Siemens Canada celebrated the completion of a one-year expansion at its Drummondville, Quebec factory, adding over 40,000 sq ft of production space at an investment of about CAD 14 million, supported by a CAD 5.6 million Quebec government loan.

Yokogawa has been selected by the JGC Fluor joint venture JFJV2 as main automation contractor for the LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, British Columbia. The expansion will double capacity from 14 to 28 million metric tons per year.

ATS Corporation signed a definitive agreement to acquire Paxiom Group, a Montreal-headquartered maker of primary, secondary and end-of-line packaging machines with about 200 employees and roughly $67 million revenue in 2023.

Valstone Corporation acquired Matrix Industrial Control System, a food industry automation provider based in Brampton, Ontario, on September 21, 2023, entering the food and beverage sector.

Emerson expanded manufacturing capacity at its 63,000 sq ft Brantford, Ontario facility by adding production of AVENTICS pneumatic cylinders. The move shortens lead times for Canadian automation customers to one to five business days.

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions was awarded a contract by BHP for underground mining equipment and automation for the Jansen Potash project in Saskatchewan, Canada, worth about SEK 2 billion. Deliveries run from Q3 2023 to 2026, and production start is targeted for 2027.

Emmerson Packaging is investing approximately $3.5 million to build a connector between its Amherst main plant and its warehouse, adding self-driving forklifts for material movement, reported January 2021.

AFGlobal, a Houston oil and gas OEM, acquired Advanced Measurement Inc., a Calgary-based provider of automation, controls and data management systems, previously a subsidiary of Key Energy Services. The deal was announced July 6, 2017.

Rotork shipped fifteen IQ3 electric actuators from its Calgary facility to Suncor's Fort Hills oil sands mine in Alberta, with over 1,000 pneumatic actuators also supplied from Italy and South Korea.