Fischer and Porter Co.

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Today known as ABB Process Automation

www.abb.com

Fischer & Porter Company was started in the 1930's by Kermit
Fischer and George Porter. Originally located in a small garage in the
Germantown section of Philadelphia, Fischer & Porter moved to
Warminster, Pennsylvania sometime in the 1950's. George Porter left the
company and formed his own control business. Kermit fischer was at the
helm until his death in the 1970's. Kermit's son-in-law, Jay Tolson was
owner until Elsag Bailey bought the company in 1994. Elsag Bailey
renamed the instrumentation business "Bailey, Fischer & Porter". In
1999, ABB purchased Elsag Bailey and changed the name of the
instrumentation division to ABB Instrumentation. The Fischer &
Porter Fiberglass unit was spun off in the 1980's. The Chlorination and
Ultraviolet disinfection was spun off in the late 1990's. Micro-DCI was
spun off in 2003 to Micro-Mod. The DCI Systems (Legacy DCI-4000,
DCI-5000, and DCI SYSTEM SIX were incorporated first into Bailey's
Symphony product line and then later continued with ABB, based in
Wickliffe, OH. A small systems engineering group, a small R&D
group, and the ABB Instrumentation division is located on the
Warminster property. At it's height in 1993, Fischer & Porter had
about 2000 employees
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<p>See previous names below. These previous names and companies were all acquired by ABB Process Automation.

Bailey Controls

Combustion Engineering

Elsag-Bailey

Hartmann and Braun

Kent Meter Co.

Taylor Instruments

TBI

Kent Taylor

Combustion Engineering/Sybron Corp.

TBI-Bailey; Bailey-Fischer & Porter

Applied Automation Inc (much of AAI was sold to Siemens)