Engineering and Manufacturing | |
Industry | Compressed air & Gas |
Founded | 1801 (as Holman Limited) |
Headquarters | Redditch, Worcestershire, England |
Products | Air and Gas compressors |
£ 6.7 million | |
£ 231 million | |
Number of employees
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1,750 |
Parent | Gardner Denver |
Website | www |
CompAir is an engineering and manufacturing company specialising in compressed air and gas systems. It is a division of NYSE-listed Gardner Denver.
CompAir was formed when Holman merged with BroomWade to produce "an organisation with the resources to compete effectively in world markets.... the name of the group was the International Compressed Air Corporation. Four years later the name was changed to CompAir.
from Invensys. Alchemy invested £41.4 million to fund a complete restructuring of the loss-making CompAir business, in return for a 67% shareholding.