) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Air Filtration business of General Electric Company's Power and Water division for approximately $265 million, subject to contractually agreed adjustments. With over 700 employees around the world and trailing twelve month annual revenues of approximately $230 million, the business is a leading supplier of air filtration systems and filters used in gas turbine applications, as well as industrial air filtration products and membranes. Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas and with manufacturing operations in Missouri, the UK and China, the business will continue to supply gas turbine air inlet filtration systems and filters to GE, which has the world's largest installed base of natural gas turbines, under a