MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- DE-STA-CO Industries, (Madison Heights, MI) a Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV) subsidiary, a global leader in providing clamping, gripping, transfer and robotic tooling solutions for workplace automation, is pleased to announce the acquisition of CPI Products (Plymouth & Charlevoix, Mich.), a global innovator in applications development for automation tooling.

CPI designs and manufactures a broad array of end-of-arm, transfer press, and assembly tooling products. The company serves customers in a wide variety of industries -- including automotive, appliance, glass and plastics -- who depend on automation tooling to ensure lower costs and more effective production cycles.

The acquisition, effective January 1, 2001, further supports DE-STA-CO's strategy of selecting complementary world-class automation product lines to enhance its position of global leadership in engineered solutions for clamping, gripping, transfer and robotic application needs. CPI Products strengthens DE-STA-CO's ability to serve the automotive industry, and broadens the company's ability to support other industrial markets.

The CPI product line will be made available in Europe through DE-STA-CO GmbH (Germany) and CCMOP (France), as well as through sales offices in the UK and Spain. DE-STA-CO Asia (Thailand) and DE-STA-CO EMA (Brazil) will also offer the product line. CPI products also will be featured in DE-STA-CO's booth at several trade shows in 2001, including the National Design Engineering Show in March, the International Robots & Vision Show in June and the Assembly Tech Show in October.

Terms of the sale were not disclosed. For more information please visit the DE-STA-CO websites at http://www.destaco.com, or http://www.cpi-products.com.

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