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Emerson

About the company

The Emerson Electric Company is an American multinational corporation which provides equipment, technology solutions and engineering services for a wide range of industries. Currently Emerson has 235 enterprises in 150 countries with 127,800 employees what makes Emerson one of the largest equipment manufacturers in the world.

Emerson was established in 1890 in St.Louis , Missuri by John Wesley Emerson and Meson Brs. Originally the company specialized in the manufacture of electric motors and fans. Emerson was the 1st to produce and sell electric fans in the USA. Later Emerson expanded its product line with electric sewing machines, electric dental drills, ceiling fans and power tools. During World War II, Emerson focused military production contracts and became the world's largest manufacturer of airplane armament. In 1954 under B.W. Person leadership the company started research and development programs aimed at making foreign markets .When he retired in 1973, the company had 82 plants, 31,000 employees and $800 million in sales.

Charles F. Knight served as CEO from 1973 to 2000 continued a course for new product and technology development, acquisitions and joint ventures, and international growth.

Structurally Emerson Corporation consists of 9 business platforms that in turn include a wide range of brands and enterprises. All together the platforms form one of 500 world’s largest companies, which develops industry-leading technology, invests globally and creates long-term value for its shareholders, customers, and employees. Emerson’s mission and values are properly expressed in the company’s brand promise:

"Emerson is where technology and engineering come together to create solutions for the benefit of our customers, driven without compromise for a world in action".

Company's business in Chelyabinsk and the Chelyabinsk region

The first deal between Emerson and Russia was made in 1935 when the company produced and delivered valves "Fisher Controls" to one of the Soviet plants. However, only in 1989 the company obtained accreditation with the right to do business in the USSR. From that time Emerson started developing the Russian market in active way. In 1992 the corporation built up the new subsidiary company "Fisher-Rosemount" which became the major Emerson enterprise doing business in Russia. In 2002 after restructuring the enterprise was renamed into Emerson Process Management (EPM). Emerson started doing business in Chelyabinsk in 1996 when the industrial group Metran became the official dealer of Emerson products in Russia. In 2004 EPM entered into partnership with Metran and launched the investment program into the Chelyabinsk company, which focused the production of pressure transmitters. In 2005 the company started cooperating with the SUSU on the personnal training of engineers. In 2006 Emerson and Metran commissioned a new laboratory of smart instrumentation in the SUSU- PlantWeb. The same year Metran launched a hardware and software system “Ovatsiya” on CPH-3 and delivered the smart instrumentation to the power plant.In 2007 Metran in partnership with Fisher commissioned the production line of GX valves by Fisher. A year later one of the numerous Metran products won the contest-“20 best products of the Chelyabinsk region”. In 2009 Emerson took over Metran, which became the subsidiary company of EPM. In autumn 2013 Emerson commissioned the new production line of temperature transmitters and a bit earlier launched the building of a new office and production center. The volume of investments into the project is 40 mln $. The new plant will create 1600 work positions. The project is to be finished in 2015.

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