WestJet chose Safran Landing Systems to supply wheels and carbon brakes for its entire fleet of 65 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, along with MRO services.

Alltemp, Inc. (formerly Source Financial, Inc.) closed its merger with CSES Group, Inc., issuing shares and warrants to CSES shareholders. Alltemp also raised $4.5 million to expand refrigerant manufacturing capacity.

PM&E, Inc. has agreed to sell Evada Aircraft to publicly traded Seilon, Inc. through a share exchange at a ratio of eight to one. Evada will continue to operate as a separate and independent operation.

Wemco Co. moved into a new 65,000-square-foot production facility in Airway Heights, Washington, tripling production capacity and doubling revenues and workforce over two years. The company plans to hire 30 more employees over three years.

RUPES USA held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new state-of-the-art facility in Louisville, Colorado, which will house manufacturing, sales, training and support. Completion is expected in late 2017.

Dresser-Rand, part of Siemens Power and Gas, received an order from BP to supply two DATUM compressor trains with Siemens electric motors for the Mad Dog 2 project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Equipment ships in 2018 and production is expected to begin late 2021.

Dresser-Rand, part of Siemens Power and Gas, received an order from BP to supply two DATUM compressor trains with Siemens electric motors for the Mad Dog 2 floating production platform in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Equipment ships in 2018 and oil production is expected to begin late 2021.

Wonder Porcelain Tile, a Chinese-owned company, is building a 480,000 sq ft tile manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Tennessee, with a second phase to double the size to nearly 1 million sq ft. The facility will use Italian-made equipment and is the first domestic tile plant in the U.S. for the company.

Accuride Corp. reached an agreement to acquire KIC LLC, a supplier of wheel end components, to expand its commercial vehicle components business. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2017.

Steel Technologies agreed to add 90 jobs in Smyrna as part of a tax break agreement with the Rutherford County Industrial Development Board.

Federal-Mogul will expand operations at South Park Warehouse in Smyrna, investing $2.2 million and adding 285 jobs, with a seven-year tax abatement approved.

PD Systems Inc. has been awarded a $30.1 million contract by the U.S. Army to rebuild up to 180 MEP-PU-810 A and B deployable power generation and distribution systems to like-new condition.

Topre America Corp. announced a $38.2 million expansion of its automotive parts manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tennessee, creating 35 new jobs.

Bearcat Corp. is investing $6 million to add 6,000 square feet to its existing facility in Goshen, Indiana, and create up to 40 jobs by 2019. The expansion began in January and the new space is expected operational in May 2017.

GE Oil & Gas was selected by NextDecade as the exclusive supplier of gas turbine and compressor equipment for the Rio Grande LNG project and associated Rio Bravo Pipeline in Texas, with rights to invest in project equity.

Exelon Generation has awarded GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy an integrated outage services contract valued at over $140 million for its entire BWR fleet and three PWR units, running through spring 2021.

Milacron will invest about $5 million to expand its Greenville, Michigan plant, creating up to 70 jobs as it consolidates machining operations from its Youngwood, Pennsylvania plant.

ProSolus, a subsidiary of Mission Pharmacal, installed a second transdermal production facility at Mission's Boerne, Texas location, more than doubling total transdermal product output to over 100 million patches annually.

Global specialty chemical company Avantor Performance Materials has acquired Puritan Products Inc., a Bethlehem-based chemical blending business.

The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory awarded a contract to Sensofusion to further develop its Airfence counter-UAS system, partnering with the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx).

Corning struck a $1-billion-a-year optical solutions purchase agreement with Verizon to support the telco's wireline broadband and future wireless expansion. Corning plans to invest more than $250 million in its optical fiber, cable and solutions manufacturing facilities to fulfill the contract.

Tokyo-based Sojitz Corp. acquired a 33.33% equity stake in Birdsboro Power LLC, which is building a $600 million combined-cycle natural gas power plant in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. The plant will have a total output of 488 MW and is scheduled for completion by mid-2019.

Honeywell has started commercial operations at its new manufacturing plant in Geismar, Louisiana, producing HFO-1234yf (Solstice yf) automotive refrigerant. The $300 million facility is the world's largest site for this product, supporting hundreds of jobs.

B&D Plastics is expanding its existing facility in Gautier, Mississippi, with a $750,000 investment that will add a 9,375-square-foot production and assembly facility and a 7,000-square-foot warehouse, creating 35 jobs.

Mid-States Packaging, a logistics and warehousing provider, is locating manufacturing, warehousing and distribution operations at a site in North Charleston, South Carolina, with a $5.2 million investment creating 30 jobs.

Aphena Pharma Solutions will expand its Browns Mill Road facility in Cookeville, Tennessee, with a $7 million capital investment that will create 150 new jobs over five years.

Hitachi has agreed to acquire Accudyne Industries' subsidiaries and related assets that make and sell Sullair-branded air compressors. The deal gives Hitachi access to Sullair's sales network, mainly in North America.

Amcor Rigid Plastics has invested $7 million to open a PET bottle manufacturing plant in Paris, Texas, for Campbell Soup Co. The plant is expected to produce about 50 million hot-fillable PET bottles a year for V8 products.

The city of Pearland, Texas, approved $7 million in contracts for preliminary design of its first surface water treatment plant, a $112 million project. The plant will provide 10 million gallons per day initially, expandable to 20 million, with completion expected in 2023.

Plastikon Healthcare is planning a $50 million, 100,000-square-foot expansion of its East Hills Business Park plant in Lawrence, Kansas, to increase manufacturing of medical devices, pharmaceuticals and supplements. The company is requesting free land and waived assessments from the county.

MPI Label Systems acquired Label Gallery, Inc., a flexographic and digital printer in Norwich, NY specializing in the wine/spirits and food industries.

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. reached a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Happy Hen Egg Farms, Inc., relating to its commercial production, processing, distribution and sale of shell eggs business.

Shurtape Technologies, LLC, a producer of pressure-sensitive tapes, has acquired Syntac Coated Products, LLC, a designer and manufacturer of specialty adhesive coated products.

Bonduelle, a processor of ready-to-eat vegetables, is acquiring Ready Pac Foods, a US processor of single-serve salad bowls.

JBT Corporation acquired Avure Technologies, Inc. for $57 million, before post close adjustments.

Indiana Carton Company ordered a seven-color, 65-inch wide Heidelberg Intro flexo press for large-format folding carton production. The press will be installed in Bremen, Indiana and start production in July 2017.

H2O Innovation won multiple contracts worth C$4.8 million for reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and membrane bioreactor systems for municipalities in Texas/Oklahoma, Alaska, Montana, Florida, and Michigan.

Flex-N-Gate broke ground on a $95 million, 600,000-square-foot automotive parts manufacturing plant on 30 acres in Detroit's east side, expected to open in Q1 2018.

Ohio Pack LLC will build a 135,000-square-foot plant in Heath, Ohio, investing nearly $25.4 million and adding 66 jobs over five years. The facility will make blown plastic film for flexible packaging, with hiring starting in 2018.

Amcor Rigid Plastics opened an in-line operation at Campbell Soup's Paris, Texas plant to produce about 50 million hot-fill PET bottles a year for V8 products. Amcor invested $7 million to repurpose 6,000 sq ft of the facility.

Abbott and Alere announced amended terms for Abbott's pending acquisition of Alere. Abbott will pay $51 per share for an expected equity value of $5.3 billion, down from $5.8 billion. The companies have dismissed lawsuits against each other and extended the regulatory approval deadline to September 30, 2017.

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) announced a definitive agreement to acquire C. R. Bard, Inc. for $317.00 per share in cash and stock, total consideration $24 billion. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive and generate cost synergies.

Montrose Environmental Group Inc. has acquired the field services and laboratory business assets of Prism Analytical Technologies Inc. via its subsidiaries Montrose Air Quality Services LLC and Enthalpy Analytical LLC.

T-O Engineers Inc. has acquired Pharmer Engineering, a specialist in water and wastewater treatment systems. The acquisition expands T-O's municipal services and adds to its staff and office locations.

New Mountain Capital LLC has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire publicly traded TRC Companies Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at $554.4 million. TRC will operate as a standalone business with current management.

Fibrix LLC acquired specific assets of Custom Nonwovens, Inc. in Thomasville, NC, including personnel, multiple manufacturing lines, and intellectual property related to furniture and bedding products. The transaction was completed April 21, 2017.

Tyson Prepared Foods is investing $51 million to add building space and equipment to its prepared foods facility in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Diana Food, a maker of natural ingredients, is investing $50 million in a food processing, manufacturing and R&D facility in Banks County, Georgia.

Seaboard Triumph Foods plans an expansion to its new Sioux City, Iowa pork processing facility.

El Pinto Foods is investing $7 million to expand its facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico by 6,200 sq. ft. The processor makes salsa and chili.