Dalipal was awarded China National Petroleum Corporation's annual centralized procurement bid for oil country tubular goods, covering about 310,000 tonnes and approximately RMB 2.1 billion on 21 May 2021.

China's Dansun Packaging in Hefei has invested in a BOBST FFG 8.20 Discovery flexo folder-gluer, following an earlier 2017 purchase and a 2019 palletizer.

Ourgin announced a plan to invest about RMB 510 million in a two-piece can production project in Zaozhuang, Shandong, built in two phases. Phase one is expected to produce 800 million cans a year, and phase two adds another 800 million.

ENEXIO Cooling Systems (China), owned by MVM Group, signed a EUR 16 million contract with Inner Mongolia Electric Power Construction Group to supply Heller dry cooling for a new 2x1000MW coal-fired power plant in Inner Mongolia. The signing took place on 11 May 2021.

Svanehøj has recently signed a pump contract with China's Cosco Dalian Shipyard for two product and chemical tankers similar to the Guangzhou order. The exact signing date was not given.

Guangzhou Shipyard International selected Svanehøj to supply 96 deepwell pumps for four new 49,900 DWT product and chemical tankers being built for White Whale Shipping. It is Svanehøj's largest P&C tanker order since 2005.

Shougang Toyota Industrial Air Conditioning Compressor, invested in by Toyota Industries, produced its first electric compressor at the Yantai Development Zone plant on May 4, 2021, targeting over 1 million units a year.

Svanehøj won a contract from Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) to supply 96 deepwell P&C cargo pumps for four 49,900 DWT MR tankers being built for White Whale Shipping. It is the company's largest single P&C order since 2005.

Fangzheng Valve Group won a tender for low-temperature shut-off valves (6 inch and below, 300LB and below) for the Tangshan LNG project run by Offshore Oil Engineering. The winning bid was CNY 327,747.46 including VAT, announced on 23 April 2021.

Finnish packaging firm Huhtamaki agreed to acquire Jiangsu Hihio-Art Packaging, a Chinese maker of paper bags and folding cartons, for a debt-free price of €27 million. The target's plant is in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, and the deal is expected to close by the end of Q3 2021.

Construction is underway on Linuo's high-performance control valve production and R&D project in Ruian, Zhejiang, with total investment of 350 million yuan. Completion is expected in 2022 with annual output value of 1 billion yuan.

Hengsheng Packaging, a Xinsheng Group subsidiary, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Fosber Asia for a 2.5m Fosber Pro/Line corrugator. The deal is part of a planned packaging technology industrial park of nearly 1,000 acres in western China.

Weichai Power, through its Luxembourg subsidiary, acquired 49 per cent of Swiss firm Fischer Fuel Cell Compressor AG and set up a joint venture in China in which both will hold shares. The deal was announced on 25 March 2021.

Guangdong Hande Precision Machinery began construction on its Section 2 compressor industry park in Yuanzhou town, Boluo County, Huizhou, as part of a batch of 17 industrial projects. The reported investment for the project is about 1.2 billion RMB, and the event took place on 3 March 2021.

Nanxiong Jinye Packaging Materials won the 2021-2023 tender for shaped cigarette packaging bags from the Zhangjiajie branch of the Hunan Tobacco Company, at a winning bid of 433,500 yuan. The award notice is dated March 3, 2021.

Valmet agreed to supply a white cardboard line, a high-grade printing paper line and a BCTMP line to Liansheng Paper's new Zhangpu site in China, expected to start in Q3 2022, as announced on March 2, 2021.

JSC AEM-technology's Volgodonsk branch has started making key equipment for unit 3 of the Xudapu nuclear plant in Liaoning Province, China, under a contract to supply two VVER-1200 reactors, steam generators, a reactor coolant pump set, piping and pressurizers totaling about 6,000 tons.

Shanghai Valve Factory received special financial support from the Shanghai municipal and Baoshan district governments after passing a Shanghai Science and Technology Little Giant project review. The fund amount was not disclosed in the article.

Jiangxi Datong Refrigeration Equipment plans a compressor project in Jiujiang Economic and Technological Development Zone with a total investment of 160 million yuan, producing 2 million units per year on two production lines in about 13,000 square metres of leased space.

Toshiba Hydro Power (Hangzhou) won an order from State Grid Xin Yuan to supply four 350MW pumped-storage hydroelectric generator units and balance-of-plant systems for the Ning Hai plant in Zhejiang, China. The deal is worth between 10 and 20 billion yen, with delivery starting in March 2022.

Anshan Yongan Packaging Industry's second corrugated and containerboard papermaking line, begun in April 2020, went into production on January 28, 2021, bringing the company's papermaking capacity to 300,000 tons per year.

Burckhardt Compression signed the contract to acquire the remaining 40% stake in Shenyang Yuanda Compressor, a China-based compressor maker with about 650 employees, on January 25, 2021. Closing was expected within two weeks, and the purchase price was not disclosed.

Fushite Hydraulic broke ground on Jan 21, 2021 on a 2.2 billion yuan project in the Shangrao Economic Development Zone to produce 50 million hydraulic parts a year and create over 500 jobs.

Renqiu Liyang Compressor Manufacturing has received government filing and land approval for a new CNY 200 million plant on 52.7 mu in Renqiu Economic Development Zone, Cangzhou, Hebei. The plant is designed to produce 30,000 compressors a year.

Germany's Wilo Group signed an agreement with Changzhou high-tech zone officials to build a plant with a total investment of 100 million US dollars for R&D, manufacturing and distribution. The plant is expected to produce over 1 billion yuan in annual sales.

Offshore Oil Engineering (Haiyou Gongcheng) awarded Suzhou Newway Valve a contract worth CNY 5,361,897 to supply low-temperature ball valves for the Tianjin LNG phase II receiving terminal, per the tender result published 10 December 2020.

Wärtsilä won a contract to supply Wärtsilä 46F main engines and an electric hybrid package for two ferries being built by China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Weihai) for Finnlines. Delivery to the yard is scheduled from spring 2022.

Nanfeng Co. was named winning bidder for supply of nuclear island relief, control, check and electric heating valves for Tianwan Nuclear Power Station units 7 and 8. The contract is worth 58.7 million yuan and was disclosed on December 1, 2020.

Guangzhou Wanbao Compressor held a groundbreaking for a refrigerator compressor factory in Conghua district, Guangzhou, with about 1 billion yuan invested and capacity of 21 million units per year. Production is scheduled to start in October 2021.

Shengxing Shares plans to buy 100% of Pacific Can (Shenyang) from Pacific Can (Fuzhou) for 171 million yuan in internal funds to expand its two-piece can business in northeast China; the related agreement was signed on 30 November 2020.

Camfil Group is building a new state-of-the-art facility in Taicang city, Jiangsu province, China, as part of expanding its global operations.

FELUWA Pumpen signed a procurement agreement with China Energy Investment Corporation at the Third China International Expo 2020. The deal was facilitated by its Chinese partner Encore Engineering.

ANDRITZ received an order from Zouping Hongfa Aluminium, part of Weiqiao Aluminum Group, for one melting and holding furnace cell at its Shandong Province plant. Start-up is scheduled for the first quarter of 2022.

Linde and the Dalian Bingshan Group signed an agreement to establish a joint venture manufacturing hydrogen refueling stations in Dalian, Liaoning, starting in 2021, tripling Linde's production capacity for these stations.

Shanghai Ritai Valve Group was shortlisted for the RH project of Baosteel Desheng, with a winning package covering valve station systems and valve products. Production will follow the client's schedule.

Sulzer manufactured twelve pumps from three designs at its plant in China for the first time for a complex refinery project, supported by collaboration across Asia, Europe and the USA.

Chevron Lummus Global was awarded a contract by PetroChina to supply its ISOMIX-e reactor internals for two RDS units in Liaoning Province, China, announced on 30 October 2020.

OPW, a Dover company, acquired the ISO Liquid Tank Container product line from Girard Equipment of Vero Beach, Florida. OPW will manufacture the line at its Lianyungang facility in China.

Nine Dragons Paper said it plans to add 1.2 million tonnes of packaging paper capacity at its Hubei base by end-2022, alongside a 600,000-tonne wood pulp expansion in Shenyang. The plans were disclosed with its annual results reported on 2020-10-10.

Zhenhong bought a 30,000 square metre permanent manufacturing base in the Wenzhou Airport Industrial Zone for CNY125 million (about USD20 million). It plans to move there by May 2022 and consolidate its existing plants.

Slac signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Orient Group to supply and retrofit two-piece can production equipment over the next three years, worth about RMB 300 million in total. The agreement was announced on 25 September 2020.

Stora Enso is investing in additional formed fiber production capacity at its Qian'an Mill in China, with the two mills together expected to reach about 115 million units of annual capacity.

Thermo Fisher Scientific opened a Suzhou branch of its China Innovation Center, with an office and R&D environment of about 800 square metres including sample preparation, chemical analysis and air testing laboratories.

Thermo Fisher Scientific expanded its China Manufacturing Center in Suzhou with an investment of over $10 million, adding more than 13,000 square metres and opening its first Asia-Pacific production base for single-use bioprocess container products. The expansion will also add local production of air quality monitoring instruments.

Baosteel Packaging will build a new aluminum easy open can production line in Huaiyuan Industrial Park, Bengbu, Anhui. The first phase has an annual design capacity of 1.1 billion cans and an estimated total investment of RMB 440 million.

Shijiazhuang Guanling Packaging has opened a plant about 150km southwest of Beijing to make cans for infant formula. The line will eventually produce 75 million cans a year, with RMB 510 million in plant cost.

Zhejiang Jiemi Seal Technology moved into a new factory to meet growing demand, with workshops totalling about 1,500 square metres for precision, PTFE, water-jacket and assembly production.

A newly commissioned Shenyang plant of Burckhardt Compression's Chinese unit, with 86,000 m2 of production area on 153,000 m2 of land, replaces two older city-centre sites. Operations are set to begin at the end of September 2020.

Burckhardt Compression signed a memorandum of understanding to buy the remaining 40% of Chinese compressor maker Shenyang Yuanda Compressor, which it has partly owned since 2016. It plans to exercise the call option in November 2020 and finance the deal with a Swiss bond.

Marelli and Highly International signed an agreement to create Highly Marelli Holdings, a joint venture focused on electrified compressors and HVAC, with legal closing planned for early January 2021.