# Camfil

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{{Short description|Swedish air filter company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Camfil.
| type = [Aktiebolag](/source/Aktiebolag) 100 % private ownership
| foundation = Company founded 1963 in [Trosa](/source/Trosa) by Gösta Larson under the name Camfil AB
| location = Camfil AB, [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm), [Sweden](/source/Sweden)
| key_people = Mark Simmons <small>([CEO](/source/chief_executive_officer))</small> since 2019, Jan Eric Larson <small>([Chairman](/source/Chair_(official)) of the [board](/source/board_of_directors))</small> since 1983
| area_served = Worldwide
| industry = [Air filtration](/source/Air_filtration)
| revenue = $1 billion <small>(2023)</small>
| num_employees = app. 5,700 <small>(2024)</small>
| homepage = [http://www.camfil.com/ www.camfil.com]
}}

The '''Camfil Group''' is a producer and developer of [air filter](/source/air_filter)s and clean air products. Camfil has 24 production units and R&D centres in four countries in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Camfil AB - Company Profile and News - Bloomberg Markets|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/3494247Z:SS|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-07-26|website=Bloomberg.com}}</ref> 

The Group, headquartered in [Stockholm](/source/Stockholm), [Sweden](/source/Sweden), has approximately 5,700 employees and sales of around $1 billion.<ref name="About">{{cite web |title=About Camfil |url=https://www.camfil.com/en-us/about-us/about-camfil |website=Camfil - About |publisher=camfil.com |access-date=8 May 2023 |ref=About}}</ref> International markets account for more than 90 percent of sales. The company trades in four main segments: Air Pollution Control, Filtration Solutions, Power Systems and Molecular Contamination Control.<ref name="Camfil Business Areas">{{cite web |title=Camfil Business Areas |url=https://www.camfil.com/en-us/about-us/about-camfil/business-areas |website=Camfil |publisher=Camfil.com |access-date=8 May 2023 |ref=Camfil Business Areas}}</ref>

== History ==
The global Camfil Group<ref>[http://www.camfil.us/ Camfil USA Air Filters]</ref> started out as a family business in the town of [Trosa](/source/Trosa), [Sweden](/source/Sweden), located about {{convert|70|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of Stockholm. Camfil was founded in Trosa in 1963 by the Larson family, still one of the company's principal owners, as a joint venture with Cambridge Filtration Corporation in the United States. In 1983, the family bought Cambridge's shares. Camfil was wholly owned by the family until 2000, when [Ratos AB](/source/Ratos_AB), a [Swedish](/source/Swedish_language) private equity company, received 29.7 percent of the shares in connection with the acquisition of Farr in the United States, which was then listed on [NASDAQ](/source/NASDAQ).<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_May_2/ai_61848499/ Ratos Closes Successful Tender Offer for Farr Company], Business Wire 2000-05-02</ref> Ratos sold its shares in 2010 to the other owners, families Larson and Markman.<ref>[http://www.unquote.com/nordics/official-record/1896044/ratos-s-camfil-sale-nets-sek-610m Ratos’s Camfil sale nets SEK 610m] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130205043644/http://www.unquote.com/nordics/official-record/1896044/ratos-s-camfil-sale-nets-sek-610m |date=2013-02-05 }}, unquote.com 2010-11-15</ref>

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Category:Manufacturing companies of Sweden
Category:Companies based in Stockholm
Category:Cleanroom technology

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