West Instruments is pleased to announce the addition of the recently acquired ‘Prozeß- und Maschinen Automation GmbH’ (PMA) of Kassel, Germany, to the Danaher Sensors and Controls Group, continuing their focus to drive growth in key markets.

PMA became part of the Danaher Group on 25th February. Danaher currently employs over 29,000 people worldwide and in 2003 had a sales turnover of US$5.3Bn.  PMA, a process control and automation company for over 75 years has been known for developing quality and innovative products and solutions for measurement and control needs in the process and machine automation markets.

PMA has a comprehensive portfolio of products including temperature and process controllers – both front and behind the panel, sensors and transmitters, actuators, indicators and recorders, I/O systems and industrial PCs.  The combination of West and PMA products provides a complete solution for machine builders and end users from basic to high end product solutions covering markets ranging from Plastics to Process.

For more information on PMA brand controllers or West products, please visit the websites: www.pma-online.de  and www.westinstruments.com, or call the West Sales office on +44 (0)1273 606271.