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</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">CompAir Group</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category">Engineering and Manufacturing</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Compressed_air" title="Compressed air">Compressed air</a> & <a href="Gas" title="Gas">Gas</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1801 (as Holman Limited)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="Redditch" title="Redditch">Redditch</a>, <a href="Worcestershire" title="Worcestershire">Worcestershire</a>, <a href="England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data">Air and Gas compressors</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="Earnings_before_interest_and_taxes" title="Earnings before interest and taxes">Operating income</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">£ 6.7 million</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="Net_income" title="Net income">Net income</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">£ 231 million</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,750 (2009)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Gardner_Denver" class="mw-redirect" title="Gardner Denver">Gardner Denver</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.compair.com">www<wbr>.compair<wbr>.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>CompAir</b> is an engineering and manufacturing company specialising in compressed air and gas systems. It is a division of <a href="NYSE" class="mw-redirect" title="NYSE">NYSE</a>-listed <a href="Ingersoll_Rand" title="Ingersoll Rand">Ingersoll Rand</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>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."
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<ul><li><a href="Holman_Bros_Ltd" class="mw-redirect" title="Holman Bros Ltd">Holman Bros Ltd</a> formed in 1801 in <a href="Camborne" title="Camborne">Camborne</a>, <a href="Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a></li>
<li>BroomWade in 1898 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK</li>
<li>In 1968 the two companies merged to form CompAir</li>
<li>In 1985 Compair was acquired by <a href="Siebe_Gorman" title="Siebe Gorman">Siebe Gorman</a></li>
<li>In 1999 Siebe PLC and <a href="BTR_plc" title="BTR plc">BTR plc</a> merge to become <a href="Invensys" title="Invensys">Invensys</a></li>
<li>In 2002 acquired from <a href="Invensys" title="Invensys">Invensys</a> by <a href="Alchemy_Partners" title="Alchemy Partners">Alchemy Partners</a> (Guernsey) Ltd. for £1.</li></ul>
<p>from <a href="Invensys" title="Invensys">Invensys</a>. Alchemy invested £41.4 million to fund a complete restructuring of the loss-making CompAir business, in return for a 67% shareholding.
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<ul><li>October 2008 Alchemy sold Compair to <a href="Gardner_Denver" class="mw-redirect" title="Gardner Denver">Gardner Denver</a> for a total of £200.6 million</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Camborne" title="Camborne">Camborne</a></li>
<li><a href="Holman_Projector" title="Holman Projector">Holman Projector</a></li></ul>
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