Italian hydraulic component maker OMFB Group acquired UK dealer Commercial Vehicle Hydraulics Limited, which becomes CVH-OMFB Ltd, after 30 years of partnership. OMFB Group reported EUR 80 million turnover in 2021.

NI Water awarded contracts worth an estimated £40 million for mechanical installation, repair and maintenance to TES NI Ltd and FIN Maintenance Ltd, with an initial three-year term plus two one-year extensions.

Murphy has been awarded a contract worth more than £100 million by National Grid to expand the Grain LNG facility on the Isle of Grain, Kent. The work covers three gas compressors, two submerged combustion vaporisers and two export tank pumps, with completion scheduled for mid-2025.

Cavendish Nuclear has won a circa £20 million contract to design, manufacture, install and commission a Drum Handling Facility at Dounreay to package intermediate level waste, over a five-year timeframe.

Lontra is opening a £17 million smart factory in Doncaster to make energy-saving compressors, with South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority providing grant and loan support of over £7 million and over 300 new jobs expected.

The Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner approved a contract for seven compressors for the county fire service, awarded to Bauer after a request for quotation. The contract is worth £133,525.23 and was decided on 14 October 2021.

Pennine Pneumatic Services (PPS) acquired Hull-based Norman Walker Machinery, a supplier of air compressors and pneumatics in East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, announced March 29, 2021.

Lentus Composites installed a CompAir L45 compressor with dryer and filter pack at its Eynsham, Oxfordshire site, supplied by BCAS Limited. The solution is expected to cut compressor maintenance costs by 80 per cent.

Atlas Copco has acquired Cooper Freer Ltd., a privately owned British compressed air distributor and service provider with 18 employees based in Leicester. The purchase price was not disclosed. The announcement is dated March 3, 2021.

Parker Hannifin has installed an automation cell at its Sheffield, UK site that makes cryogenic valves, costing around US$500,000. The cell combines a bar feeder, a DMG MORI CNC lathe and an ABB Flexloader robot to cut setup times.

Danfoss completed the full acquisition of Artemis Intelligent Power, an Edinburgh-based hydraulic R&D company. The deal lets Danfoss commercialize its Digital Displacement pump technology globally, and about 60 employees joined Danfoss.

PFF Group invested over £2m in custom-built machines from Hanbury-Autogil and hired 100 staff at its Washington, Tyne and Wear site to make disposable polythene aprons under a UK Department of Health and Social Care contract for 360 million aprons. The announcement is dated 5 January 2021.

Oldham-based Ribble Packaging completed a £3.5 million investment project including a warehouse extension and new corrugator and fanfold stacker machinery, raising line speeds and capacity. The project ran from February to early September 2020.

Ribble Packaging completed a £3.5 million investment project, including a warehouse extension and new machinery such as the Unifold fanfold stacker, which raises its double-wall line speed from 170 to 220 metres per minute.

Hydraproducts acquired the business and assets of Fluidlink Hydraulics Ltd of Devizes, a manufacturer of bespoke hydraulic power packs, announced 21 April 2020.

Millitec Food Systems Ltd has invested £1.2 million in a new 20,000 sq ft factory in Draycott, Derbyshire, which will create around 40 new jobs. The site makes food production equipment and supports its planned expansion.

Wienerberger procured Atlas Copco compressors, vacuum pumps and controls for its Windmill Lane brick factory in the UK, an upgrade estimated to save around £38,000 per year in energy costs.

Thames Water Utilities has issued a contract award notice for supply, installation and preventative maintenance of compressors and boosters across its region. The initial term is three years, extendable to eight, and the winning supplier is not named in the text.

Cullen Packaging is installing two Expertfold 165 folder-gluer machines from Bobst at its Glasgow corrugated packaging plant, alongside a 20,000 sq ft extension. The machines are expected to be installed by the third quarter of 2020.

Ringtons automated coffee production at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne factory with PFM Packaging Machinery, boosting output. The reported date is December 2, 2019.

Durham County Council awarded Automatic Flare Systems a contract to design, supply, install and commission a containerised air compressor for the leachate collection system at Todhills Closed Landfill Site, with a total value of £26,650. The contract runs from December 2019 to March 2026.

Linde agreed to form a joint venture with ITM Power to implement large-scale hydrogen electrolysis projects, targeting metals, glass, electronics, refinery, chemical and steel industries. The announcement was made on October 23, 2019.

Linde acquired a minority stake in ITM Power plc, a British maker of PEM electrolyzers for hydrogen production, completed on October 22, 2019. The stake was announced on October 23, 2019.

CBS Packaging installed a new 2.5m BHS corrugator at its Birmingham plant as part of its continuing investment programme, reported October 18, 2019.

Lontra opened the first purpose-built advanced manufacturing centre in Napton, Warwickshire, in partnership with Shield Group Engineering, as the first phase of a planned expansion of compressor manufacturing.

Therser UK Ltd, a Stoke-on-Trent kiln manufacturer, won a major contract from Churchill China to manufacture and install a new 48-metre fast-fire tunnel kiln in Stoke-on-Trent.

Baker Hughes, a GE company, opened its upgraded Centre of Excellence campus in Montrose, Scotland, in a GBP 31 million investment supported by a GBP 4.9 million Scottish Enterprise grant. The site handles engineering, manufacturing, testing and assembly of subsea deepwater equipment.

KPS Capital Partners has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Glasgow-based Howden, a maker of air and gas handling equipment, from Colfax Corporation for an enterprise value of $1.80 billion. Howden will become an independent company.

GMI Construction Group was awarded the contract to build a 118,000 sq ft manufacturing plant for Aflex Hose at Bradley Business Park in Huddersfield. The plant will consolidate five Yorkshire sites, boost capacity by 70% and create up to 200 jobs.

C-Automation agreed to buy the drilling services business of Aberdeen-based Proserv, which will trade as C-Automation Services. Financial terms were undisclosed and the two firms will partner on shared products and services.

Velocity, part of the Reece Group in Newcastle, has received a contract to build 16 Velocity Patching machines for a UK company, creating 16 new jobs at its factory.

Babcock International secured a UK Ministry of Defence contract to supply, repair and support hydraulic equipment for Royal Navy surface ships and submarines. The five-year contract includes an option for a two-year extension.

Duplomatic Motion Solutions, sponsored by Alcedo SGR, completed the purchase of hydraulic technologies provider Hydreco from Clyde Blowers Capital, which had owned it since 2008. Hydreco's sales were over £25.6m.

Danfoss announced it acquired a majority stake in Artemis Intelligent Power, an Edinburgh-based R&D firm specializing in hydraulic systems, gaining its Digital Displacement technology and establishing Edinburgh as a centre of excellence.

Danfoss acquired the majority of Artemis Intelligent Power, an Edinburgh hydraulic R&D firm, to gain its Digital Displacement technology. Artemis will become a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with Danfoss as majority shareholder.

Haskel's Sunderland, UK plant will produce its new hydraulically-driven H-Drive gas booster for the global market, as announced on 2018-07-05.

St. Johns Packaging purchased a Comexi Nexus Dual laminator, installed in Ilkeston, Derbyshire in Q1 2021.

Tees Components won a contract from Cammell Laird shipyard to supply four White Gill 360° azimuth thrusters for the new polar research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough, being built at Cammell Laird in Merseyside. The article gives no contract value.

Lontra, with partner Shield Engineering Group, will build a high-tech onshore factory in Warwickshire to make its Blade industrial compressor, creating 75 jobs by 2020. About £65 million will be invested by 2021.

Flowtech Fluidpower completed its £10.2m acquisition of Balu Ltd and its subsidiaries Beaumanor and Derek Lane, UK fluid power importers and distributors, funded by a share placing raising £11m. The deal was completed on 20 March 2018.

Atlas Copco acquired Walker Filtration Ltd, a family-owned British manufacturer of compressed air, gas and vacuum treatment equipment based in northeast England with about 220 employees. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Engineering firm Lontra has committed to build a manufacturing facility in Warwickshire, UK, for its Blade industrial compressors, investing £65m by 2021 across this and a further site, backed by Shield Group Engineering, with 75 jobs to be created by 2020 and the first part opening later in 2018.

US process equipment maker Duravant acquired UK-based weighing and filling machine manufacturer Ohlson Packaging to expand its product portfolio.

Kemostal Process Technology AB won an order from leading oil companies from Singapore and the UK for a two-storey compressor module to handle gas on a floating storage offloading vessel at a new North Sea gas field. The order was won in 2017 and reported in January 2018.

J A Harrison officially opened a £2.8 million gasket and seal manufacturing facility on the Greengate Industrial Estate in Middleton, Oldham, which has already created 12 jobs and is expected to create 30 more over three years.

Flowtech Fluidpower plc acquired Group HES Ltd, a Gloucester-based fluid power solutions provider with branches in Birmingham, Durham, Gloucester and Leeds, adding it to its Power Motion Control division. The deal was announced on 12 October 2017.

Weedon Corrugated Products has invested in a Fosber dry end for its in-house corrugator to boost sheet board production.

Pottery maker Emma Bridgewater's Stoke-on-Trent factory has installed a BOGE C25F variable-speed compressor and DS50 refrigerant dryer, supplied and installed by BOGE distributor Aroplus (UK) to cut energy use and maintenance.

Leeds manufacturer Meltog won a GBP 400,000 order for industrial recycling machinery from a new Saudi Arabian food processing and packaging customer. UK Export Finance and Lloyds Banking Group provided working capital support.

ChargePoint Technology invested in a new 5-axis machine, automated washing plant and coordinate measuring machine at its Liverpool headquarters, as part of a wider £1 million investment to speed production of containment valves up to 350mm.