Hubei Xiangdewo Valve Co. is carrying out a renovation and expansion project in Laohekou, Xiangyang, Hubei, to produce 150,000 electric and pneumatic valves a year, with an investment of 96.59 million yuan. The project was listed on 13 December 2023 with a construction period from Q4 2023 to Q4 2024.

Hunan Pump & Valve Manufacturing won the tender to supply multifunctional pump control valves for the circulating water system of phase one of the Jingyuan Coal and Electricity clean gasification project in Gansu, for a bid price of 1.288 million yuan with 55-day delivery.

ACI-Somagep, part of Parlym Group, acquired Jiangsu Colves Fluid Control, an industrial valve maker in Nantong, China, and its Italian distributor Colves Fluid Control to secure valve manufacturing quality.

ACI-Somagep, part of Parlym Group, acquired Jiangsu Colves Fluid Control, an industrial valve manufacturer in Nantong, China, and its Italian distributor Colves Fluid Control. The deal strengthens ACI-Somagep's supply chain and gives it a manufacturing base in Asia.

Duoning Biotechnology signed an agreement to acquire Changzhou PreFluid Technology, a Chinese peristaltic pump manufacturer with a 10,000 sq m factory in Changzhou. PreFluid's pumps serve medical, pharmaceutical, chemical and environmental industries.

ZXD Valve Control launched a new fully automated actuator assembly line at its headquarters in Wenzhou's Binhai zone, lifting annual pneumatic actuator capacity by 40%. The 1,200 square meter facility was inaugurated on October 26, 2023 in a multi-million-dollar investment.

Hangzhou Feixeer Technology won a tender worth RMB 4,858,000 to supply pneumatic control valves and related services for plant buildings and a wastewater tank farm of Liaoning Youchuang Plant Protection's project in Huludao.

Exe (Qidong) Fluid Technology received land and began construction on a 500 million yuan project in Qidong's high-tech zone to produce 200,000 intelligent control valves per year.

Aci-Somagep, a subsidiary of French group Parlym, acquired 100% of Colves Fluid Control and its China-based subsidiary Jiangsu Colves Fluid Control from Trouvay & Cauvin Holding Group. The deal covers industrial valves and integrated systems for oil and gas, petrochemical and water treatment uses.

Shanghai Yuxuan Pump & Valve won the valve section of the coal-to-olefins upgrade demonstration project of Guoneng Baotou Coal Chemical in Inner Mongolia, supplying ball, globe, gate, safety and control valves with a 30-day production cycle. The project raises methanol capacity from 1.8 to 3.8 million tonnes per year and methanol-to-olefins capacity from 0.6 to 1.3 million tonnes per year.

Hangzhou Jinshan Instrument Valve began construction of its second-phase project in the Fuchun Bay New City of Hangzhou, planned at CNY 120 million total investment. It will produce about 10,000 sets of special-condition control valves per year, with completion expected by end of next year.

Taiwei'er Valve's valve and control valve production line expansion in Zigong's high-tech industrial park began trial production in July 2023, with full operation planned for October 2023. The CNY 80 million project adds capacity of 154,000 units per year.

Qinhuangdao Zhongqing Metallurgical Valve Co. is finishing its Zhongqing industrial park in Lulong county, with a total investment of RMB 455 million, capacity of 40,000 tons of valves a year and expected output value of RMB 1 billion. Offices are due to be finished in late September and production lines in October 2023.

Shanghai Frethy Valve Co. completed land registration for a project in Anren Town, Longquan, to build a 10,000-ton valve casting and 500,000-unit smart control device production line, with a total investment of RMB 121 million. The project is due to start construction within the year and reach full capacity in 2025.

Neway Valve's 96-inch pneumatic high-temperature triple offset butterfly valve, rated to 816°C, passed owner acceptance for a domestic customer's propane dehydrogenation project. The article date is 4 August 2023; the valve's delivery date is not given.

Anhui Dazhong Valve Group held a groundbreaking ceremony on 3 August 2023 for a smart pipeline valve production project in Anhui, China. The total investment is CNY 180 million, with capacity of 4,500 tonnes of pipeline valves per year.

BODENFLO has moved its micro diaphragm pump and mini compressor factory to a new industrial park location in Baoan District, Shenzhen, China. The company says the move expanded its production space and did not disrupt orders.

Nantong High-Pressure Valve Co. won tender sections for 72-inch oversized valves for the first phase of Shandong Yulong Petrochemical's refining and chemical integration project on Yulong Island. The win was secured on 12 July 2023 and was reported in July 2023.

KM Hydraulic announced a Phase II factory of about 16,000 square meters in the expansion area of its existing plant, with an expected annual output value of 300 million yuan. It will produce load-sensitive proportional multi-way valves and is expected to start operating in 2024.

Zhejiang Haihong Hydraulic Technology, a hydraulic valve maker and supplier to XCMG, Anchai and Hangcha, filed a prospectus for a ChiNext IPO to raise CNY 600 million, of which CNY 550 million is for capacity expansion.

Zhejiang Tehong Fluid Control, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tehong Valve, signed to locate a high-performance smart control valve and intelligent components production base in Wenzhou Hai Jing district, with total investment of RMB 242 million and annual output expected above RMB 300 million.

Xifulong Valve Group won a tender for 48 ball valve actuators (DN50-DN600) for the pipeline transport company of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group, with a winning bid of 6,674,126 yuan, awarded June 20, 2023.

Anhui Tenglong Pump & Valve Manufacturing began construction of a new plant in Jing County, Anhui, to produce 10,000 ultra-pure pumps and pipes and 20,000 injection pumps per year. The project has a total investment of 120 million yuan and is expected to employ over 200 people.

NETZSCH (Lanzhou) Pump Co. held a groundbreaking on June 5, 2023 for a relocated, expanded pump plant on a 139-mu site in Lanzhou High-tech Zone, with total investment of 300 million yuan and annual capacity of 50,000 pumps. Phase one is due for completion at the end of 2024 with production in 2025.

Sichuan Binda Valve won the valve procurement contract for Hubei Energy's 2x1000MW supercritical coal-fired EPC project in Yicheng, Xiangyang, and supplied desuperheating-reducer valve units that supported the project's commissioning. The report is dated June 2023.

Chongqing Water Pump Factory invited bids for project management and supervision of its large reciprocating diaphragm pump expansion in Shapingba, Chongqing. The total project investment is about CNY 76.8 million, including about CNY 41.7 million for new equipment.

Sinopec International Co. issued a public tender for a 2023 framework agreement covering domestic reciprocating compressor valves for Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical, with a bid deadline of May 16, 2023. The item quantity listed is 100 units of reciprocating compressor parts. The notice is a first change to the original tender.

Silgan Dispensing announced the expansion of production of its MELODIE fragrance pump to its existing Wuxi facility in China to meet rising demand in the Chinese and Asia-Pacific markets. The announcement is dated May 8, 2023.

Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Co. issued a public tender on 23 April 2023 for six DN1000 cast steel multifunctional pump control valves for its Qingdao maleic anhydride project. Bids are due 11 May 2023.

IMI's Norgren China opened a automated pneumatic and fluid control manufacturing base in the Wujiang Development Zone. The project has a total investment of US$30 million and a 2025 sales target of 1.4 billion yuan.

Atlas Copco completed the acquisition of assets of Shandong Bozhong Vacuum Technology, a Zibo, China maker of liquid ring vacuum pumps and systems with 116 employees and about 90 million CNY in 2021 revenue. The purchase price was not disclosed.

LiangGu Valve Group is building a valve casting base in Longquan with investment over 100 million CNY, covering 50 acres, targeting 15,000 tons of valve castings a year, with completion planned for 2024.

LiangGu Valve Group plans a special valve production facility in Longwan Airport New Area, Wenzhou, with total investment over 300 million CNY, targeted for operation in 2025 with an annual output value above one billion yuan.

Anhui Tenglong Pump & Valve Manufacturing plans a new plant in Jing County's electric motor pump and valve industrial base, with 120 million yuan total investment, about 60 mu of land, and expected annual sales of 400 million yuan.

Shandong Hongfeng Intelligent Equipment is starting trial production at its 80,000 sets/year high-end industrial valve plant in Dongying's economic development zone, a project with 150 million yuan fixed-asset investment and about 200 jobs.

Impro Group held a groundbreaking on March 1, 2023 for a new Impro Fluidtek campus in Zhenjiang, China, with a total investment of US$100 million and expected annual sales above US$150 million at full capacity.

Baotou Steel's procurement centre published a proposed winning bid for valve procurement for the pump station of a new electric blower project at its Baotou plant in Inner Mongolia. Hebei Tianfu Heavy Industry Valve Co. offered the lowest evaluated price of RMB 55,795, and the notice was published on 2023-02-23.

French firm Bleyer Holding signed an investment project for high-end industrial valves at the Rudong Economic Development Zone on 17 February 2023. The project totals $30 million and will have capacity of 40,000 valve sets per year once running.

Shanghai Valve Factory has started the renovation and expansion of its second-phase plant at 111 Zhongbai Road in Anting town, Jiading, Shanghai, with a total investment of 18 million yuan. Production is expected to start in early 2024, adding about 300 million yuan in annual output.

Zigong Taiwell Valve Manufacturing is expanding its valve and control valve production line in Zigong's Gaoxin high-tech zone, with a total investment of 80 million yuan and annual capacity of 154,000 units, with trial production planned for April 2023.

The Xindi Peier valve R&D center and intelligent retrofit project in Zigong's Gaoxin district has a total investment of 100 million yuan. It is due to start trial production in June 2023 and reach full output in August, adding 100 million yuan of annual output value.

Baker Hughes expanded the clean room at its Suzhou, China valve plant to about 158 square meters, more than double its previous size, to increase production capacity for air separation and hydrogen projects.

Shanghai Yuxuan Pump & Valve signed a supply contract with Sinopec Oil Construction Engineering for more than 200 valves. The valves serve the new tank farm project at Sinopec's Anqing Petrochemical plant in Anhui, which will add four 3,000 m3 cracked raffinate storage tanks.

Marine pump specialist Svanehoj secured an order for 98 electric deep well cargo pumps for seven LNG/LBG-fuelled chemical and product tankers being built for FureBear at a Chinese shipyard in Yangzhou for delivery between 2023 and 2025.

Sinopec Capital, jointly with Hefei Innovation Sci-tec Venture Capital, invested in Hefei Huasheng Pumps & Valves to expand into high-end petrochemical pumps. The announcement is dated 20 December, presumably 2022, and no amount was disclosed.

CNOOC Liaoning Natural Gas published a tender shortlist for a valve procurement project, ranking Zhejiang Lianda Valve first at CNY 154,612.14 including VAT. Two other valve makers were ranked second and third.

Jiangsu Suyan Valve Group is investing and building the Jiangsu Maike Special Valve Technology project with a planned total of 1 billion yuan, covering 50,000 square meters of plant space and capacity of 300,000 special valves a year; construction began in April 2022 and trial operation started in October 2022.

Shige Fluid Control (Shanghai), a subsidiary of Emerson Electric, has put a new magnetic switch production line into operation in Songjiang, Shanghai, localising production of core components; the line had trial production from July 2022.

Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire the assets of Shandong Jinggong Pump Co., a Zibo, Shandong maker of liquid ring vacuum pumps with about 100 employees and 2021 revenue of about $12 million, with closing expected in Q4 2022.

Hubei Taihe Petrochemical Equipment broke ground on a smart manufacturing plant for ultra-low temperature valves on 90.36 mu of land in Zigui, Hubei, with planned investment of 286 million yuan and completion expected in October 2023.