A Halma man, with an inborn taste for machinery, had long pined to leave the gathering of pine-apples to others.
Apr 07, 2021 10.13 Ocean Optics, Inc. (Halma PLC) 10.14 B&W Tek Inc. (Metrohm AG) 10.15 Hitachi Ltd. 10.16 Oxford Instruments PLC 10.17 Specac Ltd. 10.18 Buchi Corporation 10.19 Bay Spec, Inc. Halma definition: a board game in which players attempt to transfer their pieces from their own to their. Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples. Halma Died: March 16, 2021 in Woodstock, Illinois Kirk B. Halma, age 64 of Woodstock, IL passed away peacefully at home on March 16, 2021 with his loving, fun wife Kate at his side, his belove. Halma is a company that provides process and infrastructure safety, medical, environmental, and analysis products. Its process safety segment offers safety systems to control hazardous industrial processes and access to dangerous machines.
| Type | Public limited company |
|---|---|
| LSE: HLMA | |
| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Headquarters | Amersham, England, UK |
Key people | |
| Revenue | £1,338.4 million (2020)[1] |
| £279.2 million (2020)[1] | |
| £184.4 million (2020)[1] | |
| Website | www.halma.com |
Halma plc is a British global group of safety equipment companies that makes products for hazard detection and life protection based in Amersham, England.[2] It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
History[edit]
The company was established in 1894 in Ceylon as The Nahalma Tea Estate Company Limited.[3] It switched to rubber production in 1937 and became The Nahalma Rubber Estate Company Limited.[3] During the early 1950s the company's rubber estates were nationalised by the Sri-Lankan government, and in 1956 the company became Halma Investments Limited, thereby severing its connections with both tea and rubber and becoming an investment and industrial holding company.[3]
In the early 1970s the company began a sequence of acquisitions in the mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering sectors. The company was renamed Halma Limited in 1973 and registered as a public limited company in 1981, becoming Halma plc.[3] In 1984, the company acquired Apollo Fire Detectors, the largest manufacturer of smoke detectors in the UK.[4]
The company undertook three acquisitions in the second half of 2019, including Ampac, another fire detection business, and two further acquisitions in the medical sector in early 2020.[5]
Operations[edit]
The company is organised as follows:[6]
- Process safety
- Infrastructure safety
- Medical
- Environmental & Analysis
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Annual Report 2020'(PDF). Halma. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^'Halma'. Construction.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ abcd'Halma history – Halma plc'. halma.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^'Fire Detection Solutions, Apollo Fire Detectors Ltd – Our History'. www.apollo-fire.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
- ^'Halma aided by acquired assets'. Investors Chronicle. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^'Sectors – Halma plc'. halma.com. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
External links[edit]
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How toset-up
1. Halma is played on a 16-by-16 square board. The corners of the board are marked to facilitate set-up.
2. Each player selects 19 BEADs (2 player game) or 13 BEADs (4 player game) the colour of their choice.
3. BEADs are placed on the marked corners. In a 2-player game, players use opposite corners.
4. Players decide who begins the game by rolling a die.
How to play
1. In turns, each player moves 1 BEAD 1 space horizontally, vertically or diagonally to an empty play space.
2. Players can also move their BEADs by jumping over another BEAD onto an empty space beyond.
3. Jumps can be chained together if, upon completing the jump, there is a BEAD adjacent and an empty space beyond.
4. A player can jump over their own BEAD or their opponent’s.
How to win
To win, a player must move all their BEADs to their opponent’s starting position on the opposite end of the board.
History
1. Halma meaning 'jump' in Greek is a board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, a US thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School.
2. In 1892 another variant was published in Germany, called Stern-Halma. This had a star-shaped board, rather than the original square board of halma, but the rules were largely unchanged. Also in 1948 a variant of this game called grasshopper was published, allowing play with a standard draughts set
1. This variation plays exactly like normal Halma. The only difference being the gameboard.
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2. You can use a standard 8x8 Checker board for Mini-Halma.