Zelienople, PA-based industrial and fluid power distributor Motion & Control Enterprises (MCE) marked its 11th acquisition since the start of 2023 with the addition of General Machinery Company.

Birmingham, AL-based General Machinery is a distributor of automation and electrical products, process pumps, compressed air products and related repair services to end-user and OEM customers in Alabama, northwest Florida and eastern Mississippi. The distributor, founded in 1908, has locations in Mobile and Madison, AL.

The acquisition expands MCE’s territory coverage into new, growing geographies and deepens its automation and rotating equipment solution offering, MCE Chairman and CEO Charles Hale said. 

The company will continue to operate under the General Machinery Company name under the continued leadership of Frank and Paul Crockard.

“This acquisition will grant us access to an even wider range of cutting-edge products and technologies, enabling us to better meet the diverse and evolving needs of OEMs and industrial clients alike,” Frank Crockard added.

On MDM’s 2023 Top Distributors Lists, MCE ranks No. 50 among industrial distributors and No. 9 for fluid power. Earlier this year, MCE acquired two NC-based distributors: pressure and temperature instrumentation product distributor Daughtridge Sales Company and industrial products distributor Piedmont Electric Motor Repair.