Prairie Farms Dairy is expanding its Fort Wayne, Indiana facility with a 22,500-sq.-ft. add-on valued at $8.7 million. Construction starts this month and is expected to be complete in 18 months.

Nestlé plans to expand its manufacturing facility in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which makes infant formula and nutritional drinks. The expansion is expected to increase annual production from 100,000 tons to 200,000 tons.

Ball Corporation broke ground on a 145,000 square foot expansion of its Aerospace Manufacturing Center in Westminster, Colorado, to support growth and new business wins. Completion is expected by spring 2019.

Seves Group division Sediver opened a new $15 million facility in West Memphis, Arkansas, manufacturing toughened glass insulators for high voltage transmission lines. The plant is Sediver's first U.S. production investment in nearly two decades and is expected to hire up to 75 employees.

A company that makes unspecified products is expanding its plant in Apex, North Carolina, creating 275 new jobs.

SPX Flow will supply 2-stage ClydeUnion BB3 pumps for the Sand Hills pipeline expansion in a contract worth more than US$2 million. The pumps will move natural gas liquids from the Permian and Eagle Ford basins to Mont Belvieu, Texas.

SPX Flow will supply 20 BB1 5000 hp pump packages for the new 400-mile Midland-Sealy crude oil and condensate pipeline in Texas, in an order valued at more than US$10 million. The pumps will be made in Burlington, Canada and Glasgow, UK.

Material Handling Systems, an employee-owned provider of engineering services and equipment for parcel sortation, has agreed to be acquired by Thomas H. Lee Partners.

Liberty House reached an agreement in principle with ArcelorMittal to purchase Georgetown Steelworks in South Carolina, including a 600,000-ton/year electric arc furnace and 750,000-ton/year rod mill. The deal is subject to final terms and due diligence.

Tronics, a TDK Group Company, opened a new MEMS production facility in Addison, Texas, near Dallas. The 25,000 sq ft building includes over 15,000 sq ft of cleanroom space and can process up to 60,000 wafers per year.

RECO Equipment purchased two Generation 10 TA300 articulated haulers and four Generation 9 TA300s from Terex Trucks, becoming the first dealer in North America to buy the Gen10 model.

IriSys, LLC was awarded a $6 million increase in its five-year prime vendor contract with the National Cancer Institute for manufacturing clinical trial materials, doubling the ceiling.

MAS HVAC purchased California-based company IceStor, which manufactures static ice tanks, and plans to move it to the Elkton, Florida site after the new plant is completed.

MAS HVAC will start construction on a 32,000-square-foot custom HVAC manufacturing plant in Elkton, Florida, this summer. The company expects to double its employee count from 18 within two years.

Arena exercised a 90-day priced option for the Rowan EXL III jack-up rig in the Gulf of Mexico, contracted until September 2017.

MicroVision signed a contract with a major technology company to develop a Laser Beam Scanning display system and produce components, with up to $24 million in fees including $14 million for development work spanning 21 months.

Sunbelt Industrial Trucks of Dallas, TX announced the sale of its Houston operations to Miner Material Handling. The sale closed on March 23, 2017. Terms were not disclosed.

Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics announced the acquisition of US semiconductor manufacturer Intersil for about $3.2 billion, or $22.50 per share, expected to close in the first half of 2017.

Weitron, Inc., a packager and distributor of refrigerant gases, plans to invest $12.8 million in a production plant in Everetts, North Carolina, creating 31 jobs.

New Process Steel plans to invest $7.5 million and create 50 jobs by the end of 2018, expanding its existing facility in Columbus, Mississippi, with a new rail spur and access road.

Sandvik Coromant has signed a strategic research agreement with PARC, a Xerox company, to strengthen capabilities in digital manufacturing. Sandvik Coromant will also acquire PARC's software for process planning and cost estimation.

Bosch Rexroth announced an $80 million expansion of its Fountain Inn hydraulics manufacturing operations in Greenville County, South Carolina, adding a building and land, and expected to create 160 jobs over five years.

Purvis Industries acquired substantially all assets, brand rights, personnel and intellectual property of the Kinder Morgan Engineering and Conveying division of Kinder Morgan, Inc. The new entity will operate as KMEC Engineering and Conveying Systems.

Hanwha Advanced Materials America announced a $20 million upgrade at its Opelika, Alabama facility, adding about 100 jobs over three years to increase production capacity for automotive parts.

Skanska is completing Phase I of Dexcom's 145,000-square-foot build-out of an existing shell building in Mesa, Arizona, including renovation of a 60,000-square-foot industrial warehouse to medical device manufacturing space for glucose monitors.

Portco Packaging completed a 3-year, multimillion dollar expansion of its two Washington plants. The Woodland facility nearly doubled in size with new converting lines, and the Toppenish plant added 50,000 sq. ft. and robotics for palletization.

Valence Surface Technologies received Nadcap accreditation for a new 10,000-sq.ft. shot peening facility in Everett, Washington, capable of processing large aerostructure components up to 30 feet in length.

KEMET Corporation completed the acquisition of NEC TOKIN Corporation for JPY 16.2 billion (approximately $149.2 million). NEC TOKIN has been renamed TOKIN Corporation.

CGI announced the award of an enterprise contract from Aerojet Rocketdyne for transformation of its legacy IT systems to a secure hybrid IT environment, including cloud migration and digital transformation.

Stillwater Mining Co. announced it cleared the final federal regulatory hurdle for its $2.2 billion acquisition by South African firm Sibanye Gold Ltd. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US found no national security issues.

Research Solutions broke ground on a new solvent distribution facility across from its existing Pelham, Alabama site. The 90,000 sq ft facility will include advanced filling and labeling equipment, office and warehouse space, and bulk chemical storage of over 1 million gallons.

FATA Automation and FATA Aluminum opened a new production facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan, with a capital investment of $2.5 million, including 2,600 square meters of assembly floor space.

Wood Group has been awarded a three-year, $8 million contract to provide process automation engineering services to TPC Group's manufacturing facilities in Texas and Louisiana.

Continental announced a more than $40 million investment to expand its Morganton, North Carolina plant that manufactures automotive brake systems, creating about 160 new jobs.

Verizon announced a three-year minimum purchase agreement with Corning for up to 20 million kilometers of optical fiber per year from 2018 to 2020, with a minimum commitment of $1.05 billion.

Verizon Communications reached a deal to buy at least $1.05bn worth of fibre-optic cable and associated hardware from Corning over three years. The deal calls for Corning to provide 20m kilometers of optical fibre from 2018 through 2020.

Verizon Communications announced a three-year minimum purchase agreement with Corning Incorporated to provide fiber optic cable and associated hardware. The deal calls for Corning to supply up to 20 million kilometers of optical fiber per year from 2018 to 2020, with a minimum purchase commitment of $1.05 billion.

Boeing placed an order with Norsk Titanium for 3D-printed structural titanium components for the 787 Dreamliner, built using Norsk's Rapid Plasma Deposition process. The order builds on a July 2016 announcement and follows FAA certification completed in February 2017.

The California Department of Water Resources awarded Kiewit Corp. a $275.4 million contract to repair two spillways at Oroville Dam. Work is expected to start in late May 2017 and last through 2018.

HeidelbergCement's U.S. subsidiary Cadman Materials has agreed to buy Cemex's Pacific Northwest Materials Business, including aggregate, asphalt and ready mix concrete operations in Oregon and Washington, for about $150 million. Closing is expected in Q2 2017.

Cardinal Health has agreed to acquire Medtronic's Patient Care, Deep Vein Thrombosis and Nutritional Insufficiency businesses for $6.1 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close in Q1 of Cardinal Health's fiscal year 2018.

Riviera Utilities executed a contract with Goodwyn Mills Cawood (GMC) to design a wastewater treatment plant expansion using Nereda granular activated sludge technology at its facility in Foley, Alabama. This will be the first installation of such technology in the United States.

Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (TIEM) is expanding its North American headquarters in Columbus, Indiana, with a $17.5 million investment to consolidate warehouses and add 300,000 square feet.

Diamond Precision Products is investing $6.5 million in new equipment for its Milwaukee facility, expecting to add 25 jobs over the next two years.

Johnson Controls will invest more than $7.5 million to upgrade its San Antonio, TX, manufacturing facility to increase production capabilities of absorbent glass mat (AGM) batteries. This is part of a larger $780 million global investment over four years.

Daikin Applied and Daikin North America formed a relationship with GARDINER, which will become the factory sales and parts representative in Northern Ohio and acquire Daikin's service business for the Cleveland market, effective May 1, 2017.

NOVA Chemicals agreed to acquire Williams' 88.46% ownership interest in the Geismar, Louisiana olefins plant, 525 acres of adjacent land, and interest in the Ethylene Trading Hub for $2.1 billion. The plant produces approximately 1.95 billion pounds of ethylene annually.

BJG Electronics (now FDH Electronics) entered into a long-term agreement with Gulfstream Aerospace to supply electrical interconnect products for G500, G550, G600, and G650 aircraft models.

Ashland Global Holdings Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned Pharmachem Laboratories, Inc. for $660 million in an all-cash transaction. Pharmachem supplies ingredients to health and wellness industries and products to fragrance and flavor houses.

Triumph Group, Inc. was selected by Boeing to supply composite detail and assembly parts for the 787 Dreamliner. Triumph Precision Components in Milledgeville, Georgia will produce and deliver composite details and assemblies for the 787 section 47/48 fuselage.