The Camfil Group is a producer and developer of

air filter A particulate air filter is a device composed of fibrous, or porous materials which removes particulates such as smoke, dust, pollen, mold, viruses and bacteria from the air. Filters containing an adsorbent or catalyst such as charcoal (carbo ...

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. The Group, headquartered in

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, has approximately 5,700 employees and sales of around $1 billion. 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.

History

The global Camfil Group started out as a family business in the town of

Trosa Trosa is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Trosa Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 5,027 inhabitants in 2010 (town) and 11,417 in 2010 (municipality). The town is colloquially nicknamed ''Världens ände'' ("The world' ...

, located about 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, a

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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

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. Ratos sold its shares in 2010 to the other owners, families Larson and Markman.Ratos’s Camfil sale nets SEK 610m
, unquote.com 2010-11-15

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