Tyco International announced a plan to separate into four independent, publicly-traded companies. One of them will include the conglomerate's fire protection and flow control holdings, including the fire protection trade names Simplex/Grinnell, Wormald, Mather & Platt, Total Waltther, O'Donnell Griffin, Dong Bank, Ansul and Tyco, along with Allied Tube, Scott Technologies and Tyco Infrastructure Services (formerly Earth Tech). The flow control units include Keystone, Grinnell, Hindle, KTM and Flow Control Technologies, among others.