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ERIKS acquires California Seal and Fastener, Inc.

Acquisition extends reach into semiconductor market.


Fort Worth, TX April 7, 2011 - ERIKS, an international industrial service provider offering a wide range of high-quality mechanical engineering components , has acquired California Seal and Fastener, Inc. (Cal Seal). Cal Seal is a leading US supplier of specialty sealing, vacuum components and accompanying logistical services, with facilities in Santa Clara, CA, Portland, OR and Austin, TX. Cal Seal's wide range of consumable spares and preventative maintenance parts and supplies further increases ERIKS presence in the semiconductor and other high-tech markets. Cal Seal will become part of ERIKS Seals and Plastics, Inc., one of its divisions in the United States.

This strategic acquisition enables ERIKS to enhance its client base in the US semiconductor industry and further strengthen its product and service offerings. Customers will benefit as the capabilities of these two leading companies are merged to provide even greater product availability, engineering and logistics support.

Shawn Courtney, President of ERIKS Seals and Plastics, commented on the acquisition: "Cal Seal has a long history of providing some of the best products and services to the semiconductor market. In addition, they have a highly skilled group of employees with a tremendous amount of industry-specific knowledge and experience. We believe that these resources, in combination with those already existing here at ERIKS, will enable us to provide an even stronger portfolio of products and services to the marketplace and we look forward to integrating Cal Seal into the ERIKS family."

"For Cal Seal, this step means that we are able to increase the resources available to our customers and suppliers, especially on the engineering side of the business. This acquisition was advantageous for both companies, and we are happy to put our customers in the hands of such an experienced partner as ERIKS, who continues to maintain a high standing with their customers not only here in the US, but around the world," said Greg Seyfert, President of Cal Seal. He added, "What made the decision even easier was the power inherent in the ERIKS sales force and their technical knowledge of the sealing industry."

About California Seal and Fastener, Inc.
Cal Seal was established in 1980 to support the Semiconductor and other high tech industries with a wide variety of products and services. Cal Seal's VMI Programs include a wide range of consumable spares and preventative maintenance parts and supplies. Since then, Cal Seal expanded its product lines to serve additional Markets, including; solar, food & pharmaceutical, life sciences, scientific instruments, and other general industrial applications.

About ERIKS
ERIKS was founded in 1940 in Alkmaar, Netherlands. Today, ERIKS is a leading provider of a wide range of high-quality mechanical engineering components and associated technical and logistics services. ERIKS Seals and Plastics, Inc., a United States division of ERIKS, focuses specifically on the sealing and custom plastics products and offers related technical and logistics services for the consumer products, food and beverage, heavy equipment manufacturing, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, power generation, semiconductor, transportation and the water and wastewater industries. ERIKS Seals and Plastics is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas and has additional locations in Wisconsin, Washington, California and Oklahoma. For more information on how ERIKS Seals and Plastics can help your organization, visit www.ERIKSUSA.com. ERIKS also has significant operations in the US flow market through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Rawson, Inc. (www.rawsonlp.com), Newdell, Inc. (www.newdellco.com) and Diamond Gear Company, Inc. (www.diamond-gear.com)