April 2014
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isolation valves and main feedwater valves
within a nuclear power plant.
The business is still an industrial distribu-
tion company with a western Pennsylvania
customer base that these days stretches into
northern Ohio and West Virginia. It’s also
added a manufacturing component that’s an
important offshoot of the company that ac-
quired Hiller in 2010, UK-based Rotork.
Hiller is considered a wholly-owned sub-
sidiary of Rotork, which employs 2,300
worldwide and reported a net profit of near-
ly 90 million pounds in 2012. “It’s the same
business model, same distribution territory,
same customers,” Good said. “It’s just more
of a global presence now in the nuclear mar-
ket.”
Hiller’s operations come out of a single
building in Export, Pa. – about 30 miles east
of Pittsburgh – that houses full manufac-
turing capabilities, a weld shop and a paint
booth, as well as engineering, procurement,
project management functions and support
for the sales staff. Forty-five employees work
at the facility, a total that’s been boosted by
about 10 over the last few years, Good said.
The acquisition prompted a “more struc-
tured” approach than had been the case pre-
