Crane

Crane Co. is a diversified manufacturer of engineered industrial products, operating across various global markets, including North America, Europe, and Asia. Established in 1855 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, the company has five key business segments: Fluid Handling, Aerospace & Electronics, Engineered Materials, Payment & Merchandising Technologies, and Controls. The Fluid Handling segment specializes in valves, pumps, and fluid control solutions for industries such as chemical processing, oil and gas, and municipal applications. The Aerospace & Electronics segment provides parts for commercial and military aerospace, while Engineered Materials focuses on fiberglass-reinforced products used in construction and transportation. The Payment & Merchandising Technologies segment offers payment acceptance solutions for various retail and vending environments. With a workforce of approximately 10,000 employees, Crane Co. serves a diverse customer base that includes sectors like defense, energy, and automated merchandising.

Brendan Curran

Group President, Aerospace and Electronics

38 past transactions

Crane Currency

Acquisition in 2017
Crane Currency is a manufacturer of banknotes that serves central banks globally. The company specializes in the design, paper making, and printing of currency, utilizing advanced micro-optic technology to incorporate security features into banknotes. These features create a range of visual effects that enhance the security of the currency and bolster public trust in its integrity. By focusing on innovative solutions in the banknote and security document markets, Crane Currency plays a crucial role in the production of secure and reliable currency for nations around the world.

Westlock Controls

Acquisition in 2017
Westlock Controls Corporation specializes in the manufacture of switchboxes and position transmitters, offering innovative solutions for the networking, monitoring, and control of process valves. The company is recognized globally for its expertise in providing effective monitoring and control services, facilitating improved operational efficiency in various industrial applications. As a subsidiary of Crane Co., Westlock Controls continues to advance its product offerings in the field of valve control technology.

MEI Conlux Holdings

Acquisition in 2012
MEI Conlux is a manufacturer of electronic payment systems specializing in electronic banknote validators, coin acceptors, and changers. The company provides a range of products, including bill acceptors, control boards, and systems that accept various payment methods such as bills, coupons, debit, and credit cards. Its solutions are utilized across multiple industries, including vending, gaming, amusement, transportation, retail, and kiosks. MEI Conlux has manufacturing facilities located in Japan, Mexico, and Switzerland, and operates distribution hubs in the United States and the United Kingdom, which are also capable of final product configuration for customized orders.

W.T. Armatur GmbH

Acquisition in 2011
W.T. Armatur GmbH is primarily a manufacturer of bellows sealed globe valves, as well as certain types of specialty valves, for chemical, fertilizer and thermal oil applications.

Money Controls

Acquisition in 2010
Money Controls is a producer of a broad range of payment systems and associated products for the gaming, amusement, transportation, and retail markets.

Merrimac Industries

Acquisition in 2009
Merrimac Industries, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of electronic components and subsystems for commercial, military, and high-reliability markets. The company offers approximately 1,500 components and subsystems used in signal processing systems. It deals with initial design orders for products custom designed for specific customer applications; repeat design orders for such products; and catalog sale orders. Its products are designed to process radio frequency and microwave signals. Merrimac Industries' electronic components and subsystems product line comprises power dividers/combiners, I&Q networks, directional couplers, phase shifters, hybrid junctions, balanced mixers, beamformers, and quadrature couplers, as well as includes single-side-band modulators, image reject mixers, vector modulators, radio frequency module amplifiers, and various integrated micro-multifunction modules assemblies. The company's products are applied in satellite communications, radar, digital communication systems, global positioning and navigation systems, electronic warfare, electronic countermeasures, radio systems, medical diagnostic instruments, and wireless connectivity. Merrimac Industries markets and sells its products through direct sales force and manufacturers' representatives. The company was formerly known as Merrimac Research and Development. Merrimac Industries, Inc. was founded in 1954 and is based in West Caldwell, New Jersey.

The Krombach Group

Acquisition in 2008
The Krombach Group is a manufacturer of specialty valve flow solutions for the power, oil and gas, and chemical markets, employing 640 people globally.

Delta Fluid Products

Acquisition in 2008
Delta Fluid Products is a designer and manufacturer of regulators and fire safe valves for the gas industry, and safety valves and air vent valves for the building services market

Owens Corning - FRP Panel Business

Acquisition in 2007
Owens Corning - FRP Panel Business which produces, among other products, high gloss fiberglass reinforced plastic panels used in the manufacture of recreational vehicles (RV).

Kontron America - Mobile Rugged Business

Acquisition in 2007
Kontron America - Mobile Rugged Business which produces computers, electronics and flat panel displays for harsh environment applications. MRB's manufacturing operation is located in Poway, California, and its engineering group is located in Fremont, California. The division employs approximately 35 people.

Dixie Narco

Acquisition in 2006
Dixie-Narco, Inc., a manufacturer of can and bottle vending machines. Dixie-Narco's office and manufacturing operation is located in Williston, South Carolina, where it employs approximately 850 people. Dixie-Narco's 2006 sales are estimated to be approximately $165 million.

Noble Composites

Acquisition in 2006
Noble Composites, Inc. (Noble) is a privately held company specializing in the manufacture and sale of premium, high-gloss finished composite panels used by motorhome and travel trailer manufacturer.

Telequip

Acquisition in 2006
Telequip, with headquarters in Salem, New Hampshire, has been manufacturing coin dispensing solutions since 1974. Telequip provides embedded and free-standing coin dispensing solutions principally focused on the retail market which includes grocery and convenience stores, quick-service restaurants and self-checkout/self-service kiosks. Telequip's coin dispensers have a particularly strong position in automated self-checkout markets.

Automatic Products international - Assets

Acquisition in 2006
Automatic Products international - Assets is a manufacturer of vending equipment.

CashCode Co - Assets

Acquisition in 2006
CashCode Co. Inc., is a privately held company specializing in niche applications for banknote validation, storage and recycling devices for use in vending, gaming, retail and transportation applications.

Edlon - PSI division

Acquisition in 2005
Edlon - PSI division is a manufacturer of plastic-lined pipes, fittings and accessories.

Hattersley Newman Hender - Assets

Acquisition in 2004
Hattersley Newman Hender - Assets provides array of valves for commercial, industrial and institutional construction projects.

P.L. Porter

Acquisition in 2004
P.L. Porter Co. ("Porter") is a privately held company located in Woodland Hills, California. Porter holds leading positions in both electromechanical actuation and hydraulic/mechanical actuation for aircraft seating, selling directly to seat manufacturers and to the airlines. Founded in 1947.

Etex Group - Business

Acquisition in 2003
Etex Group - Business manufactures and sells building materials.

Signal Technology

Acquisition in 2003
Signal Technology design, manufacture, and marketing of power management products and sophisticated electronic radio frequency (RF) components and subsystems.

General Technology Corp.

Acquisition in 2002
General Technologies Corp was incorporated in the province of British Columbia on August 16th, 1988. Its first two products were cordless circuit testers, models CT8002 and CT8007. These two products quickly became established in the marketplace, and for the next three years the company worked on expanding its distribution network throughout Canada, United States, Europe and Asia, under the brand name Sheffield Research, which resulted from the acquisition of the assets of Sheffield Technologies Corp in the late 80's.

Corva Corp

Acquisition in 2002
Corva Corp distributes industrial valves and automated controls.

Lasco Composites

Acquisition in 2002
Lasco Composites is a manufacturer of fiberglass reinforced plastic panels based in Florence, Kentucky.

AeroHose

Acquisition in 2001
AeroHose is the aerospace hose assembly and end fitting component business.

Resistoflex

Acquisition in 2001
Resistoflex GmbH, based in Germany, is a manufacturer of TeflonĀ®-lined steel piping (PTFE) products serving chemical and pharmaceutical markets in Europe. They are currently the European licensee for Crane's US-based Resistoflex product line.

Xomox

Acquisition in 2001
Xomox supplies high-end application driven sleeved plug valves, lined valves, high performance butterfly valves, and actuators to the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and other process industries. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Laminated Profiles - Assets

Acquisition in 2001
Laminated Profiles - Assets manufacturer of fiberglass-reinforced panels sold into the European transportation and recreational vehicle markets.

Ventech Controls

Acquisition in 2001
Ventech Controls is the valve repair business provides both shop repair and remanufacture of control valves and instruments. Located in Houston, Texas.

Alfa Laval - The Industrial Flow Group

Acquisition in 2000
Alfa Laval - The Industrial Flow Group is a diaphragm valves manufacturer.

Streamware

Acquisition in 2000
Streamware is a privately held company provider of business management software and market analysis tools and research for the vending and food service industries.

Stentorfield

Acquisition in 1999
Stentorfield is a premier designer and manufacturer of hot and cold beverage vending machines, serving the U.K. and European market with a broad line of full size and tabletop products, for the hotel, restaurant, office coffee service and vending industries. Stentorfield is known in the industry to provide high quality, reliable and easily serviced products and excellent customer service.

The Dow Chemical - Plastic-Lined Piping Products division

Acquisition in 1998
The Dow Chemical - Plastic-Lined Piping Products division is supplying a variety of lined pipe and valves to the chemical process and industrial markets.

Liberty Technologies

Acquisition in 1998
Liberty Technologies develops, manufactures, markets and sells valve, motor, engine and compressor condition monitoring products and related services to customers in the nuclear power generation and industrial process markets worldwide.

Consolidated Lumber

Acquisition in 1998
Consolidated Lumber Co., is a one-step wholesale distributor of lumber and millwork products in the greater Kansas City area.

Sequentia Holdings

Acquisition in 1998
Sequentia Holdings is a manufacturer of fiberglass reinforced plastic panels for construction and building products markets.

Number One Supply

Acquisition in 1998
Number One Supply is a building products distribution business.

Environmental Products USA

Acquisition in 1998
Environmental Products USA, Inc., is a Venice, Florida manufacturer of packaged, membrane-based water treatment systems for industrial, commercial, and institutional markets.

MOVATS - Nuclear Valve Division

Acquisition in 1997
MOVATS - Nuclear Valve Division supplies nuclear valves, parts and services to the commercial nuclear power industry.
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