Business Sale News in the Engineering sector

Shell has put its Stanlow complex on the market, with interest already expressed from two billionaire Indian brothers, and Libya's national oil firm together with Indian conglomerate Essar, among ot [more]

BG Group, the British oil and gas giant, have pitched a second £6.7 bn offer for the Australian energy group, Origin Energy, directly to the sharehol [more]

Engineering company, Bodycote, have decided to sell its materials testing business for around £ [more]

BP have suggested that its alternative energy division could be placed on the market for £3.5bn, in order to take advantage of rising values in the renewable sect [more]

The private UK support services company, OCS Group, is seeking to sell its engineering business, OCS Engineering. [more]

Amtek Auto Ltd has acquired one of the largest automotive precision machining companies, Triplex- Ketlon Group, which was also Amtek's strongest competitor, running close to 185 different machining lines and a multi-location presence in the [more]

The boards of Cookson Group plc and Foseco plc have announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer by Cookson for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Foseco. It is intended that the Acquisition will be implemented by way of a court approved scheme of arrangement under section 425 of the Companies Act. [more]

Severfield-Rowen Plc , the market leading structural steel group, has announced that it has agreed to acquire Action Merchants Limited , the holding company of Fisher Engineering Limited, a constructional steel fabricator. [more]

The Weir Group Plc has announced that it has agreed to acquire SPM Flow Control, Inc for $653m (£328m). Anticipated revenues for calendar year 2007 are $320m (&po [more]

FKI, the British engineering group that’s currently in talks with an unnamed suitor regarding a proposal thought to be around £765m, has announced that it is looking to dispose its Hardware and FKI Logistex bu [more]

FKI, the UK-listed engineering company, has appointed Rothschild to carry out a strategic review of the business which could lead to a sale of some of [more]

Bodycote International, the British heat treatment and coatings company, has acquired six businesses in the UK, Ireland, Turkey and Brazil for a total consideration of £25m, as part of its strategy to expand into emerging econom [more]

ABRO, the engineering, repair and re-manufacturing company for the British Army, could be sold after a rationalisation process has been carried out. T [more]