Sypris Electronics received contract awards from Collins Aerospace to manufacture and test electronic assemblies for the environmental control and power management systems of NASA's Orion spacecraft. Production will begin in 2019 and continue into 2020.

Spicers Paper, a division of Central National Gottesman, acquired Kilmer, Wagner & Wise Paper Company, a Garden Grove, California distributor of corrugated products, stretch film and industrial packaging. Financial terms were not disclosed.

LB Steel has become the supplier of wheel assemblies for Amtrak's Next Gen high-speed trains, which will be built by Alstom and operate at 160 mph starting in 2021.

Alliance Metals received approval to build an aluminum recycling plant in La Paz County, Arizona, to smelt and recycle waste aluminum into ingots for automotive, aerospace and military industries.

Samuel Associated Tube Group plans to invest $29 million to build a new 284,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Birmingham, Alabama, creating 50 new jobs. The facility is expected to be fully operational before the end of 2020.

LMI Packaging announced a 50,000 square foot addition to its building in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, on June 21, 2024.

ABB is investing $16 million to open a new Product Development Center in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

ABB is investing $39.9 million to expand its Mebane, NC manufacturing operations with an additional 200,000 square feet and 400 jobs over five years.

Movement Industries Corp. completed its acquisition of SGX Industrial LLC, gaining IoT monitoring technology, flow control patents and about $300,000 of inventory. The purchase price is Series B preferred shares plus assumption of a $300,000 promissory note.

Carpenter Technology opened a $40 million Emerging Technology Center at its Athens, Alabama plant, a 500,000-square-foot additive manufacturing facility for specialty alloys and metal powder.

StonePoint Materials acquired Road Builders, a Kentucky-based materials and paving construction company with two quarries and three asphalt plants. The acquisition expands StonePoint's presence in Kentucky.

JW Aluminum is expanding its aluminum continuous cast facility in Goose Creek, South Carolina with a $300 million investment. The expansion adds technology to use 100% scrap material in its process.

The Wichita City Council awarded a $500 million contract for the city's new water plant.

DirectMed Parts & Service LLC acquired Medical Systems Technologies LLC, a specialist in MRI and CT component level repair and testing based in Longmont, Colorado. DirectMed will retain employees and appoint founder Bruce Smith as Senior Engineer.

Merck announced a $57 million expansion of its vaccine manufacturing capabilities at its Wilson, North Carolina campus, adding 55 new jobs. The expansion is for production of the RotaTeq rotavirus vaccine.

SPS Companies and State Steel Supply Co. will acquire the parts fabrication assets of laser process fabricator Kooima Co. in Rock Valley, Iowa.

Gilat Satellite Networks announced that its subsidiary Wavestream received orders for over $6 million from the US Department of Defense for GaN BUCs, as the first award of a five-year base-period potentially worth over $10 million.

United Alloy, Inc. will build a new 200,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Seguin, Texas, representing a total capital investment of at least $35 million and creating at least 100 new jobs over three years.

Carpenter Technology Corp. opened its new Emerging Technology Center (ETC) at its production campus in Athens, Alabama, with an investment of approximately $40 million, expected to create about 60 jobs over five years.

Winsupply Inc. bought Industrial Equipment & Parts, a Plymouth, Minnesota distributor of heavy industrial pumps serving pulp, paper and ethanol customers. Terms were not disclosed.

North Star BlueScope Steel has completed a $700 million expansion of its steelmaking operation in Delta, Ohio, increasing capacity to 3.3 million tons per year and creating 90 new jobs.

Watsco, Inc. completed the acquisition of N&S Supply, a distributor of air conditioning, heating and plumbing products based in Fishkill, New York, with revenues of approximately $44 million.

Wellman Dynamics Corp., an aluminum and magnesium foundry in Creston, Iowa, received a $15.7 million Defense Production Act Title III award from the U.S. Army Contracting Command. The company must match with $7.9 million for a total $23.6 million package to fund plant modernization to address rising demand for sand castings for military and commercial helicopters.

MSI Mold Builders announced plans to expand its operations in Greenville County, South Carolina, with a more than $2.5 million investment expected to create six new jobs. The expansion will increase capacity for plastic injection mold manufacturing.

Tecmotiv Corporation, a supplier of MRO services and components for military vehicle platforms, has been acquired by RedNest Partners and Admiral Capital Group. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

United Imaging announced a global strategic partnership with BAMF Health, which includes BAMF Health purchasing the first uEXPLORER total body scanner and uPMR 790 PET/MR for clinical use in the United States.

Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. (IEA) received a contract to construct the 300 MW Thunderhead Wind Project in Antelope and Wheeler counties, Nebraska, consisting of 108 GE turbines.

IVECO and FPT Industrial (brands of CNH Industrial) and Nikola presented the scope of their joint venture and collaboration agreement to develop and distribute fuel-cell and battery-electric heavy-duty trucks in Europe and North America. The first truck will be the battery electric Nikola TRE.

ViewRay announced plans to collaborate with Medtronic and Elekta on clinical studies of its MRIdian MR-guided radiation therapy system. Elekta committed to investing up to $36 million for a 9.9% stake, and Medtronic will take an undisclosed stake.

AIRSYS Cooling Technologies Inc. leased 60,000 sq ft at Smith Farms Industrial Park in Greer, SC, for a new corporate headquarters and production facility. The $5 million investment is expected to create 116 jobs.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. will acquire all outstanding shares of AK Steel Holding Corporation in a stock deal valued at approximately $1.1 billion, creating a vertically integrated iron ore and steel producer. The transaction was announced on December 3, 2019.

Analog Devices named Rochester Electronics as the exclusive long-term provider for the ADSP-TS20xS TigerSHARC processors, transferring all residual inventory and product wafers.

NXP Semiconductors and Marvell announced on December 3, 2019 that all regulatory approvals have been received for NXP's acquisition of Marvell's wireless connectivity portfolio. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of December 2019.

Elliott Group broke ground on a $60 million cryogenic pump test facility at the former Jeannette Glass site in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, near its U.S. headquarters. The company chose the site as its main U.S. manufacturing base.

Endress+Hauser and its representative Vector CAG secured the Main Instrument Vendor contract at a large refinery in Texas, covering instrumentation and valves for a project. The article was published on 3 December 2019.

The US Navy awarded a $22.2 billion contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding for nine Virginia-class Block V attack submarines, with an option for a tenth.

US Steel Corp. announced it will invest more than $1 billion to upgrade its Mon Valley Works in Pennsylvania, including an endless casting and rolling facility at the Edgar Thomson Plant and a new co-generation plant at the Clairton Plant.

Doosan Bobcat Inc. announced plans to acquire the assets of BOB-CAT Mowers, Steiner and Ryan brands of ground care equipment from Schiller Grounds Care, Inc., including a manufacturing facility in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. The transaction is expected to close by Dec. 31, 2019.

SmithFoods Richmond plans to invest $9 million and create 34 new jobs by 2022 by adding a new production line to increase capacity for dairy and non-dairy products.

Baxter will buy the Seprafilm adhesion barrier and related assets from Sanofi in a $350 million deal expected to close by Q1 2020.

Biomerics purchased ATL Technology's interests in the Biomerics ATL joint venture and renamed the business unit Biomerics CRI, with plans to expand its footprint and capabilities.

Leica Biosystems and Sectra announced a collaboration to seek a combined 510(k) clearance from the FDA for an integrated clinical digital pathology solution.

Ace World Companies will open a new manufacturing facility in Clinton, Tennessee, in the former Rexnord building, investing $5.6 million and creating up to 50 jobs.

Konecranes has been selected by Green Bay Packaging to supply nine cranes, including four automated roll storage cranes, for a new $500 million paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The mill will produce 685,000 tons of recycled kraft paper annually.

Duro Felguera, through its DF Calderería Pesada division, has been awarded a contract by Phillips 66 to design and fabricate a hydrotreatment reactor and a humidification column for installation at a Phillips 66 refinery in Louisiana.

ExxonMobil has commenced construction on a polypropylene expansion project at its Baton Rouge Polyolefins Plant in Louisiana, which will add up to 450,000 tons per year of capacity, doubling the site's output. The project is part of the $20 billion Growing the Gulf initiative and involves $449 million in expenditures.

CLARK Material Handling Company completed the expansion of its manufacturing facility in Lexington, Kentucky, adding an 18,000 sq. ft. facility to increase assembly capacity for electric and internal combustion forklifts.

Konecranes was selected by Green Bay Packaging to supply nine cranes, including four automated roll storage cranes, for a new $500 million paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The mill will produce 685,000 tons of recycled kraft paper annually.

Guidoni Group, a Brazilian ornamental stone producer, will locate a quartz-engineered stone manufacturing facility in McRae-Helena, Georgia, creating 455 jobs and investing $96 million. Operations are scheduled to begin in Q3 2020.

Cadence Design Systems has entered a definitive agreement to acquire AWR Corporation, a subsidiary of National Instruments, which provides high-frequency RF EDA software. A strategic alliance between Cadence and NI was also formed.