Keller Group buys US instrument and monitoring company

FTSE 250 engineer Keller Group has bought US infrastructure monitoring company GEO-Instruments, for an undisclosed sum.

Rhode Island-based GEO-Instruments supplies and manufacturers monitoring systems for buildings, excavations, bridges, railways, roads, tunnels, dams, embankments, and slopes.

Instrumentation and monitoring solutions are used to control construction quality or monitor structural, ground or environmental properties such as vibration or noise during construction.

Joseph Hubback, Keller’s strategy director and global lead for Getec, the company’s global instrumentation brand, said: "This is an important step in strengthening our global capability in instrumentation and monitoring; helping us innovate and scale our operations, and supporting the trend for increasing technology in our market.

"The acquisition fits well within Keller's strategic framework driving growth, leveraging the scale of the group and enhancing operations."

GEO-Instruments will become a division of Getec, which is under the management of Keller company Hayward Baker, and be led by its former owner, Pierre Gouvin, as president.