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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Voith Hydro Shanghai signed a contract with Henan Tianchi Pumped Storage to supply four 300 MW Francis reversible pump turbines and generators for a 1,200 MW plant in Henan Province, China. The contract was signed in December 2017 and is scheduled for completion by December 2020.

Sichuan Feiqiu Group signed an investment agreement with the Zigong High-tech Zone Management Committee to build a valve R&D, manufacturing, testing and sales base in the Banchang industrial park. The total planned investment is 320 million yuan, with the first phase at about 240 million yuan and a one-year construction period.

Velan France, a subsidiary of Velan Inc., won contracts to supply nuclear-class valves to several Chinese nuclear engineering firms worth about US$36 million. Deliveries are scheduled for 2018 and 2019 for reactors at Fangchengang, Tianwan, Rongsheng, Sanmen, Haiyang and Lufeng.

Huzhou Fengling Huoshan Equity Investment Partnership acquired a 9.82% stake in Jiangsu Shentong Valve from a group of shareholders for approximately CNY 380 million on November 23, 2017. The deal covers 47.7 million shares at CNY 7.88 per share.

Metso received four major valve orders for oil and gas projects from top-ten Chinese petrochemical customers, for greenfield investments scheduled for 2017 and 2018. The orders include about 2,500 Neles valves, and the total value and customer names were not disclosed.

China Machinery Industry Federation appraised Xi'an Pump & Valve's JYGA-120 PN 12MPa DN1400 large-diameter insulated joint at a meeting on October 31, 2017, confirming it as the first low-temperature (-45 C) insulated joint of its kind in China.

Shanxi Huaxiang Group and US-based JDH jointly invested 400 million yuan in a Sino-American JV project in two phases, capable of producing 20,000 tonnes a year of high-end pump, valve and pipe fittings with 160 million yuan in sales and 800 new jobs.

Ham-Let's subsidiary in China signed an agreement with the Yangzhong District management to build a new $15 million factory with double the production capacity, to be completed by end of Q1 2019; the district compensates $9 million.

Botou-based Taibang Pump & Valve Manufacturing won a contract worth about CNY 1.5 million to supply 48 NYP high-viscosity pumps and other pumps for China FAW Group's oil depot fuel piping project.

Suzhou Dawson Drilling Equipment has completed a capital increase of $3.5 million in its indirect wholly owned subsidiary Suzhou Dawson Valve Co., with the company registration change now finalized in Suzhou Industrial Park.

FAMAT was awarded a contract to supply a full set of steam extraction check valves up to 18 inches and class 900 for the Dunhuang Power Plant in China. The valves include fast-closing pneumatic actuators and complete controls.

MOGAS Industries received contracts to supply more than 950 severe service isolation valves to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery for a new heavy oils construction project on ChangXing Island, Dalian, China. Delivery is scheduled for early 2018.

CNOOC Zhanjiang branch published a tender result for shutoff valves for the Dongfang 13-2 gas field development, naming General Machinery Development as first candidate at USD 4,551,159. Samson Controls China and Hong Kong New Century Control Equipment were the other candidates.

Mogas Industries will supply severe service isolation valves for a new heavy oils construction project on ChangXing Island in Dalian, Liaoning, China, for Hengli Group.

Mogas Industries has received contracts to supply over 950 severe service isolation valves to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery for a heavy oils project on ChangXing Island in Dalian. Delivery is scheduled for early 2018.