Weir integrated manufacturing of its Delta Industrial valves at its St. Louis, Missouri facility, which previously made Lewis pumps and valves. The site added shifts, hired staff and expanded manufacturing space by 5,000 sq ft.

Legend Valve is completing a nearly $4 million expansion of its headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Russian industrial group Metran, part of Emerson, has started production of ASCO solenoid valves series 327 and filter-regulators series 342 in Russia, its first ASCO production there. The products are rated for oil, gas, petrochemical and fertilizer industries.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi inaugurated the first of three new units at the Tarbela hydropower plant on 2018-03-10. Voith supplies the electromechanical equipment, valued at around EUR 200 million, for the fourth expansion for WAPDA, which raises output to 4,888 MW.

Gusar valve plant in Gus-Khrustalny, Vladimir region, is launching a new foundry to start serial production of pipeline valves for Russia's fuel and energy sector in late February 2018. The investment is about 1.7 billion rubles, capacity 7-8 thousand tonnes of steel per year, and 400 jobs will be created.

Herz, part of the Austrian Herz group, has started building a new production facility at Šmartno pri Litiji, Slovenia, where it makes valves and fittings. The EUR 4 million investment will create 100 jobs and raise production capacity by 50 percent.

HEROSE has started operating three new CNC lathes at its Bad Oldesloe site, two replacing outdated machines, to expand prefabrication capacity and reduce delivery bottlenecks.

Total Valve Systems added a new location in Perryton, Texas, extending its services and sales into the western U.S., announced October 5, 2017.

Pump maker Lewa has completed two new production halls, totalling about 3,000 square meters, at its Leonberg headquarters, investing over EUR 25 million, mainly for final assembly of large pumps and systems.

A new production line for import-substituting anti-surge valves, control valves and electric drives for Gazprom was launched at the Tomsk Electromechanical Plant on September 5, 2017. Gazprom invested 1.2 billion roubles in the project.

Danfoss plans to invest US$3.3 million more in its Caxias do Sul plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, before the end of 2018, to nationalize pumps and motors and raise local content.

Emerson enlarged the cleanroom at its Ölbronn-Dürrn plant in Germany, where miniaturized ASCO valves are produced for analytical and medical applications. The new cleanroom covers 720 square meters and is part of the expansion of the Analytical & Medical centre of excellence in Stuttgart.

Tomsk Electromechanical Plant (TEMZ) is completing a new production line for import-substituting anti-surge valves for Gazprom, with series output expected to start in September 2017 in Tomsk. Gazprom is investing 1.5 billion rubles in the project.

Emerson Automation Solutions inaugurated a new production building in Ölbronn-Dürrn, Baden-Württemberg, its center of excellence for miniature valves for analytical and medical technology and industrial proportional valves. The building has a 720 square meter cleanroom and about 100 employees work there.

Emerson officially opened an expanded factory in Łódź, Poland, nearly doubling its production area to 13,500 square metres and making it Emerson's largest ASCO valve plant in Europe. The investment cost over 20 million PLN.

Stern Rubber Company completed a 10,000-square-foot building addition at its Aitkin, Minnesota plant, doubling its size and moving 14-inch to 24-inch gate valve production from its Staples facility. Hammers Construction of Perham built the addition.

Emerson's ASCO will invest USD 8 million to expand its Aiken, South Carolina plant, creating about 86 new positions as it consolidates regional cylinder, motion control and accessory product lines there.

Emerson Electric is expanding its Aiken County operations with an $8 million investment that will create 86 new jobs.

Emerson is expanding its ASCO operations in Aiken, South Carolina, with more than $8 million of capital investment and 86 new jobs. The site will consolidate regional cylinder, motion control and accessory product lines.

Hytorc, rebranding its HydroWer hydraulic pump business as Hytorc Technologies, is moving into a new and larger facility in Sprockhovel, Germany to bring all departments together and increase output.

LEWA GmbH put a newly designed process pump test room into operation at the start of 2017, replacing its outdated, fully refurbished test facility.

EnviroSep, a maker of modular chiller, boiler and pump packages, is expanding its existing Georgetown County operations with at least a $5.2 million investment expected to create 100 new jobs over five years.

Banner Industries built a new cleanroom at its Hillsboro, Oregon facility to become an authorized Signature Service Provider for Trebor high-purity pump repair and rebuild, starting with West Coast customers.

Fort Vale Engineering is adding a new casting foundry and a sports and recreation centre at its Calder Vale Park site in Burnley, jointly valued at £5.7 million. The projects mark the company's 50 years of service in 2017.

MAT Holding will invest 3 million euros in its Israeli subsidiary Dorot to raise production capacity by 30%, modernising the plant, expanding finished-goods storage by over 50% and upgrading the test bench.

Legend Valve and Fitting has applied to build a 59,826 square foot warehouse addition at its facility at 300 N. Opdyke Road in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The total investment is estimated at $3.5 million, with construction planned from June to October 2017.