Naton Medical Group, Titanmed and MedInzh are creating a joint venture to produce orthopedic medical devices at the Rameyev technopark in Penza, Russia. The project was discussed on July 1, 2017.

Amkodor received a $192 million loan from Exim Bank of China for the construction of a new plant in Kolodischi, Belarus. The total project cost is $230 million. The plant will produce 6,000 special machines per year and create 1,500 jobs.

Uponor North America held a grand opening for a 237,000-square-foot PEX tubing plant in Hutchinson, Minnesota, completed six months ahead of schedule. The $6.35 million investment was first announced in July 2017 and added more than 40 jobs.

Gualapack opened a new Group facility in Sumy, Ukraine in July 2017, producing multilayer barrier laminates and premade spouted pouches for CIS customers.

Samsung is investing $380 million to build a new manufacturing plant in Newberry, South Carolina, creating over 950 jobs. The plant will produce home appliances and is expected to be operational in early 2018.

Eagle Cement will begin constructing a fourth integrated production line in Cebu City, targeting cement sales by 2019.

Hanwha Aerospace announced it will build a 60,000㎡ aircraft engine parts plant near Hanoi, Vietnam, with construction starting in August 2017 and operations beginning in the second half of 2018.

Quality Pack Zrt, part of the Hell group, opened Hungary's first aluminium beverage can factory in Szikszó after a HUF 30 billion investment. The plant has annual capacity of 1.2 billion cans and is expected to create 320 jobs by end-2019.

The Hell group opened its aluminium beverage can factory in Szikszó, Hungary, built by subsidiary Quality Pack with a HUF 30 billion investment, with 1.2 billion annual capacity and plans for 320 new jobs by end-2019.

Chinese automotive parts group Ningbo Tuopu announced the construction of its first factory in Brazil, in Guarulhos, São Paulo, with an investment of around R$ 30 million. The plant will produce engine mounts and transmission parts, creating approximately 120 jobs, and is expected to start operations in the second half of 2019.

Entai Environmental Technology (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. broke ground on a 300 million yuan ($44 million) reverse osmosis membrane component plant in Wujin National Hi-Tech Zone, Changzhou, China. The facility will produce 6 million square meters of membrane components annually.

Japanese bearing maker JTEKT will establish a manufacturing facility in Tangier, Morocco, with a 15-million-euro initial investment, spanning 6.5 hectares at the Tangier Automative City Zone. Construction starts in 2018, initial capacity 230,000 units per year.

Nucor-JFE Steel Mexico (NJSM) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a US$270 million automotive steel sheet manufacturing plant in Silao, Guanajuato, creating around 300 permanent jobs, with a continuous galvanizing line scheduled to start operations in 2019.

Braidy Industries disclosed plans to build a $1.3 billion aluminum mill in Greenup County, Kentucky, creating 550 advanced manufacturing jobs, with construction starting in early 2018 and completion in 2020.

Tonicorp officially inaugurated its new 178,000-square-meter plant near La Aurora, Ecuador, with a total investment of $96.7 million. The plant started operations in January 2017 and has 19 production lines for dairy products and ice cream, with an installed capacity of 150 million liters per year.

Chinese appliance maker Midea plans to invest Rs 800 crore in a 43-acre manufacturing facility in Pune producing refrigerators, washing machines and water appliances, employing 500 people and expected operational by end-2018.

GAF will open a new manufacturing plant in New Columbia, Pennsylvania, creating over 40 jobs. The facility will produce TPO membrane and injection molding components for roofing, opening in Q4 2017.

LT Foods commenced operations of its first rice processing plant in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with an investment of USD 15 million and initial capacity of 60,000 tonnes.

International Beams will invest $19.6 million to open a manufacturing facility near Dothan, Alabama, producing cross-laminated timber panels and glue laminated beams. The project will create 60 jobs.

BASF plans to build a new world-scale ibuprofen production plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, scheduled to come onstream in 2021. The investment is part of approximately €200 million for both this and an expansion in Bishop, Texas.

Handok celebrated the completion of a new plaster production plant in Eumseong, North Chungcheong Province, built with an investment of 30 billion won ($26.3 million). The plant can produce up to 390 million plasters annually.

BeijingWest Industries Co. Ltd. broke ground on a more than $80 million manufacturing facility in Greenfield, Indiana, its first U.S. production site. The facility is expected to create up to 441 jobs by 2021 and begin production in August 2019.

Pan-Asia PET Resin (Guangzhou) Co. plans to break ground at a new petrochemicals plant in Jazan Economic City, Saudi Arabia, in March 2018. The first phase of the $3.8 billion project is expected to launch by August 2020.

Vanderlande opened a new manufacturing and distribution center in Acworth, Ga., on June 28, 2017, with the facility fully operational since June 19. The investment aims to reduce lead times and costs for North American customers, and will employ 80-100 people at full capacity.

Danfoss officially opened its new Application Development Center in Tallahassee, Florida on June 27, 2017. The 22,000-square-foot facility features three fully automated test facilities for residential and commercial air conditioning and heat pump equipment.

Czech plastics manufacturer SILON announced plans to invest $20 million in a new factory in Peachtree City, Georgia, creating at least 20 jobs. The facility will house manufacturing, warehousing and storage functions.

A leading Czech producer of technical compounds and polyester staple fibers will invest $20 million in a new facility in Peachtree City, Georgia, creating more than 20 jobs.

Boehringer Ingelheim held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new production plant in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, to manufacture the Respimat inhaler device. The investment exceeds €100 million and will create over 200 jobs, with annual production of 25 million units.

Viega LLC broke ground on June 20, 2017 for a new 55,000-sq.-ft. North American headquarters and a 24,000-sq.-ft. training facility in Broomfield, Colorado. Estimated completion is late 2018.

Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. officially opened its first production site in Mexico, a $13 million bearing manufacturing facility in the Aerotech Industrial Park in Colon, Queretaro. The plant will employ 200 workers and aims to produce 7 million pieces in 2017.

SLM Solutions Group AG is constructing a new headquarters in Lübeck-Genin, Germany, with single-shift capacity to build 500 additive manufacturing machines per year. Completion is expected by early 2018.

Oak Ridge-based Protomet Corporation will invest $29.3 million to establish a new facility in Loudon County, Tennessee, rehabbing a 224,000-square-foot former Maremont building. The company will create 200 jobs over five years and expects the plant to be operational in the first half of 2018.

NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd. will build a new factory in Amata Nakorn Industrial Estate, Chonburi, Thailand, to produce zirconia oxygen sensors, temperature sensors and total air-fuel ratio sensors. The investment is approximately 12 billion yen, construction begins in November 2017 and completion is scheduled for end of September 2018.

Blue Origin announced plans to build a 200,000 square foot facility in Huntsville, Alabama to manufacture its BE-4 rocket engine. The project involves a $200 million capital investment and will create up to 342 jobs.

Sepack coordinated the construction of three production lines for a major Italian coffee roaster, with Spreafico providing filling machines. The plants are now operating at the roaster's factory.

Tongfu Microelectronics signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Haicang District government to jointly build an advanced integrated circuit packaging and testing production line in Xiamen, with a total investment of 7 billion yuan.

Veramaris, a joint venture of DSM and Evonik Industries, has picked a Cargill site in Blair, Nebraska, to build a plant making omega-3 fatty acids from algae.

Amyris will receive unspecified support from the government of Queensland, Australia, to build a 23,000-metric-ton-per-year farnesene plant there, using local sugarcane.

Goodway Machine Corp is building a new NT$600 million plant in Chiayi's Dapumei Intelligent Industrial Park, expected to start trial production at the end of Q4 2017, manufacturing CNC machines for aerospace and energy industries.

LeMond Composites plans to begin construction of a new commercial carbon fiber facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, this year. The company also entered into a $44 million licensing agreement with Deakin University for a low-cost carbon fiber production process.

Pincon Spirit's board approved setting up a rice bran oil refinery and solvent extraction plant at Dankuni, West Bengal at a cost of INR 30 crore with 200 MT/day capacity, and a PET preform bottle manufacturing plant at Asansol, West Bengal at a cost of INR 20 crore with 1 million bottles/day capacity.

Electric Equipment JS Company (Thibidi) received an investment license for a manufacturing plant in Long Duc Industrial Park, Dong Nai Province. The VND550 billion facility will produce motors, generators, transformers, and controllers, with an initial capacity of 44,100 tons per year.

Weiss Aug, a US company specializing in high-precision parts for healthcare, automotive and appliance industries, has inaugurated a new plant in Apodaca, Nuevo León, with an investment of USD 15 million and the creation of 45 direct jobs. The company plans to triple its workforce in two to three years.

Midmark India inaugurated a nano technology-based medical device manufacturing plant at Umbergaon in Gujarat, increasing production capacity by 40%.

Dal-Tile, a subsidiary of Mohawk Industries, will build a second tile manufacturing plant in Dickson, Tennessee, creating nearly 250 jobs. Construction starts summer 2017, with operations beginning in late 2018.

Glass Industries will build a glass container plant in Nevinnomyssk industrial park with an investment of RUB 1.2 billion. The plant will have a capacity of 120 million conventional units of glass containers per year and create 160 jobs. Production is expected to start in Q4 2018.

Braskem's board has approved a $675 million investment to build the Delta polypropylene production line in La Porte, Texas, with a capacity of 450 kilotons per year. Completion is targeted for Q1 2020.

Del Shares (Delar) plans a project in Fuxin, Liaoning to add 1 million automatic transmission oil pumps a year, with a total investment of about CNY 337.9 million.

VSMPO-AVISMA's joint venture with Boeing, Ural Boeing Manufacturing (UBM), is nearing completion of its new UBM-2 facility in the Titanium Valley special economic zone in Sverdlovsk Region, Russia. The investment is 1.77 billion rubles ($207 million).

Cikautxo Medical opened a new 3,000 m² production facility near its headquarters in the Basque Country, Spain, with 600 m² of cleanroom space (ISO 7 and 8). The investment was EUR 8 million.