In 1998, Halliburton merged with Dresser Industries, a major provider of integrated services and project management for the oil and gas industry. Founded by inventor-entrepreneur Solomon R. Dresser in 1880, Dresser Industries evolved over the next 100 years into a major energy industry provider.
With the Dresser merger, Halliburton also gained the expertise of M.W. Kellogg, which Dresser acquired in 1988. Kellogg was founded by Morris W. Kellogg as a pipe fabrication business in 1900. The company created technology for petroleum refining and petrochemical processing and built plants based on those technologies.
Since the merger with Dresser, Halliburton's worldwide revenues have increased significantly, reaching $13 billion in 2001. We have integrated Dresser's well-known and respected brands such as Sperry-Sun Drilling Services, Baroid Drilling Fluids and Security DBS, and divested the Dresser Equipment Group.
In March 2002, Halliburton announced plans to separate our business groups into two wholly-owned operating subsidiaries: Halliburton's Energy Services Group, and KBR, the engineering and construction group. This realignment will create two independently run, pure-play companies. Under this structure, these two companies can better strengthen their business lines and compete effectively on a global basis. This, in turn, enhances Halliburton's ability to achieve long-term sustained growth and profitability.
To maintain our leadership position in the energy services and engineering and construction industries in the future, Halliburton will continue to focus on our four business initiatives of Operational Excellence, Technological Leadership, Innovative Business Relationships and a Dynamic Workforce.
And, Halliburton employees will continue to set the Company apart from our competitors. Driven by a passion for excellence and a commitment to finding the best solutions for the customer the legacy of our founders - Halliburton is ready for another century of adding value through technology and innovation.
Kurz Mass Flow Meters include Single-Point Insertion Mass Flow Transmitters, In-Line Mass Flow Transmitters, Multi-Point Insertion Mass Flow Elements, Flow Control Valves and Portable Air Velocity Meters. For use with Air and Industrial Gases. For a wide variety of Industrial and Process Applications. These components are also used with the Series 155 (“ADAM”) Mass Flow Computer/Controller for process flow control systems and nuclear power plant and DOE Air Sampling Systems. A major application is for Combustion Air Flow Measurements in coal-fired Power Plants. No other manufacturer matches Kurz meters for response time, accuracy, repeatability, flow turn-down capability, ruggedness, value, quality and demonstrated reliability. The Thermal Flow Meter innovator for 30 years, Kurz is the leader in thermal flow meter technology and performance!
Dresser Instrument maintains a worldwide network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices, local representatives and distributors in 40 countries on five continents.
With pressure gauges, thermometers, transducers, transmitters, pressure and temperature switches, calibration equipment, recorders and other instruments to suit virtually every application, our trademarks Ashcroft, Heise, Ebro, Willy, and Weksler have set the standard worldwide for accuracy, quality and dependability.
The continuing commitment of our people to this widespread network ensures that the service and application expertise you need to maintain safety and performance in your installation is always available when and where you need it.
In 1950 it was becoming increasingly apparent that designers of machines, instruments and automotive vehicles could not continue to live with the serious problems of friction and leakage which had long been associated with O-rings, chevron seals, cup packings, metal bellows and other conventional seals. At that time, Bellofram initiated what proved to be a five-year program of intensive research and development, to produce a frictionless and leak-proof rolling seal that would handle pressures, temperatures and stroke lengths over an extremely wide range. At the end of the five years, the company had produced a complete line of rolling seal diaphragms for a broad variety of industrial needs.
The immediate, wide-spread acceptance of this successful new principle of sealing resulted in rapid company growth, and in 1957 Bellofram erected facilities in Burlington, Massachusetts. John Taplin, the founder and original owner of Bellofram, designed air cylinders, air regulators, gauge protectors (diaphragm seals), and other pneumatic and hydraulic devices using his diaphragms. In the early 1980's Rexnord purchased Bellofram, and then in 1986 sold Bellofram to the Desco Corporation of Columbus, Ohio. Desco moved Bellofram from its plants in Pelham, New Hampshire and Burlington, Massachusetts to a new, modern facility in Newell, WV, designed, constructed and fully integrated specifically for the high-volume, high-precision manufacture of elastomer products.
Marsh and Bellofram, sister companies of the Desco Corporation, were combined into Marsh Bellofram in January 1995. Marsh Bellofram Corporation has its headquarters in Newell, West Virginia, about 25 miles west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the northeastern region of the United States.
Clean, well-kept and well-organized, the building itself has been carefully laid out to ensure the smooth, efficient flow of materials and work in process. Its complement of tools, automatic machinery and specialized processing and production equipment is one of the most extensive in the industry. With significant resources of technical personnel and skilled production workers, the Newell facility is well suited to the economical manufacture of highly engineered elastomeric products and precision regulators.
Known as the Meriam Company in 1911 and, later, as Meriam Instrument until 2002, Meriam Process Technologies has remained a world class suorce for reliable, repeatable and precise industrial instruments for pressure measurement and calibration for nearly 100 years.
The new Meriam Process Technologies name and corporate identity reflect a dramatic evolution. Our latest calibration and communication products are helping Process Industry customers migrate from “Fail and Fix” to “Predict and Prevent” strategies. And our new Wireless product line enables customers to conveniently move process information back to control or monitoring stations.
Mobrey process instrumentation has provided industry with reliable measurement and control of liquids, gases and dry products for more than 100 years. This broad range of high quality products is designed for optimization of plants and processes through monitoring and control of critical parameters; level, density, viscosity and flow.
America's first thermometer company originated in Cincinnati, OH in 1836. Since that time, Palmer Instruments has steadily evolved through product development geared exclusively towards industrial supply and process measurement.
From development of the "Foster Cup" thermometer in 1880, through the radical improvement of thermometer legibility by the patented "Red Reading Mercury" tube in 1929, to today's temperature and pressure measurement innovations, Palmer has always maintained the "first" tradition by bringing instrument value, service and quality to a broad range of industries.
Operating from a new facility in Asheville, NC since 1987, Palmer has developed special-application products such as Dual-Sensing and "Slip-fit" thermometers, and pioneered new industry services such as free lifetime recalibration on pressure gauges. With the recent affiliation with Wahl Instruments, and resulting consolidation of manufacturing in Asheville, Palmer Instruments looks first to the future.
Global trends in the demand and supply of energy and petrochemicals require constant improvement of technologies and services. At the same time, processes previously considered uneconomic are in the focus of interest today. The world is heading towards different economies of scale.
And so is Siemens. Known to the world as a global powerhouse in electrical engineering and electronics, decades of strategic acquisition and successful integrations have shaped a company with unparalleled offerings for the oil and gas industry.
For 60 years, WIKA Instrument Corporation has been advancing the world of pressure and temperature instrumentation. Utilizing nothing less than state-of-the-art equipment and manufacturing technology, WIKA products set the standard for precision, dependability and technology.
With a 210,000 square foot facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia, WIKA Instrument Corporation has state-of-the-art manufacturing technology and highly automated proprietary production equipment. Producing over 30 million gauges, diaphragm seals, transmitters, and thermometers worldwide annually, WIKA has the most extensive product line in the industry.
Stauff is dedicated to solve your clamping problems from its broad range of catalog products or by a custom clamp designed by our experienced engineering department in conjunction with you, our customer.
Tel-Tru Manufacturing Company is a World-Class manufacturer of bimetal thermometers, pressure gauges, and transmitters. Our focus has always been to meet customers' requirements with quality products, leading technology and responsive service. Our products are available through a network of distributors, in the United States and around the world.
