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ERIKS Acquires Dansk Ventil Center and DVC International

Alkmaar, Netherlands June 1, 2011 - Dansk Ventil Center A/S and DVC International ApS (together hereafter called 'DVC') are leading Danish industrial valve suppliers, offering a complete range of valves, level gauges and valve automation systems. With a complete assortment of products, in-house engineering and assembly capabilities DVC services in particular the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) market, the power generation market (boiler manufacturers) and a wide range of other industries.

With this strategic acquisition ERIKS gains access to the Danish industrial valve market and outside Denmark to a number of large industrial equipment manufacturers.

DVC will be part of the future cluster ERIKS Scandinavia. In December 2010, ERIKS has acquired Valtor Offshore in Esbjerg, the Danish market leader in valve supply to the offshore industry.

About DVC
DVC develops, engineers and manufactures a range of heavy duty level gauges, butterfly valves and check valves. In addition DVC has an assortment of industrial valves, special valves for pharmacy applications, pneumatic valve actuators and valve automation systems. The strength of DVC is a high level of application know-how, a high service level, delivery in time, excellent quality at competitive price, the diversity of valves on stock and the ability to source whatever valve is required. DVC has some 30 employees. For additional information, please visit www.dvcas.dk and www.dvc.nu.

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)