improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article 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 . july 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources camfil news newspapers books scholar jstor free images july 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . april 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message camfil . type aktiebolag 100 % private ownership industry air filtration founded company founded 1963 in trosa by g sta larson under the name camfil ab headquarters camfil ab stockholm sweden phone 46 0 8 545 125 00 area served worldwide key people alan o connell ceo since 2001 jan eric larson chairman of the board since 1983 revenue sek 4.361 billion 2008 number of employees app . 3.000 2008 website www.camfil.com the camfil group is a producer and developer of air filters 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 stockholm sweden has approximately 3 000 employees and sales in the range of sek 4.3 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 power systems and safety & protection . history edit the global camfil group 1 started out as a family business in the town of trosa sweden located about 70 km 43 mi 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 swedish 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 nasdaq . 2 ratos sold its shares in 2010 to the other owners families larson and markman . 3 references edit camfil usa air filters ratos closes successful tender offer for farr company business wire 2000 05 02 ratos s camfil sale nets sek 610m unquote.com 2010 11 15 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title camfil & oldid 644909699 categories companies of swedencompanies based in stockholmcleanroom technologyhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from july 2014all articles with a promotional tonearticles with topics of unclear notability from july 2014all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles lacking reliable references from april 2009all articles lacking reliable 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 deutschsvenska edit links this page was last modified on 30 january 2015 at 22 55 . 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