Halma
Halma plc is a group of technology companies that makes products for hazard detection and life protection. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The Company was established in 1894 in Ceylon as The Nahalma Tea Estate Company Limited.
1937 Switched to rubber production and became The Nahalma Rubber Estate Company Limited.
Early 1950s: the Company's rubber estates were nationalised by the Sri-Lankan government
1956 Company became Halma Investments Limited, severing its connections with both tea and rubber and becoming an investment and industrial holding company
Early 1970s the company began a sequence of acquisitions in the mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering sectors.
1971 Acquired Power Equipment Co and its subsidiary Castell Locks[1]
1972 Acquired Megam Units of Hainault
1972 Frazer Brock Engineering Co Ltd was the only one of the engineering subsidiaries not operating profitably[2]
1973 Halma Investments acquired Standard Engineering, which was an asset-rich group of companies[3], effectively doubling group turnover.
1973 The Company was renamed Halma Limited
Late 1970s Acquired Hanovia
1980 Incorporated subsidiary Halma Environmental Control Ltd
1982 Had a turnover of £16.5 million and employed 868 on six UK sites and three overseas. Based in London. Manufacturing for industrial safety, security and environmental control markets. Company chairman was David Barber.[4]
1983 Acquired Wilkinson and Simpson, maker of chemical tablets for water testing. Closed loss-making subsidiary Argosy Fenton. The shoe division had been so successful that it was split in two - Standard Engineering would concentrate on sales of machinery to the repair industry; Standard Machinery would sell its equipment to the manufacturing industry.[5]
1990 Acquired Cressall Manufacturing Co
1999 Acquired Shuco Profast and Shuco Products
2000 Acquired FFE Holdings and Wessex Electronic Consultants
2003 Acquired Radcom (Technologies)
2005 Acquired Texecom and Radio-Tech
2015 Halma Plc. Revenue £726m. Employs 5,400 persons worldwide of whom 37% are in the UK. [6]
2017 Formed the Halma UV Group by combining Berson (Netherlands), Hanovia and Aquionics (USA).