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Siebe and BTR are merging to create a £9bn control systems and automation group, and about 1,000 UK jobs could be lost as a result. 24-Nov-1998 Siebe is selling North Safety Products, the US maker of personal safety products, to Norcross Safety Products of the US for £137m. 03-Sep-1998 Siebe has acquired Electronic Measurement, the US power supplies manufacturer, for £34m, and it will form part of a new North American division called Lambda EMI. 17-Jul-1998 Siebe has succeeded in its battle to gain control of Nemic-Lambda, the Japanese switch maker, having ousted the founder and appointed a new board of directors. 02-Jul-1998 Siebe is planning to accelerate its restructuring programme because of global economic conditions, and aims to move 2,000 manufacturing jobs from the US and Europe to cheaper locations such as Malaysia and Mexico. 03-Jun-1998 Siebe is trying to gain control of Nemic-Lambda, its Japanese power controls subsidiary, by proposing an alternative board of directors. 27-May-1998 Siebe is to acquire Eurotherm, the industrial controls company, for £421m, which will make it the largest process automation group in the world. 28-Apr-1998 Siebe is planning to acquire Simulation Services, the US supplier of process simulation software, for £88m, as part of an expansion of its control systems division. 16-Apr-1998 Siebe is to acquire Wonderware, the US supplier of factory-control systems, for £225m. 25-Feb-1998 Siebe is to acquire Coleman Safety and Security Products, the US maker of home safety equipment, for £64m. 20-Feb-1998 Siebe is looking to sell APV's tank and ice cream freezer division, which has annual sales of £31m. 19-Dec-1997 Siebe may step up its expansion plans in the Far East due to falling currencies in the region, possibly through acquisition or by switching manufacturing to plants in Malaysia, China and Japan. 03-Dec-1997 Siebe is selling Wells Electronics, the US maker of semiconductor testing equipment, to PCD for £77m. 19-Nov-1997 Siebe has announced that its Foxboro control systems business has been appointed the preferred supplier for Dow Chemical's plant automation systems. 30-Sep-1997 Siebe has bought Appliance Control Operations, the French-based controls and automation products company, from Eaton Corporation for £193m. 24-Sep-1997 Siebe has been appointed preferred supplier of plant automation solutions to both Shell International and Owens Corning. 14-Jul-1997 Siebe is acquiring Carl Froh's tube production line in Germany for £5.2m, and PJ King, the Australian supplier of tubular fluid systems, for £2.8m. 04-Jul-1997 Siebe has announced a £331m agreed takeover offer for APV, the process equipment maker. 10-May-1997 Siebe is acquiring Predictive Control, the industrial controls software concern, for £3m. 07-Mar-1997 Siebe is acquiring Whessoe, the instruments and controls manufacturer, for £46m. 13-Feb-1997 Siebe has acquired Satchwell Controls, the maker of building automation systems, from GEC for £80m. 03-Jan-1997 Siebe, the industrial controls company, is to introduce the Six Sigma quality control programme in all its 150 factories in order to save £50m a year. 04-Dec-1996 Siebe is setting up Siebe India in order to build engineering centres in India for industrial process control equipment. 20-Nov-1996 Siebe is creating a new automotive division as part of its temperature and appliance controls operation, in order to take advantage of the increasing number of carmakers that are demanding component manufacturers to supply complete subsystems ready for assembly. 07-Oct-1996 Siebe is to acquire the compressed air division of Mannesmann Demag of Germany for £20m. 25-Sep-1996 Siebe is linking with GE Fanuc to set up a new company in Germany called GE Fanuc Eberle Automation, which will develop programmable logic controllers. 08-Aug-1996 Siebe has acquired Controlli, the Italian maker of valves and controls, for £9.4m. 17-Jul-1996 Siebe is acquiring ERO Electronic, the Milan-based controls maker, for £18.5m. 30-Apr-1996 Siebe is to acquire Unitech, the electronic controls concern, for £520m, thus creating the world's largest company in the sector. 04-Apr-1996 Siebe has bought a 25% stake in Unitech and hopes to agree a £450m takeover. 16-Mar-1996 Siebe is selling Barber-Colman Motors, its US electrical motors operation, to Jordan Industries for £13m. 16-Feb-1996 Siebe, the Berkshire engineering concern, has won £50m of control systems orders, and will be taking on 350 graduate systems and applications engineers around the world. 26-Jan-1996
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