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Fluid Management of Sassenheim, Netherlands, and Fast S.r.l. of Balsamo, near Milan, Italy, have agreed on a merger with effect from April 2002. Both are suppliers of paint-mixing equipment and both were also part of the quoted Idex Corporation prior to the merger. The newly created company Fast & Fluid Management puts a figure of approx. € 140 mio on its expected annual sales.