Sensata Technologies held a groundbreaking for a new Green Certified building in Malaysia that adds 40,000 square feet, bringing total manufacturing space to nearly 275,000 square feet. The company plans to invest an additional RM510 million within five years.

Linxon, a joint venture of SNC-Lavalin and ABB, secured three orders worth $62 million from Saudi Electricity Company to expand substations in Riyadh, Makkah, Jeddah and the Eastern region, announced 10 March 2022.

Emerson announced the sale of its Therm-O-Disc business to One Rock Capital Partners as part of a shift toward a higher-growth, more diversified portfolio.

Emerson launched its new manufacturing facility in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, producing solenoid valves, filter regulators and control cabinets to serve customers in Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East and Africa region.

ABB was selected by ioneer for a significant automation engineering and equipment contract at the Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron project in Nevada, covering process automation, power management and electrical distribution. Financial terms were not disclosed.

BorgWarner has secured a contract with an unnamed major global OEM to supply high-voltage silicon carbide generator inverters for an electrified architecture that charges the main batteries. Production is slated for 2024.

Scanfil plc is adding 2,200 m² to its Wutha-Farnroda factory in Germany, raising its size by 50%. The expansion is expected to be in production use in the second quarter of 2022.

GE Power Conversion was selected by Austrian BUMA engineering to supply electrical equipment for a new descaling spray plant at thyssenkrupp Steel Europe's hot rolling mill WBW2 in Duisburg, Germany, under a contract worth about USD 3.6 million, with works running from February to August 2022.

GE Vernova's Electrification business was awarded a services contract by Edesur S.A., part of Enel Argentina, for preventive maintenance and strategic spare parts for three key substations supplying Buenos Aires. The project covers major maintenance of gas-insulated switchgear and supply of spare parts.

Honeywell Szabályozástechnikai Kft. is building a new site in the new Nagykanizsa industrial park in Hungary, developed by the state-owned NIPÜF. Groundbreaking is expected in early 2022 and construction is due to finish by year end.

Emerson announced an agreement to acquire Intelligent Platforms, a division of General Electric, adding programmable logic controller technologies. The announcement was made on November 13, 2018.

Linxon won an order from Samsung C&T to engineer, procure and construct a 380 kV GIS substation connecting the Tanajib cogeneration and desalination plant to the Saudi grid, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. The plant serves Aramco facilities. The announcement is dated December 8, 2021.

Siemens Energy is investing over €60 million to add a 6,200 m² vacuum interrupter manufacturing facility at its Berlin switchgear plant, scheduled to start operations in 2023. The vacuum interrupters form the core of its SF6-free Blue Portfolio.

BMT held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new plant in Gijang-gun, Busan, with construction investment of about KRW 34 billion and annual production capacity rising from KRW 150 billion to KRW 300 billion. Completion is planned for March 2023.

Air Hydro Power Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky acquired the assets of Gatterdam Industrial Services, a provider of electrical motor, monitoring and fluidic pump repair and field services, effective November 15, 2021. The acquisition adds twenty employees.

Controls technology company SJE Inc. has purchased L. W. Allen LLC and its Altronex brand, which supply pumps and control systems for municipal water and wastewater in Madison, Wisconsin. The announcement is dated November 18, 2021, and no value was disclosed.

BorgWarner secured a contract with an unnamed major global OEM to supply high voltage silicon carbide inverters for battery electric passenger cars and trucks, its first such win in North America. Launch of the inverter is slated for 2024.

BorgWarner broke ground on a 17,000 m² plant in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, investing €100 million to produce electric motors, inverters and battery management systems, with production starting in Q3 2022 and about 300 jobs.

A Hitachi ABB Power Grids-led consortium with Saudi Services for Electro Mechanic Works and Orascom Construction was awarded a contract worth several hundred million US dollars by Saudi Electricity Company and Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company for a 3,000 MW HVDC interconnection.

An Alstom-led consortium with Taiwan's CTCI was awarded a contract by Taipei City's SEMPO to deliver the integrated system for Taipei Circular Line Phase Two, valued at about €720 million, with Alstom's share over €430 million.

Siemens Energy received a contract from Aker Solutions to supply electrical transmission, distribution and power management systems for Equinor's Troll West project in the North Sea, which will power Troll B and C from shore via a 150 MW subsea cable. Equinor estimates annual emissions cuts of about 500,000 tonnes.

Weidmuller acquired the team and assets of Emphatec Inc., extending its portfolio to PLC migration and Class 1 Division 2 solutions.

ABB won contracts worth $120 million from Chevron and Aker Solutions to supply the electrical power system for the Jansz-Io Compression project offshore Western Australia, expected to be operational in 2025.

ABB has won an order worth about $120 million to supply the electrical power system for Chevron's Jansz-Io Compression project offshore Australia, under contracts with Chevron Australia and Aker Solutions.

Ziehl-Abegg is investing 36 million euros in a new production facility at its Kupferzell site in Baden-Württemberg, with 16 million for buildings and 20 million for machinery, and plans 180 additional jobs.

Detroit Lakes-based controls company SJE Inc. bought L. W. Allen LLC, a Madison, Wisconsin supplier of wastewater pumps, pump stations and Altronex control systems. L. W. Allen has about 45 employees.

Nidec Global Appliance will invest $83 million in its Mexican plants, including $33 million for a compressor line in Apodaca, Nuevo León, and further investments in rolling mill, HVAC motor and appliance motor operations. The investments aim to add production lines and raise capacity for the North American market.

Swiss maintenance firms IASA Instandhaltungstechnik AG of Frauenfeld and Robert Hunziker AG of St. Gallen will cooperate closely, both led by owner Thomas Schnyder, offering combined pump, valve and electric motor services.

Prysmian Group was awarded a contract by Petrobras to supply 350 km of deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals, worth about EUR 92 million. Production and delivery will run from 2022 to 2025 at its Vila Velha center in Brazil.

Mimir Group agreed to acquire Wärtsilä Euroatlas GmbH from Wärtsilä Corporation. Euroatlas, based in Bremen, makes power conversion systems for naval, aviation and mobile land applications; closing is expected in Q3 2021.

Kalamazoo-based electric motor and performance systems company HECO acquired Kentucky Service Co. of Lexington, a service provider for electric motors, pumps and rotating equipment. HECO announced the deal in a May 4 press release.

ABB has secured a contract from rail vehicle maker Stadler to supply traction converters and lithium-ion energy storage systems for 55 new NAH.SH bi-mode electric multiple units in northern Germany. The order also covers traction converters for more than 600 new BVG underground cars in Berlin.

Wärtsilä has won a contract to supply an engineered equipment delivery of a 40 MW / 80 MWh DC-coupled solar-plus-storage system for the Hickory Park Solar project in Georgia, owned by RWE Renewables.

Fibox is investing more than EUR 3 million to enlarge its Lempaala, Finland plant and add equipment and automation, with injection molding capacity set to more than double and full completion in two years starting October 2021.

PG Electroplast announced a Rs 100 crore investment over two years to expand its Ahmednagar plant in Maharashtra, creating over 600 local jobs and lifting AC indoor unit capacity to over 1.5 million and outdoor unit capacity to over 1 million.

Gamesa Electric won a contract to supply two 4.5 MW synchronous hydro generators for the 9 MW Fennefoss hydropower plant in Adger county, Norway, which began construction in September 2020 and is due to start operating in 2023.

Northvolt announced a new highly automated battery module and energy storage systems plant with an R&D centre in Gdańsk, Poland, with investment of nearly USD 200 million and up to 500 jobs. Production is to start in 2022.

BorgWarner and AKASOL signed a Business Combination Agreement on 15 February 2021 for a strategic partnership. BorgWarner's subsidiary will launch a voluntary public takeover offer of EUR 120.00 per share, a 23.4% premium, with founders holding 59.4% of shares committed to tender.

Framatome signed a contract to upgrade the control element drive control system for both units of Exelon's Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Maryland, USA. The scope includes design, installation, testing, cybersecurity solutions and training simulator upgrades.

ANDRITZ received an order from Mississagi Power Trust, a subsidiary of Evolugen by Brookfield Renewable, for major rehabilitation of the G1 turbine and generator and electrical balance of plant at Red Rock Falls Generation Station in Ontario. Work starts June 2022 with final commissioning expected in April 2023.

Automation technology maker B&R is expanding production capacity at its Eggelsberg and Gilgenberg sites in Austria, creating 100 new jobs in production and warehousing. The company cites strong order growth and an expanded Automation Campus of 35,000 m² in Eggelsberg.

Honeywell was awarded a contract by Sepco Electric Power Construction to supply connected control, telecom, safety and security systems for the King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries and Services in Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia. The complex is being developed by Aramco.

Tabet Manufacturing Company will invest $6.5 million to build a new manufacturing facility adjacent to its Norfolk, Virginia plant, expected to create 68 jobs and increase production capacity.

Indian Railways awarded Medha Servo Drives a ₹2,211.64 crore contract to design, supply, integrate, test and commission propulsion and control equipment for 44 Vande Bharat-type rakes, including a five-year maintenance contract. The coaches will be built at three Indian Railways factories.

Alstom won a contract worth €106 million from NCRTC to design, supply and install the signalling, train control and telecommunication system for the 82.15 km Delhi–Ghaziabad–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System corridor, announced January 20, 2021.

Nuremberg-based Gossen Metrawatt acquired WPT and all its subsidiaries, and WPT was renamed Global Power Technology (GPT).

Electrotek's parent company World Power Technologies (WPT) acquired Dranetz Technologies and Daytronic Corporation, and BMI and Dranetz merged to form Dranetz-BMI.

Iljin Power disclosed a single sales and supply contract worth KRW 32.52 billion with Incheon International Airport Corporation, for supply within South Korea, signed on 11 December 2020.

Marelli is opening a production facility for electric drivetrains in Cologne, Germany, on 18,000 square metres, with production slated to start in the first half of 2021 and about 160 employees.

Kontron is expanding its Boisbriand product development and North American production centre in Quebec, creating 29 full-time jobs over the next three years.