Serviços Intermunicipalizados de Água e Saneamento dos Municípios de Oeiras e Amadora awarded Bombas Grundfos Portugal a direct-award contract worth EUR 29,588, signed on 2017-11-30 and published 2017-12-14.

HEROSE has started operating three new CNC lathes at its Bad Oldesloe site, two replacing outdated machines, to expand prefabrication capacity and reduce delivery bottlenecks.

HEROSE has acquired a majority shareholding of 51% in Australian valve manufacturer Mack Valves, which has plants in Melbourne and Pune, India.

Sofis will supply 4,500 valve interlocks, mainly for pressure safety valves and pig traps, to an EPC contractor delivering the first phase of a Kuwait Oil Company heavy oil development programme.

Sichuan Feiqiu Group signed an investment agreement with the Zigong High-tech Zone Management Committee to build a valve R&D, manufacturing, testing and sales base in the Banchang industrial park. The total planned investment is 320 million yuan, with the first phase at about 240 million yuan and a one-year construction period.

Advik Hi-Tech won six orders from Magna Powertrain to supply transmission oil pumps for passenger cars and SUVs, estimated to generate about Rs 350 crore (US$51 million) in sales over their lifetime, starting in 2018.

Flowserve signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trillium Flow Technologies' Valves Division, a provider of mission-critical valves for nuclear and power generation, for $490 million in cash. The deal is expected to close mid-year 2026.

Rotork is supplying several hundred pneumatic actuators, including 9-tonne GP-350 spring-return units, plus control panels for the Freeport LNG liquefaction project in Texas. The project is a joint venture of CB&I, Zachry Group and Chiyoda International.

Velan France, a subsidiary of Velan Inc., won contracts to supply nuclear-class valves to several Chinese nuclear engineering firms worth about US$36 million. Deliveries are scheduled for 2018 and 2019 for reactors at Fangchengang, Tianwan, Rongsheng, Sanmen, Haiyang and Lufeng.

IMI Precision Engineering held a ground-breaking in Noida near New Delhi for a INR 200 million (about $3.1 million) facility of 67,000 sq ft that will raise production capacity for the Indian market.

Ampo Poyam Valves designed and manufactured high-pressure actuated gate valves up to 36 inches and 900 pounds for a 5500 MTPD methanol unit. The customer was not named in the article.

Sulzer completed the acquisition of US-based JWC Environmental, a supplier of grinding, screening and dissolved air flotation systems for wastewater treatment, and placed it in its pump division. The deal was reported in 2018.

Circor International completed its acquisition of Colfax Corp's Fluid Handling business, a valve and pump manufacturing unit, as reported on December 1, 2017.

Svoboda Capital Partners sold industrial distributor Blake & Pendleton to Five Points Capital and the senior management team. Svoboda had acquired the company in June 2013 from KLH Capital.

Ringo Válvulas finished manufacturing more than 500 manual, motor-operated and pneumatic valves for Baltic Shipyard's nuclear icebreaker construction. The scope includes bellow-sealed globe and stop-check valves up to DN300.

Ramén Valves acquired Engelsbergs Ventiler AB, a Swedish valve manufacturer, which will be included as a sales division. The deal extends Ramén's range of industrial valves.

Huzhou Fengling Huoshan Equity Investment Partnership acquired a 9.82% stake in Jiangsu Shentong Valve from a group of shareholders for approximately CNY 380 million on November 23, 2017. The deal covers 47.7 million shares at CNY 7.88 per share.

Korea East-West Power's partner companies signed export contracts totaling $8 million in Saudi Arabia. Ace Valve signed a $3 million contract with SSEM, and APM Technologies signed a $5 million contract with Saudi Electricity Company.

Longacre Group announced the acquisition of Pyroban and Pyropress, makers of explosion protection equipment, from Caterpillar Inc. Brian Quarendon joins as CEO to carry out the carve-out and drive growth.

Taco Family of Companies acquired the Taconova Group, a Zurich-headquartered maker of hydronic heating, balancing, underfloor heating and valve solutions. The deal strengthens Taco's presence in Europe.

UK valve supplier Orseal is supplying oxygen service valves to NMDC's Nagarnar steel plant and to an EPC contractor upgrading SAIL's BF-1 at Rourkela Steel Plant in India.

FCX Performance, a flow control distributor, has acquired Houston-based Eads Distribution and Charlotte-based The Massey Company, expanding its footprint to 67 offices nationally.

Global Supply Line and Australian Pipeline Valve have moved into a purpose-built 20,000m2 facility in Salisbury Plain, South Australia, combining a large valve and actuator stock range with a new engineering and test facility.

Maersk Oil and Gas A/S published a contract award for three 50% firewater pump packages for the Tyra Future Project in the Danish North Sea. The supplier is not named in the excerpt.

Amarinth delivered an order of API 610 VS4 vertical pumps to Metito for installation in a wastewater treatment plant at the ADCO Al Dabb'iya Facilities Development Phase III project in Abu Dhabi. The pumps were manufactured in super duplex stainless steel.

Metso supplied 400 Neles emergency shutdown valves, sized 6 to 40 inches, for an ethylene cracker at Orpic's Liwa Plastics Industrial Complex in Sohar, Oman. The delivery was reported on November 10, 2017.

Sonatrach and Baker Hughes, a GE Company, created a joint venture, 51% Sonatrach and 49% Baker Hughes, to produce oil and gas equipment in Algeria. The 20,000 m2 industrial complex in Oran carries a joint investment of $45 million and is expected to be operational in December 2019.

Grundfos India opened a new manufacturing facility in Dantali, Central Gujarat, to supply stainless steel products, boosters and box products to western and northern India and export stainless steel components to Grundfos plants in Europe, the Americas and China. The launch was announced on November 9, 2017.

Sonatrach (51%) and Baker Hughes, a GE company (49%), formed a new company to build a 20,000 sqm manufacturing facility in Arzew Industrial Zone, Algeria, for wellheads, Christmas trees, BOPs and valves, with an initial investment of USD 45 million and 200 local jobs, expected operational in December 2019.

Medo USA merged with its parent company Nitto Kohki to unify its corporate structure in the U.S., with no change to its structure, location, contacts, pump models, part numbers or pricing.

Anchor Fluid Power, a supplier of flange and inline valve components, acquired Maxbar Inc., the largest US distributor of Walther-Präzision quick connect couplings, based in Houston, Texas. Maxbar will continue operating at its existing Houston facility.

Metso received four major valve orders for oil and gas projects from top-ten Chinese petrochemical customers, for greenfield investments scheduled for 2017 and 2018. The orders include about 2,500 Neles valves, and the total value and customer names were not disclosed.

KACE Valve was awarded a contract by Linde AG to supply automated severe service metal seated ball valves for Braskem America's polypropylene plant under construction in La Porte, Texas.

Gebr. Kemper GmbH + Co. KG invested around €20 million in a new valve plant with integrated logistics center at its Olpe site. SSI Schäfer supplied the intralogistics including a 21-meter-high automated container warehouse with 35,500 storage locations.

The Australian Department of Defence awarded Frontline Australasia a contract to supply ball valves, valued at about AUD 12,097, on 2 November 2017.

Badger Meter agreed to acquire the assets of Carolina Meter & Supply, a utility supplier, effective November 1, 2017. The sum was undisclosed. Carolina Meter will do business as National Meter & Automation.

MCI (Motor Controls Inc) purchased the Flowtronex and Water Equipment Technologies (WET) product brands from Xylem Inc., as reported on 1 November 2017.

Motor Controls, Inc. acquired the Flowtronex and Water Equipment Technologies brands from Xylem Inc. for $6 million on October 31, 2017.

China Machinery Industry Federation appraised Xi'an Pump & Valve's JYGA-120 PN 12MPa DN1400 large-diameter insulated joint at a meeting on October 31, 2017, confirming it as the first low-temperature (-45 C) insulated joint of its kind in China.

Sferaco, a subsidiary of Thermador Groupe, has opened negotiations to buy 100% of Groupe Valfit, a Bussy Saint-Georges company that sells connectors, meters and valves to wholesalers, with a deal targeted by end of January 2018. Valfit reported 2016 turnover of EUR 5.9 million. No price was disclosed.

Malvern, Pennsylvania-based JA Moody's parent company has completed its acquisition of Pima Valve, a Chandler, Arizona maker of bronze marine valves. The deal adds design and manufacturing to JA Moody's distribution business.

Wartsila is relocating its valve manufacturing operations to a new 5,570 square metre engineering and production facility in the Humber Enterprise Park in Brough, England. The move is expected to be completed before the end of 2017.

Samson's Surgut unit will supply large-diameter pipeline valves for the ZapSibNeftekhim petrochemical complex being built by SIBUR in Tobolsk, Russia. Total contracts with Russian suppliers for the project exceed 220 billion rubles.

Anderson Process, a Midwest process equipment supplier, acquired American Controls Inc., a pump distributor and service provider in Michigan and Northern Ohio, announced October 23, 2017.

Shanxi Huaxiang Group and US-based JDH jointly invested 400 million yuan in a Sino-American JV project in two phases, capable of producing 20,000 tonnes a year of high-end pump, valve and pipe fittings with 160 million yuan in sales and 800 new jobs.

Trafikverket awarded Bravida Sverige AB a contract valued at 1,143,828,200 SEK for equipment including pumps, valves, sensors for wastewater systems, control and monitoring systems for eight pumping stations, a wastewater treatment plant, and a wastewater storage for the E4 Förbifart Stockholm project.

The Australian Department of Defence awarded Frontline Australasia Pty Ltd a contract worth AUD 37,422 for the supply of valve spares, with the award dated 19 October 2017 and expiry in February 2018.

Ham-Let's subsidiary in China signed an agreement with the Yangzhong District management to build a new $15 million factory with double the production capacity, to be completed by end of Q1 2019; the district compensates $9 million.

DVG Automation Spa was awarded a EUR 685,983 contract by Stogit SpA for the supply and assembly assistance of pneumatic actuators for the Fiume Trieste plant. The award was granted on 2017-10-17.

Botou-based Taibang Pump & Valve Manufacturing won a contract worth about CNY 1.5 million to supply 48 NYP high-viscosity pumps and other pumps for China FAW Group's oil depot fuel piping project.