Emerson Product Named Edison Awards Finalist

The Fisher Control-Disk rotary valve from Emerson Process Management have been named finalist for the internationally known 2011 Edison Best New Product Awards. The Edison Awards symbolize the persistence and excellence personified by Thomas Alva Edison, inspiring America's drive to remain in the forefront of innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the global economy.

The Fisher Control-Disk rotary valve is a finalist in the Applied Technology category. The Control-Disk offers excellent throttling performance and is ideal for applications that involve fast processes and varying pressure drops, such as in the chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining industries. An equal percentage flow characteristic provides an improved throttling range comparable to that of a segmented ball valve. This allows control closer to the target set point, regardless of process disturbances.

This year's Awards recognize a broad array of innovations including far-reaching products, services and technologies that impact daily life," said Edison Awards Steering Committee chair Sarah Miller Caldicott, a great grandniece of Thomas Edison. “The Awards applaud the forward-thinking innovations for which Thomas Edison remains internationally admired. It's exciting to see companies like Emerson continuing his legacy of challenging conventional thinking."

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The ballot of nominees for the Edison Best New Product Awards is judged by roughly 2,000 members of the not-for-profit Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), an organization comprising America's top marketing professionals and academics. In a comprehensive peer-review process, the nominees are judged on Marketplace Innovation, Marketplace Success, Technological Innovation, Market Structure Innovation, Societal Impact, and Design Innovation.

"Emerson is honored to be recognized for these innovation awards because it is so clearly aligned with our commitment to help our customers solve the toughest problems, while helping them run smarter plants that improve production quality, lower operations and maintenance costs, and enhance environmental performance and worker safety, " said Terry Buzbee, president Emerson Process Management, Fisher division.

The Edison Awards are granted under the aegis of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University, a globally recognized research network dedicated to the study of innovation and its application in the 21st Century.