Amarinth has won orders worth US$750,000 for API 610 OH2 pumps with Plan 53B support systems for the Coral South FLNG development in Mozambique's Area 4 operated by Eni.

Plaintree Systems Inc. signed an agreement to purchase all share capital of Spotton Corporation, a maker of custom hydraulic and pneumatic valves and cylinders in Arnprior, Ontario. The consideration is nominal, and Spotton owes Plaintree CAD 1.7 million.

German pump maker WILO SE launched a plant in the Ili district of the Almaty region, Kazakhstan, creating over 50 permanent jobs. The plant is planned to produce 570 units per year, with an official opening ceremony scheduled the following week.

Chinese household appliance pump maker Idear-Hanyu Electrical plans to buy 100% of Thai component maker Seil Controls from three South Korean shareholders for cash, according to a statement on August 15, 2018. Due diligence is to be completed within 45 days, with 80% of the price paid upon completion.

Pfingsten Partners acquired Quality Valve, Inc., a Mobile, Alabama distributor of OEM replacement parts for safety and relief valves, alongside founder Raymond McCaffrey III, who retained equity. The deal closed on July 27, 2018; no value was disclosed.

Velan's subsidiary Velan ABV will supply over 1,500 API 6D and API 6A valves to MODEC for the MV30 Carioca FPSO deployed at the Sépia field offshore Brazil, worth USD 18 million.

Shanggao Valve Group held a groundbreaking ceremony on August 12 for its Haining base, a 12,000-tonne-per-year control valve EPC project in the Shanghai Caohejing development zone, to be built over three years.

Through an IDC-funded initiative, valve makers Ainsworth Engineering and United Valve Company will be upgraded to Level 1 B-BBEE status under new ownership, with new machines to be bought over 12 months.

Samsung Engineering approached AMPO POYAM Valves to design and manufacture more than 4,000 gate and globe valves for PTT Global Chemical's olefins reconfiguration plant in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand. The plant is expected to start operations in early 2021, with an investment of 820 million.

Samson Ringo completed the supply of 24 pneumatic high-pressure globe control valves for the heavy residue hydrocracking complex of Mozyr Refinery in Belarus. The contract covered design, manufacturing and supply for severe service conditions.

Xi'an Pump & Valve Plant completed and delivered a large-diameter high-pressure valve to Shandong Union Chemical, with a largest caliber of DN800. The delivery was reported on August 9, 2018.

ONCAP announced it has acquired Precision Global, a Greenville, South Carolina manufacturer of dispensing solutions with 18 facilities. ONCAP IV invested approximately $111 million, terms otherwise undisclosed.

NIBCO plans to invest $14 million to update and expand its Stuarts Draft plant in Augusta County, Virginia, adding new equipment and 30 jobs.

Pibiviesse, a CIRCOR group company, designed and manufactured more than 2,400 actuated valves in 36 months for the engineering joint venture building the world's largest LNG trains. Valve sizes ranged from two to 42 inches.

Bedford Pumps Ltd won the third and final order to supply pumps for Severn Trent Water's Birmingham Resilience project, a £300 million scheme. The £1.2 million contract covers fifteen pumps for a new pumping station at Lickhill near Stourport.

Rotork received major contracts to supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators and gearboxes, including about 2,000 explosionproof units, to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery for its Changxing Island complex in Dalian.

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.

Pump and valve maker KSB plans to concentrate its industrial activities at its existing Jundiaí unit in Brazil, with the plan expected to be realised by 2021. Investment details have not been disclosed.

Samsung Engineering selected Ampo Poyam Valves to supply more than 4,000 gate and globe valves for PTT Global Chemical's olefins reconfiguration project in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand. The project is valued at up to $820 million and expected to start in early 2021.

Rosenberg WorleyParsons awarded Calder Ltd, a PG Flow Solutions subsidiary, a contract to supply a MEG pump package for the Nova tie-back to the Gjøa platform in the North Sea. Delivery to Stavanger is planned for Q1 2019.

Emerson has completed its purchase of Aventics, a Germany-based pneumatics and fluid control technology maker with about 2,100 employees and five manufacturing locations, expanding its automation presence in Europe.

Amarinth delivered six API 610 OH2 super duplex pumps worth $500,000 to Schlumberger for a process water treatment package at the Dunga oil field in Kazakhstan, operated by Maersk Oil. The order had a 26-week delivery deadline.

Mechanical seal specialist John Crane completed its purchase of Seebach GmbH, a German provider of mechanical seals.

Pool pump and filter maker Hayward Industries bought ConnectedYard Inc., a California company behind the pHin Smart Water Care monitoring solution for pool and hot tub water chemistry.

KSB Group bought Dubric Industries Inc., a pump servicing and sales company in Comstock Park, Michigan, renaming it KSB Dubric Inc. The deal extends KSB's service network in the US Midwest.

Rotork was selected by Horizon Tangiers Terminals S.A. to supply IQ3 intelligent electric valve actuators and Pakscan digital control networks for automation of their terminal in Morocco. Rotork supplied over 100 actuators and will retrofit existing valves.

Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems announced that Swiss engineering company NSB Gas Processing is now part of the Busch group and has been renamed Busch NSB AG. The deal adds liquid ring vacuum pumps and compressor systems for oil and gas and chemical customers.

The City of Gothenburg's water and recycling department awarded Dahl Sverige Aktiebolag a framework agreement for sluice valves DN 65-300 mm for 2018-2020, with a contracted value of 16,000,000 SEK.

Dearing Compressor & Pump Co. completed its acquisition of Pittsburgh-based Kruman Equipment Co., which had been founded in 1936; the Krumans sold the business when they retired.

Volter (Guangzhou) Fluid Equipment Co. has approved plans to set up an injection molding workshop at its Guangzhou industrial park, adding three injection machines. Preparation is planned to take 90 days.

Cortec LLC will invest $2.5 million to expand its industrial coatings facility in Port Allen, Louisiana, adding four direct jobs and retaining 42 existing jobs. The expansion is expected to be operational by the second quarter of 2019.

Crane inaugurated a new aseptic valve factory for Crane Saunders Aseptic Valves in Satara, India, featuring 5-axis CNC machining centres and new inspection equipment. The ceremony was attended by over 300 industry professionals, customers and distributors.

Boyne Capital, a Florida private equity firm, partnered with management to acquire A.S.A.P. Industries Manufacturing, a Houma, Louisiana maker of high-pressure flow control products for the oil and gas industry. Terms were not disclosed.

Coster Group will end operations at its Stevenage, UK plant by September 30, with activity transferred to Barlborough and some product lines moved to Zwolle, Netherlands. Staff were offered relocation to Barlborough.

Coster Group is expanding its Barlborough, UK valve production site by 4,000 square meters to a total of 8,500 square meters, adding an injection moulding department and an assembly department. Production from the Stevenage plant will move to Barlborough and Zwolle, with Stevenage ceasing operations by September 30.

Rotork received major contracts to supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators and gearboxes to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery for its new refinery and petrochemicals complex at Changxing Island in Dalian, China. The latest order includes about 2,000 explosionproof electric actuators.

Conval moved all operations into a new 72,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing center in Enfield, Connecticut, with 40% more capacity than its former three-building Somers campus.

Noreva GmbH, a nozzle check valve maker, had the Dutch firm Ventil install one of the largest test presses in the world, with the assembly hall extended by about 300 m2 to speed deliveries.

Rotork received major contracts to supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators and gearboxes to Hengli Petrochemical Refinery for its new refinery and petrochemicals complex on Changxing Island, Dalian, China. The contract includes approximately 2,000 explosionproof electric actuators.

Franklin Electric acquired Industrias Rotor Pump S.A., a Buenos Aires importer and maker of water pumping equipment that had about $21 million in sales in fiscal 2017. Results will be reported in the Water Systems segment from Q3 2018.

Austrian company Hawle committed to further localising production in Chaplygin, Lipetsk Oblast, and to launching new products for the Russian market. About 200 million rubles is planned for production, sales and operations in 2019.

AMPO POYAM Valves was approached by Cheniere and Bechtel to design and manufacture more than 1,750 cryogenic and non-cryogenic valves for Train 3 at the Corpus Christi LNG liquefaction project in the US. Train 3 is expected to be commissioned in 2020.

KNF held the groundbreaking for an expansion of its Freiburg-Munzingen headquarters costing more than 5 million euros, due for completion by autumn 2019. Production area grows from 4,000 to 5,000 square metres and staff rise from 220 to about 300.

A.Y. McDonald Manufacturing broke ground on an $8 million expansion that will double its Elizabethton, Tennessee operation and create 36 new jobs. The company already employs 144 full-time workers there.

United Rentals agreed to acquire BakerCorp, a provider of tank, pump, filtration and trench shoring rentals, for approximately $715 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018.

Aveng ACS, an Emerson Local Business Partner, concluded an agreement with Emerson to supply and service Pentair Valves & Controls brands such as Anderson Greenwood, Keystone and Crosby in Southern Africa. The announcement was made on 2 July 2018.

Italian valve maker Fratelli Pettinaroli has acquired the remaining stake in Michigan-based Jomar Group, finalized in summer 2018 after a 50% stake was bought in 2001. Jomar will continue under its president and management team.

Velan won contracts to supply API 6D and API 6A valves to MODEC Offshore Production Systems for the MV30 Carioca FPSO deployed at the Sépia field in Brazil's Santos Basin, with delivery scheduled by early 2019. The order is valued at $18 million.

KAIE, part of Ebrahim K Kanoo, has launched a Fluid Control Solutions business offering pumps, valves, chemical dosing systems and steam products in Bahrain, through partnerships with global brands.

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.