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Emerson Acquires Bay-Tec Engineering

Acquisition expands Emerson's process control engineering and project management capabilities for life sciences, refining and related industries.

"Since we're in Washington, DC," John Berra quipped, in his last official address as business leader of Emerson Process Management, "I thought I should give a state of the union address. We are stronger than we have ever been before. This is the last week of our Fiscal Year, and I can't reveal the whole year numbers, but for the first 3 quarters, our business was up 18% over last year. If the numbers stay on track, Berra intimated, Emerson may grow a little over a billion dollars in a single year.

Welcoming us to the 10th Annual Emerson Exchange was Greg Stephens, chairman of the Emerson Global Users Exchange, to give it its whole and rightful title. Stephens said that attendance would run over 2579 (might get as high as 2700) which is ten times the attendance (250) at the first Emerson Exchange in 1998.

He talked about this third year of the PlantWeb Feedback tool, and asked for more feedback, and he annouced that there would be a PlantWeb Excellence Award for the person "who squeezed the orange and got every drop out of it."