M&A Acquirer Playbook

Dover Corporation acquisition history.

Every deal, price, and strategic rationale.

Company Dover Corporation
SEC CIK 0000029905
Tracked filings EDGAR · 8-K
Total deals tracked
44
Disclosed 8-K acquisitions, 2005 — present.
Aggregate disclosed value
$8.7B
approximately $8.7 billion across 44 disclosed acquisitions.
Active acquisition years
2005 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025
a steady cadence of tuck-ins with periodic platform deals.
Primary sectors
Diversified industrials
Pumps & Process Solutions, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Engineered Products and Climate & Sustainability Technologies; targets include Wayne Fueling, RegO, FW Murphy, Tokheim, Malema and Knowles.
Verified 43 deals on this page · sourced from SEC filings
All cross-references covered.

43 deals, $8.7B deployed.

Plotted by close date where disclosed, otherwise announcement. Click any marker to jump to the deal entry.

$750.0M Sep 2005 Knowles Electronics $402.5M Mar 2010 Harbison-Fischer $779.3M Jul 2011 Sound Solutions (NXP) $265.8M Jan 2012 Maag Pump Systems $220.0M Apr 2012 Production Control Serv… $603.2M Oct 2012 Anthony International $435.7M Dec 2013 Accelerated Companies (… $448.7M Jan 2016 Tokheim dispenser and s… $792.2M Dec 2016 Wayne Fueling Systems L… $32.9M Apr 2017 Caldera Graphics S.A.S. $53.2M Jan 2018 Ettlinger Group $15.3M Jan 2018 Rosario Handel B.V. $175.4M Jan 2019 Belanger $40.0M May 2019 All-Flo Pump Company $161.8M Jan 2020 Sys-Tech Solutions, Inc… $45.5M Feb 2020 So. Cal. Soft-Pak, Inc.… $30.4M Apr 2020 Em-tec GmbH $18.7M Aug 2020 Solaris Laser S.A. $77.0M Dec 2020 Innovative Control Syst… $34.1M Apr 2021 AvaLAN Wireless Systems $30.1M Jun 2021 Blue Bite LLC $23.7M Jun 2021 Quantex Arc Limited $29.1M Jul 2021 CDS Visual $60.5M Sep 2021 The Espy Corporation $27.7M Oct 2021 LIQAL B.V. $626.6M Dec 2021 ECI Holding Company, LL… $292.3M Dec 2021 Acme Cryo Intermediate… $8.1M May 2022 AMN DPI $223.5M Jul 2022 Malema Engineering Corp… $77.9M Dec 2022 Witte Pumps & Technolog… $8.8M Aug 2023 Arc Pacific group $526.5M Dec 2023 FW Murphy Production Co… $121.9M Jan 2024 Bulloch Technologies $48.2M Jan 2024 Transchem Group $395.8M Jul 2024 Marshall Excelsior Comp… $42.6M Jul 2024 Demaco Holland B.V. $14.7M Aug 2024 Criteria Labs $11.1M Aug 2024 SPS Cryogenics B.V. / S… $34.0M Dec 2024 Carter Day Internationa… $28.9M Jan 2025 Cryogenic Machinery Cor… $608.5M Jun 2025 Sikora AG $16.5M Jun 2025 ipp Pump Products GmbH $11.4M Aug 2025 Site IQ LLC (SIQ)

The rationale that repeats.

Three patterns show up across Dover's deal book — what the team buys, how it pays, and how it integrates. The patterns are the throughline; the individual deals below are the evidence.

01
Acquisition criteria

Disciplined serial tuck-ins inside five segments.

Dover compounds through a steady stream of mostly sub-$100M acquisitions that complement and expand existing operations within its Pumps & Process Solutions, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Engineered Products and Climate & Sustainability Technologies segments. Each deal is folded into an existing platform rather than run as a standalone unit, which is why most show up only in the 10-K acquisition notes rather than dedicated 8-Ks.

Sikora AGCryogenic Machinery Corp. (Cryo-Mach)ipp Pump Products GmbHSite IQ LLC (SIQ)Marshall Excelsior Company (MEC)
02
Capital deployment

Platform builds in fueling, cryogenics and pumps.

Periodically Dover writes a larger check to anchor or scale a platform: Wayne Fueling ($792M) and Tokheim ($449M) built the retail fueling franchise; RegO ($627M), Acme Cryogenics ($292M) and a string of cryo tuck-ins built a cryogenic-gas components platform; FW Murphy ($526M) and MEC ($396M) deepened gas-handling and compression controls. These larger deals set the direction that the subsequent tuck-ins extend.

Sikora AGCryogenic Machinery Corp. (Cryo-Mach)ipp Pump Products GmbHSite IQ LLC (SIQ)Marshall Excelsior Company (MEC)
03
Integration approach

Buying software and digital onto industrial hardware.

A recurring thread is acquiring software and digital capability to layer onto the hardware franchises: Systech, Blue Bite and Solaris in product traceability and brand protection; Bulloch, AvaLAN, ICS and Site IQ in retail-fueling payments, controls and IoT monitoring; CDS Visual in 3D industrial visualization. The pattern shifts Dover toward higher-margin, recurring digital revenue around its installed base.

Sikora AGCryogenic Machinery Corp. (Cryo-Mach)ipp Pump Products GmbHSite IQ LLC (SIQ)Marshall Excelsior Company (MEC)

The full deal book.

43 acquisitions. Click any row to see the deal value, financing structure, target revenue, executive commentary, and the original SEC filing — the evidence behind the patterns above.

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