Kobe Steel Ltd. will establish Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. (KPEX) in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to manufacture aluminum extrusions for the automotive sector. Total investment is $46.7 million, creating 110 jobs.

Kikusui Chemical Industry's joint venture Kikusui Building Materials Technology (Changshu) completed and began operations of a new paint and coatings plant in Changshu, China, with an investment of approximately 12 billion yen.

A French company (unnamed in the article) began construction of a new electrical equipment plant in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. The investment is 1 billion rubles, and the plant will produce low-voltage switchgear, plastic cable channels, circuit breakers, cable trays, transformers, and other electrical products. It will create at least 300 jobs and is expected to be commissioned in 2018.

Kongsberg Automotive is building a new plant in Brześć Kujawski, Poland, to produce components such as heating mats, ventilation and massage systems. The investment will create 1,000 jobs, and completion is expected in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Maelor Foods Ltd, a related company of Salisbury Poultry, is building a new 13,500 bph poultry processing plant in Wrexham, UK. Marel will supply the complete kill and evisceration department, air chilling tunnel, and grading line. The project is expected to be completed during 2017.

Söderberg & Haak Kvänum AB will establish a new facility in Falköping, Sweden, including workshop, spare parts, and machinery sales, with about six employees initially, taking possession on October 1, 2017.

Constellium celebrated the grand opening of its new 135,000 sq. ft. plant in White, Georgia, dedicated to producing advanced aluminium automotive structural components and crash management systems, with plans to employ 150 people by 2019.

Siemens started building a EUR 35 million test center in Nuremberg for power converters used in high-voltage transmission projects. The test hall will be built on the grounds of the Nuremberg transformer factory and is scheduled for completion by spring 2018.

Boeing and COMAC began construction of a 737 Completion and Delivery Center in Zhoushan, China. The facility, Boeing's first overseas 737 production facility, is scheduled to be completed in 2018 and will deliver up to 100 aircraft per year.

British company International Water Solutions (IWS) plans to invest in constructing a water treatment product factory in Cuprija, Serbia, with 70% of products for export.

Airbus Helicopters signed a deal to set up an assembly line in Jimo, Shandong province, China, to build H135 helicopters. The line is scheduled to start operation in 2018 with an annual capacity of 36 helicopters.

Paulaner Brauerei invested around EUR 300 million in a new brewery in Munich-Langwied, which is now the most modern brewery in Europe with a capacity of up to 3.5 million hectoliters of beer. Johnson Controls planned and installed the cooling system.

Carrier Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Ltd. has begun construction of a new manufacturing facility at Sri City, India, with a groundbreaking ceremony led by Minister Nara Lokesh.

Shandong Ruyi Technology Group will invest $410 million in the former Sanyo facility in Forrest City, Arkansas, creating up to 800 jobs. The plant will spin Arkansas cotton into yarn, with renovations starting in late 2017 and production expected by mid-2018.

Samsung Display Co. broke ground for a new A4 flexible OLED plant in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, with an estimated cost of 13-16 trillion won ($11.4-14.1 billion). The facility will have a capacity of 135,000 substrates per month and is expected to start operation in the latter half of 2018.

Turkish packaging maker Ispak Ambalaj has opened a €70 million flexible packaging facility in Izmit. The plant raises the company's annual flexible packaging capacity to 40,000 tonnes and serves European and North American markets. It was reported on 10 May 2017.

GKN Aerospace announced a new manufacturing facility at VentureCrossings Enterprise Center in Panama City, Florida, representing a $55 million capital investment and creating 170 jobs with an average salary of $65,000, expected to open in 2018.

Kraton Corporation announced the opening of a 30 kiloton hydrogenated styrenic block copolymer (HSBC) plant in Mailiao, Taiwan on May 12, 2017. The plant is owned by the Kraton Formosa Polymers joint venture and employs approximately 100 people.

Cementos Molins and its partner Corona are building a new EUR336 million cement plant in Colombia, with construction awarded to OHL.

Okuma Corporation started production at its new headquarters factory Dream Site 2 (DS2) in Oguchi, Japan, enabling 24/7 production of parts for small and medium lathes and grinders. Investment was ten billion yen (about eight million euros) and the facility has 11,000 m² floor space.

NGK Insulators held a ceremony to start full-scale operations at the Ishikawa Plant of its subsidiary NGK Ceramic Device in Nomi City, Japan. The plant produces ceramic elements for NOx sensors, with an annual capacity of approximately 7 million units and capital investment of about 9.6 billion yen.

AMB, an Italian manufacturer of layered film for food packaging, announced the opening of a new 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 by 2018, and create 41 jobs initially, growing to 110.

Funding of nearly £38 million has been announced for a facility to make compound semiconductors in Newport, Wales, which could create about 2,000 high skilled jobs in five years.

Kyocera SGS Precision Tools broke ground on a $9.5 million Tech Hub in Danville, Virginia, a 30,000-square-foot facility expected to create over three dozen jobs. The hub will support engineering and manufacturing of cutting tools for automotive, aerospace, medical and power generation industries.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto inaugurated Grupo Modelo's brewery in Hunucmá, Yucatán, with initial capacity of 5 million hectoliters a year and an aluminum can plant producing 1 billion cans a year, built for 8.5 billion pesos.

Koyo Machine Industries opened a new facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, to manufacture steering intermediate shafts. The company invested US$8 million and hired 160 workers.

voestalpine Group plans to invest €30 million in a new production facility at its Kapfenberg site to manufacture aerostructures such as engine mounts, wing and fuselage components, and landing gear parts. Operations are scheduled to begin by 2019.

Vioral has completed construction of a new aluminum high pressure die casting plant in Oradea, Romania. The plant has a total area of 5,000 sqm, expandable to 10,000 sqm, and will add 2,000 tons of production capacity. Full-scale production is planned to start in September 2017.

Leoni Wiring will inaugurate a new plant in Bouznika, Morocco, on May 8, 2017, creating 2,000 jobs by 2018, with part of production for export.

Webasto officially inaugurated a new plant in Baoding, Hebei province, China, for the production of sunroofs and panorama roofs, with an investment of around 8 million euros.

German auto parts company Willi Elbe Manufacturing inaugurated its first plant in Mexico, located in Valle de Santiago, Guanajuato, with a $25 million investment. The facility will assemble proprietary and welded pieces and plans to add a steel machining division.

Beijing WKW Automotive Parts Co. plans to invest up to €1.13 billion ($1.24 billion) in an electric car factory in Rothenburg/Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany, creating over 1,000 jobs.

ABB launched a new 2,450-square-metre production facility in Longmeadow, Johannesburg, to produce traction transformers for Bombardier trains. The facility is expected to employ 60 people by end of 2017.

Sumitomo Riko Group inaugurated its second plant in Querétaro, Mexico, S-Riko de Querétaro, with an investment of $20 million. The plant produces anti-vibration support parts for automotive components and creates 300 jobs.

Nokian Tyres' Board of Directors made a principal decision to invest in a new greenfield tyre factory in Dayton, Tennessee, USA. The investment is approximately USD 360 million, with an annual capacity of 4 million tyres and 400 employees.

LINDAL Group acquired 15 acres in Columbus, Indiana, to build a new 100,000-square-foot aerosol packaging production facility with a $20 million U.S. investment.

Graphic Packaging and DHL Supply Chain will make a combined $274 million investment in Northeast Louisiana, building a 1.27 million-sq-ft folding carton plant and logistics center in Monroe and creating 93 direct jobs. Graphic Packaging will also invest $120 million in its West Monroe mill.

Hydro is opening a new state-of-the-art production line in Grevenbroich, Germany, for aluminium parts to the automotive industry. The line has an annual capacity of 150,000 tonnes and cost EUR 130 million.

GE Aviation opened a new 35,000-square-foot brilliant factory in Muskegon, Michigan, to manufacture parts for the GE90 engine and perform development work. The $14.5 million facility expands GE Aviation's local footprint to about 220,000 square feet.

Minerals Technologies signed an agreement with PT Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper to build a 125,000 metric-ton per year satellite precipitated calcium carbonate plant at the paper mill in Perawang, Indonesia. The facility is scheduled to begin operation in Q2 2018.

Japan's Polypropylene Corporation is planning to build a new polypropylene plant in Ichihara, Japan, with a production capacity of 150,000 tons/year and an estimated cost of JPY 9 billion ($81 million). The plant is expected to start operations in 2019.

Thales Alenia Space announced it will build a new automated facility in Hasselt, Belgium, dedicated to manufacturing photovoltaic assemblies for satellite solar panels, with a budget of around 20 million euros.

LY Company chose MachinePoint Engineering to build its new factory in Malaga for packaging wine, water and oil in carton containers, with financing and a Tetra Pak partnership arranged through MachinePoint. The article is dated 2 May 2017.

Johnson Technology, a subsidiary of GE Aviation, opened a 35,000-square-foot Brilliant Factory in Norton Shores, Michigan, to manufacture parts for the GE90 engine used on Boeing 777 aircraft. The $14.5 million facility has been operational since early 2017 and has hired 90 people since fall 2016.

Cikautxo Medical opened a new 3,000 m2 manufacturing plant in Berriatua, Basque Country, Spain, including 600 m2 of clean room production for medical devices such as catheter systems and silicone components.

Crown Holdings celebrated the opening of a new two-piece aluminum beverage can plant in the Tioga County Industrial Park in Nichols, New York, on May 9, 2017, expected to create more than 160 jobs by 2018.

TechnipFMC held the grand opening of its Odessa, Texas facility on May 11, 2017, consolidating its Surface Americas product and service lines on a 20-acre site with 48,378 square feet of space.

MAHLE opened its new air conditioning compressor plant in Changshu, Jiangsu, relocated from Suzhou with doubled capacity. Equipment investment has reached RMB 180 million, with further investment planned.

ThyssenKrupp AG announced the opening of two new manufacturing facilities in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, China: a joint venture with Fawer Automotive Parts Limited and a phase 3 camshaft production facility. The camshaft facility will be ThyssenKrupp's largest in Asia.

Viscofan is investing €40 million in a new fibrous casing plant in Cáseda, Navarra, Spain. The plant will start operations in the second half of 2017, create 55 jobs, and supply European and Asian markets.