Score Group won a new valve management contract from INEOS FPS covering the Forties pipeline system and related assets, including the Unity Riser platform and onshore facilities, with work managed from Cruden Bay, Scotland.

Score Group was awarded a valve management contract by INEOS FPS covering the Forties Pipeline System and associated assets, including valve supply, repair, offshore and on-site services. The work is managed from Score's Cowdenbeath facility in Scotland.

Avingtrans subsidiary Hayward Tyler Fluid Handling acquired certain assets of Slack & Parr from administration, plus its US and Asian subsidiaries, for a total consideration of GBP 4.9 million.

Score Group was awarded a new valve management contract by INEOS FPS covering valve supply, repair, offshore and on-site services, inventory management and engineering support for the Forties Pipeline System and associated assets.

Sellafield Limited awarded Induchem UK a contract worth £1,413,544 for three XOMOX cartridge valves, with the award notice published on September 8, 2023.

Japanese pump maker Tsurumi became majority shareholder of British distributor Obart in Maidstone, Kent, which now trades as Tsurumi Pumps UK from 1 September 2023. The move gives Tsurumi six sales companies in Europe.

Avingtrans plc has acquired Derby-based pump manufacturer Slack & Parr for a total consideration of £2.6 million after it entered administration. The deal will save 100 skilled jobs across its facilities in Kegworth, the USA and Asia.

Avingtrans subsidiary Hayward Tyler completed the purchase of certain Slack & Parr assets from administration, plus its US and Asia subsidiaries, for up to £4.9m at Kegworth, Derbyshire.

On 3 July 2023 Danish pump maker Grundfos acquired UK-based telemetry and analytics firm Metasphere from private equity investor XPV Water Partners. Financial terms were not disclosed; Bluefield estimates US$60-70 million.

Flowplant Group, a provider of high-pressure jetting and pumping solutions in Salisbury, UK, was acquired in a management buyout completed on June 23, 2023, through the newly formed SSPM Holdings Limited led by Steve Smith.

Unibloc Hygienic Technologies, a provider of hygienic pumps, acquired UK-based CNC machining firm Metaltech Precision Engineers to vertically integrate its supply chain. Terms were not disclosed.

Score Group Limited was awarded a five-year framework contract by National Grid Gas Transmission and Metering to procure, supply and stock valves and actuators across the UK gas network. The scope covers valves up to 48 inches and all pressure classes.

Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Ltd awarded a supply contract for valves to two winners, Hydrasun Limited and LK Valves & Controls Limited, with a lot value of £1 million. The award notice was published on 9 February 2023. The place of performance is Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries delivered the first of 34 pump sets for Units 1 and 2 of Hinkley Point C in the UK to subcontracting client Trillium Flow Technologies. The pumps are being supplied for the EDF Energy subsidiary Nuclear New Build project.

Score Group was awarded a framework contract by National Grid Gas Transmission and Metering to procure, supply and stock valves and actuators across the GT&M gas network in the UK. The contract commenced in July 2022.

Score Europe and Valero Logistics UK agreed a five-year service level agreement for Score to maintain, repair and upgrade Rotork actuators and valves at Valero sites in Avonmouth, Cardiff, Plymouth, Manchester and Kingsbury.

Colloide Engineering Systems placed what Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions calls its largest ever order of Qdos ReNu chemical metering pumps, 240 units, plus 40 630-series process pumps, for 115 chemical dosing skids. The skids support Severn Trent Water's phosphorus removal upgrades under AMP7.

R&G Fluid Power Group has acquired Fluid Power Services Ltd (FPS), a UK fluid power services business with sites in Liverpool, Bolton and Warrington. The price was not disclosed.

Arcus Infrastructure Partners has acquired Workdry International, a UK provider of water pumps and industrial wastewater treatment equipment and services. Lincoln International advised on the deal.

The Lee Company has acquired TTP Ventus Limited, a Cambridge-area UK maker of micropumps and pump modules, from TTP Group. The business, renamed Lee Ventus, will remain in the UK as Lee's first international production unit.

Sulzer will supply two MD200-400 feedwater pumps for the 840 MW Keadby 2 combined cycle gas turbine plant in Lincolnshire, built by SSE with Siemens turbines, scheduled to start operation in 2022.

Atlas Copco AB plans to acquire Geveke B.V. and LEWA GmbH, a maker of dosing and process pumps. The companies notified the Dutch competition authority ACM on 12 May 2022.

Shipham Valves, a East Yorkshire valve maker now independent after leaving Wärtsilä, completed a spring 2022 investment programme buying eight new machines and pressure testing equipment.

Epiris is acquiring Stuart Turner, a UK maker of brass pumps and water boosting systems based in Henley-on-Thames. Barings acted as sole lender of the secured credit facilities for the deal, announced February 2, 2022.

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.

Andritz will supply a primary effluent and sludge treatment line for Holmen Iggesund Paperboard's Workington mill in the UK, with start-up scheduled for Q1 2023. The contract value was not disclosed.

Portsmouth City Council completed a 120,000 sq ft warehouse at Dunsbury Park in Havant for BioPure Technologies, a fluid-path component manufacturer in the Watson-Marlow group. The facility is expected to create more than 120 engineering and manufacturing jobs.

Crane ChemPharma & Energy, a business of Crane Co, broke ground on a new Saunders valves factory in Cwmbran, UK, dedicated to Saunders products, with opening planned for 2022.

Industrial Flow Solutions has acquired Clearwater Controls Ltd, a UK provider of intelligent pump-monitoring and anti-ragging solutions. The deal was reported on December 1, 2021.

Haskel Hydrogen Systems received a multimillion-dollar investment from parent Ingersoll Rand to treble the capacity of its Sunderland site and fund international expansion. The amount was not disclosed.

Whitehouse Industries Limited sold Flotronic Pumps Limited, a diaphragm pump maker, to US corporation Unibloc, backed by May River Capital; Lodders advised the seller.

Unibloc Pump of Kennesaw, Georgia announced the acquisition of Flotronic Pumps Ltd, a UK maker of air-operated double diaphragm pumps. Terms were not disclosed, and Flotronic will keep its name under Unibloc ownership.

Severn delivered two compressor anti-surge control valves for an FPSO project in the UK Central North Sea for an unnamed operator, three days ahead of the 16-week schedule.

ANDRITZ received an order from First Hydro Company to supply six spherical valves for the Dinorwig pumped storage plant in North Wales, with the first two to be installed in mid-2023 and the other four in mid-2025.

T-T Pumps was contracted to supply DN150 recoil non-slam check valves from stock for South West Water's sewer upgrade at Fowey, Cornwall. The project was completed in February and March 2021.

Avingtrans, through Metalcraft, HTFH and HT, will supply remote maintenance pumps to Doosan Babcock for a leading UK nuclear energy company's Sellafield plant under a two-year goods supply agreement worth £4.4m.

Atlantic Pumps is moving to a new 1.25-acre site on Carrwood Road in Chesterfield, UK, consolidating its Chesterfield and Sheffield operations into a manufacturing and research hub. The move follows growth and has already created several new jobs.

Framo, an Alfa Laval company, will supply suction anchor pumping systems to Saipem for foundations of the Seagreen offshore wind farm off Scotland, its second order of this type for wind foundations.

ERIKS has won a major contract from Babcock International to supply electrically actuated valves and ancillary equipment for the Type 31 frigate programme in the UK, one of the largest single contracts ERIKS has received in the UK.

Norwegian pump specialist Lakers AS has acquired Pump Supplies Ltd, the UK's largest electric submersible pump hire fleet operator and leading Flygt distributor, for an undisclosed sum, expanding Lakers into the UK market.

Apex Pumps of Bristol completed a management buyout on February 26, 2021, when founder Nick Sole sold the business and assets of Apex Fluid Engineering and Precision Alloys to a team led by Andrew Simpson and Sam Kemp.

Hamworthy Pumps will supply pump solutions for five Type 31 frigates built by Babcock International, with deliveries through 2028. The contract includes a total of 235 pumps over five years.

EPS Group has acquired Ferrier Pumps Limited, a pump specialist with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen serving Scotland's utility, industrial and commercial markets. The article is dated February 2021 and gives no deal value.

IMI Truflo Marine, part of IMI Critical Engineering, agreed a 15-year lease on a new 57,000 sq ft manufacturing and design headquarters at Birmingham's Advanced Manufacturing Hub, developed by Barberry Industrial, with construction possibly starting before year-end and completion expected in Q3 2021.

Wärtsilä has sold 100% of Wärtsilä Valves Ltd to an affiliate of Evergreen Capital L.P. of New York. The UK valve maker, based in Brough with about 65 employees, had 2019 revenues of about EUR 15 million.

Thames Water awarded framework agreements worth an estimated £24.4 million for supply and maintenance of valves during AMP7, with AVK UK, Gel Engineering, Glenfield Invicta, Ham Baker, HVL Solutions, Industrial Valves, MGA Controls and Saint-Gobain among the awardees.

BioPure Technology, owned by Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group, will build a 120,000 sq ft fluid-path component factory at Dunsbury Park in Portsmouth, creating 120 jobs, with work starting later in summer 2020.

Hayward Tyler Fluid Handling, part of Avingtrans, secured a contract worth an initial £2.5 million to develop a prototype valve to replace legacy components for a UK nuclear plant operator. The contract could lead to up to 150 further units.

LDC sold its stake in Stuart Turner, a UK water-boosting and pressurisation equipment maker, to Epiris in December 2021.

With LDC support, Stuart Turner, a UK water pump and pressure solutions maker, acquired Mikrofill Systems in March 2021. The article describes the acquisition as part of a buy-and-build strategy.