A História da Fisher Controls | Page 61

The Fisher Story | 59 Fisher Controls attends the first U.S./China trade event in Beijing. Sales meeting utilizes the theme “Staking Our Claim.” (Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California) McKinney plant completes a $4.3 million expansion. 1981 Process instrumentation (PI) group in Marshalltown starts move to Austin, Texas. Toluca, Mexico, plant doubles in size. Annual sales are $650 million. This advertisement’s headline reads: “Out here it’s always Fisher time” 1990 - An oil company in the Middle East ordered $28 million worth of Fisher equipment to control gas-oil separation processes (GOSP), seawater treatment, water injection and water pumping stations. 1991 - Marshalltown supplied an SS-250 valve with two-stage trim for the Stratfjord B, an oil platform in the North Sea, off the coast of Norway. 1992 - Fisher-Marshalltown designed and built a series of critical service valves for the Alaska pipeline. The order included some giants: a 2500pound Design EHT antisurge valve, four 30-inch Design FBGT globe valves and a 60-inch butterfly valve (made in North Stonington). 2002 - The first $1M fabricated body valve resists corrosion in a chemical plant in Zhuhai, China. 2004 - Fisher supplies general and severe service control valves for a new oil-from-tarsands project in Alberta. 2005 - A series of large compressor antisurge valves serve natural gas projects in Brunei and Qatar.