AMB, an Italian manufacturer of layered film for food packaging, opened a new production plant in Amaro, Italy, with an investment of approximately €6.6 million. The plant will add 15,000 tons of capacity initially, with plans to double, and create 41 jobs initially, growing to 110.

Phu My Ultra White Float Glass Co., Ltd. broke ground on a float glass plant in Phu My II Industrial Park, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam. The plant will have a capacity of 600 tons per day in phase 1, with total investment of over VND 2,423 billion. It is a joint venture between Viglacera, CTIEC (China) and IDICO.

JENNCHEM, LLC, an affiliate of JENNMAR Corporation, will establish a manufacturing operation for heavy duty conveyor systems in Lebanon, Virginia, investing $5 million and creating 50 jobs. The facility will be located in the former Teleflex facility in Russell County Industrial Park.

Phu My Ultra Clear Float Glass Co., Ltd started construction of a $110 million ultra-clear float glass production facility in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam. Phase I is expected to be completed by 2018, with a daily capacity of 6,000 tonnes.

TATA Toyo Radiator, a joint venture between Tata AutoComp Systems and T.RAD, started its new production facility in Sri City, built on a 5-acre plot at an initial investment of around INR 100 million.

SK hynix is building a new NAND plant in Cheongju, South Korea, as part of its capacity expansion.

SK hynix is building a new DRAM plant in Wuxi, China, and a new NAND plant in Cheongju, South Korea, to meet growing demand.

Freudenberg Performance Materials opened its first Shirt Technology Center in China at its Nantong facility in June 2017, providing service and support for shirt manufacturers including sample collar development.

Molin Concrete Products announced it will break ground on July 27, 2017 for a new 210,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The plant is expected to cost about $40 million and will increase production by 60% and employee base by 20% over five to eight years.

The Bolta Group opened its $48.7 million manufacturing plant in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, currently employing about 200, with a planned workforce of 350 by end of 2018.

Sumitomo Electric Industries announced that its Texas plant, operated by Sumiden Wire Products Corporation, has been completed and commenced operations. The new factory in Dayton, Texas, produces PC steel wire with a capacity of approximately 24,000 tons per year. Investment amount is about USD 1,900.

LyondellBasell announced a final investment decision to build a $2.4 billion propylene oxide and tertiary butyl alcohol plant at its Channelview Complex in Texas. The plant will produce 1 billion pounds of PO and 2.2 billion pounds of TBA annually.

Saint-Gobain opened its third dry construction mix plant under the WEBER-VETONIT brand in Yegoryevsk, Moscow region, Russia, on February 4, 2015. The investment was over 500 million rubles, with annual capacity of 120,000 tonnes and over 50 new jobs.

Gardner Aerospace has started construction of its global flagship plant in Chengdu, China. The $90 million facility will produce aircraft and aerospace engine parts and will become the company's headquarters for global management.

Brose North America celebrated the opening of its new $6 million manufacturing plant in Duncan, South Carolina. The 77,000-square-foot facility will employ over 60 workers and produce lightweight door systems and front air gates for BMW.

The joint venture between MCFA and Jungheinrich AG, industrial components of Texas, LLC (ICOTEX), is building a 71,000-square-foot facility in Conroe, Texas, scheduled to open in August 2017.

Crown Equipment Corp. opened a new facility in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, offering sales, rentals and service of Crown lift trucks and parts.

AHT Cooling USA is constructing a new 150,000 square foot manufacturing and warehouse facility in Palmetto Commerce Park, Ladson, South Carolina, with Cullum Constructors providing air conditioning.

Truck & Wheel Group is building a $30 million, 127,000-square-foot wheel assembly factory in Vance, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, creating over 70 jobs. The facility is scheduled to open in 2018.

Hyundai Heavy Machinery founded a project in the Hi-tech Development Zone of Tai'an, Shandong, China on 16 July 2010, with a total investment of $100 million. The plant will manufacture loaders and excavators, with the first stage (loader line) planned to be operational before June 2011.

Ural Boeing Manufacturing, a joint venture of Boeing and VSMPO-Avisma, plans to invest over 5.5 billion rubles in a new facility in Sverdlovsk Oblast for machining titanium forgings used in Boeing aircraft. The plant will create up to 100 jobs.

Shaanxi Lianshi Youse Resources Co., Ltd. signed an agreement with Chengdu Shuangliu District government to build a Gardner Aerospace global flagship factory in Shuangliu, with total investment of at least CNY 600 million.

Forklift Services of Oregon (FSO) has moved to a new 20,000 sqft facility in Portland, Oregon.

PureCycle, licensed Procter & Gamble's polypropylene recycling technology, began a $120 million facility in Ohio on July 20, 2017, with a feedstock evaluation unit planned for January 2018 and a full-scale plant in 2020.

Uponor North America has signed an agreement to buy a 237,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Hutchinson, Minnesota, from Hutchinson Technology/TDK for $6.35 million to make PEX pipe. Operations are expected by early 2019.

Hutchinson launched a new automotive components plant in Zawada, Poland, to produce car body seal systems for PSA Group and Volvo Cars. The $44 million facility is expected to employ 240 by year-end and eventually 700.

WPT Nonwovens purchased the abandoned Nestaway facility in Beaver Dam, KY on July 14, 2017, and plans to invest $6 million to transform it into a nonwoven fabric facility. The project is expected to create 40 new jobs and be completed by February 2018.

ZAO Promyshlennye Tekhnologii plans to invest 1.5 billion rubles in a new plant producing components for military and civil aviation in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Oblast. The agreement was signed at MAKS-2017.

MPW Industrial Services celebrated the grand opening of its 86,000-square-foot Technology Center in Hebron, Ohio, housing Engineering, Fabrication and IT teams. The company added 50 technical jobs at the location.

Hexagon plans to invest about €90 million in a new 52,000 m² production facility in Hongdao, China, to produce metrology systems for its Manufacturing Intelligence division. Construction starts in 2017 with completion targeted for 2020.

Mexican pump maker RuhRPumpen has invested nearly INR 100 crore in a new manufacturing plant near Oragadam, Chennai, replacing a rented unit. About 80% of output will be exported to West and South-East Asia.

A pipeline valve factory has opened in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, under the national localization program, with British initial investment of GBP 300,000. Total investment is planned to exceed GBP 6 million over five years across five development stages.

Purico, through its subsidiary Bolta US, opened a £55 million factory in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to produce automotive components such as insignia grilles and chrome flashings for Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen. Production started earlier in 2017, with official unveiling on July 21.

FMI, a subsidiary of Flexan Corporation, moved into new 6,500 m² headquarters in Chicago and constructed an ISO Class 7 clean room of 1,900 m², quadrupling production capacity for Class 2 and 3 medical device components.

National Spinning Co. Inc. opened a new $12 million, 92,000-square-foot nonwovens manufacturing center in Maiden, N.C., projected to create 65 new jobs. The facility was built to expand its Carolina Nonwovens division.

Metalloinvest started operations at its third hot briquetted iron (HBI) production facility at Lebedinsky GOK in Gubkin, Belgorod region, with an investment of approximately $660 million and a design capacity of 1.8 million mt per year.

LG Chem completed construction of a new biopharmaceutical plant in Osong, North Chungcheong Province, dedicated to diagnostic reagents. The plant can produce up to 19 million test units per year.

Universal Stroy will start construction of a plant for glass prepregs, foil dielectrics and technical laminates in the Maslovsky industrial park in late July-early August 2017. The project cost is 912 million rubles.

NAVYA, a French autonomous vehicle company, will build a 20,000+ square foot manufacturing plant in Saline, Michigan, with a capital investment of over $1 million, creating 50 jobs, and plans to build 25 ARMA shuttles by end of 2017.

GEA will build a turnkey dairy plant for AmulFed Dairy in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, that will process 90,000 liters per hour of milk to produce 150 tonnes per day of skim milk powder and 120 tonnes per day of dairy whitener/baby food. The plant is scheduled to begin production in 2018.

Angel Group signed an agreement to invest CNY 5.1 billion in an Angel Environmental Technology Smart Park in Binhai New City, Shaoxing, China. The 900-mu (60-hectare) park will produce water-purification equipment and be built in three phases.

Mahindra USA is planning to set up a greenfield tractor manufacturing facility in the US within 3-5 years to cater to growing demand and localize production, moving into the up to 160 hp tractor segment.

Italian company Vernipoll S.r.l. signed an agreement with the Kaluga region government to construct a plant for medical equipment production in the Lyudinovsky district, with an investment of 250 million rubles and creating 100 jobs.

Faurecia SA opened a second vehicle seating factory in Salé, Morocco, an $18 million facility that will create 1,300 jobs and produce 10,000 seat covers per day for PSA Group's Peugeot 3008 and 5008.

Dowty Propellers has announced approvals to create a new facility in the Gloucester area, following a fire in February 2015 that destroyed its operating headquarters and blade manufacturing facility. The new facility is expected to be operational in 2019.

Steel & Alloy, a subsidiary of Gonvarri Steel Services, is building a new 10,000 m² production facility in Oldbury, UK, with a €30 million investment, expected to be fully operational by November 2017, creating 50 jobs.

Ningbo Shuangma Machinery Industry Co. Ltd., maker of Bole injection molding machines, opened a leased factory in Ahmedabad, India in June 2017 under subsidiary Shuangma Machinery India Pvt. Ltd., with plans to invest $100 million over four years and build its own factory in Gujarat.

ABB and Thomas & Betts announced a $20.7 million expansion that consolidates R&D functions at a new location in Memphis, Tennessee, creating 90 new jobs in Shelby County.

Benteler Automotive has opened a new plant in São Caetano do Sul, Brazil, to produce modules on five production lines.

Dow Chemical will build a new $100 million plant to produce polymers for coatings and water treatment applications in the PlasChem Park at Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The facility is expected to create around 100 jobs locally.