The Construction Source America

R. A. Hiller Company | 3 isolation valves and main feedwater valves within a nuclear power plant. The business is still an industrial distribu- tion company with a western Pennsylvania customer base that these days stretches into northern Ohio and West Virginia. It’s also added a manufacturing component that’s an important offshoot of the company that ac- quired Hiller in 2010, UK-based Rotork. Hiller is considered a wholly-owned sub- sidiary of Rotork, which employs 2,300 worldwide and reported a net profit of near- ly 90 million pounds in 2012. “It’s the same business model, same distribution territory, same customers,” Good said. “It’s just more of a global presence now in the nuclear mar- ket.” Hiller’s operations come out of a single building in Export, Pa. – about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh – that houses full manufac- turing capabilities, a weld shop and a paint booth, as well as engineering, procurement, project management functions and support for the sales staff. Forty-five employees work at the facility, a total that’s been boosted by about 10 over the last few years, Good said. The acquisition prompted a “more struc- tured” approach than had been the case pre-