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.

The UK Environment Agency awarded Selwood a place on a new six-year framework to supply static, towable and electric submersible pumps. The initial three-year contract starts in June with a three-year extension option.

IDEX Corporation announced the acquisition of the intellectual property assets of Phantom Controls, a St. Louis fire-pump control company, which will operate within IDEX Fire & Safety. The deal was announced on June 28, 2018.

Wanner International has improved its Hydra-Cell P400 metering pumps for chemical processing, reducing diaphragm pocket size and valve port holes to improve priming and gas handling. The pump offers 766 l/hr flow capacity and up to 69 bar pressure.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation received a contract worth over $28 million from Bechtel Plant Machinery to supply submarine propulsion plant valves and spares for the U.S. Navy's Virginia-class submarines. Work is performed at its East Farmingdale, New York facility and runs through 2022.

Free economic zone resident OJSC Novogrudok Gas Equipment Plant (NZGA) is adding a cylinder valve with a safety valve to its range. It bought new Spanish digitally controlled hot forging equipment to make the parts.

Copper State Fluid Power opened a new Tucson, Arizona facility offering sales and repair of hydraulic and pneumatic equipment and parts, with planned e-commerce parts sales.

Ampo Foundry collaborated with a leading screw pump manufacturer on complex stainless steel castings for a new sealed twin screw pump for chemical and petrochemical sectors, launched at ACHEMA. The castings are produced at its new automated ceramic moulding facility with capacity of up to 240 tonnes per month.

Kerotest Manufacturing proposed a $4.3 million expansion of its Mansura valve plant, adding a 30,000 sq ft building and about 50 permanent jobs, with new equipment purchases of over $2.8 million.

Israeli valve maker Hamlet announced the acquisition of South Korean company S&S Valve for up to $6 million, entering flow-control valve management for gas, oil and petrochemical applications. S&S Valve had 2017 sales of about $30 million.

Danfoss inaugurated its flagship district heating facility in Anshan, Liaoning Province, China, with an investment of 170 million RMB. The plant produces control valves, stations and heat exchangers and expands the Anshan campus fivefold.

Rotork received major contracts to supply electric and pneumatic valve actuators and gearboxes for the new Hengli Petrochemical refinery and petrochemicals complex on Changxing Island in Dalian. The order includes about 2,000 explosion proof electric actuators.

SAMSON Aktiengesellschaft acquired Israeli start-up Visual Process Ltd, adding the predictive monitoring tool SAM GUARD to its SAM DIGITAL portfolio; the transaction value is confidential.

Sogefi has contracted with Volvo Cars to supply engine coolant pumps for several future hybrid models, including XC40, S60, V60, XC90 and S90. The contract will generate an additional EUR10 million in annual sales, with production starting at Sogefi's plant in Wujiang, China in 2019.

ATI supplied linear valve actuators and Volk Flow Controls supplied gate valves for the 475MW Kings Mountain Energy Centre, a gas-fired combined-cycle plant being built by NTE Energy in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, with commissioning expected by Q4 2018.

Rotork was awarded a contract by Coffey Water to supply CKc electric actuators for inlet penstocks at the Kilkit Water Treatment Plant in County Monaghan, part of a €4.5 million upgrade.

Aker BP, on behalf of the Wellhead Platform Alliance, awarded PG Flow Solutions a contract to supply pump systems for the Valhall Flank West wellhead platform in the North Sea. First oil is expected in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Metran, an Emerson-owned industrial group, will build a second production phase at its Chelyabinsk complex, adding about 20,000 square meters to reach roughly 50,000 square meters. Completion is expected by the end of 2020; the investment amount was not disclosed.

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.

RWC has acquired John Guest Holdings Ltd, a UK maker of plastic push-to-connect fittings and pipe with three UK manufacturing facilities. The deal was announced on 4 June 2018 and no value was stated.

BORSIG has taken over the product business of artec Armaturen und Industrieservice GmbH, adding ball valves and steam coolers to its valves business. The deal takes immediate effect.

Italian pump maker Annovi Reverberi Group announced on June 15, 2018 that it acquired a 95% stake in Ace Pump Corp., a Memphis, Tennessee manufacturer of agricultural and off-highway pumps. CEO Andy Randle keeps the remaining 5%.

Bucher Hydraulics agreed to acquire an 80% stake in Wuxi Deli Fluid Technology, a Chinese hydraulic pump and compact power unit maker, forming a joint venture in Wuxi, Jiangsu. The deal is subject to Chinese government approval.

Nikkiso subsidiary Lewa GmbH is taking over global sales of Nikkiso Non-Seal canned motor pumps.

Dongfeng Parts and Components Group and Fawer Automotive Parts agreed on 31 May 2018 in Wuhan to set up Dongfeng Fawer Pump Industry, a joint venture in Shiyan New Industrial Park, Hubei, to make pumps for commercial, passenger and electric vehicles. The venture targets RMB 260 million revenue by 2023.

Aker BP, on behalf of the Wellhead Platform Alliance, awarded PG Flow Solutions a contract to supply pump systems for the Valhall Flank West wellhead platform in the North Sea. The contract value was not disclosed; the article is dated May 31, 2018.

Unibloc-Pump Inc. of Marietta, Georgia has acquired German manufacturer R&H GmbH, creating a combined European market leader in road tanker pumps. The deal was announced on May 30, 2018.

Crane Company entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. pump business from First Reserve-Backed Trillium Flow Technologies for approximately $240 million. The business serves municipal water and wastewater markets with brands including Floway, Wemco, Roto-Jet and WSP.

Wilo is exploring the possibility of building a new pump plant in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. No investment amount or timeline has been announced yet.

Ingersoll Rand agreed to acquire Hydro Prokav Pumps (India), a pump maker, as part of three acquisitions totaling about $35 million in cash. The deal adds progressive cavity pump market penetration.

Ingersoll Rand completed its all-cash acquisition of the assets of Tuthill Corporation's Pump Group for $85 million. The Pump Group joins Ingersoll Rand's Precision and Science Technologies segment.

Chart Industries and Flowserve have finalized their $19 billion merger of equals, combining Chart's cryogenic technologies with Flowserve's flow control systems. The deal closed in February 2026 and is expected to yield $300 million in annual cost synergies.

German waste water pump maker HOMA Pumpenfabrik GmbH and the Ekki Group formed a joint venture, Ekki Homa Private Limited, to manufacture pumps in India starting in 2020. HOMA plans to spend ₹150 crore on global expansion, including this JV.

MOGAS Industries received four orders from Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Company to supply more than 300 severe service isolation valves for a hydrocracking unit in Ningbo, China.

PJ Valves won contracts worth $3.5 million in total to supply ball, gate, globe and check valves for two unnamed FPSO projects, one off Malaysia and one in the UK North Sea.

SMC Corporation of America plans to break ground in summer 2018 on a 1.0 million square-foot warehouse at its North American headquarters in Noblesville, Indiana, estimated at $67.8 million. The project is projected to add 92 jobs within five years.

Crane ChemPharma & Energy celebrated the inauguration of its newest location, an aseptic diaphragm valve factory in India. The announcement was made on May 22, 2018.

Sensata Technologies agreed to sell its valves business, which makes tire valves and mechanical valves, to Pacific Industrial Co. for a total enterprise value of about $173 million. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018.

LOT Vacuum disclosed a single supply contract worth KRW 4.09 billion with Samsung Electronics for plasma pretreatment systems and dry vacuum pumps used in semiconductor processing. The contract was signed on 2018-05-18 and delivered to Pyeongtaek and Giheung in Gyeonggi.

Harbin Electric's valve company won the bid to supply domestically produced molten-salt safety valves and other pipeline valves for the Delingha concentrated solar power station in Qinghai. The award was announced on 2018-05-21.

Allied Valve, Inc. announced a merger with St. Louis-based Automation Service, a remanufacturer of Fisher control valves and Rosemount and Foxboro instrumentation. The merged companies are owned by a new entity, Ovation Holdings, effective May 11, 2018.

Leser spent a total of €22 million on its Leser-Kontor facility in Hamburg, Germany. The investment was made in the year before the article.

Leser extended its production facility in Hohenwestedt, Germany, at a cost of €7.3 million. The investment was made in the year before the article.

German safety valve maker Leser established a production and sales facility in Tianjin, China, at a cost of €6 million. The investment was made in the year before the article.

IMI Z&J Houston won a contract worth USD 1.5 million to supply IMI Remosa triple eccentric butterfly valves for the FCC unit at a refinery in Oklahoma, USA. The valves were developed with IMI Orton to reduce gas leakage.