KPS Capital Partners agreed to acquire substantially all assets of Briggs & Stratton, including foreign subsidiary equity, for about $550 million as Briggs & Stratton filed for Chapter 11, with KPS also providing $265 million in DIP financing.

PaperWorks Industries, a producer of recycled paperboard and folding cartons, acquired Color Craft Graphic Arts of Wisconsin.

MOGAS Industries has completed the acquisition of assets of Watson Valve, a Houston-based maker of severe service valves that also offers repair and coating services. Watson has a global install base of over 3,400 valves, mainly in mining.

CCL Industries acquired InTouch Label and Packaging, a short-run digital label converter near Boston, Massachusetts, for an enterprise value of about $10.9 million. The business will join Avery's WePrint direct-to-consumer label business.

Parent companies of Cattron and LOFA Industries, both Harbour Group companies, merged to form Control Solutions, a control systems platform for engine and pump management. Terms were not disclosed.

Cincinnati packaging company BGR acquired Louisville-based Laise Packaging to expand into Central Kentucky and Northern Tennessee. The deal was reported June 24, 2020.

Denver-based private equity firm Lion Equity Partners acquired Global Compression Services from Warren Equipment Company, a Midland, Texas provider of heavy equipment. The deal was announced December 31, 2024.

Triosim Corporation, a Wisconsin-based pulp and paper equipment firm, acquired Industrial Pump Services (IPS), which rebuilds and services industrial pumps and compressors from locations in Leland, North Carolina and Clinton, Louisiana. The article's dateline conflicts, listing both June 19 and August 14, 2020.

Brook & Whittle Holdings has acquired Label Impressions, Inc., an Orange County, California label manufacturer serving household, beverage, beauty and food brands, expanding its US manufacturing network to the West Coast.

Spicers Paper, a unit of Central National-Gottesman, will acquire Kilmer, Wagner & Wise Paper Company, a Garden Grove, California supplier of paper and packaging for 65 years. Deal terms were not disclosed.

Vessco Holdings, a water and wastewater treatment company backed by O2 Investment Partners, made a significant investment in Kennedy Industries, a Wixom, Michigan distributor and repairer of pumps and fluid equipment. The deal expands Vessco into pump repair services.

CIRCOR International sold its Distributed Valves Business, a maker of ball valves for the U.S. upstream oil and gas market, to MS Valves GmbH. EC M&A advised the seller.

BendPak Holdings, a subsidiary of BendPak, Inc., acquired certain assets and intellectual property from Garage Equipment Supply, Inc. and its IP holding company, including the Dannmar, MaxJax and Garage Equipment Supply brands. Terms were not disclosed.

Franklin Electric has acquired all product lines, assets and a manufacturing facility in Rossville, Tennessee from submersible pump maker CPS Pumps. The products will be sold under the FPS brand through Franklin's existing distribution channels.

Intertape Polymer Group agreed to acquire Schaumburg, Illinois-based Nortech Packaging and Tishma Technologies, makers of automated packaging machines. XLCS Partners advised the sellers.

Welch Packaging acquired Excel Display and Packaging in Aurora, Illinois, a maker of corrugated products including food packaging. It is Welch's third acquisition this year and a carve-out from Georgia-Pacific.

Southern Champion Tray, a paperboard packaging maker for the bakery and food service industry, acquired substantially all assets of Honeymoon Paper Products, Inc. of Fairfield, Ohio, effective June 29, 2020. Honeymoon provides packaging to supermarket bakeries, delis and food service companies.

IMI plc agreed to acquire Bimba, a Monee, Illinois maker of actuators and pneumatic cylinders, for $198 million in cash, with a further $2.5 million set aside for staff retention. Completion is subject to merger clearance and approval by Bimba's ESOP.

Coastal Group, a Holland, Michigan investment management company, acquired Louisiana-based honeycomb packaging manufacturer Veecor and launched Coastal Honeycomb LLC, which will produce honeycomb packaging in Holland with an initial 12 jobs.

Canada's Transcontinental made a $1.32 billion offer to purchase Coveris Americas, which operates 21 facilities producing labels and shrink films, to become a major North American packaging company.

Magna International, through a wholly owned subsidiary in a joint venture, agreed to purchase the remaining 50 per cent interest in STT Technologies, a North American supplier of transmission and engine oil pumps.

Cello-Wrap Packaging, Inc. acquired Cello-Wrap Printing, Inc., a three-generation flexographic printing business in Farmersville, Texas, in a transaction facilitated by Benchmark International, announced on 12 May 2020.

Trane Technologies spun off its industrial business, which combined with Gardner Denver to form the new Ingersoll Rand in a deal valued at $15 billion; the transaction has been completed.

The JF Petroleum Group, a MidOcean Partners portfolio company, announced it has acquired Rittiner Equipment Company, a New Orleans-based distributor, maintenance and construction provider for petroleum equipment on the US Gulf Coast.

Novelis, a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries, has completed its acquisition of US-based aluminum rolled products producer Aleris Corporation. The deal is expected to generate about USD 150 million in synergies.

Dearing Compressor has acquired Kruman, a Pittsburgh company, and will keep the Kruman name as a division of Dearing. The deal expands Dearing's territory across Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland.

New-Indy Containerboard, a 50/50 joint venture of Kraft Group and Schwarz Partners, acquired Shoreline Container, which operates corrugated packaging and protective packaging facilities in Holland and Zeeland, Michigan.

Emerson said it signed an agreement to divest part of the Pentair Valves & Controls business to address US FTC and Mexican antitrust concerns, and hoped to complete the deal by end of April. The statement is dated April 2017.

Alfa Laval acquired Niagara Blower Company, a Buffalo, New York maker of engineered-to-order heat transfer products such as air-cooled heat exchangers, on May 29, 2013. The company has about 120 employees.

KLINGER Holding GmbH of Gumpoldskirchen, Austria, has acquired GPI, a Texas-based supplier of industrial gaskets, seals, pumps and valves. GPI joins Thermoseal and KLINGER IGI as part of KLINGER's U.S. sealing companies. The article is dated April 2, 2020, and no deal value is given.

Tank Holding, North America's largest rotational molder, acquired Meese Inc., a maker of bulk laundry carts and material handling bins, from parent Tingue Brown & Co. The deal includes rotational molding facilities in Madison, Indiana and Ashtabula, Ohio.

Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has acquired pump and compressor maker Sundyne from BC Partners and The Carlyle Group. Sundyne's management team led by CEO Mark Sefcik will remain in place.

Energy Steel & Supply Co., a manufacturer of machined nuclear components, is merging with sister company Hayward Tyler, a pump and motor maker for the energy sector, as announced on January 8, 2026 from Vermont.

Elgi Equipments' wholly-owned subsidiary Elgi Compressors USA Inc formed a joint venture company with Bryan Becker, managing partner of the LLC, on 19 March 2020, disclosed to exchanges on 11 May 2020.

Atlas Copco has acquired Dekker Vacuum Technologies, a Michigan City, Indiana maker of highly engineered vacuum pumps and systems. Prairie Capital Advisors was exclusive financial advisor to Dekker. Terms were not disclosed.

New York private equity firm Monomoy Capital Partners acquired Jacksonville-based paper and packaging distributor Mac Papers, which generates over $600 million in annual sales. The price was not disclosed, and Mac Papers' COO Rick Mitchell will become president.

Bessemer Investors LLC completed the acquisition of Leonard Valve Company, a Cranston, Rhode Island maker of water temperature control valves and monitoring devices. Financial terms were not disclosed. The announcement was made on 9 March 2020.

Duraco Specialty Tapes has acquired Infinity Tapes, a US manufacturer of double-coated tapes, transfer adhesive tapes and release liners based in Forest Park, Illinois. The partnership was announced on 2020-03-05.

Argand Partners, LP acquired Midwest Can Company and Container Specialties, Inc., makers of portable fuel containers and blow-molded plastic containers, based in Franklin Park, Illinois. No financial terms were disclosed.

Nautic Partners completed its acquisition of Harrington Industrial Plastics, a distributor of corrosion-resistant fluid conveyance, control and measurement products, in partnership with its management. Harrington was founded in 1959.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation agreed to acquire the stock of Dyna-Flo Control Valve Services for $62 million in cash to broaden its industrial valve portfolio. Dyna-Flo makes control, isolation and relief valves and actuators for chemical, petrochemical and oil and gas markets.

Charlotte-based Wastequip signed a definitive agreement to acquire Van Nuys, California waste container manufacturer Consolidated Fabricators Corp., which has California facilities and a plant in Tijuana, Mexico.

JBS USA, the US subsidiary of JBS SA, plans to acquire Empire Packing Co. for $238 million, including its five processing facilities and the Ledbetter brand. The deal is contingent on regulatory approval.

TriMas signed an agreement to acquire the Rapak brand, bag-in-box product lines and assets from Liqui-Box after Liqui-Box completes its purchase of DS Smith's Plastics Division, including facilities in Indianapolis, Union City and the Chicago area.

Ferguson plc signed a purchase agreement to acquire Columbia Pipe & Supply, a Chicago-based distributor of valves, PVF and industrial products with 16 locations in the Midwest, subject to regulatory approval.

Clear Lake, Minnesota-based Doering Company acquired the assets of Eden Prairie-based Metro Hydraulics, a maker of hydraulic directional control and other valves for agriculture, construction and light industrial markets.

Atlantic Corporation of Wilmington announced its acquisition of Coastal Corrugated, a 35-year-old family-owned corrugated box maker in North Charleston, South Carolina. Coastal also makes protective packaging components for the automotive industry.

Atlantic Corporation of Wilmington, NC announced the acquisition of Coastal Corrugated, a 35-year-old box company in North Charleston, SC. Coastal makes large-format corrugated boxes and custom protective packaging for the automotive industry.

AptarGroup has announced plans to acquire premium airless and colour cosmetics packaging company Fusion Packaging (FusionPKG) through a binding agreement. The deal is aimed at meeting demand for fast beauty packaging.

Aptar entered into a binding agreement to acquire Fusion Packaging I, L.P. (FusionPKG), a Dallas-based maker of prestige airless and color cosmetics packaging for the North American beauty market. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and the value was not disclosed.