nestlé.

ACL Airshop, a subsidiary of Ranger Aerospace, is investing $7.2 million in a new 60,000-square-foot facility in Greenville, South Carolina, for manufacturing air cargo nets and straps. The project is expected to create 32 jobs.

Camso Manufacturing USA will lease, renovate and equip a 139,000 square foot facility in Junction City, Kansas, investing approximately $36.4 million and hiring up to 41 full-time employees by January 2020. The plant will manufacture agricultural tracks.

SKC Co. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a transparent polyimide film production line at its Jincheon plant in North Chungcheong Province. The company plans to invest 85 billion won and start commercial production in October 2019.

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has broken ground for a demonstration plant in Stenungsund, Sweden, to showcase its novel ethylene amines technology. The plant will produce diethylenetriamine (DETA) and triethylenetetramine (TETA).

Varroc Group is setting up a manufacturing plant in Halol, Gujarat at a cost of Rs 35-40 crore to serve the lighting needs of Hero MotoCorp from September 2018.

Varroc Group is setting up two new manufacturing plants in Brazil and Morocco at a total cost of EUR 63 million (about Rs 504 crore) to support Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan. The plants are expected to generate EUR 100 million in revenue within 3-4 years.

Uponor North America began producing PEX plastic pipe at its newly purchased 237,000-square-foot Hutchinson plant, six months ahead of the original 2019 schedule. The $6.35 million investment was announced in July 2017.

Volma Corporation and Knauf are building a new plant for Belgips in Gatovo, Minsk region, to produce gypsum products and construction mixtures. Investment is about 60 million euros, with capacity of 30 million m² of plaster wallboards, 500,000 m² of slabs, and 120,000 tons of dry mortars per year. First products expected in October 2018.

Zeeland Farm Services (ZFS Ithaca) is constructing a $129 million soybean processing and feed ingredients plant at a former ethanol plant site in Ithaca, Michigan, with equipment installation by JJ Curran Crane Company.

The factory of Kingnor Mining Equipment Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Normet Group and JCHX Mining Management, was inaugurated in Daye, Hubei Province, China, to manufacture multipurpose mining vehicles and accessories.

Bombardier Aerospace signed an agreement to purchase land for a new manufacturing facility in the Midparc Casablanca Free Zone in Nouaceur, Morocco. The company plans to invest approximately $200 million over eight years and expects to employ 850 people by the end of 2020.

Demmel celebrated the opening of its location on the former Fairgrounds site in East Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina, on June 15, 2018. The company will invest more than $4 million and employ 50 people making emblems and silplates for BMW and Tesla.

Glatfelter opened a new advanced air-laid materials manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas, with a capacity of 22,000 short tons per year, representing a $90 million investment.

Steel & Alloy opened a new £27 million manufacturing site at Popes Lane in Oldbury, West Midlands, creating 60 jobs with potential to double.

Van Tongeren, a UK aggregate equipment manufacturer, opened its new North American headquarters in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

Hunan Qitai Sensing Technology Co., Ltd. (Hunan Chntek Sensor Technology) is constructing the first domestic factory-scale industrialized metal sputtering film pressure-sensitive chip production line in China. The ultra-clean workshop entered decoration phase on June 15, 2018, with a 100-day construction period.

Hefei Risever Machinery (Risever), a Chinese heavy equipment parts manufacturer, broke ground on a $20 million facility in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on June 15, 2018. The plant will employ 130 workers.

Romanian construction materials producer AdePlast is opening a EUR 22 million factory in Isalnita, near Craiova, to produce mortars and polystyrene. Polystyrene production will start in July 2018 and mortars production in August 2018, creating 70 jobs.

Jual Group, a Danish producer of aluminium roof accessories, will establish a new highly automated factory in a former Nexans cable factory building in Juelsminde, Denmark, during autumn 2018.

Fermion Oy, a subsidiary of Orion Corporation, has entered the commissioning phase of a new highly automated active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing plant in Hanko, Finland. The investment of more than EUR 30 million will increase production capacity by approximately 50% to nearly 300 tonnes per year.

Faurecia Interior Systems laid the foundation stone for a new plant in Kia Motors India's Vendor Park in Andhra Pradesh, India. The company is investing Rs 50 crore in the facility, which will produce injection moulding and assembly for Hyundai Mobis, and is expected to employ around 400 people.