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，艾默生以大约1亿美元的现金向美国产业资本伙伴基金(AIP）出售了旗下的布鲁克斯仪器（Brooks Instrument）公司。AIP是一家私人股权投资公司，通过应用一种可操作的方法，以创建和完善中等市场的公司。

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.

布鲁克斯公司总部位于宾夕法尼亚州的哈特菲尔德，为低流量应用市场提供流量测量和控制设备，主要服务于化工和半导体工业。其在2007财年的销售额大约为9000万美元。

“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.”

董事长、首席执行官兼总裁David N. Farr表示：“布鲁克斯仪器为艾默生表现优异。但是我们相信，布鲁克斯和AIP的业务的联合为这两家公司提供了合适的协同向前发展。”

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.

出售布鲁克斯表示着艾默生正在进行的将其业务结构向高成长、高回报业务整合的战略，对其整个业务组合具有战略意义。在过去18个月中，艾默生出售了几家小型企业，其中包括其Western Forge手工具业务以及Buehler材料检测业务，并在最近几个星期出售了其在工业运动控制领域的合资公司 。艾默生公司在过去的一年里还提出了一系列的战略性收购。最近的9月份，艾默生同意以3.5亿美元收购摩托罗拉的嵌入式通讯计算平台（ECC）业务。该项交易也在12月31日结束。

About Emerson
关于艾默生

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.

总部位于圣路易斯市的艾默生是一家全球领先的公司，该公司将技术与工程相结合，在网络能源、过程管理、工业自动化、环境优化技术及家电和工具等领域为客户提供创新性的解决方案。公司在2007 财年的销售额达226 亿美元。

About American Industrial Partners
关于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，是一家私人资本运营公司，主要作向可以受惠于该公司的系统方式来实施的战略和运营改进的中型工业企业的控制资本投资。

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