April 9, 2012: Emerson Acquires Marine Container and Boiler Business From Johnson Controls
ST. LOUIS — Emerson announced that it has acquired the Marine Container and Boiler business of Johnson Controls Inc., enabling Emerson Climate Technologies to expand its refrigeration technology and solutions offerings in the global transportation sector. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The Denmark-based Marine Container and Boiler business supplies controls for the operation of refrigerated sea containers and marine boilers, along with solutions that monitor and report on refrigeration conditions within large groups of marine shipping containers on land or at sea to ensure product quality and food safety. The hardware and software solutions monitor container conditions and notify shipping companies and terminals of deviations outside of optimal ranges so they can take appropriate action. These solutions are installed on more than 650,000 containers and 2,200 ships, which connect to a central monitoring server.