A historic pump manufacturer in Dorset has fallen into administration. Poole-based Northey Technologies specialises in the development, design and manufacture of dry and oil-free rotary compression and vacuum pumps.
The company, which is based on Dawkins Road Industrial Estate, employs around 10 staff.
Business advisory firm Quantuma has been appointed as administrators of the business, according to public records site The Gazette.
Northey Technologies takes its name from founder and inventor AJ Northey who invented the Hook & Claw device as a rotary engine in the 1920s, adapting it as a dry vacuum pump and compressor in the 1930s.
The Hook & Claw was originally used as an air compressor to increase the density of air supplied to an engine for cars and on vacuum pumps for railway braking systems. The firm’s products are now used in a wide range of industries, including aquariums and fish farms, distilleries and brewing, food, nuclear, oil and gas, and the pharmaceutical sector.
Bernard Whicher, the company’s chief executive, is named as a director of the business on Companies House, while Alison Whicher is named as secretary.
It is not yet known why the business collapsed or whether any jobs are at risk. The administrators declined to provide a comment.
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