Top Cub Aircraft broke ground on a $2.2 million, 35,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at Arlington Municipal Airport to build Top Cub planes for the Chinese market. The facility is expected to open in late January 2018 with 15 employees.

Mitsui High-Tec announced it will build a new factory in Kani City, Gifu Prefecture, with an initial investment of 70 billion yen, to produce motor cores for drive and power generation in environmentally friendly vehicles. Construction starts November 2017, completion September 2018, mass production January 2019.

Bosch Group is investing nearly 100 million euros in a new plant in Nanjing, China, to manufacture the iBooster electromechanical brake booster for customers in Asia Pacific. The plant, covering approx. 20,000 square meters, is expected to start production in 2019.

Axium Plastics, a container, cap and closure maker headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is investing US$25 million in a new plant in Jefferson City, Missouri, creating at least 70 jobs. The company will occupy an existing 50,000-square-foot building and add 75,000 square feet.

Kaneka announced it will construct a new production facility for bead-type foamed polyolefins in Rayong Province, Thailand, with an investment of approximately 2 billion yen and annual capacity of 3,000 tons. Operations are expected to start in September 2018.

Yelatomsky Instrument Plant (AO Yelatomsky Priborny Zavod) opened a new production line for vacuum blood collection systems 'ELAMED' in Ryazan region. The investment project totals over 150 million rubles, with initial capacity of 16 million units per year.

Fondital, part of the Silmar Group, is building a new production site in Russia, approximately 450 km from Moscow, with production expected to start within the first months of 2018. The site will produce heating products.

Litens Automotive will open a 7,500 sqm factory in Giarmata, Timis county, Romania this fall. The plant will initially have 30 employees, increasing to 250 by 2019.

Cascades Inc. announced an investment of USD 80 million to build a new containerboard packaging plant in Piscataway, New Jersey, creating 120 jobs. Operations are due to begin in the second quarter of 2018 with annual capacity of 2.4 billion square feet.

Aegg Creative Packaging is investing GBP 1 million in a new 60,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in the UK to make injection moulded food packaging. The site is planned to expand to 140,000 sq ft in a second phase, with production expected to start before the end of 2017.

Shanghai Huahong Group will build several 12-inch integrated circuit production lines in Wuxi, Jiangsu, with a total investment of USD 10 billion. The first phase will have a monthly capacity of about 40,000 chips.

Ineos Phenol is planning to build a world-scale cumene plant in Germany to support customer demand and improve raw material supply to its phenol and acetone plants in Gladbeck and Antwerp. A full study of investment options will be completed by end of 2017, with planned start-up in 2020.

Pegas Nonwovens signed a contract to purchase the first production line for a planned plant in South Africa. Commercial production is expected to start in early 2019 with an annual capacity of 10,000 tonnes. The investment exceeds €30 million.

Memstar USA, part of Beijing-based Citic Environmental, will construct a 40,500 square foot manufacturing facility in Conroe Park North, Texas, to produce reverse osmosis membranes for water filtration and desalination. The project represents a capital investment of nearly $31 million and will initially employ 35 people.

PT B. Braun Medical Indonesia has officially started operations at its first plant in Indonesia, located in the Indotasei Industrial Area, Cikampek, Karawang, West Java. The facility, built over four years with an investment of approximately IDR 900 billion, will produce infusion solutions and other liquid products for domestic and Asia-Pacific markets.

Dynetics proposed to construct the second building of an aerospace structures complex adjacent to United Launch Alliance in Morgan County, Alabama, with a capital investment of approximately $7,395,500, expected to create 15 new jobs within one year. The project was presented on August 2, 2017.

AJ Manufacturing completed its move into a new 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and headquarters in suburban Kansas City, Missouri, more than doubling its previous space.

Matcon Americas held a grand opening of its new 8,000-square-foot facility in Delran, New Jersey, providing warehouse space for aftersales parts, local repairs, and a test laboratory.

KOSTAL group opened its third production base in Bulgaria, a car parts plant in Pazardjik, with an investment of over €32 million. The plant is expected to create 1,300 jobs.

ICOTEX (Industrial Components of Texas) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on August 1, 2017, to celebrate the opening of its new factory in Conroe, Texas. The plant manufactures industrial components.

Spanish-owned Daumar is constructing a 113,000 sq ft production plant and 27,000 sq ft office building in Huntersville, North Carolina, a project first announced in August 2017 with a $21 million first phase and 40 planned jobs.

Kraft Heinz's Heinz Manufacturing Spain unit plans a EUR 70 million sauce factory in Alfaro, La Rioja, creating 39 permanent jobs. La Rioja's government declared the project of regional strategic interest.

Sanhua Automotive Mexico opened its third plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, with an investment of about 400 million pesos, adding roughly 250 jobs. The plant will make automotive thermal expansion valves and other components.

Panda Power Funds' Stonewall Energy Facility, a 778 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Leesburg, Virginia, achieved commercial operation ahead of schedule. Siemens supplied the power island equipment and Bechtel provided EPC services.

Elektrokontakt Ukraine LLC, a subsidiary of Nexans, will open a new plant in Brody, Lviv region on August 30, 2017. The plant, built from scratch since June 2016, is the third and largest in Ukraine, with investments of Hr 1 billion. It will produce cable products for BMW cars.

Sany Heavy Industry resumed construction of a factory in Jacareí, Brazil, with an investment of nearly R$900 million. The plant is expected to be completed in October 2017 and will produce up to 2,000 machines per year.

Polyplex (Thailand)'s board approved a Bt3.1 billion investment to establish a PET film manufacturing plant in Indonesia. The plant is scheduled to commence operations at the end of 2018.

Mogul opened a new nonwovens plant in Luleburgaz, Turkey, its third plant in the country, now fully operational.

Turkish nonwovens producer Mogul opened a new $18 million spunlace plant in Grey Court, South Carolina, with 15,000 tons annual capacity and over 70 jobs. The plant was unveiled in late March 2017.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes received planning approval for a £20 million production facility in Sheffield, UK, to manufacture actuation systems for commercial aircraft. The facility will employ over 30 people and open in late 2018.

Italian listed company IPH Group began trial production at its new Shiqi, Dongguan plant after relocating its Guangzhou hydraulic valve operations, with a total project investment above 100 million yuan and expected annual output value of 170 million yuan within five years.

Eurocement Group will build a 2.4 million tonne per year cement plant at the Angren free economic zone in Uzbekistan. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.

Sterling Packaging is investing $6 million in a new 60,000 sq ft building at Monroeville Industrial Park in Alabama, creating up to 55 jobs. The investment is backed by state, county and city incentives totaling $3.2 million.

Leoni opened its third factory in Serbia, in Nis, on July 29, 2017. The EUR 22 million, 22,000 sq m plant will produce cable sets for BMW cars and employ 2,200 people.

German auto supplier Waldaschaff Automotive will invest $20 million to build a 64,500 sq ft facility in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, creating 250 jobs over seven years. It will supply aluminum profiles to BMW.

MEDIPLAST inaugurated a new medical plastic factory in Dai Dong Industrial Zone, Bac Ninh, Vietnam. The 13,000 m² facility, completed in June 2017, produces sterile syringes and infusion sets with a capacity of 300 million products per year.

Seeley International announced a $20 million investment to relocate its Albury manufacturing plant to a new, larger purpose-built facility in Wodonga, Australia. The new facility is expected to be operational at the beginning of 2019.

Tvitec will open a new curved glass factory in Cabañas Raras, Spain, with a €20 million investment, creating 100 new jobs and producing 150,000 square meters of curved glass annually.

Kolmar is considering constructing an assembly plant for Chinese mining equipment in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, with partners Avic International and TehGart Beijing. The company is also building the Denisovsky and Inaglinsky mining and processing plants.

Lear Corporation will open a new plant in San Francisco, Córdoba, Argentina, with an investment of $16 million, creating over 600 jobs. The plant will produce electrical wiring for a new Fiat model.

High Reach Inc. is building a new 60,000 square foot headquarters in Oakville, Ontario, consolidating its operations. Canadian Cranes installed overhead cranes at the facility.

Corning will develop Corning Valor Glass with Merck and Pfizer, and is expected to expand its facilities and build a new glass plant with an estimated investment of $500 million. The location was not stated.

Foxconn Technology Group announced it will invest $10 billion over four years to build a state-of-the-art LCD panel manufacturing facility in Wisconsin, creating 3,000 jobs with potential to grow to 13,000.

Varian Medical Systems installed a ProBeam cyclotron at the Georgia Proton Treatment Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The center, operated by Emory Healthcare, is scheduled to begin treating patients in late 2018 and will feature five treatment rooms.

Lawrence-based DARcorporation and China-based Sterna Composite Aircraft Inc. agreed to a joint venture to open a manufacturing plant in Lawrence, Kansas, to produce composite propellers for drones, airboats, and experimental aircraft. The plant is expected to create 10 jobs by end of 2017 and begin production by early 2018.

Tetra Pak partnered with Vinamilk to build the Vietnam Milk Factory, a $110 million liquid dairy plant in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam, with an annual capacity of 400 million liters of milk in the first phase.

Truly Semiconductors signed an agreement with the Meishan City government to establish a joint venture to construct a 6-Gen AMOLED line and a 5-Gen TFT LCD production line in Meishan, Sichuan, China. The total project cost is estimated at 40.4 billion Yuan (almost $6 billion USD), with the AMOLED fab costing $4.1 billion USD.

China National Materials Group (Sinoma) agreed to build a $500 million cement factory in Mbale District, Uganda, pending government assurance on limestone supply.

SCG (Siam Cement Group) finalized plans to build a Bt188 billion petrochemical complex in Vietnam as a joint venture with PetroVietnam. SCG holds 71% stake. Construction starts in 2018, with commercial operations expected by 2022.

Toshiba Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Systems announced the completion of a new power electronics plant in Katie, Texas, which began production in August 2017. The factory will produce power conditioning systems and motor drive inverters, tripling PCS production capacity.