64 | The Fisher Story
1985 Art French succeeds Bob Flynn as president.
4200 Series electronic position transmitter and
software packages for boiler control are introduced.
Fisher Service centers in LaPorte, Texas; Edmonton,
Alberta; and Chicago, Illinois, begin facility
expansions.
Cowdenbeth, Scotland, plant merges with the
Rochester, U.K., plant to form the Medway plant
(Strood, Rochester, Kent).
Fisher-Marshalltown
employees produce
and ship a Type AR
titanium valve.
Wellness committee
forms in
Marshalltown.
Quality Improvement
Process is
implemented.
1986 Six global
business units are
established: process
instrumentation (PI),
final control systems (FCS), measurement
instrumentation (MI), support services, SUNVIC, and
PERMEA, Inc. (skid-mounted systems).
Acquisition of Posi-Seal International
(North Stonington,
Connecticut) adds
high-performance
butterfly valves to the
product range. It’s a wholly-owned subsidiary.
James Teegarden is appointed group vice president of
FCS, which includes valves and regulators.
Asia-Pacific Milestones
Fisher-Marshalltown Education Center trains more
than 2,000 students.
1965 - Registered GEC Elliot in
Singapore. Started valve assembly
operations at Bukit Timah.
1969 - Established Nippon Fisher as
a licensee plant and sales office.
1974 - Opened Sakura plant.
Opened Singapore sales office.
1979 - Changed name to Fisher
Controls Singapore. Signed sales
representative agreements with
PT Control System (Indonesia),
Transwater Tenaga (Malaysia),
Kanit Engineering (Thailand) and
Pearl Engineering (Pakistan).
1984 - Signed sales representative
agreements with Instrumentation
Engineers, Trigon Management
(Philippines), Lumax International
(Taiwan) and Custom Controls
(New Zealand).
1987 - Signed sales representative
agreements with Centralian
Controls, Pacific Controls, Southern
Controls and Western Process
Controls, all in Australia.
1990 - Signed sales representative
agreement with KOFAC (Korea).
1992 - Established China office.
Signed sales representative
agreement with Loftyman
Engineering. Formed joint venture
to produce and sell in China.
1993 - Signed sales representative
agreement with AMP Mo Services
(Brunei).
1994 - Opened Bao’an Emerson
Machinery Equipment (Shenzhen)
Co., Ltd. Sales offices in India opens.