Serck Group
1957 Serck Limited became the parent company of the Serck Group, with Serck Radiators part of the group.
1964 The very profitable H. O. Serck business was bought by the Serck Group when Herman Oscar Serck retired.
1965 Companies forming the Group:
- Serck Radiators
- Serck Tubes
- Serck Controls
- Baggett Hydraulics
- C. Aug Schmidt Sohne GmbH of Hamburg
- Visco
1970 H. O. Serck became a division of Serck Heat Transfer.
The Company later underwent significant divisionalisation. The seven divisions being:
- Tubular Cooler Division;
- Air Cooling Division;
- Aircraft Equipment Division
- Small Engine Cooler Division
- After Sales Division - all based in Birmingham,
- H. O. Serck Division - based in Manchester
- Serck GmbH, based in Hamburg, Germany.
With nearly seventy years experience behind it, at that point, Serck Heat Transfer offered complete heat transfer capability to all major industries, and a range of heat exchange equipment as one of the most comprehensive in the World.
From then on, Serck went through a number of buy-outs and take-overs
1977 Serck took over Hytork Actuators.[1]
1979 The main companies in the Group were:[2]
- Serck Audco Valves
- Serck Heat Transfer
- Serck Services
- Serck Tubes
- Wilsons Foundry
- Serck Controls
- Serck Visco
- Serck Water Processing
1980 Acquired Baker Filtration Inc of Huntington Beach, California[3] - presumably became Serck Baker
1981 BTR Industries acquired the group.[4]
1987 BTR sold the Serck Baker business to Meggitt[5].
1997 BTR sold Serck Heat Transfer to management[6]
1999 The Unipart Group acquired the Serck businesses operating in the UK, US, and Middle East in 1999.[7]