MinebeaMitsumi opened a new production plant in Košice, East Slovakia on 15 June 2018, creating roughly 1,100 jobs initially, with plans to grow to 2,000 by 2020. The ground-breaking ceremony took place on 5 May 2017.

Medical Glass Standard signed an agreement with the Moscow region government to build a full-cycle borosilicate glass plant, with investments of up to 2 billion rubles for the first phase and up to 4.1 billion rubles for the second, creating over 500 jobs.

China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) signed a deal to invest up to CNY42.68 billion to build a new 11G flat panel plant, its second fab of that generation.

Sarstedt signed an agreement to build a medical equipment plant in the Maryino industrial park in St. Petersburg, Russia. The investment is RUB 750 million, with construction starting in 2018 and commissioning by end of 2019.

A German-Chinese joint venture between Med-Tec Holding and Biolight will build a dialysis filter plant in Laage, Germany. The first phase involves EUR 12 million investment, with construction starting in June 2018 and production expected by end of 2018.

Dutch keg maker Lightweight Containers took a 10-year lease on a 62,000 sq ft unit at Foxcover Industrial Estate in Seaham, County Durham, expecting around 35 jobs within two years and production from July.

Omron Healthcare announced the construction of its third factory in Brazil, to be located in Jundiaí, São Paulo state. The R$60 million investment will create a 22,000m² site with 11,000m² of built area, expected to start operations by the end of 2019. Production capacity will double that of the São Paulo unit, aiming to increase output from 1.2 million to 5.4 million units per year by 2022.

AveXis, a Novartis company, is investing $55 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Durham, North Carolina, creating 200 jobs. The facility will produce gene therapy AVXS-101 for spinal muscular atrophy.

Haizea Wind inaugurated a wind tower and offshore foundation manufacturing plant at the Port of Bilbao, Spain, with an investment exceeding EUR 60 million. The plant can produce 300 offshore tower sections and 100 monopiles per year.

Sunstrand, LLC is locating new biomaterial manufacturing operations in Florence County, South Carolina, with an $8.4 million capital investment and creation of 42 new jobs. The 140,000-square-foot facility in Pamplico is projected to come online in early 2019.

Hubei Bafang Cable Co., Ltd. began construction of a 35KV high-voltage cable production plant in Badong Economic Development Zone. The plant covers 45,000 square meters, with a total investment of 50 million yuan, and is expected to be completed by the end of 2018, with an annual production capacity of 15,000 tons of cable.

TCL Corp. is investing 42.7 billion yuan ($6.70 billion) to build an 11th-generation LCD production line in Shenzhen, China. Mass production is expected to begin in March 2021, with a monthly capacity of 90,000 LCD screens.

Dana Incorporated inaugurated a facility in Yancheng, China, to manufacture thermal-management products for conventional and new-energy vehicles, with an investment of CNY105 million (US$16.7 million).

Construction has started on a $24 million automotive-parts plant in Mooresville, North Carolina, by Tristone Flowtech USA Inc. The facility will make engine hose systems, air-charge hoses and battery-cooling systems, and is expected to bring more than 300 jobs.

LT Foods, an Indian rice processing company, opened a new fully automated factory at Maasvlakte in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The facility includes a Pacoma Europe pallet wrapping machine to handle 30-45 pallets per hour.

Mitsui Chemicals announced that its joint venture Prime Polymer will establish new production facilities for MOSTRON-L glass fiber reinforced polypropylene at the Anesaki Works in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, with a capacity of 3,500 tons/year and operations to commence in September 2019.

Zhejiang Hailide New Material plans to build a differential polyester industrial filament plant in Vietnam with an annual output of 110,000 tonnes. Investment is estimated at $155 million, with construction expected to start by end of 2018.

Latécoère inaugurated a new metallic detail parts production plant in Toulouse-Montredon, France, a digitized and automated factory 4.0, with an annual production target of 500,000 parts by 2020.

Festo is planning to invest $30.1 million to build a stepper and motors production unit in Bulgaria, its third factory in the country, pending permits.

Crane ChemPharma & Energy celebrated the inauguration of its newest location, an aseptic diaphragm valve factory in India. The announcement was made on May 22, 2018.

SATO UK has invested £7 million in a new production facility adjacent to its existing site in Harwich, UK. The announcement was reported on 22 May 2018.

Ambrell Corporation, a subsidiary of inTEST, opened a new 80,000 sq ft induction heating manufacturing facility in Rochester, New York, after moving from Scottsville. Tenant improvements were estimated at $2.1 million, partly offset by $1,090,000 in state and local grants.

Austrian packaging maker Alpla plans a $21 million plastic packaging plant of 154,000 square feet in a NorthPoint Development warehouse near Dayton International Airport, creating 50 jobs.

OOO Moglinsky Zavod Izdely Meditsinskogo Naznacheniya plans to build a plant in the Moglino special economic zone in Pskovsky District, Russia, to produce medical containers for biomaterial collection. Investment is 1.7 billion rubles, creating 100 jobs, with capacity of 22 million items per year. Construction is to be completed in 2019.

Uno Minda Group commissioned a new plant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, operated by Mindarika Pvt Ltd, to manufacture switches and HVAC systems. The plant has an installed capacity of 45,000 switch sets per month, expandable to 60,000, and represents an investment of Rs 100 crore. It will create over 300 jobs.

Uno Minda Group commissioned a new alloy wheel plant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, operated by Minda Kosei Aluminum Wheels Ltd. The plant has an installed capacity of 60,000 wheels per month, expandable to 120,000, and represents an investment of Rs 350 crore. It will create over 450 jobs.

LANXESS is building a new prepolymer production facility at its Porto Feliz, Brazil site, investing a single-digit million Euro amount. The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the first half of 2019, and production at the Rio Claro site will be terminated.

GK Titan plans to invest nearly 13 billion rubles in a new complex producing PET granules and BOPET films in the Mogilino special economic zone. The first phase (2018-2020) will build a granule plant with capacity up to 168,000 tonnes/year and a film line up to 35,000 tonnes/year; the second phase (2019-2020) will add a second BOPET line of similar capacity. The project will create 500 jobs.

Combilift launched a new 500,000 sq ft production facility in Monaghan, Ireland, costing EUR 50 million. The factory has four assembly lines capable of producing a finished truck every 15 minutes.

Richmond-based TemperPack will invest $10.4 million to establish a manufacturing operation in Henrico County, Virginia, creating 141 new jobs. It will be the company's second Virginia facility.

A.O. Smith Corporation put its new environmentally-friendly home appliances factory into operation in Nanjing, China, after a two-year construction period. The first stage has a floor area of 65,000 square meters, with total investment of about $150 million, and annual output expected to reach 3 million units of water cleaners, softeners, and air purifiers.

Braidy Industries will break ground on June 1, 2018, for its $1.3 billion aluminum rolling mill in Ashland, Kentucky. The mill is expected to take about two years to build and will be the first greenfield aluminum rolling mill in the U.S. in over 40 years.

Hongshi-Shivam Cement Private Limited, a Nepal-China joint venture, started trial cement production at its plant in Nawalparasi district, Nepal. The plant has a capacity of 6,000 tonnes per day and represents a $359.18 million investment by China's Hongshi Cement.

Keurig Green Mountain announced plans to construct a new roasting and packaging facility in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, with a capital investment of $350 million and creating 500 new jobs. The facility will primarily house coffee roasting and packaging for K-Cup pods.

Sumitomo Rubber Industries held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory in Rogatec, Slovenia, to produce precision rubber parts for medical use. Total investment is €3.4 billion (approx. 44 billion yen), with production starting in February 2019 and capacity of 420 tons/month by end of 2019.

Pipeline Plastics LLC is building a new facility on the Southeast coast of the U.S. and adding capacity at two existing plants in Levelland, Texas, and Belle Fourche, South Dakota.

ITT Corporation, through its subsidiary ITT Motion Technologies, opened a new plant in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, with an investment of $60 million. The plant started production with 300 jobs and an initial capacity of 1.7 million pieces per year, to increase to 20 million.

Daikin Industries has completed and started full-scale operations at a new air conditioner factory in Hanoi, Vietnam, operated by its subsidiary Daikin Air Conditioning Vietnam. The factory can produce up to one million units by 2020 with 1,500 employees.

Aircraft Composites Sachsen GmbH (Acosa), a subsidiary of Elbe Flugzeugwerke, has opened a new plant in Kodersdorf, Germany, to produce lightweight interior components for Airbus aircraft. The investment was €40 million, with 150 employees, and production is ramping up by June 2018.

Halead New Material Co. will invest USD 155 million to build a polyester filament factory in Phuoc Dong Industry Park, Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. The 330,000 sq. m. plant will have annual production capacity of 110,000 tons.

Lane Enterprises will build a $16.3 million manufacturing facility in Temple, Texas, to produce HDPE and corrugated metal pipe. The plant will create 21 jobs and be the company's first facility in Texas.

Airbus supplier Acosa (Aircraft Composites Sachsen GmbH) opened a new plant in Kodersdorf, Germany, to produce lightweight interior components for Airbus aircraft. The company invested €40 million and will employ 150 people, with production ramping up by June 2018.

Infineon Technologies announced plans to build a fully automated chip factory for 300-millimetre thin wafers in Villach, Austria, with an investment of approximately EUR 1.6 billion over six years. Construction is scheduled to start in the first half of 2019, with production expected to begin in early 2021, creating about 400 new jobs.

German safety valve maker Leser established a production and sales facility in Tianjin, China, at a cost of €6 million. The investment was made in the year before the article.

Turkish interventional cardiology firm Alvimedica plans to invest around $370 million to build a new manufacturing plant in Turkey, its third, to meet demand for its Cre8 drug-eluting stents and balloons. The investment will be supported by Turkish government incentives.

Italian company Renco plans to construct a 250 MW combined-cycle gas power plant in Yerevan, Armenia, investing up to $300 million. The project is expected to create 1,000 jobs and be completed within 25-28 months.

Manitou Group inaugurated a new Manitou Center in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain.

Phu My Ultra Clear Float Glass Co., Ltd. signed a contract with Kaisheng Group to build an ultra-clear glass factory in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam, with an investment of VND2.42 trillion ($106.4 million). The factory will have a daily capacity of 600 tonnes and is expected to start pilot operation in Q2 2019.

The Bostik-Nitta joint venture will invest in a new world-scale adhesives plant in Nara, Japan. The facility will include production lines for nonwoven hygiene adhesives and industrial adhesives, and is expected to come on stream in early 2020.

Daikin Applied announced plans to build a new state-of-the-art, built-to-order HVAC manufacturing facility in Southern Minnesota, north of Faribault. The company is investing in the new plant to expand production capabilities.