DONALDSON COMPANY, INC. Overview
Company Headquarters: Minnesota, US
Founded: 1915
Workforce: ~14,000
Company Working: Donaldson Company, Inc. (Donaldson Company) is engaged in manufacturing filtration systems and replacement parts. It offers products such as filters and emission control products for heavy-duty mobile equipment, air intake systems for industrial gas turbines, in-plant air cleaning systems, and specialized filters for computer disk drives, semiconductors, and aircraft cabins. The company caters to a wide range of end-use industries, including automotive, energy, food & beverage, manufacturing, marine, mining, pharmaceuticals, power generation, and transportation. It offers its products offerings through two major segments, namely, engine product and industrial product. The industrial product segment is further sub-segmented into industrial filtration solutions, special applications, and gas turbine systems. Industrial filtration products are included under its industrial filtration solutions segment.
The company has an extensive presence across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. It has 45 manufacturing plants, of which 24 are in America, 14 are in Europe/Africa/Middle East, and seven are in Asia-Pacific. It has 23 distribution centers, of which ten are in America, three are in Europe/Africa/Middle East, and ten are in Asia-Pacific. The company has four joint ventures in Czech Republic, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and the US. It has more than 100 technical laboratories across the globe. Donaldson France SAS (France), Donaldson Korea Co., Ltd. (Korea), Donaldson Filtration (Singapore), Donaldson Europe, B.V.B.A. (Belgium), and Nippon Donaldson, Ltd. (Japan) are some of the key subsidiaries of the company.
Strategy
Donaldson Company focuses on acquisition as an inorganic strategy to increase its share in the global market. For instance, in May 2017, it acquired Hy-Pro Corporation (US), a manufacturer of filtration systems and replacement filters. The company strategizes to cater to end-use industries, such as utilities, chemical & refining, and oil & gas, to gain a larger market share and achieve financial stability.



