Brush Turbogenerators owned by Melrose Industries, is a group of international manufacturing companies under the BRUSH brand. It consists of Brush Electrical Machines Limited based in Loughborough, UK, Brush HMA based in Ridderkerk, The Netherlands and Brush SEM based in Plzeň in the Czech Republic. BRUSH Turbogenerators manufacture large generators for gas turbine and steam turbine drive applications. The company was founded by Charles Francis Brush, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1849 and who had invented his first electric dynamo in 1876.[1] Melrose Industries completed the acquisition with FKI in 2008.[2]
Staffs at Brush Turbogenerators have returned to their factory facing redundancy in February 2018. The company employs 790 employees in the UK with around 500 in Loughborough, but there has been a significant drop in sales of power generators due to the renewable energy growth.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Charles Francis Brush". Grace's Guide.
- ^ Ben Harrington (22 April 2008). "FKI recommends £480m offer from Melrose". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ Mack, Tom (6 February 2018). "Talks begin as 270 Brush employees facing redundancy return to factory". Leicestershire Live. Archived from the original on 2018-02-06. Retrieved 8 May 2020.