Hanover 25 April 2006 | MTL Instruments and Weidmüller will in future be cooperating in their sales endeavours. The aim of the cooperation is to broaden the customer service operations of both companies in the field of automation engineering for the process industry. Working side-by-side with Weidmüller specialists, MTL Instruments markets Weidmüller products via world-wide specialist sales channels to the global process industry. This cooperation has begun in Germany at the beginning of 2006.

By taking this course both companies are rising to the challenge observed in automation engineering with plant manufacturers expecting their main suppliers to offer a comprehensive range of system solutions. Demands are growing for the components to be assembled before delivery and for the manufacturers to provide factory-tested system solutions. Step-by-step the process industry as a branch is moving away from individual brand-name proprietary products towards cross-vendor open standard components available all over the world.

As a result, MTL Instruments and Weidmüller are moving closer to the customer and are strengthening their respective positions as premium suppliers of connection technologies and open system components to DCS companies, system integrators and users.

CEO & President of the Weidmüller Group Thomas H. Hagen says "MTL Instruments has an excellent world-wide marketing team that focuses on the market for process control. MTL Instruments is in a perfect position to augment our existing sales channels and sell our products for process applications. The customer will receive factory-tested system solutions that he will be able to commission by utilising Plug-and-Play functionality. Depending on customer preferences and details specific to the plant operators, Weidmüller will work closely with MTL Instruments to the benefit of our joint customers."

Mr. Graeme Philip, CEO of MTL Instruments, adds "Weidmüller is a first-class supplier of components for electrical connection technology. I am looking forward to working closely with Weidmüller and strengthening MTL Instrument's position as the main supplier of components of open systems to the process industry."

About MTL:
Measurement Technology Limited, otherwise known as MTL Instruments, is a public limited company traded in the technology market of the London Stock Exchange. For more than 30 years MTL Instruments has been supplying

intrinsically safe explosion protection devices, visualisation systems, overvoltage protection as well as fieldbus technology. MTL Instrument products are available across the globe. MTL Instruments has its own branch offices and sales partners in more than 60 countries. Based in Kaarst, near Düsseldorf, MTL Instruments GmbH is the regional headquarters for the German speaking region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). MTL Instruments GmbH offers products and services for intrinsic safety (isolating modules, barriers, field visualisation modules, overvoltage protection, signalling units), for fieldbus technology (process I/O, field controllers, multiplexers, FISCO power supplies, connection technology) as well as services (electrical cabinet construction, OEM development, commissioning, seminars, certification of intrinsic safety). MTL Instruments GmbH is certified as fulfilling the quality standards to DIN EN ISO 9001: 2000 and puts itself forward voluntarily for approval under the TÜV/ATEX quality assessment system.
 

About Weidmüller:
Weidmüller is the leading manufacturer of components for electrical connection technology. Our product portfolio includes terminal blocks, PCB and plug-in connectors, protected component assemblies, Industrial Ethernet components as well as relay couplers through to power supplies and overvoltage protection modules that can be supplied with all types of connections. The programme is rounded off with materials for installation and marking of electrical equipment, basic I/O components as well as tools. As an OEM supplier, the company sets standards world-wide for electrical connection technology and techniques. As a group of companies, Weidmüller is strongly focused towards international markets with its own production facilities, marketing companies and representative offices in more than 70 countries.