Shinheung Precision signed an MOU with Yeongcheon City to invest 3 billion won by 2020 to build a medical device factory in Yeongcheon Economic Free Zone, creating 30 jobs.

Novacap, through its Novacarb subsidiary, is preparing to open a stand-alone sodium bicarbonate plant on Jurong Island, Singapore. The plant will have an annual capacity of 70,000 metric tons, expandable to 120,000 metric tons.

Endress+Hauser inaugurated a new $8.1 million temperature manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana, on May 31, 2017. The facility produces advanced thermometers and components for automated production lines, bringing total employment to 410.

Johnson Lifts opened a heavy duty escalator manufacturing facility at Oragadam near Chennai with an investment of ₹100 crore. The facility added 60-70 new jobs and uses technology from Chinese company SJEC.

Continental Motors Group, an AVIC subsidiary, will build a new facility of nearly 225,000 square feet in Mobile, Alabama, for engine and parts manufacturing and a corporate office, replacing its 11 existing buildings. It is the first step of a three-year global investment plan.

NGK Ceramics Polska officially opened its second plant in Dąbrowa Górnicza-Tucznawa, Poland, producing silicon carbide diesel particulate filters, with an investment of about 24 billion yen (800 million PLN). Production started in February 2017.

San Miguel Yamamura will break ground within two months on a glass manufacturing plant with 800-metric ton capacity in Davao Occidental, Philippines. The $700 million facility is expected to be completed in 24 months and will serve export markets.

GE Power opened a manufacturing plant for heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The facility was acquired from Doosan Engineering & Construction for 300 billion won ($250 million) and will serve as GE's global HRSG hub.

Inductotherm Equipment Belgium has built a new 10,000 m² plant on the Hauts Sarts industrial estate in Herstal, Belgium, to modernize production of induction heating equipment for the steel industry. Eleven Verlinde hoists were installed to support the facility's cranes.

FANUC UK has officially opened its new 107,000 sq ft headquarters at Ansty Park, Coventry, following a £19 million investment. The facility is four times larger than the previous location and houses robotics, machine tools, and factory automation under one roof.

Boseong Power Tech completed and began operations at its new plant in Naju Innovation Industrial Complex, South Korea. The facility produces switchgear, PCS for ESS, EV chargers, and transformers, with plans to add EV batteries by 2020.

SMEET Ready Mix has opened a new ready mix concrete plant in the Ras Bufontas special economic zone in Qatar. The plant was inaugurated by company and Manateq officials.

LAPP has opened a new hall for cable assembly and filled energy chains in Otrokovice, Czech Republic, with an investment exceeding €1 million. The facility is the main part of the European competence center ÖLFLEX CONNECT HUB.

Daikin Texas Technology Park, a $417 million HVAC manufacturing plant near Houston, Texas, has opened. The facility covers 94 acres under one roof and is expected to employ about 5,000 people.

AO Angioline will invest over 500 million rubles (approx. $7.8 million) to build a plant in Novosibirsk, Russia, producing aortic valves, venous cava filters, occluders and vascular implants. The project is in partnership with the Meshalkin Research Center and is expected to launch in 2020.

Nakanishi Seisakusho plans to build a new factory in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, by March 2019 to produce rice cookers, heating equipment, and fryers for convenience stores and lunch centers. The investment is estimated at JPY 3 billion.

Jekko srl has opened a new 12,000 sqm production plant in Godega di S.U., Italy, intended for assembly. The site complements its existing 5,000 sqm headquarters in Colle Umberto.

JLB-SOULIER, part of the French White Technologies group, will open a new 2,500 m² mechanical metal processing facility in Pirot, Serbia, in early June 2017. The company has invested close to EUR 1.5 million in the new hall, equipment, and staff.

German company STS Textiles inaugurated a new factory called Luteks in Veles, North Macedonia, for the production of technical and industrial textiles. Initial investment is about €4 million, with plans to invest up to €7 million over five years. Initially 50 jobs, with plans for up to 1,000 in five years.

Seoul Semiconductor Company inaugurated a high-tech factory at Dong Van I industrial park in Ha Nam province, Vietnam, with a total investment of US$300 million. The plant manufactures semiconductor products and LED lighting equipment.

Phenomenex opened a new 15,000-square-foot facility in El Dorado Hills, California, for manufacturing and developing its Zebron gas chromatography columns, replacing Sutter Creek production and doubling capacity.

Deflex Composite Inc. signed a lease for a 9,600-square-foot facility in Berlin, New Hampshire, for its first U.S. manufacturing plant. The company has a contract to produce bumpers for Volvo buses.

Tekhnoproekt will create a new production facility for adult diapers in the Medical Industrial Park, with investment over 115 million RUB and annual capacity exceeding 25 million diapers.

Visy Board New Zealand will build a second corrugated packaging plant on an 8.5 hectare site at Hamilton Airport in the Waipa District, with a NZ$100 million investment. Construction started in April 2017.

Tulsar Canada, a manufacturer of water and wastewater control systems and a division of Zoeller Corporation, moved into a new facility in Brant County, Ontario, and plans to quadruple production and workforce there.

Palmer Bus Service will buy 9 acres in the North Mankato industrial park for a new facility to house its school buses.

Blue Star Power Systems Inc. will buy 18.5 acres in the North Mankato industrial park to construct an 84,000-square-foot manufacturing facility for diesel and gas generators. Construction is expected to begin in 2018, with completion by early summer 2019.

GE Aviation is investing over $200 million to construct silicon carbide ceramic fiber and ceramic-matrix composite prepreg facilities on a 100-acre campus in Huntsville, Alabama.

Ma'aden is advancing a third phosphate fertilizer project in Saudi Arabia, expected to start production early next decade, with an estimated investment of $6.4 billion and capacity of up to 3 million t/y.

Dow Chemical signed an agreement to construct a plant in Plaschem Park, Jubail, to produce acrylic-based polymers for coatings, water-treatment and detergent markets.

Goodman Global Group, a North American subsidiary of Daikin Industries, held an opening ceremony for its new base, Daikin Texas Technology Park (DTTP), in a Houston suburb. The facility will manufacture all products sold in the United States, including residential and commercial air conditioning systems and heating equipment, and will integrate four existing factories and a logistics base.

SK Hynix Inc. announced the spinoff of its foundry business into a new wholly owned subsidiary, SK Hynix System IC, which will start operations on June 30, 2017 in Cheongju, South Korea, with an initial capital of 343.3 billion won ($306 million) and about 1,300 employees.

Clariant announced a multi-million CHF investment to build two fully-owned additives production facilities at its site in Zhenjiang, China, to serve the plastics, coatings and inks markets. The facilities are expected to come on stream in 2018.

Boeing announced a new manufacturing facility, Boeing Sheffield, to be built alongside the AMRC in Sheffield, UK, with an investment of over £20 million. The 2,300 m² facility will produce actuation components for Next Generation aircraft and employ about 30 people.

Clivet, a subsidiary of Midea, opened a new production line at its plant in Feltre, Belluno, Italy, dedicated to manufacturing the AQUA heat pump for domestic hot water. The line has a capacity of 12,000 units per year per shift.

Borealis will construct a new automotive polypropylene compounding plant in Taylorsville, North Carolina, to produce Daplen and Fibremod compounds. Operations are scheduled to begin in early 2019.

Daikin Industries held a ceremony to mark the launch of a $410 million air-conditioner factory in Waller, Texas, replacing four older factories.

AOS Semiconductor's subsidiary Chongqing Vangtel Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. is building a 12-inch wafer manufacturing and packaging/testing facility in Chongqing. Phase 1 investment is about $400 million, with production targeted for the first half of 2018.

A.O. Smith (Nanjing) Water Treatment Products Co., Ltd. is building a new plant in Lishui Economic Development Zone, Nanjing, with an investment of about $150 million. The plant will produce 2 million water purifiers, 500,000 air purifiers, and 3 million water softeners annually, with completion expected in early 2018.

Canada-based Shaw Almex opened a manufacturing facility in Wayne County, West Virginia, for development of new bulk material handling and conveying products, planning to hire 10-15 employees in the first year.

Bowmill Engineering Ltd launched a new bespoke factory in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, to manufacture Airbus landing gear kits, and purchased 8 new machining centres from Engineering Technology Group.

HVC Group broke ground on a factory to produce mechanical equipment and water treatment equipment, and a warehouse, in Khoai Chau district, Hung Yen province. The project has a total investment of over USD 4 million and covers 36,955 m2.

ABB is planning to establish a $10 million power transformer factory in 10th of Ramadan City, Egypt, with a production capacity of 10,000 transformers per annum.

Equashield held a groundbreaking for a new $30 million manufacturing plant in Port Washington, New York, to produce its CSTD devices and drug compounding robot. Construction is expected to complete in July 2019.

Thielmann, a stainless steel beverage container manufacturer, opened its U.S. keg facility in Houston, Texas on May 23, 2017. The site aims to offer kegs with shorter lead times to North American customers.

Shijiazhuang Kangpusi Compressor Co. held a groundbreaking on 23 May 2017 for a new 120 million yuan plant in Luancheng, Shijiazhuang, Hebei. The 18-month project will make permanent magnet variable-frequency and mobile air compressors, with annual output of over 7,000 units.

Fullmer built a 296,000 sq ft concrete tilt-up warehouse for bottle maker Plastipak Packaging in Victorville, California, within the Southern California Logistics Centre. The plant blow-molds bottles for an adjacent Dr Pepper bottling facility and is Gold LEED certified.

Daimler AG laid the foundation for a second lithium-ion battery factory at its subsidiary ACCUMOTIVE in Kamenz, Germany, with an investment of around €500 million. The factory is part of Daimler's electric offensive.

China Railway Construction broke ground on a 1 billion yuan ($148 million) high-end equipment manufacturing base in Baotou, Inner Mongolia. The facility will produce tunnel boring machines and concrete segments for metro and underground pipe gallery projects, creating 500 jobs.

Walt USA celebrated the grand opening of a new 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in North Logan, Utah, adding to its existing 43,000-square-foot facility. The expansion will create 50 new jobs and house over $1 million in new equipment.