TransDigm [TDG] said it has agreed to acquire a business of General Electric’s [GE] Aviation division that supplies motion control subsystems for civil and military aircraft. TransDigm said it would pay $150 million in cash for GE Aviation’s Electromechanical Actuation Division, giving it a proprietary business with significant aftermarket content. The GE business has about $80 million in sales, evenly split between commercial and military. TransDigm said about 40 percent of sales are from the aftermarket. Once the deal closes, which is…
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