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Capital Safety
Company typePrivate
IndustryManufacturing
Founded1998 (1998)
FounderElectra Private Equity
HeadquartersBloomington, Minnesota, United States
Key peopleStephen G. Oswald (Former CEO)
Kevin Coplan (President)
Pat Velasco (Chairman of the Board)
ProductsDBI-Sala, Protecta
Revenue
  • Increase US$350 million
Number of employees1200
Websitecapitalsafety.com

Capital Safety is a manufacturer of fall protection, confined space, and rescue equipment for oil and gas, construction, utilities, wind energy, transportation, telecommunication, mining, and general industries. The company’s fall protection products are sold throughout the world. In addition to manufacturing, Capital Safety also provides in-house and on-site fall protection and rescue training services. It partners with insurance providers to hold 4-hour to 5-day safety training classes.

Capital Safety is based in Bloomington, Minnesota. It has offices and facilities in China; Colombia, Brazil; Mexico; Dubai; Singapore; Australia/New Zealand; Canada; France; the United Kingdom and Slovakia.

History

In 2006, Capital Safety acquired Unique Concepts Ltd., a confined space safety equipment brand. In 2007, Arle Capital acquired Capital Safety. In 2010, Capital Safety acquired TAG Safety Ltd (UK) and the Technical Institute of Training in Height (ITFH) of France. In January 2011, Capital Safety formed its Global Wind Energy team with wind-energy workers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. In June 2011, Capital Safety opened a wind turbine training structure, located in Red Wing, Minnesota. Capital Safety also has a Wind Turbine training structure in Greenfield UK, near Manchester. In July 2011, Capital Safety acquired Latin America-based personal protection equipment company Arseg. In March 2011, Capital Safety acquired Uniline Safety Systems. In January 2012, KKR & Co www.kkr.com. acquired Capital Safety for $1.1 billion. Stephen Oswald became Chief Executive Officer in March 2012. On June 23, 2015, 3M www.3m.com announced a deal to acquire Capital Safety for $1.8 billion.

The Capital Safety brands—including DBI-SALA® and Protecta®—products, and people are now a part of 3M Fall Protection.

Locations

Capital Safety is headquartered in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, with primary manufacturing and training facilities in Red Wing, Minnesota. It operates manufacturing, distribution and training facilities worldwide. In the United States, distribution centers are located in Minnesota, southern California, Texas and Connecticut. The wind turbine training structure is in Red Wing, MN and opened in June 2011. It also has a 7,000 square-foot training facility in Houston, Texas which includes competent person, authorized person, qualified person, program administrator, rescue, tower climber, and confined space courses. Capital Safety has an international training center with telecommunications towers, masts and confined space rescue areas in Saddleworth, Manchester.

References

  1. "Capital Safety Training UK Website". Capital Safety Training UK.
  2. "3M to Buy Capital Safety From KKR for $1.8 Billion - WSJ". Wall Street Journal. 23 June 2015.
  3. http://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/worker-health-safety-us/safety-equipment/fall-protection-equipment/?WT.mc_id=www.3m.com/fallprotection/
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