Netzsch Pumps supplied its one-millionth pump, a Nemo progressive cavity pump, for the San Mateo wastewater treatment plant in California, delivered from Exton in May 2020.

SITRA won the contract to expand the industrial wastewater treatment plant serving a PET packaging recycling plant in Badajoz, Spain. The project includes a pilot ultrafiltration phase, later DAF and biological treatment upgrades, and five years of operation support.

Energy Recovery was awarded USD 23.5 million to supply PX Pressure Exchanger devices and equipment to desalination projects in the Middle East and North Africa, including the largest contract in its history for the Taweelah SWRO plant near Abu Dhabi. Shipments run from Q1 2020 through the first half of 2021.

GF Piping Systems signed a strategic partnership with Oxford Flow Limited, a UK startup, granting an exclusive license for its pressure-regulating valve in the water utility segment. GF will acquire a 23% minority stake in two steps until 2021; financial terms were not disclosed.

Israeli kibbutz-based valve makers Dorot Command & Control and ARI Fluid Transmission completed a merger estimated at $100 million. MAT Holding will hold 51% of the merged company and Kfar Haruv 49%.

Membrane technology company De.mem signed a build, own and operate (BOO) contract with flavours and fragrances maker Givaudan. No location or value was given.

Fluence Corporation received a follow-on order for its Aspiral wastewater treatment equipment from Aerospace Kaitian Environmental Technology, valued at US$3 million. Shipments were expected to begin immediately.

Flowserve signed an agreement to provide the main pumps for the Rabigh-3 sea water reverse osmosis desalination plant, which will serve Jeddah and Mecca with an initial capacity of 600,000 cubic meters per day.

Flowserve signed an agreement to provide the main pumps for the Taweelah sea water reverse osmosis desalination plant near Abu Dhabi, which will be the largest SWRO project in the world with capacity of 909,200 cubic meters of water per day.

Waterlogic USA will establish a new North American headquarters and Center of Excellence in Grapevine, Texas, moving manufacturing from China into a new facility. The project involves more than $1.6 million in capital investment and up to 164 new jobs, supported by a $524,400 Texas Enterprise Fund grant.

Saur Group made a strategic investment in pump monitoring and optimisation company Riventa under a partnership signed the week before November 26, 2019. The deal is intended to strengthen Saur's offering to municipal and industrial customers in France and other markets.

Wilo USA, through a new subsidiary, acquired the assets of American-Marsh Pumps (J-Line Pump Co.) in Collierville, Tennessee, announced on November 26, 2019. The company employs 55 people and makes centrifugal pumps, vertical turbines and fire protection equipment.

Veolia Water Technologies won a contract from Lee & Man to supply its HPD Enhanced Chloride Removal Process at the company's pulp mill in Chongqing, China, to treat precipitator ash and reduce chloride and potassium.

Flowserve signed agreements to provide more than 135 main pumps for the Taweelah plant near Abu Dhabi, UAE, and the Rabigh-3 plant in Saudi Arabia. Taweelah will be the largest SWRO plant in the world.

The Emirates Water and Electricity Co. and ACWA Power signed a water purchase agreement to fund construction of a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Taweelah Power and Water Complex. The $900 million plant is expected to be completed by 2022.

Ekki Pumps and Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology jointly set up a Centre of Excellence for water technology at the college in Pollachi, with a joint investment of Rs 30 lakh.

MAT Holding Group merged OCV Control Valves with Dorot Control Valves in Tulsa, Oklahoma, creating OCV Fluid Solutions, which serves waterworks, fire protection, aviation fueling and mining markets.

Zip Water cut the ribbon on a new manufacturing line at its Condell Park factory in western Sydney, investing AUD 6 million to double manufacturing capacity for its drinking water appliances.

Shengli Valve Co. won a tender from Shaanxi Binchang Coal Field Water Affairs Co. to supply valves and pumps for the Xianyang Binchang mining area water delivery project, with a winning bid of CNY 39,382,889. The award was made on July 2, 2019.

Arbroath-based Allards International secured a £1 million supply contract to design, manufacture and deliver jacket pipe heat exchangers for a sewage processing plant in China owned by Kubota. Delivery is expected in Q4 2019.

Organica Water and Adani Enterprises won the Prayagraj project under India's National Mission for Clean Ganga hybrid annuity PPP. It covers three greenfield wastewater treatment plants and a 15-year digital operations and maintenance contract.

Ekki Pumps is setting up a fourth Coimbatore plant, an assembly, testing and painting facility run as a 50:50 joint venture with Germany's Homa Pumps. It will make parts for Homa's production lines and waste water pumps, with production expected within six months. Investment was not disclosed.

T-T Flow, the valve division of T-T, supplied metal seat gate valves and pressure-reducing control valves for Severn Trent Water's Birmingham Resilience Project, a £300 million alternative water supply pipeline and pumping station scheme.

BQE Water was awarded a two-phase contract to design, build, commission and operate a SART plant at Shandong Zhongkuang's gold metallurgical facility in eastern China. The first phase is due within 12 months, followed by five years of operations support paid by quarterly fees.

AxFlow GesmbH, part of the AxFlow Group, announced its acquisition of VIP Tehnika, a pump sales and service company in Maribor, Slovenia. The deal gives AxFlow a second base for growth in the Balkans and Austria.

AxFlow AS has acquired all shares in Innva AS, a valve supplier based in Skui, Bærum, Norway, effective 29 April 2019. Innva will continue as an independent company with its own logo. The purchase price was not disclosed.

French plumbing manufacturer SFA Group, parent of Saniflo, acquired Zehnder Pumpen GmbH, a German pump maker based in Grünhain-Beierfeld, Saxony. The acquisition is effective from 1 January 2019 and Zehnder will remain a separate legal entity.

Fluence's Egyptian joint venture IWSI and Hassan Allam EPC were awarded a $74M EPC contract for a 40,000 m3/day seawater desalination plant in New Mansoura, expandable to 80,000 m3/day. Fluence's share is $20 million.

Smith Cameron Group acquired Westcan Industries and its sister company Indu-Tech, effective March 1, 2019, adding pump rebuild and repair and specialty valve manufacturing for Western Canada from a 45,000 sq ft facility in Langley, British Columbia.

Industrial Flow Solutions, a portfolio company of May River Capital, acquired Stancor LP of Monroe, Connecticut and BJM Pumps of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, in a merger with the sellers Longview Asset Management and Knox Capital. No financial terms were disclosed.

Fluence Corp secured a build, own and operate contract with an unnamed industrial client in Peru for a desalination plant, including a ten-year water purchase agreement.

Siemens signed a 200 million euro contract to supply gas and steam turbines, power generation and digital services for the Duqm Integrated Power and Water project in Oman, which will have 326 MW of capacity and 36,000 cubic metres of desalinated water per day, with a 25-year service contract.

Va Tech Wabag secured a Rs 467 crore design-and-build contract from Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals to build a 30 MLD seawater desalination plant in Mangaluru, Karnataka, expandable to 70 MLD, over 22 months.

INVENT and Jash formed a joint venture to combine their strengths and offer customers joint innovative solutions. The page dates the venture to 2023.

Pentair agreed to acquire water treatment company Aquion for $160 million in cash, adding its affiliated residential dealer network. Completion is expected in Q1 2019, subject to regulatory approvals.

Franklin Electric added Milan Supply Co, a Michigan-based groundwater distributor, to its Headwater business in a US$5.9 million deal in Q1 2019.

Pentair plc acquired US water treatment equipment company Aquion in Q1 2019 to get closer to residential consumers.

AxFlow Group's Brown Brothers Engineers/Kelair Pumps acquired GT Water Technologies, a family-owned maker of fire water tanks in the Melbourne area, in Q1 2019.

Arable Capital Partners has acquired Hydratec, Lodi Pump & Irrigation and Universal Irrigation & Supply, which will merge into a platform called Laurel Agriculture + Water Solutions. No financial terms were disclosed.

Gimv entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a majority stake in French water network equipment maker Groupe Claire, alongside its management, from majority owner Industries et Finances. Groupe Claire has about 190 staff and annual turnover of around EUR 50 million.

AquaVenture Holdings acquired AUC Group, a builder of field-erected and modular wastewater treatment plants, for $113 million on 1 November 2018.

Summa Equity has signed an agreement to acquire Lakers Holding AB, a Nordic group servicing pumps, pumping stations and electrical motors across Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Completion is subject to regulatory approval and expected in October 2018.

Hayward Industries closed its acquisition of Paramount Leisure Industries, a pool equipment maker. Paramount will continue to operate as an autonomous business under its own name with the same management and staff.

Bedford Pumps Ltd won the third and final order to supply 15 water pumps for Severn Trent Water's Birmingham Resilience scheme, worth £1.2 million across three schemes, announced in August 2018.

Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction won the contract for a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Al Sharqiyah, Oman, developed by Asilah Desalination Company with an investment of $203 million. The plant is due to start operation in 2021 and produce nearly 80,000 cubic metres per day.

Acciona Agua won a EUR 200 million EPC contract from Saudi Arabia's SWCC to design and build a 210,000 m3/d reverse osmosis desalination plant on the Gulf coast, for completion by end of 2020. The plant will also supply Saudi Aramco.

PumpMan Holdings has completed the acquisition of Healdsburg, California-based Groundwater Pump & Well, which provides irrigation, fire protection and water solutions. Groundwater will be integrated into PumpMan's Bartley Pump in Santa Rosa.

SJE is constructing a 51,000 sq ft manufacturing facility on eight acres in the Ashland Business Park in Ashland, Ohio, designed by C.M. Architecture and built by Simonson Construction Services, with completion targeted for December 2018.

Irish Water installed Rotork actuators as part of a modernization program at the Kilkit Water Treatment Plant in Ireland. The contract value was not disclosed.

Fluence Corp received a contract to deliver a water treatment reuse system to its customer Rosenblad Design Group for a wastewater treatment project in California.