Pritzker Private Capital has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Americhem, a family-owned manufacturer of custom color masterbatch and engineered compounds. The Juve family and management will retain a stake.

Murphy has commenced work on the Eastern Green Link 1 project, a £2.5 billion joint venture between SP Energy Networks and National Grid Electricity Transmission, involving installation of a 196km high-voltage subsea cable. Murphy is responsible for the 400kV substation works package for National Grid.

Seatrium Offshore Technology has won an international tender from International Maritime Industries (IMI) to supply equipment and license for a LeTourneau Super 116E Class jackup drilling rig, marking the first new-build construction at IMI's shipyard.

Tiandingfeng Middle East Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Oriental Yuhong, has started civil construction of a factory in Dammam Third Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. The plant will have four production lines with an annual capacity of 25,000 tons and is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2025.

The Ministry of Communications approved the award of a Q38.9 million contract to Grupo Expertos Centroamericanos en Electromecánica to improve the air conditioning system at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City.

Kontron secured a contract valued at approximately $250 million to supply 5G-based Network Access Devices (NADs) to a leading automotive supplier for several global OEMs. Production ramp-up is expected in 2026.

Infineon plans to invest approximately €3.4 billion to expand its Dresden site with a new fab module (Module 4) for 300mm front-end production of analog/mixed-signal and power semiconductors. The European Commission approved up to €920 million in state aid.

CRC Innovations and Ameresco announced an over $200 million Energy Saving Performance Contract to provide capital improvements at U.S. Army military housing at Fort Bragg, Fort Meade, and Fort Sill, covering 5,000 homes.

Carrier Commercial Refrigeration is investing €22 million in its Montluel site and €8 million in its Culoz site, for industrial heat pumps and data center chillers respectively.

Follmann celebrated the topping-out ceremony for a new hall to produce PUR hot-melt adhesives at its Minden site. The €20 million plant is expected to start operations in 2027 and create 15-20 new jobs.

GE Power India received purchase/work orders totaling Rs 40.33 crore: one from NTPC to supply turbine parts, and another from M P Power Generating Company for boiler services.

The European Commission approved funding under the European Chips Act for Infineon's Smart Power Fab in Dresden, with total funding of around €1 billion. Infineon is investing €5 billion in the expansion, which started construction in March 2023 and is planned to open in 2026, creating up to 1,000 jobs.

Consorci per a la Gestió dels Residus del Vallès Oriental awarded Stadler Selecciona a €2,569,440 contract for design, supply, installation and commissioning of dry pre-treatment equipment for waste management in Granollers, Spain.

Lahti Glass Technology (LGT) has been selected as key supplier to provide batch plant and cullet systems for Ciner Glass's new greenfield container glass plant in Lommel, Belgium. Construction is underway and the project will create over 500 direct jobs.

Aveng's mining subsidiary Moolmans secured a 60-month, R10.6 billion contract with Black Mountain Mining for the Gamsberg Mine in the Northern Cape, South Africa. The contract includes a R1.3 billion fleet renewal programme and will create 342 new jobs, bringing the site workforce to 690.

Sauer Compressors USA is establishing a satellite facility in Cache Valley, Utah to expand operations, focusing on rentals and serving Western US customers. Operations are planned to begin within the next few months.

Qingdao Weilong Valve (WIVO) has broken ground on a Smart Energy-Saving Valve Manufacturing Facility in the Qingdao High-Tech Zone, with a total investment of 285 million yuan and expected annual revenue above 800 million yuan.

British eco-packaging maker Corplex plans to significantly expand its Hurbanovo, Slovakia plant, adding new operations of nearly one hectare that will be twice the size of the current site. The plant reportedly reached EUR 20 million in revenue in its first year.

Schumacher Packaging Birmingham commissioned a Delta SPC 130 FlexLine Eco+ digital printing press from Koenig & Bauer Durst, starting commercial digital printing for corrugated packaging. The machine is part of a EUR 30 million investment in the Birmingham site.

Mondi has agreed to acquire the Western Europe packaging assets of Schumacher, with completion expected in the first half of 2025. Deal value is not given in the excerpt.

SIG Combibloc's board has approved installing an extrusion line at its Ahmedabad, India site at a cost of around EUR 50 million, scheduled to come online in 2027.

Chubby Gorilla has opened a new manufacturing facility in Thailand to boost production capacity and supply U.S. customers. The plant makes bottles, containers and closures.

The UK National Wealth Fund committed £43.5 million in direct equity to Pulpex, which will build a commercial-scale fibre bottle plant near Glasgow producing 50 million bottles per year. The Scottish National Investment Bank adds £10 million, bringing total funding to £62 million, and 35 jobs are expected.

Devyser Diagnostics was awarded a three-year tender by AOU Città Della Salute e della Scienza in Turin, Italy, for NGS genetic tests covering CFTR, BRCA and Thalassemia, with an indicative order value of SEK 16.8 million.

Schwarz Produktion is investing over €300 million to expand the Bonback industrial bakery in Halle (Saale), Germany, adding a deep-freezing high-bay warehouse and creating more than 400 new jobs.

Egyptian company Tatweer Medical Industries and Chinese firm Mindray signed a cooperation protocol to set up Egypt's first ultrasound device manufacturing plant, expected to produce 2,500 devices annually, with first devices to be launched in April.

Shunsin Technology (Vietnam) Co., Ltd. held a groundbreaking ceremony on February 19, 2025 for a 4-floor, 89,000 m² factory in Quang Chau Industrial Park, Bac Giang Province, Vietnam, for manufacturing high-end electronic components.

Shell Chemicals signed a long-term supply agreement with RES Group for the entire production capacity of RES's upcoming chemical recycling plant in Pettoranello del Molise, Italy. Deliveries are set to begin in June 2026.

PerPetum Energy has acquired Pulsar Power to strengthen its capability to deliver holistic decarbonisation solutions including solar, storage, and electrification.

Pratt & Whitney announced it will expand its GTF engine MRO network to include Sanad Group, which will build a new facility in Al Ain, UAE, expected to be completed by 2028. The facility will service PW1100G-JM, PW1500G, and PW1900G engines.

PDF Solutions entered a definitive agreement to acquire secureWISE, a secure remote connectivity solution for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, from Telit IOT Solutions Inc. The acquisition will expand PDF Solutions' semiconductor manufacturing data platform.

Stryker Puerto Rico inaugurated a new medical device manufacturing plant in Humacao, Puerto Rico, with a total investment of approximately $16.55 million in public and private funds. The facility will boost the manufacture of medical prostheses.

BWX Technologies received contracts totaling approximately $2.1 billion from the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program for manufacturing reactor components for Columbia and Virginia class submarines and Ford class aircraft carriers. Work will be performed at locations in Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana over about seven years starting in 2023.

Hyster released its H1.6-2.0.A forklifts, replacing previous models, with lift capacities of 1.6-2 tons.

Boluda Maritime Terminals Tenerife ordered four hybrid rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Konecranes for its terminal in Tenerife, Spain.

Kontoor Brands will acquire Norwegian outdoor and workwear brand Helly Hansen from Canadian Tire for about $900 million. The deal is expected to close by June 30, 2025.

STILL and Mercurius Industrial Properties broke ground on the STILL Centre of Competence Mechatronics in Hamburg Billbrook, a €50 million, 10,800 m² facility for production, testing and development, scheduled for completion in early 2026.

Stantec was selected by DC Water to manage a five-year, $43 million water capital improvement program under the Water Smart Alliance joint venture, focusing on updating aging infrastructure and replacing lead service lines.

Bonree Medical Co signed a contract to purchase an 8-story factory building in Cuicheng No.4 park, Cuiheng New District, Zhongshan, with over 16,000 square meters, investing over 500 million yuan.

MJC Engineering and WF Maschinenbau signed a joint venture agreement to focus on research and development of chipless metal-forming machines and software, targeting automotive, aerospace, defense and energy applications.

Valmet has secured a contract to supply automation and quality management solutions to Shandong Jintianhe Paper in China for a folding boxboard machine producing food-grade packaging. The order is scheduled for delivery in Q2 2025.

MJC Engineering and WF Maschinenbau have signed a joint venture agreement to collaborate on chipless metal-forming machines for automotive, aerospace, defense, and energy applications.

Covestro announced that four U.S. sites have reached net-zero Scope 2 electricity emissions through a virtual Power Purchase Agreement with Ørsted, providing 90 MW of renewable energy capacity and reducing approximately 90,000 tons of CO2 annually.

BASF is investing a mid-double-digit million-euro amount in a new alcoholates plant at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The plant will produce sodium methylate and potassium methylate and is expected to start up in the second half of 2027.

CorTec GmbH and Heraeus Medevio have formed a strategic partnership to collaborate on neuromodulation device development and production, combining CorTec's prototyping expertise with Medevio's large-scale manufacturing.

DP World is investing £60 million to order four new quay cranes for its Southampton container terminal. The cranes, the largest in Europe, are scheduled to arrive from mid-2026.

METLEN Energy & Metals has signed two long-term strategic agreements with Rio Tinto: a bauxite supply agreement for 14.9 million metric tons from Guinea (2027-2037) and an alumina offtake agreement for 3.9 million metric tons (2027-2034, with possible extension to 2037).

Stantec and Drees & Sommer have been selected by Silicon Box to provide design and engineering services for a new €3.2 billion semiconductor assembly and test facility in Northern Italy, near Novara, Piedmont.

Energy Capital Group (ECG), through its ECG2.0-Fund2, has fully acquired MT Enterprises, a Saudi-based industrial services company specializing in testing, commissioning, calibration, and maintenance services.

Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma'aden) has completed the acquisition of a 20.6% stake in Bahrain Aluminum Company (Alba) from SABIC Industrial Investment Company for $963.4 million.