BMJ Stone purchased Tennessee Building Stone on July 1, 2017, and plans to revitalize the facilities with new equipment including an automated splitter line, water filter, and multi-blade saw.

Boehringer Ingelheim broke ground on a $217 million expansion of its Fremont, California manufacturing facility. The expansion will triple capacity and add nearly 300 new jobs.

Huber Engineered Materials increased production capacity by 20% at its Bauxite, Arkansas plant for fine precipitated Martinal LEO alumina trihydrate flame retardants, using technology from its 2016 acquisition of the Martinswerk facility.

Emefcy and RWL Water merged to form a new company called Fluence, effective July 1, 2017.

Mittler Bros. Machine & Tool purchased and acquired Cellular Concepts (CellCon) of Detroit, MI. CellCon will relocate operations to Mittler Bros.' facility in Wright City, MO, and continue operating under the CellCon name.

Hitachi Ansaldo Baltimore Rail Partners, LLC was awarded a $400.5 million contract by the Maryland Transit Administration to provide 78 railcars and a CBTC system for the Baltimore Metro Subway Link. The railcars will be assembled at Hitachi Rail's facility in Miami, Florida.

Uponor North America held a grand opening for a 237,000-square-foot PEX tubing plant in Hutchinson, Minnesota, completed six months ahead of schedule. The $6.35 million investment was first announced in July 2017 and added more than 40 jobs.

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems was awarded a $25,160,118 firm-fixed-price delivery order by the US Navy for production of Solid State Switch Assembly ORDALT kits and spares in support of the Aegis Modernization program. Work will be performed in Andover, Marlborough, and Burlington, Massachusetts, with completion expected by December 2019.

Ingalls Shipbuilding received a $218 million contract from the U.S. Navy for advance procurement and construction activities for LPD 29, the 13th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock.

Berry Global purchased Adchem Corp., a Riverhead-based developer of high performance adhesive tape systems. Adchem will be combined with Berry's Engineered Materials Division.

Vestas received a firm and unconditional order for 70 MW of wind turbines and a 10-year service agreement for the Copenhagen Wind Project in the United States. Delivery is expected to begin in Q3 2018.

Samsung is investing $380 million to build a new manufacturing plant in Newberry, South Carolina, creating over 950 jobs. The plant will produce home appliances and is expected to be operational in early 2018.

Komatsu has completed its acquisition of Joy Global, combining Komatsu-brand surface mining equipment with P&H, Joy and Montabert brands for a complete range of mining solutions.

Upstate Niagara Cooperative will acquire Kraft-Heinz's Campbell, New York facility, investing $10 million in new machinery and equipment, saving at least 150 jobs.

Stonebridge Partners closed on Cast-Crete USA, a producer of precast concrete products for residential and commercial masonry construction, based in Steffner, Florida.

The Middleby Corporation acquired CVP Systems, a manufacturer of high-speed packaging systems for the meat processing industry based in Downers Grove, Illinois, with approximately $20 million in annual revenues.

GKN Aerospace announced a $9 million investment at its Advanced Machine Structures plant in Wellington, Kansas, to add new high-speed machinery and expand its workforce, following a contract extension from Spirit AeroSystems.

DuBois Chemicals, a specialty chemicals manufacturer, acquired Blue Star Lubrication Technology, a provider of high performance industrial lubricants and metalworking fluids.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. will invest $9.5 million to expand its Clinical Diagnostics operations in Frederick County, Virginia, creating 57 new jobs.

Braidy Industries disclosed plans to build a $1.3 billion aluminum mill in Greenup County, Kentucky, creating 550 advanced manufacturing jobs, with construction starting in early 2018 and completion in 2020.

Toner Plastics Group merged with Streamline Plastics Co. Inc., acquiring its injection molding and extrusion operations to expand its capabilities.

Kaiser Premier LLC, a subsidiary of Kaiser AG of Liechtenstein, acquired Premier Oilfield Equipment (POE), a manufacturer of hydro-excavation vehicles and storage tanks in Fort Morgan, Colorado. The acquisition allows Kaiser Premier to enter the wastewater industry.

IFA Rotorion North America is expanding its Charleston area operations with a new 234,000-square-foot facility costing $69 million, adding about 120 new jobs. The company produces parts for automakers including BMW and Volvo.

Doosan Heavy Industries signed an MOU on June 28, 2017 (local time) to acquire ACT, a Houston-based gas and steam turbine repair service provider, for an undisclosed amount. The deal aims to secure a foothold in the US gas turbine market.

Synalloy Corporation acquired a 3% ownership stake in Universal Stainless & Alloy Products and presented an initial merger proposal to Universal Stainless's board on June 29, 2017. The proposal was rejected by Universal Stainless's board.

Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc. (EBI) announced it has closed on the acquisition of Honeybee Robotics, Ltd., headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. Honeybee Robotics will become a fourth business within the EBI family, supporting space and defense markets.

UK-listed DS Smith signed a conditional agreement to acquire 80% of US corrugated packaging business Interstate Resources from Merpas for $920 million, assuming about $226 million of debt.

Plastipak Packaging announced a $15 million capital investment to add up to seven production lines at its Pineville, Louisiana facility, creating 10 direct jobs and retaining 263 existing jobs.

XPO Logistics signed a new multi-year contract expanding its decade-long relationship with Sealed Air, providing warehousing and logistics management from a 550,000 sq ft facility in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, with about 150 staff.

Nestlé Waters North America completed a two-year, $79 million expansion of its Nestlé Pure Life bottling facility in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, adding three high-speed bottling lines and nearly 50 jobs.

Platte River Equity acquired MFG Chemical, a custom and toll manufacturer of specialty chemicals, in partnership with the company's founding family and management team. The investment was made from Platte River Equity III, LP.

Lumbermen's, a building supply distributor, acquired Michigan Prestain, a Wyoming, Michigan-based manufacturer of pre-finished cedar shingles, siding, and other building products. The deal was finalized on June 9, 2017; terms were not disclosed.

Doosan Corp. signed an agreement with Wells Fargo to form a strategic alliance for its fuel cell business. Wells Fargo will buy Doosan's fuel cells and lease them to power purchase agreement contractors.

The Naval Air Systems Command awarded Raytheon a $91 million contract and Boeing a combined nearly $140 million in contracts for F/A-18 retrofit components.

Molin Concrete Products was awarded the precast contract for the $89 million Kinnick Stadium renovation project at the University of Iowa, selected by general contractor JE Dunn Construction.

GAF will open a new manufacturing plant in New Columbia, Pennsylvania, creating over 40 jobs. The facility will produce TPO membrane and injection molding components for roofing, opening in Q4 2017.

Precision Plastics will expand its Columbia City, Indiana facility by adding injection molding machines and an 11,900-square-foot warehouse, creating 32 jobs.

International Beams will invest $19.6 million to open a manufacturing facility near Dothan, Alabama, producing cross-laminated timber panels and glue laminated beams. The project will create 60 jobs.

Royal Philips has agreed to acquire The Spectranetics Corporation for $38.50 per share in cash, implying an enterprise value of approximately €1.9 billion. The acquisition will expand Philips' image-guided therapy business.

BeijingWest Industries Co. Ltd. broke ground on a more than $80 million manufacturing facility in Greenfield, Indiana, its first U.S. production site. The facility is expected to create up to 441 jobs by 2021 and begin production in August 2019.

Poco Graphite, a subsidiary of Entegris, is expanding its capacity to produce graphite material and specialty coatings by securing the use of the former small diameter graphite electrode factory of Superior Graphite Co. in Russellville, Arkansas.

Vanderlande opened a new manufacturing and distribution center in Acworth, Ga., on June 28, 2017, with the facility fully operational since June 19. The investment aims to reduce lead times and costs for North American customers, and will employ 80-100 people at full capacity.

Danfoss officially opened its new Application Development Center in Tallahassee, Florida on June 27, 2017. The 22,000-square-foot facility features three fully automated test facilities for residential and commercial air conditioning and heat pump equipment.

Czech plastics manufacturer SILON announced plans to invest $20 million in a new factory in Peachtree City, Georgia, creating at least 20 jobs. The facility will house manufacturing, warehousing and storage functions.

RK Griffith, in conjunction with SPX Cooling Technologies, is supplying air cooled heat exchangers for combustion turbine intercoolers at the Exelon West Medway II facility in West Medway, Massachusetts, through EPC contractor Gemma Power Systems.

Akoustis Technologies completed the acquisition of a 120,000 sq. ft. wafer manufacturing facility, 150-mm wafer fab tools, 57 acres of real property, and an ongoing MEMS business in Canandaigua, New York, from RF-SUNY and FRMC for $2.75 million in cash.

Samsung Electronics invested approximately $1 billion in its production facilities in Austin, Texas, as of June 2017, to produce advanced system-on-chip products for mobile and electronic devices.

A leading Czech producer of technical compounds and polyester staple fibers will invest $20 million in a new facility in Peachtree City, Georgia, creating more than 20 jobs.

Protomet Corporation will invest $29.3 million to establish a new manufacturing, engineering and R&D facility in Loudon County, Tennessee, creating 200 jobs. The plant is expected to be operational in the first half of 2018.

DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., part of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, has acquired Innovative Surgical Solutions, LLC (doing business as Sentio, LLC), a company based in Wixom, Michigan that markets nerve localization technology for spine surgery. Financial terms were not disclosed.