|
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; Elster is now part of
Honeywell |
2002 |
Honeywell
Elster Group GmbH |
Elster-Amco
located in Gerrmany; ABB Water Meters in Ocala, Florida |
| Accusonic |
Bought
by ADS Corp. |
|
Accusonic,
a brand of ADS LLC |
Open channel flowmeters for large pipe applications;
water, wastewater, and power generation markets; multi-path transit-time |
| AEG Schneider Automation |
Bought by Groupe Schneider |
1996 |
|
|
| AEG Automation Systems |
Taken over by Cegelec |
1996 |
www.fmcenergysystems.com
|
|
| AFTCO, LLC |
Spirax
Sarco acquired AFTCO flow measurement business from AMJ Equipment Corporation |
2006 |
https://www.spiraxsarco.com/
|
|
| ARI Industries |
Operating
unit of Okazaki Manufacturing in Japan |
|
|
Manufacturer of temperature sensors |
| Badger
Meter/ultrasonic flowmeter division |
Bought by Eastech Flow Controls |
2001 |
Eastech
Flow Controls |
|
| Badger
Meter |
Badger
Meter acquired:
Data Industrial Corporation
Meca Plus Equipements
COX Instruments, w/ Exact Flow
& Flow Dynamics Inc. (FDI)
Remag AG
Aquacue
D-Flow Technology
Nice Instrumentation |
2002
2002
4/2010
1/ 2011
2013-15
4/2017
|
Badger Meter
|
|
| Baker
Hughes Company, formerly Baker Hughes Inc., then a GE Company (BHGE) |
Merged with GE Oil and Gas
in 2017 to become Baker Hughes, a GE Company (BHGE), then divested from GE
in 2019 and became Baker Hughes Company. GE still holds 57.5% of shares.
Previously acquired Dresser, Druck, General
Eastern, Kay, NovaSensor, Panametrics, Protimeter, Rheonik, Ruska, SI,
Thermometrics, Telaire |
|
www.bakerhughes.com
|
full-stream
oil & gas company |
| Barton
Instrument Systems |
Oil
& Gas Division bought by SCF Partners of Houston. Formed Nu/Flo
Technologies. Rest of company became Prime Measurement |
5/2003 |
NuFlo Technologies
|
Supplier
of pos. displacement & turbine meters |
| Brooks Instrument |
Bought by Emerson
Electric
Sold to American Industrial
Partners
|
1964
1/2008 |
www.rosemount.com
www.emersonprocess.com
www.brooksinstrument.com
|
Mfg. of thermal, variable area, magnetic,
Coriolis, and other types of flowmeters |
| Cameron International Corporation |
Merged
with Schlumberger Limited |
4/1/ 2016 |
Schlumberger |
Schlumberger’s reservoir and well
expertise plus Cameron’s wellhead and surface equipment, flow control,
processing technology |
| 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 |
|
|
| Consolidated
Valves |
Dresser |
|
|
|
| COX
Instruments |
Acquired
by Badger Meter |
4/2010 |
Cox
Precision, a Badger Meter brand
|
Turbine
flowmeters |
| 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 |
| D-Flow
Technology |
Bought
by Badger Meter and now its Ultrasonic Innovation Center |
April 2017 |
badgermeter.com
|
Ultrasonic
flow |
| Dieterich Standard |
Bought by Emerson Electric |
1996 |
www.rosemount.com
|
|
| Direct Measurement Corp. |
Bought by FMC Corp. |
1996 |
www.fmcenergysystems.com
|
|
| Drexelbrook |
Bought
by Ametek |
|
www.ametek.com |
Supplier of level
measurement devices |
| Eckardt |
Bought by
Invensys |
1994 |
www.invensys.com |
|
| Elsag Bailey |
Bailey
Controls merged with Elsag Group in 1989 to form Elsag Bailey Process
Automation, then merged with ABB in 1998 |
1998 |
ABB
Bailey
Controls |
Process
automation |
| Elster |
Honeywell International
bought Melrose Industries' Elster unit
|
12/2015 |
Honeywell
Elster
|
World leader
natural
gas, electricity, water measurement |
| 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
|
|
| Fischer & Porter |
Bought by Elsag Bailey, then by ABB |
|
www.abb.com
|
Instrumentation supplier |
| FMC
Technologies |
Merged
with Technip |
1/17/2017 |
TechnipFMC
|
A
global leader in subsea, onshore, offshore, and surface technologies |
Flow Research (Florida)
(Not the Massachusetts-based market
research company) |
Bought by Peek Instruments/Polysonics |
|
www.polysonicsinc.com
|
Manufactures impeller type meters; Polyonics
also manufactures ultrasonic and other types of flowmeters; |
| Foxboro |
Bought
by Invensys |
|
www.foxboro.com
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
Brunata specializes in district heating |
| Honeywell
International |
Honeywell International
bought Melrose Industries'
Elster unit
|
12/2015 |
Honeywell
Elster Group GmbH
Honeywell
International
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| In-Line Measurements |
Bought by Honeywell |
1996 |
|
|
| Intellution |
Bought by Emerson Electric |
1995 |
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
| Measurex |
Bought by Honeywell |
1997 |
|
|
| Micro Motion |
Bought by Emerson Electric |
1984 |
www.micromotion.com
|
|
| Milltronics |
Bought by Siemens |
Feb. 2000
|
www.siemens-milltronics.com
|
|
| Moore Products |
Bought by Siemens |
|
www.siemens-moore.com
|
|
| MTI |
Agilent Technologies |
|
|
MTI was a gas chromatagraph manufacturer |
| Nice
Instrumentation |
Bought
by Badger Meter |
|
|
Designed
vortex flowmeters |
| 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 |
|
|
| Racine
Federated Inc. |
Bought
by Badger Meter |
2012 |
www.racinefed.com |
Dynasonics ultrasonic flowmeters |
| Remag
AG |
Bought
by Badger Meter |
Jan. 2011 |
https://www.badgermeter.ch/ |
Manufacturer and distributor of precision flow measurement products, including liquid turbine
meters; also produced actuators and fittings for the HVAC and household industry and
environmental technology for flow, pressure, temperature, and humidity |
| Schlumberger Limited |
Acquired
Cameron International |
April 1, 2016 |
www.slb.com |
Schlumberger’s reservoir and well
expertise plus Cameron’s wellhead and surface equipment, flow control, processing
technology |
| Schlumberger Resource Management Services |
Actaris formed from this division |
Nov. 2001
|
www.actaris.com |
Global supplier of water, gas, and electricity
meters |
| SensAction |
Acquired
by Endress+Hauser
|
3/14/17 retroactive to 1/1/2017
|
SensAction
AG |
Manufacturer of multisensors for the concentration measurement of liquids |
| Sensus Technologies |
Aquired
by Xylem
Bought Sentec
Formerly known as Rockwell, Equimeter and Invensys
-- Jordan Company acquired Sensus 12/18/2003
|
8/15/2016
111/18/2015
|
Sensus,
a xylem brand |
Smart meters, network technologies, and advanced data analytics services for
water, electric and gas industries |
| Sentec |
Bought
by Sensus, which was later bought by Sylem |
11/18/2015
8/15/2016
|
Sentec,
a xylem brand |
Research organization that develops
delectronics and sensor technologies for utilities, meter and appliance manufacturers,
infrastructure providers |
| Setpoint |
Bought by Aspen Technology |
1996 |
|
|
| Sierra
Instruments |
Bought
by TASI Group |
May 2019 |
TASI
Group, Sierra Instruments
Sierra Instruments |
Mass
flow controllers, thermal insertion, vortex and ultrasonic flow meters
complementing TASI Flow Division offerings |
| Sponsler |
Bought
by IDEX; now Liquid Controls, a Unit of IDEx |
June 2003 |
Liquid
Controls |
Turbine
flowmeter manufacturer |
| Technip |
Merged
with FMC Technologies |
1/17/2017 |
TechnipFMC |
A global leader in subsea, onshore, offshore, and surface technologies |
| Tekmar
Company |
Bought
by Teledyne |
May 2003 |
Teledyne |
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 |
|
|
| 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
|
|
| VorTek
Instruments |
Became
wholly owned subsidiary of azbil North America |
January 2013 |
VorTek
Instruments
|
Manufacturer
of precision multivariable vortex, turbine and ultrasonic flowmeters |
| Water Specialties |
Bought by McCrometer |
1999 |
McCrometer
|
|
| Yamatake |
Group name change to
azbil. Yamatake America and Yamatake Sensing Control merged to form Azbil North
America. Yamatake Environmental Engineering (in China) renamed Azbil Control Solution Co., Ltd |
2008 group name change
2012 all existing names in Japan changed to azbil |
azbil
Group |
|
| Yokogawa Meters & Instruments Corporation |
Changed name |
10/1/2017 |
Yokogawa Test & Measurement Corporation |
High value-added measurement solutions for the power, optical communications, and
plant maintenance markets. |
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