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News Release from: Parker Hannifin - SSD
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 December 2006
Parker Hannifin acquires drives
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Parker Hannifin has acquired SSD (formerly Eurotherm Drives), a manufacturer of AC and DC drives, as well as servo drives, motors, and systems.
Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE: PH) and SSD Drives Holding Limited today jointly announced that Parker has acquired SSD (formerly Eurotherm Drives) from the private equity firm Compass Partners International Limited for an undisclosed amount SSD Drives had fiscal 2005 annual revenues of US$165 million, with approximately 60 percent of its business in Europe
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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SSD Drives has four main manufacturing facilities, including one each in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States, and a sales presence in more than 40 countries.
The company employs about 1,000 people worldwide and manufactures AC and DC drives, as well as servo drives, motors, and systems for leading original equipment manufacturers, end users, and integrators in automated industrial process applications.
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SSD Drives serves global target markets such as plastics, converting, packaging, extrusion, printing, pulp and paper, primary metals and general industrial automation.
It will become part of Parker's Automation Group, with results reported within the company's Industrial Segments.
The acquisition offers complementary technology, products, and customers, adding its leadership in industrial automation and drives technology to Parker's existing strong presence in the precision electromechanical market.
"This is a strategic acquisition for Parker.
It not only significantly increases our automation product offering, but SSD Drives' well-established footprint in Europe and presence in China also gives us a very strong position in the global electromechanical and drives market," commented Parker chairman and CEO Don Washkewicz.
Parker Automation Group president Roger Sherrard said, "We are all very excited about the expanded value proposition this combination brings to our customers.
The talented SSD Drives team's successful track record with innovative motion technology fits very well into our solutions-oriented growth model.
Their automation experience, combined with Parker's existing global industrial markets, will be very complementary to our strategy." SSD Drives' CEO Dan Barnhouse commented, "The SSD Drives team is very excited about this opportunity.
We believe that by joining the Parker family, we have discovered an organization whose values are similar to our own.
The combination of vision, talents and skills from our two leading companies will ensure that together we will have all the capabilities needed to compete successfully in serving a broad range of industrial customers around the world.
This combination will create an exciting new force in global automation." With annual sales exceeding US$8 billion, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets.
The company employs more than 50,000 people in 46 countries around the world.
Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 49 consecutive years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S and P 500 index.
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