Belfor
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| Privately Held | |
| Industry |
Property Restoration Disaster Recovery |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Headquarters | 185 Oakland Ave., Ste. 150, Birmingham, Michigan 48009, USA |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Chief Executive Officer - Sheldon Yellen Chief Operating Officer - Mike Yellen Chief Financial Officer - Joe Ciolino |
| Revenue | Not Available |
| Website | www.belfor.com |
Belfor is a disaster recovery and property restoration company. The company restores water, fire, storm, and mold damage for business and consumers. It also offers recovery services, including fire damage restoration, smoke and soot removal, storm damage restoration, water extraction, structural dehumidification, reconstruction and general contracting, mold removal and remediation, corrosion control, air duct cleaning, contents restoration, document and media recovery, electronics restoration, machinery and equipment decontamination, machinery and equipment rebuilding and repair, semiconductor tool decontamination, environmental, marine and offshore restoration, and consulting services. It is a subsidiary of Franz Haniel & Cie.
Belfor begins as Quality Awnings & Construction in Dearborn, Michigan in 1946. The company changed its name to Inrecon L.L.C. (for Insurance Reconstruction) in 1981.Taylor, Michigan-based Masco bought 25 percent of the company in 1997, and completed its purchase of Inrecon in 1999.
Haniel EnviroServices, a new division of the old European conglomerate Haniel, begins in Germany in 1980. Its name is changed to Belfor in 1990.
Masco sells Inrecon to Haniel in 2001 and Inrecon becomes part of Belfor. At the time Inrecon had annual sales of $180 million and employs 1,000 staff.
Belfor USA Group Inc., doing business as Belfor Property Restoration, provides integrated disaster recovery and property restoration services. The company is based in Birmingham, Michigan. Belfor USA Group Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Belfor Europe GmbH.
In 2007 Belfor USA acquired Ductz International, LLC, a professional air duct cleaning and HVAC restoration franchise network with locations in 22 states. It acquired Hawaii Restorative Services of Honolulu and Coach's Catastrophe in 2010. Belfor acquired BAMCOR in 2015.
Belfor opened a Corpus Christi, Texas office and a San Antonio office in 2016. As of that year, Belfor USA had 7000 employees.
In 2003, the Canadian branch of Belfor worked to recover 100,000 books and manuscripts in the 17th Century Khan Collection at the Urdu Research Library of the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram. The library suffered damage in flooding following record rains in Hyderabad in August 2000.
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