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Fairey Porvair is to acquire Microfiltrex, the manufacturer of filtration products, from Fairey for £12m. 28-Mar-2001 Fairey, the instrumentation and controls group, is planning to sell three filtration businesses and change its name to Spectris. 12-Mar-2001 Fairey is acquiring Spectris AG Sensoren und Systeme, the German controls company, for £125m, partly funded by a £55m rights issue. 04-May-2000 Fairey is set to acquire Servomex, the industrial instruments company, for £19m. 13-May-1999 Fairey has sold its Fairey Hydraulics division to a management buy-out for £55m, thereby ending its links with the aerospace and defence industries and enabling it to focus on electronic controls and process technology. 27-Jan-1998 Beauford has acquired Allied Insulators, the electrical insulator, from Fairey Group for an initial £8m, as Fairey continues to refocus its activities in the ceramics sector. 22-Oct-1997 Fairey has acquired NDC Systems, the gauging equipment company based in California, for £18.1m. 02-Jul-1997 Fairey Group has won control of Burnfield, the maker of measuring instruments, and will now block Burnfield's attempted acquisition of Ling Dynamic Systems. 21-Jan-1997 Fairey Group has launched a £51m bid for Burnfield, the measuring instruments maker, but the bid is conditional on Burnfield abandoning its acquisition of LDS. 18-Dec-1996 Fairey Group is acquiring Fusion UV Systems, the US ultraviolet curing systems company, for £81m. 16-Aug-1996 Fairey Group is acquiring Particle Measuring Systems, the US contamination equipment concern, for $75m. 18-Jan-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007