Seongho Electronics announced it will acquire an 87.5% stake in ADSTech, an optical communication products company, for KRW 280 billion, with the transaction expected to close on January 16, 2026.

Siemens Limited's board approved the sale of its Low Voltage Motors and Geared Motors business to Innomotics India Private Limited for an enterprise value of INR 2,200 crore, expected to close in June 2026.

Otofarma is investing €1.5 million to open a new production facility in Corsico, Milan, to double its hearing aid production capacity by 2028. The 3,000 m² plant will produce advanced hearing devices.

Glovesafe OpCo (GLVUS) will invest $5.8 million to establish its North American headquarters and a manufacturing facility in Louisville, Kentucky, to produce sterile surgical gloves. The project will create 100 new jobs in four years.

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. acquired Houston-based RPT Alliance, a designer of natural gas transmission facilities and power generation infrastructure for data centers and industrial facilities. The acquisition expands Bowman's power and utilities engineering practice.

Nante Crane invested $15 million to build a 21,000 m² production workshop and a 3,500 m² R&D center at its Silver Hill Production Base. Construction started in July 2023, and full operation is scheduled for January 2026.

LG Energy Solution won a $1.4 billion order from Mercedes-Benz to supply electric vehicle batteries for the North American and European regions, with deliveries from 2028 to 2035.

Aerolloy Technologies, a subsidiary of PTC Industries, signed a multi-year supply agreement with Honeywell Aerospace Technologies for high-precision titanium and superalloy investment castings for aircraft engines. The components will be produced at the Strategic Manufacturing Technology Centre in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Canned beverage maker DrinkPAK will establish its first Pennsylvania plant with a $195 million investment, leasing a 1.4 million sq ft build-to-suit facility in the Bellwether District of Philadelphia. The Commonwealth is investing $2 million and the project will create 174 jobs over three years.

Redwood Beverage Group, backed by 13th Floor Capital and Tricor Pacific Capital, acquired the 200,000 sq ft West Sacramento co-packing facility previously run by Manna Beverages. Redwood has restarted operations and rehired many former employees.

Coca-Cola HBC, with packaging maker DS Smith and machinery supplier Krones, is rolling out a corrugated cardboard handle for 1.5-liter bottle multipacks in place of plastic shrink wrap. Commercial trials began in Austria in 2023.

Nelipak completed its acquisition of Merrill's Packaging, which makes custom thermoformed packaging for medical device, pharmaceutical and life science applications. The deal was reported on December 8, 2025.

Torishima received an order from Fuji Electric for hot well pumps for Unit 2 (80 MW) of the Muara Laboh geothermal power plant in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The order was received in July 2025 and announced December 8, 2025.

Jinling Special Coatings, a subsidiary of Meituzu Group, has won two bids from Sinopec International for fireproof coating supply for the Henan petrochemical ethylene project and refinery supporting project, with total bid prices of approximately 29.2 million yuan (about $4 million).

Deutsche Bahn AG awarded a €28 million framework contract for indoor and outdoor crane systems to Konecranes GmbH and Ralf Teichmann GmbH. The contract covers bridge cranes and portal cranes nationwide in Germany.

The Arab Contractors Company is implementing the expansion of the Qift water filtration plant in Qena, Egypt, at a total cost of EGP 343 million. The first phase (EGP 145 million) is completed; the second phase (EGP 198 million) is ongoing.

XCMG Machinery commenced shipment of XDE260 mining trucks to the SimFer mine, part of the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea. The delivery is part of a nearly RMB 800 million equipment supply contract signed in 2024 with Rio Tinto and partners.

East Pipes Integrated Company signed a six-month contract with the Saudi Water Authority on December 7, 2025, to manufacture and supply steel pipes valued at over SAR 485 million including VAT.

Axium Packaging, headquartered in New Albany, Ohio, is investing $45 million to expand its tube manufacturing and build a specialized warehouse in Jersey Township. Its total central Ohio investment reaches $550+ million.

Worthington Steel is in negotiations with Kloeckner & Co for a potential voluntary public takeover. Due diligence is underway, but no final decision has been made.

Press Metal Aluminium Holdings Bhd, through its subsidiary PMB Aluminium Sdn Bhd, signed a shareholders' agreement on December 6, 2025 with Bintulu Capital Sdn Bhd to establish a joint venture company, Press Metal PV (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd, to build and operate a clean energy products extrusion plant in Bintulu, Sarawak. The project has an estimated development cost of RM600 million and an initial annual production capacity of 80,000 metric tonnes.

Sika AG inaugurated its sixth manufacturing facility in Colombia, located in Palmira, Valle del Cauca. The plant adds approximately 90,000 annual tons of capacity for mortars, adhesives, stuccos, and acrylic mastics, increasing national production capacity by up to 80%.

QMP Inc., a water filtration systems manufacturer, plans to establish a new 22,000-square-foot facility in Walterboro, South Carolina. The $5.1 million project is expected to create 233 jobs.

DMG Mori Seiki Sweden AB has been awarded a contract by the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets radioanstalt) to supply a five-axis CNC milling machine. The contract value is SEK 2,305,000 and the decision was made on 5 December 2025.

Magna opened a new 6,500 sqm production hall in Neuburg, Germany, to manufacture car seats for a new Audi electric model starting January 2026. The company invested around EUR 10 million and created about 100 new jobs.

NRW Holdings, through its subsidiary Fredon Industries, secured approximately A$150 million in new data centre contracts across Victoria, Queensland, and New South Wales. The contracts cover electrical, mechanical, and design-led infrastructure services.

Daimler Truck and Torc Robotics selected Innoviz Technologies as the LiDAR supplier for series production of SAE Level 4 autonomous trucks. Innoviz will serve as a Tier-1 provider of automotive-grade LiDAR hardware.

Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions provided a non-repayable contribution of $99,000 to TGWT Clean Technologies Inc. to acquire equipment to repatriate production to Canada and manufacture new ecofriendly water treatment products.

Konecranes Nuclear Equipment and Services won a $49,673,119 contract from the U.S. Navy to build a 175-ton heavy-lift portal crane at its New Berlin facility for installation at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.

Autoliv plans to build a new green factory in Tunisia using clean energy and magnesium to produce automotive steering wheels, the first such Industry 4.0 plant in Africa.

Ornua Foods in the UK received six multi-format case packers from Somic for handling grated, sliced and portioned cheese, after successful factory acceptance tests.

KEP Technologies sold its KEP Metal Solutions division, a manufacturer of high-precision metal assemblies for aerospace and defense, to Tikehau Capital (majority) in partnership with Aciturri Aeroengines (minority).

ODK-STAR signed a special investment contract with the Perm Krai government to invest 10 billion rubles over 2025-2034 in expanding production of components for SJ-100 and MC-21 aircraft engines, including three new buildings totaling 44,000 sq m.

JSW Defence laid the foundation stone for a V-BAT drone manufacturing facility in Maheshwaram, Hyderabad, with a total investment of ₹1,200 crore including a Chandigarh facility.

JSW Cement plans to invest ₹11,000 crore over three years to double its cement production capacity from 20 million tonnes to 41 million tonnes by 2028, including new facilities in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and expansions at existing sites.

Foraco International was awarded two long-term drilling contracts with Tier-One gold mining customers in Nevada, USA, with combined value exceeding US$60 million. The contracts cover mine development and resource-definition drilling, with operations already commenced and ramping up through Q1 2026.

Svenska Aerogel received its first commercial order from Outlast Technologies, valued at 924,000 SEK, for the Aersulate product incorporating Quartzene for thermally insulating textile fibers. This is the largest single material order to date for Svenska Aerogel.

Fineotex Chemical Ltd. acquired the CrudeChem Technologies Group, a US-based specialty oilfield chemicals manufacturer, through its subsidiary. The acquisition marks Fineotex's entry into the North American oilfield chemicals market.

SODECIA AAPICO Joint Venture will build a 400,000-square-foot factory in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, to produce ladder frames for Scout Motors electric vehicles. The $120 million facility will create nearly 400 jobs, with groundbreaking on December 8, 2025, and production expected in March 2028.

Uryupinsk Crane Plant is creating a new high-tech production line for electric hoists with lifting capacity up to 25 tons and lift height up to 100 meters, with a capacity of up to 500 units per year. The project costs 2.5 billion rubles, with state support of over 232 million rubles.

Brazilian fund LTP Capital became the controlling shareholder of ABC Empilhadeiras, a company specializing in rental, sale and maintenance of forklifts and intralogistics equipment. The acquisition aims to expand operations and improve management.

VOSTEKHREMIM, a crane manufacturer in the Tambov region, has received a RUB 112 million loan from the Industrial Development Fund to expand production of lifting and transport equipment. The project will double output and create 13 jobs.

Nuutro has announced a collaboration with Moba to develop and deliver turn-key CIP (Clean-in-Place) systems for Moba's revolutionary egg-sorting machines. Nuutro is responsible for the complete engineering and delivery of the cleaning systems.

Cimenterie Kongo (CIMKO) has announced plans to invest over USD 300 million to double its cement production capacity in the Democratic Republic of Congo to 3 million tonnes per year by 2027, up from 1.4 million tonnes.

Epic Water Filters, a water filter manufacturer in Palmetto, Florida, plans to double its staff and expand into a larger facility to handle increasing demand. The company also launched a new water filter pitcher in December 2025.

Shandong Yulong has taken delivery of a large PAMA floor-type boring machine from Italy, which will be installed in its fourth factory area. The machine is expected to improve product quality.

pelzGROUP has commissioned a new production line for technical nonwovens at its Green Factory in Wahlstedt, Germany. The investment of over EUR 15 million is the largest single investment in the company's history.

Aksa Akrilik invested nearly $30 million in a new facility for the production of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Fiber (UHMWPE) under the Mithra brand, with initial capacity of 350 tons per year, planned to increase to 500 tons.

Cyient Semiconductors was awarded a contract to supply and qualify technical IPs for the INR 4,500 crore modernization of the Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, India, including process technologies for an 8-inch manufacturing line.

Aerolloy Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of PTC Industries, signed a long-term agreement with Honeywell Aerospace Technologies to supply titanium and superalloy precision investment castings for aerospace engine components.