Dana Incorporated broke ground on a new manufacturing and assembly factory in Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing, China. The 7,500-square-meter plant will produce drivetrain products for Chang'an Ford, with an investment of 160 million yuan ($23 million) and over 130 employees by 2020.

JCB India invested $30 million in a new engine plant in Ballabgarh, Delhi, producing Dieselmax engines for the first time outside the UK.

JCB is building a new $100 million factory in Sorocaba, Brazil, to produce excavators and backhoe-loaders.

Kubota Tractor Corporation unveiled its new North American headquarters building in Grapevine, Texas, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Governor Greg Abbott. The company moved from Torrance, California.

Austrian aerospace components company F. List GMBH announced a new $20 million plant in Montreal to manufacture flame retardant wood veneers for aircraft cabins, expected to create 100 jobs.

Lotte Advanced Materials is building a 21,000-ton-per-year engineering plastics compounding plant in Nhon Trach, Dong Nai, Vietnam, to be completed in November 2017 and start commercial operation in January 2018.

Hellermann Tyton started operations at a new $10 million plant in Escobedo, Nuevo León, Mexico, dedicated to plastic injection and production of cable fasteners for automotive motors. The plant will generate up to 700 direct jobs at full capacity.

Lotte Chemical USA announced it will establish its headquarters in Lake Charles, Louisiana, joining its $1.1 billion monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant under construction. The combined facilities will create 130 new direct jobs. The MEG plant is expected to begin operating in 2019.

Dalnevostochny Zavod EKOLOS will launch a production facility for wastewater treatment equipment using membrane technology in Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, with an investment of 5.5 million rubles. The plant will create over 30 jobs.

Walton inaugurated its compressor manufacturing unit at Walton Industrial Park in Chandra, Gazipur, on April 6, 2017, with an annual capacity of 4 million compressors and a target of 12 million within five years.

Wenzhou Dingxin Valve Co. plans to produce 500 tonnes of check valves a year at a leased 1,800 m² workshop in Longwan District, Wenzhou, with a total investment of 1 million yuan.

Clariant officially opened a new bleaching earth production site in Gresik, near Surabaya, Indonesia, to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region. The site supplements existing manufacturing capacity.

Italcer will soon launch the construction of a 4.0 manufacturing facility in the US, aiming to consolidate its presence in the region.

TCL-subsidiary China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSoT) decided to construct a 6-Gen LTPS flexible AMOLED production line in Wuhan, China, with a $5.08 billion investment and monthly capacity of 45,000 substrates.

Emerson has developed a 25,000 sq m cold chain centre of excellence in Chakan, Pune, India, showcasing refrigeration and cold chain solutions.

Modig Machine Tool, a high-tech company specializing in aircraft equipment, plans to build a new factory in Kalmar, Sweden. The establishment will create new jobs. The start date for construction is not yet determined.

Principle Construction Corp. has completed construction of a new 267,000 sq ft build-to-suit plastics manufacturing facility for Winpak Portion Packaging in Sauk Village, Illinois.

Winpak Portion Packaging agreed with Dermody Properties' DP Partners to develop a 267,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in the DP LogistiCenter at Sauk Village, Illinois, creating 40 jobs, as part of a $30m investment.

Aquatherm North America held a grand opening for its new 82,000 square foot headquarters in Lindon, Utah on April 4, 2017.

Prime Cement plans to construct a $65 million cement plant in Musanze District, Northern Province, Rwanda.

Evonik is building a new plant at its Shanghai headquarters for the production of polymer dispersants for water-based systems in coatings and printing inks, scheduled to begin operations in the second half of 2017.

The Deltro Group plans to create a new solar manufacturing facility in St. Michael, Barbados, featuring a Meyer Burger manufacturing line, creating over 500 jobs.

HP Pelzer Automotive Systems plans to invest USD 13.5 million in a new manufacturing plant in Port Huron, Michigan, creating 124 jobs.

HarbisonWalker International selected The Point Industrial Park in South Point, Ohio for a new $30 million monolithic refractories manufacturing facility. The plant will have an initial capacity of 80,000 tonnes per year and is expected to be operational by early 2018.

MC Industrial has been chosen to build Boeing's 367,000-square-foot composite center on its St. Louis campus. The facility will bring over 700 jobs and produce parts for the 777X aircraft.

Star Snacks will invest over $18 million and create 115 jobs in a new 200,000-square-foot peanut roasting and packaging facility in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia.

ARI Packaging signed a 10-year lease for a building at 456 International Parkway in Minooka, Illinois, to serve as a manufacturing and distribution site. The article gives the size as both 445,479 and 456,479 square feet.

Khato Civils executive chairman Simbi Phiri announced the construction of a P500 million, six-storey regional head office for public works machinery manufacturer Tesmic in Gaborone North, Botswana. The facility will employ 2,000 permanent staff.

Spark Minda KTSN opened a new manufacturing plant in Queretaro, Mexico, with an investment of $20 million. The 8,500 m² facility produces interior automotive components for Volkswagen Group and started with 130 employees, expected to reach 350.

Spark Minda inaugurated a new manufacturing plant in Queretaro, Mexico, with an investment of $10 million in the first phase. The 8,500 m² facility will produce interior automotive components for Volkswagen Group and employs 130 people.

Volvo Construction Equipment inaugurated a SEK 195 million driveline test facility in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The 4,400 m² facility will test electric and conventional drivelines and components, supporting the company's shift towards electromobility.

Elis Pavaje, a Romanian paving stone market leader, started construction of its third factory in Secuienii Noi, Neamt County. The €10 million investment will produce concrete prefabricated products (pavers, curbs, gutters, blocks) with a capacity of 5,000 sqm of pavers per day, creating 40 jobs, and is expected to start production in July 2017.

Bürkert USA held a grand opening for its 173,000 square-foot headquarters and manufacturing complex in Huntersville, North Carolina, on April 3, 2017. The site includes CNC machine shops for manifolds and a class 10,000 clean room for valve assembly.

Grundfos Pump India will start operations at its third assembly plant in Ahmedabad, India, on June 1, 2017.

DARcorporation and Sterna Composite Aircraft formed a joint venture, Sterna Composite Aircraft USA, to open a 10,000 sq ft manufacturing plant in Lawrence, Kansas, to build composite propellers. The plant is expected to create 10 jobs by end of 2017 and begin production by early 2018.

Daikin, the Japanese HVAC company, opened its first boiler factory in Sakarya, Turkey, producing boilers for export to 145 countries. The facility marks Daikin's entry into the heating market.

METAWATER Co., Ltd. announced the commencement of operations of the Basin Creek Water Treatment Plant in Butte-Silver Bow, Montana, which uses its ceramic membrane filtration system. The plant has a capacity of 26,500 m3/day.

Welspun inaugurated a state-of-the-art needle entangled advance textile plant in Anjar, Gujarat, built at a cost of Rs 150 crore, to enhance product offerings in industrial and defence applications.

Aero Gearbox International, a joint venture of Rolls-Royce and Safran, opened a 13,500 m2 accessory drive train plant in Ropczyce, Poland. It already employs over 50 people and is expected to grow to up to 200.

Braidy Industries announced a $1.3 billion aluminum mill in Greenup County, Kentucky, producing sheet and plate for automotive, aerospace and defense. Construction starts early 2018, completion in 2020, creating 550 jobs.

Mogilevkhimvolokno plans to build a new industrial cluster for technical textiles and nonwovens production in Belarus, with an initial investment of EUR 208 million.

Chinese company Yantai Huazheng Medical Equipment Technology plans to build a production facility for third-generation vacuum blood collection tubes in Novouralsk, Russia. Capacity is 100 million tubes per year, investment is 200 million rubles, and commissioning is planned for 2018.

HORIBA Instruments Incorporated started operations on April 1, 2017 at a new Houston facility that houses design, production, sales and service for its Process & Environmental business, serving the petrochemical and shale gas industries.

OOO 'Zavod chistykh polimerov 'Etana' announced a $12.9 billion investment project to build a clean polymers plant in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, to be implemented in 12 stages and fully completed by 2030. The project includes a water-bearing province, polymer complex, bottled water preparation and filling, and transport logistics, creating 25,000 jobs.

Qualcomm Technologies and ASE Group, with Brazilian government agencies, will invest $200 million to build a semiconductor chip manufacturing plant in Campinas, Brazil, creating 1,200 jobs.

Singapore's PUB aims to complete a 12,500 m3/d demonstration-scale plant for membrane bioreactor (MBR) systems for water reuse in mid-2017. The contract was awarded to Mitsubishi Corporation in 2015.

Leonardo DRS announced plans to build a new aircraft manufacturing facility in Tuskegee, Alabama to produce the T-100 integrated jet training system if selected by the U.S. Air Force for the T-X Program.

Leonardo has selected Tuskegee, Alabama as the potential site for an advanced assembly center to build the T-100 jet trainer, pending a U.S. Air Force contract award. The project could create up to 750 jobs with a 10-year ramp-up beginning in 2019.

French company Le Belier has started building a new 2,500 sqm facility in Kikinda, Serbia, with an investment of EUR 12 million. The plant will produce aluminum castings for the automobile industry, aiming for up to one million components per year by 2020 and creating 600 jobs.

Denso announced plans to construct a new factory at its group company Denso Iwate in Kanegasaki-cho, Iwate Prefecture, to produce automotive meters and other components. The investment is approximately 10 billion yen by 2020, with construction starting in October 2017 and production commencing from May 2019.