Emerson Process Management announced the acquisition of Tescom Corporation. Tescom is a manufacturer of precision pressure control regulators, valves, and systems with manufacturing operations in Elk River, Minnesota and Selmsdorf, Germany. The company was founded in 1916 and has 350 employees.

Tescom serves a wide variety of global markets, including testing, instrumentation, and laboratory markets for pressure control and regulation; high purity and semiconductor markets; specialty gas, aerospace and defense, as well as medical device markets. Almost half of Tescom’s sales come from outside of the United States.