Fair Friend Group (FFG) completed the acquisition of MAG Group's automotive machine tool division in 2015 after eight years of negotiations. The deal included brands such as Hüller Hille and Honsberg, and was valued at 450 million euros for the automotive division.

German crane and heavy-haulage group Schmidbauer has ordered 17 new Liebherr cranes, from 55-tonne to 450-tonne models, as part of a fleet renewal for industrial, energy and infrastructure work. The first machine, an LTM 1450-8.1, has been handed over.

rose plastic AG acquired ROBOWORKER Automation GmbH, a German high-tech machine manufacturer specializing in powder compaction and automation, as a sister company effective November 1, 2026. The acquisition aims to combine packaging materials and automation into integrated solutions.

Schmidbauer took delivery of the first LTM 1450-8.1 crane from a total order of 17 Liebherr cranes with lift capacities from 55t to 450t. The remaining 16 cranes will be delivered in stages across Schmidbauer sites.

RAFAMET S.A. signed a contract with Verkehrsbetriebe Brandenburg an der Havel GmbH (VBBr) to supply and install a UGE underfloor wheel lathe for EUR 1.45 million, with delivery in Q4 2027.

Pintsch GmbH has been awarded a €299,942 contract by EUROGATE KV-Anlage Bremerhaven GmbH for the construction of new level crossings with computer-controlled safety systems, including concrete switching houses and cabling, as part of the northern connection new build. The contract runs from October 2026 to March 2028.

Swecon Baumaschinen GmbH has been awarded a contract worth €339,012 to supply a material handling excavator to Zweckverband Abfallwirtschaft Celle, a waste management association in Celle, Germany. The tender was published on 29 October 2026.

Schirmer Maschinen GmbH, part of Beckhoff Automation Group, held a groundbreaking ceremony on October 21, 2026 for a new plant at its headquarters site in Verl and Rietberg, Germany. The project is the largest investment in company history and will consolidate all operations at one location.

TKH Group acquired the Weld Seam Inspection business of Vitronic Machine Vision to expand into turnkey machine vision solutions for welding applications.

After its acquisition by Svanehoj, KOHO Kompressorsysteme appointed Jens Wulff as Managing Director of KOHO and Head of Compressors at Svanehoj.

Private Assets SE & Co. KGaA is bundling its Kiel industrial holdings Kieler Maschinenwerke and Pro-Valve under the newly founded Kiel Power Systems SE. The company makes large engine components for data centre, energy and marine customers.

The Wilo Group acquired a majority stake in PreFab TGA, a German company specializing in industrial prefabrication of technical building equipment modules.

Carlyle agreed to sell Flender, a Bocholt-based mechanical drive technology maker, to Triton Fund 6; closing is expected in Q4 2026 and terms were not disclosed.

An investor group led by Apollo-managed funds is acquiring a 37 per cent minority stake in Syntegon from CVC Capital Partners, which keeps its 63 per cent majority. The value was not disclosed; Syntegon reported €1.75 billion revenue for 2025.

Maximator GmbH commissioned a new cleanroom in Nordhausen on 11 February 2026, investing approximately EUR 250,000 to manufacture high-pressure gas compression systems for semiconductor customers. Industrial technology specialist item supported planning and implementation.

Royal Van Leeuwen signed an agreement on January 16, 2026 to acquire C+R HYDRAULICS GmbH, a Munich-founded hydraulic products supplier with revenue above EUR 40 million and about 45 staff. Completion is expected by end of February 2026, subject to regulatory approval.

Siemens Energy was awarded the contract to supply the hydrogen compression station for Hamburger Energienetze's Moorburg project. The order covers two large hydrogen compressor packages plus balance-of-plant scope, with commissioning scheduled for the second half of 2027.

AERZEN, a German maker of blowers, compressors and turbos, acquired GPE Turbo of Leipzig, a specialist in single and multi-stage turbo solutions for the process gas industry. The article is dated 24 November 2025.

ITT's Svanehøj business acquired Köhler & Hörter GmbH (KOHO), a family-owned compressor manufacturer in Hagen, Germany, expanding its portfolio beyond cryogenic pumps into compressors for gas applications.

HOERBIGER agreed to sell its reed valve business, including Hoerbiger Kompressortechnik GmbH in Schongau, Germany, to Dutch industrial holding Nimbus. Nimbus takes over about 300 employees; completion is subject to antitrust approval and the price was not disclosed.

AERZEN acquired ACI - Air Center International GmbH, which became a wholly owned subsidiary, adding oil-free and oil-injected compressors for industrial compressed air above 3.5 bar. The takeover was completed on 29 April 2025 and announced on 13 November 2025; ACI will be organised at AERZEN's Oberhausen site.

Compressor maker Kaeser Kompressoren plans to expand its Coburg site by about 100 hectares in the northern part of the city through a mixed-use 'factory in the green'. The Coburg city council approved the draft urban framework plan in October 2025.

Gasunie placed an order with Burckhardt Compression for its UP! Detect cloud-based condition monitoring system, to be deployed with a high-pressure oil-free hydrogen compressor at the H2CAST Etzel hydrogen storage project in Germany.

ITT Inc's Svanehoj has acquired Koho Kompressorsysteme (Köhler & Hörter GmbH), a family-owned maker of reciprocating compressor systems in Hagen, Germany. Koho employs about 40 people, and no value was disclosed.

Svanehøj, an ITT company, completed its acquisition of Germany-based compressor maker Köhler & Hörter GmbH (KOHO Kompressorsysteme) on 1 October 2025. KOHO employs about 40 people in Hagen.

Pump maker Homa has invested EUR 7 million since 2024 in its Neunkirchen-Seelscheid site, including a DMG Mori machining centre that cuts machining time by 30%. The investment modernises motor and pump housing production.

DEUTZ signed an agreement to acquire all shares of SOBEK Group GmbH, a German maker of high-performance electric drives and pumps with three sites in Baden-Württemberg and Hessen. The deal supports DEUTZ's push into defense and drones.

RRK Wellpappenfabrik in Bottrop, part of Panther Group, plans a new fully automated corrugator and warehouse on a neighbouring 30,000 m2 plot, with about EUR 40 million invested and capacity above 300 million m2 a year. Timing depends on economic development and will be set in 2026.

TRICOR began production at its new heavy corrugated board plant in Weeze-Goch, Germany, after 15 months of construction. The plant cost about EUR 175 million, creates more than 200 jobs and can produce up to 140,000 tonnes per year.

technotrans and Windmöller & Hölscher signed an exclusive framework agreement to supply the jointly developed TURBOCLEAN ADVANCED E ink supply system for flexographic printing machines, with an order volume in the low double-digit million euro range.

Krones bought a 60% stake in Landshut-based GHS Separationstechnik, gaining decanter centrifuges for solid-liquid separation. The company has 25 staff and generated about EUR 10 million in revenue in 2024.

GESCO SE agreed to acquire Eckart GmbH, a Schlüchtern-based maker of hydraulic swivel motors and valve actuators with about EUR 20 million annual revenue. The purchase price was not disclosed and the deal is retroactive to January 1, 2025.

Meyer Werft has contracted TMC Compressors to supply marine compressed air systems for two 180,000-tonne LNG-powered cruise vessels being built for Carnival Cruise Line. The contract value was not disclosed.

EWE awarded NEUMAN & ESSER the contract for three dry-running compressors for the 320 MW hydrogen electrolyzer in Emden, part of the Clean Hydrogen Coastline project, with production planned from 2027.

Bremen-based measuring and control technology maker SIKORA AG joins the MAAG Group, a polymer-processing group that is part of Dover Corporation. The deal was announced on May 6, 2025.

Dover Corporation agreed to acquire Bremen-based SIKORA AG for €550 million in cash, to be integrated into its MAAG unit. SIKORA makes precision measurement and control systems for wire, cable, hose and plastics production, and had about €100 million revenue in 2024.

EWE has awarded NEUMAN & ESSER the contract for three compressors for its 320 MW green hydrogen electrolyser in Emden, Germany, which is due to produce hydrogen on an industrial scale from 2027.

Maximator Hydrogen is supplying two MAX Compression System 2.0 compressors with 9 MW total compression capacity for the Green Hydrogen Hub being built at the port in Stuttgart by Stadtwerke Stuttgart. The project's ground-breaking ceremony took place in April 2025.

NEUMAN & ESSER will supply EWE with two four-crank horizontal piston compressors size 320 for the conversion of a gas cavern at Huntorf, Wesermarsch, into hydrogen storage, targeted from 2027.

NEUMAN & ESSER will supply EWE two four-crank horizontal piston compressors size 320 for the conversion of a gas cavern at Huntorf in Wesermarsch to hydrogen storage, targeted from 2027. The order was announced on 2025-04-14.

GIG Karasek, as EPC contractor, is delivering what is described as the world's most powerful industrial heat pump system for BASF at Ludwigshafen, with Piller Blowers & Compressors supplying 11 compressors. The project aims to produce CO2-free steam for formic acid production and cut related emissions by 98%.

Neugart GmbH has opened its new Werk 3 production plant at its headquarters in Kippenheim, Germany, after a 20-month build with an investment of over EUR 25 million and 7,000 square metres of floor space.

Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH awarded a public tender for two compressors for compressing synthesis gas mixtures in Geesthacht to HAUG Sauer Kompressoren AG, the only bidder, for 426,740 EUR.

EWE commissioned NEUMAN & ESSER to supply two compressors for the conversion of a salt cavern at Huntorf in the Wesermarsch into large-scale hydrogen storage, planned to start in 2027. The project is part of EWE's Clean Hydrogen Coastline initiative.

Atlas Copco Group acquired Dr. Weigel Anlagenbau GmbH, a Magdeburg-based German compressed air technology provider with 45 employees, which joins the service division of its Compressor Technique business area.

Burckhardt Compression secured a contract to supply boil-off gas and pipeline injection compressors for the German government-backed onshore LNG import terminal in Brunsbüttel. The terminal is a joint venture involving Gasunie and RWE.

Ferrum Packaging AG and KHS GmbH are taking over H. F. Meyer Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, a can-seaming and canning technology maker in Neustadt in Holstein, effective 1 January 2025. H. F. Meyer will remain an independent company within the group.

NEUMAN & ESSER signed a contract on November 13, 2024 to take over EVB Technik GmbH, an electrical and automation solutions firm in Velbert and Garbsen, effective January 1, 2025.

Voith and Mehrer Compression signed a strategic partnership to develop, manufacture and market oil-free compressors for hydrogen applications. Voith will contribute scale-up and industrial manufacturing expertise.

RWE has commissioned Sunfire to supply a 100 MW alkaline electrolyser and Bilfinger to build auxiliary systems for the third construction phase of its 300 MW GET H2 Nukleus green hydrogen plant in Lingen, Germany, with commissioning planned for 2027. The contract value is in the low hundred-million-euro range.