AkzoNobel officially opened its new £100m paint factory in Ashington, Northumberland, UK, the world's most advanced and sustainable paint plant. The facility can produce up to 200 million litres per year and secures 150 skilled jobs.

Lotte Chemical held a groundbreaking ceremony for a water treatment membrane production plant in Daegu National Industrial Complex. The company is investing 50 billion KRW to build a facility with a production capacity of 550,000 square meters, scheduled for completion in May 2018.

Inteva Products celebrated the grand opening of a new 300,000-square-foot manufacturing site in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico. The facility currently employs 100 people with plans to hire 500 additional workers and will manufacture interior systems.

Xinbang Holdings (Xinbang Holdings Ltd) signed a general construction contract with Arquitectura Interurbana, S.C. for its new production base in Mexico, with an estimated total contract value of $19.53 million plus VAT. The project includes construction of factory units, parking and green areas, with total floor area of about 50,000 sqm.

AXT completed the purchase of a new manufacturing facility in Dingxing, Hebei, China, with 140,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space and 50,000 sq. ft. for offices and dormitories. The company plans a staged relocation of its GaAs equipment and personnel throughout 2017 and 2018, with initial qualification substrates expected in Q4 2017.

Step Electric's subsidiary Xiaoao Industrial Intelligent Equipment (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory in Kunshan, Suzhou, for automotive intelligent flexible welding production lines. The first phase investment is 190 million yuan.

Mecachrome Aeronáutica inaugurated a new plant in Évora, Portugal, for manufacturing titanium parts for aircraft engines. The EIB provided a EUR 40 million loan, and the project will create over 300 new permanent jobs.

AP&C, a subsidiary of Arcam AB and GE Additive, officially inaugurated its new titanium powder manufacturing facility in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, which will add 106 jobs by the end of 2017.

Ten local councils in Wales have signed an agreement to own CSC Foundry Ltd., a compound semiconductor foundry to be located in Newport. The facility will initially be leased to IQE for compound semiconductor manufacturing and applications development. The Cardiff regional authority contributed £37.9 million.

A-Gas opened a new £1 million refrigerant separator at its Portbury plant near Bristol.

General Electric and EnergoTechServis will sign an agreement to build a technical center in Tyumen, Russia, producing modular power equipment using GE components. The facility will have a capacity of up to 80 units per year, with total investment over 1.3 billion rubles.

IQE announced plans to open a new compound semiconductor wafer foundry at the former LG site in Newport, as part of the Cardiff Capital Region City Deal. The Welsh Government invested £12 million in the cluster, which could attract £375 million in private investment and create up to 2,000 jobs.

Danfoss has opened its new center in Baltimore, MD to provide assistance to its food-retail customers utilizing Danfoss Enterprise Services.

Boston Scientific has commenced operations at its new manufacturing plant in Batu Kawan Industrial Park, Penang, its first in Asia. The company invested hundreds of millions of ringgit and plans to add up to 400 new local jobs over two years.

FN Immobilien GmbH & Co. KG and Mayer Feintechnik GmbH are investing €6.1 million in a new 17,000 m² production hall at Marie-Curie-Straße 1 in Göttingen, Germany, to centralise production. Completion is planned for June 2018, with up to 40 new jobs expected.

Kamtek, a division of Magna, opened a new $60 million manufacturing facility in Birmingham, Alabama, adding 100 employees. The 150,000 square foot plant produces lightweight aluminum structural castings for vehicles.

Japanese company Paramount Bed inaugurated a plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with an investment of US$3.7 million. The facility will manufacture hospital beds for the Latin American market, starting with 48 jobs and planning to increase to 100.

Nanya Technology Corporation has officially opened its new headquarters and fab at Nanlin technology park in Taishan District, New Taipei City. The total investment is NTD 55.7 billion (about EUR 1.54 billion), creating over 500 jobs.

Birla Carbon inaugurated a greenfield 120,000 metric tonnes carbon black plant in Jining, Shandong, China, with plans to expand to 240,000 metric tonnes in phase 2.

RLX Fluidos Refrigerantes inaugurated a refrigerant fluid factory in the Manaus Free Trade Zone, Brazil, with an investment of about R$3.6 million and initial capacity of 22 million kg a year.

Crown Holdings announced it will build a new aluminum beverage can plant at Parc Sagunt near Valencia, Spain, with initial annual capacity of about 900 million cans, expected to be operational in Q4 2018.

Vestas signed an investment agreement with the Ulyanovsk Region Development Corporation to construct a wind turbine blade factory in the Ulyanovsk region. The project will create about 200 jobs.

Nonwoven fabrics manufacturer WPT Corp. will open a $6 million, 40-job plant in Beaver Dam, Kentucky, its second in Ohio County, to add capacity for hygiene and filtration products. The facility is expected to be online in late March 2018.

Wirtgen Group announced a £9.2 million investment in a new headquarters in Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK, consolidating its existing bases in North Hykeham and Leicester. The facility will house sales, service, workshop and storage operations.

OOO Saranskabel opened a new production facility 'Epromet' in Saransk, Mordovia, producing aluminum and copper rod for the cable industry. The plant has a capacity of 10,000 tonnes of aluminum rod and 5,000 tonnes of copper rod per year, with an investment of about 1 billion rubles.

Holtec International held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Krishna P. Singh Technology Campus in Camden, New Jersey. The nearly 50-acre campus includes a large manufacturing plant, a light manufacturing plant, and a 7-story engineering office building, and houses Holtec's third U.S. manufacturing plant.

AkzoNobel opened a specialty coatings facility in Dongguan, China.

Sandvik opened a production unit in South Africa to meet growing demand for mining machines. The company also launched a new mining loader for the South African market, developed by its Turku factory.

Polish cosmetic packaging maker Politech has bought a plot in the Bydgoszcz Industrial and Technology Park and plans to build a plant of at least 5,000 square metres to automate production.

Evonik has started up a new plant in Shanghai, China, for production of organically modified specialty silicones. The company invested a high two-digit million euro sum in the facility, which was inaugurated on September 5, 2017.

Orthomed E plans to start operating a new EGP 60 million medical supplies plant in 6th of October City, Egypt, in early 2018, with machinery imported from Germany.

Winbond Electronics announced plans to build a NT$335 billion (US$11.14 billion) fab in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to produce memory chips. The investment is expected to create over 1,000 jobs.

Ligeance Investments launched Gardner Aerospace's largest factory in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in July 2017, with an investment of 600 million yuan ($91.2 million). Production is expected to start in 2018.

Albis Plastics Corporation officially inaugurated a new compounding plant in Duncan, South Carolina, on August 31, 2017, with production starting in July 2017. The plant has a capacity of 30 million lbs per year and represents a $14 million investment, with plans to add up to 60 jobs.

Sirane recently opened a new manufacturing facility in Moscow, Russia, adding to its global footprint.

Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices inaugurated its largest integrated distribution center in Latin America in Guarulhos, São Paulo, on September 4, 2017, with an investment of R$ 30 million. The 12,000-square-meter facility will stock over 14,000 items and serve approximately 2,000 Brazilian hospitals.

Johnson & Johnson inaugurated a 12,000 m² distribution center in Guarulhos, Brazil, employing 300 staff in shifts for 24/7 operations, serving medical procedures with 14,000 items.

Star Cement plans to invest ₹200-300 crore to set up a 1.5-2 million tonnes per annum cement grinding unit at Siliguri, West Bengal. The company has land and environmental clearance, pending board approval.

Rexnord Corporation will build a 248,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility and Aerospace Headquarters at its existing site in Downers Grove, Illinois, with completion expected by 2019.

Mono Pumps built a new manufacturing facility in Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester, with a reported project value of GBP 500,000. Fletchers Engineering installed the gas, water, steam and pipework services, and the project took three months.

Hongshi-Shivam Cement P Ltd signed an agreement with the Nepal government to invest $359.18 million in a cement factory in Nawalparasi district, Nepal, with production capacity of 6,000 tons per day starting in 2018.

NOJA Power celebrated the grand opening of its new factory and offices near Sao Paulo, Brazil, to support the local market with manufacturing, service, and sales of recloser switchgear. The facility was expanded due to unprecedented demand.

Lite-On Technology's new plant in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, is expected to begin trial production in March 2018, with a US$35 million investment.

IEK Group will build a new plant for cable support systems in the Industrial and Logistics Park of Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, with an investment of RUB 650 million. The facility will have a total area of up to 25,000 sq m.

Aquabio Ltd. designed and built the whiskey industry's first anaerobic membrane bioreactor system to treat wastewater at the Glenmorangie distillery in Scotland. The plant officially opened in summer 2017, reducing wastewater output by up to 95% and producing biogas.

Petersen opened a new 52,000 sq. ft. PAC-CLAD manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona, to serve the Western U.S. construction market. The facility became fully operational in the first quarter of 2018.

Samsung has agreed a budget of $2.3 billion for the first stage of a second NAND flash fab in Xi'an, China, with an expected total cost of $7 billion over three years.

Eberspaecher has opened a new production plant for bus air-conditioning systems in Monterrey, Mexico. The 3,300-square-meter facility creates around 20 new jobs and serves customers in Mexico, Central America and Northern South America.

OOO Rusvata has inaugurated a new Truetzschler spunlacing line for hydroentangled nonwovens at its headquarters in Rjasan, Russia. The line has a monthly capacity of over 700 tons and created 150 new jobs.

DowDuPont Materials Science announced the startup of a new integrated world-scale ethylene production facility (1.5 MMmt initial capacity) and a new ELITE enhanced polyethylene production facility (400,000 mt) in Freeport, Texas. Both units will ramp up through Q3 and reach full rates in Q4 2017.