Racing and Performance Holdings acquired Andrews Products, a manufacturer of performance cams, gears, and transmissions for automotive and motorcycle applications. The acquisition expands R&P's portfolio into the motorcycle industry.

Spiroflow, part of Automated Handling Solutions, opened a new 60,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Darwen, Lancashire, UK. The facility represents 25% of Spiroflow's manufacturing capacity and serves customers globally.

Collins Aerospace, a business of RTX, entered a 10-year agreement with Air Europa to provide comprehensive MRO services for the airline's fleet of 787 aircraft, including support through FlightSense and Dispatch programmes and predictive health maintenance via Ascentia software.

LU-VE Group celebrated the groundbreaking of a 19,000 sqm expansion at its Jacksonville, TX, USA factory to localize dry coolers for data centers and power generation and enhance solutions for sustainable refrigerants. Shipments begin Q1 2026, with full industrial evaporator range launching Q4 2026.

Synektik S.A. signed a contract with 109 Szpital Wojskowy in Szczecin, Poland, for the delivery, installation, and commissioning of a da Vinci robotic surgery system, including training and warranty service, valued at PLN 9,239,540.63 net. Delivery is scheduled by November 30, 2024.

Mutares SE & Co. KGaA signed an agreement to acquire the assets of S.M.A. Metalltechnik GmbH & Co. KG and its subsidiaries, which will join the SFC Group as an add-on investment. The company specializes in highly impermeable aluminium pipes for automotive cooling applications and is expected to generate around EUR 160 million in revenue in 2025.

Allison Transmission announced a multi-year, over $100-million expansion of its manufacturing facility in Chennai, India, adding 200,000 square feet to double the existing footprint. The expansion will increase production capacity for on-highway fully automatic transmissions and is expected to be completed in 2025, operational in 2026, and at full capacity in 2027.

Markham District Energy has selected Copeland's Vilter-branded VQ95 single-screw ammonia heat pumps for its wastewater energy transfer facility in Markham, Ontario. The project is expected to reduce carbon emissions by over 30,000 metric tons per year.

Czech engineering group Wikov Industry has agreed to acquire Litostroj, a leading global manufacturer of turbines for hydroelectric power plants, including its subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Canada, and the United States. The transaction is expected to close at the turn of November and December 2024.

Martin Energy Group announced plans to construct a $1.7 million addition to its facility in Tipton, Missouri, to increase production capacity for generator set enclosures. The expansion could create over 200 new jobs in the next five years.

Amper has started construction of a new factory in the Morás industrial estate in Arteixo, A Coruña, with an investment of over €15 million. The factory will increase manufacturing capacity from 2 GW to 4 GW annually for power conversion equipment.

Amper, through its subsidiary Electrotécnica Industrial Naval, has signed a framework contract with EKS Energy for the manufacture and supply of power electronics equipment for energy storage from 2025 to 2027, extendable to 2030. The contract is valued at €155 million, potentially reaching €340 million with extension.

LafargeHolcim Maroc is investing more than 250 million dirhams to expand its cement plant in Settat, Morocco, aiming to increase annual production capacity to over 2 million tonnes by 2025.

DE Klop BV has acquired Rohr-Idreco, a Dutch manufacturer of fully electric dredges and dredge pumps. The acquisition aims to strengthen DE Klop's position in the international dredging and mining industries.

Esautomotion took possession of the industrial area for the new Sangalli Servomotori production plant in Villasanta, Italy. The 3,000 m2 facility will triple production capacity with robotized islands, and transfer of activities from Monza is expected by September 2025.

MKS Instruments celebrated the groundbreaking of its super center factory in Penang, Malaysia, on a 17-acre plot spanning 500,000 sq ft. The facility will create approximately 1,000 jobs, with the first phase scheduled for completion in the first half of 2026.

Terberg Kinglifter delivered nine new Kinglifter TKL-MC units to DB Schenker in Elchingen, Germany, last week.

Keppel Ltd. secured its first Cooling-as-a-Service contract in India from Nucleus Office Parks (Blackstone) to retrofit and operate the chiller plant at Exora Business Park in Bengaluru for 10 years, partnering with Daikin Airconditioning India.

RURIS Craiova, a machinery manufacturer, unveiled plans for a new investment exceeding EUR 10 million to build a factory for producing tractors and trailers in Craiova, Romania. The design project has commenced and is expected to take 12 months.

PAR Systems broke ground on a new approximately 140,000-square-foot facility adjacent to its current campus in Shoreview, Minnesota. The expansion will boost capacity by 40% and includes a Class 10,000 cleanroom and three process and development labs.

A contract worth USD 186,960 was awarded for the supply, installation, testing and commissioning of an HVAC system for the SMIDA Agro Processing Plant in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Chesterfield Special Cylinders, a subsidiary of Pressure Technologies, was awarded a £2.8 million contract by Irving Shipbuilding Inc. to supply air pressure vessels for the Royal Canadian Navy's River class destroyer programme. Initial manufacturing will start in May 2025.

Caterpillar's Qingzhou factory shipped the first 10 SEM 3090F wide-body dump trucks to Mongolia, fulfilling an order from dealer Barloworld Mongolia.

TMC Transformers USA Inc. will invest more than $15.3 million in a new dry-type transformers manufacturing facility in Waynesboro, Georgia, creating at least 110 jobs. The new plant is expected to be operational at the beginning of 2026.

BASF is expanding production capacity of Neopor at its Ludwigshafen site by 50,000 metric tons per year. The new facilities are scheduled to start up in early 2027.

Security Printing & Minting Corporation of India Limited awarded a contract to Teknxt International and Govindam Textile Company for procurement of 910,000 sheets of cotton fabric-based passport cover material (buckram) worth INR 131,167,400.

Suez Environment Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. won a tender to supply circulating water cooling tower systems and wet tower secondary circulating cooling water system equipment for the third phase of Chengdu's first municipal sludge treatment plant. The contract value is 5,956,666 yuan.

TechnoNicol SV is investing 1.75 billion rubles in modernizing its fiberglass plant in Serpukhov, Moscow region, including a new glass-melting furnace and environmental equipment. The modernization is planned for completion in Q2 2026.

Croatian company MIV plans to invest 60 million euros in a new foundry, according to SeeNews.

Conner Industries, a Texas-based protective packaging provider, is expanding its Guardian Packaging facility in Dallas by 53% to 100,000 square feet, partly to serve government and Department of Defense contracts.

APackaging Group, a beauty and cosmetics packaging maker, invested $49 million to open a new manufacturing facility in Defiance, Ohio, providing bottle blow molding, custom molding and dispenser and cap production.

A.S.L. Napoli 1 Centro awarded a €581,400 contract for self-expanding nitinol stents for intracranial stenosis to Crossmed, Medtronic Italia, and Phenox Italy. The contract was awarded on October 23, 2024, and runs until November 5, 2025.

Saab Inc. in DeWitt, New York, received a $41.7 million modification to a U.S. Navy contract to procure three AN/SPN-50(V)1 shipboard traffic radars and repair-parts kits.

Jiangsu Railteco Equipment Co commenced construction of an intelligent production base for rail transit core components in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province. The project involves a total investment of 500 million yuan ($69.04 million) and will have an annual capacity of 200,000 units.

Ascend (Aoshengde) opened its Lianyungang nylon 66 production base on October 23, 2024, with a total investment of approximately 4.2 billion RMB. The first phase produces hexamethylenediamine and specialty amines with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons.

The Grote Company family of brands, a provider of food processing equipment, acquired SPI Automation, a provider of automation and robotic solutions for food manufacturing, with locations in Sandy and Salt Lake City, Utah.

WUS Printed Circuit (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. plans to invest approximately CNY 4.3 billion in an expansion project for high-end printed circuit boards for AI chips at its site in Kunshan, Jiangsu. The project will be implemented in two phases over 8 years, with phase 1 expected by 2028 and phase 2 by 2032.

Harpak-ULMA announced a strategic U.S. and Canadian distribution agreement with Cabinplant for sales, services and support of Cabinplant's multihead fixed-weight packaging solutions.

AutomationDirect is expanding its partnership with TGW Logistics to deploy a FlashPick goods-to-person system and additional pallet-crane aisle at its Cumming, Georgia warehouse. The system is expected to go live in August 2026.

BEKO TECHNOLOGIES celebrated the completion of a new production hall in Netphen, Germany, on October 10, 2024. The facility expands capacity and features a photovoltaic system for sustainable production.

Iterum (formerly PET Baltija) opened a new PET bottle processing plant in Olaine, Latvia, with a capacity of 80,000 tons per year. The company invested over €10 million in the new factory, with total investments exceeding €35 million.

Brunvoll won an order to supply a comprehensive thruster package for three Suezmax DP2 shuttle tankers being built at Daehan Shipbuilding for Maran Tankers Management. The vessels will enter a long-term charter with Petrobras.

Milyxin announced it will acquire 97% of VOIT Automotive GmbH and 100% of Voit Polska Sp. Z o.o. through a Luxembourg SPV, expanding its automotive components business in Europe.

SLG Group started construction on a AED 200 million manufacturing, warehouse, and corporate office facility spanning 1.37 million sq.ft. at Dubai Industrial City. The facility will have an annual production capacity of 90,000 tonnes of milk powder and 10,000 tonnes of butter, and is expected to create 300 new jobs.

Shell Energy North America signed an agreement to acquire 100% equity in RISEC Holdings, which owns a 609 MW combined-cycle gas turbine power plant in Rhode Island, USA. The acquisition secures long-term supply in the ISO New England market and is expected to close in Q1 2025.

Neste and Braskem reached an agreement for the supply of renewable and recycled feedstocks for polymers and chemicals production. Braskem will use Neste RE feedstocks to produce circular and bio-circular polymer resins, expected to be available from Q4 2024, sold mainly in South America under the Wenew brand.

Glatfelter shareholders approved the merger of Berry Global's Health, Hygiene and Specialties Global Nonwovens and Films business with Glatfelter. The transaction is expected to close on November 4, 2024, with Glatfelter renaming to Magnera Corporation.

Collins Aerospace signed a 10-year contract with Air Europa to provide comprehensive maintenance, repair and overhaul services for its fleet of 787 aircraft, including onsite support for multiple systems and expansion of 787 spares in Europe.

Airtificial Group is manufacturing a 100-meter robotic assembly line for cooling systems of electric and hybrid vehicle batteries, valued at €5.2 million, for a German Tier 1 automotive supplier. The line is being built at its expanded facility in Manresa, Spain.

Airtificial signed contracts with a German Tier 1 supplier to produce intelligent assembly lines for vehicle doors, which will be used for mass production of BMW car models. The lines will be manufactured at Airtificial's plant in Mexico and delivered to Tier 1 factories in the United States.