Havells India Ltd will set up its first plant near Changsari in Kamrup district, Assam, to manufacture switchgears. The company plans to invest around Rs 300 crore in capital expenditure in the current financial year across Assam and Karnataka, with the Assam plant expected to start production soon.

NTK Precision Axle Corp., a Japan-based company, plans to spend $100 million on a new auto-parts factory in Anderson, Indiana. Construction is expected to start in spring 2017, with production of drive-shaft components beginning in October 2018, and the factory will hire 200 workers over five years.

Salavatsteklo plans to build a new glass plant in the settlement of Gorny, Novosibirsk region, Russia, with an investment of 10 billion rubles. The facility will have an annual production capacity of 26 million square meters of glass and is expected to be completed by 2019.

ATC (Aerostructure Technologies Cyclone), a joint venture between Elbit Systems and Georgia's Partnership Fund, is building an $85 million aircraft composites plant near Tbilisi International Airport. The facility will produce civil aviation composite parts for Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier, and is expected to be operational by the end of 2017, with production starting in 2018.

Astor, a Turkish transformer manufacturer, has begun construction of a new factory in Ankara with an investment of 125 million Turkish lira. The plant, covering 100,000 square meters, will produce power transformers up to 500 kV 500 MVA and is expected to start production by mid-2017.

Goodwill Tanzania Ceramic Company Limited started construction of a tile plant in Mkuranga District, Tanzania, with a first-phase cost of USD 50 million. The plant will produce 80,000 square meters of tiles per day and create 1,000 direct jobs.

Oerlikon held a groundbreaking ceremony for a greenfield manufacturing facility in Plymouth Township, Michigan, to produce advanced metal powders for additive manufacturing and high-end surface coatings.

Alimex is launching operations in Columbia, South Carolina, by leasing an industrial building complex. The company is investing $2 million and creating 27 new jobs over five years.

RUAG Aerostructures is planning to develop an aircraft parts manufacturing plant in Eger, northeast Hungary. The project costs are estimated at HUF 2 billion, with HUF 382 million covered by a government grant, and is expected to create 180 new jobs.

RUSAL (50%) and SGK-Invest (50%) formed a joint venture, Bogoslovsky Cable Plant, to build a cable and wire production facility in the Krasnoturyinsk priority development area. The plant will produce oil-submersible cable, flexible aluminum cable, and self-supporting insulated wire, with an investment of 1.083 billion rubles and 90 jobs. Launch is planned for November 2017.

Frigus Bohn and FB inaugurated their new Monterrey plant in the Finsa Santa Catarina Industrial Park in March 2017, aiming to increase capacity and presence in the HVAC market.

Schneider Electric announced the opening of a new engineer-to-order plant for low voltage and medium voltage panels in Cikarang, Indonesia. The plant is the largest in Asia, producing 30,000 panels per year, and employs over 1,000 local workers.

Nemak inaugurated a new high-pressure die casting (HPDC) plant in Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with an investment of $200 million. The plant has an annual capacity of 2.2 million auto parts and will supply the Mexican and US markets.

China's state-run Sinoma International Engineering will start work in May to build a $1 billion cement factory in Tanga, Tanzania, primarily targeting export markets.

Hengya Cement, a subsidiary of China's Hengyuan International Engineering Group, announced it will build a new cement plant in Tanga, Tanzania. The initial phase will cost US$1bn, with construction expected to start in May 2017.

ItN Nanovation AG and SafBon have opened a new production building in Nantong, China for ceramic flatsheet membranes. SafBon will invest EUR 60 million over 12 months. Phase one capacity is 60,000 m²/year with production starting August 2017; phase two capacity of 140,000 m²/year starts early 2018.

Xinyu Hengqing Feed Co., Ltd. broke ground on a 600,000-ton pig stock feed mill project in Xinyu, China, with a total investment of 120 million yuan (US$18.84 million). Richi Machinery is supplying the fully automated processing equipment. The first phase is expected to be completed in June 2018 per contract, but possibly earlier in August 2017.

BASF is investing over €200 million globally, including a new plastic additives plant at its Caojing site in Shanghai with an annual capacity of 42,000 tonnes, expected to start commercial production by early 2020.

In March 2017, Dejana opened a new 35,000 sq ft facility in Chalfont, PA, with a showroom, 12 manufacturing bays, and two paint spray booths. The Red Hill, PA facility was closed.

XinHongChang Heavy Industry Group began construction of a new factory for HongChang Tianma truck-mounted cranes in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, on March 1, 2017. The plant represents an investment of over 1 billion RMB and is expected to be completed by September 2017.

Yaskawa announced plans to build a new factory in Kočevje, Slovenia, for manufacturing industrial robots. Construction is expected to start in autumn 2017, with the facility becoming operational by the end of 2018, initially producing about 4,000 robots per year. The investment is approximately €25 million, with an additional €5.6 million from the Slovenian state.

REMA USA LLC is moving its US headquarters to a new 38,000 square-foot facility at 385 South Woods Drive in Fountain Inn, SC, about 10 miles from its current site. The move is set for April 2017 and will add production, engineering and product development capacity for materials handling and EV charging markets.

SSI Schaefer Packaging opened an 8,500 square meter reusable packaging fabrication facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, on March 1, 2017, expected to create about 50 jobs.

Trelleborg's Pipe Seals operation has opened a new facility for rehabilitation pipe liner operations in Tauragé, Lithuania. The factory is predicted to triple production output for pipeline rehabilitation products.

Hansens Aluminum is developing a 75,000-square-foot facility in Henderson Riverport Industrial Area, Kentucky, with an $18 million investment and a $970,000 grant, creating 50 jobs.

Raysut Cement commissioned a new cement distribution terminal at the Port of Duqm, Oman, a multimillion rial investment to serve the Special Economic Zone.

Grupo Antolin plans to open a new plant in Michigan with an investment of $61.2 million, creating 430 jobs. The article does not specify the exact location or products, but the company is an automotive components supplier.

Spain-based auto supplier Grupo Antolin plans to invest nearly $10.4 million to establish a manufacturing facility in Jefferson Metropolitan Park in McCalla, Alabama, creating 150 jobs by 2020. Build-out is expected to begin in early March 2017.

Kracht is building a 3,500 m² logistics centre at its headquarters in Werdohl, Germany, with Jungheinrich as general contractor. The centre includes a high rack warehouse with 5,100 pallet slots and an automatic small parts warehouse. The project costs approximately €7.8 million and is scheduled for completion in May/June 2017.

A concern (unnamed) began construction of a factory for industrial electric motors in Aleksandrów Łódzki, Poland. The investment is $30 million, production is to start on April 1, 2009, and the plant will employ 160 workers producing 40,000 motors annually.

Kloeckner Metals Flat Rolled Group opened a new 106,000 sq ft facility in University Park, Illinois, replacing a 19-year-old branch in Chicago. The multi-million-dollar plant adds new processing equipment and can handle mill coils up to 60,000 lb.

LM Wind Power announced the construction of a new factory in Cherbourg, Normandy, France, to produce rotor blades for offshore wind turbines from 2018. The plant will create 500 direct jobs and up to 2,000 supplier jobs, with potential capacity of 1.2 to 2.0 GW.

Boeing announced plans to open its first European commercial factory in Catcliffe, Rotherham, UK, investing £20 million and creating at least 30 jobs. The plant will manufacture actuators for 737, 737 MAX and 777 aircraft.

Fuyao Glass plans to establish a subsidiary in Suzhou's Xiangcheng District with a total investment of about CNY 1 billion to build a plant producing 4 million sets of automotive safety glass per year.

Arkema confirmed that its 'world-scale' PEKK plant in Mobile, Ala., will come on stream in the second half of 2018.

Cooper Standard will build a new automotive components factory in Santa Rosa de Lima, Sergipe, Brazil, with potential to create 800 jobs. Production is expected to start in March 2018, initially with 200 jobs.

Petainer Innopac Packaging plans to set up two production units, one in the South (Chennai or Bengaluru under consideration) and one in the North (location undecided). The plans were reported on 2017-02-23.

Emerson Process Management has opened a $30 million Americas headquarters for valve automation technologies and a highly automated manufacturing facility in Houston. The facility serves the oil and gas and petrochemical industries.

Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Company, Ltd. started its UOP Advanced Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) unit in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China. When fully online, it will have an annual capacity of 833,000 metric tons, making it the largest single-train MTO unit in the world.

GE Aviation is constructing a full-rate production raw material facility in Huntsville, Alabama, to produce silicon carbide ceramic fiber and CMC prepreg. The investment is over $200 million, and the facility is expected to produce up to 20 metric tons of CMC material per year.

Idan Packaging plans to open a new facility next to its existing Hawthorne plant this year, raising dry blending capacity from 6 million to more than 15 million lbs per year.

ABB will begin construction of its second plant in the Lipetsk Special Economic Zone in April 2017, with production expected to start in 2018. Total investment in both plants is RUB 1.4 billion, creating 215 jobs.

Kupang Cement will start construction of a new IDR 2 trillion (US$1.49 billion) cement plant in the Bolok Industrial District, Kupang, with a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year. Groundbreaking is scheduled for March 10, 2017.

Delphin Water Systems, a Hamburg-based manufacturer of small wastewater treatment plants, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility in the Ovelgönne industrial area in Buxtehude, Germany. The company moved from Hamburg due to lack of affordable commercial space.

Zhejiang Wankai New Materials Co Ltd. will start up a new PET plant at the end of February 2017 with a capacity of 550,000 tons/year.

Tetra Pak received an investment certificate to build a $124 million paper-board carton factory in Binh Duong province, Vietnam, its first in the country. Commercial operations are expected by Q2 2019 with expandable capacity of about 20 billion packs per year.

CHINT Group and EGEMAC celebrated the grand opening of their joint venture factory CHINT EGEMAC in Cairo, specializing in low-voltage switchgear manufacturing. The factory's estimated annual production is approximately five million dollars.

AkzoNobel is investing £112 million in two new plants in the UK. The article does not specify the locations or products of the plants beyond the context of paints and coatings.

Aequs announced at Aero India 2017 that it is setting up a multi-capability aerospace and defence manufacturing facility in Tuem, Goa, with an initial investment of ₹500 crore, expected to create close to 2,000 jobs.

J.L. Morison Son & Jones (Ceylon) PLC will invest US$13.5 million to construct a new pharmaceutical research and manufacturing plant at the SLINTEC Nano Technology Park in Homagama, Sri Lanka, with commercial operations expected in 2019.