Halma plc
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Halma plc (LSE: HLMA) is a group of technology companies that makes products for hazard detection and life protection.
Halma began as The Nahalma Tea Estate Company Limited, established in Ceylon in 1894, which later switched to rubber production in 1937. During the 1950s the newly named Nahalma Rubber Estate Company Limited was nationalised by the Sri-Lankan government, and in 1956 the Company became Halma Investments Limited, thereby severing its connections with both tea and rubber, and becoming an investment and industrial holding company.
In the early 1970s the company began a sequence of acquisitions in the mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering sectors, creating the foundations of today's Halma, renamed Halma Limited in 1973. With over 40 subsidiaries worldwide and listed as a FTSE 250 business, the Company manufactures a range of products including sensors.
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