Camfil

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The Camfil Group is a producer and developer of air filters and clean air products. Camfil has 24 production units and R&D centres in four countries in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.[1]

The Group, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, has approximately 5,700 employees and sales of around $1 billion.[2] International markets account for more than 90 percent of sales. The company trades in four main segments: Air Pollution Control, Filtration Solutions, Power Systems and Molecular Contamination Control.[3]

History

The global Camfil Group[4] started out as a family business in the town of Trosa, Sweden, located about Script error: No such module "convert". south of Stockholm. Camfil was founded in Trosa in 1963 by the Larson family, still one of the company's principal owners, as a joint venture with Cambridge Filtration Corporation in the United States. In 1983, the family bought Cambridge's shares. Camfil was wholly owned by the family until 2000, when Ratos AB, a Swedish private equity company, received 29.7 percent of the shares in connection with the acquisition of Farr in the United States, which was then listed on NASDAQ.[5] Ratos sold its shares in 2010 to the other owners, families Larson and Markman.[6]

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  4. ↑ Camfil USA Air Filters
  5. ↑ Ratos Closes Successful Tender Offer for Farr Company, Business Wire 2000-05-02
  6. ↑ Ratos’s Camfil sale nets SEK 610m Script error: No such module "webarchive"., unquote.com 2010-11-15

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