Chemring Group
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| Public (: ) | |
| Industry | Aerospace and Defence |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Headquarters | Romsey, UK |
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Key people
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Peter Hickson, Chairman Michael Flowers, CEO |
| Revenue | £740.3 million (2012) |
| £88.3 million (2012) | |
| £15.3 million (2012) | |
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Number of employees
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2,848 |
| Website | www.chemring.co.uk |
Chemring Group is a global business providing a range of advanced technology products and services to the aerospace, defence and security markets. Employing 2,848 people (31 October 2014) worldwide, Chemring has extensive operations in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia. It is headquartered in Romsey and is listed on the .
The business was formed in 1905 as The British, Foreign & Colonial Automatic Light Controlling Company Limited in 1905 to make timers for gas street lighting. In the 1950s the company diversified into silver coated filaments for lighting. It was subsequently established that such filaments had an alternative use as chaff for radar decoy purposes.
Chemring Group operates in four market sectors:
In 2002, a report on the BBC Today programme claimed that a salesman from PW Defence, a Chemring subsidiary, had agreed to sell landmines to an undercover reporter. The anti-personnel weapons were outlawed in the UK in 1998, following the signing of the Ottawa Treaty.
In 2011, it was revealed that CS gas produced by Chemring was used against civilian pro-democracy protesters in the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Later in 2014, it was also revealed that tear gas used against demonstrators in the 2014 Hong Kong protests was provided by Chemring.
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