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Flanders Corporation Business Information, Profile, and History

2399 26th Avenue North
St. Petersburg, Florida 33734
U.S.A.

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Flanders Corporation, headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, designs, manufactures and markets precision high-performance filtration products. Flanders is a vertically integrated company, with nine filter assembly plants, two metal working facilities, and a paper mill among its thirteen operating sites. The Company's air filtration products are critical to many high-technology industries, including semiconductors, ultra-pure material handling, biotechnology, pharmaceutical production, synthetics manufacturing, and the containment of airborne radioactive particulates in nuclear facilities.

History of Flanders Corporation

Flanders Corporation designs and manufactures air filters that are used in residences, commercial office buildings, and by a broad range of industries with a need for maintaining specialized manufacturing environments. Aside from its residential and commercial heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems, Flanders supplies high-performance air filtration systems to industries associated with semiconductor manufacturing, pharmaceutical production, and nuclear power and materials processing. The company also designs and manufactures most of its own production equipment, as well as the glass-based air filter media for most of its products. Flanders' customers include Wal-Mart Stores, Abbott Laboratories, Motorola, Merck, Upjohn, and Home Depot.

Origins

Flanders was founded as Flanders Filters, Inc. in 1950. The company was started by A.R. Allan, Jr., who formed the enterprise in Riverhead, New York, the home of Flanders for the first two decades of its existence. Allan created the company to manufacture technologically advanced filters that were used for specific industrial applications. Flanders' first filters were sold to operators of atomic power reactors and nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. In the ventilating systems of such plants, Flanders' filters served as safety devices that played a critical role in radioactive containment, removing small irradiated particles that otherwise would be released into the atmosphere. From its founding to the late 1950s, Flanders relied almost exclusively on supplying filters to atomic power reactors and nuclear fuel manufacturing plants, establishing itself as one of the first companies to compete in the market for highly specialized filters.

Given the limited demand for the type of filters Flanders made during its first decade, the company's growth potential was restricted. The design and production of filters for nuclear power facilities, however, did position the company on the vanguard of technological advancements in filter development. As new demands for sophisticated filters emerged, the potential for Flanders' growth increased. Such was the case during the 1960s, when researchers discovered that the manufacturing process used by film developers could be made significantly more efficient by incorporating high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters and lower-efficiency filters into production facilities. Flanders responded to the discovery by expanding its filtration product line to cater to the new demand, marking a turning point in the company's development.

The diversification into designing and manufacturing HEPA and lower-efficiency filters added significantly to Flanders' growth potential. The lower-efficiency filters, which eventually became known as ASHRAE-grade filters, increased efficiency standards for manufacturers involved in numerous other industries, giving Flanders its first exposure to widespread market demand. The company's production output increased substantially, driving its revenues upward and stretching its manufacturing capacity to the limit. The growth sparked by the foray into HEPA and ASHRAE-grade filters also led to an important decision made by the company's management; the decision to vertically integrate the company's operations as it grew. As part of the production process for its filtration products, Flanders used paper media consisting of a nonwoven matrix of glass microfibers. By the mid-1960s, the company was producing its own media, giving it a level of self-sufficiency that distinguished it from nearly all its competitors.

Flanders experienced its first sense of mass-market appeal for its products during the 1960s. The discovery of the benefits of using high-performance filters in the film developing industry led participants in other industries to consider incorporating sophisticated ventilating systems in their facilities. Flanders, using its skills in developing filtration products designed for radiation containment to diversify into answering the needs of film developers, was poised to reap the benefits of the widespread interest in high-performance filters. The company's business grew encouragingly, creating a bustle of activity at the Riverhead manufacturing plant. Before the end of the decade, the company was pressed to meet supply with demand, forcing management to consider the expansion of the Riverhead facility or the erection of a new, larger facility. Management, which by this point included Thomas T. Allan, who joined Flanders in 1964, decided to build a new facility, a decision that also led to the company's abandonment of Riverhead as its headquarters. Beginning in 1968, Flanders began to move its entire operation from Riverhead to Washington, North Carolina. The move took almost two years, ending in 1969 when the company settled into its new, 65-acre site in Washington.

By the time the move to Washington was completed, Flanders had its second generation of management in place. Thomas Allan, who would steward the company for the next two decades, built upon the foundation established during the 1960s. By the mid-1970s, the growth of Flanders' filter business required Allan and his team to confront the company's need for additional manufacturing capacity. The Washington plant was expanded in 1978, its tenth year in operation, and expanded again in 1984, further testifying to the increasing strength of the company's business. The efforts to vertically integrate Flanders' operations recorded progress as well, resulting in the establishment of a second paper mill abutted by additional warehouse space and a new sheet metal work area.

Flanders in the 1990s

Flanders' success during its first four decades of business established its reputation as a respected manufacturer of high-performance filters. The company's manufacturing activities were almost exclusively restricted to HEPA and ASHRAE-grade filters, however, confining the company within a niche of the filter industry. By the beginning of the 1990s, the company had yet to record more than $20 million in annual sales. Flanders' stature, both physically and financially, did not begin to increase substantially until the company broke free from its niche and diversified into other areas of the filter industry. This turning point in the company's history occurred 45 years after its inception, ushering in a new era of accelerated growth.

One of the principal architects of Flanders' strategic diversification program was Robert R. Amerson. Amerson joined Flanders in 1987 as the company's chief financial officer. The following year, he was appointed chief executive officer and president of the company. The decision to substantially expand Flanders' product line was made in the mid-1990s, long after Amerson had established himself in his leadership position. The move toward diversification was triggered in December 1995, when Flanders was acquired by a company named Elite Acquisitions, Inc. At the time of the acquisition, Elite, which was formed in 1986, operated as a publicly traded corporate shell without any significant assets. In January 1996, Elite formed a new subsidiary named Flanders Corporation (Flanders Filters, Inc. became an Elite subsidiary one month earlier) and merged with the subsidiary, leaving Flanders Corporation as the parent company for Flanders Filters, Inc.

The corporate maneuverings signaled the beginning of Amerson's campaign to diversify, a campaign to be conducted primarily by acquiring other companies involved in the filter industry. In May 1996, Flanders completed its first major acquisition, purchasing a Bath, North Carolina-based company named CSC, which operated as a charcoal filter manufacturer. CSC's activated charcoal filters were used in the containment of potentially dangerous biologically engineered microorganisms. One month after acquiring CSC for $4.5 million, Flanders spent $2.2 million for a Stafford, Texas-based company named AirSeal that produced mid-range custom filter housings for heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. In September 1996, Flanders completed the largest acquisition in its history, paying $25.2 million for Precisionaire. A manufacturer of filter products for commercial and residential HVAC systems, Precisionaire operated manufacturing facilities in Bartow, Florida; Terrell, Texas; and Auburn, Pennsylvania.

The acquisitions completed in 1996 broadened Flanders' market exposure, driving its sales upward. Annual revenues during the early 1990s hovered around $20 million, rising to $38 million in 1995, the year before Flanders embarked on its acquisition spree. In 1996, the company's sales soared to $73 million. Flanders' net income for the year totaled $3.5 million, or more than ten times the amount posted four years earlier. Physically, the company had recorded robust growth as well, with the acquisitions of 1996 giving Flanders five separate manufacturing plants. By the end of the year, the company operated seven production facilities ranging in size from 40,000 square feet to more than 200,000 square feet.

Flanders' acquisition campaign continued after 1996, as the company sought to increase its product line and to strengthen its existing businesses. At the end of 1997, after completing several small acquisitions during the year, the company secured a $30 million credit line with SunTrust Banks to finance further acquisitions. The money was to be used to purchase as many as five companies in 1998. One of the biggest acquisitions completed in 1998 was the purchase of San Diego-based Eco-Air Products, Inc., an air filter manufacturer, in June. The transaction, valued at nearly $20 million, was hailed by Amerson. "Eco-Air is a regional powerhouse on the West Coast, our weakest domestic sales territory," he explained in a June 30, 1998 interview with Business Wire. "In addition, their four additional manufacturing facilities, including a large plant in Mexico, give us complete coverage of the United States."

Growth Slowing in the Early 21st Century

As Flanders entered the 21st century, the effect of the company's mission to diversify through acquisitions was apparent in its stature, both physically and financially. The less than $40-million-in-sales company that existed before the decision to diversify was made in late 1995 grew to a company with nearly $200 million in sales by 2000. Physically, the commitment to acquire had created a company of genuine national scope, with ten separate manufacturing facilities in operation, stretching from Bartow, Florida, to San Diego, California.

During the first years of the new decade, Flanders focused its development efforts on creating air filtration systems designed to maintain clean air in residential and commercial settings. The growth of this market niche, which after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was fueled by concerns about anthrax and other microbes, was expected to accelerate the expansion of the global air filter market. According to the McIlvaine Company, a leading industry analyst, the worldwide market for air filters was expected to grow from $3.5 billion in 2000 to $5 billion by 2005. Flanders' executives also were looking for growth from other segments of the air filter market, including the increasing use of higher-performance filters in commercial and residential spaces.

Against the backdrop of expected industrywide growth, Flanders recorded static sales during the early years of the 21st century. After generating $194 million in sales in 2000, the company's sales volume decreased for three successive years, slipping from $189 million in 2001 to $184 million in 2002 and $182 million in 2003. The anemic sales growth stood in sharp contrast to the robust gains recorded during the late 1990s, giving Amerson and his team some cause for concern. As the company prepared for the future, it hoped to reverse the trend of waning sales growth and return to the dynamic progress achieved during the late 1990s.

Principal Subsidiaries: Flanders Filters, Inc.; Flanders Precisionaire Inc.

Principal Competitors: American Air Filter International; Farr Company; HEPA Corporation; Purolator Air Filtration Company; Donaldson Company, Inc.; Clark Corporation.

Related information about Flanders

Historical region of NW Belgium and NE France; autonomous in early Middle Ages; densely populated industrial area; chief towns Bruges, Ghent, Sint-Niklaas, Aalst, Ronse; traditional textile industry, with linen, silk, cotton processing; intensive farming, especially wheat, sugar-beet, oats, barley, potatoes; scene of heavy fighting in both World Wars.

in Brussels region
Population density

6,043,161 (2005)
ca. 200,000
447/km族
National anthem
 De Vlaamse Leeuw



Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) has several main meanings:

  • the social, cultural and linguistical, scientific and educational, economical and political community of the Flemings; some prefer to call this the 'Flemish community' (others refer to this as the 'Flemish nation') which is, with over 6 million inhabitants, the majority of all Belgians;
  • a constituent governing institution of the federal Belgian state through the institutions of the Flemish Community (with its own Flemish government and Flemish parliament) and the Flemish region;
  • the geographical region in the north of Belgium coinciding with the Flemish region, a constituent part of the federal Belgian state.

The precise geographical area denominated by "Flanders" has changed a great deal over the centuries.

In the Middle Ages, the term Flanders was applied to an area in western Europe, the County of Flanders, spread over:

  • Belgium :
    • the area that is now approximately the Flemish provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders
    • the French-speaking area at the west of the Scheldt river, called Tournaisis (from the Flemish town Tournai)
  • France :
    • a part of what is now the Nord d辿partement (Nord-Pas de Calais), in north-eastern France, often called French Flanders or sometimes even South-Flanders.
  • Netherlands :
    • a part of what is now Zeeland in south-western Netherlands, called Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.

The significance of the County and its counts eroded through time, but the designation remained in a very broad sense. In the Early Modern, the term Flanders was associated to the southern part of the Low Countries, the Southern Netherlands. For examples, Flemish Primitives is synonym for early Netherlandish painting, Franco-Flemish School for Dutch School, and it is not uncommon to see Mosan art categorized as Flemish art.

Flanders in France

Flanders in the Netherlands


Contemporary Flanders

Sometime in the 19th century it became commonplace to call the area now known as Flanders, from Maasmechelen to De Panne as "Flanders", including parts of the Duchy of Brabant and the Bishopric of Li竪ge (Belgian Limburg). This usage started to find its modern usage in a "disambiguation" of the northern part of Belgium (la partie septentrionale), from 1831, the establishment of the Belgian monarchy, on.

At this time, for most, the term Flanders is normally taken to refer to either the political, social, cultural and linguistic community (and the corresponding official institution, the Flemish Community), or the geographical area, one of the three regions in Belgium, namely the Flemish region.

History

Early history

Flanders was once inhabited by Celtic peoples and Germanics had crossed the Rhine and merged with them. They were called Belg脱 while the area was the farthest part of Gallia Belgica, the most northeastern province of the Roman Empire at its height. The remaining parts of Flanders came under the rule of the counts of neighbouring Hainaut in 1191. The entire area passed in 1384 to the dukes of Burgundy, in 1477 to the Habsburg dynasty, and in 1556 to the kings of Spain. The western districts of Flanders came finally under French rule under successive treaties of 1659 (Artois), 1668, and 1678.

During the late Middle Ages Flanders' trading towns (notably Ghent,Bruges and Ypres) made it one of the most urbanised parts of Europe, weaving the wool of neighbouring lands into cloth for both domestic use and export.

Increasingly powerful from the 12th century, the territory's autonomous urban communes were instrumental in defeating a French attempt at annexation (1300-1302), finally defeating the French in the Battle of the Golden Spurs (July 11, 1302), near Kortrijk. Flemish prosperity waned in the following century, however, owing to widespread European population decline following the Black Death of 1348, the disruption of trade during the Anglo-French Hundred Years' War (1338-1453), and increased English cloth production. Flemish weavers had gone over to Worstead and North Walsham in Norfolk in the 12th century and established the woollen industry.

Flanders in the Low Countries

The Reformation

Martin Luther's 95 Theses, published in 1517, had a profound effect on the Low Countries. Among the wealthy traders of Antwerp, the Lutheran beliefs of the German Hanseatic traders found appeal, perhaps partly for economic reasons in Dutch. The reformation resulted in consecutive but overlapping waves of reform: a Lutheran, followed by a militant Anabaptist, then a Mennonite, and finally a Calvinistic movement. These movements existed independently of each other.

The Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, issued by Charles V, established the Low Countries as the Seventeen Provinces (or Spanish Netherlands in its broad sense) as an entity separate from the Holy Roman Empire and from France.
The schism between the southern Roman Catholics and northern Calvinists resulted in the Union of Atrecht and the Union of Utrecht, respectively.

It was the iconoclasm of 1566 (the Beeldenstorm) – The Beeldenstorm started in what is now French Flanders with open-air sermons (hagepreken) in Dutch. The first large sermon was held near Boeschepe on July 12, 1562. On August 10, 1566 at the end of the pilgrimage from Hondschoote to Steenvoorde, the chapel of the Sint-Laurensklooster (Cloister of Saint Lawrence) was defaced by Protestants. From there, it further spread east and north, but in total lasted not even a month.

Charles' son, King Philip II of Spain, a devout Catholic and self-proclaimed protector of the Counter-Reformation who was also the duke or earl of each of the Seventeen Provinces, started to crack down on the rising Calvinists in Flanders, Brabant and Holland. What is now approximately Belgian Limburg was part of the Bishopric of Liège and was Catholic de facto. Before the Low Countries could be completely reconquered, war between England and Spain broke out, forcing the Spanish troops under Philips II to halt their advances. They managed to conquer a considerable part of Brabant (the later Noord-Brabant of the Netherlands), and the south bank of the Scheldt estuary (Zeeuws-Vlaanderen), before being stopped by Spanish troops. Today Flanders is one of the most productive and wealthiest regions of the world.

Although arts remained at a relatively impressive level for another century with Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Flanders experienced a loss of its former economic and intellectual power under Spanish, Austrian, and French rule, with heavy taxation and rigid imperial political control compounding the effects of industrial stagnation and Spanish-Dutch and Franco-Austrian conflict.

1581-1815: The Southern Netherlands

Conquered by revolutionary France in 1794 and annexed the following year as the départements of Lys, Escaut, Deux-Nèthes, Meuse-Inférieure and Dyle.
The people rose against the French in 1798, the Boerenkrijg, with the heaviest fights in the Campine area. The main reason for this uprising was the forced army service for all men aged 16-25.

1815-1830: United Kingdom of the Netherlands

After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo in Waterloo, Brabant, sovereignty over the Austrian Netherlands – was given by the Congress of Vienna (1815) to the United Netherlands (Dutch: Vereenigde Nederlanden), The state that briefly existed under Souvereign Prince William I of Orange Nassau, the latter King William I of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, after the French Empire was driven out of the Dutch territories. The southern bourgeoisie mainly was Roman Catholic, in contrast to the mainly Protestant north, large parts of the southern bourgeoisie also primarily spoke French, instead of Flemish, a sub species of the Dutch language.

In the in 1815 instated Dutch Senate (Dutch: Eerste Kamer der Staaten Generaal) the nobility, mainly coming fom the south, became more and more estranged from their northern colleagues. On August 25, 1830 (after the showing of the opera 'La Muette de Portici' of Daniel Auber in Brussels) the Belgian Revolution sparked off and became a fact. On October 4, 1830, the Provisional Authority (Dutch: Voorlopig Bewind) proclaimed the independence which was later confirmed by the National Congress that issued a new Liberal Constitution and declared the new state a Constitutional Monarchy, under the House of Saxe-Coburg. Flanders now became part of the Kingdom of Belgium, which was recognised by the major European Powers on January 20, 1831. The de facto dissidence was only finally recognised by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands on April 19, 1839. Belgium was confirmed as an independent state by the Treaty of London of 1839, but deprived of the eastern half of Limburg (now Dutch Limburg), and the Eastern half of Luxembourg (now the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg) . Sovereignty over Zeeuws Vlaanderen, south of the Westerscheldt river delta, was left with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, who was allowed to levy a toll on all traffic to the Antwerp harbour until 1863.

Rise of the Flemish Movement


World War I and its consequences

Flanders (and Belgium as a whole) saw some of the greatest losses of life of the First World War including the battles of Ypres and the Somme. Due to the hundreds of thousands of casualties, the poppies that sprang up from the battlefield and that were immortalised in the poem In Flanders Fields, have become an emblem of human life lost in war. More important for the course of history is the resentment some felt of being used as cannon fodder, as a whole nation, and not as single soldiers.

Flemish feeling of identity and consciousness grew through the events and experiences of war. The resulting suffering is still remembered by Flemish organizations during the yearly Yser pilgrimage in Diksmuide at the monument of The Yser tower.

Right-Wing Nationalism in the interbellum and World War II


Communautary quibbles and the Egmont pact


Government and politics

Both the Flemish Community and the Flemish region are federal units of the Kingdom of Belgium. Roughly, the Flemish Region is responsible for all economic issues.

The number of Dutch-speaking Flemings in Brussels (region) is estimated to be between 11% and 15% (official figures do not exist as there is no language census and no official subnationality). According to a survey conducted by the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-La-Neuve and published in June 2006, 51% of respondents from Brussels claimed to be bilingual, even if they do not have Dutch as their first language.*regards.ires.ucl.ac.be/Archives/RE042.pdf Report of study by Universite Catholique de Louvain (in French)] *Article at Taaluniversum.org summarising report (in Dutch) They are under the rule of the Brussels Region for economics affairs and under the rule of the Flemish Community for educational and cultural issues.

As of 2005, the Flemish institutions as its government, parliament, etc. Members of the Flemish parliament who were elected in Brussels region cannot vote on flemish regional affairs.

The official language for all Flemish institutions is Dutch. French is widely known in Flanders, with 59% claiming to know French according to a survey conducted by the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-La-Neuve and published in June 2006.*regards.ires.ucl.ac.be/Archives/RE042.pdf Report of study by Universite Catholique de Louvain (in French)] *Article at Taaluniversum.org summarising report (in Dutch)

Politics


Many new political parties during the last half century were founded in Flanders: the nationalist Volksunie of which the extreme-right nationalist Vlaams Blok (Vlaams Belang) split off, and that later dissolved into SPIRIT, moderate nationalism rather left of the spectrum, and the NVA, more conservative moderate nationalism;

Administrative divisions

The Flemish Region covers 13,522 km² and contains over 300 municipalities.
It is divided into 5 provinces:

  1. Antwerp (Antwerpen)
  2. Limburg (Limburg)
  3. East Flanders (Oost-Vlaanderen)
  4. Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant)
  5. West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen)

Independently from the provinces, Flanders has its own local institutions in the Brussels-Capital region, being the Vlaamse GemeenschapsCommissie (VGC), and its municipal antennae (Gemeenschapscentra, community centers for the Flemish community in Brussels). They exert, among others, all those cultural competencies that outside Brussels fall under the provinces.

Geography and climate

Brussels (Brussel), Antwerp (Antwerpen), Ghent (Gent), Bruges (Brugge), Leuven and Mechelen are the largest cities of Flanders, with populations above or around 100,000.

Flanders has two main geographical regions: the coastal plain in the north-west and a central plateau. Here one can also find rougher land, including caves and small gorges.

The climate is maritime temperate, with significant precipitation in all seasons (Köppen climate classification: Cfb; After World War II, Antwerp and Ghent experienced a fast expansion of the chemical and petroleum industries. Flemish productivity per capita is between 20 and 25% higher than that in Wallonia.

Flanders has a particularly open economy. Since 1922, Belgium and Luxembourg have been a single trade market within a customs and currency union?the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union.

Demographics

The areas with the highest population density are around the Brussels-Antwerp-Gent-Leuven agglomerations, also known as the Flemish Diamond, as well as other important urban centres as Kortrijk, Bruges, Hasselt and Mechelen. Since independence, Catholicism, counterbalanced by strong freethought and especially freemason movements, has had an important role in Belgium's politics, in particular via the Christian trade union (CSC/ACV) and the Christian Democrat parties (CD&V, CDH).

According to Npdata, 9.7% of the Flemish population is of foreign descent. 4.5% European (including 1.8% Dutch, 0.6% Italian and 0.4% French), and 5.1% from outside the European union, (inluding 1.8% Moroccan and 1.5% Turks).

Education is compulsory from the ages of six to 18, but most Flemings continue to study until around 23. Among the OECD countries in 1999, Flanders had the third-highest proportion of 18–21-year-olds enrolled in postsecondary education. In the period 1994–98, 18.4 percent of the population lacks functional literacy skills.United Nation Development Programme

Mirroring the historical political conflicts between the freethought and Catholic segments of the population, the Flemish educational system is split into a laïque branch controlled by the communities, the provinces, or the municipalities, and a subsidised religious—mostly Catholic?branch controlled by both the communities and the religious authorities—usually the dioceses.

Flemish language and culture

The standard language used in Flanders is the same as in the Netherlands, i.e., Dutch. That is correct for say 99% of the literature written in Dutch, although one might argue a distinct Flemish literature already began in the 19th century, when most of the european Nation-states arose, with writers and poets such as Guido Gezelle, who not only explicitly referred to his writings as Flemish, but actually used it in many of his poems, and strongly defended it:
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Original

"Gij zegt dat ?t vlaamsch te niet zal gaan:

?t en zal!

dat ?t waalsch gezwets zal boven slaan:

?t en zal!

Dat hopen, dat begeren wij:

dat zeggen en dat zweren wij:

zoo lange als wij ons weren, wij:

?t en zal, ?t en zal,

?t en zal!"

Translation

"You say Flemish will disappear:

It will not!

that Walloonish rantings will prevail:

It will not!

This we hope, this we crave:

this we say and this we swear:

as long as we defend ourselves, we:

It will not, It will not,

It will not!" Nevertheless, the near totality of Dutch-language literature read (and appreciated to varying degrees) in Flanders is the same as in the Netherlands.

Some other famous writers representative of Flemish culture are Ernest Claes, Stijn Streuvels, and Felix Timmermans.

Flanders in literature

A fictional town in Flanders called Quiquendone and the Flemish people were written about in the comic novel, Le Docteur Ox written by Jules Verne.

Chronology

  • Key Dates:
  • 1950: Flanders Filters, Inc. is founded in Riverhead, New York.
  • 1968: Flanders moves to larger manufacturing facilities in Washington, North Carolina.
  • 1995: Flanders is acquired by Elite Acquisitions, Inc., triggering accelerated expansion; Elite merges with Flanders the following year.
  • 1996: Flanders' acquisition spree begins with the purchase of three filter companies.
  • 1998: Flanders acquires Eco-Air Products, Inc.

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