Wartsila Valves, formerly Shipham Valves, is relocating its entire manufacturing operations from Hawthorn Avenue to a 60,000 sq ft premises at Humber Enterprise Park in Hull to allow for expansion.

WIKA acquired SAMI Instruments, an Italian supplier of needle valves and manifolds for instrumentation, at the end of October 2017.

Chromatic Industries, LLC acquired certain assets and the principal business of Quality Oil Tools, LLC, a maker of oilfield pressure control equipment, in Jennings, Louisiana, and will operate it as a subsidiary.

A merger control filing dated 29 September 2017 concerns SSCP Thermal Bidco's acquisition of shares and control of Vernet SAS and Magnum Corporation, makers of pressure regulating and relief valves, thermostatic cartridges and automotive spare parts.

Aquatronic Group Management's Aquatech Pressmain and Renzland Powergates have moved into a new £1.4m factory, Renzland House, in Copford, Colchester, creating five new jobs. The group makes water pumps, pressurisation units and gates.

Core & Main signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Minnesota Pipe & Equipment, a waterworks distributor with three branches in Minnesota. The deal is expected to close in October 2017.

Emerson completed its acquisition of the Valves & Controls business from Pentair plc for $3.15 billion; the Swiss-headquartered unit in Schaffhausen has about 7,500 employees and will join Emerson Automation Solutions.

CIRCOR International signed a definitive agreement to acquire Colfax Fluid Handling from Colfax Corporation for about $855 million, including $542 million cash, new CIRCOR shares and assumed pension liabilities. Colfax will hold about 16% of CIRCOR after closing.

Polar Service Centers acquired the Linden, New Jersey distribution division of Girard Equipment, which distributes aftermarket tank truck parts, pumps, hoses and refinery equipment. The deal value was not disclosed.

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

Argentine equipment maker Ing. Ramón Russo inaugurated a new 2,100 m² industrial plant and showroom near Salta Capital's industrial park on September 21, 2017, producing diesel and gas generator sets, fire protection systems, pressurization equipment and motor pumps.

Suzhou Dawson Drilling Equipment has completed a capital increase of $3.5 million in its indirect wholly owned subsidiary Suzhou Dawson Valve Co., with the company registration change now finalized in Suzhou Industrial Park.

Houston-based valve and actuator distributor AIV, together with Gulf Coast Modification, plans a new 320,000-square-foot facility in northwest Houston, scheduled for completion by late 2018, with room to expand to 700,000 square feet. KDW is the design-build contractor.

Petronas Carigali presented Inversys Corporation with an Outstanding Vendor Award for nine chemical injection pump packages that Calder designed and manufactured for the Diyarbekir oil field in the Caspian Sea. The award was dated 18 September 2017.

Trask-Decrow Machinery transferred its plant air compressor business to Ingersoll-Rand, its long-time distributor partner. Both companies will share the same location in Scarborough, Maine, while Trask-Decrow keeps its industrial pump and portable equipment business.

FAMAT was awarded a contract to supply a full set of steam extraction check valves up to 18 inches and class 900 for the Dunhuang Power Plant in China. The valves include fast-closing pneumatic actuators and complete controls.

Aliaxis Group sold SED Flow Control GmbH, a valve maker based in Bad Rappenau, Germany with 100 employees, to Samson AG. EC M&A advised Aliaxis on the deal, and no value was disclosed.

Curtiss-Wright was awarded a contract worth over USD 49 million by Bechtel Plant Machinery to supply propulsion plant valves for Virginia-class submarines and Ford-class aircraft carriers.

Dragon PES announced the acquisition of a 117,880 sq ft, 19-acre former National Oilwell Varco facility north of San Angelo, Texas, to build API production tanks and pumps for the Permian Basin, with full tank production expected by December 1.

The Swiss Bühler Group has acquired FHW Franz Haas Waffelmaschinen GmbH, a world market leader in production lines for waffles, cookies and snacks, including its subsidiary MKE in Heidenreichstein, Austria, which employs 210 people and produces pipeline valves and automation equipment.

A world-leading rotary valves manufacturer contracted Ampo Foundry to manufacture finish-machined stainless steel castings for valves used in food and pharmaceutical applications worldwide. The announcement is dated September 2017.

Atlas Copco acquired C.H. Spencer & Company, a US distributor of industrial pumps and compressors serving Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho. About 40 employees join Atlas Copco and the price was not disclosed.

Ross Controls announced the acquisition of the industrial division of Automatic Valve Corp., a pneumatic valve maker in Novi, Michigan. The purchase price was not disclosed and Automatic Valve's nuclear division was excluded.

MOGAS Industries received contracts to supply more than 950 severe service isolation valves to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery for a new heavy oils construction project on ChangXing Island, Dalian, China. Delivery is scheduled for early 2018.

Atlantic Valve Services, formed by Control Associates and Proconex, acquired the former Pentair Service Operations and Factory Repair center in Bridgeport, New Jersey. The 22,500 square foot facility will remain in use for valve service and inventory.

Control Associates and Proconex formed a joint venture called Atlantic Valve Services to serve the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern US with valve sales, repair and certification. The venture follows Emerson's acquisition of Pentair's Valves & Controls unit.

Japan's Nikkiso closed its acquisition of California-based Cryogenic Industries Inc and Cryogenic Industries AG of Basel, makers of cryogenic centrifugal and reciprocating pumps and equipment for industrial gas and LNG markets. The deal value was not disclosed.

Private equity investor LDC backed the management buyout of Stuart Turner, a UK water pump and pressure solutions business, to fund buy-and-build growth in commercial pumps. Existing shareholders are exiting; the deal value was not disclosed.

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.

CNOOC Zhanjiang branch published a tender result for shutoff valves for the Dongfang 13-2 gas field development, naming General Machinery Development as first candidate at USD 4,551,159. Samson Controls China and Hong Kong New Century Control Equipment were the other candidates.

Mono Pumps built a new manufacturing facility in Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester, with a reported project value of GBP 500,000. Fletchers Engineering installed the gas, water, steam and pipework services, and the project took three months.

Armatec Group, part of Ernstromgruppen, signed an agreement to acquire all shares in Dansk Ventil Center and Valtor Offshore from Eriks BV, an industrial service provider of mechanical engineering components. The deal was reported in September 2017.

Avingtrans Engineering Technology Group acquired Hayward Tyler, a maker of electric motors and pumps for energy and chemical industries, in an all-share transaction effective September 1, 2017. Hayward Tyler becomes a wholly-owned division of Avingtrans.

Curtiss-Wright was awarded a contract worth over USD 49 million by Bechtel Plant Machinery to supply valves for Virginia-class submarines and Ford-class aircraft carriers. Work is performed at its East Farmingdale, New York facility through 2021.

Thermador Groupe of France announced its acquisition of Sodeco Valves. The announcement gives no deal value, location or closing details.

Mogas Industries will supply severe service isolation valves for a new heavy oils construction project on ChangXing Island in Dalian, Liaoning, China, for Hengli Group.

PumpMan Holdings LLC, a Soundcore Capital Partners portfolio company, completed the acquisition of Bartley Pump of Santa Rosa, California. The deal adds agricultural pump service and repair to PumpMan's offering.

Mogas Industries has received contracts to supply over 950 severe service isolation valves to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery for a heavy oils project on ChangXing Island in Dalian. Delivery is scheduled for early 2018.

Nucleoeléctrica Argentina has awarded Tecnatom a contract to supply 28 valves and spares to replace original valves at the Atucha 2 nuclear power plant. Tecnatom will work with Ringo Válvulas on the project.

Private equity firm May River Capital has completed its acquisition of BJM Pumps, LLC, a maker of submersible pumps, forming the first acquisition of its new Industrial Pump platform. Terms were not disclosed.

Framo AS has won a contract to supply sea water lift pump systems for a floating storage regasification unit being built for GasLog at Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. The order follows a similar supply deal for a Høegh LNG FSRU at the same shipyard.

Danos has secured a contract with Williams Partners to modify valve and piping at the Pine Needle LNG storage facility in Stokesdale, North Carolina, including replacing 27 pressure safety valves, over roughly four months.

MRC Global's subsidiary signed an agreement to be the primary global provider of valves and related products and services to ExxonMobil, covering global projects and MRO across downstream, EU and Asia Pacific operations.

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.

MOGAS Industries will supply over 950 severe-service valves to Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hengli Group, for use in an ebullating bed unit. Delivery is scheduled for early 2018.

Rotork received an order from Hyundai Heavy Industries for 220 pneumatic actuators for the NASR Phase II full field development in the UAE, which aims to raise output capacity to 65,000 bpd. The largest GP350 actuator built to date was engineered for the project.

Betts Industries acquired a majority stake in J-Tech Incorporated, its long-time partner and exclusive rebuilder of its tank truck valves, located in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. The deal is intended to support growth into new markets.

W.M. Schultz Construction was officially awarded the Restoration of the Wastewater Treatment Plant project by the City of Kingston, New York, on August 10, 2017. Work covers pump replacement, pump station reconstruction, flood proofing and a new plant-wide generator, with completion expected in spring 2018.

Askalon AB becomes the new provider and service partner for former Pentair Valves & Controls products (Sempell, Keystone, Crosby and others) across Sweden, excluding the nuclear sector, effective 1 August 2017. Emerson bought the business from Pentair on April 28, 2017.

Sun Hydraulics plans to buy property and develop a factory in South Korea to manufacture products locally for Asia Pacific customers. Roughly half the cost is expected in 2017, with completion in 2018.