Kingnor Mining Equipment Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Normet Group and JCHX Mining Management Co Ltd, inaugurated its new factory in Daye, Hubei Province, China. The facility will manufacture and assemble multipurpose mining vehicles and accessories for the Chinese mining market.

Fibertex Personal Care held a groundbreaking ceremony for its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Asheboro, North Carolina. The $114 million investment is expected to create 145 jobs, with production targeted within a year.

METYX, an international manufacturer of composites and technical textiles, purchased a building in Ranlo, North Carolina to establish an advanced manufacturing operation and North American corporate office. The total investment is $12.598 million over five years, creating at least 200 jobs.

Nasmyth Group, a UK-based aerospace company, opened a new North American headquarters in Valencia, Santa Clarita, featuring a $5.5 million production line and NADCAP-certified processing capabilities.

Tsugami's subsidiary Tsugami Precision Machinery (Zhejiang) will establish a new company and construct a factory in Maanshan, Anhui, China, with a total investment of approximately 200 million yuan (3.36 billion yen). The factory will have a casting capacity of 18,000 tons per year and assembly capacity of 1,200 units per year.

Toyota Material Handling will move to a new headquarters in Willebroek, Belgium, by end of 2018, combining its Belgian and European offices. The facility includes 3,750 m2 of office space and 8,800 m2 of workshop, showroom and warehouse.

Electroalfa Group will build a new factory for medium-voltage electrical equipment in Botoșani, Romania, as part of an investment program of about 36 million lei.

Aero Fabrications is planning to invest around £5 million to build a new factory on greenbelt land in Watnall, which could create 30 new jobs. A planning application has been submitted to Broxtowe Borough Council.

Xylem opened a new 1,100 square meters commercial facility in Warsaw, including office space, service and maintenance hub and warehouse. The company's total investment in Poland exceeds zł67 million, and 45 employees are based at the new facility.

Tsugami China plans to invest ¥200 million to build a new factory in Ma'anshan, Anhui, to produce metal castings and CNC precision machine tools. The factory will have an annual capacity of 18,000 tons of metal castings and 1,200 CNC machine tools, with production expected to start in 2020.

Godrej Aerospace will invest ₹50 crore in a new Centre of Excellence facility in Mumbai to manufacture aerospace components for the Rolls-Royce contract.

Gualini Lamiere International S.p.A. has built a new industrial complex including a warehouse and offices in Bolgare, Italy, with a project value of €5,587,301. The project also includes an expansion of the MI.G. S.r.l. production unit.

Kubota Farm Machinery officially opened its new tractor production facility in Bierne, France, with an investment of over €40 million. The plant will produce 3,000 M7001 tractors per year and employs 165 local workers.

Ningxia Yinhe Semiconductor Technology Co. officially began construction of a CNY1.6 billion ($253 million) silicon wafer factory in Yinchuan, China. The plant will produce 4.2 million 8-inch wafers and 2.4 million 12-inch wafers annually for communications, automotive, medical, and defense sectors.

Ficosa inaugurated a new production centre in Rabat, Morocco, with an investment of €50 million, employing 700 people, and serving as the Centre of Excellence in Automobile Cameras for the group.

Grimme is investing about €13 million in a 13,000 sq.m. production facility and office building in Tianjin, China, to produce potato and sugar beet equipment, with production scheduled for spring 2017.

Sodick will build a new multi-product factory at its Kaga site in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, with an investment of about 2.5 billion yen, to flexibly produce various machines including EDM, machining centers, and injection molding machines.

Ube Materials will construct a 1,500 tons/year basic magnesium sulfate (Mossheidi) manufacturing plant at the UBE Chemicals (Asia) site in Rayong Province, Thailand, with production scheduled to begin in March 2019.

Thermo Fisher Scientific announced plans to invest $35 million in a new pharma services supply chain facility in Rheinfelden, Germany. The 8,000 square-meter facility will support clinical research and create up to 200 new jobs, with construction expected to start in Q4 2018 and completion within 12-18 months.

Faurecia inaugurated a $86.2 million plant in San Jose Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico, to manufacture exhaust systems for automakers including General Motors and Fiat Chrysler. The 10,000 square-meter facility created 400 jobs and is expected to reach full production capacity by end of 2018.

German automotive supplier MöllerTech has opened a new $46.3 million plant in Bibb County, Alabama, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The plant will hire 222 employees by the end of 2019 and currently has 50 employees.

Rheinmetall Defence Australia has submitted a development application to build a permanent headquarters and manufacturing facility, the Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence (MILVEHCOE), in Redbank, Queensland. The facility is expected to employ around 470 staff over 10 years, following a $5 billion army contract for Boxer vehicles.

ElringKlinger plans to open a new plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to produce aluminum shielding systems, with production expected to begin in September 2018.

Beijing WKW Automotive Parts Co. plans to invest CNY16 billion (USD2.5 billion) to build a new-energy vehicle manufacturing plant in Qinhuangdao Economic and Technology Development Zone, Hebei province. The plant aims to produce 300,000 vehicles annually.

Pratt Industries opened a $60 million corrugated box factory in Beloit, Wisconsin, capable of producing about 600 tonnes of recycled boxes a day. The project was announced in December 2014, built from April 2015 and opened in March 2017, employing 140 full-time staff.

IFA Group opened a new $60 million manufacturing campus at the Charleston Trade Center near Summerville, South Carolina. The plant will add 120 jobs and produce 10,000 propshafts and 4,000 constant velocity joints per day when fully operational in early 2019.

SOPREMA Canada plans to build a new 107,000 sq. ft. plant in Woodstock, Ontario to produce SBS modified bitumen membrane, creating 50 jobs, with $3.7 million from the Ontario government.

Moriroku Holdings announced it will construct a new factory for its subsidiary Shikoku Kako in Higashikagawa City, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, with an investment of 30 billion yen, to manufacture functional medical films and increase capacity by 36%.

Hengst Filter Polska purchased 8 hectares of land in the Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone near Rawicz, Poland, for over PLN 2.9 million, and plans to start construction in Q3 2018 for a plant producing multifunctional filtration systems and automotive filters, creating 100-300 jobs.

Wujin Stainless Steel Pipe Group plans to invest RMB 216.55 million ($34.4 million) in a new project for precision super-long stainless steel pipes in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, with an annual capacity of 3,500 metric tons.

Solvay Performance Polyamides inaugurated a new plastics and resins production plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, creating 20 direct and 100 indirect jobs, with an annual capacity of 10,000 tonnes.

BorgWarner Emissions Systems (Ningbo) opened a new 50,000 square meter design and manufacturing facility in Jiangshan, Yinzhou District, Ningbo, to make EGR systems, ignition coils and thermal heaters for automotive customers in China. The plant replaces the older Ningbo emissions facility.

Essex Europe laid the foundation stone for a new factory in Zrenjanin, Serbia, on March 14, 2018. The EUR 30.4 million facility will produce enameled copper wires and create over 150 jobs.

Construction of the Rades C combined-cycle power plant in Tunisia officially started. The 450 MWe plant, using a gas turbine combined cycle, is scheduled for gas turbine operation before summer 2019 and full combined-cycle operation before summer 2020.

Nellson Nutraceutical officially opened a new $70 million, 300,000-square-foot nutrition bar manufacturing plant in Ontario, California, replacing its Irwindale facility.

Calidad Pascual has inaugurated a new Bezoya water bottling plant in Ortigosa del Monte, Segovia, Spain, with an investment of €15 million. The plant covers 15,000 m2, increases production capacity by 10%, and is expected to create a 15% increase in direct jobs and 30% in indirect jobs.

Ogura Clutch started operations at its new automotive air-conditioning clutch plant in Changxing, China. The company invested JPY 1 billion (USD 9.4 million) in the plant, which has floor space of 10,500 square meters and annual production capacity of 1 million AC clutches.

Seeley International has purchased a 4.7-hectare site in Wodonga to build a $20 million, 12,000 sq/m manufacturing hub for heating and cooling products. The facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2019 and will create about 60% employment growth over five years.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Nakoso IGCC Power GK held a ceremony on March 13, 2018, marking the full-scale launch of on-site construction of a coal gasification furnace for a 540 MW IGCC plant in Iwaki, Fukushima, ordered by Nakoso IGCC Power.

IKO has officially opened a new 250,000-square-foot asphalt shingle production facility in Hillsboro, Texas. The plant began production in late December 2017 and will employ 65 people.

Viega launched its first manufacturing facility in India at Sanand, Gujarat, with an investment of Rs 160 crore (€20 million). The plant will initially produce floor drains and toilet cisterns for local and export markets.

Tipper specialist MEILLER is expanding its capacities in Austria by building a new plant in Oed-Öhling to concentrate production in one location.

Siemens is investing £27 million in a new additive manufacturing facility for its subsidiary Materials Solutions Ltd in Worcester, UK. The factory will create over 50 new jobs and is set to open in September 2018.

The turbine manufacturing complex in Ain Yagout, Algeria, a partnership between Sonelgaz and General Electric, will begin production in early 2019, initially producing two gas turbines and one steam turbine.

SNF Floerger announced the construction of a new plant in Gravelines, on the port of Dunkirk, France, to produce polyacrylamides. Investment is estimated between EUR 110 and 160 million, with capacity of 30,000-50,000 tonnes per year, creating 150 jobs.

Romgaz is investing EUR 184 million in a new 430 MW gas-fired power plant at Iernut, Romania. The total project cost is EUR 268 million, with completion expected in 2020.

The supervisory board of the Alabuga special economic area approved a $250 million cold-rolled flat metal products facility to be built by Gemont Metal. The first stage will have a capacity of 770,000 tons annually, expandable to 1.25 million tons.

RJR Technologies opened a new 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and relocated its headquarters from Oakland, CA to Phoenix, AZ. The facility expands capacity for Air Cavity semiconductor packaging and received first customer qualification in April 2017.

Vijai Electricals El Djazair, a joint venture between Electro-industrie, Sonelgaz and Vijai Electricals Ltd, was created to build a transformer manufacturing plant in Azazga, Tizi-Ouzou. The 4.7 billion DZD investment will create 358 jobs and produce 115 units per year with total capacity of 8,300 MVA.

Megatech International is building a 600tpd cement plant in the Barranco Amarillo sector of the Valeroso Peña Industria Complex, Peña, Venezuela. The $25 million project is expected to become operational later in 2018 and create 300 direct jobs.