Electrolux is constructing a 60-foot-wide underground tunnel under Bill Jones Industrial Boulevard in Springfield, Tennessee, to connect its two plant sites, enabling two-way truck traffic and a conveyor belt for transporting stoves. The project is part of a $250 million expansion reinstated in February 2019 after a halt due to steel and aluminum tariffs.

eGroup, an integrated supplier for the oil and gas industry, has secured new contracts worth a combined £8 million for fabrication, structural steel, cladding, coating, and testing services across multiple projects in Scotland and the UK.

Tornos will acquire the 30% stake held by Shaanxi Robot Automation Technology in its Chinese subsidiary Tornos (Xi'an) Machine Works, to regain full control. The deal is expected to close by end of 2019.

FMR LISICKI is investing 2,509,200 PLN (with EU funding of 1,122,000 PLN) to build a new machinery factory to increase competitiveness in the European market for agricultural and orchard machinery. The project will create jobs and automate production.

Keestrack has completed the second extension phase of its main factory in Šternberk, Czech Republic, adding an 8,740 m² assembly complex. The two phases since 2015 total an investment of €6.0 million.

Cook Compression named WoodServ, a Bahrain-headquartered gas compression technology provider, an Authorized Service Partner for compressor valve and packing case repairs in the Middle East and Pakistan. The announcement was made on 25 April 2019.

Shick Esteve announced plans to spend $1.7 million to build a new 15,000 sq. ft. technology center in Kansas City, Missouri, for testing and demonstrating ingredient and mixing automation, process controls and IIoT technology. The center is expected to open in Q4 2019.

Electroprecizia Electrical Motors is investing €3.27 million to expand its aluminum foundry capacity from 150 to 220-230 tonnes per month, creating 30 new jobs. The Romanian government approved state aid of 7.5 million lei (approx. €1.6 million) to cover half the investment.

Leirvik AS (formerly Apply Leirvik) signed an EPC contract with the K2JV joint venture (Kvaerner & KBR) for the delivery of the Johan Sverdrup accommodation module. The contract value is estimated at around 2 billion NOK.

Leirvik AS (formerly Apply Leirvik) was awarded an EPC contract by Equinor (formerly Statoil) for the delivery of the living quarters module for the Peregrino II platform in Brazil. The contract is valued at approximately 400 million NOK.

Illig Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG is building a new production facility in Șura Mică, Romania, to manufacture thermoforming machines. The investment is about EUR 10 million, and the plant will create 50 jobs. Groundbreaking took place in early April 2019.

Migatronic Automation won a million-order for two identical welding robot systems for Bailey Trailers' production of agricultural trailers in Sleaford, England. The systems include Fanuc robots and Migatronic welding machines.

Bühler North America has acquired PR&D, Inc., a pellet mill and equipment service company based in Perham, Minnesota, to strengthen its feed, pet food, grain and oilseed processing offerings in the U.S.

KARL MAYER entered into a joint venture with Rabatex Industries and A.T.E. Group to form KARL MAYER Textile Machinery India Private Limited, majority owned by KARL MAYER, to enhance distribution in the Indian textile machinery market.

Valmet will supply a containerboard making line (PM 5) with mill-wide automation and services for Papierfabrik Palm's Aalen-Neukochen mill in Germany, with start-up scheduled for 2021; the order value was not disclosed.

Jereh signed an EPC contract with OGDCL for the Nashpa compression project in Pakistan, worth nearly 30 million dollars, providing four engine-driven reciprocating compressors and turnkey engineering.

Gardner Denver's CompAir brand supplied a complete compressed air system to Hyundai Heavy Industries for the Nasr Full Field Development Project, part of an EPC contract with Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company in the Al-Nasr oil field.

MiddleGround Capital acquired Peterson American Corporation (Peterson Spring), a specialty spring manufacturer serving automotive, industrial, and other sectors.

Tadano Limited announced the anticipated acquisition of the Demag Brand Crane Business and 8 subsidiaries of Terex Corporation. The UK Competition and Markets Authority launched a merger inquiry on April 23, 2019, and later cleared the deal.

Tornum AB acquired all shares in Mundus Maskin AB, a Swedish supplier of grain equipment for agriculture and industry. The acquisition broadens Tornum's product portfolio and market presence in Sweden.

Thermotechnika-Crown Cool Kft. is expanding its Tatabánya plant with a 2,200-square-meter production hall, investing 540 million forint (approx. EUR 1.7 million), with 157 million forint in government support. The expansion is expected to double production revenue from 2020.

Siemens Mobility Limited has submitted an outline planning application for a £200 million rail manufacturing facility in Goole, East Yorkshire. The first phase is expected to open in 2023, creating up to 700 jobs.

Beneco Packaging and SoOpak chose Heidelberg as equipment supplier for their new Scarborough facility, which will include a Speedmaster CX 102-6+L press, a Promatrix 106 CS diecutter and a Diana Easy folder gluer.

Unisign Machine Tools will supply a Uniport 6000-HV machine with carousel turning table to ÖSWAG Maschinenbau in Linz, Austria.

Honeywell launched its new Honeywell Masdar Innovation Center in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, to advance digital transformation in oil, gas, petrochemical and infrastructure sectors. The center includes automation solutions, smart building tech, and a calibration lab.

Koenig & Bauer and Durst Phototechnik signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture for digital print solutions for folding carton and corrugated board printing.

Koenig & Bauer acquired a majority stake in Duran Machinery to expand its product portfolio for the folding carton market.

Tata Hitachi is shutting down its oldest manufacturing plant in Jamshedpur, set up in 1961, and moving the entire business to its Kharagpur plant where Rs 550 crore has been invested. The production line for 65-120 tonne excavators is shifting along with 300 employees.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs approved five Taiwanese companies (TYC Brother, Awea Mechantronic, Acon Optics, Coating P. Materials, Yung Sheng Optical) to invest NT$15.4 billion (US$499.3 million) and create 1,300 jobs in Taiwan. The approval was announced on April 19, 2019.

Itema Group signed an agreement for the business lease of PTMT (formerly Panter) to create Itematech, a new company dedicated to producing weaving machines for technical fabrics.

Finnish company Konecranes has invested a total of 35 million euros into its Zaporizhkran plant in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, since acquiring it in 2005, for development and modernization.

EPM – Novocherkassk Electrode Plant officially commissioned a modern robot-assisted graphitised electrode nipple manufacturing system, costing approximately 200 million Russian roubles. The system will improve geometrical accuracy of nipples by 5 times, down to 0.02 mm.

JCB secured a deal worth almost £17 million with Plant Hire UK for 300 Loadalls, 50 compact excavators, site dumpers and tandem rollers. The machines will be supplied by Gunn JCB for use on UK construction projects.

Kobe Steel acquired full ownership of its Indian joint venture L&T Kobelco Machinery Private Ltd (LTKM), previously 51% held by Larsen & Toubro and 49% by Kobe Steel. The subsidiary will relaunch as Kobelco Industrial Machinery India Pvt Ltd in May 2019.

AGCO invested $5.7 million to relocate production of its Farmer Automatic Aviary Systems to its Bremen, Alabama facility, adding a 32,000-square-foot expansion and creating 50 jobs.

Central Industrial Manufacturing, a precision CNC machining company based in Harbor Springs, Michigan, has acquired Buchanan-based GP Manufacturing, a metalworking and welding machine shop. The deal includes clients, assets, and custom tooling abilities.

Henan Tongren Aluminium awarded Tenova a contract for a continuous annealing and chemical pretreatment line for aluminium strip, to be installed at its plant in Sanmenxia, China. The line has a capacity of about 100,000 tonnes per year and is expected to start production in early 2021.

BillerudKorsnäs has begun trial runs of KM7, one of the world's largest board machines, at its Gruvön mill in Sweden. The total investment was later estimated at SEK 6.84 billion, including a major mill conversion.

Ima completed the acquisition of 70% of Spreafico Automation, a maker of automatic machines for filling single-serve capsules, for about EUR 11.7 million.

Tenova was awarded a contract by Henan Tongren Aluminium Co. Ltd for a Continuous Annealing and Chemical Pretreatment line for aluminum strip coils, to be built in Sanmenxia, Henan Province, China. The line is expected to start production in early 2021.

Ceratizit Austria GmbH has started construction on an extension to its manufacturing plant in Reutte, Austria. The new building, with an investment in the double-digit million euro range, will house up to 300 workers and is expected to be ready by spring 2022.

Morris Site Machinery is developing a new £6 million head office and production facility at the i54 business park near Wolverhampton, UK. The 65,000 sq ft plant is expected to be completed by summer 2020.

Pemamek Ltd. won an order to deliver shipbuilding production automation technology for Lendlease on the Osborne South Development Project in Adelaide, South Australia. Delivery is scheduled for early 2020.

Gurutzpe delivered the GHD40, the largest horizontal numerical control multitasking lathe ever built in the Basque Country, capable of machining parts up to 4 meters in diameter and 120 tonnes, for machining power generation turbine rotors.

Kino Cranes was selected as the first successful bidder to supply six water diversion shaft gantry cranes and one surge shaft gantry crane for the SK hydropower project in Pakistan, with a winning amount of 16.3823 million RMB.

China Machinery Engineering Corporation signed a contract with Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO) for the 300kt/a electrolytic aluminum production line technical renovation project in Tajikistan. The contract value is approximately USD 545 million, with a 24-month construction period split into two 12-month phases.

AP&C Advanced Powders & Coatings, owned by GE Additive, plans to expand its Saint-Eustache, Quebec metal powder manufacturing facility with new specialized equipment and Industry 4.0 technologies. About 75 new jobs are expected over five years.

Caterpillar and Weiler Forestry entered a definitive agreement for Weiler to acquire Cat's purpose-built forestry product line and operations in LaGrange, Ga., Auburn, Ala., and Smithfield, N.C. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2019.

Rába, a Hungarian axle supplier, awarded Unisign Machine Tools a contract for a Unitwin6000 CNC machine to automate front axle production, reducing cycle times by 50% and costs by 30%.

EQT VIII fund agreed to acquire Dellner Couplers, a global leader in couplers, gangways, and crash management systems for passenger rail. Dellner is headquartered in Sweden, employs about 950 people, and had sales of SEK 1.9 billion in 2018.