BRÜCKNER officially opened its new production facility in Tittmoning, Bavaria on June 23, 2018. The plant has 25,000 m² of production space and includes highly automated CNC machine tools, welding robots, and a powder coating system.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy officially inaugurated its new nacelle plant in Cuxhaven, Germany. The 55,000-square-meter facility represents a total investment of approximately €200 million and is expected to employ around 850 people by the end of 2018.

Chongqing AOS Semiconductor's 12-inch power semiconductor chip manufacturing and packaging/testing base project in Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing, entered trial production. The total investment is $1 billion, with phase 1 at $500 million, targeting 20,000 wafers per month and 500 million chips packaged/tested per month.

Teijin Ltd. celebrated the groundbreaking of its new carbon-fiber production facility in Greenwood, South Carolina, through its subsidiary Teijin Carbon Fibers Inc. The facility is expected to create 220 jobs with $600 million investment around 2030.

Morgan Truck Body announced a new plant opening in Plainfield, CT, scheduled to be operational later in 2018. The company is the largest North American manufacturer of medium-duty dry freight and refrigerated truck and van bodies.

Aero-Structure Technologies Cyclone (ATC), a joint venture between Elbit Cyclone and Georgia's Partnership Fund, has opened a production facility for composite aircraft parts near Tbilisi International Airport. The $93 million facility will begin production in early 2019.

Major plant and equipment have arrived on site for Attock Cement's cement grinding unit under construction in Basra, Iraq. Civil, mechanical and electrical work has commenced, and operations are anticipated to start in Q1 FY18-19.

Freudenberg is investing Rs 210 crore ($3 million) in a greenfield plant in Chennai, India to manufacture sealing and vibration control solutions for automotive customers. The plant is under construction and expected to start production by Q1 2019.

Battambang Conch Cement Company Ltd officially inaugurated its $230 million cement factory in Battambang province, Cambodia, with a production capacity of 5,000 tonnes per day. Construction will take 18 months.

JPW Industrial Ovens and Furnaces held a grand opening for its new Plant 2 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, which began operation in January 2018. The facility produces standard industrial ovens and has created 10 new jobs, with 15 more expected by 2020.

US Cement, LLC announced it received a draft air permit to construct a Portland cement plant near Brady, Texas, with over $200 million investment and 300 construction jobs.

Yamazaki Mazak launched the Inabe Plant in Inabe City, Mie Prefecture, for large-scale machine tool manufacturing. The plant has a site area of 115,000 square meters, total floor area of 33,000 square meters, about 400 employees, and a total investment of 16 billion yen. Monthly production capacity is approximately 100 units.

American Packaging Corporation's new 215,000 square-foot facility in Chili, Monroe County, is operating, after phase one of an expansion with nearly $50 million invested. The company has hired 70 people so far and plans up to 260 new full-time jobs over five years.

Packaging machinery maker Multivac opened its first Eastern European plant in Bozhurishte near Sofia, a 20,000 sq m site costing about EUR 18.8 million and creating more than 150 jobs.

OMRON announced it will build the second factory of OMRON (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai to expand control equipment and industrial robot capacity, doubling its China production capacity by fiscal 2020. Total investment is JPY1.0 billion.

Battambang Conch Cement Factory, a $230 million joint venture between Conch International Holding and Battambang KT Cement, began operations in Battambang, Cambodia. The plant has a capacity of 2 million tonnes of cement per year.

KPS and Taiwanese Mastech formed a 50/50 joint venture, KPS Euman, and inaugurated a new manufacturing plant in Argame, Morcín, Spain. The plant produces precision electrical instruments with a planned investment of EUR 2.6 million over two years, creating 30 new jobs.

METYX Group established a new $3.5 million technical textiles division in Ranlo, North Carolina, USA, to enter the North American market. The site will produce glass and carbon fabrics for the composites market and is expected to employ up to 200 people.

Saint-Gobain plans to build a new glass wool production line at its Isover branded plant in Chemillé, France, scheduled to start production in mid-2019. The company invested €45 million in upgrades across multiple plants, with the majority at Chemillé.

The Battambang Conch Cement factory, a joint venture between Conch International Holding (HK) Limited and Battambang KT Cement Co., Ltd, was inaugurated in Rotanak Mondol district, Battambang province, with an investment of over USD 230 million and capacity of 2 million tons per year.

MabPlex USA, a subsidiary of MabPlex International, announced the opening of a new Process Development Center of Excellence in La Jolla, San Diego, California, with scale-up capacity to 200L. The facility will support cell line development and biologics manufacturing.

AkzoNobel officially opened a new powder coatings manufacturing plant in Changzhou, China, with an investment of approximately €40 million ($46 million). The plant produces Interpon and Resicoat products for automotive, appliances, and architectural industries.

MH Equipment announced that its Evansville, Ind., branch relocated to a new facility, doubling the plant's previous square footage.

Hiperbaric will install a Hiperbaric 525i HPP machine at HPP Belgium's new tolling facility south of Brussels, which will start operations in September 2018 to serve the Benelux and Germany.

Gulfstream Aerospace will expand its MRO operation in the London area with a new, larger, purpose-built facility at TAG Farnborough Airport. The service center is expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2020.

Burloak Technologies, a division of Samuel, Son & Co., announced the establishment of a 40,000 sq ft Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. The facility will open in September 2018 and be fully operational by Q1 2019.

Liebherr's Domestic Appliances division opened a new plant in Aurangabad, India, on May 8, 2018. The company invested about 5 billion rupees in the facility, which has an annual production capacity of 500,000 units.

SK Comprehensive Chemical and SABIC will jointly invest $519 million to build a Nexlene polyethylene plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The plant will have an annual capacity of 300,000 tons, with completion expected by December 2020 and commercial production in Q1 2021.

Adient opened a new manufacturing site in Kenitra, Morocco, its first factory in the country. Production is planned to start at the end of May 2018, focusing on fabric lamination for automotive seating.

Cavotec officially opened a new 17,000 m2 production facility in Nova Milanese, Italy, replacing a smaller plant. The facility includes R&D testing, solar power generation, and employs over 160 people.

Ise Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will invest approximately 40 billion yen to construct a new six-story production building on its premises in Tsu City, Mie Prefecture, to increase capacity for electronic components used in smartphones and other devices. Construction started in February 2018 and is expected to complete in November 2019.

Arkema plans to build a large adhesives plant in Nara, Japan, with startup expected by early 2020.

PSM will invest 500 million rubles to build a new production facility in Tutayev, Russia, to manufacture large diesel generators (600-2600 kW), creating 200 jobs and producing up to 90 units per year.

Viglacera and Kaisheng Group signed an agreement to establish Yen Phong Ultra-Clear Glass Co., Ltd. to develop an ultra-clear laminated glass factory with a daily capacity of 650 tonnes in Yen Phong Industrial Zone, Bac Ninh province. Construction is expected to start in Q3 2018 and finish by 2020.

Woodward announced plans to build a 300,000-square-foot precision manufacturing facility in Greer, South Carolina, to produce servo-hydraulic actuation systems for aircraft, initially for the Airbus A350 spoiler. The facility is expected to become operational in 2027 and create approximately 275 jobs.

Eaton announced an investment of over $30 million to open a new 370,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Bellevue, Nebraska, to produce medium-voltage switchgear. The facility is expected to begin production in 2027 and create over 200 jobs.

Trench Group, through its affiliate HSP US, started transformer bushing assembly at a new facility in Charlotte, North Carolina. The $60 million investment is expected to create up to 140 jobs and produce up to 3,500 dry-type transformer bushings per year, with full production scheduled for July 2026.

OMRON Healthcare commenced full-scale production of blood pressure monitors at its first factory in India, located near Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The approximately 24,000-square-meter facility has five production lines manufacturing blood pressure monitors for the Indian market.

nVent Electric plc leased a 400,000-square-foot manufacturing space in Goodyear, Arizona to expand capacity for engineered buildings, including prefabricated electrical houses. Production is expected to begin in mid-2027, adding at least 200 new jobs.

Daikin Industries plans to build a new plant for complex high-precision climate equipment in Faribault, Minnesota. The plant is expected to start production in 2019.

A new plant producing electrical and air conditioning systems for aircraft will be built in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl region. Investment is estimated at 2 billion rubles, with construction starting in summer 2018.

Wilo is exploring the possibility of building a new pump plant in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. No investment amount or timeline has been announced yet.

Construction began on a plant in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, to produce GE 6FA gas turbine units. The plant is a joint venture between GE (50%), Inter RAO (25%), and Rostec (25%), with investment of 5 billion rubles. Commissioning is planned for Q2 2014.

Rockwell Automation announced plans to build a new greenfield manufacturing site in Southeastern Wisconsin as part of a previously announced $2 billion investment plan. The facility has the potential to be Rockwell's largest manufacturing campus globally.

International Paper announced it will build a state-of-the-art corrugated packaging plant in Atglen, Pennsylvania, employing about 150 people. Construction was set to begin in Q1 2022 with full operation expected in Q1 2023.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco Group, opened a 250,000-square-foot facility in Genesee County, New York, to expand US production of dry vacuum pumps for the semiconductor industry. The site is expected to employ up to 600 people.

IRIS USA held a groundbreaking in Humboldt Industrial Park, Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, for a 500,000-square-foot facility expected to bring nearly 100 manufacturing jobs. The ceremony took place on Friday, reported on 25 May 2018.

Wielputz Automotive began construction of a EUR 10 million car parts factory in Craiova, Romania, with production expected to start on September 1, 2018, and 60 jobs by year-end.

Nidec opened its largest electric motor factory in Romania in Stefanesti, Arges county, with an investment of several tens of millions of euros, employing 500 people and planning to reach over 1,000 in two years.

Polymer Technology Systems Diagnostics (PTS Diagnostics) announced plans to build a $25.6 million global headquarters in Whitestown, Indiana, with construction already begun and slated to open in June 2019. The facility will relocate 150 employees and add 50-70 more over three to five years.