Process & Flow Control Industry Update Spring 2024

Spring 2024 Update

Process & Flow Control Industry Update

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Process & Flow Control Sector Overview

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KPMG Corporate Finance LLC’s investment bankers have extensive Industrial Markets transaction and industry experience, which enables them to understand the industry- specific issues and challenges facing our clients.

Process & Flow Control industry participants include manufacturers, distributors, and service providers  offering solutions to support production processes through the management and control of liquids, gases,  solids, and slurries across various end markets and applications. Products include pumps, valves,  automation technologies, controls, seals, fittings, and dispensing solutions, among others.

Read more about the key players in each sub-sector in the report

 

Sub-Sector

Key Players

Revenue/EBITDA Multiple(1)

Industrial Processing Solutions

Diversified providers of products that generate  (e.g., pumps, compressors), manage (e.g., valves,  actuators), and measure (e.g., sensors, meters)  flow and other variables (e.g., pressure,  temperature) across a range of production  processes
  • Badger Meter
  • Crane
  • Curtiss-Wright
  • Emerson Electric
  • Flowserve
  • IMI plc
  • Ingersoll Rand
  • Kadant
  • Mueller Water
  • Rotork
  • Watts Water
3.8x / 17.1x

Pumps & Compressors

Flow generating products that raise, transfer,  deliver, or compress solids, slurries, fluids, or  gases by suction, pressure, or a combination of  thermomechanical factors
  • Dover
  • Ebara
  • Franklin Electric
  • Graco
  • IDEX
  • Ingersoll Rand
  • Interpump Group
  • ITT
  • Sulzer
  • Gorman-Rupp
3.2x / 14.0x

Specialty Products

Other products and equipment serving niche  applications, including heat exchangers, blowers  and mixers, and filtration and purification products
  • Alfa Laval
  • AMETEK
  • Donaldson
  • Dover
  • Halma
  • IDEX
  • Indutrade
  • ITT
  • Parker-Hannifin
  • Pentair
  • Spirax-Sarco
  • Xylem
3.9x / 17.2x

Automation Technologies

Process automation products, technologies, and  software that collect data, monitor key process  variables, and control processes and/or equipment
  • ABB
  • Schneider Electric
  • Siemens
  • SMC
3.8x / 16.3x

Seals, Fittings, Pipes & Tubes

Key parts and components of flow control  equipment and systems that typically possess  high replacement rates and aftermarket content
  • Aalberts
  • Mueller Industries
  • Smiths Group
  • Trelleborg
2.0x / 10.6x

Dispensing Equipment

Products and systems that consistently and precisely  dispense, spray, dose, or apply various liquids, gases,  or materials, such as coatings, chemicals, or  pharmaceutical compounds in a controlled manner
  • Graco
  • Ingersoll Rand
  • Nordson
5.7x / 18.9x

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