FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CLARCOR Inc. (NYSE: CLC) today announced that it has acquired Filter Resources, Inc., Filtration Inc. and Fabrication Specialties, Inc. - related companies that manufacture and distribute filters to the petrochemical and refining industries, predominately in the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana region. The acquired business has annual revenue of approximately $20 million and will be part of CLARCOR’s PECOFacet group of companies, which is included within CLARCOR’s Industrial/Environmental Filtration segment. The acquisition is not anticipated to be materially accretive or dilutive to CLARCOR’s 2015 earnings.
Christopher L. Conway, CLARCOR’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer commented, “Filter Resources is a long-time distributor of PECOFacet products with local manufacturing capabilities and strong customer relationships throughout the gulf coast region earned through their timely order fulfillment and excellent customer service. We look forward to leveraging these strengths to allow PECOFacet to better support the petrochemical and refining markets, markets which have unique and demanding filtration needs. We believe that the combination of Filter Resources and PECOFacet will allow us to deliver even more value and better filtration solutions to refineries and petrochemical customers throughout the gulf coast.”
CLARCOR is based in Franklin, Tennessee, and is a diversified marketer and manufacturer of mobile, industrial and environmental filtration products and consumer and industrial packaging products sold in domestic and international markets. Common shares of CLARCOR are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CLC. Further information on CLARCOR can be found at www.clarcor.com.
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