Genuine Parts Adds Braas to Motion Industries

In addition to adding Communication Products and Services to its EIS subsidiary, Genuine Parts Co. (GPC), Atlanta, has added more industrial automation distribution to Motion Industries, the company’s industrial parts group. Braas Co., Eden Prairie, Minn., will join Motion Industries and add about $90 million a year to the group’s revenues.

Braas is a multi-regional distributor of products and services for industrial automation and control, specializing in pneumatics, motion control, industrial networking, machine safety, robotics and related industrial parts.  Founded in 1961, Braas serves thousands of customers throughout the Midwest and Southeastern United States from a network of five sales offices and three warehouses.