Numatic History

Numatic was founded in 1969 in the Somerset town of Crewkerne, in southwest England, where it produced its first commercial vacuum cleaner design for cleaning coal, oil and gas fired boilers. At the beginning, the company employed six people in a little factory that was not as big as a garage and the most sophisticated equipment was a drill.

The first vacuum cleaner designs were made of a combination of oil drums and everyday components that were readily available, such as suitcase handles, furniture castors and domestic washing-up bowls. All assembled in such a way as to provide a simple, reliable workhorse for commercial and industrial use.

By 1971, demand had grown too big for the little Crewkerne works and moved to a watermill in nearby Yeovil,

By 1973 Numatic had started to break-into the professional cleaning industry and produced the first floor machine, plus wet and dry vacuBut by 1974, they had now outgrown the mill and moved to their first real factory, in Beaminster, Dorset,

Up until 1990, they were mainly assembling  products from metal and plastic components supplied by sub-contractors. They then progressed into their own tube manipulation facility to make improved, stronger, commercial products.

As a result, the Chard location where Numatic is situated today, was acquired in 1990.

In 1995, subsidiary companies near to Paris, France and in Johannesburg, South Africa were established to provide full support for increasing overseas activities in these regions. Germany was added to the list in 2002 and The Netherlands in 2004.

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