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Grundfos adds Alldos to growing dosing area
January 2005
Pump Industry Analyst
NEWS
GRUNDFOS ADDS ALLDOS TO GROWING DOSING AREA Grundfos has acquired the German dosing pump maker Alldos. The deal strengthens Grundfos’s position in the market for dosing pumps - an area Grundfos has been involved in for the last four years. Grundfos will now centre its main dosing pump activities around the newly acquired company. “Apart from the water treatment sector, liquid dosing pumps for the food industry is an important market segment. We have only recently begun working with pumps for the food industry when we purchased another German pump company called Hilge last year, and in the long run we expect to be able to create synergies between these two areas,” said Grundfos executive vice president Søren Ø Sørensen. Alldos owner Wolfgang Eichler has now retired as chairman of the board, with Grundfos’s Sørensen taking up the post. Alldos management remains unchanged with Ewald Diesslin continuing as CEO. The Grundfos director of the dosing area, Jes Munk Hansen, will join Alldos’s management team. Alldos has 36 years of experience in dosing, a large R&D department, and a wellestablished co-operation with the College of Engineering in Karlsruhe. Alldos also develops and manufactures sensors and control systems for use with dosing pumps. The group has an annual turnover of 40 million, making it one of Grundfos’s largest acquisitions to date. Alldos has 280 employees the majority of whom work in Pfinztal near Karlsruhe in Germany. The company has its administrative headquarters in Switzerland.
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DOVER ACQUIRES ALMATEC Dover Resources has completed the acquisition of Almatec GmbH, the German manufacturer of air operated double diaphragm pumps. Düsseldorf-based Almatec will become a subsidiary of Wilden Pump and Engineering LLC. “With virtually no product or distribution overlap, our two companies can leverage individual strengths for optimum growth and efficiency,” said John Allen, president & COO of Wilden Pump. “Almatec’s location is ideal to take advantage of global sourcing in Eastern Europe, while new markets such as Biopharmaceutical will favour Almatec’s premium product features,” added Bruce Bartells, Wilden Pump CEO.
ITT RESOLVES FRANKLIN ELECTRIC LAWSUIT Franklin Electric Co Inc has reached a settlement in litigation filed by ITT Water Technology Inc which challenged Franklin’s plans to distribute 4-inch submersible motor products directly to distributors in the USA and Canada as well as Franklin’s announced price changes on its 4-inch motors (see Pump Industry Analyst, October 2004). Under the terms of the settlement, ITT will purchase the majority of its 4-inch submersible electric motors in the USA and Canada in the 1/3 through 2hp size ratings from Franklin to 31 December 2006. Franklin has agreed, for this same time period, to supply these products to ITT. The settlement agreement contains no limitation on the sale of any other Franklin products to distributors,
including assembled pump motor units sold through its newly acquired Franklin Pump Systems business unit (see Pump Industry Analyst, October 2004). A similar settlement was reached in November last year with Pentair Pump Group and Sta-Rite Industries (see Pump Industry Analyst, November 2004).
USFILTER AND WILO/EMU END SALES RELATIONSHIP Wilo AG and USFilter Corp have terminated their agreement to market Wilo’s EMU line of pumps and mixers in North America through USFilter sales channels, effective 31 December 2004. The USFilter/EMU relationship goes back more than 25 years. The agreement gave USFilter the right to exclusively market EMU products in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. Wilo acquired EMU in January 2003 (see Pump Industry Analyst, January 2003). “Wilo sells primarily through its own subsidiaries worldwide. The decision to end the long-standing relationship with USFilter was driven by our ongoing business strategy to have a uniform sales distribution for the Wilo and EMU products globally,” explained Terry Rouse, CEO of Wilo-EMU LLC. “We respect the decision of Wilo-EMU and have enjoyed working with them closely through the years. EMU has great quality submersible pumps and mixers and we will continue to use their products in our systems when applicable,” said Robert Tatum, general manager, USFilter. EMU customers in North America will now be supported by Wilo-EMU USA based in Thomasville, Georgia.
Editor Roisin Reidy Elsevier Advanced Technology PO Box 150 Kidlington Oxford OX5 1AS United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1865 843695 Fax: +44 (0)1865 843971 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.worldpumps.com Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier Rights & Permissions Department, PO Box 800, Oxford OX5 1DX, UK; phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: permissions @elsevier.com. You may also contact Rights & Permissions directly through Elsevier’s home page (http://www.elsevier.com), selecting first ‘Customer Support’, then ‘General Information’, then Permissions Query Form’. In the USA, users may clear permissions and make payments through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA; phone: (978) 7508400, fax: (978) 7504744, and in the UK through the Copyright Licensing Agency Rapid Clearance Service (CLARCS), 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP, UK; phone: (+44) 207 436 5931; fax: (+44) 207 436 3986. Other countries may have a local reprographic rights agency for payments. Derivative Works Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution. Permission of the publisher is required for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. Electronic Storage or Usage Permission of the publisher is required to store or use electronically any material contained in this journal, including any article or part of an article. Contact the publisher at the address indicated. Except as outlined above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. Address permissions requests to: Elsevier Rights & Permissions Department, at the mail, fax and e-mail addresses noted above. Notice No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made. Although all advertising material is expected to conform to ethical (medical) standards, inclusion in this publication does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of the quality or value of such product or of the claims made of it by its manufacturer.
02167 Printed by Mayfield Press (Oxford) Limited, UK.
Pump Industry Analyst
NEWS
GRUNDFOS ADDS ALLDOS TO GROWING DOSING AREA Grundfos has acquired the German dosing pump maker Alldos. The deal strengthens Grundfos’s position in the market for dosing pumps - an area Grundfos has been involved in for the last four years. Grundfos will now centre its main dosing pump activities around the newly acquired company. “Apart from the water treatment sector, liquid dosing pumps for the food industry is an important market segment. We have only recently begun working with pumps for the food industry when we purchased another German pump company called Hilge last year, and in the long run we expect to be able to create synergies between these two areas,” said Grundfos executive vice president Søren Ø Sørensen. Alldos owner Wolfgang Eichler has now retired as chairman of the board, with Grundfos’s Sørensen taking up the post. Alldos management remains unchanged with Ewald Diesslin continuing as CEO. The Grundfos director of the dosing area, Jes Munk Hansen, will join Alldos’s management team. Alldos has 36 years of experience in dosing, a large R&D department, and a wellestablished co-operation with the College of Engineering in Karlsruhe. Alldos also develops and manufactures sensors and control systems for use with dosing pumps. The group has an annual turnover of 40 million, making it one of Grundfos’s largest acquisitions to date. Alldos has 280 employees the majority of whom work in Pfinztal near Karlsruhe in Germany. The company has its administrative headquarters in Switzerland.
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DOVER ACQUIRES ALMATEC Dover Resources has completed the acquisition of Almatec GmbH, the German manufacturer of air operated double diaphragm pumps. Düsseldorf-based Almatec will become a subsidiary of Wilden Pump and Engineering LLC. “With virtually no product or distribution overlap, our two companies can leverage individual strengths for optimum growth and efficiency,” said John Allen, president & COO of Wilden Pump. “Almatec’s location is ideal to take advantage of global sourcing in Eastern Europe, while new markets such as Biopharmaceutical will favour Almatec’s premium product features,” added Bruce Bartells, Wilden Pump CEO.
ITT RESOLVES FRANKLIN ELECTRIC LAWSUIT Franklin Electric Co Inc has reached a settlement in litigation filed by ITT Water Technology Inc which challenged Franklin’s plans to distribute 4-inch submersible motor products directly to distributors in the USA and Canada as well as Franklin’s announced price changes on its 4-inch motors (see Pump Industry Analyst, October 2004). Under the terms of the settlement, ITT will purchase the majority of its 4-inch submersible electric motors in the USA and Canada in the 1/3 through 2hp size ratings from Franklin to 31 December 2006. Franklin has agreed, for this same time period, to supply these products to ITT. The settlement agreement contains no limitation on the sale of any other Franklin products to distributors,
including assembled pump motor units sold through its newly acquired Franklin Pump Systems business unit (see Pump Industry Analyst, October 2004). A similar settlement was reached in November last year with Pentair Pump Group and Sta-Rite Industries (see Pump Industry Analyst, November 2004).
USFILTER AND WILO/EMU END SALES RELATIONSHIP Wilo AG and USFilter Corp have terminated their agreement to market Wilo’s EMU line of pumps and mixers in North America through USFilter sales channels, effective 31 December 2004. The USFilter/EMU relationship goes back more than 25 years. The agreement gave USFilter the right to exclusively market EMU products in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. Wilo acquired EMU in January 2003 (see Pump Industry Analyst, January 2003). “Wilo sells primarily through its own subsidiaries worldwide. The decision to end the long-standing relationship with USFilter was driven by our ongoing business strategy to have a uniform sales distribution for the Wilo and EMU products globally,” explained Terry Rouse, CEO of Wilo-EMU LLC. “We respect the decision of Wilo-EMU and have enjoyed working with them closely through the years. EMU has great quality submersible pumps and mixers and we will continue to use their products in our systems when applicable,” said Robert Tatum, general manager, USFilter. EMU customers in North America will now be supported by Wilo-EMU USA based in Thomasville, Georgia.
Editor Roisin Reidy Elsevier Advanced Technology PO Box 150 Kidlington Oxford OX5 1AS United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1865 843695 Fax: +44 (0)1865 843971 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.worldpumps.com Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier Rights & Permissions Department, PO Box 800, Oxford OX5 1DX, UK; phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: permissions @elsevier.com. You may also contact Rights & Permissions directly through Elsevier’s home page (http://www.elsevier.com), selecting first ‘Customer Support’, then ‘General Information’, then Permissions Query Form’. In the USA, users may clear permissions and make payments through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA; phone: (978) 7508400, fax: (978) 7504744, and in the UK through the Copyright Licensing Agency Rapid Clearance Service (CLARCS), 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP, UK; phone: (+44) 207 436 5931; fax: (+44) 207 436 3986. Other countries may have a local reprographic rights agency for payments. Derivative Works Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution. Permission of the publisher is required for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. Electronic Storage or Usage Permission of the publisher is required to store or use electronically any material contained in this journal, including any article or part of an article. Contact the publisher at the address indicated. Except as outlined above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the publisher. Address permissions requests to: Elsevier Rights & Permissions Department, at the mail, fax and e-mail addresses noted above. Notice No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made. Although all advertising material is expected to conform to ethical (medical) standards, inclusion in this publication does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of the quality or value of such product or of the claims made of it by its manufacturer.
02167 Printed by Mayfield Press (Oxford) Limited, UK.