Halma Stock

Halma plc provides specialist safety, health and environmental technologies.

In February 2016, the company acquired CenTrak Inc., which manufactures sensors and proprietary communication technology providing real-time location monitoring of people and assets in healthcare facilities.

Segments

The company’s businesses fall into two segments, Patient Care and Provider Solutions.

Patient Care

This segment involves businesses that develop and market devices to measure the health of patients. Areas of focus include ophthalmology and vital signs monitoring.

Provider Solutions

This segment delivers products to diagnostic equipment manufacturers, laboratories and hospitals. Areas of focus here include critical fluidic components for instruments, such as blood analysers, finished devices for laboratories, and sensor technologies that track assets and support patient and staff safety.

Process Safety Products

The company offers safety systems for controlling hazardous industrial processes; gas detection instruments for personnel and plant safety; pressure sensitive relief devices to protect process plant; interlock systems for safeguarding dangerous machines and hazardous processes; key interlocks and interlocking systems for the protection of personnel and equipment; process safety systems for petrochemical and industrial applications; pressure relief products used in petrochemical and industrial applications; safety systems for controlling access to dangerous machines; and process safety systems for petrochemical and industrial applications.

The company also engages in the design, manufacture and sale of pipeline corrosion monitoring products and systems into various industries, including oil, gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, chemical, and utilities.

Infrastructure Safety Products

The company also offers networked fire detectors and control systems; smoke and heat detectors, sounders, beacons and interfaces; infrared safety systems for elevator doors and elevator emergency communications; sensors for automatic doors; flame detectors, beam smoke detectors and specialist fire extinguishing systems; automatic fire detection and suppression systems; and security sensors and signalling products.

Medical Products

The company provides mechanical and fluidic components primarily used in medical, life science and scientific instruments; ophthalmic diagnostic and surgical equipment, as well as a broad line of pharmaceutical products; peristaltic, syringe, piston and gear pumps for use in laboratory, industrial and medical applications for both end-user and OEM customers; miniature valves, micro pumps and fluid components for medical, life science and scientific instruments; real-time location systems for healthcare facilities; specialized components and complete fluid transfer subassemblies for medical, life science and scientific instruments; ophthalmic instruments for diagnostic assessment of eye conditions; instruments for ophthalmic surgery; and ophthalmic surgical products, focusing on single-use devices used in cataract surgery.

The company also offers diagnostic medical devices for ophthalmology, blood pressure measurement and ear,

nose and throat diagnostics; clinical grade non-invasive blood pressure monitoring products and technologies; ophthalmic diagnostic instruments that objectively measure visual acuity; and ophthalmic equipment and lenses as aids to diagnosis and surgery.

Environmental and Analysis Products

The company provides mass flow meters, mass flow controllers and pressure controllers for high-precision fluid flow measurement; opto-electronic solutions and product design, development and manufacturing of exclusive, confidential, private label applications; ultraviolet disinfection systems for municipal drinking water and wastewater treatment plants; large core specialty optical fibre, high temperature metalised fibres for optical power delivery and optical sensing applications; ultraviolet light water treatment equipment used in the manufacture of food, beverages and pharmaceuticals, as well as products for aquaculture, pool and leisure and for marine ballast water treatment; multi-utility M2M solutions provider, including data recording and management for water networks, electricity, solar PV and energy conservation; equipment and software to monitor and analyse the entire clean and dirty water cycle and for leak detection in municipal and large scale industrial applications; precision radiometric and photometric systems and software for light testing, calibration and measurement; portable spectrometers and spectral sensors for laboratory and field applications in chemical analysis, process control, environmental monitoring, life sciences and medical diagnostics; water and environmental analysis equipment to test drinking water, wastewater and process water, water in pools and spas, as well as farming and irrigation applications; high precision moisture management products, including dryers, humidifiers, and complete sample conditioning systems for emissions monitoring, process analysis, and medical applications; multispectral sensing and imaging solutions for aerospace, biomedical, semiconductor, industrial and scientific applications; and electrochemical sensors for water analysis applications in the process industry and laboratory markets.