Airtech Advanced Materials Group, a US-based supplier of high-performance materials, has acquired UK-based Cosmotec Nonwovens, a manufacturer of nonwoven textiles. The deal expands Airtech's European footprint and product offering.

DKC Totaaltechniek B.V. acquired 100% of the shares of Smeva Koeling B.V. on April 16, 2025. Smeva Koeling will continue operating under its own name from its Eindhoven location.

Lagermetall AB will merge into Internordic Bearings AB effective October 1, 2025, creating a single company under the Internordic Bearings name.

Amada Co., Ltd. agreed to acquire Via Mechanics Co., Ltd. from Advantage Partners and others for ¥51.0 billion. The transaction is expected to close in July 2025.

Texas-based HVAC company The Chill Brothers has acquired Alternative Aire, a residential HVAC services provider in Durham, North Carolina. Terms were not disclosed.

US-based Cadwell Industries has acquired epilepsy treatment specialist Seer Medical in a $40 million rescue deal, with joint investment from Breakthrough Victoria and TrialCap. The deal includes Seer's Melbourne office and staff.

AIR Control Concepts acquired O'Dell HVAC Group, a commercial HVAC manufacturer's representative in Ontario, marking AIR's first expansion into Canada.

VVater was awarded a multimillion-dollar, ten-year contract by a Fortune 50 global food & beverage company to deliver an advanced water treatment solution at a manufacturing facility in Texas.

JDC (formerly Jack Doheny Companies) and Vacuum Truck Rentals merged to form Rentix Solutions, a national specialty rental platform with 36+ locations and 3,200+ rental fleet units.

GE Aerospace is expanding its manufacturing capacity in Batesville, Mississippi, with an $11 million investment that will create 100 new jobs. The expansion adds industrial equipment, precision measuring tools, and inspection technology for aircraft engine components.

Rönesans Holding closed financing for a $2 billion polypropylene production plant and terminal facility in Türkiye, with $1.3 billion in financing from DFC and Cesce. The plant will be developed with SONATRACH as shareholder and feedstock supplier.

Kodiak Robotics announced a definitive agreement to merge with Ares Acquisition Corp. II, forming Kodiak AI Inc. The deal values Kodiak at $2.5 billion and is expected to close in the second half of 2025.

Libyan United Beverage Bottling Company (LUBBC) ordered four additional SIG aseptic carton filling machines, including a SIG Midi 12 Aseptic, two SIG XSlim 24 Aseptic, and a SIG Mini 24 Aseptic, to boost production and export capabilities.

Copeland has inaugurated an Engineering & Technology Center in Pune, India, as part of a INR 500 crore investment to expand operations and tap into local STEM talent. The lab is an innovation center, not a manufacturing facility.

ZF Commercial Vehicle Solutions has secured a multi-year business nomination to supply several thousand units of its AxTrax 2 electric axle to a commercial vehicle manufacturer in India.

Comau has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Automha, an Italian warehousing and intralogistics automation company, from Trasma. The closing is expected in Q2 2025.

Polar Semiconductor has finalized a strategic agreement with Renesas to license its GaN-on-Si technology and will fabricate 650V GaN devices for Renesas and other customers at its 200mm facility in Minnesota.

LG Electronics Indonesia is building a new air conditioner factory in Cibitung, Bekasi, with an initial investment of $22 million. The 32,000 sqm facility is expected to begin full operations by end of 2025, producing 1.8 million AC units in the first year, with plans to double capacity.

Van den Dorpe Heavy Handling has announced it is now the exclusive importer of Camblift reachstackers for the BENELUX region and France, ending its 20-year partnership with Konecranes.

Sattva Engineering Construction Private Limited has won a contract worth Rs 1,070.33 million from the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board for the design, build, operate and transfer of an underground sewerage scheme in Hosur, including two sewage treatment plants with capacities of 12.51 mld and 20.13 mld.

Poppe + Potthoff, a global leader in fuel injection tube technology, has entered into a joint venture with Lal Baba Engineering to establish a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in India for producing mother hollows and cold-drawn tubes for the automotive sector.

Shivtek Spechemi Industries will invest Rs 650 crore to set up two new specialty chemicals manufacturing plants in Gujarat (near Hazira port) and Rajasthan. The facilities will increase total capacity from 150,000 MTPA to 650,000 MTPA and create over 500 jobs. Construction begins in 2026, with production expected between 2028 and 2029.

Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) has been chosen to provide its MarineLINE coating system for up to six new vessels being built for Champion Tankers at Chengxi Shipyard in China. The coating will initially be applied to four IMO II product and chemical tankers, with work on the first vessel starting at the end of 2025.

Scales Corporation Limited acquired an additional 7.5% holding in subsidiary Shelby JV LLC for USD 24.4 million, increasing its investment in the US petfood ingredient market.

Zentek Ltd. completed testing of its ZenARMOR nano-pigment in military-grade corrosion protection aerospace paint systems under an Innovative Solutions Canada contract, and announced a new collaboration with Jazeera Paints Company to evaluate ZenARMOR in their product lines.

Mach Machine Tools, part of the Vigilance Group, supplied Newcastle College with 16 manual machine tools and eight vertical machining centres under two separate tenders worth over £850,000.

Epiroc AB won a contract valued at MAUD 350 (SEK 2.2 billion) over five years to deliver a fleet of fully autonomous and electric surface mining equipment to Fortescue for its iron ore mines in the Pilbara region, Western Australia.

Italy's Salerno Container Terminal (Gallozzi Group) has ordered a Konecranes Gottwald ESP.10 Mobile Harbor Crane with external power supply, to be delivered in Q4 2025.

Epiroc has signed a five-year contract worth approximately SEK 2.2 billion ($220 million) to supply over 50 electric drill rigs to Fortescue Metals for its iron ore operations in the Pilbara, starting in 2026.

Chongqing Dingdian Chemical plans to invest 1.9 billion yuan (approx. $26 million) to build a new plant in Nanchuan District, Chongqing, with an annual capacity of 15,000 tons of high-performance environmentally friendly coatings.

International Paper has entered exclusive negotiations with PALM Group to sell five corrugated box plants in Europe, a remedy demanded by regulators for its purchase of DS Smith. The report is dated 16 April 2025.

NEUMAN & ESSER will supply EWE with two four-crank horizontal piston compressors size 320 for the conversion of a gas cavern at Huntorf, Wesermarsch, into hydrogen storage, targeted from 2027.

Epiroc won its largest order in company history, worth A$350 million, to supply Fortescue with autonomous and electric surface drilling equipment over five years for Pilbara iron ore mines in Western Australia.

Lanpec (601798.SH) signed an intent agreement to buy 100% of Shanghai Lanya Petrochemical Equipment Testing and 51% of China Air Separation Engineering from China Pudong Mechanical Industry, in cash. Terms are subject to a formal agreement.

Krones is building the Bayreuther Brauhaus brewery near Bayreuth, Germany, with Steinecker brewhouse and cellar equipment and a complete returnable-glass bottling line of 40,000 bottles per hour. The brewery is designed for 500,000 hectolitres annual capacity.

Halmstads Energi och Miljö AB awarded a contract to Kaeser Kompressorer AB and Mekano AB for a new compressor station in Halmstad, Sweden, to supply compressed air to plants P1 and P2 including flue gas treatment. The award totals SEK 15,531,457 (about EUR 1.39 million).

RENOLIT broke ground on a new plant in Pune, India, to produce geomembranes for civil engineering. Production is scheduled to start in April 2026 with an annual capacity of 6,000 tons and around 30 employees.

PT Ace Medical Products Indonesia (Allmed Medical) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new medical products plant at KIT Batang, Indonesia, with an investment of Rp 1.6 trillion ($100 million). The plant is expected to employ 3,500 local workers and target annual production value of $200 million.

Paul Mueller Company announced a $17.9 million, 20,000-square-foot expansion to its Components Products facility in Springfield, Missouri, to increase capacity for tank heads, cones, and shells.

Jiangsu Yiteng Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. signed an agreement to invest 1 billion yuan in a group headquarters, R&D center, and manufacturing project for automotive electronics and consumer electronics core components in Kunshan Development Zone.

XNRGY Climate Systems opened a 275,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona, to produce HVAC cooling solutions for data centers. Production begins May 1, 2025, and the facility is part of a previously announced $300 million investment.

San Luis Dasung, a subsidiary of Malaysian group MK TRON, has inaugurated its second industrial plant in Logistik II Park, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The $9 million expansion creates 250 new direct jobs, bringing total workforce to 700. The plant manufactures aluminum and stamped steel components for the automotive industry.

Günther + Schramm GmbH has acquired International Metal Service Süd GmbH (IMS). The merger, effective March 1, 2025, expands Günther + Schramm's product range to about 25,000 articles, increases warehouse space to 44,000 square meters, and adds 100 employees, bringing total staff to 280.

LS Power Equity Advisors has agreed to sell the 1,124 MW Hummel Energy Station in Pennsylvania and the 1,023 MW Rolling Hills Station in Ohio to a subsidiary of Capital Power Corporation. The sale is expected to close in the second half of 2025.

Siemens Canada is investing approximately $14 million in a multi-phased modernization of its 10,400 square metre manufacturing facility in Drummondville, Quebec. The project aims to optimize efficiency and capacity, including a 50% volume increase in switchboard production, and could increase jobs by up to 15% by 2027.

Airtificial Group has secured seven automotive projects in India and China during Q1 2025 for assembly and testing lines for steering wheels, airbags, and electric steering systems. The projects serve Tier-1 suppliers for Renault, Nissan, Tata, Mahindra, and Chery Automobile.

Sizewell C and Framatome have signed a contract for the delivery of four Ultimate Diesel Generator (UDG) systems plus one spare generator set for the Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk, UK.

Binhua (Befar) Group has broken ground on a chlor-alkali and complementary products plant in the Sokhna industrial zone, Egypt. The $500 million project will be built in two phases with a total capacity of 100,000 tons per year and is expected to create 800 jobs.

Integer plans to invest over five years to expand its operations in Salem, Virginia, by leasing an additional 13,000-square-foot manufacturing facility to increase production of catheter components. The project is expected to create 83 new jobs.

Novelis announced the opening of the Ulsan Aluminum Recycling Center in Ulsan, South Korea, a $65 million investment with an annual production capacity of 100,000 tons of low-carbon aluminum sheet ingot. The facility is a joint venture between Novelis and Kobe Steel.