People with inside knowledge of the situation tell Bloomberg that First Reserve and Apollo Global Management LLC are “among the private equity firms interested in the power and energy business being sold by SPX Flow Inc.”

The price tag “is expected to be valued at about $700 million, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. First Reserve could combine the SPX unit with its Trillium Flow Technologies, one of the people said.”

EnPro Industries, Inc. has acquired The Aseptic Group (comprising Aseptic Process Equipment SAS and Aseptic Services SARL), a privately held company which distributes, designs and manufactures aseptic fluid transfer products for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. The Aseptic Group will become part of EnPro’s Garlock family of companies. The business was acquired in a cash transaction.

Victaulic has appointed BlueScope Steel as a national distributor of the full line of its mechanical joining products for use in mining and commercial building piping systems. Victaulic products available through BlueScope Steel will include mechanical pipe joining products for a variety of applications.

BlueScope Steel is a major supplier of steel related products across a variety of industries throughout Australia and New Zealand.

The UK-based sales representative for Curtiss-Wright Industrial Division’s EST Group, Mactech Europe Ltd., will be expanding their territory coverage to include Ireland. This expansion will assist EST Group in reaching their growing customer base across Europe in the petrochemical, refining, power generation, LNG, offshore, ship building, industrial maintenance and installation market sectors.