Emser Tile opened a new 400,000-square-foot distribution center in Suffolk, Virginia, to serve East Coast and Midwest markets. The facility can be expanded to 850,000 square feet.

ENGIE North America Inc. and Axium Infrastructure US reached financial close on a 50-year comprehensive energy management contract to operate and maintain The Ohio State University's utility system at its Columbus campus.

STEAG SCR-Tech, Inc. acquired CORMETECH, Inc., an environmental catalyst manufacturer, from Corning Incorporated and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Terms were not disclosed.

Sika Corporation acquired EMSEAL Joint Systems, Ltd., a manufacturer of structural expansion joints and sealants, from Fulham & Co. Terms were not disclosed.

Murakami Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc. will build a $2.7 million, 20-employee warehouse on its Taylor County campus in Campbellsville, Kentucky. Construction starts in September 2017 with completion by March 2018.

Riceland Foods and Riviana Foods Inc. will expand their Rivland partnership facility in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to enter the rice/flour extrusion process market. The project will create up to 10 new jobs and is expected to be completed in 6 to 8 months.

US Tsubaki Automotive will invest $35.8 million and create 70 new jobs to construct a 250,000-square-foot facility in Portland, Tennessee, expected to be complete in late 2018.

Brazilian WEG SA has acquired CG Power USA Inc., the power and distribution transformers arm of the Indian group Crompton Greaves.

Gate Precast broke ground on a new structural precast concrete plant near its existing Hillsboro, Texas facility, to produce components for structural garage construction, with completion and operation expected by January 2018.

U.S. Tsubaki Automotive, LLC announced a major expansion in Portland, Tennessee, investing approximately $35.8 million and creating 70 new jobs over five years, with a new 250,000-square-foot facility to be completed in late 2018.

Singapore-based ST Engineering acquired Pittsburgh-based Aethon, a maker of mobile robots for materials handling, for $36 million. Aethon will operate as part of ST Kinetics division.

Wiegel Tool Works, Inc. and M.S. Ambrogio S.p.A. announced a joint venture partnership, MSA-Wiegel, to provide metal forming services in North American-based manufacturing locations.

Northeast Tool announced a $2.5 million capital investment in new machine tool technology at its Charlotte, North Carolina facility. The investment includes four new milling and turning machining centers from DMG Mori USA.

Generac Power Systems plans to invest $73 million and create up to 400 jobs across its facilities in Wisconsin, including Whitewater, Waukesha, Oshkosh, Jefferson, Eagle and Berlin, supported by up to $10 million in state tax credits.

TREMEC Corporation is moving its Plymouth, Michigan operations to a new 125,000-square-foot facility in Novi, Michigan, investing over $50 million and creating about 130 jobs over three years for the design, development and manufacture of transmissions.

Generac Power Systems announced plans to invest over $73 million in building renovations and equipment across its facilities in Wisconsin, supported by up to $10 million in tax credits from WEDC, and expects to create at least 400 jobs over five years.

Ring Container Technologies installed a new automated end-of-line packaging system at its 125,000-sq-ft PET blow-molding plant in Hanover, Pennsylvania, to handle eight container styles and three case sizes hands-free.

Micron Technology is outfitting its new Building 51 in Boise, Idaho, a $200+ million, 100,000-square-foot R&D facility with four clean rooms that doubles the company's capacity for semiconductor memory and storage research and development. Construction started in October 2015 and concluded in July 2017.

Fibertex Personal Care will invest $10 million to establish a new printing facility in Asheboro, North Carolina, its first production site in the Americas. The plant will print directly on nonwoven fabric for the personal care industry, serving North and South American markets.

Monogram Refrigeration, LLC, a subsidiary of GE Appliances (a Haier company), will invest $9.3 million to expand its manufacturing facility in Selmer, Tennessee, adding 120,000 square feet and creating 210 new jobs. The expansion will bring a new product line and total employment to nearly 400.

Kadant Inc. completed the acquisition of certain assets of Unaflex, LLC, a manufacturer of expansion joints for process industries, for $31 million in cash. Unaflex has about 140 employees and 2016 revenue of $18 million.

VF Corporation signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Williamson-Dickie Mfg. Co., a family-owned workwear company, for approximately USD 820 million in cash. The acquisition includes brands like Dickies, Workrite, Kodiak, Terra, and Walls, and is expected to close in Q4 2017.

Fibertex Personal Care, a Danish textile company, will invest USD 60 million to build its first US manufacturing facility in Asheboro, North Carolina, creating 145 jobs over five years. The facility will focus on printing on nonwoven materials for personal care products.

TTS Tooltechnic Systems, parent company of Festool, acquired SawStop LLC for an undisclosed amount. The deal includes all of SawStop's patents, intellectual property, products and facilities.

DynaEnergetics plans to triple quarterly DynaStage production by Q4 2017 and open a 40,000-square-foot assembly center at its Blum, Texas campus in Q2 2018. Total expansion investment is expected to be $18 million to $20 million, funded from operating cash flow.

Oliver Printing & Packaging Co. completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Pohlig Bros., LLC from Michael Gaffney, James Petit and WestRock, with Gaffney and Petit retaining significant ownership. Pohlig keeps its facilities and all employees.

The Woodbridge Group acquired 100% ownership of Woodbridge FoamPartner and renamed it Woodbridge Technical Products (WTP), continuing to manufacture slab urethane foams for consumer products, automotive, filtration, medical and industrial markets.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Missiles and Fire Control, was awarded an $8 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Special Operations Forces Global Logistics Support Services. Work will be performed at multiple locations in the US and abroad.

Pinnacle Transplant Technologies is expanding its Phoenix headquarters by adding 15,000 square feet of administrative office space by the end of September 2017. The existing facility will be dedicated entirely to production of bone and tissue allografts.

LeMond Composites, based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, plans to break ground this fall on a 100,000-square-foot addition to its 66,000-square-foot facility. The company has licensed carbon fiber manufacturing technologies from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Deakin University.

Space Systems Loral (SSL) won a contract from Hughes Network Systems to provide a JUPITER 3 Ultra High Density Satellite, to be designated EchoStar XXIV. The satellite will provide concentrated capacity over high-use areas for consumer, enterprise, and aeronautical services across the Americas.

J. B. Poindexter & Co., Inc., through its subsidiary Masterack, LLC, acquired CVP Group, LLC, the manufacturer and distributor of Masterack products. Masterack produces commercial-grade interiors and ladder racks for fleet customers, with headquarters in Decatur, GA, and a manufacturing plant in Social Circle, GA.

MetalX announced plans to construct a new scrap processing plant in Delta, Ohio, with an investment of $35 million. The initial phase will employ nearly 80 people and have a capacity of 500,000 tonnes per year, with construction expected to start in fall 2017 and operations in 12 months.

BID Group, a provider of equipment and solutions to the forest products industry, acquired MoCo Engineering and Fabrication Inc, a manufacturer of sawmilling equipment in Spokane Valley, Washington.

Precision Technologies Group (PTG), a subsidiary of Chongqing Machinery & Electric, completed a new joint venture machine tools factory in South Carolina, USA, in 2017.

Betts Industries acquired a majority stake in J-Tech Incorporated, its long-time partner and exclusive rebuilder of its tank truck valves, located in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. The deal is intended to support growth into new markets.

Proven Management has been awarded a $32.1 million contract from Caltrain for the South San Francisco Station Improvement project. Work is set to begin in November 2017 and be completed by mid-2019.

ABB has successfully delivered its ABB Ability-based Network Manager distribution management system and outage management system to ComEd, a unit of Exelon Corporation. The software provides real-time monitoring, control, and outage management for ComEd's network in northern Illinois.

The Loar Group has acquired Maverick Molding Co., a leader in high temperature polymer composites for aerospace and aero derivative markets. Maverick Molding is headquartered in Blue Ash, Ohio and designs and manufactures high temperature-resistant bushings, washers, and thermal insulators.

Nucor Corporation has agreed to acquire St. Louis Cold Drawn, Inc., a manufacturer of cold drawn steel products with facilities in St. Louis, Missouri and Monterrey, Mexico. The combined annual capacity of the facilities is 200,000 tons.

GenerSem (제너셈) announced a contract to supply semiconductor manufacturing equipment to Skyworks, with a contract value of 53.3 billion KRW, for delivery to the USA.

Sun Acquisitions announced the sale of RAC Refrigeration Systems, a commercial refrigeration and HVAC services provider in Chicago, to Thermal Mechanical. The acquisition expands Thermal Mechanical's geographic footprint and client base.

Zhongwang USA's proposed $1.11 billion acquisition of U.S. aluminum product maker Aleris Corp. is at risk due to national security concerns raised by CFIUS. The parties withdrew their CFIUS notice, and there is no assurance the deal will be approved.

MinebeaMitsumi and the Development Bank of Japan agreed to acquire all shares of C&A Tool Engineering, a precision machinery metal processing manufacturer in Indiana, with MinebeaMitsumi holding 51% and DBJ 49%.

W.M. Schultz Construction was officially awarded the Restoration of the Wastewater Treatment Plant project by the City of Kingston, New York, on August 10, 2017. Work covers pump replacement, pump station reconstruction, flood proofing and a new plant-wide generator, with completion expected in spring 2018.

St. Louis-based ALP Holdings acquired Atlas Labels & Packaging, a Kansas City, Kansas maker of printed packaging and promotional products. The sale closed June 30, 2017, and terms were not disclosed.

Dart Container Corporation plans a $40 million expansion that enlarges its Mason, Michigan manufacturing facility from 215,000 to 330,000 square feet and adds a new 250,000 square foot technical and innovation center in Alaiedon Township.

Trane, a brand of Ingersoll Rand, will invest $96 million to expand its existing HVAC manufacturing facility at 400 Killian Road in Columbia, South Carolina, creating about 700 jobs over three years.

EchoStar signed a contract with Space Systems Loral (SSL) to build the Jupiter-3/EchoStar-24 satellite, an ultra-high-density satellite with 500 Gbps capacity covering the Americas. The contract is valued at approximately $400 million, with launch expected in 2021.

Japan-based MGC Pure Chemicals America will build a new plant in Killeen, Texas, to produce super-pure hydrogen peroxide for the semiconductor industry. The $30 million investment is expected to create 28 jobs and start production in 2019.