15 Facts About Chemring Group

Chemring Group is a global business providing a range of advanced technology products and services to the aerospace, defence and security markets.

Chemring Group has extensive operations in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia.

In 1982, Chemring Group drastically increased its production of decoys to supply British forces engaged in the Falklands War.

Chemring Group's equipment played a major role in the transformation of the UK's street lighting from gas to electricity.

In 1986, Chemring Group acquired Pains Wessex, a firm specialising in pyrotechnics; since renamed Chemring Group Countermeasures Limited, the acquisition facilitated a move into infrared decoys.

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In 1993, Chemring Group established a presence in the United States with its first US acquisition, Alloy Surfaces Company Inc, which produced tailor-made decoys incorporating special materials.

North American market has become of increasing prominence in the company's portfolio; in 2001, Chemring acquired Kilgore Flares Company LLC, this made the Group the largest provider of decoys to the United States Department of Defense.

In 2009, Chemring Group acquired Hi-Shear Technology Corporation, a US leading manufacturer of high reliability energetic solutions that perform critical functions in key US space and defence programmes.

In 2012, Chemring Group disposed of its Marine interests, Chemring Group Marine, to Drew Marine.

In May 2014, Chemring Group acquired 3d-Radar AS, a Norwegian subsidiary of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, for $3 million; 3d-Radar AS was sold on during 2018.

In 2016, Chemring Group acquired the key assets and technology of Wallop Defence Systems, a British subsidiary of Esterline, strengthening its air countermeasures portfolio.

In 2002, a report on the BBC Today programme claimed that a salesman from PW Defence, a Chemring Group subsidiary, had agreed to sell landmines to an undercover reporter.

Chemring Group insisted that it had never manufactured such products and had halted sales well in advance of the ban; six months later, it was exonerated of any wrongdoing; a dispute over the allegation was still ongoing between the BBC and Chemring two years later.

In 2011, it was revealed that CS gas produced by Chemring Group had been used against civilian pro-democracy protesters in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

In 2018, it was announced that the UK's Serious Fraud Office had opened an investigation into corruption and money laundering by Chemring Group following a report from Chemring's subsidiary, Chemring Technology Solutions, which is being investigated.