Mr. Paul Daniel This is Me

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   Published on: 6/20/1997   Last Visited: 5/8/2002

   For almost seven decades, news releases that start out "Daniel today announced...." have been signposts for a company constantly adjusting to ever-changing market conditions, new technology, and - above all - customer needs.
   
   As this report was prepared in mid-1998, Daniel Industries employs about 1600 people, has major manufacturing facilities in the United States, Scotland, and Canada. Sales offices, sales/service representatives, distributors, and agents provide interface to markets around the world.
   
   The company's major subsidiaries include Daniel Measurements and Control; Daniel Industries Canada; Daniel Valve Company and Daniel/OFM; and Bettis.
   
   The company is well along on a reorganization plan initiated several years ago which calls for primary focus on products used in the natural gas industry, continued development and support of selected products for applications involving liquid flow, and a strong expansion of marketing into certain segments of the broad process and gas processing industries.
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   Daniel has always been recognized as a leader in virtually every product line or system offered to customers. And its list of "firsts" would fill a page. The more important question asked by customers, however, is ".... but what have you done for me recently?" The following outlines some of the "what we have done."
   
   It all really started on May 17, 1894
   
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   That's the day Paul Daniel was born to start his memorable 63 years. He founded Daniel in the 30's based on a device which still today reigns supreme in pipelines around the world.
   
   Mr. Daniel migrated to Southern California in 1915 and found work at Standard Oil's El Segundo Refinery. He had been promoted to Tank Gauger when he joined the Army in World War I to serve with the Siberian Expeditionary Force. After the war, he returned to California to work for E. L. Dopheny's Pan-American Petroleum Company. By 1928 he was Assistant to the Manager of the Natural Gas Division headquarted in Los Angeles.
   
   Mr. Daniel and many others were hit hard by the depression. While scrapping to make a living, he started working on an orifice fitting that would allow changing plates without interrupting flow or allowing leakage. His effort was ultimately rewarded with a design and patent for the Senior® Orifice Fitting - a design whose basic concepts have survived ever since and today represent the premier dual-chamber orifice fitting in the pipeline industry.
   
   The Daniel Orifice Fitting Company, started by Mr. Daniel in Los Angeles, made this and other orifice fittings, orifice plates, and meter tubes. Other product lines were soon added: piston- controlled check valves, orifice flanges, and Simplex plate holders.
   
   Expanded operations in 1940 included a small plant in Houston. Daniel incorporated in 1946, and growth continued. By 1965, Daniel employed almost 500. It had five manufacturing plants, ten sales offices, and forty-eight sales agency offices. A year later the company name was changed to Daniel Industries, Inc. Ensuing years saw great diversification through acquisitions and utilization of advances in technology to improve and expand the family of mechanical, electronic, and sophisticated computer-based products and systems.
   
   Major expansions included creation of Daniel Bolt Company, acquisition of M&J Valve (today Daniel Valve Company) and acquisition of Oilfield Fabricating & Machine Company (OFM).
   
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   Estimates of jobs lost in the supporting companies such as Daniel climbed to over 1,000,000.
   
   Daniel faced a crisis - a word, interestingly, that doesn't exist in the Chinese language and for which their closest approximation translates to "opportunity for important decisions."
   
   Daniel did indeed make important decisions. That they were appropriate is amply demonstrated by the company's subsequent economic solidarity and product sales growth. Daniel simply went back to the basics. Liquidated inventories. Reduced capacity. Trimmed until there remained a lean but dedicated organization. Kept constantly in mind were the principles Paul Daniel set forth for the company over sixty years ago:
   
   Quality products
   
   Efficient operations
   
   Timely delivery
   
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   Out of this market upheaval came a very significant development - partnership relationships developed between Daniel and both its suppliers and customers. A new, healthy attitude prevails as all entities involved search for ways to have quality products at competitive prices with a common goal of minimum total installed and operating costs to the user.
   
   Daniel increased efficiency through extensive training, an effective Material Resource Planning program, the use of Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machines and other specialized equipment, extensive use of CAD/CAM systems, and an effective internal communication and job-order-entry network.
   
   Much manufacturing scheduling is now on a Just-In-Time basis to minimize inventory storage costs yet meet customer deadlines comfortably.
   
   Market presence sustained despite greatly curtailed budgets at times is now paying off with customer recognition even though many of the "names" are new and different.
   
   And since Daniel was able to maintain product development, the life blood of an equipment company's future, efforts during "the darkest days" of market collapse are today emerging as the leading new products for flow measurement and control.
   
   So now...
   
   Daniel is moving forward with increasing momentum month by month. The exciting new products are close to introduction into their markets. New markets, particularly segments of the broad process industry, are being penetrated.
   
   Acquisition of Bettis Corporation, a leading supplier of valve actuators of all types, broadens Daniel's participation in not only the oilfield market but in other industrial areas as well. Additional market participation is resulting from the agreement with Cooper Cameron for valves and other equipment for geothermal applications.
   
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   Special customer needs will continue to develop as they always have, and Daniel will continue to meet those needs as it always has.
   
   Daniel's entire organization will continue to be filled and expanded with very bright young people whose knowledge and innovative ideas will be complemented by those with years of experience and understanding. This effective blending of the fresh with the proven throughout the organization may well be Daniel's greatest strength.
   
   As good a summary as any other is the statement usually credited to Yogi Berra, "Most of the future lies ahead."
   
   Daniel Industries, Inc. acquired by Emerson Electric (EMR) on June 24,1999, is a world leader in energy measurement technology - particularly for the flow of gases, liquids, and steam - and a major international manufacturer of equipment used to produce, transmit, distribute, and market oil, gas, and other energy commodities.
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   Daniel is one of the few instrument manufacturers in the world with environmental chambers to examine and verify equipment operation under extremes of temperature and other physical parameters.
   
   SERVICE
   
   Daniel has earned through the years an excellent reputation worldwide for customer service before, during, and after the sale. Such services include help with project design, supervision of a customer's installation, user training, startup/commissioning assistance, periodic maintenance, total turnkey maintenance responsibility, and field-warranty service.
   
   QUALITY AND ISO-9001 CERTIFICATION
   
   The Measurement and Control Katy Road facility, Electronics Products facility at Hwy. 290 and the Daniel Valve Company plant in Houston are certified under ISO-9001 requirements. Daniel warranties on gas chromatograph columns and valves are the broadest in this field of instrumentation.
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   Dec. 18, 1991 - Daniel acquired for about $4.4-million, from the German Treuhand Authority, the Geratewerk Bablesburg, a manufacturing plant which will become a wholly owned Daniel subsidiary named Daniel Messtechnik G.m.b.H. with 60 employees making oval gear meters.
   
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   Mar. 15, 1995 - W.A. Griffin, Jr., COB and CEO for Daniel Industries for the past 38 years and with Daniel for 55 years, retires and is elected Chairman Emeritus.
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   Feb. 20, 1996 - Daniel completes purchase of Oilfield Fabricating & Machine Co. for $3-million cash. OFM makes thru-conduit expanding-gate and slab-gate valves and refurbishes and remanufactures API 6D gate, ball, and storage-wellhead valves.
   
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   Mr. Lassiter joined Daniel's Board of Directors in 1985 and was named Chairman in 1996.
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   May 28, 1996 - Daniel acquires outstanding stock of Spectra-Tek International, the parent company for the Spectra-Tek group headquartered in North Yorkshire, England. The purchase price was about $10.5-million cash; Spectra-Tek's annual revenues are about $16-million.
   
   June 18,1996 - Daniel Valve Company and Cooper Cameron Corporation sign agreement giving Daniel