Paramit officially opened a new 162,000 square foot medical device and life sciences manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia. The site will serve customers in medical devices and industrial products.

Emerson Automation Solutions opened a 1,100 square metre manufacturing facility in Dammam's First Industrial City to build control and safety systems and provide engineering, staging, commissioning and field services in Saudi Arabia's eastern region.

UFlex is building an aseptic liquid packaging manufacturing plant that it expects to be commercially operational by April 2017.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor's joint venture subsidiary signed an EPC contract with The IT Electronics Eleventh Design & Research Institute for the construction of a power semiconductor packaging/testing and wafer fabrication facility in Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing, China.

US drug company Aerie Pharmaceuticals has signed a lease agreement with the IDA for a new factory in Athlone, Ireland, to establish a manufacturing base. The investment is €23 million.

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. announced plans to build a 71,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility and distribution center in Houston, Texas, as part of a joint venture with Jungheinrich AG.

Boyce Technologies is building a 100,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Long Island City, Queens, New York, to consolidate operations. The facility is expected to open early 2017.

Multivac and TVI plan to build a new production site and office building with a demonstration and customer centre in Bruckmühl, southern Bavaria, with construction due to finish in 2018.

World Product Sourcing (WPS) announced plans to build a manufacturing plant in Ringgold, Georgia to support its Fusion brand of rigid core resilient flooring, enabling faster replenishment for distributors.

Food and beverage container maker Genpak agreed to buy the 333,000 sq ft former International Paper building at Westlake Business Commons in Charlotte for about $15.8 million. It will use the site as its new headquarters and manufacturing plant.

The CSSC Wärtsilä Engine joint venture formally opened a 20,000 m2 production plant in Lingang, Shanghai, producing large-bore and medium-bore marine diesel and dual-fuel engines with planned capacity of 180 engines per year.

Oji Holdings will construct a new Queensland plant making food-grade pulp-based cardboard boxes for meat processors and farmers, costing about 5 billion yen, with operations starting around October and capacity rising to 3-4 million square meters a month by 2019.

Persimmon has revealed plans to build a brick factory in Harworth, creating up to 30 jobs as part of a £10 million investment. The plant will manufacture around 400,000 bricks per day (80 million per year) and is due to be commissioned in Q1 2017.

Hubei Xinnuo Lude Engineering Machinery Co., Ltd. broke ground on a 500-mu (33.3-hectare) construction machinery manufacturing plant in Xisaishan Industrial Park, Huangshi, Hubei. The project involves a total investment of 1 billion yuan and is expected to create 2,000 jobs.

iMPREG Group, a German provider of fiberglass reinforced liner systems, will open a warehouse facility in Henrico County, Virginia, with a second phase adding manufacturing and 60 jobs through a $5.4 million expansion.

AMI Metals is completing an 80,000-square-foot distribution warehouse in Wichita, Kansas, expected to open in mid- to late-February 2017. The project has a building permit of $3 million and is expected to increase the workforce by about 20%.

ROTA, part of NSK Group, has commenced production at its new rubber-metal facility in Bursa, Turkey, to produce repair kits for torque rods and v-stay arms for the OEM market.

LBP Manufacturing, a maker of paper and plastic food packaging, will spend $6 million to renovate the former BAE Systems building in Jessup, Lackawanna County, and create 74 full-time jobs over three years.

MAS Holdings has unveiled a $28 million MAS Fabric Park in Giriulla, Sri Lanka, to manufacture knitted shoe uppers and sportswear for Nike, with expected revenue of $65-75 million.

Li'ang Microelectronics began construction of a 5 billion yuan ($50M) integrated circuit wafer project in Quzhou, Zhejiang province. The project will produce 8-inch and 12-inch silicon wafers.

Yamama Cement Company secured SAR1bn (US$266.6m) in financing from National Commercial Bank and Samba Financial Group to partially fund a new cement plant 100 km outside Riyadh, with a capacity of 20,000 tpd clinker.

Lumenier is building a new 24,000 square foot facility in Sarasota, Florida for drone design, manufacturing, and fulfillment, five times larger than its previous building.

BYK Additives & Instruments held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new integrated site in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park.

Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Co. broke ground on a 38.7 billion yuan ($5.6 billion) wafer plant in Kangqiao, Pudong New Area, Shanghai on December 30, 2016, to manufacture advanced chips for smartphones, with production starting in 2018 and full capacity of 40,000 units monthly by 2022.

The National Memory Base project, a 160 billion yuan investment, broke ground in Wuhan's East Lake High-tech Development Zone to produce memory chips, with full completion expected by 2020 and annual output value over $10 billion.

Yaskawa intends to build a factory of industrial robots in Slovenia, initially employing around 160 people, with potential to rise to 200. The location is not yet determined, but Ribnica is a candidate.

Crown Cork and Seal, part of Crown Holdings, is set to begin production in January 2017 at its $132 million beverage can plant in Nichols, Tioga County. The plant is expected to eventually employ 160 people.

Sterilite Corp of Townsend, Maryland plans a new 2.5 million square foot plastics facility in Davenport that would create 500 jobs over five years. City estimates put land and building costs at $73 million.

Dangote Cement opened new capacity in Sierra Leone in 2017, increasing total capacity to 45.6 million tonnes per annum across 10 African countries.

Dangote Cement opened new capacity in Congo and Sierra Leone in 2017, increasing total capacity to 45.6 million tonnes per annum across 10 African countries.

Karofi Vietnam built a new water filter factory in Yen My district, Hung Yen province, Vietnam, with an investment of thousands of billions of Vietnamese dong. The factory started operations in 2017 with a capacity of 1,000,000 finished products per year and employs about 1,000 people.

Prestige Ciment Côte d'Ivoire (PCCI), a joint venture created in January 2017, is building a cement grinding unit with two production lines of 600,000 tonnes each per year, for a total annual capacity of 1.2 million tonnes, with an investment of $35 million.

Earlier this year, ABB inaugurated a new traction transformer facility in South Africa in line with local procurement requirements.

WL Plastics, acquired by INEOS O&P USA in November 2016, opened its seventh production site in Statesboro, Georgia, USA. The $13 million factory produces high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes for infrastructure and shale gas industry, creating 50 jobs. Production began in January 2017.

HPP South Africa opened a state-of-the-art high-pressure processing (HPP) plant in Midrand, South Africa, offering contract tolling services. The company secured an exclusive license from Avure Technologies.

Sweetwater Tech Resources has started operations of California's first facility to convert produced water from oil and gas operations into clean water for reuse, located in Wasco, California, with initial capacity of 25,000 gallons per day.

Firestone Building Products Co. LLC announced plans to construct a manufacturing facility in Heinsberg, Germany to expand production and distribution of polyisocyanurate foam insulation for the European market. The facility is expected to be fully operational in 2018.

Philips inaugurated a new factory in Varginha, Brazil, consolidating production of healthcare equipment such as X-ray, MRI, CT, and ultrasound systems. The facility will employ 450 people and export to Latin America and the Middle East.

TechnipFMC officially opened its Modular Manufacturing Yard at Dahej, Gujarat, India. The 150,000 sq. meter waterfront yard will manufacture modular hydrogen plants, process plants, fired heaters, reformers, ethylene furnaces, and burners.

Abdul Latif Jameel Energy and Environmental Services announced the establishment of Almar Water Solutions, a provider of water infrastructure development, at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. The company will construct and operate water desalination and purification treatment plants.

Santex Rimar Group established Santex Rimar India, a new venture with offices in Coimbatore and Mumbai, to provide sales and service for textile machinery. The venture was announced at India-ITME 2016.

Visy Board New Zealand opened its second corrugated packaging plant in the Waipa district near Hamilton, Waikato, in May 2018 after a NZ$100 million investment that created about 75 jobs.

Thimm Group's new corrugated cardboard plant in Holledau, Wolnzach, Bavaria started series production at the beginning of 2017, described as one of the most modern corrugated cardboard plants in Europe.

Charles Ross & Son Company completed its largest manufacturing facility to date, a 250,000-square-foot plant in Wuxi, China, operated by its subsidiary Ross Wuxi Equipment. The facility moved in December 2016, with a formal inauguration scheduled for March 25, 2017.

SRG Global, a Guardian company, broke ground for its first paint line in Asia.

Huali Microelectronics started construction of a 38.7 billion yuan ($387M) 12-inch advanced process IC production line in Pudong, Shanghai. The line will produce 28nm and below chips.

Sakai Display Products Corp, a joint venture of Foxconn and Sharp, announced plans to invest 610 billion yuan ($88 billion) to build a new LCD panel factory in Guangzhou, China. The plant will produce 10.5-generation 8K screens and LCD panels for smart TVs and electronic whiteboards.

Grupa Paradyż will invest over 120 million złoty (approx. €28 million) in a new ceramic tile factory in Sławno, Poland, to be built by subsidiary SŁAWNO CERRANOVA. Construction is planned for 2018-2020, creating at least 82 jobs.

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC), backed by Tsinghua Unigroup and others, broke ground on a national memory base project in Wuhan, China, with a total investment of $24 billion. The facility will produce 3D NAND flash memory, with initial production expected in 2018 and full completion by 2020.

Schlumberger is starting construction of a plant in the Lipetsk special economic zone to produce components for electric submersible pumps used in oil production, with serial production planned by 2018 and an investment of 3.8 billion rubles.