Quantum SPT, maker of ultra-high pressure electric servo pumps, has bought land at WHA Rayong 36 Industrial Estate in Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor to build a new manufacturing facility.

Germany's Duker acquired Strate of Sarstedt, a manufacturer of sewage pumping stations, non-return valves and aeration valves for municipal and industrial use, in July 2022.

Vår Energi ASA awarded Hammerfest-based Oss-nor a seven-year framework agreement for valve maintenance, testing and engineering on the Goliat platform in the Barents Sea, starting July 1, 2022.

Wajax subsidiary Tundra Process Solutions acquired the valve business of Powell Canada Inc., which has 38 staff and facilities in Edmonton, Fort McMurray and Lloydminster, Alberta. The deal was announced on June 30, 2022.

DexKo Global has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fluid-Press Group, an Albinea, Italy maker of hydraulic valves and manifold blocks for agricultural, industrial and construction machinery. Financial terms were not disclosed in the text provided.

Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire the assets of Shandong Jinggong Pump (Chinco), a Zibo-based maker of liquid ring vacuum pumps and systems, with closing expected in Q4 2022. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Edwards, part of Atlas Copco, inaugurated a new 16,000 m2 vacuum pump plant in Asan City, South Korea, to serve global semiconductor manufacturing. Production began in June 2022 and the plant will create about 150 jobs.

Danish pump manufacturer DESMI has signed a definitive agreement to sell a majority stake to private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP). DESMI is headquartered in Nørresundby, Denmark, and employs nearly 1,000 people.

Wilo SE officially opened its Wilo USA headquarters in Cedarburg with a 244,000-square-foot building that expands manufacturing and production, after a ribbon-cutting on June 21, 2022.

MFP Automation Engineering, a fluid power and automation company, is investing $824,013 in a 10,000-square-foot expansion of warehousing and office space at its existing facility in Jamestown Charter Township, Michigan. The expansion is expected to create five new jobs.

Numaligarh Refinery Limited in Assam awarded a globe control valves tender to Emerson Process Management Chennai, with a contract value of ₹9.8 crore dated September 10, 2025. Four bidders competed, including KSB, Samson and Severn Glocon.

LOT Vacuum signed a supply contract worth 17,430,830,000 won with Shenzhen S·C New Energy Technology Corporation for dry vacuum pumps used in solar applications, disclosed on June 16, 2022. The contract equals 6.71% of 2021 revenue and runs until December 31.

Flowserve was awarded a contract to supply 5,000 industrial process pumps to TMGcore, a Texas-based high-performance computing firm, for its immersion cooling units, with AGI Industries collaborating on the supply.

The Australian Department of Defence awarded ZF Australia Pacific a contract to supply valves, valued at AUD 18,737.40, with the contract awarded on 14 June 2022 for a six-month term.

Ampco Pumps broke ground on a 17,000 square foot addition to its Glendale, Wisconsin manufacturing facility, including a new lab for its Applied Products division and expanded pump assembly areas.

Abrasive Flow Solutions, a subsidiary of Invicta Holdings' Engineering Solutions Group, celebrated its first year at its Benoni, Gauteng plant. Over the past year it added a rubber lining facility with autoclaves and a pinch valve sleeve manufacturing facility, and expanded hydraulic pressing capacity.

Norway's PG Flow Solutions and Germany's Hermetic-Pumpen secured their first contract to deliver two hermetically sealed pumps for a newbuild LNG facility. The pumps will handle lean amine.

Kibbutz-based valve makers A.R.I. and Dorot, plus OCV of Oklahoma, were merged into Aquestia, owned 51% by MAT Holdings and 49% by Kibbutz Kfar Haruv. The deal was worth about $100 million in a stock exchange structure and was completed in June 2022.

TALIS, through its French subsidiary BAYARD SAS, signed a 60/40 joint venture agreement with China's Kc-Val to form TALIS Flow Control (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, which takes over Kc-Val's control valve production. It will be TALIS's first production facility outside Europe and Israel.

Atlas Copco agreed to acquire National Vacuum Equipment Inc., a Traverse City, Michigan manufacturer of industrial vacuum pumps and packages for tanker trucks with about 100 employees. The price was not disclosed and closing is expected in Q3 2022.

Pike Street Capital portfolio company PumpTech acquired Frost Engineering Service Company - Northwest, a Snohomish, Washington supplier of fluid handling systems and instrumentation.

Valmet inaugurated a new high-volume valve production unit at its Vantaa valve factory, which started operations in June 2022 and was officially opened on June 6, 2022, to improve valve availability and delivery times.

Hayward Tyler Inc and sister company Energy Steel were awarded multi-million dollar contracts to support the ITER fusion project in St-Paul-lez-Durance, France. Hayward Tyler supplies variable drive booster pumps and Energy Steel supplies 62 solenoid valve and cubicle packages.

Sulzer opened a 10,500 sq ft service centre in Vadodara, Gujarat, India for repairs, upgrades and parts manufacturing of pumps, steam turbines, compressors and expanders. The site has added CNC and balancing equipment.

LiangGu Valve Group is preparing a fully intelligent special valve factory in Wenzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone with annual output of 100,000 sets and a total investment of 668.78 million yuan. The project has submitted a feasibility report and a land application, and construction is expected to take two years.

Roper Technologies agreed to sell a majority stake in its industrial business to private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice for $2.6 billion, keeping a 49% stake in the business to be spun off as a standalone company. The announcement was made on June 1, 2022.

Fangzheng Valve Group won a tender for pneumatic valves from CNOOC Development's Shenzhen regional center for CNY 113,000 including VAT. The award was published on 24 May 2022.

Hongde (301163.SZ) board approved using over-raised funds for a 165 million yuan project in Tongzhou, Jiangsu, to build small and medium high-end components. The project is expected to add 15,000 tonnes per year of key parts for wind power and pumps and valves.

Sulzer will supply two MD200-400 feedwater pumps for the 840 MW Keadby 2 combined cycle gas turbine plant in Lincolnshire, built by SSE with Siemens turbines, scheduled to start operation in 2022.

Embedded Linux firm MontaVista Software announced a design win with Grundfos, whose industrial multi pump controller will use its CGX Linux platform.

Italian pump maker Pedrollo Group has acquired a majority share of Superior Pump, the US water pump brand of Michel Sales Company in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to expand its North American presence.

Marshall Excelsior Company, a Harbour Group company, acquired Specialty Valve Group, LLC, a Houston-based exclusive U.S. distributor of Xanik specialty valves, announced 13 May 2022. Terms were not disclosed.

Advance Valves Pvt. Ltd won the IndianOil tender to supply motor-operated valves for the Panipat Refinery in Haryana, India, with a contract value of ₹1.67 crore. The contract date is 10 December 2025.

Atlas Copco AB plans to acquire Geveke B.V. and LEWA GmbH, a maker of dosing and process pumps. The companies notified the Dutch competition authority ACM on 12 May 2022.

Pump maker Allweiler announced investments of around €30 million at its Radolfzell site in Germany, aiming to secure the location amid ongoing restructuring.

Perth engineering firm Score Australasia was selected by BAE Systems Australia to manufacture and supply thousands of valves for the first three Hunter class frigates built in Adelaide. The contract is worth about A$26 million, with Score subcontracting work to twelve companies across five states.

Zhejiang Niudun Fluid Technology's new plant in Yongjia, Wenzhou, with total investment above 500 million yuan, entered pile foundation construction and is expected to partly start production by end-2022.

Gallagher Fluid Seals, Inc. has acquired IEQ Industries, a global distributor of new, used and remanufactured pumps and pump parts. The deal value was not disclosed.

The Department of Defense's Southwest Regional Maintenance Center awarded a sole-source purchase order to Metrex Valve Corp. for a 4-inch 3-way electric actuated mixing valve for the AC plant on USS Montgomery (LCS-8). The contract value is $43,710.

NETZSCH Pumps North America opened a new Houston facility to assemble and test its positive displacement pumps and downhole pumps and grinders for regional oil and gas and water treatment customers. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was scheduled for May 4, 2022.

OTC Industrial Technologies has acquired ePUMPS, a pump, mechanical seal, vacuum system and compressor provider headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with 28 employees and three locations. ePUMPS joins OTC's Pump Motor Technology Group.

Vemarfin Group Srl, which already owned Azmec, acquired the Riva family company Riva Tecnoimpianti in May 2022. The deal created a metalworking hub focused on vacuum pumps and liquid ring compressors.

Australian-Singaporean water treatment company De.mem Ltd has acquired Stevco Seals & Pumps Victoria Pty Ltd, based in Epping, Victoria, to expand its cross-selling of membrane-based systems.

Daikin Industries has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire Duplomatic MS S.p.A., an Italian hydraulic equipment manufacturer, for 220 million euros from Alcedo SGR and management. Completion is scheduled for June 2022.

Gorman-Rupp agreed to acquire the assets of Fill-Rite and Sotera, a division of Tuthill Corporation, for $525 million, or about $445 million net of expected tax benefits. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022.

Guangdong GDA Valve Technology began construction on its GDA Digital Intelligent Manufacturing Base in Fusha Town, Zhongshan, for R&D and manufacturing of patented valves for smart heaters and ovens. The total investment is 210 million yuan, with expected annual output value of 400 million yuan.

Feilong Co., Ltd. (002536.SZ) became the designated supplier of electronic water pumps and thermal management control valves for a VinFast automobile project. The announcement was posted on April 26, 2022.

KSB opened a 5,000 square meter plant in the Indigo industrial park in New Moscow, funded with about 750 million rubles of foreign investment. It expects to create 110 jobs and produce about 700 pumps in 2019 and 1,200 in 2020.

Hunt Valve Company completed its acquisition of Pima Valve, a Chandler, Arizona maker of severe-duty bronze marine valves, serving the U.S. Navy and industrial customers. The deal was announced on April 25, 2022.

Energy Steel was awarded a contract to supply 62 solenoid valve and cubicle packages for the ITER fusion project under construction in St-Paul-lez-Durance, France.