AxFlow GesmbH, part of the AxFlow Group, announced its acquisition of VIP Tehnika, a pump sales and service company in Maribor, Slovenia. The deal gives AxFlow a second base for growth in the Balkans and Austria.

AxFlow AS has acquired all shares in Innva AS, a valve supplier based in Skui, Bærum, Norway, effective 29 April 2019. Innva will continue as an independent company with its own logo. The purchase price was not disclosed.

French plumbing manufacturer SFA Group, parent of Saniflo, acquired Zehnder Pumpen GmbH, a German pump maker based in Grünhain-Beierfeld, Saxony. The acquisition is effective from 1 January 2019 and Zehnder will remain a separate legal entity.

Fluence's Egyptian joint venture IWSI and Hassan Allam EPC were awarded a $74M EPC contract for a 40,000 m3/day seawater desalination plant in New Mansoura, expandable to 80,000 m3/day. Fluence's share is $20 million.

Smith Cameron Group acquired Westcan Industries and its sister company Indu-Tech, effective March 1, 2019, adding pump rebuild and repair and specialty valve manufacturing for Western Canada from a 45,000 sq ft facility in Langley, British Columbia.

Industrial Flow Solutions, a portfolio company of May River Capital, acquired Stancor LP of Monroe, Connecticut and BJM Pumps of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, in a merger with the sellers Longview Asset Management and Knox Capital. No financial terms were disclosed.

Fluence Corp secured a build, own and operate contract with an unnamed industrial client in Peru for a desalination plant, including a ten-year water purchase agreement.

Siemens signed a 200 million euro contract to supply gas and steam turbines, power generation and digital services for the Duqm Integrated Power and Water project in Oman, which will have 326 MW of capacity and 36,000 cubic metres of desalinated water per day, with a 25-year service contract.

Va Tech Wabag secured a Rs 467 crore design-and-build contract from Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals to build a 30 MLD seawater desalination plant in Mangaluru, Karnataka, expandable to 70 MLD, over 22 months.

INVENT and Jash formed a joint venture to combine their strengths and offer customers joint innovative solutions. The page dates the venture to 2023.

Pentair agreed to acquire water treatment company Aquion for $160 million in cash, adding its affiliated residential dealer network. Completion is expected in Q1 2019, subject to regulatory approvals.

Franklin Electric added Milan Supply Co, a Michigan-based groundwater distributor, to its Headwater business in a US$5.9 million deal in Q1 2019.

Pentair plc acquired US water treatment equipment company Aquion in Q1 2019 to get closer to residential consumers.

AxFlow Group's Brown Brothers Engineers/Kelair Pumps acquired GT Water Technologies, a family-owned maker of fire water tanks in the Melbourne area, in Q1 2019.

Arable Capital Partners has acquired Hydratec, Lodi Pump & Irrigation and Universal Irrigation & Supply, which will merge into a platform called Laurel Agriculture + Water Solutions. No financial terms were disclosed.

Gimv entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a majority stake in French water network equipment maker Groupe Claire, alongside its management, from majority owner Industries et Finances. Groupe Claire has about 190 staff and annual turnover of around EUR 50 million.

AquaVenture Holdings acquired AUC Group, a builder of field-erected and modular wastewater treatment plants, for $113 million on 1 November 2018.

Summa Equity has signed an agreement to acquire Lakers Holding AB, a Nordic group servicing pumps, pumping stations and electrical motors across Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Completion is subject to regulatory approval and expected in October 2018.

Hayward Industries closed its acquisition of Paramount Leisure Industries, a pool equipment maker. Paramount will continue to operate as an autonomous business under its own name with the same management and staff.

Bedford Pumps Ltd won the third and final order to supply 15 water pumps for Severn Trent Water's Birmingham Resilience scheme, worth £1.2 million across three schemes, announced in August 2018.

Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction won the contract for a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Al Sharqiyah, Oman, developed by Asilah Desalination Company with an investment of $203 million. The plant is due to start operation in 2021 and produce nearly 80,000 cubic metres per day.

Acciona Agua won a EUR 200 million EPC contract from Saudi Arabia's SWCC to design and build a 210,000 m3/d reverse osmosis desalination plant on the Gulf coast, for completion by end of 2020. The plant will also supply Saudi Aramco.

PumpMan Holdings has completed the acquisition of Healdsburg, California-based Groundwater Pump & Well, which provides irrigation, fire protection and water solutions. Groundwater will be integrated into PumpMan's Bartley Pump in Santa Rosa.

SJE is constructing a 51,000 sq ft manufacturing facility on eight acres in the Ashland Business Park in Ashland, Ohio, designed by C.M. Architecture and built by Simonson Construction Services, with completion targeted for December 2018.

Irish Water installed Rotork actuators as part of a modernization program at the Kilkit Water Treatment Plant in Ireland. The contract value was not disclosed.

Fluence Corp received a contract to deliver a water treatment reuse system to its customer Rosenblad Design Group for a wastewater treatment project in California.

Bristol Water has awarded SUEZ a contract to implement the Aquadvanced Energy network optimiser across its entire water distribution network, controlling pumps, valves and treatment plants. The implementation is to be completed by September 2019.

SUEZ, with partners AECOM Technical Services and C.H. Nickerson, was selected by the City of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, to design, build and operate a new drinking water treatment plant for 20 years, valued at USD 53 million.

IEP Process Solutions, a subsidiary of Centena Group, won a multi-million-dirham contract to supply six steam and water analysis systems for a strategic utilities project in Abu Dhabi. Announced on 6 April 2026.

Xylem Inc announced it acquired Emnet, LLC, described as a provider of smart solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Deschenes Group Inc. acquired Corix Water Products, a division of Corix Infrastructure, effective January 1, 2018. The deal adds 55 sales outlets, including 12 in the U.S., and pushes Deschenes past the billion-dollar sales mark.

Current Water Technologies Inc. closed its acquisition of 100% of Pumptronics Incorporated, paying $700,000 cash, a $100,000 deposit credit, a $400,000 promissory note and 12 million shares.

Sulzer completed the acquisition of US-based JWC Environmental, a supplier of grinding, screening and dissolved air flotation systems for wastewater treatment, and placed it in its pump division. The deal was reported in 2018.

Xylem agreed to acquire all shares of Pure Technologies, a leader in leak detection and infrastructure assessment for water networks, for CAD $9.00 per share in cash, an enterprise value of CAD $509 million (USD $397 million).

Grossmann Group is starting production of Roediger vacuum sewerage equipment under a license from Bilfinger at its Compressor Complex site in St Petersburg, with a service center, and is investing 10 million euros. The news was reported on November 22, 2017.

Fluence Corporation was awarded a €1.5 million contract by VINCI Construction Grands Projets to supply three NIROBOX smart packaged seawater desalination units with a total capacity of 3,000 m3/d for the island of Mayotte. The announcement is dated 22 October 2017.

W.M. Schultz Construction was officially awarded the Restoration of the Wastewater Treatment Plant project by the City of Kingston, New York, on August 10, 2017. Work covers pump replacement, pump station reconstruction, flood proofing and a new plant-wide generator, with completion expected in spring 2018.

Hyundai Engineering signed a $320 million turnkey contract to build water supply and treatment utility facilities for the Long Son petrochemical complex in Vietnam, a $4.5 billion project by a joint venture including Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group.

Spanish group Fluidra announced the acquisition of 90% of Agrisilos, the Cremona company that owns the Piscine Laghetto brand, which makes above-ground pools. Agrisilos has about 30 employees and sells mainly in Italy and France.

EDF Energy has awarded Ovivo UK Limited a GBP 27 million eight-year contract to design and supply the cooling water intake screening system for Hinkley Point C in Somerset. The drumscreens will be manufactured mainly in the UK.

Emefcy Group and RWL Water signed a binding sale and purchase agreement to merge, creating a new global water solutions company called Fluence Corporation.

French utility Suez and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec entered a binding agreement to purchase GE Water & Process Technologies from General Electric for an enterprise value of €3.2 billion.

Lontra has licensed its Blade Compressor technology to Sulzer for production within the municipal and regulated wastewater sector. Aeration equipment using the technology will be sold across 150 countries under a multi-million pound deal.

Evac will supply its Complete Cleantech Solutions, including vacuum toilets, wastewater and waste treatment and reverse osmosis systems, for two Star Cruises Global Class newbuilds being built by MV Werften, due 2020 and 2021.

Northern Ireland Water awarded a compressor and blower framework contract worth up to an estimated GBP 12.5 million for supply, installation and commissioning. Aerzen Machines Ltd and Sulzer Pumps both won places on the framework.

Wärtsilä received an order for its dry waste and food waste treatment equipment for one new Saga Cruises vessel being built by Meyer Werft, with an option for a second vessel. The order was placed in September 2016.

Iraq's Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works appointed Protechnique as main EPC contractor for the 80 million dollar Basra Water Pumping Station P2R, funded by JICA. Protechnique expects to complete its scope by December 2018.

Sulzer will supply a complete centrifugal pump package, including manufacturing, testing and installation supervision, for a new reverse osmosis desalination plant in Oman's North Batinah region. The plant is being built by Sohar SWRO, led by Valoriza Agua and Bahwan Engineering, for the Oman Water and Procurement Company.

Alfa Laval won an order worth about SEK 50 million to supply separators, pump modules and a water treatment system for an integrated solar and combined-cycle plant in the Middle East. The order was placed by a Spanish contractor, with delivery scheduled for 2017.

Black & Veatch's joint venture with Civmec will upgrade and expand Western Australia's largest wastewater treatment plant under an EPC alliance contract with the Water Corporation.