Abengoa contracted Ingersoll Rand's engineering project solutions team to design a tailored compressed air system, including a customised enclosure, for the Agadir-Chtouka desalination plant in Morocco, due to enter service in March 2021.

Fushite Hydraulic broke ground on Jan 21, 2021 on a 2.2 billion yuan project in the Shangrao Economic Development Zone to produce 50 million hydraulic parts a year and create over 500 jobs.

BHS Corrugated acquired an 18-hectare property in Weiherhammer, Germany, for a logistics park; the first project is a €40 million automated spare parts logistics center planned to go live in early 2023.

Lane Supply Holdings, the Denver-based industrial distributor, announced the acquisition of Palmetto Compressors, Inc. and Fountain Inn Mechanical, Inc., expanding its compressed air business into the Southeast US on January 19, 2021.

Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme plans a new production hall with office units at its Waldkraiburg site, consolidating three local plants into a campus. Groundbreaking was planned for the first quarter of 2021.

Renqiu Liyang Compressor Manufacturing has received government filing and land approval for a new CNY 200 million plant on 52.7 mu in Renqiu Economic Development Zone, Cangzhou, Hebei. The plant is designed to produce 30,000 compressors a year.

Danfoss completed the full acquisition of Artemis Intelligent Power, an Edinburgh-based hydraulic R&D company. The deal lets Danfoss commercialize its Digital Displacement pump technology globally, and about 60 employees joined Danfoss.

Norway-based TMC Compressors won a contract to supply an offshore topside compressed air system, including three large compressors and a control system, for Shell's Bonga Main FPSO off Nigeria. The contract value was not disclosed.

PFF Group invested over £2m in custom-built machines from Hanbury-Autogil and hired 100 staff at its Washington, Tyne and Wear site to make disposable polythene aprons under a UK Department of Health and Social Care contract for 360 million aprons. The announcement is dated 5 January 2021.

Four gas compressor parts and services companies, H&S Valve, Ignition System and Control (ISC), Global Compressor and Potemkin Industries, combined to form Global Compression Services, operating from 11 locations serving US shale plays.

Wajax Corporation agreed to acquire all shares of Tundra Process Solutions, an Alberta industrial maintenance and process equipment distributor, for total consideration of $99.1 million, paid in cash and shares. Closing is expected early in Q1 2021, subject to approvals.

FLSmidth agreed to sell its Germany-based Möller (FLSmidth Hamburg GmbH) pneumatic conveying systems business to French group REEL. The agreement was signed on 29 December 2020 and the terms are confidential.

Promess, a Michigan maker of sensing and motion control equipment, bought a 45,000-square-foot facility on Lochlin Drive in Green Oak Township and plans to move its Brighton manufacturing there by end of March, with a $4-5 million investment and about 20 new jobs.

Machine tool maker Eltek Korea signed a 12.1 billion won investment agreement with Okcheon County to build a factory in Okcheon Techno Valley, Chungbuk, by 2025, and to relocate its headquarters and plant from Geumsan.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Modec ordered six compressor trains from MAN Energy Solutions for the Sangomar field offshore Senegal, with ready-for-installation expected in Q4 2021. The contract value was not disclosed.

MFCP, a Parker Hannifin distributor, acquired Controlled Motion Solutions (COMOSO), Parker's largest tri-technology distributor in the Southwest, with ten locations in California, Arizona and Nevada. The deal was announced on December 7, 2020.

SPX FLOW entered a combination agreement to launch a recommended public tender offer for all shares of Finland's Uutechnic Group Oyj (UTG Mixing Group) at EUR 0.60 per share in cash. Closing is expected in Q1 2021.

Cleveland private equity firm CapitalWorks completed a majority investment in Electromechanical Research Laboratories (ERL) of New Albany, Indiana, and its subsidiary Law Valve of Texas. ERL makes pumping, gauging and venting equipment for tank barges.

Quincy Compressor acquired Scales Industrial Technologies, based in Carle Place, New York, which operates five locations in NY, NJ, PA, CT and MA. The deal was announced on April 14, 2016.

Packaging equipment manufacturer Viking Masek is expanding its Oostburg, Wisconsin facility to double production. It is the third expansion of the site in five years, reported on December 1, 2020.

Ingersoll Rand has agreed to acquire the assets of Tuthill Vacuum and Blower Systems from Tuthill Corp in an all-cash transaction valued at US$184 million.

SeaTac Packaging has taken delivery of a BOBST EXPERT CI wide-web flexo press, installed at its new Tacoma, Washington facility as part of a multi-million-dollar investment that created new jobs.

Kaeser Compressors is expanding its Boisbriand site near Montréal, boosting warehousing capacity by 50% as part of Industry 4.0 investments in compressed air technology.

ANDRITZ received an order from Zouping Hongfa Aluminium, part of Weiqiao Aluminum Group, for one melting and holding furnace cell at its Shandong Province plant. Start-up is scheduled for the first quarter of 2022.

Neuman & Esser (NEA Group) acquired Brazil's HYTRON Energy & Gas on 19 November 2020. HYTRON, based in Sumaré, São Paulo, provides engineering and system integration for PEM and alkaline electrolysers and gas reformers and is integrated into NEA Energy Solutions.

Linde and the Dalian Bingshan Group signed an agreement to establish a joint venture manufacturing hydrogen refueling stations in Dalian, Liaoning, starting in 2021, tripling Linde's production capacity for these stations.

ABB has won an order worth around $150 million to supply Azipod electric propulsion and related power technologies for five newbuild cruise ships for Fincantieri. The vessels, with 178 MW total propulsion power, will enter service between 2023 and 2026.

Tatweer Petroleum of Bahrain awarded US-based Stream-Flo Industries a five-year call-off long-term purchase agreement to supply wellhead systems for Bahrain Field projects. The contract is valued at BHD 7,859,936 (about USD 20.9 million).

FirstElement Fuel Inc. ordered a vertical non-lube API-618 hydrogen compressor package from Burckhardt Compression for its upcoming hydrogen transfill facility in Northern California. The unit will be manufactured in Pune, India.

MODEC has commissioned MAN Energy Solutions to supply five radial compressors and two screw compressor trains for the FPSO vessel serving Equinor's Bacalhau field off Brazil. The FPSO will process up to 220,000 barrels of crude oil and 15 million cubic meters of gas per day.

Investment firm Zinc Capital acquired 100% of Teclena, a Leiria-based distributor of hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical and electronic components and industrial equipment. The deal was advised by Bakertilly.

Oldham-based Ribble Packaging completed a £3.5 million investment project including a warehouse extension and new corrugator and fanfold stacker machinery, raising line speeds and capacity. The project ran from February to early September 2020.

Wärtsilä was awarded a five-year Optimised Maintenance Agreement covering the main engines of two 174,000 cbm LNG carriers managed by Thenamaris LNG, signed in September 2020 and announced on 4 November 2020.

Atlas Copco agreed to acquire Ehrler and Beck GmbH, a distributor of vacuum equipment and services based in Renningen, Germany with 15 employees. The purchase price was not disclosed and the deal is expected to close in January 2021.

Interpump Group announced that the merger by incorporation of its wholly owned subsidiary Mariotti & Pecini, a maker of mixers and agitators, has taken effect. Interpump had bought 60% of the company in 2017 and later acquired the remaining 40%.

Lufkin Industries completed its acquisition of Schlumberger's North American Land Rod Lift Business, a provider of rod lift products and services with brands including Don-Nan and Shores Lift Solutions.

The Carlyle Group agreed to acquire Flender GmbH, a mechanical and electrical drive technology maker, from Siemens AG. The deal is subject to regulatory approval, and Jeantet advised Carlyle on it.

REP Holding will supply 12 sets of ЦБК405 centrifugal compressors for the second phase of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, under a contract with Kazankompressormash for GPA-16U units, as announced on 30 October 2020.

Chevron Lummus Global was awarded a contract by PetroChina to supply its ISOMIX-e reactor internals for two RDS units in Liaoning Province, China, announced on 30 October 2020.

Voith has been contracted by Domtar to deliver equipment and technical services for converting the paper machine at its Kingsport mill in Tennessee to recycled containerboard. The mill is expected to be complete in 2022 and will produce 600,000 tonnes of linerboard and corrugated medium per year.

McKinley Paper will receive a $5 million state Local Economic Development Act grant to build a new boiler, water systems and wastewater treatment in McKinley County, New Mexico, retaining at least 125 jobs after its power supply closed.

QCC partnered with Rexroth (A Bosch Company) to revitalize the Rineer product line, with a case study on the results. The announcement is dated 7 January 2025.

Chicago-based private-equity firm Capital Concepts Holdings, LLC acquired QCC, a precision machining, assembly and testing services provider. The announcement is dated 29 April 2021.

QCC LLC acquired the Woodward EFC (Electronic Fuel Control) product line, supporting continuity of supply for industrial, mobile off-highway and energy customers. The announcement is dated 16 December 2024.

Alfa Laval has won an order worth nearly $15 million to supply a pretreatment processing line, including high-speed separators and heat exchangers, to HollyFrontier for renewable diesel production in the U.S. Delivery is scheduled for 2021.