Untitled DocumentMurata Increasing Worldwide Presence
Murata Manufacturing Co. has announced that it has completed the all-cash acquisition of C&D Technologies' Power Electronics Division (PED valued at $85 million. The amount is subject to working capital adjustments. PED will begin to operate under the name Murata Power Solutions.
The acquisition of PED will strengthen Murata's market presence for power outside of Japan, and enable Murata to offer a greater range of power products and technology to its existing customers.
Murata Power Solutions is headquartered in Mansfield, MA. With over 1,300 employees and locations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Tokyo and China, the company designs, manufactures and distributes DC/DC converters, AC/DC power supplies, magnetics, data acquisition devices and panel meters.
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Quartz crystals.Clock oscillators.TCXOs.OCXOs.VCXOs.VCOs.Pepperl+Fuchs And Emerson To Aid Oil-Field Efforts In Angola
Pepperl+Fuchs has been awarded a contract to be the Fieldbus interface supplier, partnering with Emerson Process Management, for the project awarded by BP to automate the floating production, storage and offloading vessel that will develop the Greater Plutonio Deepwater offshore oil fields of Angola.
Emerson will implement the Pepperl+Fuchs fieldbus installation system FieldConnex and a range of FOUNDATION fieldbus interface solutions. For the project, the FieldConnex products were supplied mounted into customized stainless steel enclosures and pre-wired to a requested specification.
The FieldConnex will interface the field measurement instrumentation to Emerson's DeltaV digital automation system which includes the unique AMS Suite predictive maintenance software.
The vessel, being built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, will be 310 meters long, weigh 80,000 tons, and be capable of storing 2 million barrels of crude oil with living quarters for 100 crewmembers. The topside facilities will produce an average of 200 thousand barrels per day of export-quality oil.
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