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L.R. Nelson Corporation and Peaktop Investment Holdings announce partnership, focusing on consumer demand for home and garden decorative products

Gallatin, Tennessee

Linatex Corporation of America announces the sale of its process technology product line to McLanahan Corp., Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Linatex will continue to manufacture and distribute its signature product line, premium natural rubber sheet and fabricated products.

ABS Pumps Strengthens its Position within the Service Area in the US.

MUSKEGON, Mich., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ — SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that its Lightnin business has acquired the assets and the ongoing business operations of the Plenty Group from Smiths Group plc.

PEWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Waukesha Bearings Corporation, a subsidiary of Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV) today announced that it has acquired Federal-Mogul RPB, formerly known as Glacier Rotating Plant Bearings, from Federal Mogul Corporation. The acquired business is a UK-based specialist engineering company providing hydrodynamic and magnetic bearing products and services tailored to customers’ needs in the power generation, oil/gas, chemical and industrial markets.

QUINCY, Ill., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ — Gardner Denver, Inc. (NYSE: GDI) reported today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hoffman Air and Filtration Systems (“Hoffman”) from Invensys plc. Hoffman, headquartered in Syracuse, New York, is a supplier of multistage centrifugal blowers and vacuum systems, primarily for wastewater treatment and industrial applications.

QUINCY, Ill., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ — Gardner Denver, Inc. (NYSE: GDI) reported today that it has reached an agreement in principle, subject to the execution of a definitive agreement, to acquire the Hamworthy Belliss & Morcom compressor business (“HBM”) from Powell Duffryn Ltd.

AxFlow Holding AB, Sweden, has through its Danish subsidiary AxFlow A/S, Allerød, acquired 100% of the activities of Scana Godtkjær & Armatur AS, Smørum, Denmark.

Bogart, Georgia, July 30, 2001 … Roper Industries, Inc. (NYSE: ROP) announced that its Board of Directors has approved the acquisition of the stock of Struers Holdings A/S for a purchase price of approximately $139 million in cash net of assumed debt, the largest transaction in Roper’s history.

NORTHBROOK, Ill., June 6 /PRNewswire/ — Dennis K. Williams, chairman, president and chief executive officer of IDEX Corporation, William F. Versaw, founder and president of Versa-Matic Tool, Inc., and Christer Berg, managing director of Eletta International AG (Versa-Matic’s principal shareholder) today announced Versa-Matic has been acquired by IDEX.

Also included in this transaction are affiliated entities Dominator Pump AB and Pumper Parts LLC.