A História da Fisher Controls | Page 67

The Fisher Story | 65 North American customers receive a belt buckle when they purchase a Type 399. Assembly of traditional PI products moves into the Olive Street building in Marshalltown. 75,000-square-foot addition to staging center and 86,000-squarefoot operations building open in Austin, Texas. Type 399 “Easy Joe” regulator, Type 1250 actuator, Design GL valve, and Design RSS lined globe valve are introduced. Serial number 10,000,000 assigned to a Type 667 diaphragm actuator. Leicester, England, facility opens. Fisher-Marshalltown forms Project Wildcat as its first cross-functional team to develop products for remote control and data acquisition. Team Up newsletter is distributed to employees of Fisher Controls in Asia-Pacific. The Fisher Service Company opens a new center in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and breaks ground for an expansion in Mansfield, Ohio. The Leicester, England, facility comprises a 50,000-square-foot single-story production area and two, two-story office blocks, each comprising 27,500 square feet 1995 - Fisher Sanmar Ltd., a joint venture plant, opens in India. 1996 - Signed sales representative agreement with Star Controls (China). 1997 - Started manufacturing instruments at the Singapore Valve Instruments Manufacturing (SVIM) plant. Closed all China direct sales offices. Signed sales representative agreement with South China Controls. 1999 - Opened Nilai, Malaysia, plant. 2000 - Started product testing, evaluating, designing and engineering in Asia-Pacific. 2002 - Opened the PlantWeb Dynamic Performance Loop in Singapore. Re-aligned the China representative territories. 2003 - Introduced business units. Opened sales office in Beijing. Signed sales rep agreement with Sino Process (China). 2004 - Opened the wholly-owned Wuqing plant. Signed sales representative agreement with Viet-Tech (Vietnam). Singapore office received the region headquarters award from the Singapore government. SVIM plant won the Emerson president’s award for operational excellence. 2005 - Ended the joint venture Tianjin Fisher Controls Valve Co., Ltd. Started the Wuqing technical center. Added firmware and electrical research and engineering capabilities in Singapore.