Smart buy: Emerson expands its consulting capabilities with Bay-Tec acquisition
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 1/6/2009 10:17:00 AM
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Emerson Process Management is expanding its capabilities for providing technical and management services for consultation, design, engineering, and implementation of process automation systems for the life sciences, refining, and other industries through acquisition of Bay-Tec Engineering.
“Bay-Tec’s expertise delivering projects and enabling clients with a commitment to quality and consistency is highly complementary to our existing project service capabilities,” says Steve Sonnenberg, president, Emerson Process Management. “The acquisition expands our ability to address industry needs for automation engineering and project management solutions—particularly on the U.S. West coast. We are committed to growing our worldwide design, engineering, and implementation capabilities. This acquisition is a contribution to that goal.”
Bay-Tec Engineering, headquartered in Napa, Calif., has branch offices in Brea, Calif., and Portland, Ore. It offers process control system engineering and industrial technical services in an effort to provide clients with the very best in automation solutions.
Bay-Tec’s expertise covers a wide range of project services including project management; engineering and design (including cGMP processes); system integration; panel fabrication; installation and commissioning; calibration; and system validation. Bay-Tec supports all of the leading process automation systems, and will continue to do so.
“Emerson’s global reach and technological leadership will help us better serve our valued clients, as well as new ones,” says John Justus, president of Bay-Tec. “Our organizations are well aligned in terms of our strong focus on meeting client automation needs. Joining Emerson will make it possible to deliver a broader, more comprehensive solution in the implementation of control systems that our clients require to meet increasingly complex needs.”
