AXIA Energia awarded ANDRITZ a contract to replace automation, protection and control systems at the 2082MW Itumbiara hydropower plant. The order is valued in the lower double-digit million-euro range and was included in Q4 2025 order intake.

ABB was awarded an order by Seatrium to supply electrical equipment and automation for two new FPSO vessels, P-84 and P-85, for Petrobras in Brazil's Atapu and Sépia fields.

Prysmian Group was awarded a contract by the Libra consortium led by Petrobras for about 60 km of steel tube umbilicals for the Mero 1 offshore oilfield in the Santos basin. The umbilicals will be manufactured at Prysmian's Vila Velha unit.

Prysmian plans to complete by early 2024 the adaptation of its Vila Velha umbilical plant to meet Petrobras demand, at a budgeted investment of R$50 million.

Prysmian signed a contract worth R$530 million (about EUR 100 million) with Petrobras to manufacture electro-hydraulic umbilicals, produced end-to-end at its Vila Velha plant with deliveries from 2024 to 2027.

Hitachi Energy won an order from Taesa, one of Brazil's largest private transmission groups, to upgrade the control and protection system of the Garabi HVDC converter station in Brazil. The upgrade uses its MACH technology.

Prysmian Group was awarded a contract by Petrobras to supply 350 km of deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals with steel tube and thermoplastic technology, plus offshore services. The contract is worth about 92 million euros and deliveries run from 2022 to 2025 from Prysmian's Vila Velha centre.

WEG announced it will invest R$660 million over three years to build a new factory for industrial and electric mobility motors and expand existing plants in Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, completing the new plant by Q1 2024.

Saipem selected GE Power Conversion to develop the Electrical Module for Petrobras' P-79 FPSO for the Buzios field off Brazil. The module will be fabricated in Asia, delivered in 2023 and the FPSO is scheduled to start operations in 2025.

Prysmian Group was awarded a contract by Petrobras to supply 350 km of deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals, worth about EUR 92 million. Production and delivery will run from 2022 to 2025 at its Vila Velha center in Brazil.

Companhia Hidrelétrica do São Francisco awarded Andritz Hydro a contract worth more than €40 million for the complete modernization and digitalization of the 1050 MW Sobradinho plant in Bahia. The project is expected to be completed in 2025.

ANDRITZ signed a contract with CHESF worth more than 40 million euros to fully modernise and digitalise the Sobradinho hydropower plant on the Sao Francisco river in Bahia, Brazil, with completion expected in 2025.

Novus began full operations at its new plant in the Parque Canoas de Inovação, moving 100% of its Porto Alegre operation there. The first-stage investment is R$20 million, and the factory is about three times larger than the previous one.

NOVUS began operations at a new 5,000+ square meter headquarters and factory in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, on October 1, 2018. The R$20 million investment added machinery and is expected to raise factory capacity by 30%.

ABB inaugurated an extension of its Sorocaba factory in São Paulo state, with an investment of R$20 million, to produce electrical distribution, smart grid and digital industrial energy solutions for Brazil and South America.