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.

LOT Vacuum signed a single supply contract with Samsung Electronics worth KRW 3.73 billion for dry vacuum pumps used in semiconductor processes, for sites in Pyeongtaek and Giheung-gu, Yongin. The contract equals 1.9% of LOT Vacuum's recent sales.

Frigel announced a 50:50 joint venture with Matsui Technologies India Limited, called Frigel Intelligent Cooling Systems India Private Ltd., to manufacture cooling systems in Noida, India.

Frigel Firenze SpA acquired Green Box Srl, a maker of process-cooling equipment, in a deal announced at NPE2018. Green Box's 4,000-m² factory in Padua will be retained.

Aero Fluid Products will add 30,000 square feet to its facility at 313 Gillett Street in Painesville, Ohio, creating 40 full-time jobs and investing an estimated $3 million to $4 million; the lower figure is shown.

SMC is investing an estimated USD 67.8 million in a new warehouse adjacent to its North American headquarters in Noblesville, Indiana, increasing warehouse space by 30% and production capacity and adding 92 jobs over five years.

The Australian Department of Defence awarded Frontline Australasia a contract to supply non-return valves, valued at $16,030.87. The award was made on 4 May 2018.

On 1 May 2018 the Belgian and Dutch subsidiaries of Egger Pumps merged into Egger Turo Pumps Belgium, and the Dutch branch disappeared with its activities taken over by the Belgian company.

SunSource Holdings completed its acquisition of Ryan Herco Flow Solutions, a US distributor of flow solutions, from Greenbriar Equity Group. Terms were not disclosed.

Sulzer India was contracted by GE Power India Limited to supply 21 barrel-type boiler feed pump sets, as announced by Sulzer AG on April 24, 2018.

Wipro Infrastructure Engineering has set up a new aerospace and defence facility in the Aerospace SEZ in Bangalore to manufacture precision hydraulic components such as actuators and valve blocks.

Crane ChemPharma & Energy, a business of Crane Co., inaugurated a new factory in Satara, India, dedicated to Saunders HC4 aseptic diaphragm valves and actuators. A customer event is planned for 10 May 2018.

Weir Group agreed to acquire US surface mining parts maker ESCO Corporation in a cash and share deal valued at US$1,285 million, announced on 19 April 2018. The transaction is expected to complete early in Q3 2018.

The Australian Department of Defence awarded Babcock Pty Ltd a contract to supply safety relief valves, valued at about 14,090 AUD, in Western Australia. The award date was 18 April 2018.

Chinese valve maker Geonhwa Valve signed an MOU with Chungnam province and Boryeong city to invest 10 million dollars in expanding its cast iron pipe valve factory in the KXD industrial complex by year-end, creating 50 jobs.

Sibenergoresurs group launched production of high-pressure plunger pumps for mining and metallurgy in Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo region, with a 160 million ruble investment, using technology from Hauhinko.

ELOT Vacuum signed a supply contract with SK Hynix for dry vacuum pumps used in semiconductor processes, worth KRW 2,384.41 million, about 1.2% of its 2017 revenue, with a term to July 2, 2018.

Jebsen-TCG Automotive Systems (Dalian) opened a 5,000 square metre plant in Dalian with an investment of RMB 30 million, raising oil and water pump capacity to 4 million units a year and adding electric water pumps.

Germany's HOMA Pumpenfabrik GmbH and India's EKKI Pumps signed an agreement to set up a wastewater-focused joint venture pump company in India, including a new manufacturing facility.

Zhejiang Huizheng Automatic Control Valve signed a project with a total investment of 120 million yuan to build an automatic control valve production line in the Chengxi port area of the development zone, targeting 50,000 sets a year. The signing took place on 13 April 2018.

Emerson installed a new production line at its ASCOVAL plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to assemble TopWorx valve controllers for South American customers, shortening delivery times.

Flomatic Corp. is investing $3.3 million to add production, research and training space at its valve manufacturing plant in Glens Falls, New York, which will add jobs and speed up production.

Matholding Group acquired a 51 percent stake in OCV Control Valves LLC, a Tulsa, Oklahoma valve maker, to expand its hydraulic control and process valve portfolio.

NIBCO, the Elkhart, Indiana valve and fittings maker, is in the midst of a $100 million capital investment in its facilities over four years. Four facilities, including Blytheville, Arkansas, are undergoing expansions totaling 350,000 square feet.

Lixin Valve Group was named first candidate in the valve procurement tender for the ethylene and dichloroethane pipeline project of Cangzhou Julong Chemical, with a bid of 690,395 yuan. The public notice was published on April 12, 2018.

Suzhou Neway Valve Co. started a forging project with a total investment of 1 billion yuan in the Green Casting Technology Industrial Park in Zhuchi Town, Liyang. The first phase targets an annual capacity of 50,000 tons.

GasFlo Products relocated to a new manufacturing facility in Fairfield, New Jersey in March 2006, with expanded production and assembly capacity and an in-house R&D wing. The move brought some previously outsourced processes in-house.

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.