Alfa Laval won an order worth about SEK 70 million to supply Framo marine pumping systems for an FPSO vessel being built in China. The order was booked in late September 2018 with deliveries scheduled for 2019.

Edelmann Group acquired 100% of Elanders Beijing Printing Co., Ltd from Elanders AB, adding a folding carton and rigid box site in Beijing that expands its network to 21 sites.

Japanese compressor maker Anest Iwata has acquired a 51% stake in Shanghai Screw Compressor, known as SCR Comp, to fund new products such as high-speed turbo machines and quality control improvements.

TBEA won China Southern Power Grid orders worth about 1.75 billion yuan for DC main equipment for the Kunliulong UHV multi-terminal HVDC project, including 1.065 billion yuan to its Shenyang transformer unit and 689 million yuan to its Xinjiang unit.

Zhongyan Anhui Hongsifang Co. announced the result of a tender for safety valves protecting imported compressors, with Beijing Aerospace Petrochemical Technology Equipment Engineering as the final supplier.

ContiTech opened a RMB70 million (about €10 million) plant in Changshu, China, producing 3D blow-moulded thermoplastic elastomer hoses for turbochargers used by automotive OEMs. The plant is Continental's fourth site with this technology and was set to start mass production in Q3 2018.

Bucher Hydraulics acquired an 80% majority stake in Wuxi Deli Fluid Technology, a Chinese maker of hydraulic pumps and compact power units, to form a joint venture in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, subject to Chinese approval. Wuxi Deli generated about US$40.45 million in revenue in 2017.

Rotork received major contracts to supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators and gearboxes to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery for its new refinery and petrochemicals complex at Changxing Island, Dalian. The latest order includes approximately 2000 explosionproof electric actuators.

Anhui Guoding Packaging Co. was named first candidate in a public tender for 40 tonnes of PE heat-shrink film for the Guigang branch of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region tobacco company, with a bid of CNY 619,600. The candidate publicity period runs from August 21 to 23, 2018.

Master Fluid Solutions announced a new metalworking fluids blending plant in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, China, its largest investment globally, which will double its China capacity and is expected to be fully commissioned by the end of 2020.

Shanggao Valve Group held a groundbreaking ceremony on August 12 for its Haining base, a 12,000-tonne-per-year control valve EPC project in the Shanghai Caohejing development zone, to be built over three years.

Xi'an Pump & Valve Plant completed and delivered a large-diameter high-pressure valve to Shandong Union Chemical, with a largest caliber of DN800. The delivery was reported on August 9, 2018.

KUKA received an order to supply about 430 industrial robots to GAC NE, a subsidiary of GAC Group, for a new electric car production facility in Guangzhou. The order value is in the high double-digit million euro range and was booked in Q2 2018.

Rotork received major contracts to supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators and gearboxes, including about 2,000 explosionproof units, to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery for its Changxing Island complex in Dalian.

Volter (Guangzhou) Fluid Equipment Co. has approved plans to set up an injection molding workshop at its Guangzhou industrial park, adding three injection machines. Preparation is planned to take 90 days.

Ruizhi (Qingdao) Precision Electromechanical broke ground in Qingdao's West Coast New Area on a project adding 3 million compressors of capacity, with a total investment of RMB 387 million and about 41,000 square metres of new plant. Output is expected to rise from 9.36 million to 12 million units.

Rotork received major contracts to supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators and gearboxes to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery for its new refinery and petrochemicals complex at Changxing Island in Dalian, China. The latest order includes about 2,000 explosionproof electric actuators.

Danfoss inaugurated its flagship district heating facility in Anshan, Liaoning Province, China, with an investment of 170 million RMB. The plant produces control valves, stations and heat exchangers and expands the Anshan campus fivefold.

Rotork received major contracts to supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators and gearboxes for the new Hengli Petrochemical refinery and petrochemicals complex on Changxing Island in Dalian. The order includes about 2,000 explosion proof electric actuators.

Bucher Hydraulics agreed to acquire an 80% stake in Wuxi Deli Fluid Technology, a Chinese hydraulic pump and compact power unit maker, forming a joint venture in Wuxi, Jiangsu. The deal is subject to Chinese government approval.

OMRON announced it will build the second factory of OMRON (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai to expand control equipment and industrial robot capacity, doubling its China production capacity by fiscal 2020. Total investment is JPY1.0 billion.

Dongfeng Parts and Components Group and Fawer Automotive Parts agreed on 31 May 2018 in Wuhan to set up Dongfeng Fawer Pump Industry, a joint venture in Shiyan New Industrial Park, Hubei, to make pumps for commercial, passenger and electric vehicles. The venture targets RMB 260 million revenue by 2023.

CNOOC awarded TechnipFMC a subsea contract covering engineering, procurement and construction of 26 enhanced horizontal christmas trees and related subsea systems for the Liuhua 16-2, 20-2 and 21-2 project. The article is dated May 31, 2018.

Ingersoll Rand agreed to acquire Shanghai Hanye, an OEM supplier of air treatment products in China, as part of three acquisitions totaling about $35 million in cash.

Liebherr-Transportation Systems won an order from Wuhan CRRC to supply air conditioning systems for 31 trains on the Wuhan Metro, comprising 372 air-conditioning units and 62 driver cab ventilation units. The order was announced on 25 May 2018.

New Island Printing (Liaoning) agreed to acquire Yi Hua Green Packaging Printing from Huajun Enterprise (Yingkou) for CNY 30 million ($4.7 million), making it an indirect subsidiary of Huajun Holdings.

MOGAS Industries received four orders from Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Company to supply more than 300 severe service isolation valves for a hydrocracking unit in Ningbo, China.

Harbin Electric's valve company won the bid to supply domestically produced molten-salt safety valves and other pipeline valves for the Delingha concentrated solar power station in Qinghai. The award was announced on 2018-05-21.

German safety valve maker Leser established a production and sales facility in Tianjin, China, at a cost of €6 million. The investment was made in the year before the article.

Valvoline plans to build its first plant in China, a 80,000-square-meter blending and packaging facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, with about $70 million investment. Production is expected to begin by the end of 2020 with capacity above 30 million gallons of lubricants annually.

Miba plans to build two new plants in China over the next four years, investing EUR 100 million. The company also reported record fiscal 2017-2018 revenue of EUR 888 million and plans for more than 2,000 additional jobs worldwide.

Tianjin Aida Automatic Transmission, a joint venture of Aisin AW and FAW Group, is adding a finished-product line for front-wheel-drive 6-speed automatic transmissions in Tianjin Development Zone, China. Shareholders added USD 31 million of capital, with production capacity of 300,000 units a year planned for April 2019.

Jebsen-TCG Automotive Systems (Dalian) opened a 5,000 square metre plant in Dalian with an investment of RMB 30 million, raising oil and water pump capacity to 4 million units a year and adding electric water pumps.

Zhejiang Huizheng Automatic Control Valve signed a project with a total investment of 120 million yuan to build an automatic control valve production line in the Chengxi port area of the development zone, targeting 50,000 sets a year. The signing took place on 13 April 2018.

Lixin Valve Group was named first candidate in the valve procurement tender for the ethylene and dichloroethane pipeline project of Cangzhou Julong Chemical, with a bid of 690,395 yuan. The public notice was published on April 12, 2018.

Danfoss opened a new Industrial Automation assembly line in Wuqing, China, to produce pressure sensors for global customers. The line is capable of up to one million sensors by 2020 and two million by 2022.

Suzhou Neway Valve Co. started a forging project with a total investment of 1 billion yuan in the Green Casting Technology Industrial Park in Zhuchi Town, Liyang. The first phase targets an annual capacity of 50,000 tons.

Miba Power Electronics Group will invest around EUR 10 million in a new high-power resistor production plant in Qingxi near Shenzhen, China. The plant is to employ about 300 people and begin operations in mid-2019.

Austrian technology group Miba plans to invest around EUR 100 million in China over the next four years. Two new plants are being built in Suzhou near Shanghai and Qingxi near Shenzhen.

Hengan subsidiary Hengan Mega Jumbo Investments plans to acquire a 100% stake in Sunway Kordis Holding from Starmix for CNY 145 million ($23.05 million).

Jiaxing Fengwo Turbo Technology began construction on a turbocharger plant in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, with a total investment of about 1.05 billion yuan. The plant will make 1.5 million gasoline engine turbochargers per year and is scheduled for a 10-month build.

Piller China received an order for 20MVA of Piller UNIBLOCK diesel rotary UPS systems to protect the Global Foundries and Chengdu Municipality FD-SOI semiconductor ecosystem in Chengdu, China.

BorgWarner Emissions Systems (Ningbo) opened a new 50,000 square meter design and manufacturing facility in Jiangshan, Yinzhou District, Ningbo, to make EGR systems, ignition coils and thermal heaters for automotive customers in China. The plant replaces the older Ningbo emissions facility.

Hengli Hydraulic announced plans to invest 500 million yuan of its own funds in phase two of its casting project in Wujin, Changzhou, to add 30,000 tons per year of hydraulic castings capacity, with a one-year build period.

Kaji Technology Corporation received an order for three additional reciprocating compressors from China Petrochemical Corporation (SINOPEC) for a refinery and petrochemical complex in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, built by a SINOPEC and KPC joint venture. The compressors will serve a 750,000 tons/year polypropylene plant.

Hengli Hydraulic announced plans to invest 500 million yuan of its own funds in phase two of its hydraulic casting project in Wujin, Changzhou, adding 30,000 tonnes a year of capacity. The announcement was made on 28 February 2018 and the build takes one year.

Nanjing Ziquan, a Chinese co-packer, installed a second complete hot fill PET bottling line from Sidel to boost Mizone production at its Nanjing plant. The line runs at 36,000 bottles per hour and was reported on 28 February 2018.

Jiangsu Hailong Nuclear Technology won the second section of the Taishan Nuclear Power Phase I unit 2 nuclear island mechanical sealing materials supply project on February 12, 2018, and signed the contract with Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture.

Punch Powertrain inaugurated a 100,000 m² factory in Ningbo, China, completed in January 2018 after eight months of construction, to produce its VT3 CVT. It is the company's second plant in China.

TMC Compressors won a contract from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding to supply a marine compressed air system, including four 400 kW service air compressors, for a newbuild FPSO being built for SBM Offshore. The contract value was not disclosed. The article is dated January 28, 2018.