Eptec Defence Solutions was awarded a 10-year contract by BAE Systems Australia to provide abrasive blast and paint services for the first three Hunter class frigates at Osborne Naval Shipyard.

Severn Trent Water awarded Barhale a £16.35 million contract to build a 20-metre diameter, 24-metre deep shaft tank at Etruria Vale in Stoke-on-Trent, providing 5,200m³ of overflow storage capacity.

VA Tech Wabag received a Letter of Award from the Saudi Water Authority for a 300 MLD seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, valued at approximately $272 million.

Spain's Lantania and Saudi firm Mutlaq Al-Ghowairi Contracting Company secured a $544 million contract from the Saudi Water Authority to build a 600,000 m³/day reverse osmosis desalination plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

VINCI Energies has signed an agreement to acquire EnergoBit, a Romanian electrical infrastructure company with €100 million revenue and 825 employees, to strengthen its position in Romania.

JX Advanced Metals Corp is investing about ¥1.5bn ($10.2m) to increase indium phosphide substrate production capacity by about 20% at its Isohara Plant in Kitaibaraki City, Ibaraki Prefecture.

The Aerospace business of Godrej Enterprises Group received a contract award from Pratt & Whitney to manufacture complex aerospace parts for aircraft engine applications.

Kemira announced a strategic investment of close to €20 million to build a new production line for Aluminium Chloro Hydrate (ACH) at its Tarragona, Spain site, to expand its drinking water treatment portfolio. Commissioning is expected in early 2028.

Sandler AG acquired a 24.9% stake in Phoenix Non Woven GmbH & Co. KG for a low single-digit million-euro amount, to strengthen its innovation pipeline in wet-laid nonwovens.

Team Leidos, delivering for the UK Ministry of Defence, awarded a four-year packaging and soft consumables framework with a notional ceiling of £73 million to MaxPack, DS Smith Packaging and Joseph Gleave and Son. The notice's award date conflicts with its publication date.

ePac has installed an HP Indigo 200K digital press at its Sheffield production site, its first such press in Europe. Installation was completed in April 2025 to add capacity for flexible packaging such as pouches.

Panther Group's RRK Wellpappenfabrik is buying a neighbouring 30,000 m² plot in Bottrop and plans a fully automated new corrugator and warehouse, with about EUR 40 million invested. Plant capacity is set to rise above 300 million m² per year, with timing dependent on 2026 economic conditions.

Saipem, which holds the EPCI contract for TotalEnergies' GranMorgu project, has selected Tenaris to supply 37,000 tons of coated seamless line pipe and thermal insulation coatings. Production will take place in Italy and Mexico.

TotalEnergies has awarded Tenaris a contract to supply about 47,000 tons of casing and tubing plus Rig Direct services for the GranMorgu offshore project off Suriname. First oil is expected in 2028.

Saipem and Subsea7 signed a binding merger agreement to combine into Saipem7, a global energy services company with about EUR 21 billion revenue and EUR 43 billion combined backlog. Completion is expected in the second half of 2026.

Magnum Precision Machines Inc. was awarded a $536,280 contract by the U.S. Air Force for a Mazak VARIAXIS i-800 NEO milling machine, to be delivered to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. The contract was awarded on July 23, 2025.

North Glengarry council awarded a $1.15-million contract to Nexom Inc. to supply and commission tertiary treatment equipment for the Alexandria Lagoon project in Ontario. The contract includes disk filter systems for final wastewater treatment.

Jixing New Energy (03395.HK) approved the start of the EPC phase for a 9.6 MW natural gas power plant project in Alberta, Canada, with an estimated EPC cost of CAD 5.84 million.

Dalian Roy Pump won the contract for the FDPE unit catalyst injection skid at Blue Ocean New Material Co., Ltd.'s high-end polyolefin new materials project.

Jupiter Bach, a manufacturer of covers for wind turbines, completed a $4.2 million expansion of its manufacturing facility in Escambia County, adding 20,000 square feet of space with advanced crane technology and safety infrastructure.

Arisinfra Solutions has bagged a Rs 340 crore contract from Transcon Group for the integrated supply of construction materials for residential and commercial projects in Mumbai, spanning 45-50 months.

The Fayhaa Cement Factory project was launched in Adra Industrial City, Damascus countryside, as the first white cement manufacturing plant in Syria, with a $20 million investment and 130 direct job opportunities.

Tenowo, a nonwoven fabric manufacturer, has secured site guarantees until 2056 for its Reichenbach location, with the PIA association approving an extension of the ground lease and higher payments for the pump station in Unterheinsdorf.

Lakeland Industries, through its Jolly Scarpe brand, shipped a $3.1 million order for 47,500 fire intervention boots to the Italian Ministry of the Interior - Firefighters Department, under a previously awarded four-year supply contract.

A major Caterpillar fleet of over 30 units was handed over to West African Resources at the Kiaka Gold Project in Burkina Faso by Cat dealer NEEMBA Burkina Faso, including trucks, excavators, bulldozers, and support equipment.

ADF Group has signed a five-year contract valued at CAD 35-40 million per year for the supply and fabrication of steel structures for a new energy infrastructure project in Quebec, with a potential total of CAD 400 million including extensions and inflation.

Inox Wind has won a 51 MW order from First Energy Pvt Ltd, a Thermax Group subsidiary, to supply 3 MW wind turbine generators for a project in Tamil Nadu, including EPC and O&M services.

Kier has been awarded a £139 million contract by Severn Trent Water to upgrade the Wanlip Sewage Treatment Works in Leicestershire, increasing dry weather flow capacity by 24% and full flow treatment capacity by 20%.

BUA Cement announced plans to build a 3Mta greenfield cement plant in Ososo, Edo state, Nigeria, which will bring total production capacity to 20Mta by Q1 2027. The company recently expanded capacity from 11Mta to 17Mta with new lines in Edo and Sokoto states.

The first two Kuenz automated rail-mounted gantry cranes (ARMGs) have arrived at APM Terminals Maasvlakte II in Rotterdam as part of a contract for 62 ARMGs and one intermodal yard crane from Kuenz and ABB. The expansion will double container handling capacity and is scheduled for completion by 2027.

Hitachi Energy announced a $70 million investment to build a new 45,000 sqm transformer manufacturing facility in Dilovasi, Kocaeli, Turkey. The plant will increase transformer production capacity by 70% and is set for completion by 2026, replacing the existing Kartal plant.

CE Bartlett completed a three-stage expansion of its Wendouree factory in Ballarat, Victoria, producing industrial textile products. The project created 22 new jobs and added space for water tank liner production, general assembly, and advanced industrial sewing machinery.

Austrian company GER4TECH Robot Factory is building a new 3,000 sqm production hall in Maletići, Netretić municipality, Croatia, valued at approximately €5 million. The project is expected to create 15-30 jobs in mechatronics, electrical engineering, and automation.

Paulig will invest €12 million to expand production capacity at its Berga (Barcelona) plant in Spain, installing a new flour tortilla production line expected to become operational by the end of 2026. The project is expected to create 30 new jobs over 5-6 years.

Westwin Elements, America's first major nickel refinery, has entered into two seven-year Sales & Purchase Agreements with Traxys. The first is valued at approximately $1.4 billion for 10,000 metric tonnes per annum of high-purity Class 1 Nickel Briquettes, and the second covers up to 17,000 tpa of contained nickel in Mixed Hydroxide Precipitate.

Chinese engine components maker Tianrun Industrial Technology plans to acquire Korean-owned Altechno Auto Parts in Shandong province for CNY135 million (USD18.8 million) to expand into lightweight aluminum car parts. The deal is expected to be completed by 2027.

German private equity firm Arkad Partners has acquired Ahlers, a family-owned German company specializing in stainless steel machinery for the food industry. Ahlers will form the foundation of a new platform called 'multimac' together with previously acquired Gröneweg.

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG has agreed to acquire the technology, intellectual property, and brand rights of Polar Mohr from the Polar Group. The transaction is expected to close within weeks, giving HEIDELBERG exclusive global sales and marketing rights for Polar Mohr postpress products.

KSB USA has supplied submersible motor pumps for DC Water's enhanced nitrogen removal facility (ENRF) at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in Washington DC, part of a $3.8 billion capital investment program.

Ampo Poyam Valves has been selected by Saudi Aramco to supply engineered sour service valves for the Jafurah Gas Wells Tie-in project in Saudi Arabia. The scope covers motor operated ball valves, manual ball valves and gate valves under purchase orders CRPO 19 and CRPO 23.

Flair Packaging is adding a 10-color flexographic press and a solventless laminator at its Calgary, Alberta plant, and has acquired a second Calgary plant of 35,000 square feet for its converting equipment. It is the first of a series of planned Canadian expansions.

Vivos Holdings, a portfolio company of Emprise Group, announced it will combine operations with Nice-Pak Products, a manufacturer of wipes based in Arkansas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

A Chinese approval notice lists the expansion of Hubei Zhushan Kelaisi's valve production project in Zhushan, Hubei, for 12 million valves per year. The notice is a regulatory approval filing, and no investment amount is stated.

The Australian Department of Defence awarded a contract to Aztech Cutting Solutions for processing machinery valued at $10,081.99. The contract was awarded on 22 July 2025 and expired on 7 August 2025.

Rubin Trading fired up its third glass furnace at the Pleven glass bottle and jar plant in Bulgaria, a €70 million investment adding 4 new production lines. The expansion increases daily capacity by 320 tonnes to a total of 770 tonnes and creates 150 new jobs.

Tetra Tech has been awarded a $10 million contract by California's West Basin Municipal Water District to upgrade process control systems at water treatment facilities serving nearly one million residents in Los Angeles County.

Broadwind has received a follow-on order exceeding $6 million from a leading OEM of natural gas turbines for precision machined gearing products. Production will begin in Q4 2025 under a two-year agreement.

Aksa Akrilik will invest over $30 million in 2025 to build a Mithra UHMWPE fiber and unidirectional ballistic fabric production facility in Turkey. The plant will have an initial capacity of 250 tons per year, expandable to 500 tons per year.

Elmeasure India Pvt Ltd has acquired a minority stake in Static Power Pty Ltd, an Australian company specializing in static transfer switches. The deal begins a five-year phased acquisition that is expected to result in a complete acquisition.

Hadrian announced a $200 million investment in a new 270,000-square-foot factory in Mesa, Arizona, expected to be operational by early 2026 and create 350 skilled jobs.