Emerson Process Management will expand its Ontario, Ohio facility with a $6.5 million project adding about 12,600 square feet of manufacturing space for its rotary vane and electro-hydraulic operator lines. The expansion is expected to add 20 jobs and take 15 to 16 months to complete.

Sulzer has opened a new Houston Service Center in Pasadena, Texas, with a large pump repair shop, lifting capacity for large machines and automated welding. The center focuses on oil and gas customers.

JB Industries, an Aurora, Illinois maker of HVAC/R tools, has completed its acquisition of C&D Valve of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Both brands will continue to operate independently.

Orseal supplied the valve package for the FPSO Guanabara MV31, chartered by Petrobras for the Libra consortium's Mero field in the Santos Basin off Brazil. The first valve delivery has been completed, with more contracts for the vessel to follow.

Ampo Poyam Valves won a 2020 contract from BP, via Saipem, to supply 550 ball, globe and gate valves for the first phase of the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim offshore LNG project on the Mauritania-Senegal maritime border.

Hunt Valve Company, a May River Capital portfolio company, completed its acquisition of Pima Valve, a maker of severe-duty bronze marine valves in Chandler, Arizona, announced November 5, 2019.

Krohne and Samson started FOCUS-ON, an equal joint venture registered in Dordrecht, Netherlands, to develop, market and produce autonomous actuators for the process industry. The announcement was dated 30 October 2019.

Industrias Dolz built a new production plant in Almazora (Castellón, Spain) for automotive water pumps, supported by a €476,956 regional incentive grant co-financed by FEDER. The plant features robotized assembly, ovens, injectors and machining centers.

Swedish pump maker Concentric AB won an order to develop and supply coolant pumps with integral motor drives and control systems to an unnamed leading global OEM of battery energy storage, with projected revenue of about SEK 100 million over three years.

RegO, a maker of valves and controls for propane and LNG, is expanding its Whitsett, North Carolina manufacturing facility with new automated machining stations, adding about 50 jobs. The machines will be installed over eight months and roughly double plant capacity.

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.

Family-owned Metropolitan Industries of Illinois acquired Emmons Pump & Control, which was renamed Emmons Metro LLC as of August 27, 2019, in Albany, New York. The deal was publicized on October 23, 2019.

Ampo Poyam Valves was selected to design and produce 900 electrically actuated gate valves, some up to 36 inches, for the Dangote refinery under construction in the Lagos region of Nigeria. The contract was placed through EIL (Engineers India Limited).

Following a formal tender, Scottish Water awarded Rotork UK a framework agreement making it sole supplier of new valve actuators for Scottish Water and its partners during the AMP 6 cycle. The agreement complements an existing servicing framework.

Orseal has completed delivery of the first of two valve package contracts for the FPSO Guanabara MV31 at the Mero field in the Libra block, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The report is dated 16 October 2019.

Orseal, an industrial valve solutions provider, has completed delivery of the first of two valve package contracts for the FPSO Guanabara MV31, to be deployed in 2021 at the Mero field in Brazil's Santos Basin.

Weatherford has won its largest-ever contract for deep-set safety valves from Petrobras, to deliver 24 Optimax safety valves over the next four years. The valves are rated up to 10,000 psi and setting depths down to 12,000 ft.

IMI plc has acquired PBM, Inc. Valve Solutions for $85.0 million, according to deal listing data published on October 15, 2019.

Matholding Group acquired 51 percent of U.S.-based OCV Control Valves LLC, adding valves for fueling transfer and aviation markets to its portfolio.

Macclesfield-based Franchise Brands acquired WPL Group Holdings and its subsidiaries Willow Pumps and Willow Drainage for £12.5m, with an initial consideration of £5m. The business supplies, installs and services water pumps.

AMPO POYAM VALVES was awarded a contract by Saipem to supply more than 550 cryogenic and non-cryogenic valves for the first phase of BP's Greater Tortue Ahmeyim FLNG project, with delivery in 2020.

PJ Valves won three contracts to supply FPSO valves for projects in Brazil, Mexico and Nigeria, with a combined value of $10 million.

Clarke Valve received provincial approvals from Alberta (ABSA) and Ontario (TSSA) for its Dilating Disk control valve, allowing sales in those provinces on October 2, 2019.

Ampo Poyam Valves will design and manufacture highly engineered check valves up to 36 inches for Saipem's EPIC contracts from Saudi Aramco for the Berri and Marjan offshore fields. The valves are scheduled for delivery in 2020.

Nigerian firm PE Energy broke ground on a $30 million plant in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for domesticated valve assembly and metering integration, expected to be completed within months.

Torishima Service Solutions Europe (TSSE), the European arm of Torishima Pump Manufacturing, has leased a 2,550 sq m unit at Clyde Gateway East Business Park in Glasgow as its new European headquarters, bringing 50 engineering jobs. The move was announced on 26 September 2019 on a 15-year lease.

NIBCO agreed to acquire the entire Milwaukee Valve Company, including its products, facilities and assets, with the deal expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2019 pending regulatory approvals. Terms are confidential.

Jokwang ILI signed a KRW 2.19 billion MFC project contract to supply safety valves for GS Caltex's MFC process area at its Yeosu plant, disclosed September 25, 2019.

Thermador Groupe announced exclusive negotiations with the shareholder of regional competitor Eurobinox to buy back its shares. Eurobinox, based near Lyon, makes valves, fittings and tubes and had turnover of EUR 14.5 million last year.

L&T Valves Arabia, a subsidiary of L&T Valves, is setting up a manufacturing facility in the Eastern Province near Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The plant is scheduled to start production in October 2019 and will make the full valve range plus automation and digital solutions.

CHEMAGREGAT is completing the design of a new plant for pumping equipment and valves in the Center special economic zone near Voronezh. The investment is 200 million rubles and the project is planned to create 60 jobs.

Alfa Laval has won two orders worth SEK165 million to supply Framo marine pumping systems for FPSO vessels being built in China. Deliveries are scheduled for 2020.

Houston-based BHGE Masoneilan has been contracted to supply heavy-duty severe service angle control valves for CEPSA's refinery in San Roque, Cádiz, Spain. The report is dated 17 September 2019.

Ohio Transmission Corporation, an industrial equipment distributor in Columbus, Ohio, has acquired Pumps, Parts and Service Inc., a Charlotte, North Carolina pump and repair distributor serving the Southeast. PP&S will become a division of OTP Industrial Solutions.

Tene Investment Funds is reportedly acquiring a 74% stake in Habonim Industrial Valves & Actuators for NIS 100 million (about $28.3 million), based on a company valuation of NIS 130 million. The deal is reportedly nearing closure, according to an anonymous source.

The John H. Carter Company acquired Process Pumps & Equipment and its affiliate LA Machine & Design, which will operate from existing facilities in Geismar and Shreveport, Louisiana, expanding its pump group offerings. The deal was announced on September 13, 2019.

KCM Capital has acquired Mobile, Alabama-based Industrial Valve Sales & Services LLC, a provider of specialty valve services and products, with financing from PNC Mezzanine Capital, Five Points Capital and Hancock Capital Management. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Elliott Group merged Ebara International Corporation, based in Sparks, Nevada, with its operations in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. The transaction was listed in the Q2 2019 pump M&A review.

ITT completed its acquisition of Rheinhütte Pumpen, which is headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany and makes centrifugal and axial flow pumps for aggressive media in chemical, mining, renewable energy and refinery processes. The deal was reported in the Q2 2019 pump M&A review.

CEPSA's San Roque refinery in Cádiz, Spain awarded Baker Hughes's Masoneilan a contract for heavy-duty severe service control valves for the Bottom-of-the-Barrel upgrade project.

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.

Indutrade has signed an agreement to acquire all shares of Finkova Oy, a Finnish niche valve trading business with annual sales of about EUR 8.5 million, serving the process and boiler industries.

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.

German valve company ARI-Armaturen Group bought all outstanding shares of Hogfors Oy, a Finnish manufacturer of butterfly and ball valves used mainly in district heating and process industries, with Clairfield as exclusive financial advisor.

LEWA GmbH delivered six Ecoflow LDH5 process diaphragm pumps to an international oil and gas company to expand pumping capacity at two offshore gas fields in Saudi Arabia, with an order received in March 2018.

Xi'an Pump & Valve Plant Co. received an appraisal on 4 September 2019 in Xi'an for its independently developed titanium forced circulation pump, which experts said fills a domestic gap and reaches advanced world-level performance.

AMPO POYAM VALVES will supply 900 motor-operated gate valves in 2020 for the Dangote refinery and petrochemical complex in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos. EIL, the EPC contractor, relied on Ampo for the design and manufacture of the valves.

VAT Group completed Phase 2 of its Malaysian campus in September 2019, expanding it from 6,000 to 24,000 square metres, a step forecast to raise global production capacity by 30%.

Airtech Inc. acquired Champion Valves Inc. and Valve & Pump Specialties Inc. in early September 2019 to complement its US Valve subsidiary. Champion, based in Wilmington, North Carolina, makes industrial check and butterfly valves.

Desmi Pumping Technology A/S has extended its production capacity and can now manufacture more than 25,000 pumps per year, according to a report published on 2019-09-01.