KMWE relocated its first GROB 5-axis machining centre to its new facility at Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) on 29 January 2019. Around 50 large CNC machines and 80 smaller machines will be moved over the next year.

Pon Equipment and Caterpillar developed the world's first rechargeable full-size electric excavator, the Caterpillar 323F Z-line, with the first unit delivered to Veidekke in January 2019.

Höganäs announced the acquisition of STC, a company in surface coating and additive manufacturing, to expand into new markets and product groups.

Wuhan Heavy Machine Tool Group (Wuzhong Group) won a contract worth 160 million yuan to supply 39 intelligent equipment units for a China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) gas turbine production line in Wuhan. The contract was announced on January 28, 2019.

Route Capital Partners, together with a group of investors, acquired a controlling stake in Barikell S.r.l., a Modena-based designer and manufacturer of machinery for industrial flooring. The transaction was announced on January 28, 2019.

Agrometal has added a Trumpf laser cutting machine and is expanding its plant by 1,600 m² to install an assembly line for Air Drill seeders.

Berliner Glas group expanded its production area and capacities in Berlin, investing over €30 million in 2018. The expansion increased the workforce by 87 employees.

China's Masterwork Group announced it will acquire an 8.46% stake in Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) for about EUR 69 million, making it the largest shareholder. The deal is subject to Heidelberg's supervisory board approval.

Parator and CMT, two Nordic manufacturers of truck bodies and trailers, have merged. The combined company will have a sales organization covering Sweden, Norway and Finland.

Tata Hitachi, a joint venture between Tata Motors and Hitachi Construction Equipment, plans to invest ₹5,000 million over three years to increase production capacity at its plants in Dharwad, Karnataka and Kharagpur, West Bengal.

Zebra Technologies Corporation agreed to acquire Temptime Corporation for approximately $180 million on January 25, 2019. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019.

Ingersoll Rand plans to transfer most core product line production from Buffalo, New York to its Mocksville plant by July 2019 and hire about 40 workers across Mocksville and Davidson, NC.

Yanmar announced a plant in the ORIGINS industrial park in north Chennai to make industrial diesel engines with 80,000 units annual capacity. Production is expected to start in 2020 and create up to 400 jobs.

Spinner Bulgaria is investing 5.1 million euro in a metalworking machines plant in Bulgaria.

Spinner Bulgaria, a joint venture between German Spinner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik and Turkish Avcı CNC Makine, will invest 10 million leva in a new plant for CNC machine tools in Plovdiv's Kuklen industrial zone. Construction is to be completed by March 2019, with production starting in April 2019.

FLSmidth signed a contract with Abay Industrial Development SC for a greenfield cement plant near Dejen, Ethiopia. The order is valued at around EUR100m and includes design, engineering, equipment supply, and commissioning.

Gree Electric Appliances started construction on a 5-billion-yuan ($736 million) industrial park in Xinjin County, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, with a first phase producing 3 million washing machines annually.

Schwing Stetter India signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu Government to invest Rs 2.37 billion initially (scaling to Rs 3.50 billion over four years) in a new 53-acre plant in Cheyyar for producing concrete boom pumps, self-loading mixers, and XCMG road machinery, creating 200 jobs.

CNI Commercial LLC is investing $2 million to expand the Filtra-Systems facility in Marietta, Oklahoma, adding a high bay to accommodate larger filtration systems. Construction starts in March 2019, and the expansion will double plant capacity and allow employment to grow from 45 to about 90 people.

Seibu Giken announced it will build a new factory in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, to produce exhaust gas removal equipment and desiccant dehumidifiers, with an investment of about 3.5 billion yen. Production capacity for exhaust gas removal equipment will increase from 30 to 50 units per month, and for desiccant dehumidifiers from over 10 to nearly 30 units per month.

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. opened the world's largest intelligent factory for tower cranes in Changde, China, after three years of construction and an investment of 780 million yuan (US$115.4 million).

Schwing Stetter India signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu Government at the Global Investors Meet 2019 to invest INR 237 crore immediately in a new plant in Cheyyar, scaling to INR 350 crore over four years, with 200 jobs planned.

Guangzhou Haozhi机电 announced plans to acquire 100% of Infranor Holding SA and Bleu Indim SA from Perrot Duval for an estimated CHF 30-35 million, to gain Infranor's industrial automation technology and European market access.

Hraninvest - Hranmashkomplekt will invest 4.5 million BGN over 1.5 years to purchase machinery, optimize production, and start new technological processes at its facility in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.

Haitian Metal's new die-casting machine production base in Ningbo Beilun, China, was completed and put into use in June 2021. The project invested $160 million, covers 139 mu, and can produce full-series cold-chamber die-casting machines with clamping force from 180T to 8800T, with an annual capacity of about 4000 machines.

JBT Corporation announced it has signed an agreement to acquire LEKTRO, Inc., a privately-held manufacturer, for $48 million.

SMS group has won an order to supply a 5,000-ton closed-die forging press to Musashi Europe. The press will be installed at Musashi's facility in Bockenau, Germany, to produce large forgings for passenger cars and trucks, with commissioning scheduled for Q4 2019.

Kaeser Kompressoren is building a 2,300 square metre extension in Gera for refrigerant dryer production, with a total investment of about nine million euros; production could start in June 2019 after topping out on January 20, 2019.

Bruker Corp. completed its acquisition of Alicona Imaging GmbH, an Austrian provider of optical 3D surface measurement solutions. Alicona had 2018 revenues of approximately $25 million. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Rototilt is expanding its factory in Vindeln, Sweden by approximately 3,300 square metres to accommodate increased sales and export growth. The expansion is expected to be complete by the end of 2019.

Harvey Performance Company, a provider of specialized cutting tools, acquired Micro 100, a carbide cutting tool manufacturer based in Meridian, Idaho. Micro 100 specializes in boring, grooving, threading and milling tools.

Battery Ventures, a technology-focused investment firm, acquired SigmaTEK Systems, maker of SigmaNEST nesting software for fabrication and manufacturing. Terms were not disclosed. SigmaTEK will continue operations in Cincinnati with a new CEO.

Aumund Group received orders from Sinoma Nanjing NDI to supply equipment for Dangote Cement's Obajana Line 5 and Okpella plants in Nigeria, and for the Dangote Cement Senegal expansion project. Schade Lagertechnik also won orders for stockyard equipment for the Nigerian plants.

Amada Holdings announced construction of Factory No. 2 at its Toki Plant in Toki City, Gifu Prefecture. The 16,900 m2 building will produce metal sheet bending machines and automated material handling equipment, doubling production capacity. Construction starts February 2019, completion August 2020.

CKD's Chinese subsidiary Xikaili (China) completed construction of a new production building in Wuxi City, China, on January 17, 2019. The 13,460 m² facility cost 20 billion yen and will manufacture pneumatic equipment, fluid control equipment, and automated machinery.

The Bundeskartellamt has prohibited the planned joint venture between Miba AG and Zollern GmbH & Co. KG to pool their hydrodynamic plain bearing production activities. The decision was announced on January 17, 2019.

AGCO, owner of Massey Ferguson, announced plans to expand its Beauvais, France facility by acquiring a neighboring 15.7ha site from Froneri. The expansion will support production ramp-up to 18,000 tractors per year and re-integration of outsourced operations.

Kobelco Construction Equipment India has started the third phase of its factory expansion program at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, to increase production capacity and meet growing demand.

Oriental Yuhong's subsidiary Henan Oriental Yuhong Building Materials awarded contracts for reactors, tanks, and metering tanks for a polyurethane waterproof coating production line in Puyang. Jiangyin Qinye Chemical Machinery won three lots totaling about 5.7 million yuan, and Guangdong Jinbaoli Chemical Technology won one lot for 3.1 million yuan.

Koenig & Bauer agreed to take over 80% of Duran Machinery's folder gluer business, integrating it as Koenig & Bauer Duran. The acquisition strengthens Koenig & Bauer's packaging production activities.

Dongyang P&F signed a KRW 3.09 billion contract with LG Chem to supply powder bins and pelle silos. The contract runs from January 14 to August 11, 2019.

Timken has built a new tapered roller bearing plant in Prahova, Romania, focused on metric products for European markets including agriculture, construction and mining. The plant features advanced computer controls, robotics and automation.

Construction of the new £50 million JCB Cab Systems factory in Uttoxeter is ahead of schedule, targeting a summer opening. The 350,000 sq ft plant will create the most advanced cab facility in the world with automated production line and robotic welding.

OSG will construct a new building at its Shinshiro plant in Aichi Prefecture, starting operations in early 2020. The investment is about 60 billion yen. The new building will produce carbide drills and taps, consolidating production from other plants.

Mazak Corporation will invest $8.5 million in new manufacturing technology for its Florence, Kentucky iSmart Factory, including a new automated manufacturing cell with six machine tools and a storage system. Completion expected by late 2019.

Precision Gear Inc. acquired Arrow Gear Company, forming Precision Arrow Gear Group. The purchase was concluded on November 16, 2018.

South Korean turbo blower maker Turbomax signed an agreement on January 15, 2019 with Gangzha Economic Development Area in Nantong to build an energy-saving and eco-friendly equipment project with an investment of 195 million yuan on a 1.4-hectare site, targeting 500 million yuan in taxable sales within five years of production.

SPL, a portfolio company of IGP, has merged with Atchafalaya Measurement, Inc. (AMI), combining their hydrocarbon production measurement services to become the market leader in the United States.

Ingalls Shipbuilding contracted with Pemamek Ltd. in 2015 to build and install a large-scale PEMA automated welding system at its Pascagoula, Mississippi shipyard as part of its Shipyard of the Future initiative. The system includes dual flat-plate joining stations with robotic welding and laser-hybrid arc welding.

Heller Machine Tools has spent more than £2 million upgrading its Redditch manufacturing plant and headquarters, including a new customer area, expanded assembly of 5-axis machines, and a new Strothmann flow-line that increased production output by 30%.