BURLINGTON, Canada (May 22, 2012) – ClydeUnion Pumps, an SPX Brand, has relocated its Canadian works to a new facility in Burlington, Ontario, almost doubling its manufacturing footprint. The new site provides increased regional production capacity, allowing larger between bearings style pumps to be manufactured on site. The operation’s new upgraded pump test facilities means pumps can be proven locally in what is now North America’s highest power test facility for ClydeUnion Pumps.

BRAINTREE, Mass. (May 24, 2012) – Altra Holdings Inc., a global designer, producer and marketer of a wide range of electromechanical power transmission products, was recently ranked No. 3 in Boston Globe’s  “100 Best Performing Public Companies in Massachusetts.” Altra, headquartered in Braintree, Mass., was the top industrial company on the 2012 list.