IMI plc - Profile

IMI

IMI is a global engineering group focused on the precise control and movement of fluids in critical applications. It delivers innovative solutions, built around valves and actuators, custom engineered for leading international companies to help them respond to global trends such as climate change, resource scarcity, urbanisation and ageing populations. It has manufacturing facilities in more than 20 countries and a worldwide service network. IMI employs over 15,000 people, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE100. Each of IMI’s business platforms, as described below, enjoys leading market positions, supported by a number of globally recognised product brands.

SEVERE SERVICE - Highly engineered valves and controls, used in critical applications and extreme operating environments, enabling vital industrial and energy production processes to operate safely, cleanly and more efficiently.

Severe Service is a world-leading provider of critical flow control solutions in the power generation, oil & gas, petrochemical, iron & steel and nuclear industries.

Our business is strategically placed to support all of our customers’ challenges, with proven technology, applications know-how and solutions that are sustainable and cost effective.

FLUID POWER - Specialists in motion and fluid control technologies, both pneumatic and electric, custom engineered for critical applications requiring precision, speed and reliability.

We have a deep understanding of five specific industry sectors: Rail, Life Sciences, Food and Beverage, Energy and Commercial Vehicles.

We use this knowledge and understanding to take our solutions deep into these sectors helping more customers enjoy an Engineering Advantage.

INDOOR CLIMATE -Experts in hydronic distribution systems and room temperature control which deliver optimal and energy efficient indoor climate systems.

Our Indoor Climate business combines unrivalled system knowledge with the most innovative Hydronic technology to engineer bespoke, energy efficient solutions for all of our global partners; HVAC designers, consultants, contractors & commissioning agents.

We focus on the core technologies involved in the precise control of the waterborne system; Hydronic pressurisation, balancing and control valves and thermostatic control devices.

ENGINEERING ADVANTAGE

IMI deliver Engineering Advantage to our customers through the unique combination of engineering know-how and fluid controls technology. Throughout IMI, we invest in people and techniques to improve market understanding and customer insight. We listen and identify the issues facing our customers and then, most importantly, we apply our acquired know-how and our engineering capabilities to provide bespoke solutions delivering clear and measurable benefits.

The key to our success is in retaining people and knowledge, and creating a network of experts who can be called upon to engineer solutions specific to our customers’ requirements.

Our platform businesses all have unique ways of engineering advantage; Severe Service have their Valve Doctors, Fluid Power and Indoor Climate have the Norgren University and Hydronic College respectively.

It is our desire to become the most admired and innovative engineering solutions business of our size anywhere in the world. We want to be admired for what we do - creating market leading products and solutions and for the way we do it - being a responsible business.

In the running of our businesses we have a duty to behave responsibly to all our stakeholders, including our employees, our customers, our suppliers and the communities and the environments we operate within. We believe that high standards of responsibility impact positively on profitability, returns to shareholders, reputation and growth.

The IMI Way, our code of conduct, sets out our core values of excellence, innovation and integrity and is part of our roadmap to success. It directly supports our responsible business priorities, guides our decision making and helps us do business in the right way so that we are focused on not only what we want to achieve, but also on how we go about achieving it.

The values of The IMI Way are reinforced by the face-to-face IMI training we provide for more than 15,000 of our employees each year. On 13 June 2013 all of our employees were given four hours of dedicated IMI Way training on exactly the same day followed by an afternoon of voluntary work at a local charity or other community projects.