Samick THK announced a new facility investment of KRW 20.8 billion to build a plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, for mechatronics business expansion and capacity increase, from November 15, 2017 to October 31, 2018.

Sugino Machine held the completion ceremony of a new assembly plant in Namerikawa, Toyama Prefecture, with an investment of about 2.7 billion yen. The three-story plant has a total floor area of 7,800 m² and will produce machining centers and ultra-high pressure washing machines.

Global Supply Line and Australian Pipeline Valve have moved into a purpose-built 20,000m2 facility in Salisbury Plain, South Australia, combining a large valve and actuator stock range with a new engineering and test facility.

Autoliv-Nissin Brake is building a new 200,000 square foot plant in Findlay, Ohio, for $60 million to produce electronic boost brake systems for autonomous vehicles. Construction will be complete in a year, with production starting in 2019.

Komatsu broke ground on a 23,000 square foot facility in Longview, Texas for electric drive technology development and manufacturing for mining equipment.

Kauno Grudai is investing €15 million in a new instant noodle production facility in Alytus, Lithuania, driven by orders from Unilever. The plant will initially create around 40 jobs, rising to 220 within five years.

Huhtamaki is investing €11 million ($12.9 million) in a new manufacturing plant in Hämeenlinna, Finland to replace an aging facility. The plant will serve customers in Nordic and Baltic countries.

Vietnam Electricity Equipment Corporation (GELEX) signed a principle agreement to lease 50 hectares in Deep C III industrial park to build an electrical equipment manufacturing complex with investment of $200-300 million. The first phase includes a German-based cable factory operated by Cadivi, expected to be inaugurated by end of 2018.

Honeywell subsidiary Systems Sensor Technologies plans to launch its plant in the Lipetsk special economic zone in December 2017, after investing about 400 million rubles. The plant will make electrical, automation, fire detection and gas detection equipment.

Canpack opened a new beverage can factory on the Maisdijk in Helmond in spring 2017, with about 40,000 square metres of floor space. Construction cost was said to be more than EUR 100 million.

Global Choice Ltd, a consortium of local quarry operators and institutional investors, plans to build a KES5bn (US$48.3m) cement grinding unit with 1Mta capacity in Athi River, Kenya. The company is awaiting approval from NEMA.

Fujifilm will spend $28 million to build a new plant in College Station, Texas, to produce monoclonal antibodies, as part of a larger investment at its contract manufacturing sites.

Zhejiang Saifeng Machinery Technology Co., Ltd. officially opened its new factory in Jiashan, Zhejiang on November 12, 2017. The company, founded by the founder of Shanghai Safran Packaging Machinery, built the plant to expand production capacity.

Chevron Phillips Chemical opened new polyethylene units in Old Ocean, Texas, with a capacity of 1,000,000 metric tons per year. The units are part of a $6 billion US Gulf Coast petrochemicals project that also includes an ethane cracker at Cedar Bayou.

Strata Manufacturing finalized an agreement to build an 8,500 sqm advanced manufacturing facility in Al Ain, UAE, to produce carbon fiber prepreg for Boeing 777X aircraft, with the plant to be operational by 2020 and a contract value north of $500 million.

PSA-AVTEC Powertrain, a 50:50 joint venture between Groupe PSA and Avtec, started construction of a new plant in India for manufacturing next-generation gearboxes and engines, with an initial capacity of 200,000 units per year.

LS Cable & System is setting up an automotive battery parts production plant in Dzierżoniów, Poland. The company spent USD 18 million to purchase the plant and commercial production is set to start in 2019.

SW North America Inc. dedicated its new 40,000-square-foot, $12 million manufacturing facility in New Hudson, Michigan on November 10, 2017. The facility will employ 50 people and serve the automotive, industrial, aerospace, defense, and other sectors.

Toray Industries, through its U.S. subsidiary Zoltek Companies, will build a new carbonization facility for mass production at its Mexican plant in El Salto, Jalisco. The facility is expected to start production at the end of 2018. Investment is speculated to be over US$100 million.

Changde Tianma Electric Co., Ltd. signed an agreement to invest 300 million yuan in a Schneider (Tianma) smart power distribution industrial park in Changde Economic Development Zone, China. The 100-mu site will produce switchgear, transformers, and substations.

Yaskawa held a groundbreaking ceremony on November 2, 2017 for its first European robot factory in Kocevje, Slovenia, with an investment of €25 million and expected to create 200 jobs.

Niles-Simmons-Hegenscheidt (NSH) has begun construction of a new machine tool plant in the Technopolis Moscow special economic zone in Zelenograd, Russia. The company is investing about 1.6 billion rubles (€23 million) and plans to create 150 jobs, with production capacity reaching 47 machines by 2022.

ABB has opened a new robotics facility in Rayong Province, Thailand, called ABB Robotics Machine-Tending Limited, to produce machine-tending robotics.

Grundfos India opened a new manufacturing facility in Dantali, Central Gujarat, to supply stainless steel products, boosters and box products to western and northern India and export stainless steel components to Grundfos plants in Europe, the Americas and China. The launch was announced on November 9, 2017.

Sonatrach (51%) and Baker Hughes, a GE company (49%), formed a new company to build a 20,000 sqm manufacturing facility in Arzew Industrial Zone, Algeria, for wellheads, Christmas trees, BOPs and valves, with an initial investment of USD 45 million and 200 local jobs, expected operational in December 2019.

Sandawater (Beijing) Technology signed an agreement with Wuping County government in Fujian to build a facility producing 1,000 sets of membrane water treatment equipment per year. The project, valued at 100 million yuan, will be located in Wuping Industrial Park.

Bombardier plans to spend US$300 million to build a C Series assembly line in Alabama, creating 400-500 direct jobs and over 1,500 indirect jobs.

TPI Composites expects to open a new U.S. manufacturing facility in Newton, Iowa in the first half of 2018 to support its supply agreement with Proterra for composite bus bodies.

Hollister Incorporated held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new manufacturing plant in the Kaunas FEZ region of Lithuania. The $58 million (€50 million) multi-stage project is expected to create over 300 jobs and will produce ostomy-care products, with plans to expand to continence-care products.

Victrex opened a £10 million Polymer Innovation Centre at its Thornton-Cleveleys facility near Blackpool. The plant will research and manufacture novel PEEK and PAEK thermoplastics, particularly for aerospace composites and 3D printing, and is expected to create about 60 jobs over the next decade.

Pharmaceutical contract manufacturer Vitex will formally unveil a new $100 million manufacturing facility in Western Sydney, expected to create more than 420 new jobs.

Construction has started on a new 490 MW combined-cycle gas turbine power plant at the Żerań CHP plant in Warsaw, Poland, by PGNiG Termika in partnership with Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe and Polimex-Mostostal. The project is valued at $1.57 billion and is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2017.

Alpla is developing a 180,000-square-foot plant near Allentown, Pennsylvania, hiring 80 people to produce containers for food, household and cosmetic products.

W.M. Sprinkman Corp. relocated from Franksville to a newly renovated 45,000-square-foot facility at 404 Pilot Court in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a $3.5 million investment to meet demand for brewing equipment.

Belgian food packaging and serviceware maker deSter is setting up a new production facility in Lima, Ohio, to produce service items for the foodservice and travel industry closer to its US customers.

Aspla, part of Grupo Armando Álvarez, has finished its new polyethylene food-film plant in Reocín, Cantabria, after about 18 months of construction, raising its production capacity by 60% with around 20 new jobs and an investment of about EUR 20 million.

China Aero Engine Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials signed an agreement to build a turbine blade manufacturing plant in Gui'an New Area, with total investment of about 2.62 billion yuan, producing 700,000 blades annually.

GE Aviation began taking occupancy of its new $200 million factory complex in Huntsville, Alabama, for mass-producing silicon carbide materials and ceramic matrix composites for jet engines and gas turbines.

Systemair HSK is constructing a new production facility in Dilovası, Turkey, which will include an auditorium and showroom. The plant is nearing completion and will serve the HVAC sector.

Atsumi Industry will build a new plant in Hamamatsu's Kita-ku to increase production of axle hubs and transmission gears for vehicles. The investment is estimated at 1.5-1.6 billion yen.

Toray Industries will establish a new company, Toray Polytech (Foshan), to produce polypropylene spunbonded nonwovens in Foshan, China, with an annual capacity of 20,000 tons starting in FY2019.

Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze opened a 27,000 sq m electric cable systems plant in Orhei, Moldova, following a EUR 30 million investment. The plant currently employs 350, with plans to reach 2,500.

Stiplastics inaugurated a new 10,000 sqm plant in Saint-Marcellin, Isère, France, representing an investment of €8.6 million. The site houses administrative headquarters, design office, and production workshops, replacing the historic Beauvoir-en-Royans plant.

Johnson & Johnson broke ground on a $180 million medical device plant in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, to produce minimally invasive surgical devices. Operations are expected to begin in 2019, making it one of the company's largest plants worldwide.

Yaskawa broke ground on November 2, 2017, for a new robot factory in Kočevje, Slovenia, with an investment of about €25 million. The plant will manufacture Motoman robots starting in 2018 and create around 200 new jobs.

Industrial Components of Texas, LLC (ICOTEX), a joint venture between Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America and Jungheinrich Lift Truck Corp., broke ground in August 2017 on a 75,000-square-foot facility in Conroe Park North, Texas. The plant will produce over 600 types of components for forklift production, creating 83 new jobs with an $18 million capital investment.

Gebr. Kemper GmbH + Co. KG invested around €20 million in a new valve plant with integrated logistics center at its Olpe site. SSI Schäfer supplied the intralogistics including a 21-meter-high automated container warehouse with 35,500 storage locations.

Jennmar opened a new conveyor structure plant in Russell County, Virginia, consisting of two buildings totaling 100,000 ft². The facility received $2 million in grant funding and currently employs 21, with plans to hire 20 more.

Russian European Cement Group (Eurocement) announced it will build a dry cement production plant in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with Chinese contractor Beijing Triumph Building Materials Engineering. The $160 million project is to be completed by 2020.

Johnson & Johnson Medical broke ground on a new Ethicon factory in Suzhou Industrial Park, China, with an investment of $180 million, expected to start production in 2019.