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• Mining09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Polymetal Installs Its Record 1,100-Tonne Gold Autoclave at Amursk

  Amursk, Khabarovsk Krai, RussiaPolymetal International

  

  Starts 08/17/2020CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE6.1 years agoInternational Mining reported on 17 August 2020 that Polymetal's 1,100-tonne autoclave vessel had been installed on schedule at the Amursk POX-2 site.^[1]

  Belgian engineering firm Coek Engineering built the world's largest gold-processing autoclave, a 1,100-tonne titanium-lined pressure vessel, and shipped it 25,000 km from Antwerp to Polymetal's Amursk POX-2 plant in Russia's Far East. The vessel was installed on schedule in August 2020.

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• Semiconductors09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Bosch Opens €1 Billion Chip Fab in Dresden

  Dresden-Hellerau, Dresden, GermanyBosch

  

  Starts 06/07/2021CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.3 years agoBosch's own media release, "Bosch opens chip factory of the future in Dresden," states the fab was opened on 7 June 2021.^[1]

  Bosch opened its new 300mm wafer fab in Dresden, a roughly €1 billion, highly automated plant producing sensors and microchips for cars and consumer electronics.

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC's Dresden Fab (ESMC) Tops Out

  TSMC·…European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Ring, Hellerau/Wilschdorf, 01109 Dresden, Saxony, Germany

  Starts 09/14/2026 10:00AMCONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE9 days agoFocus Taiwan^[1]: "A topping out ceremony was held Monday at the site" (dateline Sept. 14, "The ceremony, held on Sept. 14"); dpa's preview gave the time: ESMC "feiert ... am Montag (12.00 Uhr) mit einem Richtfest den Abschluss des Rohbaus" - noon CEST, 10:00 UTC.

  Twenty-five months after its groundbreaking, ESMC - TSMC's joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP - celebrated the topping-out of its roughly EUR 10 billion chip fab in Dresden, TSMC's first in Europe. The shell is finished; cleanroom fit-out follows, with the first process tools due in the second half of 2027.

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC's Dresden Fab (ESMC) Starts Production

  TSMC·…European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Ring, Hellerau/Wilschdorf, 01109 Dresden, Saxony, Germany

  Starts 12/31/2027ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsTSMC's^[1][6] founding release gives a bound, not a day: "production targeted to begin by the end of 2027"; at the September 2026 topping-out the partners still said production starts in 2027 and Hardwareluxx^[3] reported tool installation "bis Ende 2027", after which the first chips follow - so 31 December 2027, estimated.

  ESMC, TSMC's EUR 10 billion joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP, is due to start production at its Dresden fab by the end of 2027 - Europe's first FinFET-capable foundry, making 28/22nm and 16/12nm chips mainly for cars and industry.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Cristóbal Colón Launches as the World's Largest Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger

  La Naval Shipyard, Sestao, SpainJan De Nul Group

  

  Starts 07/04/2008CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE18.2 years agoOffshore Energy^[3] and Dredging Today both report the Cristóbal Colón was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao on 4 July 2008.

  Jan De Nul's Cristóbal Colón, a 223-metre dredger with a 46,000 cubic metre hopper, was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain on 4 July 2008, becoming the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Austerlitz Basin Opens to Clean Up the Seine for the Olympics

  Gare d'Austerlitz, Paris 13e Arrondissement, Paris, FranceCity of Paris

  

  Starts 05/02/2024CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the basin was inaugurated on May 2, 2024."

  Paris inaugurated the Austerlitz basin, a giant underground stormwater tank built to stop sewage overflow into the Seine in time for Olympic swimming events.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  ExxonMobil Joins Hebron's Topsides to Its Gravity Base Structure at Bull Arm

  ExxonMobil·…Bull Arm, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

  12/13/2016 - 12/14/2016CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE9.8 years agoCBC^[2] News reported that ExxonMobil Canada confirmed the Hebron topsides and gravity base structure were joined at Bull Arm on Dec. 13-14, 2016.

  ExxonMobil Canada's Hebron project reached a major construction milestone when the platform's topsides were joined to its concrete gravity base structure at the Bull Arm fabrication site in Newfoundland. Italian heavy-lift specialist Fagioli had earlier installed the topsides' largest modules, including a 45,000-tonne utilities process module shipped from South Korea.

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• Property09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  The Race to Expand Monaco's Borders

  L'Anse du Portier, Larvotto, MonacoMareterra

  

  Starts 12/04/2024CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Mareterra^[2] was officially inaugurated by H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco and the princely family on December 4, 2024."

  Monaco inaugurated Mareterra, a $2 billion, six-hectare land reclamation district built into the Mediterranean to ease the tiny principality's chronic space crisis.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Damen Delivers Heavy-Lift Vessel Fairplayer to Jumbo Maritime

  Damen Shipyards Galați, Strada Alexandru Moruzzi 132, Galați, RomaniaJumbo Maritime

  

  Starts 01/01/2008ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE18.7 years agoVessel registries and marine trade press list Fairplayer's (IMO 9371579) build year as 2008 at Damen Shipyards Galați; no exact delivery day is published, so the date is estimated to the year.^[1]

  Fairplayer's twin 900-tonne cranes combine for an 1,800-tonne tandem lift, among the largest of any heavy-lift ship afloat. Built by Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania, she entered service with Dutch heavy-lift specialist Jumbo Maritime in 2008.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Wilhelm and Karl Maybach Found MTU Friedrichshafen

  MTUBissingen an der Enz, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

  Starts 03/23/1909CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE117.5 years agoWikipedia's^[3] MTU Friedrichshafen entry dates the company's founding by Wilhelm and Karl Maybach to 23 March 1909.

  Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl found Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH at Bissingen an der Enz, the airship-engine works that moved to Friedrichshafen in 1911-12 and grew into MTU, today the mega-diesel engine brand of Rolls-Royce Power Systems profiled in this documentary.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Porsche Opens Its Expanded Leipzig Plant for Macan Production

  Leipzig, GermanyPorsche

  

  Starts 02/11/2014CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE12.6 years agoAutomotive trade press dates the formal opening of the expanded Leipzig plant for Macan production to 11 February 2014.^[1]

  Porsche formally opened its expanded Leipzig factory, adding a body shop and paint shop so the plant could build the Macan compact SUV in-house rather than shipping bodies in from Germany's other Porsche site. The plant has been Porsche's most precise production line ever since.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Scheuerle Debuts the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter

  Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik, Pfedelbach, GermanyScheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik

  

  01/01/1983 - 12/31/1983ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE43.7 years agoTII Group’s^[3] own "an invention turns 40" retrospective names 1983 as the year Scheuerle developed and launched the SPMT, but gives no specific day.

  German heavy-vehicle maker Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik developed and launched the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT), the modular, multi-axle hauler that became the industry standard for moving exceptionally heavy loads. Its name is now used generically across the heavy-transport industry.

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