Acquisition

Rotork PLC
13 January 2006

Date:    Friday 13 January 2006




                                 ROTORK p.l.c.

                                 Acquisition



Rotork, the specialist engineer, announces that it has acquired the business and
assets of Omag Snc through the acquisition of 100% of the shares in a new
company into which the Omag business was transferred.  The consideration for the
acquisition is €1.55 million all paid in cash.  The new company will be renamed
Rotork Gears ( Italy )  S.r.l.


Commenting on the acquisition, Rotork Group Chief Executive Bill Whiteley said:


'Omag is a respected gears manufacturer and supplier to the Italian heavy duty
industrial valve industry and is based in Milan.  The acquisition of Omag
provides Rotork's Gears division with a manufacturing and sales base in the
globally significant Italian valve market in addition to its current
manufacturing and assembly sites in Leeds and in the USA, The Netherlands and
China.  I am pleased that the proprietor of Omag Snc, Roberto Boldorini, has
accepted the position of General Manager of Rotork Gears ( Italy ) S.r.l.'



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