MILWAUKEE — Water heater and boiler manufacturer A. O. Smith Corp. has acquired Water Tec of Tucson, an Arizona-based water treatment company, in an all-cash transaction. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Water Tec joins other recent A. O. Smith acquisitions — Atlantic Filter (2022), Master Water Corporation (2021), Water-Right Group (2019), Hague Quality Water (2017), and Aquasana (2016) — in the company’s growing water-treatment business in North America, a press release from the company said.