Synthesia Technology Inc. will invest approximately $29 million to build a new facility at the Port of Little Rock, Arkansas, for the production of insulated products for the construction materials industry. The company plans to break ground in July 2022 and hire 50 new employees over three years.

Mercury Systems received a $4 million order from a leading commercial technology company for advanced silicon packaging used in electronic warfare, AESA beamforming and C4ISR systems. The order was received in Mercury's fiscal 2022 third quarter and is expected to be delivered over the next several quarters.

Italian metal packaging maker Fanti USA started building renovations for its first U.S. production facility at the Half Moon Industrial Park in Weirton, West Virginia, on March 30, 2022. The $30 million project is expected to create an initial 40 full-time jobs.

Italian packaging company Gruppo Fanti held a groundbreaking for its first US production site in Weirton, Brooke County, West Virginia, investing $30 million to make metal packaging containers and creating 40 jobs.

WEG Transformers broke ground on a $10 million expansion at its facility in Washington, Missouri, creating 40-50 new jobs. This is in addition to a $40 million investment since early 2017.

Sumitomo Rubber USA LLC broke ground on a $129 million expansion project in Tonawanda, New York, adding a 55,000-square-foot building to increase tire production capacity from 12,000 to 18,000 tires per day and create about 50 new jobs.

Kaiser Aluminum will break ground on a $150 million addition at its Newburgh, Indiana plant, including a 100,000-square-foot production bay with a new coating line. The facility produces flat-rolled aluminum for beverage and food packaging.

Combustion & Control Solutions (CCS) has acquired Ostrom Boiler Services and Ace Power Solutions to expand its presence in the Atlanta market and enter the power generation industry.

Prysmian Group announced an expansion project at its Marshall, Texas facility, which will create new jobs and involve capital investment. The plant, originally built in 1968, employs over 400 people.

FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants, a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation, is building another new facility at its Cherry Lane site in Delaware for inkjet technology and ink manufacturing.

ThyssenKrupp Aerospace extended its agreement with Textron Aviation to supply cut-to-size aluminum sheet and other products from its Hutchinson, Kansas facility.

Faribault Woolen Mill, a Minnesota-based blanket and apparel maker, acquired Brahms Mount, a Maine-based manufacturer of cotton blankets and textiles. The deal closed in March 2022 for an undisclosed amount.

FlexQube received an order worth $525,000 for 8 eQart Line Robots and carts from an automotive supplier in Southeast USA, the largest order for eQart Line Robots to date.

Movellus announced a subcontractor agreement with BAE Systems' FAST Labs to provide Intelligent Clock Network IP for rad-hard electronics. The work is under a contract from the Army Contracting Command – Rock Island under the Cornerstone Other Transaction Authority.

Boeing was awarded a $122.7 million firm-fixed-price contract by the Defense Logistics Agency to procure horizontal stabilizers for the U.S. Air Force's KC-135 aerial refueling and airlift platform. Work will take place in Oklahoma and Missouri through April 30, 2028.

Alfa Laval won its largest order ever, valued at SEK 670 million, to supply a cold-block system for the modernization of Golden Brewery (Molson Coors) in the US. Deliveries start in 2022 and finalize in 2024.

Alro Steel entered an agreement to acquire certain assets of Klein Steel, a metals service center in New York, with operations in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse. The transaction is expected to close by end of April 2022.

Panamera Holdings Corporation announced a binding letter of intent to acquire Arsham Aluminum Alloys, LLC from Mid-Continent Metals Group, LLC. The transaction is expected to close in April 2022.

Haskell converted a vacant warehouse in Plainfield, Illinois into the Lincolnway facility for Diageo, with two high-speed can lines capable of 25 million cases of RTD products per year.

MHI Compressor International secured a contract to deliver compressor train equipment for Chevron Phillips Chemical's new propylene unit at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas. The equipment includes a steam turbine and heat pump compressor for a 500,000 tpy C3 splitter.

Matrix Adhesives Group announced it has completed its acquisition of Lohnpack Contract Filling, a niche provider of packaging and filling capabilities located in Hamilton, N.J.

Chinese manufacturer SEMCORP is planning to open its first North American manufacturing facility in Sidney, Ohio, with a proposed $1 billion investment and 1,200 new jobs.

Avis Industrial Corporation of Upland, Indiana, has acquired the assets of FEMCO Machine, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. FEMCO Machine has been renamed FAMCO Service and Machine, Inc.

Evoqua Water Technologies was selected by the City of Modesto, California to replace two Internalift screw pumps at the Sutter Primary Treatment Plant. The pumps are 96 inches in diameter and 38.3 feet long, each lifting 18,750 GPD.

Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation announced a definitive merger agreement to acquire RE2, Inc. for $100 million, consisting of $30 million in cash and $70 million in stock, adding mobile manipulation systems for industrial, medical and subsea markets.

Boston Dynamics announced that its Stretch robot for warehouses and distribution centers is now available for commercial purchase, with 2022 units sold out and reservations open for 2023 and 2024 deliveries.

Hayward Tyler, Inc. was awarded a multi-million dollar contract to supply variable drive booster pumps for the ITER fusion project. The pumps will be designed, built and tested at its Colchester, Vermont facility.

Permobil announced a 70,000-square-foot expansion of its Lebanon, Tennessee facility with a $15 million investment, expected to create 70 new jobs over five years. The expansion was expected to be finished in summer 2022.

Schweitzer-Mauduit (SWM) and Neenah agreed an all-stock merger of equals creating a specialty materials company with about $3 billion in combined revenue, targeting at least $65 million in annual run-rate cost synergies within 24-36 months.

Väderstad announced expansion of its US footprint with a new multi-functional facility in Wahpeton, North Dakota, with plans to open in 2023. The 44,000-square-foot space will include offices, training rooms, and an exhibition hall.

Altaris Capital Partners completed the acquisition of Meridian Medical Technologies, a global leader in emergency response and health security solutions, from Pfizer Inc.

Abbott Laboratories was awarded a $1 billion contract by the U.S. Army to provide rapid COVID-19 antigen tests (BinaxNOW) to the federal government, with work performed in Orlando, Florida and estimated completion by June 26.

Nucor Steel awarded SMS group a contract to supply a complete melt shop for a new facility in Mason County, West Virginia. The scope includes two 190-ton DC electric arc furnaces and other equipment, with hot commissioning expected in the second half of 2024.

Element Logic acquired SDI Industries, planning to leverage SDI's U.S. and Latin American locations and make SDI an AutoStore integrator.

Quality Valve is relocating its corporate headquarters and distribution warehouse to a new Mobile site at 1541 East I-65 Service Road South, a million-dollar investment giving 70 percent more space.

Rakuten Super Logistics chose Fetch autonomous mobile robots from Zebra Technologies to improve picking efficiency, with initial deployment planned for Q2 2022 and more facilities through 2022 and 2023.

KSB Mining completed a $44 million expansion of its GIW Slurry Pumps manufacturing plant and headquarters in Grovetown, Georgia. The project quadrupled capacity for large castings and added a distribution center.

Danieli has received an order worth over $650 million from Nucor Corporation for machinery and technology for a new steel plant in West Virginia, including QSP-DUE endless rolling technology. Commissioning is expected to start in mid-2024.

Ryerson Holding Corporation will invest $1.5 million to renovate its Lancaster facility, adding 25 new jobs and retaining 29. The project is expected to be complete by end of 2022.

Wabtec has secured a multi-year contract from Norfolk Southern to modernise 330 D9-44CW locomotives into AC44C6Ms, adding 20 years of life to each. Completion is expected by 2025.

Senzime has won a procurement in the US Midwest from a hospital chain of three hospitals for instruments and disposable sensors, with an initial order value exceeding SEK 1 million.

Danieli received two orders worth over $650 million from Nucor Corporation. One order is for a new greenfield QSP-DUE plant in West Virginia to produce 3 million mt/year of hot rolled strip. The second order includes a galvanizing line and color-coating line for Nucor's Crawfordsville plant in Indiana.

The U.S. Postal Service placed its first order for 50,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles with Oshkosh Defense, valued at $2.98 billion. The order includes a minimum of 10,019 battery electric vehicles, with production expected to begin in 2023 at Oshkosh's Spartanburg, South Carolina factory.

PSC Group, a portfolio company of Aurora Capital Partners, acquired Thermoplastics Services, Inc., a plastic custom compounding and pelletizing business based in Dequincy, Louisiana. The acquisition expands PSC's sustainability services for the petrochemical industry.

Sequel Wire and Cable partnered with Gary Yetman and Jim Coleman through an investment by Cuprum Holdings, LLC to form Sequel Wire and Cable Holdings, LLC, enabling expanded manufacturing capacity and product offerings at its Argos, Indiana facility.

The U.S. Postal Service placed its first order for 50,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles with Oshkosh Defense, valued at $2.98 billion, to be manufactured in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

All American Label & Packaging merged with Western Shield Label and Packaging, a pressure-sensitive label and packaging maker with plants in California, Texas, Ohio and Tennessee. Heartwood Partners supported the merger, announced March 24, 2022.

Beverly Knits, through its subsidiary Hemingway Sewing Solutions, will invest $3.3 million in a new sewing facility in Hemingway, South Carolina, creating 242 jobs. The factory will provide cutting, sewing, packaging and shipping services.

CELLTREAT Scientific Products announced it has agreed to acquire VistaLab Technologies, uniting two suppliers of laboratory research and clinical products for the life science industry.

Virginia-based Aeyon, a portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, acquired Huntsville's Manufacturing Technical Solutions (MTS) and Maryland-based Marick Group. MTS provides engineering and manufacturing expertise to NASA and the DoD.