The Camfil Group is a producer and developer of

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s and clean air products. Camfil is also a global air filtration specialist with 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 4,500 employees and sales in the range of SEK 8 billion. International markets account for more than 90 percent of sales. The company's business is to provide customers with air filtration products and services within four main segments: Comfort Air, Clean Processes,

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and Safety & Protection. Camfil filtration devices helps prevent the spread of

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as they are frequently used in pharmaceutical clean-rooms, biosafety laboratories, and hospitals.

History

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

Trosa Trosa is a 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's end", specifically t ...

, Sweden, 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

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, 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
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References

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