KSB MIL Controls Limited was awarded a contract worth ₹20.13 lakh to supply pressure control valves with electro-hydraulic actuators for IndianOil's NRPL Panipat pipeline in Haryana, India.

The board of Craftsman Automation approved a new plant in Nagpur, Maharashtra, to add 8-10% powertrain capacity, with phase 1 costing Rs 115 crore over 24-30 months. Phase 2 is planned at Rs 110 crore over 24-48 months.

Endress+Hauser Wetzer plans to invest Rs 100 crore (about $13.4 million) to expand its manufacturing facilities in Aurangabad, India, starting with a 60,000 sq ft building in the Waluj industrial area. A second phase of up to Rs 300 crore is under consideration, as reported on 3 September 2021.

Dhunseri Poly Films, a subsidiary of Dhunseri Ventures, announced a Rs 1,250 crore flexible packaging film factory at Panagarh Industrial Park in West Bengal. The first phase will make BOPET film with 45,000 TPA capacity, with commercial operations expected by March 2023.

Premji Invest bought a major, undisclosed stake in SB Packagings, an Indian flexible packaging maker for the hygiene segment, with proceeds partly used for capacity expansion and acquisitions.

IMC Swarnaa Ventures, a joint venture of IMC and Swarnaa Group, announced it acquired 100% of Trillium Flow Technologies India, a valve manufacturer marketing under the BDK Valves brand, to diversify its portfolio.

Berry Global announced plans for a second manufacturing facility and healthcare center of excellence near its existing Bangalore operation, to scale production of ophthalmic, nasal pump, inhalation and injectable products.

HMEL awarded Ampo Poyam Valves a contract to design and manufacture more than 2,200 cryogenic and non-cryogenic gate, globe and check valves for its petrochemical complex at the Guru Gobind Singh Refinery in Bathinda, Punjab, India.

Godrej & Boyce won a Rs 468 crore order from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India to supply steam generators for the 700 MW pressurized heavy water reactor project, to be manufactured at its Dahej facility in Gujarat.

A Maire Tecnimont and Tecnimont Private consortium was awarded a lump-sum EPCC contract by Indian Oil Corporation worth about $170 million for a 200,000 tons per year polypropylene plant at the Barauni Refinery in Bihar, with a 30-month schedule.

Metso Outotec will supply two 434 tph ball mills, plus apron feeders, agitators, slurry pumps and instrumentation, to NALCO's alumina refinery at Damanjodi, Odisha, and will carry out basic design of bauxite silos. The order is the third for NALCO's current expansion project.

Satia Industries has been awarded an order worth Rs 70 crore to supply 7,000 tonnes of paper to the Maharashtra State Textbook Bureau. Execution has started and is to be completed in Q2 FY22.

Kirloskar Brothers Limited has set up a new Advanced Technology Product Division for high-end pumps used in nuclear applications, based at its mother plant in Kirloskarvadi, Maharashtra. The investment amount was not disclosed.

Toyo Engineering, executing EPC work for HPCL Shapoorji Energy's regasification plant at Chhara, Gujarat, has relied on Ampo Poyam Valves for more than 2,000 cryogenic ball valves and over 240 globe and check valves. The plant has 5 million tonnes per year send-out capacity and is scheduled for completion in early 2022.

Dembla Valves Limited was awarded the IndianOil tender for ball, bronze and butterfly valves for the BR-9 Expansion project at Barauni, Bihar, with a contract value of INR 17.28 lakh, dated 27 November 2023.

Godrej Appliances will invest INR 100 Cr in its Shirwal and Mohali manufacturing units by 2025 to raise air conditioner production capacity to 8 lakh units. The brand also launched a new range of 100% Made in India ACs using R290 and R32 refrigerants.

Indian Oil awarded a contract to MC Packaging Pvt Ltd to supply 5-ply corrugated cartons for lube containers at its Budge Budge lube plant near Kolkata, with a contract value of ₹3.45 crore and a contract date of 30 July 2021.

Alstom was awarded a contract by MMRDA to design, manufacture, supply, test and commission 234 metro cars, including training, for Mumbai Metro Line 4 and its extension. The order is valued at €220 million (INR 1854 crore).

Tamilnadu Petroproducts board approved setting up a propylene recovery unit at an estimated cost of about Rs 30 crore. The announcement was made on 30 March 2021.

Tamilnadu Petroproducts approved revamping the caustic soda unit of its heavy chemicals division at an estimated cost of Rs 165 crore, raising capacity from 150 to 250 tonnes per day. Completion is expected in about 18 months after statutory clearances.

Tamilnadu Petroproducts approved augmenting its linear alkyl benzene plant from 120 to 145 kilo tonnes per year at an estimated cost of Rs 240 crore, with completion expected in about 24 months after approvals. The announcement was made on 30 March 2021.

C.R.I. Pumps inaugurated a second uPVC and CPVC pipe plant at Hosur, Tamil Nadu, to serve southern and eastern India. Together with the Gandhinagar plant, capacity is set to reach 40,000 metric tonnes per year.

PG Electroplast announced a Rs 100 crore investment over two years to expand its Ahmednagar plant in Maharashtra, creating over 600 local jobs and lifting AC indoor unit capacity to over 1.5 million and outdoor unit capacity to over 1 million.

Autoliv announced plans to build a new airbag inflator plant close to Chennai to serve Indian demand. No investment value or completion date was given.

Autoliv announced plans to build a new inflator manufacturing plant close to Chennai, India, to serve Indian demand and localize inflator production.

Schwing Stetter India inaugurated a new IoT-enabled global manufacturing facility at Cheyyar, near Chennai, built with an investment of ₹300 crore on a 52-acre site. The plant will employ about 130 people initially and serve as a global hub for concrete pumps, mixers and excavators.

Dow has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian recycler Lucro Plastecycle to develop a closed-loop packaging solution that recycles post-consumer PE film waste using Dow virgin resins, with first shrink films expected in India later in 2021.

Sidel supplied its Aseptic Combi Predis technology to RJ Corp, whose operating company Varun Beverages installed it at a new facility in Punjab, India, earlier in 2021. It is the first commercial dairy PET aseptic packaging line in the region.

Sandvik will invest in a new hydraulic and instrumentation tubing factory at its Mehsana Mill in Gujarat, India, to meet rising demand. The investment is split into two parts and is expected to be fully operational by early 2023.

Indian Railways awarded Medha Servo Drives a ₹2,211.64 crore contract to design, supply, integrate, test and commission propulsion and control equipment for 44 Vande Bharat-type rakes, including a five-year maintenance contract. The coaches will be built at three Indian Railways factories.

Alstom won a contract worth €106 million from NCRTC to design, supply and install the signalling, train control and telecommunication system for the 82.15 km Delhi–Ghaziabad–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System corridor, announced January 20, 2021.

Perma-Pipe's Indian subsidiary was awarded a $6.7 million contract by JSIW Infrastructure to apply thermal insulation on pipe for the 74 km Mangla crude oil pipeline in Rajasthan, India. The pipeline serves the HPCL Rajasthan Refinery project, and execution begins in Q1 2021.

State-run BHEL won an order worth ₹450 crore from NALCO for a steam and power plant at the 5th Stream Alumina Refinery Expansion Project in Damanjodi, Odisha. Scope includes a 300 TPH coal-fired boiler and an 18.5 MW steam turbine generator.

Larsen & Toubro's subsidiary L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering won an EPCC contract valued above Rs 7000 crore for the Dual Feed Cracker Unit at the Rajasthan Refinery in Barmer, Rajasthan. The contract was awarded by HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd, a joint venture of HPCL and the Government of Rajasthan.

Delhi Milk Scheme, a government milk body, awarded Rainbow Packaging Pvt Ltd a tender to manufacture and supply 372 MT of three-layer co-extruded pigmented polythene film, with contract value of INR 5.71 crore and a 365-day work period.

UFlex announced it will double production capacity at its Asepto aseptic liquid packaging plant in Sanand, Gujarat, from 3.5 billion to 7 billion packs a year within ten months.

Emerson has opened its Emerson Integrated Manufacturing Campus in Talegaon, Pune, Maharashtra, consolidating eight manufacturing sites into one 800,000 square foot facility, with phase 1 integrating over 450,000 square feet.

Danfoss India plans to invest ₹100 crore from January 2021 to expand production of power drives at its Oragadam factory in Chennai, adding about 300 jobs and expanding its drive range from one variant to six.

EPL Limited's board approved the acquisition of Creative Stylo Packs, an Indian maker of corrugated boxes and plastic and laminated tubes. EPL will buy a 72.5% stake for cash and the remaining 27.5% through issuance of EPL shares to the founders.

Blue Star Ltd won an order worth Rs 128 crore from Wistron Infocomm for MEP works in the Phase II expansion of Wistron's factory at Kolar, Bengaluru, including a 4000 ton HVAC system and electrical works.

Thermax won a Rs 320 crore EPC order to build a captive combined heat and power plant for Assam Bio Refinery Pvt Ltd, a joint venture of Numaligarh Refinery, Fortum and Chempolis. The plant includes two 98.5 TPH high pressure boilers and a steam turbine generator.

Crane held a groundbreaking ceremony on October 23, 2020 for a new Engineered Check Valves factory in Satara, India, planned to open in October 2021 and produce Noz-Chek and Duo-Chek valves up to 84 inches.

ANDRITZ received a contract from Greenko Energy for electro-mechanical equipment for the 1,200-MW Pinnapuram pumped storage plant in Andhra Pradesh, India, with first units expected by 2023.

Packaging converter ALPLA has acquired an Amcor facility in Alandi, near Pune in Western India, that produces PET bottle preforms, and will take over all 50 employees. The site becomes ALPLA's ninth location in India.

Westport Fuel Systems signed definitive agreements with partner UNO MINDA to sell the assets of its subsidiary Rohan BRC Gas Equipment to their 50/50 joint venture Minda Emer Technologies, consolidating CNG production in Manesar, Haryana.

Dembla Valves Limited was awarded the tender for control valves, piping and materials for IndianOil's NRPL Panipat pipeline in Haryana, with a contract value of ₹31.2 lakh signed on 4 March 2021.

Siemens Gamesa was awarded a 473 MW contract by Adani Green Energy for 215 SG 2.2-122 turbines at the Fatehgarh wind project in Rajasthan, with commissioning slated for September 2021.

Futurepump opened its new Chibhda factory on a two-acre campus near Rajkot, Gujarat, ahead of schedule. The facility has tripled production capacity to over 2,000 pumps per month.

Microvast Holdings was appointed supply partner for fast-charging battery systems to JBM Group's electric bus range in India, announced on 1 August 2020.

Von Roll is turning its existing Bangalore plant into the most modern electric wire coil production facility in India, doubling current capacity. The company cites growing outsourcing by motor and generator manufacturers.