Anup Engineering is setting up an expanded heavy engineering facility in Kheda near Ahmedabad with capex of 200 crore rupees, to be funded through internal accruals. The company sees strong demand for reactors from the petrochemicals sector.

In July 2020 SÜDPACK entered a joint venture with India-based Kamakshi Flexiprints to develop a new flexible packaging facility near Ahmedabad. The plant will serve barrier, aesthetics and convenience packaging needs.

ANDRITZ received an order worth more than €50 million from CHENAB VALLEY POWER PROJECTS to supply complete electro-mechanical equipment for the Kiru run-of-river hydropower plant on the Chenab River. The order covers four turbine-generator units and 400 kV switchgear.

Parikh Flexibles, part of Constantia Flexibles, purchased a 1350 mm Bobst Expert K5 metallizer to be installed in 2021 at its new greenfield Ecoflex facility in Ahmedabad, India, for producing ultra high barrier MDO PE film.

Rexam plans to build two £50 million can manufacturing plants, one in Sri City in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, and one in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The investment totals £100 million.

Safran and the Telangana government announced a new plant in Hyderabad's GMR Special Economic Zone to make parts for the CFM International LEAP turbofan engine. The €36 million plant is set to employ 300 workers.

Kuala Lumpur-based Creador has reportedly emerged as frontrunner to acquire about 20% of packaging maker Shriji Polymers, including Tata Capital Healthcare Fund's 13% stake, at a valuation of Rs 1,200 crore. The report, dated 13 May 2020, is based on unnamed sources and Creador has signed an exclusivity agreement.

Linde's subsidiary Praxair India signed a long-term contract to build, own and operate an air separation unit supplying oxygen and nitrogen to Indian Oil Corporation's Paradip refinery in Orissa. Planned completion is October 2021, bringing combined gas capacity to 660 tonnes per day.

Valmet will supply a complete mill-wide Valmet DNA distributed control system to JK Paper Limited for its board project at Fort Songadh Mill in India, with installation scheduled to start in May 2020. The order value was not disclosed.

Rich's has acquired full ownership of Rich Graviss Products, a Mumbai-based joint venture with the Graviss Group. The deal was reported by Baking Business.

Flowserve completed transactions giving it full ownership of the Maraimalai Nagar manufacturing facility in Chennai, India, formerly a joint venture with Larsen & Toubro. The plant makes Serck AUDCO and VOGT valve products.

Italian metal packaging group Tecnocap set up joint venture Tecnocap Oriental in Mumbai with Indian packager Oricon Enterprise, taking 75% control via the acquisition of Oricon's Metal Lug business. It marks Tecnocap's entry into India and the Far East.

Manjushree Technopack has launched a new greenfield rigid plastic packaging plant in Silvassa, western India, with capacity of 10,000 MTPA and an investment of INR 100+ crore.

KSB Ltd India has received an order worth Rs 100 crore to supply slurry re-circulation pumps for flue gas desulphurisation units at 10 NTPC sites in India. Deliveries begin in March 2020.

GE Renewable Energy secured an order from the EDF-SITAC joint venture to supply and install 112 of its 2.7MW wind turbines for the 300MW Sitac Kabini wind farm in Gujarat, India. Installation and commissioning are scheduled over the next year.

Rosatom said it has finished manufacturing six swing check valves and twelve wedge gate valves for the 1,000 MW Kudankulam units 3 and 4 in Tamil Nadu. Indian side carried out acceptance inspection.

AMPO POYAM Valves will supply 900 slurry severe-service valves to National Aluminium Company (NALCO) for a revamp of the High Rate Tailing Thickener unit. The valves will be made at AMPO India in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

PMC Hydraulics extended its production facilities in India to 1650 square meters in February 2020, adding storage, a larger machine shop and assembly and testing areas. The company expects production capacity to rise by up to 25%.

IndianOil's Marketing Contract Cell awarded a tender for 5-ply cartons for its WR Lube Plants to Progressive Fibre Containerz Pvt Ltd, with a contract value of INR 1.21 crore and a 180-day work period.

Flosil Group plans to set up a forging and casting plant on the 10-acre Goodrich Gasket facility at Kelambakkam near Chennai, to serve Aramco, Petronas and ADNOC.

Goodrich Gasket plans to invest around Rs 150 crore in its global operations, with its Chennai office to serve as a global hub, and plans to import advanced machinery.

Piramal Glass announced a $42 million greenfield expansion at its Jambusar plant in Gujarat, India. It adds one 250 TPD furnace and seven manufacturing lines for high-end spirits, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical glass packaging, and will create about 700 jobs.

Danfoss, through its Indian subsidiary Danfoss Power Solutions, has invested about €15 million in a Pune facility manufacturing mobile hydraulics products such as electronic controls, pumps, valves and motors for construction, agriculture and off-highway vehicles. The article is dated January 2020.

Endress+Hauser Flowtech India plans to invest Rs 200 crore over five years to expand its Waluj plant in Aurangabad, creating 70 new jobs.

Panasonic Life Solutions India will build a factory in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, to produce wiring devices, electrical wire and switchgear, with an investment of 2,946 million rupees. Production is scheduled to start in autumn 2021.

Gerresheimer officially opened a new plant in Kosamba, India, on December 16, 2019, to manufacture plastic primary packaging for pharmaceutical products.

Endress+Hauser India plans a ₹100-crore expansion at its Aurangabad facility focused on flow technologies and smart products, with completion likely in 2021.

Constantia Flexibles has opened Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, described as the first plant designed to produce sustainable, recyclable flexible packaging. The 24,500 sq m plant began test runs in September 2019 and has 50 staff.

Miba officially opened its new Miba Drivetec India production site in Pune on November 21, 2019. The space for production and administration more than doubles, from 1,000 to 2,600 square meters.

AGI glaspac, an Indian container glass maker, will invest up to ₹130 crore in technology upgrades, including NNPB lightweight bottle technology from Europe and cullet sorting systems. The investment aims to grow exports of light bottles and improve glass reuse.

IndianOil's Marketing division awarded a 730-day supply contract for 5-ply cartons to Progressive Corrugated Fiberboard Pvt Ltd, with a contract value of ₹1.56 Cr.

Zircon Technologies ordered two Mark Andy Performance Series P7E presses and five Rotoflex finishing units at Labelexpo Brussels, and plans a fifth manufacturing site in Dehradun, India, adding 100-120 jobs. It also plans to invest $6 million in capital equipment over 12 months.

Carraro Group laid the foundation stone for a new production area at its Ranjangaon plant near Pune, India, to expand capacity and portal axle production. Local activities are expected to rise 50% in three years.

Ekki Pumps and Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology jointly set up a Centre of Excellence for water technology at the college in Pollachi, with a joint investment of Rs 30 lakh.

Bosch has inaugurated Phase II of its expanded smart factory in Bidadi near Bengaluru, built with an investment of 31 million euros to make powertrain products such as common rail pumps and high-pressure rails.

NOV's APL unit has been awarded the supply of a submerged turret production system for an FPSO vessel to be deployed off India's East Coast, ordered by a joint venture of Shapoorji Pallonji Oil and Gas and Bumi Armada.

Indore-based flexible packaging converter Inoflex has bought a new Windsor 5-layer BFL machine and plans to expand production, with the expansion slated to start in November at its Indore plants.

Haier broke ground on an expansion of its Ranjangaon, Pune factory, backed by a Rs 490 crore investment, to add production of new appliance lines and raise the workforce from 1,100 to 2,900.

HSIL plans to double capacity of its Sangareddy pipes and fittings plant near Hyderabad to 60,000 tonnes by FY-2022 with an investment of INR 150 crore.

Bosch Ltd inaugurated the phase II Bidadi factory near Bengaluru, built with an investment of 31 million euros. The plant will make common rail single-cylinder pumps and high-pressure rails and accommodate almost 2,500 associates by end-2019.

GE Power India won three contracts worth Rs 2,311 crore from NTPC to supply and install wet flue gas desulfurization systems at the Jhajjar, Simhadri and Sipat thermal power plants. The scope includes turnkey design, civil work and commissioning, announced July 1, 2019.

TechnipFMC was awarded significant subsea contracts by Reliance Industries for the MJ1 deepwater gas field in the Krishna Godavari basin, covering flexible risers, flowlines and umbilicals. The contract value is between $75 million and $250 million, announced July 1, 2019.

Organica Water and Adani Enterprises won the Prayagraj project under India's National Mission for Clean Ganga hybrid annuity PPP. It covers three greenfield wastewater treatment plants and a 15-year digital operations and maintenance contract.

Govind Enterprises was awarded a Rajasthan dairy federation (RCDF) tender to supply single wall corrugated fibre board boxes for 1-litre lined cartons for ghee packing, at a contract value of ₹1.06 Cr.

Ekki Pumps is setting up a fourth Coimbatore plant, an assembly, testing and painting facility run as a 50:50 joint venture with Germany's Homa Pumps. It will make parts for Homa's production lines and waste water pumps, with production expected within six months. Investment was not disclosed.

Expro was awarded a seven-year contract by Hindustan Oil Exploration Company to build, maintain and operate a production handling facility on a mobile offshore production unit for the B-80 field offshore India.

India's Competition Commission approved Epsilon Bidco's acquisition of up to 75% of packaging maker Essel Propack Limited by order dated 3 June 2019.

Indian firm Ekki Pumps and Germany's Homa Pumpenfabrik are investing in a new joint venture plant in Coimbatore, India.

Ring Plus Aqua established a new plant in Sinnar near Nashik, Maharashtra, to produce flywheel ring gears, with annual capacity of 2 million units. The company announced the plant in a press release dated 31 May 2019.

Shapoorji Pallonji Bumi Armada Godavari, a 30:70 joint venture of Bumi Armada and Shapoorji Pallonji Oil & Gas, received a nine-year FPSO charter award from ONGC for the KG-DWN 98/2 cluster offshore India.