Rittal, part of Friedhelm Loh Group, has broken ground on a new headquarters in Pioltello, Milan, Italy. The company purchased the land for the new building, which will replace its current Vignate site.

FANUC is scheduled to open a new robotics factory in August 2018 to increase robot production capacity. The announcement was made on December 21, 2017.

Korean automotive supplier Hanon plans to build its third compressor plant in Dalian, China. The article text provided gives no investment, capacity or job figures.

Smiths Healthcare (СмитХелскеа) plans to build a medical device production facility in the St. Petersburg SEZ, with an investment of RUB 915.4 million and initial capacity of 1 million units per year.

Henniges Automotive opened a new 79,500 sq ft facility in Suzhou, China, for automotive sealing and anti-vibration systems, creating about 70 jobs.

PG Aerospace, a precision parts manufacturer for automotive and aerospace industries, is opening a new 15,000-square-foot facility in Liberty, Pickens County, South Carolina, creating 22 jobs.

Island Glass & Mirror Ltd launched its newly-built automated production facility in Walu Bay, Suva, Fiji, representing an investment of $1.8 million. The facility will produce specialist architectural glass.

Inter Pipeline Ltd has authorized construction of the Heartland petrochemical complex in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, a world-scale integrated propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene plant costing CAN$3.5 billion. The complex will produce 525,000 tpy of polypropylene, with completion scheduled for late 2021.

Meurens Natural opened a second production site in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, with a 6,500 m² building on 28,000 m² of land. The EUR 15 million investment added production lines for organic cereal and dried fruit syrups.

Astor Transformatör is opening a new factory in Ankara, Turkey, with an investment of TRY 200 million. The 100,000 m² facility will produce transformers up to 800 kV 1000 MVA and create 700 jobs.

Sika Corp. has dedicated a new admixture and mortar production facility near Houston, Texas, geared to Texas and Southwest markets. It is the company's 22nd plant in the U.S. and equipped for production of polymers for high performance admixtures.

Amara Raja Batteries has commissioned a new two-wheeler battery plant in Chittoor, India, with an investment of ₹700 crore. The first phase has a capacity of 5 million units, with ultimate capacity planned at 17 million units, and will employ 1,300 people at full capacity.

Pratt Industries plans to break ground in 2018 on a recycled containerboard mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio, with initial capacity of about 181,000 tons per year, according to a $210 million bond application. Operation is expected by late 2019.

PT Polytama Propindo is planning to construct a new polypropylene unit, Polytama II, adjacent to its existing complex in West Java, Indonesia. Feasibility study is complete; the unit may come online by 2020 or 2022.

Ellex opened a new machinery facility, corporate headquarters and manufacturing plant at Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, doubling production capacity for ophthalmic devices.

Zoppas Industries opened its second production facility in Rioverde, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, investing US$6 million and recruiting 700 workers to produce heating components and thermal controls for OEMs in the appliances sector.

Northern Minerals Limited announced the first steel has been erected at the Browns Range pilot process plant in East Kimberley, Western Australia. The third and final shipment of equipment arrived at Darwin Port on December 16, 2017.

Schlumberger plans to develop an industrial manufacturing center on 500,000 square meters within the King Salman Energy Park in Saudi Arabia. The first phase, including land rig manufacturing, is planned for completion in Q2 2018.

Bombardier plans to build a new plant in Kenitra free zone, Morocco, with 145,000 m² of surface area, EUR 60 million investment, and 2,000 direct jobs, scheduled for late 2018.

Jewell, an Oldcastle Company, has opened a new 23,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Burnet, Texas, for concrete and mortar products, expected to be operational by the end of December 2017.

A new glass factory in Ahal Velayat, Turkmenistan, started test mode production in December 2017. The facility, built since 2015, has a capacity of 7.2 million square meters of glass and 85 million bottles per year, aiming to reduce imports and enable exports.

Magna International inaugurated its fourth South Carolina plant on December 14, 2017, a $29 million, 230,000-square-foot seating facility in Duncan, Spartanburg County. The plant will create 480 jobs by 2021 and manufacture seats for BMW X5, X6, and X7 models, with first seats shipped on September 29, 2017.

Construction has begun on Azerfloat's new float glass line and production facility in Sumgait, Azerbaijan. The line, built by Horn Glass Industries, will produce nearly 275 tons of coated float glass daily and create about 600 jobs.

Global Technical Systems announced a $54.7 million investment to construct a 500,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing center in Virginia Beach to produce green energy storage devices. The facility will create 1,100 jobs and be operational in 2019.

Tata Advanced Systems Ltd and GE Aviation signed an agreement to build a new factory in Hyderabad, India, to manufacture, assemble, integrate and test components for the LEAP engine used in Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 MAX jets.

INEOS Oligomers announced a final investment decision to build a 120 ktpa low viscosity polyalphaolefin (PAO) unit at its Chocolate Bayou, Texas site, scheduled to start up in Q3 2019.

Crown Asia Pacific has opened a new beverage can manufacturing plant in Jakarta, Indonesia, expanding its presence in Asia.

Teijin Frontier Co. will open a research and development center for fibers in Thailand Science Park. The Teijin Frontier Thai Innovation Laboratory will research polymers for polyester fibers and related technologies.

Alageum Electric, through its subsidiary Asia Trafo, will build a new transformer factory in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, costing 17.9 billion KZT. The project is financed by the Development Bank of Kazakhstan and BRK-Leasing, and will create up to 220 jobs. Construction is to be completed in Q3 2018.

Terumo will construct a new building for manufacturing interventional systems products at Terumo Yamaguchi Corporation, investing approximately 30 billion yen and hiring about 700 associates, with operations starting in April 2021.

Boeing will set up an engineering and technology facility with electronics and avionics manufacturing and assembly in Devanahalli, near Bengaluru, at an investment of Rs 1,152 crore, creating 2,300 direct jobs.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held for a new plant to produce General Electric 6FA gas turbine units near Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, by the joint venture Russkie Gazovye Turbiny. The plant is expected to start operations in Q2 2014 with an initial capacity of 14 units per year, with investments of 5 billion rubles.

Indian Caterpillar dealer TIPL is planning a new manufacturing plant in West Bengal.

Xuzhou Handler Special Vehicle Co. plans to invest CNY 1.8 billion (USD 272 million) to build an intelligent manufacturing base in Dalingshan, Dongguan, Guangdong, China. The facility will focus on power management, lithium batteries, smart manufacturing solutions, and industrial robotics.

AO STP-Lipetsk Machine Tool Enterprise opened a new plant for producing grinding machines on a 4,500 sqm area, with capacity of 320 machines per year and 90 new jobs. The project cost over 507 million rubles.

Airbus Helicopters inaugurated its Paris-Le Bourget site on December 1, 2017, for helicopter blade production. The 18-hectare site involved an investment of over €100 million and will produce and repair around 4,000 blades per year with 640 employees.

Tenaris has rolled out a new $1.8 billion pipe plant at Bay City, Texas, as reported on 13 December 2017.

Techint Group and its subsidiary Ternium plan to construct a $1 billion hot rolled steel mill in Monterrey, Mexico, with an annual capacity of 3.7 million metric tons. Completion is expected in the second half of 2020.

DonBioTech will invest 347 million rubles to build a wastewater treatment plant for a grain processing complex in Volgodonsk, Rostov Oblast. The plant will have a capacity of 4,545 cubic meters per day and is to be implemented in 2018.

Continental Motors Group announced a multi-year investment to build a new greenfield factory, office and technical support center at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley in Mobile, Alabama. The 260,000-square-foot facility will cost over $70 million and is expected to be complete by the end of 2018.

WEG invested over €30 million to build a new plant in Santo Tirso, Portugal, its largest in Europe, to produce standard and customized low-voltage motors for the European market. The factory covers 45,000 m² with capacity for expansion to 100,000 m² and employs about 150 people.

Intelligent, a subsidiary of CYG (ChangYuan Group Ltd), broke ground on Dec 8, 2017 for an 800-million-yuan ($121 million) smart manufacturing industrial site in Xinqing Science & Technology Industrial Park, Doumen District. The 149,000 sq m facility will focus on automotive and consumer electronics manufacturing and is expected to begin operations in December 2020.

Pro-Gest Group plans a greenfield corrugated sheet plant in Grezzago, Lombardy, at a cost of €55 million with annual capacity of 300 million square metres. Construction is expected to start in early 2018 and take about 18 months.

Sichuan Feiqiu Group signed an investment agreement with the Zigong High-tech Zone Management Committee to build a valve R&D, manufacturing, testing and sales base in the Banchang industrial park. The total planned investment is 320 million yuan, with the first phase at about 240 million yuan and a one-year construction period.

TSMC will invest $20 billion to build a new factory in Taiwan's Tainan Science Park for 3nm transistor chip production. The plant is expected to be fully operational in early 2020.

Mitsubishi Electric's new air conditioning factory in Manisa, Turkey, commenced production on December 12, 2017. The €40 million, 40,000 m² plant will produce 500,000 indoor and outdoor room air conditioning units annually by 2021 and employ 400 people.

Trench Group's affiliate HSP US started transformer bushing assembly at a new $60 million facility in Charlotte, North Carolina. Full production is scheduled for July 2026, creating up to 140 jobs by 2030.

Teba for Development plans to establish a EGP 300 million factory to manufacture electrical transformers in 10 Ramadan City, Egypt, in partnership with an unnamed Chinese company. The 22,000 sqm factory will be constructed over the next year.

Sichuan Juyi Heavy Industry, a unit of Dalian Qianyi Group, broke ground in Deyang on December 11, 2017 on phase one of a turbo compressor production line invested at 580 million yuan, due to start production by June 30, 2019.

Japanese flexible packaging and high-performance films maker Takigawa Corp. will build a 180,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on a greenfield site in Bardstown, Kentucky, investing nearly $46 million and creating 180 full-time jobs.