Innherred Anskaffelser awarded a framework agreement for food packaging and service for food packaging machines to Casy AS and Empakk as on 17 December 2025. The contract covers disposable catering supplies and machine servicing for the municipality's central kitchen.

Berner Industrier signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Norwegian water treatment company Typhonix AS. The purchase price at closing is NOK 24 million, with additional performance-based payments for 2025 and 2026.

BorgWarner plans to invest $40 million in Mexico to boost electromobility technologies, including new battery cooling plates in Ramos Arizpe and a new complex in San Luis Potosí with a validation laboratory for international OEMs.

DEUTZ Group signed a purchase agreement to acquire all shares in Frerk Aggregatebau GmbH, a system integrator for emergency power systems and decentralized energy supply based in Schweringen, Germany. The total purchase price is in the upper double-digit million-euro range, with closing expected in Q1 2026.

Taqween Advanced Industries signed a share purchase agreement on 30 April 2026 to acquire JOFO Nonwoven Company Limited's 70% stake in Sav (Advanced Tissue Factory), increasing its ownership to 100%. The consideration involves assuming all current and future liabilities of Sav.

Cortizo inaugurated a new aluminium recycling plant in Coirós (A Coruña), Spain, with an investment of €38 million. The 29,000 m² facility can produce up to 100,000 tonnes per year of recycled billet from post-consumer scrap.

Pioneer Pump, a division of Franklin Electric, has acquired Ipswich water treatment firm Geoquip Water Solutions and fittings maker Hydrodif Products for an undisclosed sum. The deal was completed on December 17 and the 17 employees of the two firms joined the new owners.

APackaging Group broke ground on a $25 million, 300,000-square-foot packaging manufacturing facility on a 35-acre site in the Enterprise Industrial Park in Defiance, Ohio, built by Rupp Rosebrock Inc., with $12.5 million in production technology.

Baker Hughes has secured a major multi-year contract from Kuwait Oil Company to supply electrical submersible pumps and related installation, surveillance, maintenance and optimisation services for Kuwait's oil and gas fields. The award was announced on December 17, 2025.

Soteria Flexibles, a US flexible packaging maker, agreed to acquire all shares of Montreal-based film and packaging manufacturer Imaflex for CAD 2.35 per share in cash, a total equity value of about CAD 123 million. Closing is expected in the first quarter of 2026.

Daihen plans a new single-storey factory of about 6,000 square metres at its Mie Works in Taki, Mie Prefecture, with a total investment of roughly ¥10 billion. Phase 1 is due to finish in fiscal 2027 and phase 2 in fiscal 2029.

Packaging Corporation of America will permanently shut down the W2 paper machine and kraft pulp lines at its Wallula, Washington containerboard plant, cutting about 200 jobs and reducing annual capacity by about 250,000 tonnes. Measures are to be completed by the end of Q1 2026, with pre-tax charges of about USD 205 million.

New Zealand-based WML Paperboard acquired Tahoe Paperboard Transpacific, a US paperboard converter and distributor in Woodland, California, operating a 60,000 square foot facility with two precision sheeters. The deal was announced on December 17, 2025.

Mecco Group's subsidiary Shanghai Mecco Valve Co. held a groundbreaking ceremony on December 17, 2025 for a RMB 1 billion high-end intelligent valve factory at Lijing Industrial Park. The plant is scheduled for completion by December 31, 2026 and is expected to produce 20,000 control valves and 80,000 high-end process valves annually.

Indkøbsfællesskabet IFIRS awarded a kr3.9 million contract to Goglio S.p.A. for a coffee packaging system. The contract was awarded in December 2025.

Toyo Engineering India has been awarded an EPC contract by BPCL for a 400,000 ton/year polypropylene unit at the Kochi Refinery in Kerala, India. The contract was signed on December 16, 2025, and is scheduled for completion by FY 2027.

Vermeer MV Solutions celebrated the opening of a newly expanded manufacturing facility in Piedmont, South Carolina, adding over 135,000 square feet of production, office, and training space. The expansion is expected to create up to 100 new jobs.

The Hisense (Changsha) Home Appliance Industrial Park in Ningxiang Economic and Technological Development Zone officially commenced operations on December 16, 2025. The first phase, with an investment of 5 billion CNY, focuses on intelligent manufacturing of commercial air conditioners including water chillers and multi-split systems.

Vivostat International GmbH, a Vienna-based holding company, announced on December 16, 2025, the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Vivostat A/S, headquartered in Greater Copenhagen, Denmark, to support growth and international expansion.

Apheon, a European private equity firm, signed a binding agreement to acquire a majority stake in Rubio Monocoat, a wood protection solutions company headquartered in Izegem, Belgium. Bencis sold its stake, while management and the founding Muylle family remain shareholders.

MVV Netze awarded Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG a €25,605,561 contract for a substation (Umspannwerk Mannheim Süd). The contract was awarded on 1 December 2025 and runs until 28 August 2026.

HOERBIGER has signed an agreement to acquire Physik Instrumente (PI), a global leader in precision motion and positioning technologies. PI will form the new Positioning Division within HOERBIGER, retaining its name and brand. The deal value was not disclosed.

The Boeing Co. was awarded a $930,771,278 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to provide service life modifications for up to 60 F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets, extending service life from 6,000 to 10,000 flight hours and integrating Block III avionics. Work will be performed in San Diego, San Antonio, and St. Louis, with completion expected in November 2028.

Vale, Caterpillar and dealer Sotreq agreed to expand Vale's autonomous haulage fleet in the Northern System in Pará from 14 to about 90 Cat MineStar Command trucks by 2028, including models rated up to 400 tonnes. Deployment will roll out across Serra Norte and Serra Sul iron ore units.

SencorpWhite selected Hamilton, Ohio for its new U.S. headquarters, creating 230 new jobs and generating $20 million in new payroll. The company is transferring automated manufacturing operations from Sweden to Ohio.

Rockwell Automation delivered its first batch of OTTO 600 and OTTO 1200 autonomous mobile robots from a 25,000-square-foot production space at its Milwaukee headquarters, following the acquisition of Clearpath Robotics.

MPM Medical acquired a full collagen manufacturing platform and FDA 510(k) clearance for surgical collagen devices, and will operate production from its 100,000-square-foot FDA-registered facility in Mesquite, Texas starting January 1, 2026.

CitroTech announced a commercial partnership with a leading national lumber distributor to produce Class A fire-rated lumber using CitroTech's non-pressure impregnated chemistry. The partnership commenced December 1, 2025, covering facilities in the Western United States.

RENK Group AG secured contracts worth over EUR 45 million to supply HSWL 256, HSWL 354, and AGB 300 transmissions for Germany's Puma, Büffel, and Boxer armored vehicles.

XCMG has begun shipping mining trucks from China to the SimFer mine at the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, as part of a nearly $110 million equipment supply contract signed in 2024.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. will acquire an additional 21% of Astemo shares from Hitachi, Ltd., making Astemo a consolidated subsidiary of Honda. The move aims to enhance Honda's SDV development capabilities.

Vibhor Steel Tubes Ltd has secured multiple work orders worth ₹18.87 crore for the supply of metal crash barriers from Veda Metallics, YNM Pan Global Trade Private Ltd, and Surich Industries.

MAFELL AG has acquired Friedrich Duss Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, a manufacturer of power tools for drilling, chiseling, and diamond drilling. The acquisition was completed on December 2, 2025, and DUSS will continue operations at its Neubulach site.

HEGLA Group has acquired all limited partnership shares of RS technology, which will operate as HEGLA-RS technology. The acquisition adds wet machining and processing of glass, including edge processing, drilling, milling, and dome cutting, to HEGLA's product range.

Marubeni Tetsugen Co., Ltd. and Marubeni Metal Co., Ltd., wholly owned subsidiaries of Marubeni Corporation, have agreed to merge effective April 1, 2026. The new company will be named Marubeni Tetsugen Metals Co., Ltd.

Crystal Bridges Holding Corp., part of the Lucio Co Group, fully acquired PrimeWater Infrastructure Corp., a water and wastewater operator serving over 1.7 million households in the Philippines.

PRO-SET Formulated Resin Systems, an Iron Path Capital holding company, acquired European-based Wessex Resins and Adhesives Ltd., a manufacturer of high-performance epoxy resins and adhesives.

SEW USOCOME celebrated the tenth anniversary and inauguration of a 25,000 m² extension at its Brumath production and assembly plant, with a new intralogistics solution including a pallet warehouse and shuttle warehouse.

Nordic Steel, based in Bryne, Norway, acquired Bergen Rustfri Industri (BRIAS), a company in the mechanical industry.

Union Park Capital acquired GAM Enterprises, a manufacturer of precision gear reducers and motion control solutions, and launched a precision motion control platform. Terms were not disclosed.

Riyadh Cement Co signed an SAR85 million ($22.7 million) contract with Chengdu Design and Research Institute of Building Materials Industry Co to build an electrical grid for its Nisah plant under the Liquid Fuel Displacement Program. Work started on 14 December 2025.

Silan Microelectronics announced that its subsidiary Silan Jihua has obtained a project filing certificate for the first phase of a 12-inch advanced analog IC chip manufacturing line in Xiamen. The phase one investment is 10 billion yuan (approx. $1.4 billion), with a planned monthly capacity of 20,000 wafers.

Bamburi Cement signed a $250 million Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Sinoma CBMI Construction Co., Ltd to build a 1.6 million tonnes-per-year clinkerisation factory in Matuga, Kwale County, Kenya. The plant will more than double Bamburi's clinker capacity from 1 million to 2.6 million tonnes and cement capacity from 1.8 million to 4 million tonnes.

Element Logic acquired Safer Storage Systems, an Australian provider of warehouse storage and automation solutions, to establish its presence in the Australian and New Zealand markets.

Agile Robots SE agreed to acquire Thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering from Thyssenkrupp Automotive Technology. The business will continue as Krause Automation, adding ~650 experts and 10 locations across Europe and North America.

Doosan Enerbility signed a definitive contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power to supply the nuclear steam supply system and turbine generators for units 5 and 6 of the Dukovany nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic. The contract is worth 5.64 trillion won and runs until April 18, 2038.

Sanmina entered into an agreement with Končar - Electrical Industry Inc. to co-design a custom medium-voltage transformer for Sanmina and explore further collaboration for Končar's US market growth.

Sanmina announced a new factory in Houston, Texas to build medium-voltage distribution transformers, instrument transformers and switchgear. Production is expected to start in 2027.

Taural India supplied 16 sets of aluminium castings to Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd for propulsion gearboxes under the Indigenous Patrol Vessels Programme. The delivery was completed in less than five months.

Bamburi Cement, a subsidiary of Amsons Group, signed a $250 million EPC contract with Sinoma CBMI to build a 1.6 million tonnes-per-year clinkerisation plant in Matuga, Kwale County, Kenya. The plant will increase Bamburi's cement production capacity from 1.8 million to 4 million tonnes per year.