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Sunnen Products Company Acquires BTA Heller

BTA Heller President Mark Sollich (left) and Chris Miltenberger (right), President, Sunnen Products Company make Sunnen's acquisition of BTA Heller official, as Matt Krieder (center), Chairman, Sunnen Products Company, looks on.

The new Sunnen SHD-series bore-sizing machine incorporates the BTA Heller skiving and roller burnishing tooling. Sunnen expects the acquisition of Troy, MI-based BTA Heller to create a company unique in the industry, combining years of both deep hole drilling and honing expertise.

Sunnen Products Company has acquired BTA Heller Incorporated, a US-based manufacturer of deep hole tooling and systems for primary hole generation. This move aims to expand Sunnen's honing expertise to include tooling for initial hole creation and other complementary bore sizing and finishing processes. The company will retain the BTA Heller name as a wholly owned subsidiary of Sunnen Products Company, as the companies build on natural synergies to offer complete bore creation and finishing solutions.

"BTA Heller is a natural fit for Sunnen. Our companies complement each other very well and BTA Heller's reputation in the industry for deep hole drilling expertise is unsurpassed," said Chris Miltenberger, President and COO of Sunnen Products Company. "The transfer of knowledge between the two companies will create a unique value proposition for our customers. And, with this acquisition, no other deep hole/BTA company will have Sunnen's global presence for technical and post-sale support."

The Heller roots trace back to Germany more than 100 years ago. BTA Heller started in 1952 in Troy, MI, as American Heller. In 2007, the company name changed to BTA Heller, and it has continued to produce tooling and processes for gun drilling, single tube, BTA and double tube/ejector drilling systems, among others.

"We have developed various tools and systems for creating intricate internal profiled deep hole drilling from 0.5 to 36 inches diameter," said Mark Sollich, President and CEO of BTA Heller. "To combine forces with Sunnen and its bore geometry expertise creates a company not found anywhere else in our industry." Sollich will continue at the helm of BTA Heller after the acquisition, under the Sunnen Products Company umbrella.

For more information contact:

Sunnen Products Company

7910 Manchester Road

St. Louis, MO 63143

800-325-3670 / 314-781-2100

sales@sunnen.com

www.sunnen.com

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