The Government of Canada placed orders with Thornhill Medical for ventilators, Spartan Bioscience for test kits, and Medicom for surgical masks, as part of a $2 billion plan to purchase personal protective equipment. The contracts were announced on March 31, 2020.

Schindler has been selected to deliver 103 escalators and 73 elevators to the Metro Tunnel Project in Melbourne, Australia, the biggest public transport infrastructure project in Victoria. The project is expected to be completed in 2025.

GE Power India Ltd has been awarded a contract by NTPC Ltd to supply and install Wet Flue-gas Desulfurization systems at NTPC's Unchahar thermal power plant in Uttar Pradesh, India, for INR 6900 million (USD 97 million).

VINAVIL has appointed Fitz Chem, NAGASE Group as the exclusive distributor for its PVAc, vinyl acetate/vinyl versatate, VeoVa, styrene/acrylic and acrylic polymers in 25 US states.

Siemens Gamesa won an order from Eurowind Energy for eight SG 5.8-170 turbines for the 46 MW Knöstad project near Karlstad, Sweden, including a 25-year service agreement.

The United States Government Publishing Office intends to award a sole-source purchase order to Covestro LLC for security-grade polycarbonate for use in secure credentials programs.

thyssenkrupp won an order from Cimpor Global Holdings to build a cement plant with polysius activated clay technology near Kribi, Cameroon, producing 720 tpd of activated clay. Completion is expected in autumn 2021.

Partnerplast was awarded a contract by Alcatel Submarine Networks to produce approximately 8000 polyurethane bend stiffeners for a permanent reservoir monitoring system at the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea.

Asarina Pharma has decided to use Ypsomed's YpsoMate autoinjector for its phase III study and commercial launch of Sepranolone, a treatment for pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder.

Raytheon secured a potential $353.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide guided missile round packs and spare parts for the Rolling Airframe Missile system, including foreign military sales to several countries.

Irkutsk Oil Company (INK) has selected Gemont as the general contractor to build a polymer plant in Ust-Kut, Russia. The plant will produce ethylene and polyethylene with an annual capacity of 650,000 tonnes, with Toyo Engineering as the engineering company. Construction is expected to take three years.

Danieli has received an order from Abul Khair Strip Processing for a continuous Galvalume line to be installed at its Chittagong facility. The line will have a capacity of 200,000 metric tons per year, with equipment deliveries set for 2020.

Foodmach has been contracted by Med-Con to design and manufacture three surgical face mask-making machines to expand Med-Con's production capacity from 2 million to 50 million masks per year. The first machine is scheduled for delivery in eight weeks.

Facebook signed a deal with British microLED display maker Plessey Semiconductors, dedicating Plessey's LED manufacturing operations to help Facebook prototype and develop AR/VR technologies for several years. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Adelaide packaging company Detmold Group has been contracted to produce 145 million surgical face masks for frontline health staff across Australia by the end of 2020. The shift in focus is expected to create 160 new jobs.

Fusion for Energy awarded a EUR 160,000 contract to Micron Semiconductor Europe SARL for the supply of a single crystal diamond matrix detector prototype for the ITER Radial Neutron Camera diagnostics system. The award was granted on 2020-03-30.

HIZEAERO signed a contract with Boeing Tianjin Composites Co. Ltd. (BTC) to supply parts for the Boeing 787 for ten years from 2020 to 2030. The contract is valued at about 10.6 billion won.

Singapore's national water agency PUB awarded a S$433 million contract to Sembcorp Design and Construction to build the biosolids treatment facility for the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant. Works will start in April 2020 and are due to complete in 2025.

Parsons Corporation has been selected for a seat on a $1.2 billion ceiling indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for utility monitoring and control systems.

Raytheon has reached a $1 billion multiyear agreement with Aerojet Rocketdyne to supply propulsion systems for missile programs, supporting contracts with the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy.

GE will supply two 9HA.01 gas turbines and two STF-D650 steam turbines for PGE's 1.4 GW Dolna Odra power plant in Western Pomerania, Poland. The new units are expected to be commissioned in 2023.

Eleventh Design & Research Institute (a subsidiary of Taiji Industry) signed an EPC contract with Hefei Rainbow for the G8.5 LCD glass substrate construction project in Hefei, valued at 528.8 million yuan.

Facebook signed an exclusivity agreement with UK-based AR display maker Plessey to supply microLED displays for AR/VR headsets. Plessey's manufacturing operations will be dedicated to Facebook for several years.

CPI Aerostructures received a $5.6 million purchase order from the U.S. Air Force for structural modification kits under the T-38C Pacer Classic III and Talon Repair Inspection and Maintenance programs. This brings total funded orders under the previously awarded multi-year contract to $13.8 million.

General Electric began production of two 9HA.01 gas turbines and two STF-D650 steam turbines for the new 1.4 GW gas-fired units at the Dolna Odra power plant in Poland. The production started on March 30, 2020.

P2i announced a partnership agreement with Samsung to deploy its Barrier nanocoating technology on selected Samsung Galaxy smartphones for liquid protection. The deal was announced on March 30, 2020.

Ariadne Interconnection, a subsidiary of ADMIE, awarded a contract worth approximately €370 million to a consortium of Siemens and Terna for the construction of two converter stations for the Crete-Athens power interconnection. The contract was announced on March 30, 2020.

Linxon successfully energized the 220/66/11 kV BSP Sahel-Al-Zallaq and Janoob Madinat Hamad substations in Bahrain, awarded by the Electricity & Water Authority (EWA). The projects were completed on March 30, 2020.

GE announced an order to supply two 9HA.01 gas turbines, steam turbines, generators and HRSGs for a 1.4 GW combined cycle power plant at PGE's Dolna Odra site in Poland, with commissioning expected in 2023.

Heinen & Hopman has been awarded a contract by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding to deliver the turn-key HVAC system for the Royal Netherlands Navy's Combat Support Ship Zr.Ms. Den Helder, scheduled for delivery in 2024.

EWN Entsorgungswerk für Nuklearanlagen GmbH awarded a contract to BANG Kransysteme GmbH & Co. KG for the construction of crane systems (Lot 4) for a new dismantling hall, valued at EUR 7,970,159.

Inner Mongolia Ultra High Voltage Power Supply Bureau announced winning bids for equipment supply for the Qingyun 500kV substation expansion project. Winners include TBEA Xinjiang Transformer Factory for 500kV transformers, Beijing ABB High Voltage Switchgear for 500kV disconnectors and tank circuit breakers, and others.

General Motors agreed to purchase CNY59.8 million ($8.4 million) worth of respirator sealing parts from Anhui Zhongding Sealing Parts for 200,000 respirators.

ORBINOX supplied 333 valves, including knife gate and check valves, for Mondi's new kraft top white machine at its Ruzomberok plant in Slovakia.

AAON Inc. received an order for 44 customized 50-ton HVAC units for the Stony Brook Temporary Hospital in New York, with first truckload shipped and all equipment to be delivered by April 7, 2020. A second order for 36 units for SUNY Old Westbury was also placed.

A Cat 7495 electric rope shovel originally built in 2012 is being shipped to Kinross Gold's Paracatu gold mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the ballast box and revolving frame leaving Green Valley, Arizona.

OceanGate has selected Toray Composite Materials America as the preferred provider of aerospace-grade prepreg carbon fiber for manufacturing pressure vessels for deep-sea manned submersibles. Production is scheduled to begin later in 2020.

Zhengzhou Vtops Machinery Co., Ltd. exported a CE-approved VFFS milk powder packing machine to a major European food company in Germany, following an order placed on February 11, 2020.

The University of York has awarded a contract to XYZ Machine Tools Ltd for the purchase of a 4-axis CNC vertical machining centre for £61,012.

Allison Transmission has been awarded a $68 million contract by the U.S. Army for new X1100 Abrams transmissions, upgrades, sustainment kits and service support. The work is expected to be completed by March 23, 2023.

Adif has awarded a €494,877.90 contract to Up Lifting Vertical for the acquisition of a Reach-Stacker mobile crane for the Bilbao Puerto freight terminal in Santurtzi, Bizkaia.

Semmelweis University and Biotronik Hungária Kft. signed a three-year contract for balloon-expandable stents for peripheral vessels, valued at HUF 10,176,000 net, following a public procurement procedure.

Singapore Jangho, a subsidiary of Jangho Group, won a SGD 42,528,888.88 curtain wall contract for the Integrated Business Park Development at Punggol Digital District in Singapore.

Jangho Group's subsidiaries Beijing Jangho Curtain Wall and Singapore Jangho won curtain wall contracts for the Guangzhou Commercial Center (CNY 256.8M) and a business park in Punggol Digital District, Singapore (SGD 42.5M), totaling about CNY 470M.

Achronix selected Synopsys' silicon-proven DesignWare IP for PCI Express 5.0 and DDR4 for its Speedster7t FPGA family, announced on March 26, 2020.

Balco signed an agreement with Meyer Werft to produce and deliver balconies for two cruise ships, worth approximately SEK 140 million. One order was booked in Q4 2019, the other in Q1 2020.

Alstom secured a €35 million contract from AB Transitio and partners to equip 77 X31 regional trains with ERTMS onboard train control system in Sweden, with an option for 34 additional vehicles.

Yourgene has signed an agreement with Novacyt to provide contract manufacturing services for COVID-19 diagnostic tests at its Manchester facility. First batches are expected to ship in the coming weeks.

Topre Corporation, a Japanese automotive parts manufacturer, has selected Infor CloudSuite Automotive ERP for its seven domestic sites in Japan, with plans to roll out to international sites later.

Vossloh has won a contract to supply 38 turnouts and 495,000 sleeper sets of rail fastening system W 30 HH for Package 2A of the Etihad Rail network, linking Ruwais with Saudi Arabia's Ghuweifat region. The contract was awarded by a joint venture between CSCEC and SK Engineering & Construction.