Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory's subsidiary Otsuka Vietnam will construct a new PIC/S GMP-compliant infusion plant in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam, with construction starting in October 2018.

Sinoma Mpande Limestone Ltd's new cement plant in Chongwe, Zambia, is 85% complete and expected to be commissioned in March 2018, with over 600 jobs for Zambians.

bo parts GmbH, part of the FRIMO Group, is launching new operations in Greenville County, South Carolina, with a $4.1 million investment and 100 new jobs. The 60,000-square-foot facility at 129 Metro Court in Greer will produce low-volume service and production parts for automotive customers.

JuBang Group Company Ltd., a Chinese electrical equipment manufacturer, plans to open a factory in Ghana within a year or two to serve the West African market.

Ifor Williams Trailers is opening a new £5 million production facility in Sandycroft, Flintshire, to build livestock trailers. The move will create 55 permanent jobs.

Evonik is constructing a new copolyester production plant at its Witten site in Germany, with a mid-double-digit million euro investment and annual capacity of several thousand metric tons. Commercial operation is expected in Q1 2018.

LG Electronics announced plans to establish a $25 million factory for advanced electric-vehicle components in Hazel Park, Michigan. The 250,000-sq.-ft. facility will produce EV components starting in 2018, creating at least 292 new jobs.

PTT Global Chemical Public Company has finalized its propylene oxide/polyols and PU manufacturing plant in Hemaraj Eastern Industrial Estate, Rayong, Thailand. The propylene oxide plant has a capacity of 200,000 tonnes/year, with commercial start-up planned for 2020. Total investment for both projects is approximately US$887.4 million.

Greenheck Group announced it will build a new campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with initial facilities for its Accurex brand of commercial kitchen ventilation systems and Greenheck Tempered Air Products line. The first facility is expected to be operational by summer 2018, with about 75 jobs in the first year.

Asahi Kasei Medical announced it will construct a new spinning plant for its virus removal filter 'Planova', increasing hollow fiber production capacity by 4 m²/year to a total of 13 m²/year.

Komax Group held a ground-breaking ceremony in mid-August 2017 for a new production and office building at its head office in Dierikon, Switzerland. The CHF 70 million project will have over 20,000 m² of floorspace and is expected to be ready for occupancy in the second half of 2019.

Samsung Electronics is accelerating construction of new semiconductor fab Line 18 at Hwaseong Complex, investing 6 trillion won ($5.4 billion), with construction starting in November 2017 and completion in the second half of 2019.

Safran plans to open a manufacturing operation at Mobile Aeroplex in Alabama, investing approximately $1 million in equipment and hiring 20 employees over three years. The facility will produce and install aircraft engine nacelles, with an opening planned for November 2017.

Zhongde Aoruike Elevator (Aoruike Elevator) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its R&D and manufacturing base in Haikou National High-tech Zone. The project involves a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan (about $225 million) and is expected to produce 20,000 elevators annually and create 2,000 jobs.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has bought a 90,000 m² plot between the Lille Nord local railway and the Helsingør motorway at Espergærde and plans a new 17,000 m² factory there. The company expects the plant to be finished in 2020.

Stratus Plastics International Inc. will invest $4 million to locate a factory in Morgantown, Kentucky, creating 29 full-time jobs. The facility will supply the automotive and appliance industries.

Sudha Somany Ceramics, an associate of Somany Ceramics, is setting up a facility in Andhra Pradesh to produce about 5 million square meters of vitrified tiles. It is expected to be commissioned in Q4 FY 2018-19.

Shanghai STEP Robot Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new factory in Jiading, Shanghai, with a total investment of 693 million yuan and an annual capacity of 10,000 industrial robots.

Trelleborg is relocating its sealing solutions manufacturing facility to a new plant close to its current site in Helsingør, Denmark, with lean, highly automated lines. It will invest about SEK 120 million over 2017-2020, with production expected to start in early 2020.

CBI Ghana broke ground on a $55 million cement grinding plant in the Tema Free Zones enclave near Accra, Ghana, to produce Supacem cement for the construction industry.

Emser Tile opened a new 400,000-square-foot distribution center in Suffolk, Virginia, to serve East Coast and Midwest markets. The facility can be expanded to 850,000 square feet.

The Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (VACSERA) started operating a new plant for sera and sterile filling at its subsidiary Egivac, built with investments of EGP 700 million. The plant has a capacity of 8.64 million ampoules and 4.32 million vials per month, producing 13 types of sera and vaccines.

Swiss wheel manufacturer Ronal invested $90 million to build a new plant in Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The facility will produce 2.4 million light aluminum wheels annually and create 600 direct jobs.

Gate Precast broke ground on a new structural precast concrete plant near its existing Hillsboro, Texas facility, to produce components for structural garage construction, with completion and operation expected by January 2018.

Vichisa, partner of Crown Brand-Building Packaging, signed an agreement with the Chihuahua state government to build a glass container factory in Meoqui supplying the Heineken plant, with a first-phase investment of $120 million and over 200 direct jobs. A second phase of $80 million is planned within three to four years.

TREMEC Corporation is moving its Plymouth, Michigan operations to a new 125,000-square-foot facility in Novi, Michigan, investing over $50 million and creating about 130 jobs over three years for the design, development and manufacture of transmissions.

Fibertex Personal Care will invest $10 million to establish a new printing facility in Asheboro, North Carolina, its first production site in the Americas. The plant will print directly on nonwoven fabric for the personal care industry, serving North and South American markets.

Schoeller Allibert and entrepreneur Ludo Gielen jointly invest €15 million in a new greenfield plant in Beringen, Belgium, to produce reusable plastic packaging and containers. The facility will employ about 70 people and is expected to start production in summer 2017.

Fibertex Personal Care, a Danish textile company, will invest USD 60 million to build its first US manufacturing facility in Asheboro, North Carolina, creating 145 jobs over five years. The facility will focus on printing on nonwoven materials for personal care products.

Jiangsu Changxin Foundation Engineering Group received approval to build a new automatic separator production line in Yixing's Zhouzhen Town, with an investment of 60 million yuan and annual capacity of 200 units.

DynaEnergetics plans to triple quarterly DynaStage production by Q4 2017 and open a 40,000-square-foot assembly center at its Blum, Texas campus in Q2 2018. Total expansion investment is expected to be $18 million to $20 million, funded from operating cash flow.

Terumo announced that its subsidiary Terumo Yamaguchi will construct a new building (Building No. 3) at its head office factory in Yamaguchi, Japan, to produce catheter-related products. The investment is approximately 300 billion yen, with 700 new jobs planned. Construction starts June 2018, completion October 2019, operational April 2021.

Iris Ohyama began construction of its second factory in Tosu City, Saga Prefecture, including a production line for LED lighting and an automated warehouse, with an investment of approximately 60 billion yen.

MetalX announced plans to construct a new scrap processing plant in Delta, Ohio, with an investment of $35 million. The initial phase will employ nearly 80 people and have a capacity of 500,000 tonnes per year, with construction expected to start in fall 2017 and operations in 12 months.

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 with a consortium including 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.

Mitsubishi Electric will begin operations at its new room air conditioner factory in Manisa, Turkey on December 12, 2017. The plant aims to increase annual production to 500,000 units by fiscal year 2020.

Unilock is building a new wetcast manufacturing plant in Ayr, Ontario, with support from the Southwestern Ontario Development Fund. The project involves a total investment of over C$27 million, including C$1.5 million from the province, and will create 16 new jobs. The plant is expected to be completed in spring 2018.

Precision Technologies Group (PTG), a subsidiary of Chongqing Machinery & Electric, completed a new joint venture machine tools factory in South Carolina, USA, in 2017.

Qingdao Sentury Tire Co Ltd has invested 300 million yuan ($44 million) in a new facility for commercial aircraft tires in Qingdao, Shandong. The plant covers 30,000 square meters and is expected to reach a capacity of 150,000 tires per annum within five years, with first production by end of 2017.

Japan-based MGC Pure Chemicals America will build a new plant in Killeen, Texas, to produce super-pure hydrogen peroxide for the semiconductor industry. The $30 million investment is expected to create 28 jobs and start production in 2019.

UBC Group is constructing a new refrigeration equipment plant called Green Cool in the Vinnytsia Industrial Park, Ukraine. The first phase of 20,000 m² will be completed in 45 days, with full completion by 2020, creating 1,500 jobs.

G-TEKT decided to build a second factory for Wuhan Auto Parts Alliance (WAPAC) in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. The plant will be a welding and assembly facility with 21 welding sections and a building area of approximately 6,900 m2. Total investment is about CNY 45 million, with operations planned to start in April 2018.

Specialty chemicals distributor Azelis opened three application laboratories in India as part of its expansion in Asia-Pacific.

DuPont Industrial Biosciences and Archer Daniels Midland opened the world's first biobased furan dicarboxylic methyl ester pilot facility in Illinois.

Hyundai Mobis built a dedicated hydrogen car parts manufacturing plant in Cheongju, South Korea, investing approximately 70 billion won (US$63 million). The plant will produce powertrain fuel cell complete (PFC) modules and is scheduled to begin trial operation in September 2017.

Irving Consumer Products announced a new $400 million tissue production plant in Macon, Georgia, creating over 200 jobs and increasing its ThruAir Dry capacity by 75,000 tonnes.

PT Asahimas Flat Glass plans to move its Ancol factory to Cikampek, West Java, with a new plant capacity of 700 tons per day (40% increase). Groundbreaking took place in late July 2017, with operations starting in spring 2019.

Qiaohong New Materials signed an investment agreement for a new nonwovens and airlaid paper plant in the Nanning Sugar New Materials Industrial Park, Guangxi. The project has a total investment of CNY 375.73 million and annual capacity of 20,500 tonnes. New production line expected to start by end of 2018.

Industrial Magnetics, Inc. is constructing a new 1,400 sq. ft. R&D lab at its facility for simulated application testing of magnetic products. The lab is near completion and will feature testing equipment for holding, lifting, automation, conveying, and magnetic separation.

Sun Hydraulics plans to buy property and develop a factory in South Korea to manufacture products locally for Asia Pacific customers. Roughly half the cost is expected in 2017, with completion in 2018.