Queensland-based defence contractor NIOA has expanded its global reach with the 100 per cent acquisition of the rifle design and manufacturing company, Barrett Firearms.Read More
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Epicor, a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, has announced it has acquired eFlex Systems, a provider of cloud-based manufacturing execution system (MES) technologies.Read More
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Markforged has entered into a definitive agreement with Höganäs AB to acquire Digital Metal, the creator of a leading binder jetting solution known to be precise and reliable. Read More
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Vai Photonics – an Australian National University (ANU) spin-out company whose technology will help future moon landings and could lead to flying cars – has been bought out by a leading navigation firm in a deal worth $40 million. Read More
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Fortescue Future Industries has acquired UK-based Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) and announced they will develop a world-first zero emissions Infinity Train. Read More
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Voice-enabled logistics business, Cohesio Group, has had a majority stake of its company acquired by international technology group Körber.
Known for their voice-directed and autonomous mobile robotics Read More
Global engineering, project delivery and operations management group, the DRA Group (DRA), has announced on its website that it has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of G&S Engineering Read More
Last week, Rockwell Automation rejected a third bid offer valued at US$29 billion (A$38 billion) from Emerson Electric. Rockwell said that the proposal, which was unsolicited, did not match the value Read More
The Victorian government has signed a deal to purchase the Heyfield Timber Mill, for an undisclosed sum.
Despite the purchase of the mill, there are still fears that up to 100 jobs could be lost.
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South Australian steelmaking business Arrium has been acquired by Liberty House, a British industrial and metals company.
The sale includes Arrium’s iron ore mining operations, Whyalla port and rail Read More
Bega Cheese has finalised its takeover of the Vegemite brand, after a cyber attack stalled the deal.
In a deal worth $460 million, Bega has acquired food giant Mondelez International’s Australian grocery Read More
Australian drinking water appliance maker Zip Industries has been taken over by US-based global water treatment firm Culligan International for an undisclosed sum.
Zip, which was sold by Quadrant Private Read More
Dexus Property Group has acquired an industrial park in the western Melbourne suburb of Braeside for $50.6 million. The group expects to see a significant uplift on its investment, with this acquisition Read More
CMYKhub is expanding its manufacturing services with the purchase of a manufacturing facility and machinery from Lotsa Printing.
“We’ve purchased the production side of the Lotsa business and we’ll Read More
Emerson has announced that it has completed the purchase of Mynah Technologies, a long-time Emerson alliance partner and a leading provider of dynamic simulation and operator training software.
Mynah’s Read More
Hong Kong dairy company Ausnutria has announced the start of its acquisition of Victorian dairy manufacturer Australian Dairy Park (ADP).
Once the acquisition is complete, Ausnutria will hold all the Read More
Chinese manufacturer Goldwind has acquired an up-to-530MW wind farm project from Origin Energy, in what the company says is the largest wind farm power purchase agreement in Australia.
Goldwind paid AU$110 Read More
Bentley Systems Incorporated announces the acquisition of the U.K.-based C3global, provider of web-based Amulet software for operational analytics. Read More
Downer EDI will buy privately owned Tenix Holdings Australia, signing an agreement worth $300 million which will be completed at the end of the month. Read More