Private company

CompAir

UK engineering and manufacturing company

CompAir is an engineering and manufacturing company specialising in compressed air and gas systems. It is a division of NYSE-listed Ingersoll Rand.2 It is part of Gardner Denver.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1801Founded1

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CompAir is an engineering and manufacturing company specialising in compressed air and gas systems. It is a division of NYSE-listed Ingersoll Rand.2

Corporate structure

CompAir is part of a group headed by Gardner Denver. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

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."

Timeline

Holman Bros Ltd formed in 1801 in Camborne, Cornwall

BroomWade in 1898 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK

In 1968 the two companies merged to form CompAir

In 1985 Compair was acquired by Siebe Gorman

In 1999 Siebe PLC and BTR plc merge to become Invensys

In 2002 acquired from Invensys by Alchemy Partners (Guernsey) Ltd. for £1.

from Invensys. 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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October 2008 Alchemy sold Compair to Gardner Denver for a total of £200.6 million

From Wikipedia’s article on CompAir, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

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Sources

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