- CEO
- Hooman Caman Javvi
- Full Time Employees
- 1,000
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Industrial machinery
- Address
- 7 Regis Place King's Lynn NO United Kingdom PE30 2JN
- IPO Date
- Jun 2, 1988
- Business
- Porvair plc designs and manufactures specialist filtration equipment, laboratory consumables, and environmental technology products for niche markets including aerospace, energy, industrial processes, life sciences, and metal production. The company operates through three segments: Aerospace & Industrial, which produces filtration systems for aerospace engines, petrochemical refining, nuclear, food and beverage, water treatment, microelectronics, and defense applications; Laboratory, which supplies instruments, microplates, and porous plastics for environmental analysis, bioscience diagnostics, and sample preparation; and Metal Melt Quality, which provides porous ceramic filters for molten aluminum, superalloys, and cast house filtration. Operations span the United Kingdom, United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, and China, with global sales serving industrial, scientific, and high-technology customers. Porvair plc, founded in 1982 and headquartered in King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom, focuses on bespoke consumables leveraging porous materials such as metals, ceramics, and plastics. Recent developments include the December 2023 acquisition of European Filter Corporation NV in Belgium, adding mist elimination filters and strengthening European industrial channels; the 2023 purchase of Ratiolab, a laboratory consumables maker in Hungary and Germany; and a smaller acquisition enhancing its US microelectronics filtration in Idaho. The company continues trading satisfactorily amid aerospace recovery and environmental regulation tailwinds, with net cash of about 14 million pounds at November 2023 and expectations for earnings growth entering 2024.