{"id":263320,"date":"2026-08-11T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263320\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:02:07","slug":"motion-control-enterprises-adds-wisconsin-pump-distributor-to-growing-portfolio-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263320\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion &#038; Control Enterprises adds Wisconsin pump distributor to growing portfolio \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A private-equity backed Pittsburgh-area company continues to expand its footprint via acquisition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Motion &amp; Control Enterprises has purchased Salentine Pump &amp; Equipment, based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Financial terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Based in Zelienople, about 29 miles north of Pittsburgh, MCE is an industrial distributor and services provider<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Salentine, founded in 1980, distributes highly engineered pumps, parts and repair solutions, serving end-user customers across multiple industry sectors including food and beverage, personal care, agricultural and general industrial markets in Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/08\/07\/mce-acquires-salentine.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/08\/07\/mce-acquires-salentine.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A private-equity backed Pittsburgh-area company continues to expand its footprint via acquisition. Motion &amp; Control Enterprises has purchased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6114,111299,111297,73,75,74,35199,111298],"class_list":["post-263320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-acquisition","tag-industrial-distribution","tag-motion-control-enterprises","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-private-equity","tag-salentine-pump-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}