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Crown Andersen acquires N.Y. firm

Peachtree City-based Crown Andersen, Inc. announced recently the purchase of

Syracuse-based Griffin Environmental Company, Inc. for $2.5

million in cash.

Crown Andersen is a supplier of engineered products and systems for environmental control

and waste processing. Griffin is a privately held

company that is a designer and manufacturer of

filtration products and reported net earnings of $302,833

on revenues of $5.9 million.

Griffin will be operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crown Andersen. The Syracuse

company specializes in premium quality products of

stainless steels for food, high value and pharmaceutical

applications and in ultra heavy duty filtration products

for the cement, rock products and minerals

processing industries.

The Crown companies, with manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Holland and licensee

manufacturing facilities in India and Japan, will open

up the European and Asian markets to Griffin.

Crown's worldwide sales and distribution network will greatly expand Griffin's potential

markets in the U.S. and in all of the

industrialized countries of the world.

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