GMB Korea disclosed a supply contract worth 46.03 billion won with Hyundai Motor and Kia for electric water pumps used to cool hydrogen vehicles. Deliveries run from October 1, 2027 to December 31, 2032.

Control Devices, a portfolio company of HBM Holdings, acquired Sherwood Valve, a North American maker of industrial cylinder valves with operations in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Terms were not disclosed.

ELGi Equipments commissioned a new vacuum pump assembly line at its Coimbatore headquarters, produced under a technology licensing agreement with D.V.P. Vacuum Technology of Italy.

PPC Flex, a North American flexible packaging maker, acquired the United States operations of SÜDPACK, including its Oak Creek, Wisconsin facility. The price was not disclosed.

Vallourec secured a significant contract from Shell to supply OCTG seamless pipes, VAM premium connections and value-added services for Shell's offshore Orca project in Brazil, with drilling expected from April 2027 and 12,000 to 15,000 tons of pipes.

Shakti Pumps India received a first letter of award from Karnataka Renewable Energy worth Rs 654.03 crore including GST for supplying and installing 16,780 off-grid solar water pumping systems under PM-KUSUM component-B.

Quest Flow Controls Limited received a purchase order worth Rs 2.17 crore including GST from Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders to supply hull valves, to be executed within four months.

Guillin Group's French subsidiary Alterecopack acquired Belgian packaging companies Gruyaert Verpakking, a maker of customized cardboard pastry boxes, and distributor Verpakkingen V de V. The two companies had combined 2024 revenue of EUR 19 million and about 40 employees.

Ball Corporation agreed to acquire UK-based packaging company Rexam PLC in a recommended cash and share offer valued at about $5.7 billion, subject to regulatory and Rexam shareholder approval. The combination is expected to create a global packaging leader.

ETERNITY Systems, a world leader in industrial washing of reusable packaging, announced the acquisition of Cleanway Logistics Solutions GmbH (CLS), a German maker of automated bottle and crate sorting and inspection systems, in January 2026.

VPK Group agreed with the shareholders of UK corrugated cardboard maker Ribble Packaging to increase its equity stake from 30% to 50%, creating joint control and expanding its fanfold production network in Europe.

Harbin Power Plant Valve Company (HVC) won the bid to supply valves for eight waste heat boilers on the Ghazlan 01 combined cycle gas-fired power plant expansion in Saudi Arabia, undertaken by MHPS Dongfang Boiler.

Babcock & Wilcox selected Siemens Energy to supply steam turbine generator sets for a project to deliver 1 GW of power for an Applied Digital AI Factory. The estimated project cost is approximately $2 billion, with power delivery by end of 2028.

Hayward Tyler, a division of Avingtrans PLC, will merge with Energy Steel & Supply Co., a Rochester Hills, Michigan maker of machined nuclear components, to broaden its offerings to the global nuclear market.

Flexcraft will open a new 194,000 square foot automated manufacturing and warehousing facility in Fort Worth, Texas in March 2026, producing bottles and closures and roughly doubling its manufacturing capacity.

ALSTAL Grupa Budowlana held the topping-out ceremony for CANPACK's new production and warehouse hall in Bydgoszcz, Poland, a design-and-build project within a PLN 440 million investment. The hall is being prepared for an aluminium can production line.

Aalberts is investing in new advanced production lines at its Pageland, South Carolina facility to manufacture Apollo PowerPress products in the US. The phased project runs through 2027, with first US-made products expected in early 2027.

Biowater Technology AS signed a contract to supply and install pumps, valves, instrumentation, mechanical equipment and stainless steel piping for the Kongshaugen wastewater treatment plant in Ålesund, Norway.

Becker India, a vacuum and pneumatic equipment maker, has opened a new assembly unit in Pune, India. Its first product from the site is the VT 4.16 vacuum pump.

US-based Ball Corporation may take an 80% stake in Benepack's European beverage can business, including the majority of the Makó, Hungary plant, for EUR 184 million. Closing is expected in Q1 2026.

Biowater Technology AS was awarded and signed the final contract to supply and install mechanical and process equipment for the Kongshaugen wastewater treatment plant in Ålesund, including pumps, valves, instrumentation and stainless steel piping.

Shakti Pumps invested Rs 3 crore in its subsidiary Shakti Energy Solutions to establish a greenfield solar DCR cell and PV module manufacturing plant with 2.20 GW capacity in Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh.

Lewa GmbH signed a purchase contract with the city of Leonberg for part of Ulmer Strasse, creating a contiguous plant site of about 50,000 square metres; construction is planned to take one year.

Danfoss has acquired Palladio Compressors to expand its compressor portfolio with screw compressors for industrial heat pumps and commercial refrigeration. The announcement was made on January 6, 2026.

AB InBev agreed to repurchase a minority stake in its US metal packaging operation for $3 billion, as the brewer says the plants are strategic. The deal was reported on January 6, 2026.

SupplyOne, Inc., a corrugated converting distributor, has acquired Wertheimer Box, a Chicago-based corrugated packaging provider, to expand its custom packaging solutions and reach in the Chicago market. The deal was reported on January 6, 2026.

Clow Valve, a McWane company, has broken ground on a $75 million expansion of its Oskaloosa, Iowa fire hydrant and waterworks valve plant, adding a 36,000-square-foot addition to its iron foundry. The project is expected to double production output and retain more than 400 local jobs.

Bessemer Investors has completed the sale of Leonard Valve Company, a Cranston, Rhode Island maker of water temperature control valves and mixing systems, to A. O. Smith Corporation. The deal was first agreed in November 2025.

TechnipFMC has received a direct award from bp for an integrated EPCI contract on the greenfield Tiber development in the Gulf of America, valued by TechnipFMC at between $600 million and $800 million. The award builds on the Kaskida project execution model.

DXP Enterprises has completed the acquisition of PREMIERflow, LLC, a provider of integrated fluid handling pump systems for fire protection, water and wastewater, and data center markets. Financial terms were not disclosed.

GEA has signed an agreement to acquire Hydract A/S, a Danish maker of water-hydraulic process valves, with closing expected by the end of January 2026. The technology will be integrated into GEA's Valves & Pumps Business Unit for beverage, dairy and pharmaceutical customers.

The EKKI HOMA sewage pump joint venture between EKKI Pumps (India) and HOMA Pumpenfabrik (Germany) announced that N. K. Ranganath, former Managing Director of Grundfos Pumps India, has joined as Chief Advisor to support growth in India.

Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM) inaugurated PRONAL Corrugados, a corrugated packaging plant in the capital of Nuevo León, fed by paper from PRONAL mills in San Luis Potosí. The plant has annual conversion capacity of 100 thousand tonnes of paper and up to 215 million sqm of corrugated board.

TMC Compressors was contracted by CIMC Raffles to deliver a marine compressed air system for the MK2 FLNG facility being built for Golar LNG at the CIMC Raffles shipyard in Yantai, China; the value was not disclosed.

Liangu Valve won a $3.5 million procurement order for DN1200 PN100 hydraulic all-welded ball valves for a natural gas long-distance pipeline in an unnamed Central Asian country.

CSSC Wuhan Marine Machinery Plant won orders to supply hydraulic submersible pump systems and offshore cranes for CNOOC's Kaiping 11-4 cylindrical FPSO, which is due to enter production in 2029.

Baker Hughes won a contract from Technip Energies to supply liquefaction equipment, including six refrigerant turbo compressors with LM9000 gas turbines, for the Commonwealth LNG project near Cameron, Louisiana.

YG Machinery (Henan Xinyuchuang Machinery) exported a customized YG-20 battery-powered load-moving system to a factory relocation contractor in southern Germany. The system is designed for moving heavy industrial equipment such as CNC machining centers and hydraulic presses. The export was completed in early 2026.

Francois Compressors India has started construction of a factory extension at its Pirangut facility on the outskirts of Pune, Maharashtra, as part of its growth roadmap through 2030. The extension aims to improve safety, quality processes and delivery capability.

Monadelphous Group announced a major long-term maintenance services contract with Rio Tinto valued at approximately $300 million over five years.

CIMC Raffles contracted TMC Compressors to deliver a complete marine compressed air system for the MK2 FLNG facility being built for Golar LNG at the CIMC Raffles shipyard in Yantai, China. The contract value was not disclosed.

Kirloskar Brothers inaugurated a new factory building at its Kaniyur manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu, India, to improve productivity and support advanced manufacturing. The site now meets about 80 percent of its electricity needs from renewable sources.

Graz packaging specialist GPI Graz is investing millions of euros in new production equipment and expanded manufacturing capacity in Graz, Austria. No specific amount was disclosed in the article.

Groupe Guillin's French subsidiary Alterecopack acquired Gruyaert Verpakking and Verpakkingen V de V in Belgium, announced on December 30, 2025. Together they had about EUR 19 million turnover in 2024 and employ around 40 people.

Alfa Laval signed a 1.1 BSEK (102 MEUR) contract to supply HVO pre-treatment systems, including heat exchangers and separators, for Acelen's new biorefinery in Brazil, due for completion in 2029. The order is the largest Alfa Laval has ever signed.

Zhejiang Kaislen Pump Co. has completed a factory expansion project and put a new workshop into use, adding production and storage space with more advanced production, testing and automated equipment.

Cizzle Brands Corporation completed the acquisition of all shares of Flow Water Inc.'s beverage co-manufacturing business for approximately C$83.75 million, funded by an Orion Infrastructure Capital credit facility, a vendor loan and private placements. The manufacturing facility in Aurora, Ontario will become the CWENCH Hydration Factory.

Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin-based FNA Group has announced its acquisition of Allparts Equipment & Accessories Inc., a distributor of replacement parts and accessories for pressure washers, heaters and air compressors.

Hodge Compressor will launch a U.S.-based assembly, testing and light manufacturing factory in Hoschton, Georgia, beginning in late Q2 2026. The plant will assemble HTM and HB series rotary screw compressors from 7.5 to 50 horsepower.

Shakti Pumps received a letter of award from Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co. to supply 12,883 off-grid DC solar water pumping systems across Maharashtra, worth ₹327.62 crore. The order falls under the Magel Tyala Saur Krushi Pump Yojana and PM-KUSUM B scheme.