John Crane, a Smiths Group business, renewed a six-year Managed Reliability Program covering 1,833 pumps at a major refinery in Bahrain, including seal repair and digital monitoring.
Smiths Group's John Crane received a multi-million-pound order for dry gas seals from a major Middle Eastern energy company, enabling the customer to raise processing capacity from 2.5 to 4 billion standard cubic feet per day. The announcement was made on 11 February 2026.
John Crane signed a multi-year global framework agreement with an unnamed international energy company to supply sealing technologies and lifecycle reliability services across its global asset base, announced in Dubai.
John Crane, a Smiths Group business, signed a multi-year Global Framework Agreement with an unnamed large international energy company to supply sealing technologies and lifecycle services across its global sites. The agreement follows a successful reliability programme at one of the operator's refineries.
John Crane is delivering six Type 28XP dry gas seals for centrifugal compressors at a new CO2 compression facility in North Wales, part of a carbon capture and storage project.
John Crane, a Smiths Group business, was awarded a five-year dry gas seal repair contract by Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. (KPO) in Kazakhstan. John Crane will set up local production of mechanical seals and spare parts for the Karachaganak field.
John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, was awarded a five-year contract by Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (KPO) for dry gas seal repair at the Karachaganak gas condensate field in Kazakhstan. John Crane will set up local production of mechanical seals and spare parts for the field.
John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, won a contract to supply wet seals for almost a hundred pumps to an electric battery manufacturing facility in Tennessee, USA. The announcement was made on 27 February 2024.
John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, was selected to supply dry gas seals for three supercritical CO2 compressors at a large-scale blue hydrogen project in Texas, USA. The announcement was made on 27 February 2024.
Mechanical seal specialist John Crane completed its purchase of Seebach GmbH, a German provider of mechanical seals.
John Crane closed its acquisition of Seebach, according to a report published on 2018-06-01. No deal value or location was given.
Miba acquired the industrial bearing segment of John Crane Group, which has three plants in the US and one in Germany. The deal gives Miba entry into development and production of industrial bearings.
Smith Group agreed to sell the bearings business of mechanical seal maker John Crane to Austrian company Miba AG for US$35 million. The divestment was reported in 2018.