Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions will supply a 450MW steam turbine and generator through its US subsidiary for the Montgomery County Power Station in Willis, Texas, owned by Entergy Texas. Groundbreaking was held February 15, 2019, with commercial operation scheduled for May 2021.

HCI Equity Partners acquired Express Packaging, a contract packaging and manufacturing provider in Newcomerstown, Ohio, with a subordinated debt and equity investment from Patriot Capital, announced February 2019.

Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT) installed the HELLER FP 6000 5-Axis Machining Center at its Detroit research facility, enabling full-scale parts production and testing in-house.

Trelleborg acquired Sil-Pro, a Minnesota-based medical device manufacturing outsourcer specializing in silicone and thermoplastic molding. The deal closed on January 2, 2019. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation's subsidiary ASRC Industrial Services acquired K2 Industrial Services, parent of KM Plant Services, KM Industrial Services and Mansfield Industrial. K2 provides industrial cleaning and multi-craft services.

Covestro LLC announced a $1.7 billion investment to build a new 500-kiloton MDI plant at its Baytown, Texas, industrial park. Rod Herrick was named venture manager to oversee the project.

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Rolls-Royce Corporation a $179.7 million firm-fixed-price contract for C-130J Propulsion Long Term Sustainment. The contract is for one year, starting January 31, 2019.

Shandong Ruyi Investment Holding has completed its acquisition of INVISTA's Apparel & Advanced Textiles business, which will operate as The LYCRA Company. The transaction includes eight manufacturing facilities, four R&D labs, and approximately 3,000 employees.

Raytheon was awarded an $81,224,627 contract modification for the procurement of 228 configuration components for retrofit of F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft for the U.S. Navy and the government of Australia.

Americhem announced an expansion of its medical manufacturing capacity at its Morrisville, Pennsylvania location, adding a dedicated white room compounding space and a design center.

Weiss Technik North America has acquired Cincinnati Sub-Zero's test chambers and test laboratories divisions. CSZ will be retained as a product brand, and all CSZ employees will be retained.

Augury has acquired Alluvium, a company specializing in operational data analytics for industrial systems. The merger aims to combine Augury's hardware and machine learning with Alluvium's software platform.

BASF and Solenis have completed the merger of BASF's wet-end Paper and Water Chemicals business with Solenis. The combined company operates under the Solenis name, with BASF owning 49% and Solenis management and CD&R owning 51%.

Metalex Manufacturing Inc., a US contract machining company, has invested in a Droop+Rein T portal machining centre from Starrag, its largest investment to date. The machine will be used for machining large workpieces.

Zahroof Valves moved its reciprocating compressor valve operations into a new Houston, Texas facility with more than three times the office and production space.

Green Bay Packaging is launching a paper mill in Wisconsin that will use 100% recycled fiber and process 685,000 tons per year to make linerboard and corrugated medium. The $500 million facility is projected to create 1,000 construction jobs and 200 additional jobs by 2022.

SAPA broke ground on a 10,000 square meter production facility in Shelby Township, Michigan, with a planned investment of $40.1 million and 223 new jobs. The plant is expected to be operational in January 2020 and will house its US headquarters.

Sungrow supplied its 1500V turnkey inverter solutions to the Techren-2, a 200 MW solar project in Nevada. The project is expected to be grid-connected by the end of 2019.

Summit Polymers, a supplier of injection molded plastics and automotive interior components, is undertaking a 27,000-square-foot expansion of its Elizabethtown, Kentucky facility to meet growing demand for Ford Escape and Lincoln MKC components.

RELINEEUROPE AG acquired a 50% interest in Reline America, a supplier of UV light cured CIPP liners, expanding its footprint in the American market.

North Coast Composites, Tool & Mold has secured a $99 million 10-year long term agreement to supply composite parts for a commercial aircraft program. Production mold tooling will be manufactured in 2019, with production starting in late 2019.

Continental AG is investing $10.3 million to expand its O'Sullivan Films plant in Winchester, Virginia, adding 61 jobs over three years. The project includes internal modifications and new equipment to increase capacity and produce synthetic leathers.

The duMONT Company and Hassay Savage Company, which merged on January 1, 2019, plan to relocate and expand into a new 24,400-square-foot manufacturing facility in Deerfield, Massachusetts. MassDevelopment issued a $2.8 million tax-exempt bond to support the project, which includes new equipment.

Toshiba America Energy Systems Corporation (TAES) secured a 12-year Long-Term Service Agreement (LTSA) for the High Desert Power Project, a 323MW combined-cycle power plant in Southern California owned by Middle River Power. The agreement covers planned maintenance, engineering support, and parts for the Toshiba steam turbine and generator.

Oliver Healthcare Packaging purchased US-based medical packaging firm CleanCut Technologies, including its 70,000 sq ft facility in Anaheim, California and its product portfolio. The deal also covers design, prototyping and contract packaging.

Zuken Inc announced an agreement to purchase Vitech Corporation, a systems engineering software company based in Blacksburg, Virginia, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition complements Zuken's electrical and electronic design portfolio.

ResinTech has secured $116.7 million in debt financing to construct a new manufacturing campus in Camden, New Jersey, consolidating its operations and supported by $138.8 million in state tax credits.

Blue Diamond Growers is expanding its 200,000-sq-ft almond processing facility in Turlock, California, with a 52,000-sq-ft building and new automated processing and packaging equipment. The new building is scheduled for completion in spring 2020.

KIK Custom Products, parent company of BioLab, has acquired NC Brands, a provider of specialty pool and spa chemicals. The acquisition adds brands such as Red Leopard, SeaKlear, Natural Chemistry and Coral Seas to BioLab's portfolio.

Medbio opened a second 25,000-square-foot manufacturing facility adjacent to its existing building in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The facility adds 12,000 square feet of clean room space for medical device assembly and packaging.

Nexeo Solutions announced an expanded distribution agreement with Chemetall (BASF) to distribute Chemetall's aerospace surface treatment portfolio in the United States.

Sonepar USA agreed to acquire North Coast Electric, a Seattle-based electrical distributor with 34 branches in the Northwest, adding to Sonepar's footprint.

PIC Group, Inc. was awarded a five-year contract by UMERC to provide Operation & Maintenance Services for the F.D. Kuester and A.J. Mihm Generating Stations in Michigan. The $270M gas-fired project will have 180 MW capacity and use Wärtsilä technology, with commercial operation in mid-2019.

Prodomax Automation, a member of the Jenoptik Group, won two orders in North America totaling over EUR 12 million. One order is from a major Tier 1 automotive client for assembly lines in the southern US; the other is for a GM program assembly project to be delivered in mid-2019.

CleanSpark completed the acquisition of Pioneer Critical Power, Inc. (PCPI), a subsidiary of Pioneer Power Solutions, gaining intellectual property and executed contracts expected to generate approximately $3.6 million in gross sales. The acquisition closed on January 28, 2019.

Boeing received a $2.46 billion contract modification to manufacture and deliver 19 Lot 10 P-8A maritime patrol aircraft to the U.S. Navy, Norway, and the U.K. Work is scheduled to conclude by March 2022.

MediPurpose signed an agreement with Premier Inc to include SurgiLance Safety Lancets, effective December 1, 2018, for Premier GPO members.

Multibeam Corp. received a $22.9 million firm-fixed-price modification to contract FA9453-17-C-0015 for Electron-Beam Direct Write subsystems, continuing demonstration of an advanced lithography tool for government integrated circuits. Work in Santa Clara, California, expected completion May 19, 2021.

Siemens secured an order from Cooperative Energy to re-power its R.D. Morrow, Sr. Generating Station in Purvis, Mississippi with an HL-class gas turbine. The contract includes a long-term service agreement.

Entegris and Versum Materials agreed to combine in a merger of equals, creating a premier specialty materials company for the semiconductor industry. The combined company will have a pro forma enterprise value of about $9 billion.

BOCAR Group, a German automotive supplier, began construction on a new 350,000-square-foot facility in Huntsville, Alabama, its first U.S. manufacturing site. The $115 million project will produce high-end structural aluminum parts and create over 300 jobs.

Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing announced plans for a new $138 million manufacturing facility in Cartersville, Georgia, to produce 2.4 million passenger vehicle tires annually. The project will create over 150 jobs and be built in two phases, totaling 254,000 square feet.

Crown Equipment Corp. announced an expansion across six Ohio cities (Troy, Minster, New Knoxville, Celina, Fort Loramie, and New Bremen) expected to create 563 full-time positions and $28.5 million in new payroll. The project focuses on manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution, including a new building and machinery.

Monogram Food Solutions announced a $30 million expansion of its manufacturing facility in Martinsville, Virginia, expected to create 300 new jobs. The expansion will accommodate new and expanding agreements for the co-packer and private label manufacturer.

Nucor announced a $650 million expansion of its steel mill in Ghent, Kentucky, nearly doubling annual capacity from 1.6 million to about 3 million tons of coiled sheet steel. The project will add 70 jobs and is the second phase of a larger project that began in 2017.

Electrolux is closing its St. Cloud, Minnesota facility to consolidate freezer production at the Anderson, South Carolina facility.

Electrolux announced a $250 million investment to expand and modernize its 400,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Springfield, Tennessee, for a new line of Frigidaire freestanding cooking products. Construction is expected to begin in 2019 and be completed in 2020, adding 25 jobs.

BMP Medical, a division of Biomedical Polymers, has opened a new 80,000 sq. ft. medical plastics manufacturing facility in Sterling, Massachusetts. The facility offers injection molding, blow molding, two-shot and insert molding services for medical device and diagnostic OEMs.

Zebra Technologies Corporation agreed to acquire Temptime Corporation for approximately $180 million on January 25, 2019. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019.

Cubic Corporation is completing renovation and upgrade of its San Diego manufacturing facility to accommodate production and testing of components for live, virtual and constructive air combat training systems, including new secure LVC pods.