Burckhardt Compression has acquired the global compressor business of The Japan Steel Works (JSW). The deal value was not disclosed in the article.

Cullen Packaging is installing two Expertfold 165 folder-gluer machines from Bobst at its Glasgow corrugated packaging plant, alongside a 20,000 sq ft extension. The machines are expected to be installed by the third quarter of 2020.

Two Halder portfolio companies acquired 100% of SIRAG AG, UNIVER AG and UNIPROD AG, Swiss suppliers of pneumatic and automation assemblies based in Steinhausen. The companies will be merged into Valeta GmbH, and the sellers are handing over to internal successors.

Charlotte-based Wastequip signed a definitive agreement to acquire Van Nuys, California waste container manufacturer Consolidated Fabricators Corp., which has California facilities and a plant in Tijuana, Mexico.

Barber-Nichols held a groundbreaking for a new 43,000 sq ft advanced manufacturing facility in Arvada, Colorado, with completion scheduled for early 2021. The company plans to hire more than twenty new full-time employees in 2020.

Burckhardt Compression is cooperating with GRZ Technologies, an EPFL spin-off in Lausanne, to develop a metal-hydride static hydrogen compressor for refuelling stations and energy storage. The compressors are designed for 200, 350 and 700 bar.

Siemens was awarded a contract to supply three boil-off gas compressor packages for Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Kiewit, the EPC contractor, selected Siemens for the balance-of-plant scope.

ANDRITZ was selected by UPM to supply the main process equipment for a new 2.1 million tonne per year eucalyptus pulp mill near Paso de los Toros, Uruguay. Start-up is scheduled for the second half of 2022.

Schumacher Packaging signed a subscription contract with Heidelberger Druckmaschinen for a Speedmaster XL145-6+LX large-format press with logistics, consumables and service at its Forchheim, Bavaria site. The agreement was reported on February 10, 2020.

Intertape Polymer Group agreed to acquire substantially all operating assets of Nortech Packaging, a maker of automated packaging machines near Chicago, Illinois, for about $36.5 million in cash plus potential earn-out. The deal was announced on February 10, 2020.

Serck, part of Unipart Group, won a £1.7 million contract from Dubai-based EPC contractor Global Process Systems to deliver 19 shell and tube heat exchangers for a £152 million expansion project in the Niger Delta for a Nigerian oil company.

TOMCO2 Systems acquired the operating assets of CO2 Air used in its dry ice production equipment business. The deal was reported on February 7, 2020.

PMC Hydraulics extended its production facilities in India to 1650 square meters in February 2020, adding storage, a larger machine shop and assembly and testing areas. The company expects production capacity to rise by up to 25%.

Gardner Denver completed its merger with the Ingersoll Rand Industrial segment on 29 February 2020, forming Ingersoll Rand Inc. with over 16,000 employees. The combined company makes air compressors, pumps, blowers and fluid management systems.

Manuli Rubber Industries completed the acquisition of a majority shareholding in RYCO Hydraulics, merging its Manuli Hydraulics and Fluiconnecto divisions into RYCO. The combined business has sales approaching €500 million.

Smurfit Kappa Brazil signed a contract in February 2020 with Polish supplier PMP for two Intelli-Jet V hydraulic headboxes for paper machine PM5 at its Uberaba mill in Minas Gerais, with delivery scheduled for Q4 2020.

Saudi Aramco awarded Samsung Engineering a $1.85 billion EPC contract for the Hawiyah Unayzah Gas Reservoir Storage project in Hawiyah, Saudi Arabia. The scope includes a gas injection facility rated at 1,500 Mmscfd, a 2,000 Mmscfd gas reprocessing facility and compressors, with completion expected by 2023.

Cook Compression, part of Dover, continues to build its Authorised Service Partner program to provide local repair and reconditioning of reciprocating compressor valves and packing for oil and gas and petrochemical customers worldwide.

Kramer-Werke GmbH, a Wacker Neuson subsidiary, is expanding its Pfullendorf plant with €20.5 million of investment, adding 8,800 m² of production space and raising wheel loader and telehandler capacity from 6,500 to over 8,300 units per year.

TMC Compressors was awarded a contract by Hyundai Heavy Industries to supply 21 air lubrication system compressors and a control system for seven LNG carriers being built for Capital Gas Corp. The equipment will be manufactured in Norway and shipped to Korea.

Syntegon Technology supplied oral solid dosage manufacturing equipment, including granulation, tableting, coating and capsule filling machines, to Pharmax Pharmaceuticals for its new factory in Dubai. The plant has an annual capacity of over 200 million tablet and capsule dosage forms.

MAN Cryo, part of MAN Energy Solutions, signed a contract to supply LNG fuel-gas supply systems and MAN Energy Solutions will supply dual-fuel engines for two RoRo newbuildings at Yantai Raffles shipyard in China for Wallenius SOL. Delivery is scheduled for 2021.

Danfoss, through its Indian subsidiary Danfoss Power Solutions, has invested about €15 million in a Pune facility manufacturing mobile hydraulics products such as electronic controls, pumps, valves and motors for construction, agriculture and off-highway vehicles. The article is dated January 2020.

Danish engineering company Danfoss agreed to acquire Eaton's Hydraulics business for a cash price of $3.3 billion (about EUR 3.0 billion), as reported in a January 21, 2020 law firm roundup.

Linde Hydraulics opened a new production plant in Weifang, China, a 36,000m² facility for assembling high-pressure pumps, motors and valve technology, with capacity of 100,000 units per year.

Atlas Copco acquired Hydra Flow West, a distributor of spare parts and accessories for compressor service based in Walnut, California. The purchase price was not disclosed. The announcement was made on January 16, 2020.

VEGA Americas acquired about 50 acres in Mason, Ohio's Research and Development Park for a new North American headquarters and advanced manufacturing facility.

Jereh won a contract worth $30 million to design and supply large gas-engine compressor units for a gas processing project near Yakutsk, Russia, designed for extreme cold down to -60 C.

Valmet will supply an Advantage DCT100HS tissue production line with a de-inking plant and automation package to Alas Doradas in El Salvador. The line adds 35,000 tons of tissue paper per year, with start-up planned for the first half of 2021; the value was not disclosed.

Pye-Barker Engineered Solutions acquired Florida Air Technologies, LLC of Orlando, taking over its compressed air equipment, vacuum pumps and repair parts. All employees keep their jobs, and the deal was announced on January 9, 2020.

Warburg Pincus agreed to acquire Sundyne, a maker of centrifugal pumps and compressors, from BC Partners and The Carlyle Group. Terms were not disclosed and management under CEO Mark Sefcik will continue.

ELGi Compressors USA, a subsidiary of ELGi Equipments, acquired Michigan Air Solutions, an independent air compressor distributor with locations in Grand Rapids and Plymouth, Michigan.

A tender listing describes a project to expand annual production to 5,000 compressor heads and build supporting facilities, including a fourth-phase plant extension, at an Atlas Copco compressor company site in Jiangsu. Most details are hidden behind a membership paywall.

UEC-Gas Turbines will manufacture and supply four GTN-16R-PS gas pumping units for a booster compressor station at the Zapolyarnoye oil and gas condensate field. The units are due to be commissioned in 2021.

ANDRITZ has received an order from Bracell to supply pulp production technologies and key process equipment for the STAR pulp mill project in Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo, with start-up scheduled for Q3 2021.

Valmet received a repeat order from Irving Consumer Products in the United States for a complete tissue production line with an Advantage ThruAir machine. The line will add 75,000 annual tonnes of tissue capacity and is planned to start up in 2022.

Alfa Laval won an order worth about SEK 70 million for OLMI air-cooled heat exchangers for a gas injection enhanced oil recovery facility near the Tengiz field in Kazakhstan. Deliveries are scheduled for 2020.

ELGi Equipments received approval to acquire 100 percent of Michigan Air Solutions LLC, a Michigan-based air compressor distributor, through its US subsidiary. The total consideration is around US$6 million.

TerraVest Industries acquired the assets of Argo Sales Inc., an Alberta-based manufacturer of wellhead processing and production equipment for the Canadian oil and gas market. The deal was funded with existing cash and credit facilities.

Endress+Hauser India plans a ₹100-crore expansion at its Aurangabad facility focused on flow technologies and smart products, with completion likely in 2021.

Dalian Qianyi Heavy Industry Group's Juyi Heavy Industry turbo compressor production line project broke ground in Deyang, Sichuan, with a total investment of 1.18 billion CNY on a 150,000 square metre site, built in two phases.

Paper machinery producer PMP has signed a contract to deliver four new Intelli-Tissue 1800 EcoEc Premium tissue machines to APP's Oki mill in Indonesia, to be executed by PMP's Polish and Chinese divisions.

Enerflex completed the Mila midline compressor station at Bombala, New South Wales, for Jemena, five weeks ahead of schedule. The station boosts capacity of the Eastern Gas Pipeline.

Enerflex will provide core maintenance and overhaul services for over 130 gas compressor packages supporting QGC's Queensland Curtis LNG project in Queensland, Australia. The contract is worth approximately $70 million over eight years.

Valmec signed an agreement with APA Group to build a compressor station at the Murrin Murrin facility on the Goldfields Gas Pipeline in Western Australia. Valmec's new contracts reportedly total about $30 million combined.

Bauer Kompressoren Australia was awarded a contract to supply a high pressure breathing air bottle fill system to the Australian Department of Defence, valued at AUD 136,538.60.

Germany-based Sauer Compressors and Norwegian manufacturer TMC have entered a strategic partnership to develop compressor solutions for shipping and offshore applications, covering their full compressed air and gas product range.

ACEA Produzione awarded RIEM Service S.r.l. a EUR 69,000 direct-award contract to supply and install three inverter compressors at the Tor di Valle power plant in Rome. The award was dated 4 December 2019.

Ringtons automated coffee production at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne factory with PFM Packaging Machinery, boosting output. The reported date is December 2, 2019.

ABEL GmbH installed a new horizontal machining center (Mori Seiki NHX 6300) at its Büchen, Germany site in December 2019, after renovating part of hall 2 to support it.