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History and Heritage

In 1912, the Piston Ring Company officially opened for business in Muskegon, Michigan. The company designed and manufactured original equipment components for Detroit’s largest car companies and quickly earned a reputation for quality products serving the rapidly developing automobile industry.

After acquiring the Accuralite Company in 1931, the company changed its name to “Sealed Power Corporation” and started manufacturing piston rings, pistons and cylinder sleeves for military applications. By the 1950s, the company had distributors in every state and in more than 40 countries. At the time, Sealed Power products were used as original equipment in more than 80 percent of American-made cars and trucks.

By 1988, and after a number of strategic acquisitions to further diversify the company into a replacement parts and specialty service tool manufacturer, the company changed its name to SPX Corporation. For the next 10 years, we remained a U.S.-centric automotive component manufacturer with nearly $1 billion in sales.

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In 1998, a series of additional acquisitions and focused organic growth helped SPX Corporation diversify even further, culminating with the acquisition of General Signal Corporation in October of that year. SPX continued to grow and diversify through acquisition and ultimately acquired United Dominion, Inc., in 2001. As part of that acquisition, the company moved its corporate headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina. Beginning in 2004, the company started to shift to a narrower focus on key end markets related to power and energy, food and beverage, and industrial process infrastructure. As a result, SPX Corporation sold off several businesses and re-invested in strategic acquisitions that helped anchor its growth in those end markets. This strategy resulted in SPX exiting the automotive industry entirely with the sale of its Service Solutions business in 2013.

On October 29, 2014, SPX announced that its Board of Directors had unanimously approved a plan for a tax-free spin-off of its Flow Technology reportable segment, its Hydraulic Technologies business, and certain segments of its corporate subsidiaries. The spin-off was designed to create two separate, stand-alone, publicly traded companies: SPX FLOW, Inc., a company focused on providing highly engineered technologies and services to customers in the global food and beverage, power and energy, and industrial markets; and SPX Corporation, a diversified, global supplier of infrastructure equipment with a scalable heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) platform, leading positions in niche detection and measurement markets, and a strong presence in engineered solutions for industry. The spin-off transaction was completed on September 26, 2015.

With more than $2 billion in annual revenue and over 4,400 employees in 16 countries, SPX offers a wide array of highly engineered infrastructure products with strong brands.

People and Culture

At SPX, our values of Integrity, Accountability, Excellence, Teamwork and Results are core elements that drive the way we engage with each other, our customers, our partners and the community.

Our History and Heritage

Since 1912, the brands that make up SPX Technologies have been designing and manufacturing quality products serving several rapidly developing industries.

SPX's Global Presence

With more than $2 billion in annual revenue and over 4,400 employees in 16 countries, SPX offers a wide array of highly engineered infrastructure products with strong brands.

Our Mission and Values

SPX products and services are designed to help meet the needs of an expanding world and help solve the complex issues companies face in growing their businesses.

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Ethics and Compliance

SPX Technologies maintains a world-class compliance and ethics program designed to ensure that its employees are aware of and adhere to applicable laws and ethical standards.