Align Capital Partners completed a growth investment in Pleatco, a pool and spa filtration products manufacturer. The deal value was not disclosed.

Ozinga RMC closed on the acquisition of Indiana's Eagle Ready-Mix, adding its Goshen and Elkhardt sites to Ozinga's 11-plant business serving north central Indiana and southwest Michigan.

UK-based Nasmyth Group announced the opening of a new 18,000 square foot facility in Santa Clarita Valley, California, to provide metal surface treatments to aerospace and defense clients. The company's US headquarters will also relocate to this facility.

ABB is planning to expand its industrial robot manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan, which delivered its first robot in March 2017, to meet growing demand from automakers and other sectors.

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) announced that its subsidiary Vision Technologies Land Systems, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% interest in Aethon, Inc., a provider of autonomous mobile robots, for an enterprise value of US$36 million. The acquisition will be merged with VT Robotics and become part of ST Kinetics.

NAVYA, a French autonomous vehicle company, will build a 20,000+ square foot manufacturing plant in Saline, Michigan, with a capital investment of over $1 million, creating 50 jobs, and plans to build 25 ARMA shuttles by end of 2017.

Calsonic Kansei, a supplier to Nissan's Canton, Mississippi plant, expanded in Madison County, Mississippi with a $16.33 million investment that creates 98 new jobs. It leased and upfitted a former warehouse in Gluckstadt, and manufacturing began in May 2017.

American Electric Technologies' M&I Electric business won a $4 million turnkey power delivery contract from a large US midstream oil and gas company for three compressor stations on a new crude pipeline from the Permian Basin to Nederland, Texas, with delivery expected in early 2018.

BorgWarner agreed to acquire Sevcon, Inc. in a transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $200 million, subject to Sevcon shareholder approval and competition clearance.

MRC Global's subsidiary MRC Global (US) Inc. extended its contract to provide integrated supply services and gas distribution products, including pipe, valve and fitting products, to NiSource Inc. on 17 July 2017.

Emerson secured a $20 million contract to modernize the control system at San Francisco's Southeast Treatment Plant, the city's largest wastewater facility, with upgrades to be implemented in five phases over 15 years.

Hankscraft H2O Products and Runxin USA, Inc. announced a partnership to form Hankscraft Runxin, LLC, based in Reedsburg, WI, to distribute Runxin's water treatment valves and systems in North America.

RSS, a subsidiary of The Dupps Company, announced that Alternative Rubber & Plastics will distribute Harmonite powders. Harmonite is an engineered material used as a base compound or additive in coatings, adhesives, sealants, and rubber products.

H&E Equipment Services and Neff Corp. entered into a definitive merger agreement under which H&E will acquire Neff Corp. for a total enterprise value of about $1.2 billion, including approximately $690 million of net debt. The transaction is expected to close in late Q3 or early Q4 2017.

AJ Manufacturing moved into a new 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and headquarters in suburban Kansas City, Missouri, resulting in a 50% increase in capacity. The facility includes new automated laser cutting machines and a powder coating system.

AES and Siemens announced a joint venture to form Fluence, a commercial- and utility-scale energy storage provider with more than 460 MW of storage deployed or awarded.

Mahindra USA is planning to set up a greenfield tractor manufacturing facility in the US within 3-5 years to cater to growing demand and localize production, moving into the up to 160 hp tractor segment.

Rengo's subsidiary Triwall Corporation established a joint venture company, TW Michigan Corporation, in Michigan, USA, to manufacture and sell heavy-duty packaging materials. The announcement was made on 14 July 2017.

ABB and Thomas & Betts announced a $20.7 million expansion that consolidates R&D functions at a new location in Memphis, Tennessee, creating 90 new jobs in Shelby County.

WestRock completed the acquisition of five corrugated cardboard plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Louisiana from U.S. Corrugated for $192 million in cash and common shares. WestRock also secured about 50 thousand tons of supply through a long-term contract.

Briggs Equipment US acquired substantially all the assets of MacKinnon Equipment & Services, adding five branches in Florida and Georgia to its material handling business. The transaction closed on June 30, 2017.

Revenue Group and Meritor announced a new three-year standard supplier agreement under which Revenue Group will equip its bus, fire and specialty vehicles with Meritor's fully dressed axle assemblies.

Abbott and Bigfoot Biomedical announced an agreement to develop and commercialize diabetes management systems integrating Abbott's FreeStyle Libre glucose sensing technology with Bigfoot's insulin delivery solutions in the United States.

Norsk Hydro agreed to buy the 50% of extrusion company Sapa that it did not already own for an estimated $3.24 billion. No layoffs are expected.

Constellium will supply aluminum structural components for the all-new Ford Expedition starting in Fall 2017, expanding its business with Ford Motor Company.

I.D. Systems, a mobile asset management technology provider, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Keytroller, LLC, a manufacturer and marketer of electronic products.

Horizon Services, backed by Sun Capital Partners, completed the acquisition of Casteel Heating & Cooling (Atlanta) and Gold Medal Service (New Jersey). Terms were not disclosed. The acquisitions expand Horizon's operations to six states.

Sonovision USA Inc. was awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract by Honeywell Aerospace to manage legacy ATA and S1000D documentation and perform revisions and updates.

AWISCO has acquired Nyrock Machine & Tool Corp in a deal combining two New York-based companies. Nyrock Machine will operate as a division of AWISCO, offering industrial gases and supplies, and metal fabricating tooling and equipment.

Emerson broke ground on a $100 million expansion of its Sidney, Ohio compressor plant, adding nearly 20,000 square feet of office and engineering space and upgraded test labs. The three- to four-year project began with a groundbreaking on August 14, 2017.

Revere Packaging Holdings purchased custom tray and container maker Plastic Package for an undisclosed sum. The combined company will be headquartered in Shelbyville, Kentucky.

Cooper Standard will create approximately 98 new jobs and invest $1 million in new plant equipment at its Surgoinsville facility in Hawkins County, Tennessee, to make coolant tube and hose assemblies and fuel and brake lines.

Teledyne Instruments, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies, acquired Scientific Systems Inc., a State College, Pennsylvania manufacturer of piston pumps and precision components. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Phillips Tube Group purchased the assets of Tubetech, Inc., a supplier of welded steel tube for automotive, gas appliance, and lawn and garden industries, based in East Palestine, Ohio. The acquisition increases Phillips Tube Group's capacity and market share.

AAR Mobility Systems has been awarded a $255 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the Defense Logistics Agency to supply AM-2 pallet and mat assemblies for expeditionary airfields to the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

Lockheed Martin received a $471 million contract from the U.S. Army for Lot 12 production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets, including Alternative Warhead and Unitary rockets, with deliveries by summer 2019.

Edgewater Funds, Duchossois Capital Management and Brandon Ost collectively acquired Viskon-Aire Corp., a manufacturer of air and paint filtration products in Salisbury, MD.

Memex Inc. received a $500,000 purchase order from SEW-EURODRIVE for a plant-wide deployment of MERLIN Tempus Enterprise Edition and MERLIN DNC software at its Lyman, South Carolina facility.

Warner Electric, a subsidiary of Altra Industrial Motion, announced plans to expand its operations at Park 30 Business Center in Columbia City, Indiana, adding new equipment and new jobs. The number of jobs was not given.

Lollicup USA has signed a land development deal to build a 700,000 sq ft plant in Rockwall, Texas, making paper and plastic cups and food containers. About 200 jobs are expected and completion is scheduled for October 2018.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California awarded a $13.9 million contract for construction of a 500,000-gallon-per-day advanced water treatment demonstration facility. The facility will be operated for at least one year to support a potential full-scale recycled water plant.

Kappler, Inc. and ADS, Inc. entered into a Strategic Distribution Agreement for Kappler to supply chemical protective apparel to U.S. Department of Defense markets through ADS.

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America and Jungheinrich AG formed a joint venture, Industrial Components of Texas, LLC (ICOTEX), to manufacture industrial components. Construction of a 71,000-square-foot facility is underway in Conroe, Texas, scheduled to open in 2017.

Sentury Tire selected SSOE Group to design its 1.4 million square-foot tire manufacturing facility in LaGrange, Georgia. The $430 million plant will create over 1,000 jobs and have capacity to produce 12 million units per year, with full operations expected in 2019.

Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy announced a merger agreement, creating a combined utility company in Kansas, a major wind energy state.

Roseburg Forest Products announced plans to build a new engineered wood products plant in Chester, South Carolina. The project will create 148 full-time jobs, with groundbreaking expected in early 2018 and operations starting in mid-2019.

Ruiz Food Products is investing $79 million to expand its frozen food manufacturing facility in Florence, South Carolina, adding production lines over seven years and creating 705 new jobs.

Braskem selected The Linde Group as lead EPC contractor for its new world-scale polypropylene production line, Delta, in La Porte, Texas. The $675 million project will have a capacity of 450 kilotons per year.

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA) will begin the second expansion of its electric assembly building on its Houston campus, doubling the production space dedicated to electric forklift models.

Pioneer Power Solutions won a three-year contract with a municipally owned utility for a large North American city to supply submersible transformers, valued at up to $1 million annually.