Continental announced it will build a new automotive electronics factory in Debrecen, Hungary, with an investment of €100 million. The plant will produce transmission units, sensors and actuators for European markets, creating 450 jobs. Groundbreaking is in Q3 2018.

Safran and Albany International inaugurated a third joint manufacturing plant in Querétaro, Mexico, to produce composite fan blades for the LEAP engine. The plant involved a $100 million investment, delivered first parts in October 2017, and will also make guide vanes starting in 2019.

Toyoda Gosei Group started construction of a $24.6 million auto parts factory in Thai Binh Province, Vietnam. The 11.3-hectare plant will manufacture airbags and leather steering wheels, with completion expected in July 2019.

Truong Hai Auto Corporation (Thaco) launched a new agricultural machine factory in Chu Lai open economic zone, Quang Nam province, Vietnam. The factory covers 12,500 m², with an investment of 500 billion VND, and will manufacture tractors, combine harvesters, and other agricultural equipment.

Poligal, a Grup Peralada member, began production at its new €40 million plant in Skarbimierz, Poland, with a Brückner extrusion line and capacity of 40,000 tonnes per year of BOPP film. Metallization will be added later this year.

Caltek, a joint venture between Cementos Argos and Grupo Calidra, inaugurated a new lime production plant in Puerto Triunfo, Antioquia, Colombia. The plant has a capacity of 90,000 tonnes per year and required an investment of over 113 billion Colombian pesos.

Rehau Automotive Ltd. will set up a new vehicle parts manufacturing plant in Újhartyán, Hungary, creating 727 jobs. The EUR 150 million greenfield investment will produce coated external parts like bumpers and spoilers.

Lennox International will build a new manufacturing facility in Saltillo, Mexico, for its Merit series air conditioners and heat pumps, moving production from Marshalltown, Iowa, and Grenada, Mo. The $45 million, 300,000 sq. ft. facility is expected to start production in Q2 2008.

Rockfon LLC, a subsidiary of Rockwool International, broke ground on its first North American acoustic ceiling panel manufacturing facility in Marshall County, Miss., with an initial investment of $40 million, expected to create 90 jobs and commence production mid-2017.

Deere & Co. announced it will build a construction equipment manufacturing plant in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area in northern China, producing four-wheel-drive loaders and excavators, with a $50 million investment.

Swedish MEMS manufacturer Silex Microsystems is building a new volume production fab in Beijing, China, with an investment of 2 billion Chinese yuan (approx. 2.5 billion SEK). Production is expected to start in Q1 2020.

Maxion Wheels has started construction of a new plant in Khed City, Pune, India. The first phase involves an investment of over $50 million for a 25,000 sq m plant producing two million aluminum wheels annually, with production expected to start in Q3 2019.

Swiss company Alu Menziken, part of Montana Tech Components AG, is building a factory for aluminium profiles for the aeronautics and automobile industry in Mediesu Aurit, Romania. The total project investment is EUR 40 million, with over EUR 10 million already invested.

Samsung Electronics will break ground for a new foundry in Hwaseong, South Korea, with a $5.6 billion investment to mass-produce below-7 nanometer chips starting in the second half of 2019.

Hiab, part of Cargotec, is opening a new factory installation and competence centre in Meppel, the Netherlands, during the first quarter of 2018. The centre will offer FrameWorks subframes, truck bodies and complete vehicle solutions for Hiab's European customer base.

Progroup started active preparation for a new paper factory for containerboard in Germany, scheduled to start production in 2021.

Eaton Compressor & Fabrication plans a 60,000-square-foot factory in Englewood, Ohio to make Eaton-Max DIY compressors for retail channels. The project needs $5 million in start-up funds and will initially hire 40 workers, rising to 75.

Bidell Gas Compression shipped the first compressor units fabricated at its Weirton, West Virginia facility to natural gas industry customers. The facility began operations in October 2017 and the company has 35 direct employees.

EGEMAC and China's Chint established a new company, Chint EGEMAC, to produce low voltage distribution equipment. EGEMAC holds 49% and Chint holds 51%.

XD-EGEMAC will open two new factories in Ain Sokhna, Egypt, in March 2018 with investments of EGP 450 million. One factory will produce gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) up to 500 kV, and the other will produce transformers up to 220 kV with a capacity of 175 megavolt-amperes.

Trepovi will move its production plant to a new site in Solsona, investing about €3 million and increasing its workforce from 40 to about 90 workers over three years. The company signed a land purchase contract with Incasòl for a 7,887 m² plot.

Brückner Textile Machinery built a new production site near Tittmoning, Germany, with 25,000 square meters of hall area, to expand capacity. The move began in November 2017 and will be completed in spring 2018.

SABIC will build a third Ultem polyetherimide resin plant in Singapore, expanding capacity by 50%, and restart a Noryl polyphenylene ether resin plant in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, expanding capacity by 40%.

Jewell, an Oldcastle APG company, opened a 23,000-sq.-ft. dry mix concrete and mortar packaging plant on a 15-acre site in Burnet, Texas, with a quarry, to serve residential and commercial markets.

Korean company Yura is constructing a new plant in Leskovac, Serbia, with an investment of around EUR 40 million. The facility will be one of the most modern in Europe, with a sterile environment of 900 m2.

GRI Renewable Industries opened a new €40 million factory in the port of Seville, Spain, for production of offshore wind towers. The factory will employ up to 400 staff.

Jacto, a Brazilian agricultural machinery company, inaugurated a new 3,600-square-meter plant in Arrecifes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a $7 million investment. The plant will produce sprayers and fruit turbines, creating about 30 jobs initially.

Partex Group inaugurated a new cable manufacturing factory at Bandar in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. The plant has started commercial sales and marketing operations.

Ring Container Technologies of Tennessee plans to open a plastic bottle plant near Hagerstown, Maryland, in a revamped existing building, producing HDPE bottles for food packaging. It is expected to start operating around mid-2018 and initially employ 18 people.

LM Wind Power began delivering wind turbine blades from its new $50 million factory in Bergama, Turkey. The first blades shipped in December 2017 for GE turbines at the Bodangora Wind Farm in Australia.

AMP Rose, a supplier of high-speed wrapping machinery and food processing equipment, relocated to a new £2 million purpose-built factory on Marshall's Way in Gainsborough, creating over 13 new jobs.

Türkmen aýna önümleri (Turkmen glass products) opened a glass manufacturing plant in Ovadandepe, 25 km north of Ashgabat. The $375 million facility produces float glass and containers, creating 800 jobs.

Fabrics will build a knit fabric production facility at the site of AO Plastik in Uzlovsky District, Tula Oblast, with an investment of 300 million rubles. The plant will have a capacity of 1,500 tonnes per year and create over 50 jobs.

Hyosung Corporation plans to invest around Rs 3,000 crore in a spandex manufacturing facility in Aurangabad Industrial City, Maharashtra. The first phase of Rs 1,250 crore is expected to start production in May 2019.

Ovivo USA and MICRODYN-NADIR will hold the grand opening of a 27,000 sq ft facility in Austin, Texas on May 3, 2018, housing a fully automated membrane module production line for BIO-CEL MBR membranes and offices for Ovivo staff.

Tikkurila will invest 2.4 billion rubles (approx. $42 million) to build a decorative and industrial paint production facility and innovation center in the Greenstate industrial park in Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Construction is planned to start in 2018, with production launch in 2020, creating 300 jobs.

Post Holdings' Michael Foods business plans an $85 million, 150,000 square-foot pre-cooked egg manufacturing and distribution facility in Norwalk, Iowa, with construction targeted for summer 2018 and completion in 2019. The plant is expected to create 100-150 jobs.

Fujitsu General, the Japanese air-conditioner maker, plans to invest $200 million to set up a manufacturing facility in India, likely in Andhra Pradesh or Telangana. The facility will have an initial capacity of 10 lakh units per year.

Polymplast signed an agreement to build a production complex for high-molecular-weight thermostable polymers for construction materials in the Tula region, Russia. The investment is about 9 billion rubles, creating up to 150 jobs.

Europe technologies inaugurated a new 3,000 m² plant for GEBE2 Productique in Saint-Hilaire-de-Loulay, dedicated to designing and manufacturing robotic cells for aerospace, automotive and food industries. The plant opened in summer 2017.

Australian Crane and Machinery (ACM) will invest $16 million to set up a crane manufacturing centre at the former Holden plant in Elizabeth, South Australia. The 28,000 m² facility will create 190 jobs and begin production in early 2019.

Altenov is investing €12 million in a new 10,000 m² plant in Betton near Rennes, France, to support its 4-5% annual growth. The facility will create about 20 jobs and is expected to be operational by autumn 2019.

GC PTM-Kaluga LLC signed an agreement to build an enterprise producing elevator equipment in the Rosva industrial park in Kaluga. The project involves an investment of about 120 million rubles and will create about 50 jobs.

Stankoflot LLC signed an agreement to build a new enterprise in the Borovsk site of the Kaluga SEZ. The project will produce cutting and auxiliary tools, equipment, and high-precision metalware, with an investment of 1 billion rubles and about 150 jobs.

Refresco is building a new bottling plant at Le Quesnoy in Hauts-de-France, France, with a 27,000 sq m plant and a 10,000 sq m logistics hub to replace its current site. The facility is scheduled to come online in 2020.

Faurecia will build a new $60 million, 250,000-square-foot interiors production facility in Blue Springs, Missouri, making door and instrument panels and creating 300 new jobs.

German company Leoni will start building a cable plant in Kraljevo, Serbia, in July or August 2018, investing over EUR 60 million. The facility will produce cables for Mercedes and employ 4,000 to 5,000 workers.

Tavistock Development Company will build a water treatment plant capable of producing 7 million gallons per day of drinking water for the Sunbridge development in Osceola County, Florida. The plant will be deeded to Toho Water Authority.

Masdac decided to build a new factory in Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, for manufacturing confectionery machinery. Construction starts in February 2018, with operations expected in December 2018. Total project cost is 1 billion yen.

A group led by Tsinghua Unigroup will build a 60 billion-yuan ($9.5 billion) integrated circuit design and manufacturing facility in Chongqing, China. The facility will focus on seven types of cutting-edge chips and could absorb up to $100 billion in investment over 10 years.