Elgi Equipments has signed a 10-year contract with Siemens to supply 2,400 sets of air screw compressors with dryer packages and 1,200 auxiliary compressors for locomotives. Elgi will also maintain the compressors for 35 years from supply, with deliveries starting next fiscal year. The contract was reported on 12 January 2024 and was signed in December 2023.

Fans and motors maker EBM-Papst is investing EUR 1 million to expand its facilities in Singapore and India, including added production capacity in Chennai. The move is part of its China-decoupling strategy.

KSB Limited has acquired the technology of Bharat Pumps & Compressors Ltd, becoming its sole owner, and will use its SupremeServ unit to handle spare parts and service for about 5,000 BP&CL products in India.

Atlas Copco (India) is setting up a manufacturing facility and office building in Talegaon, Maharashtra, to make air and gas compressor systems for the local market. Completion is targeted for Q2 2024, with an estimated value of Rs 140 crore.

Air Water subsidiary Air Water India was awarded an on-site gas supply contract by state-owned Steel Authority of India Limited. Air Water will design and manufacture a large cryogenic air separation plant for the project.

Kirloskar Pneumatic opened a new manufacturing facility in Nashik with a 32-tonne forge hammer and fabrication shop, initially producing about 6,000 tonnes of forged parts a year. About 25% of capacity will serve external customers.

Atlas Copco has started construction of a new manufacturing plant in Talegaon, Pune, India, to make air and gas compressor systems for local and export markets. The investment is about INR 1,400 million and the plant is planned for completion by Q2 2024.

Greenply Industries has successfully produced its first fibers with a new high-performance pressurized refining system supplied by ANDRITZ. The article does not give a location or capacity.

The EPCM Group launched a new cathode manufacturing and maintenance center in Ahmedabad, India, with production starting May 2023 with 20 local employees. The inaugural project is manufacturing 81,577 copper cathodes for Kutch Copper Limited, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises.

Austrian machinery supplier Starlinger will deliver two recoSTAR PET 165 iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling lines to Srichakra Polyplast, with delivery expected at the start of 2024. The rPET will supply Coca-Cola India's Kinley water bottles.

KSB announced the acquisition of Bharat Pumps and Compressors' technology, becoming sole owner of the products' technology and taking over spare parts and service for about 5000 BP&CL products in India.

ONGC awarded Engineers India Limited an EPC project to replace three CSU off-gas compressors and six regeneration gas compressors and install a CBD vessel at its Uran plant. The estimated order value is Rs 472 crore over about 40 months.

ELGI Sauer Compressors Ltd, a joint venture of Elgi Equipments and Germany's Sauer Compressors Group, opened a 50,000 sq ft plant in Kallappalayam, Coimbatore, with an investment of ₹40 crore. It will make high-pressure compressors, pressure-reducing stations and portable breathing air compressors.

Trelleborg has decided to invest SEK 300 million in a new production plant for sealing solutions in India, to be built on land acquired in the Bengaluru area. Production is set to start in the first half of 2026, raising capacity by more than 60 percent.

INOXCVA began construction of a 30-acre greenfield cryogenic equipment manufacturing facility at Savli in Vadodara, Gujarat, with an investment of INR 200 crore, able to fabricate over 20,000 tonnes of stainless steel equipment per year.

KHS India laid the foundation stone of a new Rs 50 crore plant adjacent to its existing Ahmedabad facility, expected to raise production capacity by 40% and create 150 direct jobs.

Carraro Group inaugurated a new 1,440 square meter production area at its gear plant in Ranjangaon, Pune, adding gear hobbing and grinding machines. Monthly gear capacity will rise from 150,000 to over 175,000.

Ingersoll-Rand (India) Limited's board approved on December 22, 2022 a new manufacturing plant in Gujarat, India, with an investment of about INR 170 crore. The plant will add 5,000 units per month initially by September 2024 and make air compressors, air treatment devices and hydrogen compressors.

Shibaura Machine India plans to invest Rs. 225 crore in its Chennai plant to expand injection molding machine capacity to 3,200 machines a year in phases. A new factory adjacent to the existing plant is under construction, with trial production expected by November 2023.

Ingersoll Rand agreed to acquire India-based Everest Group and France-based Airmax Groupe for a combined all-cash upfront price of approximately $86 million, plus possible earn-out consideration.

Ingersoll Rand agreed to acquire SPX FLOW's Air Treatment business, a maker of compressed air dryers and filtration systems, for about $525 million. The business had expected 2022 revenue of about $180 million.

SECO/WARWICK received an order to supply a Vector vacuum furnace to Indian fastener maker Sundram Fasteners for heat treating aviation bolts. It is the second project between the two companies.

Danfoss Group company Eaton Fluid Power inaugurated a new hydrostatics production line at its Pune Pimpri campus to raise localisation and serve growing demand in the Indian market, especially agriculture.

Sulzer opened a new service center in Vadodara, Gujarat, offering repairs, upgrades and parts manufacturing for pumps, steam turbines and compressors across 10,500 sq ft.

Burckhardt Compression has been awarded a supply contract by Tecnimont to provide carrier gas and nitrogen gas compressor packages for India Oil Corporation's polypropylene plant in Bihar, India.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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

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.

Ebara subsidiary Elliott Group opened a new manufacturing facility in Bengaluru, India, to expand its compressor and turbine business across India and East Asia.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries opened a new plant in Bangalore to make pumps and motors for 7-36 tonne construction machinery, doubling its Indian hydraulic capacity to 20,000 units a year. The investment is about 800 million yen and production starts in April 2019.

Yanmar announced a plant in the ORIGINS industrial park in north Chennai to make industrial diesel engines with 80,000 units annual capacity. Production is expected to start in 2020 and create up to 400 jobs.

Schwing Stetter India signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu Government at the Global Investors Meet 2019 to invest INR 237 crore immediately in a new plant in Cheyyar, scaling to INR 350 crore over four years, with 200 jobs planned.

Guangdong Meizhi Compressor (GMCC), a Midea Group company, is setting up its first compressor manufacturing facility outside China at Supa Parner Technology Park in Maharashtra. Midea plans about INR 1,350 crore of investment there and expects operations to begin in 2020.

Nilpeter opened a 3,500 sqm manufacturing and development facility with a technology center in Mahindra World City, Chennai. The site houses over 70 employees and will more than double the press manufacturing capacity.

Schwing Stetter India announced a new 53-acre concrete equipment manufacturing facility in SIPCOT Industrial Area, Cheyyar, Tamil Nadu, with an investment of Rs 350 crore in two phases.

Elgi Equipments, an air compressor maker, will commission a motor production facility on its Kinathukadavu campus near Coimbatore, probably in Q1 of the next financial year, with an investment of ₹18 crore. The motors will be for captive use in its compressors.

WIKA India put an extension building at its Pune production site into operation at the end of September 2018, boosting production of level measurement, WEgrid and calibration technology.

Kaeser Compressors India has commissioned a 120kWp captive rooftop solar PV plant at its Pune, Maharashtra manufacturing facility, built with Enerparc India, to cut grid energy use.

Timken India Ltd., a majority-owned subsidiary of The Timken Company, agreed to merge with ABC Bearings Ltd., a maker of tapered, cylindrical and spherical roller bearings based in Mumbai with plants in Bharuch and Dehradun, in a share-based deal subject to Indian approvals.

Chinese appliance maker Midea plans to invest Rs 800 crore in a 43-acre manufacturing facility in Pune producing refrigerators, washing machines and water appliances, employing 500 people and expected operational by end-2018.

Manuli Hydraulics has acquired the majority of shares of PSI Hydraulics, India's third largest hydraulic fluid conveyance company with operations in Bangalore and Udaipur. The company was renamed Manuli PSI Hydraulics Private Limited.

Elecon Engineering was awarded an order worth Rs 130 crore by Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited to install urea bagging and conveying systems. The work is expected to take about two years.

Atlas Copco opened a new manufacturing unit at its Cherlapally plant in Hyderabad, India, after investing Rs 80 crore, doubling the plant's capacity and adding about 35 jobs. The unit includes a rock drilling R&D test centre.

KROHNE MARSHALL, a joint venture of KROHNE and Forbes Marshall, inaugurated a new 10,000 sq m factory campus in Pune, India on 16 November 2016. The site consolidates manufacturing, testing and calibration for flow meters and level gauges.