About Diploma PLC

Diploma PLC, together with its subsidiaries, supplies specialized technical products and services in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, North America (NA), and internationally. Segments The company operates through three segments, Seals, Controls, and Life Sciences. Seals segment This segment supplies a range of seals, gaskets, filters, cylinders, components and kits used in heavy mobile machinery and specialized industrial equipment. NA The Aftermarket business in NA supplies various seals and associated products that support a range of mobile machinery, including heavy construction, mining, logging, agriculture, material handling and refuse collection. The products are supplied on a next-day delivery basis and are used in the repair and maintenance of equipment after it has completed its initial warranty period or has been sold on the pre-used market. The main customers are machinery and cylinder repair shops, engine and transmission rebuilders and other heavy equipment parts distributors. The Industrial OEM businesses in the U.S. supply seals, gaskets, O-rings, and custom molded and machined parts to a range of Industrial OEM customers. The business works with customers to select the appropriate seal design, material and manufacturer for the application; provide technical support and guidance during the product development process; and deliver the logistics capabilities to supply from inventory to support small to medium-sized production runs. In Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) operations, VSP Technologies supplies gaskets and fluid sealing products to critical services in high-cost-of-failure applications. The business works directly with customers to improve sealing performance providing flanged connection expertise, product recommendations and installation training to best practices. Market focus is primarily transportation (Rail and ISO tanks), chemical processing, power (generating and LNG facilities) and marine (the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard). Customer product availability requirements range from hours to days. International The International Seals businesses outside NA supply a range of seals, gaskets, filters, custom molded and machined parts and hydraulic cylinder components to both Aftermarket and Industrial OEM customers. The businesses also supply products to end users operating process plants within the mining, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, food & beverage and energy sectors, where products are required to support MRO operations. Controls segment This segment supplies specialized wiring, cable, connectors, fasteners and control devices used in a range of technically demanding applications. The company’s Interconnect businesses supply high performance electrical interconnect products used in technically demanding applications across multiple industries, including aerospace & defense, motorsport, energy, medical, rail and industrial. Majority of the products supplied are used in refurbishment, upgrade and maintenance work for equipment in service. Products include electrical wiring, cable, protective sleeving, connectors and harnessing products, and customized assemblies. Value-adding activities improve the customer offering, including marking of protective sleeves and cables, customized labelling solutions, cut-to-length tubing, kitting, connector assembly and prototype quantities of customized multi-core cables. It also supplies internally manufactured products, including flexible braided products for screening, earthing and lightning protection, power shunt connectors, multi-core cables, cable markers, sleeving and trunking. The company’s Specialty Fasteners business, Clarendon, supplies aerospace-quality fasteners to the civil aerospace (focus on aircraft seating and cabin interiors), motorsport and industrial & defense markets. Clarendon supports key customers with its automated inventory replenishment solution utilizing bespoke dispensing racks located within the customers’ production cells. The Fluid Controls businesses supply a range of fluid control products used in the food & beverage sector, in applications, including food retail and transportation, catering equipment, vending machines, coffee brewing, pure water, and water-cooling systems. Products include fluid controllers, compressors, valves, temperature and pressure measurement devices, and specialized vending and liquid dispensing components. Life Sciences segment This segment supplies a range of clinical diagnostics, instrumentation, consumables, and related services to the healthcare and environmental industries. The company’s Healthcare Sector operates in three principal geographies – Canada, Australasia and Europe. In Canada, the company supplies clinical diagnostics instrumentation and surgical medical devices, with related consumables and services, to ca. 600 public hospitals, private clinics and pathology laboratories. In Australia and New Zealand, the company is a major supplier of instrumentation and consumables to the Pathology (IVD), Scientific Research and Medical Simulation segments of both public and private markets. The company also supplies the specialty surgical markets with specialized equipment and consumables used in hospital operating rooms. The Canadian and Australian businesses share certain major market suppliers across their territories. In Europe, the company is a distributor of technologies to the Biotechnology and Healthcare markets in Ireland and the U.K. Focusing on specialized laboratory diagnostics (IVD) and specialty medical device segments, again utilizing various common suppliers within the company’s Canadian and Australian Healthcare businesses. The company’s Environmental businesses are located in Europe and supply to environmental testing laboratories and Health & Safety engineers. The company supplies specialist containment solutions and analyzers for chemical, petrochemical and environmental research, and pharmaceutical technology. It also supplies a range of gas detection and personal protection devices; and equipment, bespoke engineering, installation and service support for Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems. Acquisitions In 2020, the company made two acquisitions, CR System Components GmbH in the Controls Sector and PumpNSeal in International Seals. In October 2020, the company completed the strategic acquisition of Windy City Wire. History Diploma PLC was incorporated in 1999.