Bürkert Fluid Control Systems completed the modernization and expansion of its Gerabronn, Germany manufacturing site, enlarging its floor area from about 9,000 m² to 13,000 m² with the largest gain in coil manufacturing. The total investment was €36 million, and the main construction phases were inaugurated in October 2026.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has modernized and expanded its Gerabronn site over about two years, investing €36 million in production capacity, working conditions and energy measures. The expansion was officially inaugurated on 21 October 2026.

BUTTING is building a new housing and component manufacturing complex at its Knesebeck site, with about 10,000 square meters of production space for large series of pump and valve housings and welded assemblies. No investment value was stated.

KSB held the groundbreaking for a new Eta pump production facility at its Frankenthal headquarters, an investment of more than EUR 70 million. The modernisation is planned to be completed by 2030.

Söndgerath Pumpen GmbH is doubling its storage capacity at its Essen site with a new warehouse to improve efficiency and shorten distances. The company also reports signed contracts for pump deliveries in Germany and abroad to be commissioned in 2026.

Lewa GmbH signed a purchase contract with the city of Leonberg for part of Ulmer Strasse, creating a contiguous plant site of about 50,000 square metres; construction is planned to take one year.

Pump maker Homa invested EUR 7 million at its Neunkirchen-Seelscheid site, adding automated milling, machining and winding equipment and training for about 300 staff.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems completed and inaugurated an expansion of its Öhringen plant, a new roughly 6,000 m² building combining production, assembly and an automated small parts warehouse. The company invested about 20 million euros, and the site is now a lead factory for process valves.

Leser GmbH & Co. KG is investing EUR 45 million in a new 15,000 m2 production building at its Hohenwestedt, Schleswig-Holstein plant, which is to become one of the world's largest safety valve production sites, with completion planned for early 2026.

LESER has begun construction of a 15,000 m² production hall in Hohenwestedt, Germany, investing 41.3 million euros to increase safety valve capacity. Completion is slated for early 2026.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems is expanding its Gerabronn plant in Germany, having completed the shell of three new halls, expanding assembly and storage capacity, and modernizing solenoid valve production.

SAMSON received official approval to build and operate an electroplating unit at its new site in Offenbach, Germany, adding over 30% capacity for valve surface treatment. The unit is part of the MainChange headquarters relocation from Frankfurt, a project with about EUR 400M total investment.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems is expanding and modernizing its Gerabronn, Germany plant over about two and a half years. Work includes a new assembly hall for customer-specific systems, modernized solenoid valve production and more storage, with the second phase starting in March 2025.

LESER GmbH & Co. KG began construction of a 15,000 square metre production building in Hohenwestedt, Schleswig-Holstein, investing €41.3 million to expand its safety valve factory. Completion is planned for early 2026.

Bürkert laid the foundation stone on 4 November 2024 for a three-phase modernisation and expansion of its Gerabronn plant, covering assembly, solenoid valve production and storage. Work is scheduled to take about two and a half years.

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases broke ground on an expansion of its Wurzen, Saxony facility on August 29, 2024, nearly doubling its European manufacturing capacity. The site will make cryogenic pumps, heat exchangers and hydrogen fueling skids.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems officially commissioned a new 6,000 square metre building with an automated small-parts warehouse in Öhringen, part of a 20 million euro investment. The buildings have been ready for use since June 2024.

Bürkert broke ground on a new production and warehouse hall at its Öhringen, Germany plant, adding 5,800 square metres of floor space. The expansion includes an automated small-parts warehouse and increases production capacity.

GEA Group will invest about €5.5 million by 2026 to modernize production at its GEA AWP valve plant in Prenzlau, Germany, replacing seven older machines and adding about 20 production jobs.

LESER is expanding its production building in Hohenwestedt, Germany, which is described as the world's largest facility of its kind for safety valves. The construction project runs until 2032.

LESER plans to expand its Hohenwestedt, Schleswig-Holstein plant by 14,300 square meters for €41.2 million, with construction starting in February 2024. The expansion adds automated long-goods storage and new sawing machines.

Dosing technology maker ViscoTec held a groundbreaking on 5 July 2021 for a new three-storey building in Töging, Germany, adding office, final assembly and warehouse space. Completion is planned by the end of 2022.

Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme plans a new production hall with office units at its Waldkraiburg site, consolidating three local plants into a campus. Groundbreaking was planned for the first quarter of 2021.

Oerlikon Barmag held the topping-out ceremony for a new approximately 4,000 m2 pump manufacturing building at its Remscheid Lennep site. About 80 employees will move in from December 2020 with 40 machine tools.

Oerlikon Barmag broke ground in Remscheid Lennep, Germany, on February 25, 2020, for a roughly 4,000 m² extension to its Pump Construction division. The investment is in the high single-digit million-euro range, with completion planned by December 2020.

Evoguard GmbH, a Krones subsidiary, broke ground on an expansion of its Nittenau plant to add about 2,000 m2 of production hall and office space for pumps and valves. Completion is planned for October 2019.

Zwick Armaturen GmbH increased its capacity by adding 2,500 square meters to its approximately 20,000 square meter headquarters and main production site in Ennepetal, Germany.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems broke ground on 3 December 2018 for an extension at its Menden site, doubling production and office space to about 5,500 m2 within a year. The system house will grow from 52 to 80 staff over the next six to eight years.

KNF held the groundbreaking for an expansion of its Freiburg-Munzingen headquarters costing more than 5 million euros, due for completion by autumn 2019. Production area grows from 4,000 to 5,000 square metres and staff rise from 220 to about 300.

Leser extended its production facility in Hohenwestedt, Germany, at a cost of €7.3 million. The investment was made in the year before the article.

HEROSE has started operating three new CNC lathes at its Bad Oldesloe site, two replacing outdated machines, to expand prefabrication capacity and reduce delivery bottlenecks.

Pump maker Lewa has completed two new production halls, totalling about 3,000 square meters, at its Leonberg headquarters, investing over EUR 25 million, mainly for final assembly of large pumps and systems.

Emerson enlarged the cleanroom at its Ölbronn-Dürrn plant in Germany, where miniaturized ASCO valves are produced for analytical and medical applications. The new cleanroom covers 720 square meters and is part of the expansion of the Analytical & Medical centre of excellence in Stuttgart.

Emerson Automation Solutions inaugurated a new production building in Ölbronn-Dürrn, Baden-Württemberg, its center of excellence for miniature valves for analytical and medical technology and industrial proportional valves. The building has a 720 square meter cleanroom and about 100 employees work there.

Hytorc, rebranding its HydroWer hydraulic pump business as Hytorc Technologies, is moving into a new and larger facility in Sprockhovel, Germany to bring all departments together and increase output.

LEWA GmbH put a newly designed process pump test room into operation at the start of 2017, replacing its outdated, fully refurbished test facility.