Progroup subsidiary Prowell plans a corrugated sheet mega plant in Ellesmere Port near Liverpool, UK, investing EUR 75 million. It will produce up to 235,000 tpy and is planned to start by Q3 2018.

Progroup subsidiary Prowell is founding Prowell S.r.l. to build a corrugated board plant in Drizzona, Northern Italy, next to Imbal Carton. The machine will have 100,000 tpy capacity, create about 40 jobs, and start up in Q1 2018.

SIB Électrique will construct a 26,500-square-foot plant at 4150 Rue Lesage in Sherbrooke's industrial park, consolidating its Sherbrooke operations and relocating some production from Laval. Investment is CAD 2 million.

Skanska is completing Phase I of Dexcom's 145,000-square-foot build-out of an existing shell building in Mesa, Arizona, including renovation of a 60,000-square-foot industrial warehouse to medical device manufacturing space for glucose monitors.

Valence Surface Technologies received Nadcap accreditation for a new 10,000-sq.ft. shot peening facility in Everett, Washington, capable of processing large aerostructure components up to 30 feet in length.

FATA Automation and FATA Aluminum opened a new production facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan, with a capital investment of $2.5 million, including 2,600 square meters of assembly floor space.

Private investors from Afghanistan and the Czech Republic plan to build a $70 million cement production factory in Herat province, with a capacity of 1,600 tons per day, creating over 30,000 jobs.

Schneider Electric inaugurated a $45 million manufacturing plant in Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon Hi-Tech Park to produce smart home electronics and wiring products.

Septodont built a new production facility near Paris for injectable dental anaesthetic cartridges, investing nearly €26 million. The three-level, 2,700 sqm building has been fully operational since end of 2016.

Hollister, a US medical device manufacturer, will build a production complex in Kaunas, Lithuania, investing about €50 million over four years and creating around 300 jobs. The plant will produce ostomy care products for the European market.

SOCAR Polymer, a subsidiary of SOCAR, plans to build a new plant for biaxially oriented polypropylene film (BOPP film) in the Sumgait Chemical Industrial Park, Azerbaijan, at an estimated cost of USD 32 million. The plant will use polypropylene from SOCAR Polymer's upcoming PP plant as raw material.

Hubei Yutian Buli New Materials Co., Ltd. plans to build a high-performance environmentally friendly adhesive production facility in Zhijiang, Hubei, with an annual capacity of 180,000 tons. The project involves a total investment of 1.4 billion yuan and is scheduled to start construction in June 2017 and be completed by February 2018.

Axalta Coating Systems (Nanjing) Co., Ltd., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Axalta, plans to build a new production base in the Nanjing Chemical Industry Park with an annual capacity of 65,000 tons of resin and 55,000 tons of high-performance coatings. The total investment is 891 million yuan (approximately $131 million).

Topre announced its subsidiary Topre Kyushu will build a second factory for automotive press parts in Kanda, Fukuoka Prefecture, with a total investment of approximately 60 billion yen. Operations are planned to start in April 2019.

Techwing, a semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker, announced on 14 April 2017 that it will invest 18.9 billion won to build a new factory to meet rising demand and develop new items.

Zoomlion Company will build a factory in the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone to make mounted equipment for municipal vehicles and road construction machines. The groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for 15 April 2017, with production expected to start in 2019.

Medical device manufacturer Insulet Corp. will break ground on a new 195,000-square-foot assembly plant in Acton, Massachusetts, to produce insulin pumps.

Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Chemical Co. is building a 400 kilotonne/year high-density polyethylene (HDPE) unit at its integrated refining and petrochemical project on Changxing Island, Dalian, using LyondellBasell's Hostalen ACP technology. The overall integrated project involves a total investment of RMB 74 billion.

Samsung will begin operating its new semiconductor factory in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, from July 2017. The plant, built at a cost of 15.6 trillion KRW (approx. USD 13.6 billion), will mass-produce 64-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips with total capacity of 450,000 wafers per month.

Bekas Chemicals Plc signed a contract with Lushan Win Tone Machinery to build a cooking oil plant in Adama, Oromia, Ethiopia. The plant will have capacity of 20 million liters per year and is expected to be completed in one year.

Stren-Flex, a manufacturer of synthetic lifting products, will lease a 16,000-square-foot building in Simpsonville, South Carolina, to manufacture and distribute overhead lifting products. The project represents over US$1 million in capital investment and will create more than 25 jobs.

Construction began on Kazakhstan's first high-tech plant making large-diameter welded steel pipes in the Industrial Zone in Alatau region, Almaty, with an investment of 33 billion tenge. The plant is expected to create more than 300 permanent jobs after launch.

BeijingWest Industries (BWI) will invest over $80 million to build a 276,000-square-foot automotive brake and suspension parts plant in Greenfield, Indiana, creating up to 441 jobs by 2021. Production is expected to begin around May 2019.

Esaote S.p.A. opened a new plant in Genoa Multedo for research and production of dedicated MRI systems. The facility spans over 7,000 square meters, with a total investment of more than 15 million euros.

Granat Bio Tech, a resident of the Dubna Special Economic Zone, has begun construction of a new facility to produce disposable medical devices, including vacuum blood collection tubes. The first phase is expected to launch by the end of 2018, with total investment exceeding 1 billion rubles.

POC Medical Systems Inc. opened a new 24,000 sq. ft. research and manufacturing facility in Livermore, California. The company recently raised $21 million in Series A funding for its MammoAlert breast cancer screening test.

Hagley Building Products invested over $20 million in a new 10,000m2 manufacturing complex at Christchurch's Waterloo Business Park for its Hagley Windows and Doors and Thermaseal Double Glazing businesses. The facility was officially opened on April 12, 2017.

Tsinghua Unigroup broke ground for a memory plant in Nanjing, China, to manufacture 3D NAND flash and DRAM chips. The two-phase project has a total investment of about US$30 billion, with phase one expected to be completed by 2019.

Carrier broke ground on a new manufacturing campus in Baoshan Industrial Zone, Shanghai, with a US$95 million investment. The 90,000+ square meter facility will manufacture HVAC products and is scheduled for full completion in 2021.

Bosch opened a new plant for electronic components in Changzhou, China, with an investment of over EUR 100 million. The facility will produce cameras, radar sensors, ECUs, and central gateways for automated driving and connected vehicles, creating 1,300 jobs by 2019.

Continental Diamond Tool Corp. is planning a new $12 million facility in New Haven, Indiana, to more than double its workforce from 70 employees, with construction possibly starting in April 2017.

Ampo Poyam Valves has completed construction of a 1,400 m2 valve manufacturing plant in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, wholly owned by Ampo.

PWS (ASX: PET) constructed a new purpose-built manufacturing factory in the Changxing economic zone, 150 km from Shanghai, to produce Phoslock and other water remediation products. Initial Phoslock production capacity is 5,000 tonnes per year, expandable to 45,000 tonnes per year.

Suzuki Garphyttan opened its first plant in Mexico, located in San Jose Iturbide, Guanajuato, with a US$12.7 million investment. The plant manufactures cables for engines, clutches, and automotive trunks, with an initial capacity of 6,000 tons per year and 46 direct jobs expected.

Phoslock Water Solutions is in the final stage of establishing a multi-purpose manufacturing facility in Changxing, China, with initial capacity of 5,000 tonnes per annum, expandable to 45,000 tpa.

Uzin Utz AG plans to build a new factory for tile adhesive in Ulm, Germany, as part of its growth strategy to become market leader in Europe.

Teijin Frontier, a Teijin Group company, plans to build an $18 million factory in Vietnam for manufacturing air bag fabric, with production expected to start as early as 2018. The plant will be the company's second production site for air bag fabrics outside Japan.

Mini-Cam invested €500,000 in a new 7,500 sq ft factory in Riezlern, Austria for its subsidiary InPipe Innovation, used for mechanical design and manufacture of crawler and push camera inspection systems. The facility currently has eight staff with further recruitment planned.

Aldağ A.Ş. is building a new 23,000 m² factory in Manisa Akhisar Organized Industrial Zone with a $12.5 million investment. The facility will produce air handling units, fan coils, and other HVAC equipment, with operations planned to start in the second half of 2017.

Hexa-Lotos plans to build a plant in the Lotus SEZ in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, to produce polypropylene threads and geosynthetic fabrics. Investment is RUB 328.9 million, with production start in autumn 2018 and capacity of over 8 million square meters per year.

Laminam has opened a new production plant at the Vorsino Industrial Park in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, producing porcelain stoneware slabs. The initial investment is EUR 25 million, expected to reach EUR 40 million, with an annual capacity of 1 million square meters.

Wemo Automation, a Swedish robot manufacturer, plans to start production in Mexico, leading to expansion and 15 new jobs at its main factory in Värnamo, Sweden, with 25-30 employees expected in Mexico within five years.

Scholle IPN opened a 6,000 square meter flexible packaging plant in Palghar, India, which began operations on December 14, 2016. The facility makes aseptic bag-in-box packaging, drum bags and fitments for the local tropical fruit juice industry.

Codex GmbH & Co. KG broke ground on a new production facility in Ulm's Donautal area. The €18 million plant will have a capacity of 60,000 tons of powder products per year, focusing on tile adhesives, with production start expected in early 2018.

Otsego Ready Mix will construct a new ready-mix concrete plant in the Town of Davenport, Delaware County, New York, creating six new jobs and retaining five positions. The project cost is nearly $2 million.

China's Wanhua Chemical plans to build a $1.1 billion methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) plant in Louisiana, expanding its North American presence.

Leoni has begun construction of a new cable plant in Roth, Germany, with a total floor space of 57,000 square meters. The company is investing EUR 90 million in the facility, which will focus on cables for the automotive industry and data cables for autonomous driving.

Williams Sausage announced plans to break ground on a new 180,000-square-foot facility in Union City, Tennessee, with a $37 million investment creating 226 new jobs. The plant will double the company's sandwich-making capacity.

Evonik is building a new silica production plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as part of its expansion plans.

Saskatchewan Power Corporation (SaskPower) plans to build the 350MW Chinook combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant near Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. The $680 million project will use Siemens turbines and is expected to start construction in 2017 and operations in late 2019.