Horizon Stone, a Chattanooga-based manufactured stone leader, acquired Majestic Stone, a Dayton-based natural stone supplier. The acquisition creates a partnership covering both manufactured and natural stone.

Briggs & Stratton will permanently close two Billy Goat manufacturing facilities in Lee's Summit, Missouri, affecting 90 employees. Layoffs begin July 2, 2025, and operations will relocate to Munnsville, New York.

Private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners acquired Geo Specialty Chemicals, a supplier of materials for coatings, adhesives, water treatment, and contact lenses. Financial details were not disclosed.

Aloi Materials Handling & Automation, LLC, a portfolio company of Wincove Private Holdings, acquired Mainstream, Inc., a mechanical contractor specializing in conveyor belts and shoots. The acquisition closed on September 6, 2019; financial details were not disclosed.

MAT Holding Group merged OCV Control Valves with Dorot Control Valves in Tulsa, Oklahoma, creating OCV Fluid Solutions, which serves waterworks, fire protection, aviation fueling and mining markets.

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake broke ground on a 130,000 sq ft expansion of its Bowling Green, Kentucky wheel-end plant, including a new production line, a $65 million investment adding about 100 jobs, with completion expected by end of 2020.

Astoria Generating Co. signed a contract with Siemens to supply eight 76-MW aeroderivative gas turbines for two new power barges at the Gowanus and Narrows Generating Stations in Brooklyn, New York City.

Raytheon authorized CPI Aerostructures to begin production of pod structures and air-management system components for the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band program. The contract has a maximum value of $23.3 million, with deliveries expected from August 2020 to first half of 2021.

Leonardo DRS won a U.S. Navy contract for development, integration and production of hardware solutions for various Navy platforms. The base award is over $382 million, with options up to $830 million.

PPG was awarded a five-year, $78 million contract by the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC) to provide coatings, solvents and technical services to MSC's fleet of approximately 125 ships.

Briggo announced an agreement with Foxconn Industrial Internet (Fii) to produce Briggo's autonomous Coffee Hauses at Fii's Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin.

O'Neal Industries Inc. acquired the assets of G&L Manufacturing, a manufacturer of small diameter thin wall tubing in stainless steel, nickel alloys, titanium and Monel, headquartered in Cookeville, Tennessee with a second facility in Denver, Colorado.

CIRCOR Aerospace & Defense California has been awarded an exclusive five-year aftermarket service agreement with Emirates Airline for parts support, component repair, and overhaul services.

A joint venture of Filanc and Brown and Caldwell has been selected as design-builder for the City of Escondido's Membrane Filtration Reverse Osmosis Facility for Agriculture project, which will produce 2 million gallons per day of recycled water for irrigation.

GE Aviation has been awarded a $143.7 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to produce T408-GE-400 engines for CH-53K helicopters, covering low-rate initial production of 3 lot 2 engines and 24 lot 3 engines.

The Massman Companies has acquired DTM Packaging and Custom Automation, a manufacturer and remanufacturer of bottling, packaging and custom automation equipment, adding it to its group of machinery companies.

Applied Energy Systems will supply a range of SEMI-GAS ultra high purity gas delivery systems to an unnamed global tooling and industrial materials manufacturer building a new manufacturing facility.

CORE Industrial Partners has acquired Fleco Industries, a designer and manufacturer of LED-based lighting products for commercial, industrial, and premium residential markets.

Smooth-On, Inc. has acquired Accu-Cast, a manufacturer of alginate mold making materials based in Bend, Oregon. The acquisition adds Accu-Cast's innovative products to Smooth-On's line of mold making materials.

May River Capital has established Advanced Material Processing (AMP) and acquired Kason Corporation, which will join existing portfolio company Marion Process Solutions under the AMP platform. The platform focuses on material processing equipment.

Stryker announced a definitive agreement to acquire Mobius Imaging and its sister company Cardan Robotics for $370 million upfront plus up to $130 million in contingent payments. The acquisition provides Stryker's Spine division with intra-operative imaging technology.

OpGen, Inc. entered a definitive agreement to acquire Curetis GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Curetis N.V., creating a transatlantic diagnostics company. The combined company will be headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

Resonetics announced the acquisition of Tru Tech Systems, a Michigan-based supplier of precision grinding services for the medical device market and CNC grinding equipment for the machine tool industry.

Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) announced the addition of 4,500 square feet to its facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to meet increased demand for product lines including those from the recently acquired Parker PCB. The expansion is expected to be completed in Fall 2019.

ON Semiconductor Corporation has acquired GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 300mm fab in East Fishkill, USA, for $430 million, with $100 million paid at signing and $330 million due by end of 2022, when full operational control transfers.

Pro-Active Engineering, Inc., an electronic design and manufacturing service provider in Sun Prairie, has acquired Apex Embedded Systems LLC, a Monona-based engineering firm.

Jankel Tactical Systems has delivered its largest ever single order for armored Chevrolet 3500 HD Suburban vehicles, called up off a 10-year Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded in 2017.

The Aleut Corporation announced the acquisition of Strata-G Solutions, Inc., a Huntsville, Alabama-based design engineering and integrated hardware manufacturing company, as a wholly owned subsidiary.

Frequency Electronics, Inc. announced the award of contracts for precision Voltage Controlled Quartz Crystal Oscillators with an aggregate value of approximately $8.7 million on September 3, 2019.

Parkdale Mills, through its Parkdale Advanced Materials subsidiary, acquired full ownership of the Ciclo textile ingredient technology on October 1, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Edwards opened a new 75,000 square foot North America Semiconductor Technology Center in Hillsboro, Oregon, to provide service, support, customer training, and R&D for vacuum and exhaust management equipment.

Bast Fibre Technologies closed a strategic financing with Ahlström Capital to expand fiber manufacturing capacity at its facilities in Lumberton, North Carolina and near Düsseldorf, Germany. The investment will enable production of over 10,000 metric tons of Sero hemp fiber per year by 2023 and up to 50,000 metric tons annually by 2026.

SkyWater Technology Foundry plans a 66,724-square-foot expansion of its Bloomington, Minnesota chip manufacturing facility, adding about 15,000 square feet of clean room space and supporting 30-50 new jobs.

DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of JointPoint, Inc., including its surgeon-friendly navigation software for hip replacement. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Veelo Technologies moved into a new 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Woodlawn, Ohio, scaling from 4 to 24 employees, to ramp production for a large defense contract won in late 2018.

Symbotic LLC, an AI-based supply chain robotics company, agreed to merge with SoftBank's SVF Investment Corp. to go public on the Nasdaq with a pro forma equity value of approximately $5.5 billion.

Tex-Tech Industries announced a nearly $25 million investment in a new 170,000-square-foot manufacturing center in Forsyth County, North Carolina, creating 49 jobs.

Arvind Advanced Materials Limited, a subsidiary of Arvind, acquired a 61% stake in U.S. nonwovens manufacturer Dalco-GFT for $136 million. The deal gives Arvind a manufacturing base in the U.S.

Bondcote Performance Textiles, a subsidiary of XFS Global, has acquired coated textiles innovator Graniteville Specialty Fabrics. Graniteville will continue operating in Greenville, S.C., and integrate into Bondcote.

Agility Robotics will merge with SPAC Churchill Capital Corp XI, valuing the combined firm at $2.5 billion. The deal is expected to close by end of 2026, with Agility raising over $620 million.

Showa Group announced a major expansion of its Fayette, Alabama facility to triple production capacity of nitrile single-use gloves, aided by $81.3 million in contracts from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The phased buildout will increase annual capacity to 1.2 billion gloves by end of 2022 and 2.8 billion gloves once complete.

Alleghany Capital Corporation formed Precision Cutting Technologies as a holding company for its machine tool and consumable cutting tool subsidiaries, and acquired a majority interest in CID Performance Tooling, a manufacturer of solid carbide end mills based in Saco, Maine.

CR announced an agreement in September 2019 to acquire the mining products and associated IP from Californian-based Berkeley Forge & Tool.

Knudsen Engineering of Perth, Ontario, won a four-year, $16.8 million US Navy contract for sonar sounding sets in September 2019.

CAREL USA debuted an expanded production facility in Manheim, Pennsylvania, doubling its plant size from 35,000 to 75,000 square feet. The expansion is expected to create up to 70 jobs.

Cree, Inc. announced a public-private partnership with New York State to invest approximately $1 billion over six years to construct and equip a new 200mm silicon carbide wafer fabrication facility at the Marcy Nanocenter on the SUNY Poly campus. The project is expected to create over 600 full-time jobs.

Platinum Equity Partners agreed to acquire Wesco Aircraft Holdings Inc. for $1.9 billion, combining it with Pattonair, a Platinum Equity-owned supply chain management services company. Wesco shareholders will receive $11.05 per share in cash.

The Orange County Water District board awarded a $310 million contract to Shimmick Construction for the 30 MGD Final Expansion of the Groundwater Replenishment System. The project will add 31,000 acre-feet per year of water supply, bringing total capacity to 134,000 AFY. Construction is estimated to be completed in 2023.

Duro Felguera, through its subsidiary DF Calderería Pesada, has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil to design, manufacture, and test four coking chambers for ExxonMobil's refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Each chamber weighs about 200 tons. Delivery is scheduled for Q4 2020.

Brickworks Building Products acquired Sioux City Brick, a US brick manufacturer based in Iowa, for AU$47 million. Sioux City Brick has three production lines delivering over 90 million bricks annually and employs 200 staff.