Valve Manufacturing

Curtiss-Wright Completes Acquisition of Germany’s Phönix Group

Curtiss-Wright Corporation has completed the previously announced acquisition of 100% of the shares of Phönix Holding GmbH for approximately $108 million in cash. Phönix, headquartered in Germany, designs and manufactures high performance, severe-service valves, valve systems and related support services to the global chemical, petrochemical and power (both conventional and nuclear) markets. The business will operate within Curtiss-Wright’s Flow Control segment.

The company operates Phönix Valves in Volkmarsen, Germany; Strack, located in Barleben, Germany; and Daume Control Valves, located in Hanover, Germany. Phönix has 282 employees, owns sales subsidiaries with warehouses in Texas and France and also has sales engineers operating in Benelux, Turkey, Portugal, Italy and Spain.