Up To Date Laundry announced plans to build an additional healthcare laundry processing facility at Hollander Business Park in East Baltimore, Maryland. The new plant will add 72 million pounds of processing capacity and create 400 new jobs over five years.

Wacker Chemie AG officially started up a new pilot reactor for VAE dispersions at its Nanjing site in China, with an investment of around €2.4 million.

Festo opened a new $70 million distribution and manufacturing centre in Mason, Ohio, called the Regional Service Center. The facility features a highly automated order picking system and can triple capacities.

Vernacare is due to open a new service centre in Bangalore, India, creating high quality engineering jobs to support installation, commissioning and servicing of its technology. It anticipates setting up service centres in every major Indian city.

Sepehr Polymer Sepahan launched a biaxially oriented PET film production line in Isfahan province, Iran. The $31 million complex has a capacity of 32,000 tonnes per year and created 300 jobs.

Corbion broke ground on 9 November 2016 for a 75,000 tons per annum PLA polymerization plant at its Rayong site in Thailand, with a reported capex of 140 million USD. Sulzer Chemtech supplies key equipment and start-up is targeted for 2018.

PT Mayora Indah plans a new packaged drinking water factory under the Le Minerale brand in Cianjur, West Java, with an investment of about Rp 700 billion. The plant is set to start operating in the coming month.

PT Mayora Indah plans a new packaged drinking water factory under the Le Minerale brand in Palembang, South Sumatra, with an investment of about Rp 500 billion. The plant is set to start operating in the coming month.

Alu-Druckguss is building a new facility in the Miejska Strefa Przemysłowa in Nowa Sól, Poland. Construction starts on 8 November 2016, and the plant will create up to 60 new jobs.

Toshiba decided to start construction in February 2017 of a new manufacturing building at its Yokkaichi plant for 3D flash memory production, with completion of the first phase expected in summer 2018. A development center will also be built adjacent to the new fab.

Innovative Automation broke ground for a new manufacturing plant in Barrie, Ontario, and plans to increase its workforce.

Berlin Packaging opened a new integrated warehouse and assembly facility of nearly 300,000 square feet at 2300 Sweeney Drive in Clinton, Pennsylvania, tripling its Pittsburgh operations. Qorpak is already operating from the site, and Dangerous Goods is expected to move in by mid-2017.

JCB opened a new factory in Sorocaba, Brazil in 2012, with an investment of $124 million, a total area of 201,000 m², and production capacity of 10,000 units per year, employing 250 people.

My Home Group's cement plant in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, with a capacity of 1.23 million tonnes, will commence production by January end 2017. The investment is Rs 250 crore (approx. $37 million).

Browndove Healthcare inaugurated a 25,000 sq ft factory in Harohalli, Bangalore, dedicated to manufacturing renal care consumables such as bloodline sets and AV fistula needles. The facility is planned to house 350 employees.

Norafin Americas, a unit of the German Norafin Group, will establish its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Mills River, Henderson County, North Carolina. The $16 million plant will create 46 jobs over three years.

Gansu Deruixiang Mechanical Manufacturing Co., Ltd. started construction of a 432-mu, 1.05 billion yuan high-end equipment automation production line project in the Sino-German Industrial Park in Lanzhou New Area. The project will produce 10 million hydraulic cylinders annually.

CITIC Dicastal broke ground on a large-scale aluminum wheel project in Hunan province on November 5, 2016, with a total investment of 5 billion yuan, to produce 12 million aluminum wheels and 40,000 tonnes of aluminum castings per year.

SOCAR-Polymer is constructing a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant and a polypropylene (PP) plant in Sumgayit Chemical Industrial Park, Azerbaijan. Total investment is $750 million, with $340 million spent so far. The PP plant will start production in Q1 2018, and the HDPE plant in summer 2018.

Unit 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant, the 789 MWe BN-800 fast neutron reactor, has started commercial operation, state corporation Rosatom announced. The reactor burns mixed uranium-plutonium fuel.

Logan Corporation opened a new 137,000 square-foot manufacturing plant in Salyersville, Kentucky, five times larger than its previous facility. The company manufactures high-end dump truck beds and expects to grow from 50 to 100 employees by January 2018.

Western Diamond Cement Limited, part of the Diamond Cement Group, officially inaugurated a $50 million cement factory at Bokoro in the Ahanta West District of Ghana's Western Region. The plant has a capacity of one million tonnes of Portland Limestone Cement per annum and will create about 2,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Teijin Ltd. announced it will invest $600 million to build a carbon fiber plant on a 440-acre site in Greenwood County, South Carolina, creating 220 new jobs. The facility will produce carbon fiber for the automotive and aerospace industries.

Burkhardt-Hensel, a manufacturer of stone processing machines, will build a new factory in the Oschenberg industrial area in Bayreuth, Germany, with an investment of nearly €4 million. The new facility, covering 10,000 m², will start construction in February and begin operations in September 2016.

Mabuchi Motor announced on November 4, 2016 that it will establish a new factory in Poland in January 2017, with an investment of approximately 96 billion yen. The plant will manufacture medium and small motors for automotive electrical components, targeting production of about 16 million units annually by 2023.

Italian company Carel opened a new production plant in Labin, Croatia, investing 7 million euros over three years. The facility will create 50 new jobs on top of 60 existing ones.

Sika Romania, a producer of chemical construction materials, announced it is analyzing the possibility of building its third production unit in the southern part of the country, driven by accelerated business growth.

Quality Synthetic Rubber Inc. (QSR) is establishing a 65,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in Queretaro, Mexico, to produce silicone electrical connector seals and insulators for automotive and aerospace applications. The plant will be operational on November 15, 2016, creating 135 jobs with an initial capital investment of $3 million.

Hansens Aluminum LLC will build an $18.4 million, 75,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at the Henderson County Riverport in Henderson, Kentucky, creating 90 new jobs. The facility will produce automotive components for customers in the U.S. and Mexico.

Steel products manufacturer Frisa inaugurated its specialty mill in Garcia, Nuevo Leon. The $150 million facility has capacity to manufacture up to 350,000 metric tons of specialty steel and created 250 direct jobs.

MacLean-Fogg Company announced the grand opening of the MacLean Curtis Mooresville, North Carolina plant, a 96,000 square foot facility built to replace a smaller plant and support growing customer demand for precision-machined automotive components.

Globalpak LLC plans to build a metal and polymer packaging factory for food and cosmetics in the Feodosia industrial park in Crimea, with an investment of over 250 million rubles. A cooperation memorandum was signed with the Crimea Development Corporation.

Grupo Matsuda inaugurated a new plant in São Gonçalo do Amarante, Ceará, for producing pet food and fish feed, with a BRL 20 million investment, 60,000 sqm total area, and capacity of 20 tonnes/hour for meals and 6 tonnes/hour for extrusion, creating 70 direct jobs.

American Packaging will build a new $170 million flexible packaging plant on Beaver Road in Chili, New York, instead of Altoona, Iowa. The state will invest up to $14.7 million and groundbreaking is planned for early next year.

Schlumberger plans to begin construction of a plant making stages for electric submersible pumps in the Lipetsk special economic zone, Russia, by end of 2016. Total investment is 3.8 billion rubles, with serial production targeted for Q1 2018.

Saint-Gobain opened a new factory in Ho Chi Minh City making glue products used in construction and waterproofing products with capacity of 100,000 tons a year.

SMIC began construction of a new 12-inch fab in Shenzhen with target capacity of 40,000 wafers monthly, scheduled for volume production by end-2017.

McInnis Cement announced that 75% of construction of its cement plant in Port-Daniel–Gascons, Quebec is complete, with first cement deliveries expected in spring 2017. Shareholders closed approximately $280 million in new financing.

Ficosa opened a new rear-view mirror factory in Cookeville, Tennessee, costing US$50 million. The plant has capacity for 4.5 million mirrors and will employ around 500 people.

Hanwha Techwin opened a new 13,752㎡ aviation engine component production facility in Changwon, South Korea, to manufacture components for GE's LEAP engine and other engines. The plant will supply $440 million worth of parts over ten years from 2016 to 2025.

Anchor Electricals, a subsidiary of Panasonic, commenced operations at a new manufacturing unit in Haridwar, India, with an investment of INR 150 crores. The plant will produce wiring devices and switchgear, with a monthly capacity of 25 million units.

AkzoNobel announced a €90 million investment to build a new state-of-the-art facility in the Nangang Chemical Park in Tianjin, China, relocating its existing polymer chemistry plant. Construction will start in late 2016 and operations are expected to begin in late 2018.

Brembo announced plans to build a new iron foundry adjacent to its aluminum foundry in Escobedo, Mexico, with a $93 million investment. The plant will have a melting capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year and employ about 200 people, with operations expected to begin in late 2017.

A new chip plate plant built by Tomlesdreva has been opened in Tomsk, Russia, with an investment of 6.2 billion roubles. The facility has a capacity of 350,000 cubic meters per year and will create about 1,000 jobs.

Cuypers Forklifts has opened a new workshop for customers on the Left Bank. The company, founded 50 years ago by Staf Cuypers, started with one forklift truck rental and has grown significantly.

Merck has opened a new production plant for OLED materials in Darmstadt, Germany, after a 14-month construction period. The approximately 3,600 square meter building required a total investment of around €30 million.

Sipchem announced that the Tools Manufacturing Facility of Saudi Specialized Products Company commenced commercial operations on Nov. 1, 2016 in the Second Industrial City in Riyadh. The total cost was approximately SR110 million.

Schwäbische Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH (SW) opened its first plant outside Germany in Suzhou, China, in late October 2016. The 18,000 sq. m. facility involved an investment of €17.5 million and will convert imported basic machines into turnkey solutions.

SW (埃斯维机床) opened its first overseas factory in Suzhou Industrial Park, China, with an investment of 17.5 million EUR. The 18,000-square-meter facility has an annual capacity of 44 machines and provides customer services, training, and spare parts.

Vonco Products broke ground on a new 80,000-square-foot facility in Salem, Wisconsin, custom-designed for its expanding manufacturing and operational needs, with full occupancy expected by the end of 2017.