French firm Bleyer Holding signed an investment project for high-end industrial valves at the Rudong Economic Development Zone on 17 February 2023. The project totals $30 million and will have capacity of 40,000 valve sets per year once running.

Shanghai Valve Factory has started the renovation and expansion of its second-phase plant at 111 Zhongbai Road in Anting town, Jiading, Shanghai, with a total investment of 18 million yuan. Production is expected to start in early 2024, adding about 300 million yuan in annual output.

The Bologovskiy Armature Plant (BAZ Industrial Group) started producing 15 to 50 mm ball valves for taps that it previously bought from other suppliers. It plans to make 600,000 units in 2023.

Helios Technologies is expanding its Daman Products plant in Mishawaka, Indiana by 50,000 square feet and adding a significant number of employees. The site will become a Center of Excellence for North American manifold operations, with relocation expected by Q3 2023.

Zigong Taiwell Valve Manufacturing is expanding its valve and control valve production line in Zigong's Gaoxin high-tech zone, with a total investment of 80 million yuan and annual capacity of 154,000 units, with trial production planned for April 2023.

The Bologovsky brass pipeline valve plant in Tver Oblast bought new machinery in 2022 and is preparing a new galvanic shop with capacity up to 5 million units per year. It plans to reach nearly 8 million units annually and set up three logistics hubs in 2023.

The Xindi Peier valve R&D center and intelligent retrofit project in Zigong's Gaoxin district has a total investment of 100 million yuan. It is due to start trial production in June 2023 and reach full output in August, adding 100 million yuan of annual output value.

Baker Hughes expanded the clean room at its Suzhou, China valve plant to about 158 square meters, more than double its previous size, to increase production capacity for air separation and hydrogen projects.

Sulzer completed a modernization of its Karhula pump factory in Kotka, adding a highly automated, digitized pump production line and a new logistics centre. The upgrade cuts production throughput time by 93%.

HVA expanded its factory with additional staff, a new warehouse and new machinery including a Mazak milling line, almost doubling its milling capacity. The article is undated and the date shown is the article date.

KSB Indonesia inaugurated an expansion of its Cibitung, West Java plant, growing floor space from 3,620 to 9,620 square metres with a €3.9 million (about Rp 60 billion) investment, targeting up to 505 new jobs.

Shige Fluid Control (Shanghai), a subsidiary of Emerson Electric, has put a new magnetic switch production line into operation in Songjiang, Shanghai, localising production of core components; the line had trial production from July 2022.

The Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority approved a two-phase expansion of E/One's Niskayuna, New York site. Phase one is a $6 million, 27,250 sq ft manufacturing and R&D addition, and it is projected to create 30 jobs over five years.

The Satellite plant in Blagoveshchensk, Bashkortostan, which makes pipeline valves, is investing 340 million rubles in a new production workshop, expected to open in September and create 75 jobs and double production capacity.

Grundfos broke ground on an expansion of its Indjija plant in Serbia, adding about 17,000 square metres and a new line to assemble trade circulators. The groundbreaking took place on August 23, 2022.

Taizhou municipal environmental authority accepted the environmental impact assessment for Zhejiang Danong Industrial's expansion of high-pressure plunger pumps and pump systems at Hengjie Town, Luqiao District, on 19 July 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.

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.

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.

Azbil completed a new factory building at its Azbil Equipment (Dalian) production base in Dalian, Liaoning, to expand global production, mainly for industrial valves, with full operation scheduled for January 2023.

Youfumi Valve Group is expanding and upgrading its Fuding, Fujian plant to produce 100,000 fluorine-lined pipe valve sets per year. Workshop one is due to be finished by the end of June with production starting in October, and the project adds automated equipment.

Kwang Jo ILI is building a second factory extension at its headquarters in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang, to produce ball, butterfly, check and needle valves. Operations are targeted for November 2022.

Parent company KSB Mining invested $44 million to expand GIW's slurry pump manufacturing plant in Grovetown, Georgia, which added a foundry expansion of 77,000 square feet and two new furnaces. A ribbon-cutting for the expanded plant was held on Wednesday, most likely 6 April 2022.

GIW Minerals, formerly Georgia Iron Works, is opening a 70,000-square-foot, $44 million expansion at its Grovetown, Georgia campus that is expected to add more than 100 jobs and triple production capacity. The grand opening is scheduled for April 6, 2022.

Soyuzgidravlika in Belgorod modernized and expanded production of gear oil pumps for Russian road and agricultural machinery makers. Capacity rose 35% to 250,000 units per year, and the RUB 118 million investment was partly financed by the Fund for Industrial Development (VEB.RF) with an RUB 80 million loan.

BROEN is expanding its production in Assens, Denmark with a new approximately 4,400 sqm building for its Mid-Range valve, sized DN50 to DN200. Construction starts spring 2022, with completion expected mid-2023.

Singapore-based Jihua Industrial invested in a project to produce 500,000 valve sets a year in Ningjin County, Dezhou, Shandong, with a total investment of USD 16 million including USD 10 million for new CNC equipment. Annual sales are expected to reach about CNY 200 million.

Swiss vacuum valve maker VAT Group held a groundbreaking for a 39,200 square meter factory extension in Penang, Malaysia. The project will create about 500 jobs and more than double the Malaysian operation's production capacity.

Triangle Pump Components expanded manufacturing and shipping/receiving areas at its Cleburne, Texas valve plant, with construction starting September 2021 and completed by year end. The expansion added new machines and doubled inventory capacity.

Sulzer Pumps Finland moved process pump production to a new production line completed in 2022 at its Karhula plant in Kotka, which significantly increased capacity and was paired with the adoption of LEAN management.

Zhejiang Xiangke Pump Industry Co. plans a technical renovation project to produce 30,000 pumps per year at its site in Luqiao district, Taizhou, with an investment of 2 million yuan in equipment; the environmental approval notice was published December 28, 2021.

Emerson carried out a USD 14.7 million capacity expansion at its Eger site in NE Hungary, adding a 10,500 square meter building and doubling manufacturing capacity for pneumatic cylinders and valves. The project is expected to create 200 new jobs in the long term. The article is dated December 8, 2021.

Tekno Valves plans to raise production from about 1.2 million valves a year to 1.5 million by December 2022 and 2 million by 2025 at its West Bengal facility. The total investment is Rs 35 crore, invested in phases.

JC-Valves installed another Okuma CNC lathe in its machining area at its Sant Boi de Llobregat factory in Spain to increase production capacity for special valves.

Blackmer, part of Dover's PSG, started a construction and renovation project at its Grand Rapids, Michigan headquarters adding 56,000 square feet of manufacturing, R&D and training space. The project is due for completion in June 2023 and will create more than 50 jobs.

Liberty Pumps has broken ground on a $13.5 million, 107,000-square-foot Materials Center expansion in Bergen, Genesee County, New York, expected to support 30 additional jobs.

FAF Valve Company commissioned a new Japanese automatic molding line that started operating in the third quarter of 2021. The line is expected to triple casting capacity for 2022 and improve surface quality.

Dresser Al-Rushaid Valve and Instrument Company (DARVICO) is expanding its Jubail facility by about 20,000 sq ft to install a boiler plant for testing valves on steam application, due for completion by December 2021.

Liberty Pumps Inc. received Genesee County Economic Development Center approval for a $13.7 million expansion of its pump manufacturing facility in the town of Bergen, adding about 107,000 sq ft of warehousing and manufacturing space. The article says the expansion will create over 30 jobs; groundbreaking is scheduled for September 2021.

Pump manufacturer Blackmer is expanding in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a $7.3 million investment supported by the Michigan Strategic Fund.

Dosing technology maker ViscoTec held a groundbreaking on 5 July 2021 for a new three-storey building in Töging, Germany, adding office, final assembly and warehouse space. Completion is planned by the end of 2022.

PK Valve, a subsidiary of STX, began building a second dedicated plant for cryogenic butterfly valves for LNG carriers, targeted for completion in September 2021. The company expects LNG valve sales of 50 billion won in 2021.

SAMSON USA, headquartered in Baytown, Texas, has completed installation of a Flexible Manufacturing System with 2 horizontal machining centers and a 24-pallet robotic loading system built by MCM of Italy, increasing its manufacturing capacity.

Kirloskar Brothers Limited has set up a new Advanced Technology Product Division for high-end pumps used in nuclear applications, based at its mother plant in Kirloskarvadi, Maharashtra. The investment amount was not disclosed.

Neles will commission a new production unit at its Vantaa, Finland valve factory to improve availability and delivery times, with start of operations scheduled for early 2022.

GEA laid the cornerstone on May 21, 2021 for the expansion of its Koszalin site in Poland into a climate-neutral center for hygienic and vacuum pump production and components. The roughly EUR 37 million project is due to launch in 2022.

The state-run Anju Pump Factory stepped up pump production for 10,000 flats in Pyongyang and increased its casting shop capacity by 1.2 times, according to KCNA.

TK-Fujikin signed an MOU with Busan Jinhae Free Economic Zone Authority to invest KRW 55.7 billion in a new factory on a 33,881 square metre site in Busan, adding to its existing plants. The project is scheduled to finish in 2025 and add about 450 jobs.

Taekwang Fujikin signed a site lease agreement with the Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone Authority to build a new factory in the Hwajeon industrial complex in Busan, South Korea, consolidating its existing plants with a total investment of 55.7 billion won, with about 450 new jobs planned and completion by 2025.