ITT Industries announced that it has purchased 88% of WEDECO AG Water Technology of Duesseldorf, Germany, and Heng Tong Water Treatment Engineering Co. Ltd. of Shanghai, China. The businesses will be attached to ITT Fluid Technologies' Sanitaire business unit.
According to Sanitaire President Tom Pokorsky, the recent acquisitions will enable ITT Sanitaire to meet growing global demand for clean water and satisfy new regulations governing municipal and industrial water treatment through instrumentation, filtration, biological treatment, disinfection and oxidation.