Dangote Group announced plans to build new cement plants in Okpella, Edo State, and Itori, Ogun State, Nigeria. The plants are expected to be completed in three years and will boost Nigerian output from 31.5Mta to about 41.5Mta.

Dangote Cement's $300 million cement grinding plant in Bouansa, Congo is 99% complete and set to commence operations in October 2017. The plant will have a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year and create about 1,600 jobs.

Aviko Group and SnowValley Agricultural Group, through their joint venture Aviko SnowValley, are building a new french fry processing facility in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China. The €151 million plant will have an annual capacity of 150,000 tons and is expected to be completed by September 2018.

Aviko and its venture partner SnowValley Agricultural Group are setting up a French fry processing plant in Zhangjiakou, China, with an annual production capacity of 150,000 tons. The facility is expected to be completed by September 2018.

TSMC announced it will build a 3nm semiconductor fabrication plant in Tainan, Taiwan, with an investment of NT$500 billion (US$16.4 billion). Mass production is expected to start by 2022.

Marzek Etiketten+Packaging inaugurated a new greenfield flexible packaging plant in Békéscsaba, Hungary, with a factory space of over 8,500 sqm, representing a four-year investment of over €11 million.

Vinotemp announced it will move all manufacturing to a 100,000 square-foot facility in Los Angeles, California, beginning December 2017, making it the largest wine cabinet and cooling unit manufacturer in the US.

Yernazarov and Co LTD launched operations at a factory producing Albolite (wood wool cement) bricks in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan.

Takisawa Machine Tool completed and began operations at its fifth plant in Okayama, Japan, on October 2, 2017. The facility, built with an investment of approximately 800 million yen, will assemble NC lathes and unit parts, increasing monthly production by about 10 units.

IFA North America, part of the German IFA Group, is building a new $69 million facility in South Carolina to make prop shafts, adding about 120 employees and a new production line.

Japanese-owned Aisan Autopartes México officially started operations at a new plant in Villa de Pozos, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with a $72 million investment and 260 jobs. The plant makes throttle bodies, engine valves and fuel pumps for the automotive sector.

Wartsila Valves, formerly Shipham Valves, is relocating its entire manufacturing operations from Hawthorn Avenue to a 60,000 sq ft premises at Humber Enterprise Park in Hull to allow for expansion.

Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze SE, a German subsidiary of Sumitomo Electric, has opened a new plant in Orhei, Moldova, for automotive wiring harnesses. The plant started full-scale operation in October 2017 and plans to increase employment to about 2,500 by 2019.

Sandler AG formally inaugurated its first overseas subsidiary, Sandler Nonwoven Corporation, in Perry, Georgia, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 5, 2017.

Nanyang Xinte Electric Co., Ltd. is building a production facility for 4 million kVA smart transformers and 1,000 high/low voltage switchgear cabinets annually in Nanyang, China, with construction tenders issued in September 2017.

L&T Power Development Ltd built the 1,400-MW Nabha Power Plant in Rajpura, Punjab, India, completing it in 54 months. The plant is one of India's most efficient coal-fired plants and won a POWER Top Plant award.

Ion Exchange (India) launched an integrated reverse osmosis membrane manufacturing plant at Verna Industrial Estate on September 30, 2017, with an investment of Rs 50 crore. The plant will produce membranes from the polymerisation stage.

Plycem, part of Grupo Elementia, will invest $17 million to build a cement plant in Esparza, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. The plant will produce Cementos Fortaleza brand cement, create over 200 jobs, and start operations in Q1 2018.

Tsinghua Unigroup and China Integrated Circuit Investment Fund completed the structure of a national memory chip plant in Wuhan ahead of schedule after nine months of construction. The plant is expected to begin operations in 2018 with a monthly capacity of 300,000 units and annual output value over USD 10 billion.

Belden Machine Corporation is building an $11 million precision universal joint project with a 39,831-square-foot facility in Hillside, Illinois. Construction began in early 2017 and is anticipated for completion by year-end 2017.

United Grinding North America Incorporated is building a $13 million grassroots grinding tool and machine plant in Miamisburg, Ohio, with a 100,000-square-foot facility. Construction began in late fall 2016 and is anticipated for completion in fall 2017.

Thomas Betong inaugurated a new factory in Heby, Sweden, to produce prefabricated shell walls and slab floors, with an annual capacity equivalent to 4,000 new apartments. The investment is approximately SEK 100 million and will employ about 75 people.

Beijing WKW Automotive Parts and a subsidiary of Hybrid Kinetic Group signed an investment agreement with the local government to establish a manufacturing base for clean energy vehicles in Ningbo's Fenghua district with an annual output of 300,000 units and total investment of USD 2.57 billion.

The first production and power building of the National Memory Base project (Phase 1) in Wuhan, with a total investment of US$24 billion, achieved early topping out and is expected to be operational in 2018.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal confirmed that a locomotive factory in Bihar's Marhowrah district, to be set up by General Electric, is proceeding as planned.

Liebherr USA, Co. opened a new facility in Lodi, California, for sales, service and repair of mobile and crawler cranes, piling and drilling rigs. The facility includes service bays, warehouse and office space.

Saverglass has invested EUR 100 million in a new container glass facility near Guadalajara, Mexico, with a commissioning date of June 2, 2018. The plant will produce 80 million bottles per year for tequila, wine, and rum.

Betoniarnie Odra started construction of a stationary concrete batching plant in Radzikowice near Nysa, Poland. The plant will have a capacity of 60 cubic meters per hour (about 80,000 cubic meters annually) and create 6-10 jobs. It is expected to start operations in early 2018.

Visuar, together with Samsung, inaugurated a new refrigerator plant in Cañuelas, Argentina, with an investment of over 1 billion Argentine pesos. The plant will produce Samsung refrigerators with Digital Inverter and Twin Cooling Plus technology.

Liebherr USA, Co. has opened a new facility in Lodi, California, for sales, service and repair of mobile and crawler cranes, piling and drilling rigs. The facility includes service bays, a warehouse and office building.

Korean machine tool manufacturer YG-1 plans to build a new European development and manufacturing center in Oberkochen, Germany, potentially creating up to 1,000 jobs. The announcement was made by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs on September 28, 2017.

Aquatronic Group Management's Aquatech Pressmain and Renzland Powergates have moved into a new £1.4m factory, Renzland House, in Copford, Colchester, creating five new jobs. The group makes water pumps, pressurisation units and gates.

Prowel plans a new manufacturing plant next to junction 10 of the M53 near Ellesmere, designed by UMC Architects, to produce up to 235,000 tonnes per year of corrugated board sheets. The article reports a £65m investment, although its headline cites £25m.

Pascal Medical opened the first phase of a plant for disposable medical devices in the Dubna special economic zone, Moscow region. The facility, with an investment of about 2 billion rubles, will produce 450 million units per year of sterile injection syringes, reaching full capacity by 2019. A second phase for needle production is planned for 2019 with additional investment of 1.5 billion rubles.

LORD Corporation began construction of a new 85,000 sq. ft. aerospace center in Pont de L'Isère, France, to replace its existing facility in Saint-Vallier. The facility is expected to be operational in August 2018 and represents an investment exceeding €10 million.

Fluence Corporation has begun production of Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR) modules at its newly-built facility in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. The plant is fully operational and will also assemble containerized Smart Packaged MABR units.

French company Latecoere will invest EUR 11 million to build a 5,000 sq m plant in Maritsa industrial zone near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, producing aircraft parts for Airbus. Initially 200 jobs, potentially rising to 600, with an additional EUR 4 million investment over three years.

Magneti Marelli signed an agreement to build a 20,000 sq m auto parts plant in Tanger Automotive City, Tangier, Morocco, producing shock absorbers. Production is scheduled to begin in 2019, employing about 500 people by 2025, with an investment of EUR 37 million.

Doosan Engineering & Construction signed an agreement to build a 26.4 MW fuel cell power plant on a 15,000 m² site at the Gwangju Sangmu district, investing over 170 billion won. The plant will use 60 Doosan PureCell fuel cells and take 24 months to construct.

A Bulgarian joint-stock company will build a high-tech factory in Kardzhali, Bulgaria, with an investment of BGN 36 million. The plant will produce power supply systems for off-grid consumers and will start with 100 employees, growing to over 240 in five years.

voestalpine AG will build a new special steel plant in Kapfenberg, Austria, with an investment of EUR 330-350 million. The plant will replace the existing Böhler special steel plant and is scheduled to commence operations in 2021.

LiuGong opened its first global regional headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, to support European sales, customer support and marketing.

Sabert Corporation will open a new 450,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Greenville, Texas, its first North American site making 100% compostable food packaging, expected to create about 125 jobs over three years with full operation by end of 2018.

Swiss medtech company Ypsomed has begun construction of a new production plant in Schwerin, Germany, investing over EUR 100 million to produce injection and infusion systems, creating about 150 jobs. The plant is expected to be ready for occupancy in January 2019 with production starting in Q2 2019.

INSEE Cement laid the foundation stone for a $14 million vertical cement grinding plant in Galle, Sri Lanka. The plant will have an annual capacity of 450,000 tonnes of cement and is scheduled to commence operations on June 1, 2018.

India's ShriVallabh Pittie Group announced a $300 million investment to set up a cotton yarn manufacturing plant in Sohar, Oman, expected to create over 1,500 jobs and be operational by end of 2019.

Boreo Indústria de Componentes, a subsidiary of Positivo Tecnologia, inaugurated its first factory in the Manaus Industrial Pole with an investment of R$ 80 million, generating 320 direct and 1,500 indirect jobs.

South Korea-based steelmaker Posco opened a $21 million, 80,000-sq.-ft. steel wire processing plant in Jeffersonville, Indiana, with plans to expand to 136,000 sq. ft. and create up to 60 jobs.

Japanese company Yazaki opened a factory in Sabac, Serbia, to produce cable sets for OEM trucks for export to Europe. The company plans to invest €25 million and employ 1,700 workers by 2019, with annual export of around €120 million.

Zhejiang Shanghong Shelf Co, a Chinese shelving manufacturer, is finalising an agreement for a 40,364 sq ft facility at Millennium Business Park in Mansfield, UK, initially creating up to 20 jobs.