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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.