Binder added, “The growth opportunities Exotic will have as part of Parker are substantial. We look to the future with optimism and excitement as we leverage our combined capabilities to the benefit of our customers and team members.”
About Parker Hannifin
Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than 100 years the company has engineered the success of its customers in a wide range of diversified industrial and aerospace markets. Parker has increased its annual dividend per share paid to shareholders for 63 consecutive fiscal years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index. Learn more at www.parker.com or @parkerhannifin.
About Exotic Metals Forming Company
Exotic Metals Forming Company specializes in the design and manufacture ofstate-of-the-art, high-temperature, high-strength complex hard-metal fabrications to the aerospace and defense industry. For more than 50 years, the company has established itself as a trusted partner to its customers by providing innovative solutions and world-class delivery, quality and support. Exotic is a recognized industry leader for manufacturing performance, technical innovation, and delivering the right solution for its customers on time, every time.
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The risks and uncertainties in connection with such forward-looking statements related to the transaction include, but are not limited to, economic conditions within the company’s and Exotic’s key markets, and the ability of the company and Exotic to maintain and achieve anticipated benefits associated with the transaction, strategic initiatives to improve operating margins, and growth, innovation and global diversification initiatives; business disruptions due to transaction-related uncertainty or other factors making it more difficult to maintain relationships with employees, business partners or governmental entities; the possibility that the expected synergies and value creation from the transaction will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period; the parties being unable to successfully implement integration strategies; and significant costs related to the transaction. Readers should consider these
