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- Electrical Apparatus
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- June 1, 1997
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Baldor buys British control maker
Baldor Electric Co., the manufacturer of motors and controls based in Fort Smith, Ark., has bought Optimised Control Ltd., of Bristol, England, a manufacturer of motion control products. Annual sales for Optimised Control are about $7 million, most of that in the U.K. The company's products include a controller that offers motion, I/O, operator interface, and serial communication in a single panel-mount enclosure, as well as a controller with up to eight axes of closed-loop servo control. The technology from Optimised Controls will be added to Baldor's present servo and vector control lines.... Baldor recently announced that sales for the quarter ended ...