Prins Castings & Forgings, a Dutch maker of tailor-made castings and forgings, joined the ELCEE group. Torqx Capital Partners simultaneously acquired ELCEE, a Dutch supplier of mechanical components, with Blacktrace advising Prins' shareholders.

Pemamek has won an order to supply PEMA plate joining lines and service agreements to offshore wind monopile maker Sif Holding for its new XXXL monopile factory at Maasvlakte, Rotterdam. The monopiles will have a bottom diameter of 11.5 meters.

Sweden's SSAB has made a bid for Tata Steel's IJmuiden integrated steelworks in the Netherlands, including its packaging steels business. An analyst views the bid as fitting SSAB's focus on added-value sectors.

Machine Fabriek Elburg is taking over the activities of Nannoka Vulcanus BV, effective 1 April 2019, under the new name Vulcanus Castings BV. The Langerak (Doetichem) iron foundry produces cast semi-manufactured products for tractors, drives, vacuum pumps and earthmoving machines.

Van Lierop Metaal in Heeze completed its largest order ever in December 2016, producing 4,000 steel cheese boxes for Mourik using 600 tonnes of steel.