Atlas Copco Compressors LLC relocated its global headquarters to a new 25,000-sq.ft. facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA, housing employees from Atlas Copco Compressors, Chicago Pneumatic Compressors, and Pneumatech Compressors.

Cuba's Cement Business Group will set up a new cement factory in Santiago de Cuba to replace the obsolete José Mercerón plant, with capacity to produce about 1 million tons of clinker and 1.2 million tons of gray cement annually, expected to be completed in three years.

M.H. EBY, Inc. started production at a new 100,000-square-foot facility in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, months ahead of schedule. The plant will build all-aluminum trailers and truck bodies.

Eurotranciatura México, a subsidiary of Italian Euro Group, inaugurated its second plant in Querétaro Industrial Park with an investment of over $25 million. The plant will create 100 direct jobs and is described as the company's first 4.0 factory.

Constellium Automotive México has inaugurated a new manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with an initial investment of $10 million and expected to generate 240 jobs by 2019. The plant produces aluminum automotive parts.

Egger Turo Pumps Belgium moved to a new building in Dilbeek, Belgium on 1 March 2018.

Metal packaging maker Jamestrong opened a fully enclosed high-care can production plant in Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand, primarily to supply Synlait and The a2 Milk Company. The investment is reported at $12m.

ArcelorMittal opened its first Michigan facility, a refurbished $83 million plant in Detroit for producing laser-welded high-strength steel blanks. The plant will supply parts for Acura RDX and Ram pickup trucks.

Fagor Ederlan Group inaugurated two new automotive component manufacturing plants in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with a joint investment exceeding EUR 80 million. The plants employ nearly 350 workers and produce chassis and powertrain components.

Beijing Full Dimension Power Tech, Nanjing Turbine and Electric Machinery Group, and Sri Lanka's IMS Holdings signed a JV to construct a dendro power plant in Moneragala district, Sri Lanka. The plant will have six biomass boilers and three steam turbine generators, generating about 70,000 MWh per year. Operations expected by end-September 2018.

Pure Nutrition Ltd, a joint venture between Ausnutria and Westland Milk Products, commenced operations at a blending and canning plant in Rolleston, New Zealand. The plant can can 30,000 tonnes of nutritional product per year.

Quality Enclosures is investing $3.3 million to convert a vacant building in Albemarle, N.C., into a tempering facility, distribution center and national training center, creating 65 full-time jobs, expected to open September 2018.

Steelbird International is investing Rs 40 crore in a new 40,000 sq ft facility in Pant Nagar, Uttarakhand, to produce air filters and rubber parts for two-wheelers, increasing daily capacity from 60,000 to over 100,000 units.

Nu Flow Technologies built a 38,000 square foot manufacturing and R&D facility in Ajax, Ontario to serve licensees worldwide. The article is dated 28 February 2018 and no investment value was given.

Novares opened its third production plant in Chihuahua, Mexico, on February 27, 2018, with a $15.6 million investment, 276 employees, and 25 Engel injection molding machines, to serve Ford and BMW.

Greenville Venture Partners LLC, a subsidiary of Foremost Farms USA Cooperative, received support for a $57.9 million new milk processing plant in Greenville, Michigan, expected to create 33 jobs.

SFA Semicon Philippines Corp. opened a $51-million manufacturing facility in Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga, as part of the second phase of its manufacturing building. The facility will produce the latest version of embedded multimedia cards (eMMC) and accommodate new clients.

Teijin is building a compounding and R&D complex in Ayutthaya, Thailand, with a capacity of 10,000 t/y for polycarbonate and future PPS. The JPY 1.5 billion ($13 million) facility is expected to start up in 2019.

Chongqing Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, a joint venture, will begin trial production at its 12-inch power semiconductor chip manufacturing and packaging testing facility in Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing, in March 2018. The total investment is $1 billion.

Heineken's new seventh brewery in Meoqui, Chihuahua, built by Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma with an investment of 7.5 billion pesos, was inaugurated on February 27, 2018, adding 5 million hectoliters of annual capacity and about 500 direct jobs.

Xylem Water Solutions India Pvt Ltd inaugurated the Xylem India Technology Centre (ITC) in Vadodara, India, to offer smart water and waste water management solutions.

Japan Lifeline's Malaysian subsidiary JLL Malaysia signed a deal to acquire land in North Penang Science Park for a new factory. The company will invest RM70 million to build its first factory outside Japan, producing medical devices for cardiac rhythm management and cardiovascular surgery.

Kubota plans to build a new small construction machinery plant in the US Midwest, with operations starting by 2022. Total investment is up to JPY 10 billion. Location and capacity details will be decided in 2018.

Hanwha Robotics is partnering with PBA Group to open a collaborative robot production facility at Yishun Industrial Park in Singapore, making the Hanwha collaborative robot available locally.

Latecoere's new plant near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, will open in March 2018. The 5,000-square-meter facility will produce small aircraft door assemblies and electrical distribution cabinets, with an investment of EUR 15 million over three years and 200 initial employees.

Muscat Matrix Solutions LLC, a sister company of Airmaster Equipments Emirates LLC, announced the establishment of a new factory in Misfah, Oman, to manufacture air distribution and air control products such as grilles, diffusers, louvers, dampers, and VAV boxes.

EUROIMMUN, a German diagnostics company, will open a manufacturing unit in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo, in March 2018, with a total infrastructure investment of R$12 million. The plant will produce diagnostic kits and BIOCHIPs.

Komatsu inaugurated a new operations plant in Zacatecas, Mexico, with an investment of $12 million for machinery and equipment to serve the construction and mining sectors.

The Daikin Texas Technology Park (DTTP) in Waller County, Texas, a 4.2 million square foot HVAC manufacturing facility, has been completed. It consolidates production from Texas and Tennessee and is the second-largest manufacturing facility in North America.

AkzoNobel inaugurated a new €9 million powder coatings production facility in Thane, Mumbai, India. It is the company's sixth production site in India and will add new product lines in bonded metallic and functional powder coatings.

Toray Industries acquired land in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, India, to establish a subsidiary and build a polypropylene spunbond nonwovens line with a $40 million investment, targeting the disposable diaper market. The line is expected to be operational in 2020 with an annual capacity of 18,000 tons.

American Colors, Inc. announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility in Seguin, Texas, its fourth U.S. facility, to support customers in the south central region.

Fertig Motors, part of the Beckhoff Group, officially inaugurated a new mechanical production facility in Marktheidenfeld, Germany on February 23, 2018. Over €4 million was invested in the building and €3 million in CNC machines, creating 2,500 m² of production space and 1,000 m² for offices.

Viglacera Corporation began construction of a 110kV transformer station and a wastewater treatment plant at Đồng Văn IV Industrial Park in Hà Nam, Vietnam. The wastewater plant has an investment of VND 24 billion ($1.05 million) and initial capacity of 2,000 m³/day.

BOCAR, a German auto supplier, is investing $115 million to build its first U.S. plant in Limestone County, Alabama, creating over 300 jobs. The facility will produce aluminum and plastic precision parts for automakers.

Moba B.V., a manufacturer of egg grading and packing equipment, opened a new office in Dubai, UAE, to support growth in the Middle East market.

Constellium Automotive Structures, a subsidiary of Constellium N.V., announced its new production plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is 90% complete and will be inaugurated next month. The company invested $10 million in the first phase, creating 155 jobs.

ATC, an $85 million joint project of Georgia's Partnership Fund and Elbit Cyclone, is preparing to start production of composite parts for commercial aircraft at a facility near Tbilisi International Airport. Production is scheduled to start before late 2018, with the company aiming to supply Boeing, Airbus, and Bombardier.

HC SemiTek Corp. signed a deal to invest CNY10.8 billion (USD1.7 billion) to build an advanced semiconductor and device center in Yiwu Information Optoelectronic High-Tech Industrial Park, China. The facility will produce LED chips, MEMS sensors, VCSEL, GaN-based lasers, and power electronic devices, with completion expected in seven years.

Tigercat broke ground on a $12 million, 11,800 square metre factory in Paris, Ontario, Canada, to produce swing machines and cut-to-length attachments. The company also purchased an existing facility in Kitchener, Ontario, increasing manufacturing capacity by 20%.

PTTGC will build a 400,000 tonnes per year low density polyethylene production facility at a cost of $228 million, for food product packaging.

Elastron Kimya is investing $10 million to open a new compounding facility in Gainesville, Georgia, with an initial annual capacity of 3,500 metric tons, expandable to 6,000 metric tons by 2020.

Nexteer Automotive announced a new 18,000 m² production facility in Kenitra, Morocco, for manufacturing electric power steering systems, with ground-breaking in March 2018 and production starting in 2019.

Flint & Walling is investing more than $5 million to buy and equip a vacant 100,000-square-foot factory at 800 W. Mitchell St. in Kendallville, Indiana, to bring motor production back from Mexico. The move will employ almost 40 people.

SOPREMA hosted a grand opening for its new 21,600-square-foot resin production plant at its Wadsworth, Ohio campus on February 21, 2018. The plant is already manufacturing resin for roofing and waterproofing products and has created new jobs.

Applied DNA Sciences Inc. has established a central DNA testing laboratory in Ahmedabad, India, providing forensic authentication services for its growing textile business in the Asia-Pacific region.

Merck KGaA is building a single-use manufacturing operation in Wuxi, China, that will be operational in 2018, targeting China's biosimilars market.

Merck KGaA will build a new manufacturing facility and distribution center on a 129,000-square-foot site in Mumbai, India, as part of a $47 million investment across Asia.

Silfex, a division of Lam Research, will invest $223 million to convert a vacant warehouse in Springfield, Ohio into a high-tech manufacturing plant for silicon products. The project is expected to create about 400 jobs and be operational by January 2019.

LafargeHolcim's subsidiary Ambuja Cement will build a new cement plant in Marwar Mundawa, Rajasthan, India, with a clinker capacity of 3.1 million tonnes per annum. The CHF200 million investment is due for commissioning in the second half of 2020.