Emerson Sells Brooks Instrument  to AIP

艾默生向AIP出售旗下Brooks Instrument公司

ST. LOUIS, January 6, 2008 -- Emerson sold its Brooks Instrument unit on December 31, 2007, to American Industrial Partners Capital Fund for approximately $100 million in cash. AIP is a private equity investment firm that applies an operational approach to building and improving middle-market companies.

圣路易斯1月6日消息——2007年12月31日，艾默生以大約1億美元的現金向美國產業資本伙伴基金(AIP）出售了旗下的布魯克斯儀器（Brooks Instrument）公司。AIP是一家私人股權投資公司，通過應用一種可操作的方法，以創建和完善中等市場的公司。

Brooks, headquartered in Hatfield, PA, provides flow measurement and control devices to the low flow application market, and principally serves the chemical and semiconductor industries. Its sales in fiscal 2007 were approximately $90 million.

布魯克斯公司總部位于賓夕法尼亞州的哈特菲爾德，為低流量應用市場提供流量測量和控制設備，主要服務于化工和半導體工業。其在2007財年的銷售額大約為9000萬美元。

“Brooks Instrument has performed well for Emerson,” said David N. Farr, chairman, CEO and president. “However, we believe Brooks’ alignment within AIP’s business provides the right synergy going forward for both companies.”

董事長、首席執行官兼總裁David N. Farr表示：“布魯克斯儀器為艾默生表現優異。但是我們相信，布魯克斯和AIP的業務的聯合為這兩家公司提供了合適的協同向前發展。”

The sale of Brooks is representative of Emerson’s ongoing strategy to manage its business mix toward high-growth, high-return businesses that are strategic to its entire portfolio. Over the past 18 months, Emerson sold several small businesses which included its Western Forge hand tool unit and Buehler materials testing business, and in recent weeks sold its joint venture interest in Industrial Motion Control (IMC). Emerson also made a number of strategic acquisitions in the past year. Most recently, Emerson in September agreed to acquire Motorola’s Embedded Communications Computing (ECC) business for $350 million. That transaction also closed on Dec. 31.

出售布魯克斯表示著艾默生正在進行的將其業務結構向高成長、高回報業務整合的戰略，對其整個業務組合具有戰略意義。在過去18個月中，艾默生出售了幾家小型企業，其中包括其Western Forge手工具業務以及Buehler材料檢測業務，并在最近幾個星期出售了其在工業運動控制領域的合資公司 。艾默生公司在過去的一年里還提出了一系列的戰略性收購。最近的9月份，艾默生同意以3.5億美元收購摩托羅拉的嵌入式通訊計算平臺（ECC）業務。該項交易也在12月31日結束。

About Emerson
關于艾默生

Emerson (NYSE:EMR), based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2007 were $22.6 billion.

總部位于圣路易斯市的艾默生是一家全球領先的公司，該公司將技術與工程相結合，在網絡能源、過程管理、工業自動化、環境優化技術及家電和工具等領域為客戶提供創新性的解決方案。公司在2007 財年的銷售額達226 億美元。

About American Industrial Partners
關于AIP

Founded in 1989, American Industrial Partners is a private equity firm that makes control equity investments in mid-sized industrial companies that can benefit from the firm’s systematic approach to implementing strategic and operational improvements. 

AIP成立于1989年，是一家私人資本運營公司，主要作向可以受惠于該公司的系統方式來實施的戰略和運營改進的中型工業企業的控制資本投資。

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