Rosemount Inc. is a subsidiary of

Emerson Electric Company Emerson Electric Co. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Ferguson, Missouri. The ''Fortune'' 500 company manufactures products and provides engineering services for industrial, commercial, and consumer markets.

. Its headquarters is located in

Shakopee, Minnesota Shakopee ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Minnesota, United States. It is located southwest of Minneapolis. Sited on the south bank bend of the Minnesota River, Shakopee and nearby suburbs comprise the southwest portion of ...

, where they manufacture measurement instrumentation such as pressure, temperature, level, DP flow, and wireless, as well as analytical and detection instrumentation for gas analysis, liquid analysis, combustion measurement and flame and gas detection.

History

Rosemount Engineering was founded by Frank Werner, Robert Keppel, and Vernon Heath in the

Minneapolis–Saint Paul Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is commonly known as the Twin Cities ...

area in 1956 with a focus on the aerospace industry, which was then growing rapidly under the expansion of the U.S. space program. In 1966, the company diversified to the commercial processing industry and became known as Rosemount Inc. Rosemount's founders, Frank Werner and Vernon Heath, took up skiing in the 1950s, and decided to introduce a better

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. This led to the Rosemount ski boot of 1965, one of the first all-synthetic designs. The ski factory was sold to Bass Sports in 1968, but the Rosemount brand was used until it was purchased by Raichle in 1972. Its success captured the attention of several high-tech companies. Rosemount was acquired by Emerson Electric Company in August 1976. In 2013, Emerson announced the purchase of a new global headquarters location in Shakopee, Minnesota for its Rosemount branded products headquarters. Its building was originally built for ADC Telecommunications, but was abandoned in 2001 prior to completion and had never been occupied. The Rosemount brand is associated with Emerson, Emerson Automation Solutions, Rosemount, Rosemount Inc, and Rosemount Engineering.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20081205002952/https://www.emersonprocess.com/rosemount/about/history.html {{Authority control Companies based in Minnesota Chanhassen, Minnesota Electronics companies established in 1956 1956 establishments in Minnesota 1976 mergers and acquisitions