Brooks Instrument acquired by American Industrial Partners (AIP)

Phil Black - PII Editor 07/05/2008

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American Industrial Partners (AIP) has acquired Brooks® Instrument, from Emerson Process Management. Brooks is the world-leading supplier of precision low flow measurement and control instrumentation with headquarters in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, USA and manufacturing locations in Hungary, France, The Netherlands, and Japan.

Brooks products are aimed mainly at laboratory, pilot plant applications and process applications. They include mass flow meters and controllers based on Coriolis or Thermal technology, high pressure and glass and metal tube rotameters.

American Industrial Partners sees the established Brooks Instrument leadership in several technologies as having major attributes and potential for further development. “Brooks products are able to address the specific technical requirements of emerging industries, such as life sciences, fuel cells, semiconductor and thin films,” said John Becker, a partner in American Industrial Partners, and Chairman of the new Brooks Instrument LLC. “At the same time we will ensure that the many research laboratories and pilot plants, particularly in the petro-chemical industry, that rely on Brooks products for their own business development, will continue to receive the high levels of world wide service and support they have come to rely on”.

The Brooks Instrument product range includes an extensive portfolio of flow meters and controllers based on both Thermal and Coriolis mass flow measurement technology, Variable Area flowmeters, using glass, plastic and metal flow tubes. Brooks also has a complete line of pressure regulators and digital pressure controllers. Custom flow control systems are provided for OEMs together with other specialty products, for example gas blending manifolds and integrated vaporiser systems for critical thin film coating applications.

The new company will trade under the name Brooks Instrument LLC, and has established a web presence as www.brooksinstrument.com

For more information contact Brooks Instrument B.V. Neonstraat 3, 6718 WX Ede, the Netherlands Tel: +31 (0) 318 549 264 Fax: +31 (0) 318 549 269
Email: monique.broekman@EmersonProcess.com