industry aerospace and defence founded 1905 headquarters romsey uk key people peter hickson chairman michael flowers ceo 1 revenue 740.3 million 2012 2 operating income 88.3 million 2012 2 net income 15.3 million 2012 2 number of employees 2 848 website www.chemring.co.uk chemring group is a global business providing a range of advanced technology products and services to the aerospace defence and security markets . employing 2 848 people 31 october 2014 3 worldwide chemring has extensive operations in the americas europe middle east and asia . it is headquartered in romsey and is listed on the london stock exchange . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 controversy 4 references 5 external links history edit the business was formed in 1905 as the british foreign & colonial automatic light controlling company limited in 1905 to make timers for gas street lighting . 4 in the 1950s the company diversified into silver coated filaments for lighting . 4 it was subsequently established that such filaments had an alternative use as chaff for radar decoy purposes . 4 the company was first listed on the london stock exchange in 1974 . 4 the falklands war led to chemring opening a new factory to produce aluminium glass chaff decoys in order to counteract the threat of sea skimming missiles . in 1986 chemring acquired pyrotechnics specialist pains wessex and moved into ir decoys . 4 the first gulf war led to a rapid increase in chemring s production of countermeasures in support of the us led coalition . 4 in 1992 the company acquired its main competitor hayley & weller . this resulted in chemring supplying the majority of the uk ministry of defence s countermeasure and military pyrotechnic needs . 4 in 1993 chemring established a presence in the united states with its first us acquisition alloy surfaces company inc. this was furthered in 2001 when chemring acquired kilgore flares company llc making the group the largest provider of decoys to the united states department of defense . in 2006 the chemring group acquired poole based bdl systems for 9 million . 5 6 in 2007 the company acquired simmel difesa an ammunition supply business 7 as well as richmond electronics & engineering a business specialising in bomb disposal technology . 8 in 2008 it went on to buy scot a business making devices for aircraft emergency systems 9 and martin electronics a manufacturer of ammunition and fuses . 10 in 2009 chemring acquired hi shear technology corporation a us leading manufacturer of high reliability energetic solutions that perform critical functions in key us space and defence programmes . 11 in 2010 it purchased roke manor research a centre for advanced technology research and development based in hampshire uk from siemens for 55m . 12 in 2011 the company acquired the detection systems operations and certain related assets of general dynamics armament and technical products a subsidiary of general dynamics corporation . the business operates as chemring detection systems inc and is a us leader in chemical and biological threat detection and has advanced capability in stand off detection of improvised explosive devices . 13 in 2012 chemring disposed of its marine interests chemring marine to drew marine . 14 in june 2014 the group headquarters was relocated from fareham to romsey . operations edit this section contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . october 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message chemring group operates in four market sectors 15 countermeasures protecting aircraft ships and land platforms against guided missile threats sensors & electronics equipment to detect disable and defeat the threats posed by either concealed ieds improvised explosive devices unexploded ordnance electronic warfare and chemical and biological threats pyrotechnics & munitions an extensive range of products for use in navy army and air force applications energetic systems propellant explosives missile and ammunition components as well as thrusters initiators and other components for the space sector controversy edit in 2014 it was revealed that tear gas used against demonstrators in the 2014 hong kong protests was provided by chemring . 16 references edit chemring names flowers as ceo . the wall street journal . 2014 06 24 . retrieved 2014 06 24 . a b c preliminary results 2012 http www.chemring.co.uk media files c chemring v2 integrated report 2014 year in review chemring 2014 ra.pdf a b c d e f g chemring history acquisition of bdl systems limited . www.chemring.co.uk . chemring group plc. 2006 . retrieved 2013 01 17 . chemring buys bdl systems for 9 mln stg ; order book reaches record 225 mln stg . http www.lse.co.uk . london south east limited . 2006 . retrieved 2013 01 21 . external link in work help chemring buys simmel difesa for 52m reuters 30 march 2007 chemring buys bomb disposal company richmond reuters 5 november 2007 chemring buys pyrotechnics specialist qck 27 may 2008 chemring buy martin electronics for 70m ib times 24 june 2008 1 reuters 16 september 2009 defence.professionals . defpro.com . 2010 08 10 . retrieved 2011 04 08 . 2 the engineer 4 july 2011 3 rtt news 6 june 2012 4 chemring at a glance http www.thetimes.co.uk tto news world asia article4220580.ece external links edit official site v t e aerospace industry in the united kingdom economy of the united kingdom manufacturing in the united kingdom companies current ad aerospace agustawestland airbus uk astrium satellites surrey satellite technology bae systems bae systems integrated system technologies bae systems military air solutions eurofighter gmbh 33 % mbda 37.5 % bba aviation boeing defence uk british airways engineering britten norman chemring group cobham cobham technical services euravia ge aviation systems gfs projects gkn hants and sussex aviation hybrid air vehicles irvin gq lindstrand technologies lockheed martin uk marshall aerospace martin baker meggitt messier bugatti dowty qinetiq reaction engines rolls royce selex es short brothers telespazio vega thales air defence thales optronics ultra electronics defunct adc aircraft ajep abbott baynes sailplanes abc motors air navigation and engineering company airco the airscrew company airship industries airspeed armstrong whitworth aircraft arrow aircraft auster austin motor company aviation traders avro beagle aircraft william beardmore and company blackburn aircraft boulton & paul boulton paul aircraft bristol aeroplane company british aerial transport british aerospace british aircraft company british aircraft corporation british aircraft manufacturing btr aerospace central aircraft company chilton aircraft chrislea aircraft clayton & shuttleworth comper aircraft company cunliffe owen aircraft dart aircraft de havilland de havilland aeronautical technical school de havilland propellers desoutter aircraft company dowty group dowty rotol dunlop standard aerospace e. d. abbott edgar percival aircraft elliotts of newbury english electric fairey aviation company fane aircraft company ferranti folland aircraft foster wikner aircraft garland aircraft company general aircraft general electric company gloster aircraft company grahame white handley page hawker aircraft hawker siddeley heston aircraft company hewlett & blondeau hordern richmond hunting aircraft lakes flying company luton aircraft m. b. arpin & co. marconi company marconi electronic systems martinsyde matra marconi space miles aircraft moss brothers aircraft d. napier & son nash & thomson national aircraft factory no. 2 nieuport & general aircraft norman thompson flight company parnall parnall & sons port victoria marine experimental aircraft depot lang propellers reid and sigrist rollason aircraft and engines royal aircraft establishment saunders roe scottish aviation seaplane experimental station selex galileo selex sistemi integrati siddeley deasy sopwith aviation company spartan aircraft supermarine vickers vickers armstrongs westland aircraft westland helicopters j. samuel white government and regulatory bodies civil aviation authority defence electronics and components agency defence science and technology laboratory european aviation safety agency related topics ads group aircraft manufactured in the united kingdom air international air service training british aerospace engineers farnborough airshow flight international key publishing nats holdings ndi uk parcaberporth royal aeronautical society society of british aerospace companies category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title chemring group & oldid 720202994 categories defence companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in hampshirecompanies established in 1905hidden categories cs1 errors external linksarticles with a promotional tone from october 2014all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 14 may 2016 at 10 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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