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Company |
Ownership Change |
Year |
Website |
Comment |
| ABB Process Automation (Ohio) |
Bought by ABB of Norwalk, CT |
1990 |
www.abb.com |
Was a subsidiary of Combustion Engineering |
| ABB
Water Meters |
Bought
by Elster-Amco |
2002 |
www.elster.com |
Elster-Amco
located in Gerrmany; ABB Water Meters in Ocala, Florida |
| Accusonic |
Bought
by ADS Corp. |
|
www.accusonic.com |
Mfg.
of open channel flowmeters for large pipe applications |
| AEG Schneider Automation |
Bought by Groupe Schneider |
1996 |
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| AEG Automation Systems |
Taken over by Cegelec |
1996 |
www.fmcenergysystems.com
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| ARI Industries |
Operating Unit of Okazaki Manufacturing in Japan |
|
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Manufacturer of temperature sensors |
| Badger Meter/Ultrasonic flowmeter division |
Bought by Eastech Flow Controls |
2001 |
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| Barton
Instrument Systems |
Oil
& Gas Division bought by SCF Partners of Houston. Formed Nu/Flo
Technologies. Rest of company became Prime Measurement |
May 2003 |
www.nuflotech.com
|
Supplier
of pos. displacement & turbine meters |
| Brooks Instrument |
Bought by Emerson Electric;
Sold to American Industrial
Partners
|
1964 January
2008 |
www.rosemount.com
www.emersonprocess.com
www.brooksinstrument.com
|
Mfg. of thermal, variable area, magnetic,
Coriolis, and other types of flowmeters |
| CiDRA |
Oil
& Gas division sold to Expro International |
June 2008 |
www.cidra.com |
Manufacturer of sonar flowmeters |
| Combustion Engineering |
Bought by ABB (Norwalk, CT) |
1990 |
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| Consolidated
Valves |
Dresser |
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| Danfoss |
Bought
by Siemens |
2003 |
www.danfoss.com
www.siemens.com
|
Mfg.
of magnetic, ultrasonic, and Coriolis flowmeters |
| Daniel Industries |
Bought by Emerson Electric |
1998 |
www.rosemount.com
|
Mfg. of ultrasonic and turbine flowmeters |
| Dieterich Standard |
Bought by Emerson Electric |
1996 |
www.rosemount.com
|
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| Direct Measurement Corp. |
Bought by FMC Corp. |
1996 |
www.fmcenergysystems.com
|
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| Drexelbrook |
Bought
by Ametek |
|
www.ametek.com |
Supplier of level
measurement devices |
| Eckardt |
Bought by
Invensys |
1994 |
www.invensys.com |
|
| Elsag Bailey |
Bought by ABB |
|
www.abb.com |
|
| EMCO |
Bought by Advanced Energy Industries
Bought by Spirax Sarco
|
2001
June 2005 |
www.emcoflow.com
www.spiraxsarco.com
|
Manufactures vortex, ultrasonic, turbine, and
positive displacement flowmeters, and mass flow controllers |
| Equimeter |
Bought by Invensys |
|
www.equimeter.com
|
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| Fischer & Porter |
Bought by Elsag Bailey, then by ABB |
|
www.abb.com
|
Instrumentation supplier |
| Flow Research (Florida) |
Bought by Peek Instruments/Polysonics |
|
www.polysonicsinc.com
|
Manufactures impeller type meters; Polyonics
also manufactures ultrasonic and other types of flowmeters; Not the market
research company |
| Foxboro |
Bought
by Invensys |
|
www.foxboro.com
|
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| Gas Measuring Technology |
Bought by The RMG Group of Germany |
|
www.rmg.de |
GMT was a manufacturer of turbine gas flowmeters |
| General
Eastern |
Bought
by GE Industrial Systems from Spirent plc |
September
2001 |
|
Mfg.
of humidity products located in Woburn, Massachusetts. |
| Halliburton |
Turbine
meters bought by SCF Partners to form NuFlo Technology |
May 2003 |
www.nuflotech.com |
Major supplier of turbine
meters |
| Hartmann & Braun |
Bought by Elsag Bailey
Bought by Canberra
|
1995 |
www.abb.com |
|
| HG International AS |
Now integrated into Brunata A/S |
|
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Brunata specializes in district heating |
| In-Line Measurements |
Bought by Honeywell |
1996 |
|
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| Intellution |
Bought by Emerson Electric |
1995 |
|
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| Invensys
Sensor Systems |
Bought
by Honeywell |
August 2003 |
www.honeywell.com |
Supplier
of sensors and controls used in aerospace, HVAC, automotive, and other
industries |
| Josef Heinrichs GmbH & Co. Messtechnik |
Integrated into Bopp & Reuther |
1955 |
www.burhm.de |
|
| Kaye
Instruments |
Bought
by GE Industrial Systems from Spirent plc |
September
2001 |
|
Mfg.
of products and services for the pharmaceutical industry |
| Leeds
& Northrup MAX DCS |
Bought by ICS |
1994 |
|
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| Measurex |
Bought by Honeywell |
1997 |
|
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| Micro Motion |
Bought by Emerson Electric |
1984 |
www.micromotion.com
|
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| Milltronics |
Bought by Siemens |
Feb. 2000
|
www.siemens-milltronics.com
|
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| Moore Products |
Bought by Siemens |
|
www.siemens-moore.com
|
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| MTI |
Agilent Technologies |
|
|
MTI was a gas chromatagraph manufacturer |
| Panametrics |
Bought
by GE Measurements |
July 2002 |
www.panametrics.com |
|
| Polysonics |
Bought
by Thermo Electron |
|
www.polysonicsinc.com |
Manufacturer of ultrasonic and impeller
flowmeters |
| Profimatics |
Bought by Honeywell |
1995 |
|
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| Schlumberger Resource Management Services |
Actaris formed from this division |
Nov. 2001
|
www.actaris.com |
Global supplier of water, gas, and electricity
meters |
| Sensus Technologies |
Bought by Invensys |
|
www.invensys.com |
|
| Setpoint |
Bought by Aspen Technology |
1996 |
|
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| Tekmar
Company |
Bought
by Teledyne |
May 2003 |
www.teledyne.com |
Mfg.
of gas chromatography systems and automated TOC analyzers |
| Thermometrics |
Bought
by GE Industrial Systems from Spirent plc |
Sept. 2001 |
|
Major
supplier of thermistors |
| TI Process Automatioin |
Bought by GSE Systems |
1994 |
|
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| Triconex |
Bought by Siebe
Bought by Invensys
|
1994 |
www.invensys.com |
|
| Universal Engineered Systems |
Bought out by Neptune and liquidated by
Willibrator |
1968 - 1982 |
|
Open channel flowmeter and telemetry
manufacturer; Made Palmer Bowlus flume |
| Universal Flow Monitors/Vortex Flowmeters |
Bought by Asahi America |
1997 |
www.asahi-america.com
|
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| Water Specialties |
Bought by McCrometer |
1999 |
www.mccrometer.com
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