BQE Water was awarded a two-phase contract to design, build, commission and operate a SART plant at Shandong Zhongkuang's gold metallurgical facility in eastern China. The first phase is due within 12 months, followed by five years of operations support paid by quarterly fees.

Burckhardt Compression says a new Shenyang Yuanda Compressor plant in Shenyang, China, will be operational in fall 2020, consolidating two existing plants at a larger site after the old site was converted to residential use.

Hanon Systems formally opened Chongqing Hanon Jianshe Automotive Thermal Systems, a 38,000 square meter joint venture plant in Banan district, Chongqing. It will initially supply variable swashplate compressors and heat pump systems to Changan Automobile.

Toyota Industries Denso Air Conditioning Compressor (Kunshan) is investing 130 million yuan to expand its Kunshan, Jiangsu plant, adding automotive AC compressor and die-cast aluminum parts capacity, with production expected in July 2019.

COFCO Packaging's subsidiary agreed to buy a 23% stake in Wuxi Huapeng Bottle Cap from Crown Asia Pacific for RMB 53.3987 million, raising its holding to about 84.48%.

Sichuan Flying Ball Group has broken ground on its valve manufacturing center in Zigong's Banchang industrial park, covering over 60 mu, with first-phase investment of 240 million yuan, aiming to become China's largest ball valve base.

PEER Bearing relocated its tapered roller bearing production from Changshan, China into a new 145,000 sqm facility built by parent SKF, with a total investment of SEK 200 million.

Zhejiang Doyin Pump Industry agreed in April 2019 to acquire Shandong Luoxin Pharmaceutical through a reverse merger valued at CNY 7.5 billion. The deal was reported as completed at the end of 2019.

Shanghai Jindu Investment signed an investment agreement with Jiaxing Development Zone for Nidec Kaipu's BTS project, a China production base and Asia-Pacific R&D centre for automotive electric pumps on a 60-mu site. The total investment is $105 million, with projected annual sales of at least RMB 1.2 billion by 2025.

California-based Sprizzi Drink Co plans to invest $100 million in a beverage machine manufacturing project in the Rugao Economic and Technological Development Zone, Jiangsu. The launch ceremony was held on April 8, 2019, and the first phase costs $30 million.

Brembo opened a new aluminum brake caliper and steering knuckle production base in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, on 3 April 2019 with an investment of EUR 100 million, a planned capacity of 2 million pieces per year and about 450 employees.

Standard Profil Group opened a new plant in Jingzhou, China, with a EUR 6 million investment, producing two million sealing profiles per year for automakers. The company plans to hire 300 staff by the end of the year.

Firmenich opened its largest flavor manufacturing plant in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone, Jiangsu, on March 20, 2019. The first phase cost $75 million and has an annual capacity of 12,000 metric tons.

Gerresheimer will manufacture its Duma and Triveni plastic pharmaceutical containers at a new plant in Changzhou, China, with production starting in the second half of 2019.

Yantai Dunhan Bush Compressor Co. has invited tenders for construction of its intelligent compressor factory in Yantai, Shandong, with planned investment of about 100 million yuan and a 14-month schedule.

Zhengmao Valve Co. has completed and commissioned its new 15,000 sq m factory in the Tangtou industrial zone of Oubei town, Wenzhou, a 50 million yuan investment for a special industrial valve production line.

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.

Fluor Corporation won the engineering, procurement and construction management contract for Valvoline's new blending and packaging facility in Zhangjiagang, China, its first plant in China. The contract value was undisclosed, and the plant will produce over 30 million gallons of lubricants and coolants a year.

Fives has been selected by a major Chinese air separation equipment maker to supply nine Cryomec LABS cryogenic pumps, including engineering, manufacture and on-site installation, for projects in Fujian and Inner Mongolia.

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.

China Resources Wufeng (China) Investment published a shortlist for its 2019 Shenzhen carton procurement tender, ranking Shenzhen Houdewei Packaging Products first and Shenzhen Hongfenghao Paper second. The public notice ran from 2019-01-30 to 2019-02-02.

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.

South Korean turbo blower maker Turbomax signed an agreement on January 15, 2019 with Gangzha Economic Development Area in Nantong to build an energy-saving and eco-friendly equipment project with an investment of 195 million yuan on a 1.4-hectare site, targeting 500 million yuan in taxable sales within five years of production.

COFCO Packaging signed a packaging supply agreement with Chinese herbal tea maker Jia Duo Bao (JDB) under which COFCO will produce 70% of the metal cans JDB needs in 2019. The deal was signed in Beijing and reported on 15 January 2019.

The China buyout fund CITIC Capital Partners acquired a 33% stake in China Merchants Loscam, a pallet and returnable packaging pooling provider, from Sinotrans. Sinotrans retains a 45% stake. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Key valves for large-diameter natural gas pressure regulating devices and compressor anti-surge valves passed a national new product appraisal in Tianjin, filling a domestic gap for pipeline projects in China and Russia.

Fluid Control (Suzhou) Co. announced commissioning dates for a new valve accessory production project in Suzhou Industrial Park, with total investment of 103.3 million CNY and annual output of 76,400 sets of valve actuators.

Munters received three orders from an unnamed leading Chinese vehicle and electronics company for low-humidity climate solutions for lithium battery production, with a total value of about SEK 120 million. Delivery is expected in the first half of 2019.

Ball Corporation agreed to sell its metal beverage packaging facilities in Beijing, Foshan, Hubei and Qingdao, China, to ORG Technology for about $225 million, plus potential relocation-related consideration. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2019.

Baker Hughes Valves will supply Masoneilan control and Consolidated safety relief valves to Hengli Petrochemical for its new 400,000 bpd refinery outside Dalian in Liaoning Province, China.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation's Qinhuangdao 32-6 operating company awarded a tender for spare parts for QHD32-6 oilfield air compressors, including temperature control valves and capacity control valves, to Tianjin Kaifa Anneng Petroleum Technology Development Service. The result was published December 7, 2018.

ANDRITZ received an order from Shaanxi ZhenAn Pumped Storage, a subsidiary of State Grid Corporation of China, to supply four 350-MW reversible pump-turbines and motor-generators for the ZhenAn plant in Shaanxi. The contract value is more than 100 million euros, with commissioning by end-2023.

Subsidiaries of Suzhou Hycan Holdings won five-year contracts to supply plastic lubricant bottles to ExxonMobil's lube blending plants in Taicang, Jiangsu and Tianjin, China.

Wuxi Xianyou Packaging Materials won the tender for aluminium foil boxes for Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport Lufthansa Catering, as announced on the airport's website on 30 November 2018.

Chinese brewer Great Leap Brewing agreed to collaborate with British PET packaging provider Petainer on producing petainerKeg kegs next year at a new blow-moulding facility in Tianjin.

Zhejiang Petrochemical (ZPC) in Zhoushan signed a memorandum of understanding with Honeywell at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai to jointly build a smart connected plant, a project worth about $80 million in contract value.

GEA launched a new flow components production facility in Suzhou, China in late 2018, with 12,000 square meters of production space and 1,320 square meters of office space. It moved valve and pump machining and assembly from Shanghai in November 2018.

CNOOC has contracted Aker Solutions to provide the subsea production system and umbilicals for the Lingshui 17-2 gas field in the South China Sea, valued at more than NOK 1.7 billion ($205 million).

Hunan Xiaoaisi Fluid Control Equipment broke ground on October 28, 2018 on a 120 million yuan valve production project in Yueyang's Chenglingji new port area, covering 28 mu of land and 20,000 square meters of buildings.

Metso decided to invest about EUR 10 million in a new green-field valve technology center in Jiaxing, China, expected to start operations in spring 2020.

Edwards, part of Atlas Copco, opened phase two of its Qingdao, Shandong manufacturing plant on October 23, 2018, with a $65 million expansion focused on semiconductor vacuum pumps.

Aker Solutions received an order worth over NOK 1.7 billion from CNOOC to supply the subsea production system and umbilicals for the Lingshui 17-2 gas field in the South China Sea.

CSSC-MES Diesel placed the first order for MAN's ETB40 EGR blowers, to be installed on vessels built with several MAN B&W 7G60ME-C9.5 two-stroke main engines.

MAN Energy Solutions launched its ETB40 electrical turbo blower for exhaust gas recirculation at a ceremony in Shanghai, hosted by its two-stroke licensee CSSC-MES Diesel. The blower supports IMO Tier III compliance.

TMC Compressors will supply a compressed air system with two 235 kW instrument air compressors and an adsorption air dryer for the Liuhua FPSO, built at Qingdao Beihai's yard in China. The contract value is undisclosed.

thyssenkrupp commissioned the world's first commercial plant using its PLAneo technology to make polylactide bioplastic in Changchun, China. The plant is operated by Jilin COFCO Biomaterial, a COFCO subsidiary, and started production in October 2018.

Anhui Tunxi High Pressure Valve Co. received approval for its adjusted plan to produce 200,000 industrial forged steel valves per year, which involves expanding its production plant, adding a valve cover line and a smart warehouse. The project has entered formal implementation.

Chengdu Chenggao Valve Co., part of Chengdu Chengfeng Fluid Technology Group, won a bid for 56-inch ball valves and matching electric actuators for the China-Russia natural gas pipeline project, worth a total of 14.75 million yuan.

Sanming Jingming Paper was the top-ranked bidder for a tender by Guangxi Yiling Tobacco Redrying for 18,000 sets of cigarette packaging cartons, at a bid value of CNY 2,253,600.

Suzhou Dosen Drilling & Production Equipment won the tender for shutoff and blowdown valves for the Lüda 16-3 natural gas compressor project, tendered by Offshore Oil Engineering. The winning bid was RMB 1,576,008 delivered on site after taxes.