SECO S.p.A. signed agreements to buy 60% of Qiyang Technology for €9 million plus up to €3 million earnout, and the remaining 45% of Fannal Electronics for €23 million. Both deals are subject to closing conditions.

Fairfax-backed Maxop Engineering has bought a majority stake in Pune-based Faith Automation Systems and Tooling, a design and engineering firm that automates production lines for vehicle manufacturers. The enterprise value is estimated at Rs 400-500 crore.

NIBCO has acquired UniTorq Actuators and Controls, adding pneumatic and electric actuators and controls to its flow-control portfolio. Financial terms were not disclosed.

NIBCO has completed its acquisition of UniTorq Actuators and Controls, a Lawrenceville, Georgia maker of pneumatic and electric valve actuators, adding actuation and controls to its valve portfolio.

Amberjack Capital Partners completed its acquisition of PMV Automation, a valve positioner and automation products maker, from Flowserve, with industry veterans Joseph Jobe and Micah Floyd leading the company post-closing.

Salt Lake City-based Packsize is acquiring its competitor Panotec, an Italian maker of right-sized box production machines, expanding its installed base across more than 50 countries. The deal was reported in the June 2026 M&A roundup published 2026-07-08.

ABB has agreed a recommended all-cash offer of 503 pence per share for all of Rotork plc, implying an enterprise value of about $5.5 billion. The deal is expected to add about 3% to ABB's revenues and expand its automation offering.

BDG Testing & Automation, a subsidiary of Bürkert, is taking over EP Ehrler, a flow measurement and calibration specialist, from ABB as part of ABB's integration of the Födisch Group. The article gives no deal value and the announcement is dated 19 June 2026.

Zak Schultz, through his family company CMS Americas, acquired the assets of SDH Flow Controls, a valves and flow-control supplier, with the brand and name retained.

Airline Hydraulics Corporation, a distributor of industrial automation, fluid power and controls, announced the acquisition of Industrial Automation Supply, headquartered in Portland, Maine. The article gives no deal value.

Momentum Group acquired Actuated Solutions Limited (ASL), a UK manufacturer of valve actuation systems. Valve World reports the deal values ASL at £15 million.

Festo has taken over Gummiwarenfabrik R. Neddermann GmbH, a specialist in sealing and rubber technology, effective 1 January 2026, to strengthen its valve seal production. The announcement was made on 13 January 2026.

Uniwater, a Nordic water infrastructure group backed by Nalka, acquired WASYS and ACOWA, Roskilde-based specialists in industrial automation for pump control, flow and level measurement. The article dates the deal to 30 September 2025.

Danish motor solutions company Hoyer has acquired NowiTek, an automation solutions developer specialising in SCADA platforms and PLC programming.

Ulma Packaging of Memmingen, Germany, has acquired a 40% stake in Italian packaging machinery firm Rama S.r.l., which specialises in automatic machines and end-of-line systems. The companies have cooperated for 15 years.

Duravant LLC signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pattyn Group BV, a Bruges-based designer and manufacturer of packaging automation systems for bag-in-box and other packaging applications. The deal value was not disclosed.

Emerson agreed to acquire all AspenTech common stock it does not already own at $265.00 per share via an all-cash tender offer. The minority stake is valued at $7.2 billion and the total company at $17.0 billion market capitalization.

Danish motor solutions company Hoyer acquired NowiTek, an automation developer of SCADA platforms and PLC programming, in Q1 2025.

Skarpenord AS and Xtronica AS formed a new joint venture, Skarpenord Xtronica Pte Ltd, in Singapore to combine valve control and automation technologies for maritime and offshore clients across Asia-Pacific.

NEUMAN & ESSER signed a contract on November 13, 2024 to take over EVB Technik GmbH, an electrical and automation solutions firm in Velbert and Garbsen, effective January 1, 2025.

Emerson proposed to acquire all AspenTech shares it does not already own for $240 per share in cash, after already holding about 57%. The proposal would make AspenTech a wholly owned subsidiary.

Mpac Group has acquired CSi Palletising from Elstar International in a deal worth £46 million, announced on October 7, 2024.

FFL Partners agreed to sell its investment in Ovarro, a critical infrastructure technology specialist, to Indicor LLC, a diversified industrial company.

Ferndale, Michigan-based ROSS Controls has acquired Master Pneumatic, maker of filter, regulator and lubricator pneumatic air preparation products in Sterling Heights, Michigan. The announcement is dated September 3, 2024.

Fluid power supplier Flowtech has agreed a £350,000 deal to acquire the assets of pneumatics and fluid products provider Thorite, including equipment, vehicles, stock and locations, and has paid off Thorite's £1.7m debt.

Dacke Industri completed the acquisition of 70% of the shares in Airon Srl, a Rovigo, Italy maker of pneumatic actuators and valves, on 3 July 2024. The existing owners keep the remaining 30%.

Pneumax Group bought 90% of Automationware S.r.l., a newly spun-off mechatronics unit producing high-performance electric actuators, following a split of Automationware in May 2024.

ATS Corporation signed a definitive agreement to acquire Paxiom Group, a Montreal-headquartered maker of primary, secondary and end-of-line packaging machines with about 200 employees and roughly $67 million revenue in 2023.

ANDRITZ has completed the acquisition of the NAF AB control valves business, adding NAF valves to its Intelligent Instruments portfolio for process control in pulp and paper and other process plants.

Motion & Control Enterprises (MCE) acquired General Machinery Company, Inc., a Birmingham, Alabama distributor of automation and electrical products, process pumps and compressed air products. GMC will keep its name and operate under its existing leadership.

Yokogawa Electric signed an agreement to acquire Adept Fluidyne Pvt. Ltd., a leading Indian electromagnetic flowmeter manufacturer based in Pune, Maharashtra. The deal is expected to close by the end of March 2024 and gives Yokogawa a local manufacturing base in India.

Swedish intralogistics group MotionTech announced the acquisition of ITO Pallpack, a Norwegian company focused on end-of-line and complete automation systems, on 15 December 2023.

ATS Corporation acquired Avidity Science, LLC, a designer and manufacturer of automated water purification solutions for biomedical and life science applications, on September 22, 2023.

Valstone Corporation acquired Matrix Industrial Control System, a food industry automation provider based in Brampton, Ontario, on September 21, 2023, entering the food and beverage sector.

Valmet agreed to acquire the Process Gas Chromatography business of Siemens AG, announced 29 August 2023.

Emerson announced a definitive agreement to acquire Afag Holding AG, a Swiss maker of electric linear motion, feeding and handling automation solutions, to strengthen its factory automation business. The deal expands Emerson's served market by more than $9 billion.

Emerson agreed to acquire FLEXIM Flexible Industriemesstechnik GmbH, a Berlin-based maker of clamp-on ultrasonic flow measurement technology with about 450 employees. Flexim's Berlin headquarters is planned to become Emerson's Ultrasonic Flow Measurement Center of Excellence. No price was disclosed.

Relevant Industrial, LLC, a distributor of instrumentation, automation, rotating equipment and valve solutions, announced a formal agreement to acquire Marshall W. Nelson & Associates, Inc., headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Valmet agreed on July 14, 2023 to acquire the Process Gas Chromatography business of Siemens AG for EUR 102.5 million on a cash and debt-free basis. Completion is estimated for April 1, 2024 at the earliest.

Bobst Group acquired a 70% equity stake in Dücker Robotics s.r.l., an Italian maker of robots for loading and palletizing in the corrugated board sector. The deal closed on April 28, 2023, and the current management stays in place.

Emerson announced the acquisition of National Instruments for US$8.2 billion on 26 April 2023.

Honeywell agreed to acquire Compressor Controls Corporation (CCC), a turbomachinery control provider, from INDICOR LLC for $670 million in an all-cash deal announced April 26, 2023. The deal is about 15x 2023E tax-adjusted EBITDA.

Polaris has acquired a majority stake in Sealing System, a supplier of intralogistics and automated packaging and palletising lines. The article is dated 17 April 2023 and gives no deal value.

Piab Group has acquired COVAL, a global supplier of vacuum automation components and systems with over 35 years of history. The transaction was funded through a mix of external and internal sources.

AXXERON Group integrated Hensches GmbH of Mönchengladbach and Kallenbach Elektronik GmbH of Euskirchen into its automation segment, strengthening retrofit, remote maintenance and control cabinet manufacturing.

Momentum Group signed an agreement to acquire 70% of Hydmos Industriteknik AB, a Stockholm maker of high-pressure hydraulic and gas systems. Closing is expected in February 2023.

Finnish technology group Valmet has completed its acquisition of the US-based Process Solutions business of NovaTech Automation. The deal was announced in November 2022.

Honeywell and Aramco signed a joint venture agreement to offer end-to-end business process automation and digital transformation solutions for industrial companies, combining Aramco's Plant.Digital platform with Honeywell's software capabilities. The JV was announced in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on November 1, 2022.

ITT's Compact Automation acquired Clippard Instrument Laboratories' interchangeable pneumatic cylinder product lines, expanding its air cylinder and actuator offering, announced in mid-August 2022.

Canadian private equity firm Lynx Equity has acquired Obel-P Automation, an equipment manufacturer based in Herning, Denmark.