LAKE FOREST, Ill. (April 30, 2012) – IDEX Corporation acquired ERC from MH Capital Partners II, L.P. (“MH Capital”). ERC manufactures gas liquid separations and detection solutions for the life science, analytical instrumentation and clinical chemistry markets.

NEUSS, Germany (April 10, 2012) – Verder acquired the company Eltra GmbH in Neuss, Germany and its manufacturing facility ASAL sarl in Bucharest, Romania.

Eltra is a manufacturer of elemental analyzers. The equipment is partly manufactured in its own factory Asal but the design, final assembly and testing is done in the Neuss facility. The products are distributed through a worldwide network of laboratory dealers with a customer base predominantly in the steel and ceramics industry.

ST. LOUIS (March 16, 2012) – Emerson announced it has acquired Avtron Loadbank, a leading designer and manufacturer of high quality load banks and other testing systems and services for the standby power generation, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and other power equipment industries. With over 50 years of experience, Avtron Loadbank’s complete solution for testing power supply systems includes advanced data acquisition, control, and monitoring technologies.

ATLANTA (June 19, 2012) – Siemens Drive Technologies Division’s Norwood (Ohio) Motor Manufacturing Plant has been selected by the Mekorot National Water Company to produce vertical frame motors to support one of the largest water infrastructure projects in Israel since the 1960s.

Siemens global team of motor experts from Norwood and Siemens Israel collaborated to secure an order for 10, 2,600kW (3,487 hp each, Above NEMA) vertical motors, totaling approximately $2.7 million.

Umeå, Sweden (June 18, 2012) – Sorubin, a producer of “new generation” energy efficient aeration products for water treatment, has made strong inroads among global food processing companies. The world’s largest food company, Nestlé, and European seafood producer, Abba Seafood, have both recently ordered the energy-efficient Microluft aerator to treat wastewater at its production units.

HELSINKI, Finland (June 13, 2012) – Metso has signed several contracts for supplying automation technology for greenfield waste-to-energy plants in Italy, Estonia and the U.K. Modern automation solutions will play a major role in managing these new plants successfully. Plant operators will able to maximize incineration capacity, keep combustion and steam production stable, as well as maintain high process availability.