7 February 2007 – Compressor Products International (CPI) has acquired fellow UK company Robix, a specialist injection moulder of engineering thermoplastics (ETPs).
CPI’s products include compressor valves, piston and rod sealing systems and associated products for process gas compressors. It has become the leading company in the compressors sector to utilise ETPs in the components it makes, according to managing director Robin Wilson.
Robix, based in Braunton, Devon, uses injection moulding, as well as transfer and extrusion-based processes, to mould high performance ETPs. CPI has been a customer of Robix for some time before the acquisition decision was made.
“Robix had developed into an operation sufficiently mature to warrant a tie-up,” said Wilson.
CPI, which employs more than 200 people in its worldwide business, carries out some compression moulding of items such as sealing rings at its facility in Hungerford, Berkshire. The addition of the Robix processes will be complementary for CPI and will “further strengthen its leading position in the market”, it said.
In addition to the ongoing development of new materials and products aimed at the compressor industry, diversification into other industries which can benefit from the range is also planned. Pumps could be an area that will be suitable for the Robix materials and processes, said Wilson.
Robix will continue to serve its other customers, and CPI said it will be able to boost the sales operation of Robix.
