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American Superconductor Acquires Power Quality Systems

On April 27, 2007, American Superconductor acquired electrical equipment company Power Quality Systems for 5M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is American Superconductor’s 2nd transaction in the Electrical Equipment sector.
  • This is American Superconductor’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is American Superconductor’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is American Superconductor’s 1st transaction in Pennsylvania.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2007-04-27
Target Power Quality Systems
Sector Electrical Equipment
Buyer(s) American Superconductor
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 5M USD

Target

Power Quality Systems

West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States
Power Quality Systems, Inc. is a provider of reactive compensation products known as Static VAR Compensators, based on its proprietary thyristor switch technology. These products enhance the reliability of power transmission and distribution grids and improve the quality of power for manufacturing operations.

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Buyer

American Superconductor

Middleton, Wisconsin, United States
Category Company
Sector Semiconductors
DESCRIPTION

American Semiconductor designs and manufactures low-temperature superconducting magnetic energy storage systems.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 3
Sector: Electrical Equipment M&A 2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 3
State: Pennsylvania M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 2
Year: 2007 M&A 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-01-05 WINDTEC

Klagenfurt, Austria

WINDTEC GmbH is a designs and develops wind power systems and electronic controls and systems.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-09-26 Infinia Technology

Richland, Washington, United States

Infinia Technology Corp.is a technology firm specializing in the design, development and commercialization of cryo-coolers for a wide range of applications. ITC holds several U.S. government contracts including ones from the U.S. Navy. The company’s cryo-coolers outperform commercially available alternatives from both an efficiency and noise perspective and enable 50% more cooling power for AMSC’s SPS. We believe that there are no other cryo-coolers currently on the market with the same efficiency performance as ITC.

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