Austin-based craft beverage packaging maker American Canning signed a long-term lease for a 154,786-square-foot facility at Park 183 in Southeast Austin for a new plant and headquarters. The expansion is planned for 2022.

Owens & Minor Inc. will acquire home healthcare equipment company Apria for $37.50 per share, representing an equity value of approximately $1.45 billion.

Vaderstad is building a new 44,000 square foot multi-use plant in Wahpeton, North Dakota, adjacent to its existing plant and parts warehouse. The facility will include office space, training classrooms, and an exhibition hall.

Nel Hydrogen US, a subsidiary of Nel ASA, received a contract worth approximately USD 5 million from a leading US power and gas utility for a containerized PEM electrolyzer and hydrogen fueling station package. The equipment will be delivered in late 2022 and early 2023.

Pyran and Nagase Specialty Materials (NSM) have partnered for the exclusive conversion of Pyran's bio-based 1,5-pentanediol (PDO) to renewable 1,5-pentanediol diacrylate (PDDA) and other derivatives. NSM will produce and market the derivatives in North America and Europe.

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic awarded a $44.3 million modification to Konecranes Nuclear Equipment and Services to design and install a 175-ton heavy-lift portal crane at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

Vortex Coatings Inc. (PurEpoxy) and Groupe Distribution Inc. (Ice Epoxy) have been acquired by A.P. Nonweiler, a portfolio company of Renovo Capital.

Springer Industrial has been named the main distributor of Gema products in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Nucor Corporation announced on February 3, 2022, that it has successfully acquired a majority ownership position in California Steel Industries, Inc.

Texas Instruments plans to invest $3.5 billion annually in U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing through 2025, and 10% of annual revenue from 2026 to 2030. A major part is the Sherman campus with four factories, the first two starting construction in 2022.

SCHROTH Safety Products held a grand opening of its new 35,000 sq. ft. Americas headquarters and manufacturing facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, replacing a smaller facility in Pompano Beach and employing over 60 people.

Beacon MedTech Solutions announced a partnership with Sumitomo (SHI) Demag to install new injection molding presses at its 110,000 sq. ft. facility in Leominster, Massachusetts, increasing capacity for medical components.

MTech Systems, a Munters company, signed a contract to deliver its Protein SaaS solution to one of the world's largest food producers, covering its US food production complexes.

AEM, a portfolio company of Industrial Growth Partners, acquired Renaissance Electronics & Communications and its subsidiary HXI. Renaissance designs and produces RF and millimeter wave components for defense and commercial applications.

CC Metals and Alloys completed a $2.5 million expansion of production in Calvert City, Kentucky, creating 37 jobs.

Boar's Head Provisions Company plans to invest $126 million to expand its deli processing facility in New Castle, Indiana. The expansion would add 120 jobs by June 2024.

The Defense Logistics Agency awarded Amentum a contract worth up to $210 million for hazardous materials support services at multiple Naval Fleet Readiness Centers. The contract has a five-year term.

Matrix Adhesives Group, backed by private equity firm Goldner Hawn, launched a North American adhesive and sealant manufacturing and packaging platform formed from the contemporaneous recapitalizations of Guy Chemical Company LLC and Nuco, Inc. Dan Horner, an industry veteran, will lead the combined platform as CEO.

Proconex is combining the former Emerson valve repair facility in Burlington, New Jersey with its Atlantic Valve Services center in Swedesboro, New Jersey, expanding its valve repair and service capabilities.

Essity, a global hygiene and health company, acquired Legacy Converting Inc., a U.S.-based cleaning and wiping company and manufacturer of the Everwipe brand. The acquisition strengthens Essity's Tork professional hygiene portfolio.

Flotek Industries entered into a three-year agreement to provide its full portfolio of sustainable chemistry solutions to a dedicated portion of ProFrac's hydraulic fracturing fleets. The contract creates an expected backlog of over $230 million.

SHOWA Group announced plans to triple production capacity at its Fayette, Alabama facility, adding two new facilities. Annual capacity will reach 1.2 billion gloves by end of 2022 and 2.8 billion gloves once buildout is complete, supported by $81.3 million in U.S. DHHS contracts.

Boston Scientific is doubling its manufacturing space in Maple Grove with a 74,000-square-foot expansion for Watchman device components, with construction started last summer and completion expected at end of 2022.

L3Harris Interstate Electronics Corp. was awarded a $12,653,704 modification to a contract for Military GPS User Equipment Increment 2 Miniature Serial Interface, with work expected to be completed by Aug. 21, 2025.

ADF Group was awarded new contracts totaling $100 million for steel superstructure fabrication and installation for commercial construction projects in the U.S. and industrial sector in eastern Canada.

Tees White Gill (TWG) secured a four-year contract to supply 50 TS3 QR thruster models to Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors for two NOAA oceanographic research vessels being built in Texas.

Triumph Group announced a definitive agreement to sell its Stuart, Florida Aerostructures business to Daher Aerospace. The business has approximately 400 employees and specializes in large metallic structures.

Daher announced a definitive agreement to acquire the metallic aerostructures production and assembly business of Triumph Group located in Stuart, Florida. The business has approximately 400 employees and specializes in large metallic structures.

BrainCool received an order for seven IQool Systems from a hospital in California within the HCA Healthcare group. The order value is SEK 1.6–2.0 million, with delivery and installation during Q1 2022. The announcement was made on February 2, 2022.

Air Industries Group's subsidiary Air Industries Machining Corp. was awarded a Long-Term Agreement valued at $2.4 million to manufacture flight-critical products for the Blackhawk helicopter. The announcement was made on February 2, 2022.

Altamont Capital Partners acquired Bishop Lifting Products, a distributor of lifting products and solutions, from SBP Holdings. The transaction was announced on February 2, 2022.

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Perry Engineering, a civil engineering and land surveying firm based in Tucson, Arizona.

BQE Water completed commissioning and began operations of a Selen-IX water treatment plant for a major American power utility to remediate a coal ash pond in the Eastern US. The plant has a capacity of 1,500 US gallons per minute and operates under contract to WesTech Engineering.

Clariant signed definitive agreements to divest its 50% stake in the joint venture owning Scientific Design Company Inc. to SABIC for $130 million. SABIC executed a call option raised in 2015. The closing is expected in mid-2022.

Delmarva Corrugated Packaging has selected Dover, Delaware for a new $91 million corrugated box plant employing 159 people, replacing its New Jersey facility. The plant will have capacity of 75 tractor trailer loads per day when fully staffed.

McKinley Packaging, a subsidiary of Bio Pappell, is building a box manufacturing plant of over half a million square feet on East Pleasant Run in Lancaster, Texas. The more than $35 million facility will add 125 jobs and is scheduled for completion at the end of 2022.

WestRock plans a new corrugated boxing plant in Longview, Cowlitz County, double the size of its current facility, to be built by the end of 2023. The company cites growing demand from regional customers in the Pacific Northwest.

Flotek Industries agreed a long-term contract to supply its green downhole chemistry solutions to a dedicated portion of ProFrac's hydraulic fracturing fleets for three years. The contract creates an expected backlog of more than $230 million, and Flotek is also issuing $10 million of convertible notes to ProFrac.

Montabert, a Komatsu-owned hydraulic rock breaker business, has agreed to acquire 100% of Tramac's US and Canadian businesses. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of February 2022.

ASM Pacific Technology (ASMPT) completed its all-cash acquisition of Automation Engineering Inc (AEi) from Mycronic Group on February 1, 2022. AEi is a leader in automotive camera active alignment equipment.

GE Aviation announced an agreement to supply 30 GE9X engines and four GE90-115B engines, plus maintenance services, for 15 Boeing 777X freighters ordered by Qatar Airways. The deal is valued at more than $6.8 billion.

The Kelvin Group, a newly formed parent company, acquired Refrigeration Design & Service Inc., an industrial refrigeration services and design/build provider based in metropolitan Philadelphia.

Headwater Gold acquired the Crane Creek Gold Project in western Idaho through claim staking, leasing, and purchasing claims.

Braner/Loopco received an order from Metals USA, a subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum, for a precision multiblanker system to process stainless, aluminum, and high-strength carbon steel coils.

SAY Plastics was selected by Daimler Bus North America to supply thermoformed plastic components for its next-generation transit bus, after the previous supplier could not support the launch. SAY Plastics delivered on time and was awarded a multi-year contract for all bus interior thermoformed parts.

Mayzo, Inc. announced that its new Mayzo Operations Center in Walterboro, South Carolina, is now fully operational. The facility provides customized packaging and blending, centralized warehousing, and a chemical laboratory for R&D.

ClearWater Solutions (CWS) has acquired Midwest Water Operations (MWO), a water and wastewater O&M company based in Washington, Missouri. MWO has 120+ employees operating more than 200 systems across 7 states.

NeoPhotonics stockholders approved the merger agreement under which Lumentum Holdings will acquire NeoPhotonics for $16.00 per share, representing a total equity value of approximately $918 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2022.

TekModo will build a second manufacturing facility at its Three Rivers, Michigan campus, with groundbreaking in late February or early March 2022. The over $50 million investment is expected to create 60-80 new jobs.

McDermott's CB&I has been awarded a contract by Venture Global Plaquemines LNG for the engineering, procurement and construction of two 200,000 cubic-meter LNG storage tanks for the first phase of the Plaquemines LNG export project in Louisiana.