ProcessBarron
ProcessBarron is a designer, manufacturer, installer and servicer of air and bulk material handling equipment for industry which is headquartered at 2770 Welborn Street in Pelham. The company is led by CEO Ken Nolen and is owned by Carousel Capital of Charlotte, North Carolina.
The company was founded in 1981 as Process Equipment by five former employees of Barron Industries in Anniston. It specializes in equipment that directs air, gases, dust, ash and fuel; but also works with bulk materials used in manufacturing. A sister company, Central Steel Service, was founded at the same time to supply weathering steel for use in the company's pollution control products. In addition to its Pelham offices it previously operated a fabrication shop at 4420 Pinson Valley Parkway in Pinson.
In 1995 acquired Weigel Engineering of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was renamed in May 2002 when it acquired Barron Industries from the New York Blower Company of Willowbrook, Illinois. ProcessBarron sold Central Steel Service in 2003. The company purchased PE Flo-Tech of Pelham in 2004 and Southern Field Maintenance of Luverne, Crenshaw County in 2007.
In 2015, ProcessBarron was acquired by the Sterling Group, a private equity firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. They sold it to Carousel Capital in March 2019.
References
- Hocken, Jen (December 2017) "Turnkey Solutions: ProcessBarron" Business in Focus
- McNulty, John (March 7, 2019) "Sterling Sells Process Barron to Carousel" Private Equity Professional
External links
- ProcessBarron website