air & gas founded 1801 as holman limited headquarters redditch worcestershire england products air and gas compressors operating income 6.7 million net income 231 million number of employees 1 750 parent gardner denver website www.compair.com compair is an engineering and manufacturing company specialising in compressed air and gas systems . it is a division of nyse listed gardner denver . contents 1 history 1.1 time line 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 . time line edit holmans rock drill from 1955 taken from the 55 vol . of csm magazine 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 . october 2008 alchemy sold compair to gardner denver for a total of 200.6 million see also edit camborne holman projector holman climax male voice choir references edit this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message external links edit compair retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title compair & oldid 647071403 categories engineering companies of englandcompanies based in londongardner denverhidden categories articles needing additional references from march 2009all articles needing additional references 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 february 2015 at 08 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view