Safran Aircraft Engines will build a new plant in Hyderabad's GMR Special Economic Zone to make parts for the CFM LEAP turbofan engine, with a €36 million investment supported by the Telangana State. Construction starts June 2019, with first parts planned for early 2020 and a workforce of 300.

Austrian-owned Dunapack Rambox, part of Prinzhorn Group, is building a new corrugated cardboard packaging plant in Bolintin-Deal near Bucharest, Romania, under a project worth about €45 million. The plant is planned to employ around 200 workers and reach 180 million square metres of annual capacity.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to start a new hydraulic equipment plant, Suzhou No. 4, in China around summer 2020. It will take over production of hydraulic components for China from its Nishi-Kobe mother plant in Japan.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries opened a new plant in Bangalore to make pumps and motors for 7-36 tonne construction machinery, doubling its Indian hydraulic capacity to 20,000 units a year. The investment is about 800 million yen and production starts in April 2019.

Remous Print has started building a new smart factory on a business park in Sherborne, Dorset, with a near-£1 million investment. It will consolidate the company's three current sites under one roof, with a planned move around September or October 2019.

Sovremennaya upakovka plans to build a corrugated cardboard plant in the Stavropol region by 2021, with an investment of about 500 million rubles and 160 new jobs. The agreement was signed at the Sochi investment forum and the plant will be located in the Nevinnomyssk industrial park.

IPP, a joint venture now part of SCG Packaging, opened a new greenfield packaging factory in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia, on 15 February 2019, equipped with Koenig & Bauer, Heidelberg and Bobst converting equipment.

A €7.7 million construction contract for production building No. 6 at the Ventspils High Technology Park was awarded to SIA Ostas celtnieks by the Ventspils port authority. Immer Digital leases the building to make recyclable packaging materials and plans to expand its investment in Ventspils beyond EUR 11 million.

Essel Propack has inaugurated its first greenfield unit in Kamrup, Assam, with capacity of 275 million laminated tubes annually. Phase-I investment is ₹82 crore and it will employ about 150 people.

Axios-Jet has completed the first stage of a production line in Krasnoslobodsk making seals and components for shut-off valves, invesing 50 million rubles of a 150 million ruble project. The report is dated 7 February 2019.

SIG has opened a new Tech Centre close to its packaging plant in Suzhou, China, to help customers develop new product concepts and packaging solutions. The report is dated 7 February 2019.

Biffa has received planning approval from Durham County Council for a £15m plastics recycling plant at Foxcover Distribution Park near Seaham, creating around 70 jobs. Construction is expected to start in Summer 2019.

Sensata Technologies held a groundbreaking for a new 4,000 sq.m production building and warehouse in Botevgrad, Bulgaria, with a $27 million investment and 300 new jobs planned.

Danfoss Industries plans to invest Rs 70-100 crore in a new plant at Oragadam near Chennai to produce 120,000 low-voltage frequency drives, expected to start around September 2019.

Honeywell opened its third plant in Russia, a greenfield facility in the Lipetsk special economic zone, on January 31, 2019. The investment exceeded 900 million rubles and the plant will eventually employ about 200 people.

Zahroof Valves moved its reciprocating compressor valve operations into a new Houston, Texas facility with more than three times the office and production space.

Thermax opened a new manufacturing unit at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, built with an investment of INR 166 crore. Phase 1 capacity is 400 machines a year, with initial staff of 60 rising to over 300.

Danfoss Industries will invest between ₹70 and 100 crore to set up a new plant at Oragadam near Chennai producing 120,000 low-voltage frequency drives, expected to start around September. The amount shown is the lower bound of the stated range.

Bereeq, a unit of Raya Holding, plans to open a second plastic recycling plant in 6th of October City, Egypt, with a 250 million EGP investment by the end of 2019. The plant is intended to double the company's production capacity.

Green Bay Packaging is launching a paper mill in Wisconsin that will use 100% recycled fiber and process 685,000 tons per year to make linerboard and corrugated medium. The $500 million facility is projected to create 1,000 construction jobs and 200 additional jobs by 2022.

SAPA broke ground on a 10,000 square meter production facility in Shelby Township, Michigan, with a planned investment of $40.1 million and 223 new jobs. The plant is expected to be operational in January 2020 and will house its US headquarters.

Smurfit Kappa inaugurated its third plant in Tijuana, Mexico, after an investment of US$14.5 million, creating 250 jobs. The folding cardboard plant has a capacity of 10 million square meters and began operations at the end of 2018.

Yanmar announced a plant in the ORIGINS industrial park in north Chennai to make industrial diesel engines with 80,000 units annual capacity. Production is expected to start in 2020 and create up to 400 jobs.

Total's Egina offshore field, about 150 km off Port Harcourt in Nigeria, started production at the end of 2018. TechnipFMC supplied the field's full subsea production system and flexible piping.

The HARTING Technology Group has opened a production facility near the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, where subsidiary HARTING Customised Solutions is manufacturing tailor-made solutions.

EKKI group and German pump company Homa group signed an MoU for a joint venture to set up a pump manufacturing facility in Coimbatore, with Homa holding 50 percent. Homa plans to invest nearly Rs 150 crore, and the factory would create about 100 jobs.

Eclipse Automation will invest $4.6 million in new operations in Rock Hill, South Carolina, creating 90 jobs over five years. The 57,000-square-foot facility is projected to be operational in March 2019.

Seibu Giken announced it will build a new factory in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, to produce exhaust gas removal equipment and desiccant dehumidifiers, with an investment of about 3.5 billion yen. Production capacity for exhaust gas removal equipment will increase from 30 to 50 units per month, and for desiccant dehumidifiers from over 10 to nearly 30 units per month.

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. opened the world's largest intelligent factory for tower cranes in Changde, China, after three years of construction and an investment of 780 million yuan (US$115.4 million).

Festo held the inauguration ceremony for Phase 1 of its new global production center in Jinan Sun Village, China, on January 23, 2019. The phase covers 100,000 square meters with an investment of about 560 million yuan (approx. $83 million). Production is scheduled to start in February 2019. The overall project will create about 3,500 jobs.

Schwing Stetter India signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu Government at the Global Investors Meet 2019 to invest INR 237 crore immediately in a new plant in Cheyyar, scaling to INR 350 crore over four years, with 200 jobs planned.

Japanese pump maker Torishima Pump moved into a former ClydeUnion Pumps facility in Fort Custer Industrial Park, Battle Creek, Michigan, investing $1.5 million and creating 11 jobs.

Haitian Metal's new die-casting machine production base in Ningbo Beilun, China, was completed and put into use in June 2021. The project invested $160 million, covers 139 mu, and can produce full-series cold-chamber die-casting machines with clamping force from 180T to 8800T, with an annual capacity of about 4000 machines.

A joint project between Lindeforklift (China) and Fujian Haishan Heavy Industry broke ground in Haicheng Town, Longhai, Fujian. The facility will produce 45,000 eco-friendly electric warehouse trucks annually with a total investment of 350 million yuan.

Chinese company CPMC plans to invest €60 million in a new beverage can factory in Genk, Limburg, on the site of Illochroma Haoneng, with production targeted to start by January 1, 2020; the agreement is not yet fully finalised.

Amada Holdings announced construction of Factory No. 2 at its Toki Plant in Toki City, Gifu Prefecture. The 16,900 m2 building will produce metal sheet bending machines and automated material handling equipment, doubling production capacity. Construction starts February 2019, completion August 2020.

HPI Resources subsidiary Harta Packaging Industries (Perak) launched its second plant, HP2, at the Parit Buntar industrial area, worth RM45 million. The plant doubles the group's northern production capacity to 66,000 tonnes annually.

Avingtrans subsidiary Hayward Tyler formally opened a new 3,250 m2 factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China, to manufacture performance-critical pumps and expand service. The announcement is dated 16 January 2019.

Construction of the new £50 million JCB Cab Systems factory in Uttoxeter is ahead of schedule, targeting a summer opening. The 350,000 sq ft plant will create the most advanced cab facility in the world with automated production line and robotic welding.

APAG Elektronik Corp. is receiving over $4 million from FedDev Ontario to establish a new 32,000-square-foot facility in Windsor, Ontario, serving as its North American headquarters, creating 138 jobs.

CMZ is building a new machining plant called Neoprec in Mallabia, Spain, to manufacture parts for its CNC lathes. The plant will feature 8 horizontal machining centres and high automation, with two centres already received and provisionally installed at Mecaninor.

Panca Budi Idaman (PBID) plans to start building a new plastics and packaging plant in Pemalang, Central Java in Q1 2019 on 12 hectares bought for about Rp40 billion, with completion targeted by year end.

Manitowoc hosted an open house at its new Potain tower crane factory in Pune, India. The factory began producing MCT 85 and MC 125 cranes in Q1 2018.

CorrChoice LLC plans a 350,000-square-foot corrugated packaging facility at 350 N. Lingle Ave. in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, backed by a $40 million investment. The project is expected to create 79 jobs and retain 97 jobs in Hazleton and Warminster.

Zoomlion's new tower crane smart factory, the world's largest, will begin operations on January 11, 2019. The 400-mu (approx. 26.7-hectare) first phase involved an investment of 780 million yuan.

Swiss packaging company Hoffmann Neopac AG is starting production at a new 37,000-square-foot US plant in North Carolina, with a high-speed tube line capable of 80 million units per year. The project received a $300,000 state grant.

MR Cartonnage Numerique opened a second production site of 2,800 square metres in Saint-Ouen-L'Aumone, north-west of Paris, on January 2, 2019. The EUR 2 million site is equipped with an HP Indigo 30000 digital printer and a UV varnishing line.

Canpack, a Krakow-based metal packaging group, started operations at an aluminium beverage can factory in Colombia during 2019, according to its annual review.

MAPAL Frhenosa, a joint venture of the MAPAL Group, opened a second branch in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, with a ceremony held at the end of January 2019. The site adds production capacity for tool reconditioning and is expected to create 100 jobs.

Westrock inaugurated a mega plant producing corrugated cardboard packaging in Porto Feliz, São Paulo state, Brazil.