Uniview decided to build a new intelligent manufacturing base in Tongxiang, China, with a planned investment of 156 million USD. The base will occupy 100,000 sqm and produce over 10 million video surveillance products per year.

Danfoss inaugurated its flagship district heating facility in Anshan, Liaoning Province, China, with an investment of 170 million RMB. The plant produces control valves, stations and heat exchangers and expands the Anshan campus fivefold.

Cook Medical announced plans to acquire an old R.J. Reynolds cigarette factory in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and convert it into a medical device manufacturing plant. Renovations are slated to begin in late 2019, with operations planned for launch in late 2021 or early 2022.

Hyosung will invest $100 million to build a creora spandex facility near Aurangabad, India. Production is expected to start by 2019.

Industrias Químicas del Ebro inaugurated a new precipitated silica plant in Zaragoza, Spain, with an investment of EUR 27 million. The plant created 30 new jobs.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems has completed construction of Unit 1 of the 880 MW Jawa-2 natural-gas-fired power plant at Tanjung Priok, Indonesia. Unit 1 is initially operating as a simple gas turbine system with output near 300 MW. Combined cycle operation is slated for 2019.

Pilkington IGP, part of NSG Group, will open a new 10,000-square-meter plant in Białystok, Poland, in autumn 2018. The plant will have four additional lines for insulated glass units and a tempering furnace, creating 60 new jobs by March 2019.

Albaad has started up its new WLM1 nonwovens production line in Dimona, Israel, using Voith and Trützschler's wet-laid/spunlace technology. The line produces nonwovens from 100% cellulose at speeds over 200 meters per minute.

Rossi Aéro has opened a 7,500-square-meter automated plant north of Toulouse, investing 25 million euros. The facility employs 130 people and increases production capacity by 35%.

Fluence Argentina inaugurated a new water treatment plant in the Parque Industrial of Mar del Plata, with an investment of US$3.5 million. The plant covers 2,500 m² and will employ 100 people.

LG Innotek has completed construction of a manufacturing facility for thermoelectric semiconductors in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, and plans to start mass production next year.

CSOT, a TCL subsidiary, commenced production of high-generation panel modules at its Huizhou facility on June 12, 2018. The $1.5 billion project, started in May 2017, will have phase one capacity of 40 million modules per year by 2019 and phase two of 60 million by 2021.

Green Bay Packaging plans to build a new paper mill in Brown County, Wisconsin, replacing its 71-year-old mill, with an investment reported as over $580 million. The project is expected to retain about 600 jobs and create up to 200 more by 2022, with the new mill running by 2021.

Cameroonian company Quiferou signed a mining convention to produce cement at the Bomoko site in southwestern Central African Republic, with an average annual capacity of 350,000 tonnes.

Winbond Electronics announced it will start building a new 12-inch wafer fab in Kaohsiung in September 2018, with an investment of NT$355 billion (US$11.9 billion). Equipment installation is slated for 2020, with production ramp-up to follow.

Austrian steel supplier voestalpine has begun operations at its new cold stamping production plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The plant will employ approximately 90 people at peak production.

Embutidos Monter, part of Grup Cañigueral, will invest over €20 million in a new 30,000 sqm robotized plant between Besalú and Sant Ferriol, Spain. The plant will employ 100 workers, double production capacity, and is expected to start operations in 2021.

Chinese electrical hardware maker Jinlihua Electric will invest CNY 25 million ($3.9 million) to build a factory in central Brazil producing tempered glass insulators for electric cables, with annual capacity of one million units. Construction is expected to start in October 2019 and complete a year later.

Corrugated Synergies International, a sheet feeding equipment maker, is opening a facility near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in New Mexico. The company is investing nearly $40 million and expects to create about 120 manufacturing jobs.

WuXi Biologics will invest $60 million and hire 150 employees to build a biologics manufacturing facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, its first U.S. site, announced June 10, 2018.

Alageum Electric is building the Asia Trafo plant in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, to produce transformers up to 300 tons, with total investment of 17.9 billion tenge. Construction is underway as of June 10, 2018.

Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company (Kola MMC) and Uralgrit Group agreed to build a plant in Nikel, Russia, to produce abrasive materials from accumulated slag. Construction is planned to start in 2019.

Kyungnam Steel held a completion ceremony for its Gwangyang Plant 2 in Taein-dong, Gwangyang, South Korea, on June 8, 2018. The plant cost 22 billion KRW and adds gigapascal-grade high-strength steel processing capacity, increasing total annual production from 930,000 tons to 1.2 million tons.

Southco has started construction of a new plant in the Podkarpackie Science and Technology Park Aeropolis in Jasionka, Poland. The facility will initially house a distribution center and create about 80 jobs, with completion expected in March 2019 and production starting in April 2019.

Processing Technologies International LLC has opened its Technology Development Center, a demonstration center dedicated to product development and process trials for customers on production-scale systems.

AkzoNobel opened a new training center at its Santo André site near São Paulo, Brazil, focused on customer training.

Pilot Chemical Co. officially opened its new Innovation Center in Pittsburgh on July 25, 2018.

Tiger Trailers began construction of a new £22 million factory in Winsford, UK, which will double annual production to 3,000 trailers and create 120 skilled jobs over three years.

Titanmed opened its first plant in Penza, Russia, for manufacturing trauma, orthopedics, and neurosurgery medical devices. The plant includes a joint venture with Chinese partner Naton to produce hip and knee endoprostheses, with a planned capacity of 42,000 products in the first year.

Caterpillar Inc. launched a new assembly line at its Tosno, Leningrad Oblast plant to produce chassis for the 773E mining truck, investing $10 million. The first truck was shipped to Norilsk Nickel. Production of 100 trucks is planned for 2019, with potential tripling of capacity.

Piper Plastics announced a $10 million investment in a new 90,000-square-foot facility in Mesa, Arizona, with construction starting July 2018 and operations beginning June 2019, initially creating 130 jobs.

Renolit Group inaugurated its first plant in Latin America in Valparaíso, Chile, with an initial investment of US$9 million. The plant produces high-tech polypropylene film products for medical applications.

Norafin (Americas) Inc. inaugurated a new production site in Mills River, North Carolina, with a state-of-the-art spunlace line, representing an investment of around €20 million. The plant will create about 35 new jobs by end of 2018.

Toshiba Carrier Corporation announced it will break ground on a new complex for Toshiba Carrier Air Conditioning (China) Co., Ltd. in Hangzhou, China, with an investment of approximately RMB 400 million. The facility, scheduled to open in March 2020, will include corporate offices, R&D, and manufacturing space to increase capacity for VRF systems and commercial air conditioning equipment.

Bangkok Can Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Japan's Toyo Seikan Group, is building a new two-piece aluminium beverage can plant at Rojana Industrial Park in Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, with a US$84.2 million investment. Startup is targeted for May 2019.

A German company opened a new factory for vacuum packaging machines in Bozhurishte, Bulgaria, with an investment of over €18 million, creating 153 jobs.

St Michel announced plans to build a new biscuit factory in Commercy, France, with a first phase of 10,000 m². Site preparation is expected to begin before the end of 2018, with production starting in 2020 or 2021.

K-Line, a subsidiary of Groupe Liébot, opened a new 48,500 m² factory in Saint-Vulbas, France, for manufacturing custom aluminum windows and sliding doors. The €70 million investment includes a robotic production line and a painting line.

SJE is constructing a 51,000 sq ft manufacturing facility on eight acres in the Ashland Business Park in Ashland, Ohio, designed by C.M. Architecture and built by Simonson Construction Services, with completion targeted for December 2018.

Weber Maschinenbau has broken ground on a seven-figure investment in an office building and workshop of about 6,000 square meters in Werther, Germany, for producing components and tools for thermoforming packaging machines; around 50 employees are to move in by mid-2019.

The City of Chilliwack is building a Global Water Engineering high-strength wastewater pretreatment facility to handle effluent from the new Molson Coors brewery. The plant has a capacity of 1500 m3 of wastewater per day and will produce biogas.

Molson Coors is building a new $200 million brewery in Chilliwack, British Columbia, scheduled to start production in 2019. The project will create about 100 construction jobs and 100 permanent jobs.

Doosan Bobcat Inc. has opened a backhoe loader plant in Chennai, India. The 15,000 square-meter factory is capable of producing about 8,000 backhoe loaders a year and will start operation from the latter half of 2019.

Kinectrics officially opened a new 37,000 sq ft licensed facility in Tiverton, Canada, to fulfill its Bruce Power contracts.

Coca-Cola Canada announced an C$85 million investment to build a new production facility in Peterborough, Ontario, to produce fairlife Ultrafiltered Milk. Operations are scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2020.

Bayport Polymers LLC, a joint venture of Total, Borealis and NOVA Chemicals, broke ground on a new 1 Mt/y ethane cracker at the Total Port Arthur Refinery. The $1.7 billion project is expected to start up in 2020 and create about 1,500 construction jobs and 60 permanent jobs.

Saint-Gobain is building a new windshield production line at its Călărași platform, expected to be operational in early 2019. The investment will create 120 jobs and have an annual capacity of 500,000 windshields.

Poonglim Pharmatech signed an MOU with the Saemangeum Development Agency to invest 17.8 billion won in a new medical device and medical supply plant in Saemangeum Industrial Complex, South Korea. Construction is planned by 2021, creating 60 new jobs.

Reko International Group celebrated the grand opening of a new 48,600 sq.ft. automation and innovation facility in Lakeshore, Ontario, representing a $5.7 million investment. The facility will house Reko Automation and bring total employment to over 250.

Mexican packaging company Empaques Nova inaugurated a new plant in Mérida, Yucatán, for making packaging paper and containers, with the Mexican Secretary of Economy attending. The ceremony was reported on 3 June 2018.