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Paul Cox

President

John Crane

John Crane is a world-leading provider of products and services for the major process industries, these include the oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, and mining sectors. 

We help to enhance customer productivity by providing advanced technology mechanical products backed by an exceptional global service network. 


Employees

6,400

Principal operating regions

John Crane is a global business with a presence in more than 50 countries.

Customers

John Crane serves oil and gas companies, refineries, pump and compressor manufacturers, chemical and other process industries. Its main customers include BP, Chevron, China Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Gazprom, Qatargas, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Total, Dresser, Elliot, Flowserve, GENuovo Pignone, ITT, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Solar Turbines, Sulzer, York, BASF, Bayer, Dow Koch Industries and Lyondell. 

Competitors

For rotating technologies in oil & gas, John Crane's main competitors are Flowserve and Eagle Burgmann Industries (mechanical seals), Kingsbury, Osborne Engineering & Waukesha (engineered bearings), Pall, Hydac and Boll (filtration systems), Thomas, Turboflex and Kopflex (couplings). For equipment in upstream energy John Crane's principal competitors include Weatherford, Norris, UPCO, Cameron and Quinn. 

Major manufacturing and service locations

As reported in Annual Report, year ended 31 July 2008

* Based on revised operating structure for 2008/09

# Percentage relates to headline operating profit before corporate costs


Smiths Group divisions:
Smiths Detection, John Crane, Smiths Medical, Smiths Interconnect, Flex-Tek

 

Smiths Group plc:
Registered office 765 Finchley Road, London NW11 8DS
Incorporated in England No. 137013
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