PESCO will invest more than $7.5 million to expand its main production facility by 20,000 square feet in San Juan County, New Mexico, creating up to 180 jobs. New Mexico will provide up to $2.35 million in LEDA funds for the expansion.

Allmand Bros., a Briggs & Stratton subsidiary, plans to expand its Holdrege, Nebraska facility with five new assembly lines, a prototyping lab, a new paint system and robotic weld cells. The expansion is expected to be complete at the end of 2019 and add 20 jobs.

E.K. Machine broke ground on a new manufacturing facility for its Power Products division at its Fall River, Wisconsin site, with construction due for completion by June 2019 and 20 new jobs planned.

Gulf Controls Company acquired the assets of the Fluid Power division of Valin Corporation on November 30, 2018, and rebranded as GCC. The division, a distributor of hydraulic, pneumatic and electric products with locations in Kent and Spokane, Washington and Portland, Oregon, joins Employee Owned Holdings.

Gulf Controls Company acquired the assets of the Fluid Power division of Valin Corporation on 30 November 2018. Valin Fluid Power, a hydraulic, pneumatic and electric products distributor with sites in Washington and Oregon, became a division of GCC.

Eastman Kodak agreed to sell its Flexographic Packaging Division to private equity firm Montagu for a base price of $340 million, with up to $390 million total including earn-outs and prepayments.

Applied Industrial Technologies has acquired Fluid Power Sales, a manufacturer and distributor of fluid power components based in Baldwinsville, New York. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed.

Park Energy Services has completed the acquisition of substantially all assets of Midcon Compression, a division of Chesapeake Energy, including a facility in Hinton, Oklahoma and a gas compressor fleet. The deal lifts Park's compression fleet to over 150,000 horsepower.

Bennett Packaging has installed a second Barberan Jetmaster digital press at its Lee's Summit, Missouri site, a 48-inch machine added to its existing 66-inch press.

Abengoa selected Siemens to supply a compressor train, steam turbine and balance-of-plant equipment for Fulcrum BioEnergy's Sierra BioFuels plant in Storey County, Nevada, which will convert municipal solid waste into aviation fuel. Equipment is expected to ship in mid-2019.

Linde Hydraulics plans to locate new production operations in Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina, in a 67,200 sq ft facility, with a $13.4 million investment projected to create more than 60 jobs.

Motion Industries, a subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, has acquired Hydraulic Supply Company, a full-service hydraulic, pneumatic and industrial products distributor, with the transaction completed on October 1, 2018.

Fluid Flow has agreed to acquire Hygeniks, Inc., a Massachusetts-based manufacturer and distributor of value-added components and systems for hygienic processes, to expand its process control offerings for life sciences.

Krones Inc. acquired W.M. Sprinkman Corp., a Waukesha, Wisconsin maker of food and beverage processing equipment with 125 employees, for an undisclosed price. The deal closed on October 2, 2018.

Blue Wolf Capital portfolio companies Pearl Technologies and TGW Holdings merged to form Edge Industrial Technologies, a machine knife, blade and packaging manufacturer headquartered in Wilder, Kentucky, with plants in England, the US and India.

Green Bay Packaging awarded Voith a complete packaging production line for testliner, including a 7.62 m wide XcelLine paper machine, for its new PM 4 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Start-up is targeted for early 2021.

Nel ASA has been awarded a contract to deliver 448 electrolyzers to Nikola Motor Company for hydrogen station infrastructure in the US, under a multi-billion NOK contract covering up to 1 GW of electrolysis plus fueling equipment. The award date is not given in the article.

Lollicup USA signed a contract for a Koenig & Bauer-Flexotecnica EVO-XG flexo press, to be installed in its new 660,000-square-foot plant in Rockwall, Texas, with delivery in early 2019.

Green Bay Packaging Inc. has selected Voith to supply a full process line, including a 300-inch paper machine, for its new mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The mill is due to be operational in 2021.

Siemens' Dresser-Rand business sold its 100th reciprocating compressor, an order of 11 heavy oilfield separable compressors to a midstream operator for gas gathering in the Permian Basin, Texas.

Green Bay Packaging awarded Voith Paper a complete production line order for a new testliner paper machine (PM 4) at its Green Bay, Wisconsin mill, with commercial production planned for early 2021.

Green Bay Packaging selected Voith as full-line supplier for its new recycled paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin, operational in 2021, with groundbreaking planned for early fall 2018.

Kaishan Group is building a 65,000 sq ft corporate headquarters and air compressor plant in Loxley, Baldwin County, with a USD 11 million investment and about 62 jobs. A groundbreaking was held and completion is planned for the second quarter of 2019.

Dearing Compressor & Pump Co. completed its acquisition of Pittsburgh-based Kruman Equipment Co., which had been founded in 1936; the Krumans sold the business when they retired.

Japan's Kyoto Seisakusho acquired Chicago-based PMI Cartoning, which became PMI Kyoto Packaging Systems as of July 1, 2018. The deal gives Kyoto Seisakusho a route into the North American market.

Copper State Fluid Power opened a new Tucson, Arizona facility offering sales and repair of hydraulic and pneumatic equipment and parts, with planned e-commerce parts sales.

TMC Compressors of the Seas signed a contract to supply complete marine compressed air systems for two LNG-fueled containerships being built at Keppel AmFELS in Brownsville, Texas, for Pasha Hawaii. Delivery is set for 2020; contract value is undisclosed.

Timken is adding new equipment and machinery to its 350,000-square-foot Tyger River Plant in Union County to increase capacity. The expansion is a $2.5 million investment.

Baker Hughes, a GE company, will supply six gas turbines and compressors for the third liquefaction train at Cheniere's Corpus Christi LNG project in Texas, ordered through Bechtel. The project's aggregate capacity is about 13.5 MTPA once all three trains are complete.

Corrugated Synergies International, a sheet feeding equipment maker, is opening a facility near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in New Mexico. The company is investing nearly $40 million and expects to create about 120 manufacturing jobs.

Dürr is acquiring 100% of three Babcock & Wilcox subsidiaries (MEGTEC and Universal segments) for an enterprise value of about EUR 110 million, with closing expected in Q3 2018.

Pregis is investing about US$6 million in a second multilayer blown film line from Windmoller & Holscher at its Pregis Films facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The article is dated May 31, 2018.

Sypris Technologies received an award to supply high-pressure closures for the Venture Global CP2 LNG Export Terminal and CP Express Natural Gas Pipeline in Louisiana and Texas. Terms were not disclosed and shipments are expected by year-end 2023.

Sypris Technologies received an award to supply specialty high-pressure closures for the Permian Highway Pipeline Expansion Project in Texas, with shipments expected to be completed by year-end. Terms were not disclosed.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco Group, opened a 250,000-square-foot facility in Genesee County, New York, to expand US production of dry vacuum pumps for the semiconductor industry. The site is expected to employ up to 600 people.

Atlas Copco Comptec opened a 63,000-square-foot expansion in Voorheesville, New York, to increase production of large integrally geared centrifugal compressors and turboexpanders. The site's workforce is expected to reach about 340.

Ambrell Corporation, a subsidiary of inTEST, opened a new 80,000 sq ft induction heating manufacturing facility in Rochester, New York, after moving from Scottsville. Tenant improvements were estimated at $2.1 million, partly offset by $1,090,000 in state and local grants.

Ingersoll Rand plans to invest nearly $30 million in its Mocksville plant in Davie County, North Carolina, and create 25 jobs by the end of 2019. The plant makes rotary, centrifugal and Thermo King air compressors.

Global Compressor LP has opened a service repair center in Houston, Texas, stocked with more than 28,000 compressor parts and able to refurbish and ship parts the same day.

Rotating Machinery Services, a portfolio company of Incline Equity Partners, acquired AC Compressor and CONMEC Engineered Compressors from Baker Hughes, a GE company. The aftermarket turbomachinery services firm gains replacement parts and OEM-style capabilities; the announcement was dated 8 May 2018.

Miba acquired the industrial bearing segment of John Crane Group, which has three plants in the US and one in Germany. The deal gives Miba entry into development and production of industrial bearings.

ACS Manufacturing plans a 141,000-square-foot facility at 1439 Cambridge Street Extension in Abbeville County, South Carolina, with a $6 million investment. The facility is projected to come online in Q3 2018 and create over 150 jobs in five years.

Kimberly, Wisconsin-based Crane Engineering finalized its acquisition of RD Smith Company, a fluid processing equipment distributor in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The deal extends Crane's distribution into Minnesota and Iowa.

Alliance Packaging purchased an EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass digital corrugated press for installation at its Seattle headquarters facility, with installation scheduled for completion in May 2018.

Valmet signed a contract with WestRock to supply a Kraft linerboard machine for WestRock's mill in Florence, US, replacing three narrow-width paper machines.

Howden completed its acquisition of Compressor Products International, a Houston-based provider of aftermarket components and services for reciprocating compressors. The deal increases Howden's addressable markets by $1 billion. Completed on 23 December 2021.

Mukwonago-based GS Global Resources acquired Weston-based ADC Custom Products, a maker of roll-over and falling-object protective structures, in a transaction that closed February 23, 2018 for an undisclosed price. ADC was renamed ADC Equipment Innovations and its 35 employees were retained.

Eaton Compressor & Fabrication plans a 60,000-square-foot factory in Englewood, Ohio to make Eaton-Max DIY compressors for retail channels. The project needs $5 million in start-up funds and will initially hire 40 workers, rising to 75.

Curtiss-Wright agreed to acquire the Dresser-Rand Government Business from Siemens Government Technologies for $212.5 million in cash. The business makes high-speed rotating equipment such as reciprocating compressors and steam turbines for the U.S. Navy.

Bidell Gas Compression shipped the first compressor units fabricated at its Weirton, West Virginia facility to natural gas industry customers. The facility began operations in October 2017 and the company has 35 direct employees.