Wabtec Acquires Mors Smitt, A Manufacturer Of Electronics For Rail And Industrial Markets for $88M

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Wabtec Corporation
WAB
has acquired Mors Smitt Holding, a leading manufacturer of electronic components for rail and industrial markets, from the investment company Eurazeo PME, for about $88 million. Mors Smitt has annual sales of about $60 million, and operations in The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the U.S., France, China and Hong-Kong. Wabtec expects the transaction to be accretive in the first year. "Mors Smitt provides a variety of safety-critical components and will be a strategic complement to our existing rail and industrial product lines," said Albert J. Neupaver, Wabtec's president and chief executive officer. "The company's global presence adds to our international footprint with established manufacturing and distribution capabilities."
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