John Deere invested $40 million to expand its factory in Indaiatuba, Brazil, adding 12,000 m² for a new assembly line to produce motor graders.

Alfagomma do Brasil is expanding its factory in Guaranésia, Minas Gerais, by 4,500 square meters to meet growing demand from OEMs and end users. Upon completion, the covered area will be 17,500 m².

Kadant Inc. received two orders worth approximately $10 million to supply recycled fiber processing systems to a containerboard producer in Asia. The equipment will process recycled corrugated boxes for top liner production. Orders booked in Q4 2020, expected to ship in 2021.

Premier Tech announced a $251.2 million investment in its facilities in Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, including a $45 million loan from the Quebec government, to create 500 jobs over five years and accelerate digital transformation and R&D.

Bombardier is investing €25 million in its Crespin, France rail plant to increase production capacity by 25% and upgrade equipment. The investment aims to reach 1,000 cars per year and support a fully booked order book for the next four years.

TRUMPF plans to acquire the remaining 45% of TRUMPF SISMA S.R.L. from SISMA S.p.A., strengthening its additive manufacturing business in industrial, dental and medical sectors.

Harro Höfliger is building a high-performance vial packaging line at its Backnang site for delivery to Pfizer's Belgian production plant. The line will carton, label and serialise vaccine vials.

Yleiselektroniikka signed an agreement on 17 December 2020 to acquire all shares of PM Nordic AB and Sany Nordic AB, which represent Putzmeister concrete machinery and Sany construction equipment in Sweden. The combined revenue of the acquired companies was about SEK 133 million.

MICRO-LAM, Inc., a manufacturer of laser-assisted machining systems, acquired 603OPTX, Inc., an optical fabrication company specializing in precision optical components. The acquisition aims to extend R&D and production capabilities.

manroland Goss Group acquired the Thallo web-offset packaging business from Contiweb B.V., including all intellectual property rights. The acquisition complements manroland Goss's product portfolio for the web-offset packaging market.

GlenDee/MGI is adding a second Matsuura MAM72-70V 5-axis machining center with 18-pallet changer, scheduled for installation by end of 2020.

Weihua Crane has put a 16m×8m×6m annealing furnace into use at its Intelligent Industrial Park, enabling annealing of structural parts for metallurgical cranes with capacity above 500t.

Nagel-Gruppe has completed the acquisition of the insolvent Gehring companies in Germany, including Gehring Technologies, Diato, and Gehring Production. The deal involves a significant workforce reduction: 111 of 345 employees in Ostfildern and 70 of 185 in Naumburg will not be retained.

Promess Inc. has purchased a 45,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Brighton, Michigan to meet growing product demand. Manufacturing operations are being transferred from the existing campus, with completion expected by early spring 2021.

Antares Vision Group, through its subsidiary Antares Vision Inc., acquired Applied Vision Corporation, a leader in high-speed vision inspection systems for the food and beverage container industry. The acquisition expands Antares Vision's technological capabilities and geographical presence, especially in the USA.

Lewco, Inc. will take over a large portion of a historical facility in Lake Erie Business Park in Port Clinton, Ohio, investing nearly $12 million and creating 163 new jobs to support growth driven by e-commerce.

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering Limited (SCEE) has completed the acquisition of Trivantage Pty Ltd for AUD 53.5 million, comprising cash and shares, with additional earn-out payments based on future EBIT.

Innovative Hydraulics LLC has been awarded a contract to design and manufacture fluid power products for NASA's exploration ground systems supporting the Artemis program. The systems move the SLS rocket to the launch site at Kennedy Space Center.

Zhejiang Sanhe Kitchen Utensils Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new production line of 20 million high-grade stainless steel and aluminum non-stick pans in Cixi City, China. The project involves a total investment of 390 million yuan and covers an area of 150 mu.

MHM Automation, a NZX-listed provider of automated systems for food processing and logistics, is purchasing fellow Christchurch-based engineering firm Southern Cross Engineering (SCE). The acquisition is conditional and expected to settle on 11 January 2021, with the purchase price calculated via an earn-out over two years.

Alstom has been awarded a contract by Toulouse Metropole for the system of the third metro line (Toulouse Aerospace Express), valued at over €470 million, with options up to €713 million. The scope includes Metropolis trains, Urbalis 400 CBTC, Hesop substations, platform screen doors, track, and six years of maintenance.

German packaging equipment manufacturer KHS is acquiring a stake in Swiss seaming machine specialist Ferrum, pending antitrust approval. The deal aims to combine competencies for more integrated can filling and seaming systems.

Valmet will deliver a new flash drying and baling line and rebuild an existing TMP line into a CTMP market pulp line with 300,000 tonnes/year capacity at SCA's Ortviken mill in Sweden, valued at EUR 40-50 million.

Zürn Harvesting has upgraded its manufacturing facilities in Merchingen, Germany, with a new powder coating plant that can coat parts up to 14 meters long, meeting latest environmental standards.

MATE GmbH, part of the AFW Group and parent of Linsinger Maschinenbau, has acquired a 30% stake in System7 Railholding GmbH. The Austrian Federal Competition Authority approved the deal.

John M Henderson Machines (JMH) has won a contract worth over £20 million to design and supply two coke oven machines for POSCO's steel plant in South Korea. The contract will take three to four years to complete.

Manroland Goss Web Systems (MGWS) has secured two major web press orders: a Varioman c:line for a greenfield site in Germany (Project Rosa) for frozen food packaging, and an 80pp Lithoman for Em de Jong's subsidiary Mercator Press in Belgium.

Mazak Corporation launched its MAZATROL SmoothEz CNC machine line for the job shop market, as part of an overall company effort to ramp up investment and production into 2021.

Mazak Corporation announced a $15 million investment in its Florence, Kentucky headquarters, including a $3.8 million spindle rebuild facility supporting over 2,000 spindle models. The investment is part of a strategy to ramp up production into 2021.

Hardinge Inc. announced plans to shift manufacturing of its milling and turning machining center solutions from its Taiwan plant to its Elmira, New York facility, investing in new assembly capabilities and heat-treat equipment. The transition will be completed in Q1 2021.

Naxicap Partners has reached an agreement to acquire Guntermann & Drunck (G&D) Holding GmbH from Borromin Capital Management, alongside the management team.

SENNEBOGEN is expanding its Wackersdorf plant in Germany, including a new Plant 4 for telehandler production, along with a new façade, outdoor facilities, machine shipping area, and employee parking lots.

SENNEBOGEN is building a new Customer Service Center in Steinach near Straubing, Germany, with an investment of around €25 million. Construction began in April 2020, and the facility is expected to open in May 2021.

Komatsu plans to expand in Peoria, with construction on new facilities beginning in April.

BC Partners, through IMA BidCo, launched a mandatory tender offer for IMA, a packaging machinery manufacturer, at €68 per share, valuing IMA at €2.93 billion. The offer closes on 14 January 2021.

Caterpillar is investing $500 million to build a new plant in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Best Machinery Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Kft. was awarded a contract worth HUF 59,438,290 by Hernád Völgye és Térsége Szilárdhulladék-kezelési Önkormányzati Társulás for the purchase of a shredder (apritogep). The award was granted on February 8, 2021.

Kadant received two orders worth about $10 million to supply recycled fiber processing systems to an unnamed containerboard producer in Asia. The equipment will process recycled corrugated boxes and is expected to ship in 2021.

Green Bay Packaging awarded Voith a contract for a complete 300-inch testliner production line for a new PM 4 at its Green Bay, Wisconsin site, targeting start-up in early 2021. The package includes paper machine, effluent treatment, stock preparation and a seven-year roll management contract.

Burcas Ltd, a Birmingham-based engineering sub-contractor, has invested in a new Doosan Mynx 9500/50 large-capacity vertical machining centre supplied by Mills CNC. The machine was installed in October 2020 to meet demand from the nuclear sector.

Jet Investment will merge 2 JCP with PBS INDUSTRY and PBS POWER EQUIPMENT, creating the 2 JCP Group. 2 JCP will acquire 100% of PBS INDUSTRY and PBS POWER EQUIPMENT through the Jet 2 fund, effective January 1, 2021.

Dalrada Financial Corp. executed a term sheet for Tongrun International to exclusively manufacture Likido products in Bonham, Texas, for the North American market under a two-year agreement.

Horn USA relocated all production capabilities to a new facility 0.5 miles from its original office in September 2020, with an investment of approximately $29 million. The new building has a total area of 11,000 square meters and can accommodate up to 300 people.

Siemens Gamesa has awarded JASO a contract to supply 42 industrial cranes for its new offshore wind turbine factory in Le Havre, France. The cranes will be manufactured in Spain and installed by Q1 2022.

L&T Technology Services has been selected as an engineering partner by a global oil and gas major for a five-year, $100 million contract. LTTS will provide multi-discipline plant engineering, site sustenance, and control automation support for two integrated refining and chemicals facilities in the United States.

Electrocomponents plc reached an agreement to acquire Synovos, a provider of integrated supply solutions in the Americas, for $145 million on a debt-free, cash-free basis. The acquisition is expected to complete in Q1 2021.

Spectris plc sold Brüel & Kjær Vibro GmbH, a Darmstadt-based machinery protection and condition monitoring supplier, to Japan's NSK for EUR 180 million (GBP 163 million).

YATO Tools (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Poland's TOYA.S.A, held a foundation ceremony for a new 23,500 square meter facility in Baibu Town, Haiyan, with an investment of $15 million. The plant will produce 260,000 tool sets and 300,000 power tools annually.

Volvo Construction Equipment and Norrhydro signed a multi-year agreement to develop and commercialize Norrhydro's patented NorrDigi digital hydraulic actuator for construction equipment, with Volvo CE having exclusive rights during development.

manroland Goss has been awarded a contract to build a fully automated VARIOMAN c:line packaging printing press for a new company (project name ROSA) in Germany. The press, valued in the seven-digit range, will produce frozen food packaging and is expected to be ready by end of 2021.