Ian Brander

Charter Ltd. manufactures welding, cutting and other industrial machinery. The company owns two international engineering businesses, one focussed on welding, cutting, and automation ('ESAB'), and the other on air and gas handling ('Howden'). The company is the subsidiary of Charter International Plc. Charter was founded in August 1993 and is located in London, UK.

Howden Africa Holdings Ltd. designs, manufactures and supplies fans and blowers, rotary heat exchangers and gas cleaning equipment for utility and industrial applications. It operates through the following segments: Fans & Heat Exchangers, Fabrication Technology and Environmental Control. The Fans and Heat Exchangers segment focuses on air and gas-cooling technologies within the coal/gold mining and power generation markets. The Fabrication Technology segment includes the supply of welding equipment and consumables. The Environmental Control segment covers dust extraction and gas treatment technologies which reduces atmospheric pollution generated by industrial plants. The company was founded in 1854 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Howden Group Ltd. designs, engineers, and supplies air and gas handling equipment, including industrial fans, process gas compressors, and rotary heat exchangers. Its products include axial fans, centrifugal fans, compressors and blowers, heaters, and other ventilation fans. The firm also offers services for key industries including power generation, petrochemical, mining, steelmaking, and cement manufacture sectors. Its brands include Aeolus, American Blower, Bryan Donkin, Canadian Blower, and Wolf Fans. The company was founded by James Howden in 1854 and is headquartered in Renfrew, the United Kingdom.

Part of Enovis Corp., James Howden & Co. Ltd. is a manufacturer of fans, heaters, compressors, blowers, and steam turbines. The private company is based in Renfrew, UK and is a leader in air and gas handling, steam turbines, and hydrogen compression solutions. The British company excels as part of a network of experts and specialists, providing power plant outage services. The company provides air and gas handling solutions to support a cleaner future and suppliers are key to their vision to be the world's leading application engineer. Founded in 1915, the company offers new equipment sales, engineering, and lifetime services.

Howden Group South Africa Ltd. provides air and gas handling solutions. The company is headquartered in Booysens, South Africa.

Howden Compressors designs and manufactures rotary screw compressors that are used for a variety of demanding gas compression and refrigeration duties. At its manufacturing plant in Glasgow they produce bare-shaft screw compressor units that are supplied globally to its partner packagers. This allies its engineering expertise with local knowledge, and enables strong support to be provided to clients. They serve the refrigeration and process gas handling markets, as well as supplying units for boosting gas turbines' fuel gas pressure and a variety of other applications. Over the years they have supplied 35,000 screw compressor units worldwide. Having taken the first ever license for screw compressor technology from Svenska Rotor Maskiner in 1939, they pioneered the commercialization of the screw compressor technology, and today still remain at the forefront of its development.

Part of Enovis Corp., Howden Holdings Ltd. is a holding British company that operates subsidiaries manufacturing air and gas handling equipment. The private company is based in London, UK.

Howden UK Ltd. design and manufacture centrifugal fans and rotary regenerative heat exchangers. The company’s products include basic oxygen steel fans, bisector air preheaters, fgd booster fans, gas-gas heaters, heaters, quadsector air preheaters, trisector air preheaters, variax fans, sinter plant fans and submerged helium blowers. The company was incorporated on March 17, 1930 is headquartered in Renfrew, the United Kingdom.