Sany Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. awarded a contract to Hangzhou Liwei Computer Machinery Co., Ltd. for a vertical machining center project for pump delivery pin axis line 2.0, valued at 2.994 million CNY.

Swedish agricultural machinery maker Väderstad AB has acquired 100% of AGCO-Amity JV LLC, which markets the Concord, Wil-Rich and Wishek brands. The acquisition will be integrated under the name Vaderstad Inc.

Doosan Infracore secured orders for 75 medium-to-large excavators from Saudi Arabian customers: 25 units (20 DX220LCA and 5 DX480LCA) from a construction company, and 50 DX225LCA units from a consortium of two construction firms.

Glass Futures secured planning permission for a 160,000 sq ft Global Centre of Excellence in St Helens, UK. Bowmer & Kirkland is the main contractor. The £54m facility will host R&D on decarbonising glass production, with construction starting July 2021 and completion by December 2022.

PROCAD, an international provider of PLM and PDM solutions, and keytech, a German PLM provider for the mid-market, announced their merger, following ACATEC Software GmbH joining PROCAD in March 2021.

Union Industries completed the supply and installation of 40 rapid-roller doors at Princes Group UK's food production site in Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, as part of Princes' £80m investment programme at the facility.

Rostselmash received a construction permit for a new tractor plant in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, with an investment of at least RUB 5 billion. The plant will have five buildings totaling 62,000 m² and produce up to 3,000 tractors per year, with completion expected in 2023.

SyBridge Technologies has completed the acquisition of ToolStats software and related intellectual property from CaptureMore. The acquisition enables the launch of SyBridge IoT Cloud.

ANDRITZ received an order to supply a sulfuric acid plant for Klabin's Ortigueira mill in Brazil. The plant will produce 150 tons/day of commercial-grade sulfuric acid from odorous gases and sulfur, making the site self-sufficient in sulfuric acid.

Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Ltd awarded a contract for the provision of steelwork services for vessels 801 & 802. The total value is £4,400,000 excluding VAT.

California-based Stewart Tool Company will invest $9.1 million to establish its first East Coast manufacturing operation in Fluvanna County, Virginia, renovating a former Kloeckner Metals facility and creating 22 jobs.

Benshaw, a US motor drive firm, acquired the business assets of Hiconics Europe, a German manufacturer of medium voltage motor drives, to expand its medium voltage drive product offerings.

Meta Group Africa, in partnership with Muscat Overseas Group, acquired 100% of Kemach JCB Zambia, the exclusive JCB distributor in Zambia. The acquisition expands Meta Group's JCB distribution network to four countries.

HCM Engineering Ltd invested in a new Doosan Mynx 9500/50 large-capacity three-axis vertical machining centre, supplied by Mills CNC. The machine was installed at HCM's Stourbridge facility in February 2021.

GMM Pfaudler commenced manufacturing operations at a facility in Vatva, Ahmedabad, India, after acquiring the assets of HDO Technologies for ₹58.46 crore. The facility enhances heavy engineering capacity.

Airbus has ordered two TX3S boring-milling centres from Juaristi for its St-Eloi plant in Toulouse, France, to machine structural elements for aircraft engine mounts. The project was finalized and accepted in March 2021.

Carlisle Companies and several subsidiaries signed an equity and asset purchase agreement with BRWS Parent LLC, dated 24 May 2021. Deal value and details are not shown in the excerpt.

Munters Group AB broke ground on a $36 million, 365,000 square-foot facility in Botetourt Center at Greenfield, Virginia. The facility will house manufacturing, R&D, and sales for data center cooling and industrial process systems, replacing an existing plant in Buena Vista and retaining all 200 employees.

Le Joint Français, a Hutchinson subsidiary, will build a 4,000 m² logistics building in Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne, financed by the Pays de Château-Gontier for €3.3 million.

Wold (Beijing Wold) plans to invest CNY210 million through subsidiaries to build a production line for coated cemented carbide and cermet cutting inserts in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, with an annual capacity of 28 million pieces over 5 years.

Schröder Group, a machine tool builder, acquired 100% of tool manufacturer SMU GmbH based in Leinburg-Weißenbrunn, Germany. The acquisition was completed on May 20, 2021, and aims to deepen the value chain in sheet metal working.

Heartland Equity Partners acquired a majority interest in ABM Equipment & Supply of Hopkins, Minnesota, on May 20, 2021. Terms were not disclosed.

Glaston is selling its Glaston Tools Srl segment to Bavelloni SpA, a glass processing machinery company. Glaston Tools, based in Bregnano, Italy, specializes in tools for glass and natural stone processing.

Glaston Corp. has signed an agreement to acquire the Bystronic Glass Group from Conzzeta AG. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2019, subject to regulatory approval.

Voith and Truetzschler Nonwovens delivered a new system for specialty paper production to Papel Aralar in Spain. The PM5 started up in December 2020, producing plastic-free wet wipes, with total capacity of 45,000 tons/year.

Israel-based private equity firm FIMI Opportunity Funds is acquiring an 80% controlling stake in Gal-Shvav, a precision manufacturer of advanced systems for hi-tech industries, for $100 million.

Crane Technologies Group Inc. received a $20,077,068 contract to modernize up to seven 60/15-ton portal cranes at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, with first task order of $2,598,471.

Multivac opened a new 33,368-square-foot logistics center in Kansas City, Missouri, including an automated small parts warehouse and pallet store, to support spare parts logistics and production growth.

CELLINK AB agreed to acquire all shares of Nanoscribe Holding GmbH, a German 3D printer developer, for a purchase price of €34 million plus up to €16 million in earn-outs.

Bidvest Noonan completed the acquisition of Interact, an Irish M&E engineering services company, and its specialist water treatment subsidiary H2O Solutions, after CCPC approval.

Skanska has been awarded a PLN 141 mln contract by Beiersdorf Manufacturing Poznań to expand and reconstruct a production facility in Poznań, Poland. The project involves 36,700 sqm of new and modernized space.

MacLean-Fogg Component Solutions, a division of MacLean-Fogg Company, acquired the assets of Formetrix, LLC, including its metal-powder intellectual property portfolio. The new entity will be called MacLean Formetrix and be based in Macomb Township, Michigan.

Romi USA has entered a distribution agreement with WSM Technology, under which WSM will represent Romi's line of machine tools in Northern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Weybridge LLC acquired Mika Metal Fabricating, a custom sheet metal fabricator serving medical, surgical, electronics, energy, electrical, and general industrial markets.

Advance Turning & Manufacturing purchased Scott Machine, which will operate as a division, adding a fourth manufacturing facility and expanding services in aerospace, medical equipment and material handling robotics.

Ecrimesa Group approved an extraordinary investment of EUR 2 million for a new continuous MIM line and injection molding machines at its Santander facility. The project will be operational in Q1 2022 and increase feedstock capacity to over 250 tons per year.

Trevisan provided a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) to a multinational valve provider for the oil and gas sector. The system includes four DS600/200C machining centres, a 40-place multi-pallet system, and a 600-position tool store, using Renishaw measurement solutions for process control.

SBS Kft. acquired an FPT Ronin 400 machining center with the help of GE-CO Hungary Kft., and is building a new hall to expand welding capacity and add pre-assembly activities at its Erdőtelek site.

Trucent plans to invest an additional $2 million in its Indiana facility over the next few years.

Atlas Copco agreed to acquire Arpuma, a specialized vacuum systems and solutions provider with 14 employees based in Kerpen near Cologne, Germany, serving the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The purchase price was not disclosed. The deal was expected to close in late Q2 2021.

Hydro-Gear, a power equipment drive systems manufacturer, is locating a new operation in Huntingdon, Tennessee, expected to create 375 new jobs.

KERUI Petroleum & Gas shipped a customized high-power natural gas reciprocating compressor unit to a customer in Pakistan, its third delivery to that customer after earlier units. The announcement is dated 18 May 2021.

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. has officially put into operation its smart tower crane manufacturing plant in Changde, Hunan province. The plant has an annual production value of over $3.11 billion and produces a tower crane every 18 minutes.

Zoomlion Heavy Industry put the second phase of its smart tower crane plant in Changde, Hunan, into operation on May 17, 2021. The 1.8 billion yuan investment is expected to generate 20 billion yuan in annual output value.

ANDRITZ has received an order from Pratrivero S.p.a. to supply a new eXcelle batt forming line for its production facilities in Valdilana, Italy. Installation and start-up are scheduled for Q3 2021.

Enact has acquired Edbro Limited, a UK-based market leader in on-vehicle hydraulic systems, from JOST Werke AG. The deal includes fresh capital investment and operational support.

Belgian packaging specialist Arodo acquired Möllers Group, which will continue as Möllers Packaging Technology (MPT). The acquisition combines Arodo's packaging lines for high-quality powders with MPT's high-speed packaging lines for the petrochemical industry.

ECM Technologies, a Grenoble-based industrial furnace manufacturer, acquired Annealsys and Kemstream, two companies based in Montpellier. The acquisition amount was not disclosed.

AFRY has signed an agreement to acquire Pinja Industry Oy, a Finnish engineering and automation services company with 150 employees and annual turnover of SEK 140 million, to strengthen its digital and automation offering in the industry sector.

Stockwik Förvaltning AB has agreed to acquire all shares of MittX Aluminiumproffset AB, a Swedish industrial company specializing in design and manufacturing of light bars for construction and agricultural machinery. The purchase price is SEK 29.9 million, with the transaction expected to close within days and consolidate from May 1, 2021.