ITT agrees to purchase Nova Analytics
“This acquisition fits perfectly with ITT’s strategy to expand into categories adjacent to our core businesses and build on our global leadership positions in water, wastewater and industrial process, and products for the food & beverage market,” said Gretchen McClain, president of ITT Fluid and Motion Control group. “Nova offers ITT a collection of leading brands and technologies, robust distribution, and a strong platform in the $6 billion analytical instrumentation market from which to establish a new growth platform for the corporation.”
McClain sees the acquisition as a natural extension of ITT’s $4.7 billion Fluid and Motion Control business, with presence in more than 130 countries and established brands including Flygt, Sanitaire, Jabsco, Totten, Goulds, Bell & Gossett, Lowara, WEDECO and Leopold.
“Adding Nova’s recognized brands such as WTW, SI Analytics, Global Water and Aanderaa to our existing portfolio of water and wastewater pumps and treatment systems will enable us to more fully address our customers’ needs when it comes to fluid transport, testing and treatment, and to assist them in more effectively meeting the increasingly stringent regulatory, environmental, and energy efficiency requirements they are facing,” McClain said.
“By combining Nova’s WTW branded instrument and sensor portfolio with our current offerings, ITT will have one of the industry’s broadest sensor and instrument ranges for wastewater plant process monitoring and control. This combined portfolio will allow ITT to better address all of our customers’ treatment plant process design, operation and control needs, and assist them in controlling their operating and construction expenses.”
The transaction is expected to close within the first quarter of 2010, pending customary regulatory approvals.
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