E.B. Horsman & Son Acquires Measurement & Controls Ltd.

E.B. Horsman

 

October 12, 2018

E.B. Horsman & Son (EBH) is excited to announce the acquisition of Measurement & Controls Ltd. (MCL) headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. EBH will acquire the MCL brand, assets, and contracts effective October 1, 2018.

MCL has a longstanding history of providing industrial automation, process instrumentation, and specialty valves to companies in the process, industrial, and manufacturing industries. It is the supplier of choice for world class manufacturers such as: MOGAS, Siemens Automation, Siemens Instrumentation, FCI, Richards Industries, Skycera, Pepperl + Fuchs and many others.

MCL’s process instrumentation and automation product expertise will add to EBH’s full line electrical supply business and technical divisions. By Working together, and utilizing the strengths of EBH’s supplier partnerships and inventory management systems, EBH and MCL will be able to provide customers a robust industrial portfolio of products and services that is second to none.

“The addition of MCL to our family is exciting because it further differentiates EBH as a value-add industrial distributor. The MCL team has decades of experience supporting customers in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Together, we now have a unique business capable of offering Western Canadian industrial customers technical support and service in the dynamic future of Industry 4.0 and Mechatronics.” said Tim Horsman, President and CEO of E.B. Horsman & Son.

“We are excited to join E.B. Horsman & Son, it is a great fit; our products and services complement each other, and we share similar cultures, as well as business visions. By combining MCL’s technical industrial expertise with EBH’s supplier partners and inventory management systems, we truly believe we will be able to provide our customer base a very unique service and support solutions for years to come” said Darren Moncrieff, Founder and CEO of MCL.

EBH and MCL will implement an integration plan that will better serve Western Canada through their unique and now larger Process Instrumentation and Automation, Controls & Motion technical divisions.

In this transitional and dynamic world, E. B. Horsman & Son is poised and positioned to be “The Electrical Distributor of Choice!”™

For more information https://ebhorsman.com/

 

 

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