Colfax Corporation
| Colfax Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US1940141062 |
| founding | 1995 |
| Seat |
Annapolis Junction , United States
|
| management | Matthew L. Trerotola |
| Number of employees | 16,000 |
| sales | 3,647,000,000 USD |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.colfaxcorp.com |
| As of December 31, 2016 | |
Colfax Corporation is a US company headquartered in Annapolis Junction, Maryland , listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Colfax is the market leader in the manufacture of bitumen pumps , specialty valves , welding electrodes and equipment. Colfax has control over companies such as ESAB (8,500 employees worldwide, as of 2012) and, until October 2017, over the pump manufacturer Allweiler in Radolfzell (over 750 employees worldwide in 2017).
history
Colfax was founded in 1995 by the Steven and Mitchell Rales brothers with the "aggressive goal of building a world-class global industrial company".
In January 2012 Charter International plc and with it ESAB and Howden was acquired for 2.4 billion US dollars .
In November 2012, the Ichtiman , Bulgaria electrodes factory was closed (purchased in 2007), with all 120 employees being laid off.
In 2012, the company had the highest revenue per employee among listed mechanical engineering companies at $ 2.0 million per capita.
Individual evidence
- ^ Leadership Bios
- ↑ a b Colfax Corporation 2016 Form 10-K Report , accessed March 3, 2017
- ↑ Walther Rosenberger: US group buys Allweiler in: Südkurier, October 4, 2017, accessed on November 4, 2019
- ^ History
- ↑ Welding Design: ESAB Parent to be Bought for $ 2.4 Billion , September 13, 2011
- ↑ A 50-year-old factory only made it for its 50th anniversary ( Memento from April 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Bulgarian)
- ↑ Highest Revenue Per Employee in the Industrial Machinery Industry in Shares of Colfax (CFX, FSTR, DDD, MLI, OFLX) ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on mysmartrend.com from December 31, 2012