1971 founder ned paine george baureis headquarters trussville alabama u.s. key people bill beyer president products fire extinguishers fire alarms gas detectors revenue 100 million annually 1 number of employees 500 2011 parent mcwane inc. website www.amerex fire.com a typical amerex fire extinguisher amerex corporation is a large american manufacturer of firefighting products . based in trussville alabama amerex makes hand portable and wheeled fire extinguishers for commercial and industrial environments as well as fire and explosion suppression vehicle systems for defense applications . 1 2 amerex s innovative technology has led to the production of pre engineered automatic restaurant systems vehicle fire suppression systems gas detection industrial systems and fire detection devices . mcwane inc. acquired amerex in 1999 . history edit amerex was founded in 1971 by ned paine and george baureis . paine was part of the amerex team until his retirement in september 1999 . he sold the company to mcwane inc. the same year . 3 in 2010 amerex began emerging as a major military subcontractor after developing a fire suppression system being deployed on american military vehicles often targeted by mines and homemade bombs in the middle east . the company is a subcontractor of the oshkosh corporation a maker of military vehicles . the vehicles use safety equipment including fire suppression gear made by amerex for oshkosh vehicles . optical sensors are used to detect fires and explosions instantly which then directs a series of jets and hoses to put out the fire with a concealed substance . 4 in 2011 amerex acquired the solberg company another firefighting equipment company based in bergen norway . 5 according to amerex president bill beyer the fire extinguisher sales tend to follow the general economy and growth in new buildings . 4 amerex produces 2.5 million commercial and industrial fire extinguishers each year . 1 references edit a b c birmingham business journal by cindy riley special . amerex weathers changes to fire suppression business birmingham business journal . bizjournals.com . retrieved january 28 2012 . trussville s amerex cuts 20 jobs birmingham business journal . bizjournals.com . june 4 2009 . retrieved january 28 2012 . birmingham business journal by jennifer park . paine lets go of the amerex reins birmingham business journal . bizjournals.com . retrieved january 28 2012 . a b amerex to put out fires in new armored vehicle . blog.al.com . retrieved january 28 2012 . the solberg company breaks ground for manufacturing plant and headquarters in howard . retrieved january 28 2012 . external links edit official website amerex defense retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title amerex & oldid 696376310 categories manufacturing companies established in 1971emergency services equipment makersmanufacturing companies based in alabamafirefighting in the united statesamerican companies established in 19711971 establishments in alabama 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 add links this page was last modified on 22 december 2015 at 19 06 . 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