The History of Hunting Specialized Products

Lubricants, Sealants and Coatings
Hunting Specialized Products began operations in 1981 producing a variety of lubricants, sealants and hydraulic fluids for the automotive and railroad sectors. Leveraging technical expertise and marketplace opportunity, Hunting went on to develop special anti-corrosive industrial coatings for the automotive and construction industries.

Pipeline Rehabilitation Products and Services
In 2000, Hunting acquired several successful businesses that provided pipeline rehabilitation services to utility companies and general industry. By 2006, seeing a growing demand for the rehabilitation of deteriorated pipelines worldwide, Hunting Specialized Products sold its industrial coatings operations in the United States and Great Britain to focus exclusively on the pipeline rehabilitation market.

Unique Polyurea Coating for Pipelines
Hunting Specialized Products’ legacy as a quality producer of special chemicals and coatings provides a unique foundation for our expertise in rehabilitating deteriorated pipelines. Using custom blended polyurea compounds, applied by a proprietary robotic method, our Built-in-Place Pipe (BIPP) process literally builds a new pipe inside an existing pipeline without excavating or trenching.

Subsidiary of Global Energy Leader
Hunting Specialized Products Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunting PLC, a corporation providing products and services to meet the needs of the global energy market.

The Parent Corporation - Hunting PLC’s Heritage
www.huntingplc.com

Early Years in the Oil Business
The parent company of Hunting Specialized Products, Hunting PLC, has roots in the nineteenth century. Charles Samuel Hunting, expanding a successful shipping firm established earlier by his father, entered the oil business in the 1890s. A keen traveler, Charles journeyed the world "to study the oil trade" exploring prospects in Russia, building the first batch oil refinery on the River Thames, investing in a production venture in Hungary and pursuing trade opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico region.

Worldwide Fleet of Oil Tankers
Charles Hunting was a dynamic and directed man, with a clear vision of how oil and its by-products would power world trade. Understanding the balance between risk and reward, he ordered construction of one of the first ever oil tankers. A subsequent ship building program lead to one of the largest independent tanker fleets in the world flying the Hunting flag.

Aviation Market Pioneer
After the First World War, Charles's two sons Percy and Lindsay rebuilt the firm’s decimated fleet of commercial ships, and also sought to diversify the business by taking the company into aviation. Aircraft manufacturing, aircraft maintenance, and some years later, an airline business all developed into successful business enterprises. The Hunting legacy in aviation is linked with a range of military and civilian aircraft including the Jet Provost and one of Britain's best sellers, the BAC 1-11 passenger airliner.

Taking the Company Public
During the sixties and seventies, substantial investments in the Canadian oil sector, petroleum retailing and the development of proprietary lubricants were added to the business portfolio using outside capital to fund corporate expansion. Privately owned Hunting then went public, creating three separate but interrelated companies. The corporate structure was simplified in 1989 under Clive Hunting, when all three were merged into the present Hunting PLC.

Leading Energy Services Company
Hunting PLC, now under the chairmanship of Richard Hunting, refocused its business and experienced further growth in the early 2000s becoming a leading energy services company. Today, the company is a leading North American energy business with annual revenues approaching $4 billion.