Alcoa Corporation and IGNIS Equity Holdings formed a joint venture to support the San Ciprián complex in Spain. Alcoa owns 75% and IGNIS EQT 25%, with contributions of $81 million and $27 million respectively. The joint venture enables the planned restart of the smelter in 2025.

Trane Technologies, through its Thermo King brand, acquired Marshall Thermo King Ltd., trading as Marshall Fleet Solutions, a UK dealer of Thermo King and Frigoblock transport refrigeration equipment. The acquisition was effective March 31, 2025.

ICOP has completed the acquisition of 100% of Atlantic GeoConstruction Holdings (AGH), a US company specializing in advanced geotechnical solutions. The acquisition was financed through ICOP's own resources and bank loans, and marks ICOP's entry into the US market.

Air Water acquired all shares of NTK Medical, a manufacturer of oxygen concentrators, on April 1, 2025, and renamed it Air Water Bio Design. The acquisition strengthens the group's home oxygen therapy business in western Japan.

Air Water Group has constructed the East Japan Medical Center in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, a comprehensive hub for healthcare business including a new factory. The investment is 3 billion yen. The facility will start operations on May 1, 2025.

The Sustainable Investing team at Goldman Sachs Alternatives has completed the acquisition of Atlas-SSI Holdings, a North American supplier of water management equipment. The transaction positions Atlas-SSI to expand in the water sector.

SHL Medical has inaugurated a new 360,000 ft² manufacturing facility in North Charleston, South Carolina, representing a $220 million investment. The facility will manufacture autoinjectors and has created over 300 local jobs.

ITA Holding, part of the A.Celli Group, has acquired Sipack, a Lucca-based manufacturer of corrugated cardboard box machinery. The acquisition expands ITA Holding's product offering and automation capabilities.

Lihuayi (Lijin) Engineering Plastics plans to build an 80,000 tonnes/year polyoxymethylene (POM) engineering plastics project in Dongying City, Shandong province. The unit is expected to come on stream after 2027.

Thames Water Utilities Limited has awarded a contract valued at approximately £140M-£280M to Kier Infrastructure and Overseas Limited for the K298 Maple Lodge STW Quality AMP 7 New Permit project, covering upgrades to the Maple Lodge sewage treatment works in London. The contract runs from October 2025 to March 2030.

Schneider Electric announced a $700 million investment in its U.S. operations through 2027, including facility modernizations, expansions, and new facilities in multiple locations. The investment will create over 1,000 jobs.

Nexans has invested 100 million SEK in a new factory hall and machinery in Grimsås, Sweden, for producing medium-voltage cables. The facility will produce 12 and 24 kV cables with thermoplastic insulation (TPI) and is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 50%.

Mehler Texnologies and Heytex have merged and will now operate under the new brand name MehlerHeytex. The merger follows Freudenberg Performance Materials Holding's acquisition of Heytex's core business in December 2024.

Volvo Group Peru delivered 80 Volvo FMX 8x4 R Max dump trucks and 7 EC950EL excavators to San Martín Contratistas Generales for its mining operations in Peru.

Sedgman and CPB Contractors, both CIMIC companies, have transported over 30 preassembled modules for BHP's Western Ridge crusher project in Western Australia. The modules, weighing up to 125 tonnes, were moved over 800km from Port Hedland to Newman.

Kyungdong Navien is investing 138.3 billion won to expand its Seotan plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, from 40,000 pyeong to 100,000 pyeong by February 2026, increasing annual production capacity from 2 million units to 4.39 million units of boilers and water heaters.

3B Goa Glass Fibre commissioned a new furnace at its facility in Colvale, Goa, as part of an ongoing expansion initiative to scale up production capacity.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust awarded Medtronic Limited a £13 million contract for cardiac cath lab managed services on 1 April 2025.

Sysmex Corporation commenced full-scale operations at its new manufacturing base in Sanand II Industrial Estate, Gujarat, India, producing diagnostic reagents and instruments, starting with the XQ-320 hematology analyzer. The company invested approximately 3 billion JPY in the project.

JSR Corporation completed the divestiture of its wholly owned subsidiary Emulsion Technology Co., Ltd. (ETEC) and transferred all shares of ETEC to NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD. The transaction includes ETEC's emulsions and fine chemicals businesses.

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions became a global distribution partner for Sleipner, offering Sleipner's mobility solutions alongside Sandvik's surface drill rigs as a complete package, with flexible financing options.

Heidelberg Materials North America completed the acquisition of Giant Cement Holding Inc. and its subsidiaries, including a cement plant in Harleyville, South Carolina, distribution terminals, and an alternative fuel recycling business.

Yokogawa Electric Corp. finalized an agreement to acquire Singapore-based Web Synergies, a provider of IT and integrated IT/OT solutions. The purchase is expected to be completed by early May 2025.

A consortium of Doosan Enerability and Sepco3 secured a contract worth 2.2 trillion won ($1.52 billion) to build the Rumah 1 and Nairyah 1 combined cycle power plants in Saudi Arabia, each with 1,800 MW capacity, awarded by Acwa Power, Kepco and SEC.

Vattenfall Vattenkraft AB awarded Hitachi Energy Sweden AB a contract worth SEK 5.6 million (€517,751) to supply one 3-phase GSU dry-type transformer for the Söderfors Hydropower Plant in Uppsala, Sweden.

Burckhardt Compression has been awarded a contract for digital monitoring services for a reciprocating compressor installation at a chemical plant in Saudi Arabia. The company will also open a Service Center in Al Jubail in April 2025.

ABC Company, together with Finint Equity for Growth, invested €1.7 million in a Buy & Build project aggregating CUS Tools S.r.l. and Tommasin Utensili S.r.l. to create a hub in special cutting tools for machine tools.

Heidelberg Materials US, Inc. completed the acquisition of Giant Cement Holding Inc. from Corporación Uniland, S.A., Trituradora Y Procesadora De Materiales Santa Anita S.A and Fortaleza Materiales, S.A.P.I. de C.V. for approximately $600 million on April 1, 2025.

Shimadzu Corporation merged Shimadzu Aircraft Equipment Service Co., Ltd. into Shimadzu Aerotech Manufacturing, Inc., with the latter as the surviving corporation, to strengthen manufacturing bases for aircraft equipment in response to increasing demand.

Kalmar signed an agreement with Vestas Manufacturing Spain SL to supply electric forklift trucks and reachstackers for Vestas' blade factory in Daimiel, Spain. The order was announced on April 1, 2025.

A Serbian agricultural machinery bearing components manufacturer in Temerin established a joint venture with a Chinese partner and opened a new factory of approximately 80,000 square meters in Hebei Province in April 2025.

Sustainable packaging firm Pulpex leased the 88,017 sq ft Westway 90 building from Canmoor on a 20-year lease in April 2025. It will host Pulpex's first commercial-scale fibre bottle manufacturing facility.

Mondi's newly converted paper machine in Duino, Italy started up successfully in April 2025. Once fully operational it will produce 420,000 tonnes per year of recycled containerboard.

DS Smith has renewed its packaging partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, covering manufacture, storage and delivery of packaging for JLR's products worldwide from the Mercia Park site in Leicestershire, valued at £108 million. The extension was made official at the beginning of April 2025.

Pump Service River Oy acquired the entire share capital of Suomen Jätevesipalvelut Oy effective 1 April 2025, expanding its national pump and wastewater service network in Finland.

Bruce Power signed a 10-year, $70 million alliance agreement with Trillium Flow Technologies to supply nuclear and non-nuclear valves and refurbishment services for its life-extension program in Ontario.

Premium soft drinks maker Belvoir Farm invested £2 million in a canning line at its on-farm factory in Leicestershire, using a T. Freemantle end-load cartoner for multipacks.

Germany's Herma Group and US manufacturer Wausau Coated Products have launched a strategic partnership to open new markets, with WCP distributing Herma materials in Mexico and Herma distributing WCP wine and spirits materials in Europe, starting with the UK.

Roto Pumps Ltd launched its P Range compact pumps at the RotoNext event, aimed at oil and gas, mining, wastewater treatment and food processing sectors.

Roto Pumps Ltd has expanded its manufacturing infrastructure at its Greater Noida facility with new 40,000 square meter facilities including in-house elastomer, plating and test capabilities, targeting USD 100 million revenue by 2028.

Burckhardt Compression will open a dedicated Service Center in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia in April 2025 to conduct factory acceptance tests of its PROGNOST panels for Middle East customers.

Burckhardt Compression has won an order to upgrade and digitalize a major customer's reciprocating compressor installation in Saudi Arabia using its PROGNOST NT monitoring system, delivered by its local subsidiary.

Advance Valves Pvt. Ltd was named winner of an Indian Oil Corporation tender for supply of ball and butterfly on-off valves for the Digboi refinery expansion in Assam, with a contract value of ₹3.01 Cr.

Atlas Copco Group has acquired Heide Pumpen GmbH, a portable pump distributor and service provider headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, adding 42 employees to its Power Technique business area.

Pioneer Pump relocated its UK operations from a 10,000 sq ft site near Stowmarket to a 66,000 sq ft facility in Hadleigh, Suffolk, with two warehouse units. The company plans further expansion over the next five years.

Olympic Steel opened a new facility in Houston to expand its Action Stainless operations and enhance fabrication capabilities.

Lear has begun work on extending its industrial unit in Tangier Automotive City, adding 8,000 m² at a total investment cost of MAD 60 million.

GE Aerospace announced plans to invest over €78 million in its European production facilities in 2025, with the largest share in Italy (€55.6M), followed by Poland (€11.6M), Czech Republic (€5.4M), UK (€3.3M), and Romania (€2.3M). The investment will create over 500 jobs.

The Port of Houston ordered 16 hybrid Konecranes RTGs and retrofits for 8 existing RTGs. The deal was booked in Q1 2025, with delivery scheduled for H1 2026.

Konecranes has won its first global order for a purely battery-driven RTG crane, along with an order for 10 hybrid RTGs, from Global Container Terminals (GCT) for the GCT-Vanterm terminal.