Zhejiang Duantai Valve Co. held a groundbreaking ceremony on March 3, 2025 for a project in Wenzhou to produce 1 million hydrogen-energy high-pressure forged steel valves per year in a digital, fully automated plant. Total investment is 118 million CNY, with completion planned in about 500 days.

TGE Marine, with compressor supplier Köhler & Hörter, developed a tailor-made fuel gas supply system for four 7,000-car PCTC vessels being built by China Merchants Jingling Shipyard for Reederei F. Laeisz. The factory acceptance test was completed in November 2024 and delivery is planned for 2025-2026.

Shanghai Power Station Valve Works held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 1 billion yuan smart valve factory covering 80 mu and 150,000 square metres. Completion is planned for June 2026, with production starting in October 2026.

ZIQI Compressor announced its 15,000 square metre smart factory in Dexing City, Jiangxi Province is officially operational. The facility triples production capacity compared with its Shanghai Lingang plant and makes oil-free air compressors, mobile compressors and vacuum pumps.

Sufa Technology Industry announced that Suzhou Yueban Valve Co won its component procurement tender N242129 (project SFKJ-WZ-GKXJ-24-1445), with the award notice published on 21 February 2025.

Qingdao Weilong Valve (WIVO) has broken ground on a Smart Energy-Saving Valve Manufacturing Facility in the Qingdao High-Tech Zone, with a total investment of 285 million yuan and expected annual revenue above 800 million yuan.

Fujian Lida Group signed a 110 million yuan investment for a project to produce 4,000 air compressors a year in the Tongling Economic and Technological Development Zone. The first phase leases 600 square metres of factory space.

Jiangsu Haishi Pump won the second-round CNOOC Engineering single-stage centrifugal pump category agreement with a contract value of about RMB 89.8 million. The deal strengthens its offshore and petrochemical supply relationship with CNOOC.

Zhejiang Ruian Huanan Pump Valve Manufacturing received approval for a technical renovation project adding 300 tons per year of valve castings and 400 tons of mechanical parts through a smart workshop section.

Cameron has agreed with CNPC to set up a joint venture manufacturing pipeline ball valves, mainly for CNPC's planned pipeline construction across China over the coming decade. No value or plant location was given.

Tianjin Baili Group won a 2025-2027 framework procurement contract from China Huaneng Group for medium-pressure valves (gate, globe and check valves), worth up to 76.04 million yuan.

Zhejiang Shihua Valve Co. started construction of its Future Super Smart Factory in Wenzhou Bay New District, with total investment above 1 billion yuan. The project expands its valve production, with planned annual output of 50,000 sets of high-end valves, and was reported on 21 January 2025.

Mauser Packaging Solutions added new equipment at its Haiyan, China facility to manufacture UN-certified intermediate bulk containers using recycled plastic. The expansion was announced on 21 January 2025 and no value was given.

Hunan Zhongda Energy Saving Pump Industry is producing a water intake pump ship for the Datang Huayin Zhuzhou 2x1 million kilowatt capacity expansion and upgrading project. The vessel is 38.7 m long and can take up to 80,000 cubic metres of water per day.

Dawson Valve plans to start a 500 million yuan smart petroleum equipment project in Huangjian in March 2025, with expected annual output value of 150 million yuan.

Zhejiang Shihua Valve has broken ground on its smart valve factory in Wenzhou Bay New Area, with total investment above 1 billion yuan. The 107-mu site is designed to produce 50,000 sets of high- and low-temperature and precision valves per year after a 500-day build.

Zhejiang Chaoda Precision Manufacturing's 20,000-tonne precision casting and forging project in Lishui has topped out its first phase, with total investment of 1.12 billion yuan. Phase one is scheduled to start production by August 2025 and reach annual output value of nearly 400 million yuan.

Suzhou Dawson Valve plans to start construction in March 2025 on a smart petroleum equipment manufacturing project in Huangjian town, with a total investment of 500 million yuan. The project will add 15 mu of land and a 6,000 square metre plant and buy 150 forging and machining units, with expected annual output value of 150 million yuan.

Suzhou Newway Valve announced plans for its subsidiary Newway Fluid Control to build a second-phase expansion with a plant of about 20,000 square meters and at least two new industrial valve production lines, with investment of at least CNY 500 million, subject to shareholder approval.

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group awarded TMC Compressors a contract to deliver Smart Air compressed air systems for six 9,000 TEU dual-fuel methanol container ships being built for Maersk, with deliveries in 2026 and 2027.

Converteam was awarded a contract to supply nine Variable Speed Drive systems to PetroChina for the West-East Gas Pipeline Project in China. The article is dated 3 January 2025.

Cameron and CNPC agreed to establish a joint venture to manufacture pipeline ball valves, mainly for CNPC's pipeline build-out across China over the coming decade.

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group selected TMC Compressors to equip six methanol-fuelled 9,000 TEU container vessels being built for Maersk, with delivery scheduled between 2026 and 2027.

Weilong Delicious Global (HKG:9985) renewed its agreement to buy food packaging materials from Luohe Delong Color Printing Development for three years, running from Jan. 1, 2025 to Dec. 31, 2027.

Fristam Pumpen KG opened a new LEED Gold-certified manufacturing and sales facility in Taicang, China, to deliver pumps faster to Chinese customers. The opening was reported in January 2025.

Jiangsu Chenggong Valve Technology won a bid worth 479 million yuan from China Huaneng Group for gate, stop, check, ball, butterfly and regulating valves under its 2023-2025 valve framework, Frame 4.

A filing shows a Hitachi scroll compressor new business platform manufacturing project in Conghua District, Guangzhou, with total investment of 345.85 million yuan and about 68,500 m² of floor space, with construction from June 2025 to December 2026.

Shlekler (Shandong) Pump & Valve Manufacturing Co. plans a new valve manufacturing facility in Zhangdian District, Zibo, Shandong, with an investment of about CNY 26.47 million. The project is in design stage with construction scheduled from Q4 2026 to Q4 2028.

At its December 2024 distributor conference in Yichang, Hubei, Kaishan presented a new generation of flexible screw compressors and an ultra-high-efficiency air compressor series to be launched in 2025.

Johnson Controls-Hitachi Wanbao Compressor (Guangzhou) signed an investment agreement with Conghua District to build a scroll compressor manufacturing plant with annual capacity of 1.2 million units. The project cost about CNY 480 million, with construction to start in Q2 2025 and production in Q4 2026.

BAOYI Group from Yongjia won a whole-section bid in CNPC's 2024 annual valve frame procurement tender, which has eight package segments mainly for high temperature and high pressure valves. The company has won this tender for more than 10 consecutive years.

Hasen Technology (Nantong), a subsidiary of Indicor Group, opened its manufacturing facility in the Nantong National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone on 5 December 2024, with a goal of making 200,000 valves annually.

Inoxpa has acquired a 60% stake in two Shanghai commercial companies, YRP Flow Technology and Process Partners, for about EUR 3 million as part of its China expansion.

Ningbo Bonve Pumps launched an intelligent new factory project on November 26, 2024, with a total investment of $36 million for a Phase II base producing rotary lobe pumps and homogenizer mixers, expected to create 300 jobs.

TriMas launched a new 225,000 square foot, highly automated packaging facility in Haining, China, consolidating its Hangzhou and older Haining plants. The site makes dispensing and lotion pumps, caps and closures.

Xinchang Youjia Machinery is carrying out a technical upgrade in Xinchang County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, to produce 30 million valve seats a year for solenoid and expansion valves. The project has a stated investment of 28.5 million yuan and is under main construction, with completion planned for Q4 2026.

Trane Technologies has put a new Thermo King plant into operation in Suzhou, Jiangsu, with an investment of 300 million yuan ($41.48 million), to produce transport refrigeration products for China and Asia-Pacific markets.

Carrier began construction on a rotor compressor project in Baoshan district, Shanghai, on November 15, 2024, with a total investment of 200 million yuan to add a production line at its existing base.

Kongsberg Maritime will supply propulsion, automation and energy systems for ten platform supply vessels being built by Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding in China for Greek owner Capital Offshore. The contract is valued at about NOK 800 million.

Hubei Kaiyi Petrochemical Equipment Manufacturing broke ground on 18 October 2024 on a 150 million yuan Kaiyi Industrial Park in Jiangxia, Wuhan, for a specialized high-pressure valve production line, relocating its operations there.

The Jinan packaging materials branch of China's General Tobacco group announced tender results for packaging box selection, delivery and cigarette box turnover services, with several Jinan and Shandong firms named as winning bidders for four lots. Unit prices were 1.65 to 2.65 yuan per unit including 13% tax.

Kejia Valve has started preparations for a technical renovation and expansion project in Hexian, Anhui, to build an intelligent casting line with annual capacity of 30,000 tonnes of precision valves and fittings. Total investment is 120 million yuan, with construction planned over 12 months.

Ningbo Aux Electric is building a 5 billion yuan air conditioner compressor plant in the Wuhu Economic-Technological Development Zone, targeting 30 million units per year. Trial production is expected by end of 2024 and full production in the first half of 2025.

EPSEA Industrial has completed the topping-out of its 50,000+ square metre Factory II, which will make gas storage tanks, separator tanks, reaction kettles and pressure vessels, with full operation expected by end-2024.

Wärtsilä will supply Cargo Handling and Fuel Gas Supply systems, plus engineering and commissioning services, for five 99,000 m3 Very Large Ethane Carriers ordered from Jiangnan Shipyard for Chinese owners. Deliveries of the equipment start in Q3 2026.

Xinghuo Special Steel began construction on a project to produce 1 billion high-end solenoid valves and pump valve soft magnetic cores per year in Dainan, Xinghua, Jiangsu, on a 100-mu site with planned investment of RMB 1 billion.

Sino-Shell Petrochemicals published a shortlist for the purchase of ethylene feed, booster and hydrogen recycle compressors for the phase III Huizhou ethylene project's LAO unit. Shenyang Yuanda Compressor ranked first with a bid of CNY 47,895,200, and Shenyang Turbo Machinery ranked second.

Shandong Furuida Biotechnology awarded three lots of its cosmetic plastic packaging container procurement project (lot 2) to Guangdong Mingdun, Zhejiang Ruichang and Shanghai Chuanhe. The award notice was published on 2024-09-14.

Dalian Roy Pump won the contract for the EO product tank farm and loading facilities of North Huajin United Petrochemical's 590,000-tonne/year ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol unit in China. The article gives no contract value.

SH-NOMEN Pharmaceutical Equipment (Shanghai) held a groundbreaking in Ruian, Zhejiang for a new 43,500 square meter factory with a total investment of 100 million yuan and annual output of 500,000 intelligent control systems and OEB5 aseptic valves.