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Process & Flow Control Industry Update Q4 2025

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Process & Flow Control Industry Update

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Process & Flow Control Sector Overview

This overview provides a comprehensive update on 2025 full-year public market performance and M&A trends, highlighting a significant surge in transaction value during Q4 driven by large-scale strategic acquisitions . The report spotlights the sector’s resilience in the face of geopolitical and tariff-related uncertainties, while exploring the integration of AI in automation and the emergence of data center infrastructure as a primary growth vector. Additionally, we examine the critical opportunities created by the revitalized nuclear power market as an alternative energy source for high-capacity industrial needs. Please feel free to reach out if you would like to discuss in further detail.

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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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