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In 1998, General Signal was purchased by SPX Corporation, and GFI Genfare became a subsidiary of SPX. The company took on its parent's name in 2012, becoming known as SPX Genfare, but was later rebranded simply as
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in 1980. GFI merged with Keene in 1981, and acquired the farebox business of Duncan
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