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Article: Trimble Acquires Assets of Rawson Control Systems to Further Expand Its Flow and Application Control Solutions.
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- December 4, 2008
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trimble announced today it has acquired the assets of privately-held Rawson Control Systems based in Oelwein, Iowa. Rawson manufactures hydraulic and electronic controls for the agriculture equipment industry, including variable rate planter drives and controllers, variable rate fertilizer controllers, mechanical remote electric control valves and speed reducers.
Rawson's products work in conjunction with the Trimble(R) FieldManager(TM) Display which monitors and controls up to four inputs such as seed, fertilizer and crop protection. The controllers can be operated either automatically by Global Positioning ...