Belfor


Belfor is a multinational corporation that offers recovery and restoration services to restore structures damaged as a result of fires, floods and natural disasters. It's also offers recovery services, including fire damage restoration, smoke and soot removal, storm damage restoration, water extraction, structural dehumidification, reconstruction and general contracting, mold removal and remediation, corrosion control, air duct cleaning, contents restoration, document and media recovery, electronics restoration, machinery and equipment decontamination, machinery and equipment rebuilding and repair, semiconductor tool decontamination, environmental, marine and offshore restoration, and consulting services. BELFOR USA Group is a privately owned subsidiary of BELFOR Holdings Inc.

Ownership history

Belfor begins as Quality Awnings & Construction in Dearborn, Michigan in 1946. The company changed its name to Inrecon L.L.C. in 1981. Taylor, Michigan-based Masco bought 25 percent of the company in 1997, and completed its purchase of Inrecon in 1999.
Haniel EnviroServices, a new division of the old European conglomerate Haniel, begins in Germany in 1980. Its name is changed to Belfor in 1998.
Masco sells Inrecon to Haniel in 2001 and Inrecon becomes part of Belfor. At the time Inrecon had annual sales of $180 million and employed 1,000 staff.
As of February 2019, Belfor Holdings Inc. was in discussions regarding a potential sale to the American Securities equity firm. These were concluded successfully in April 2019.

United States operations

Belfor USA Group Inc., doing business as Belfor Property Restoration, provides integrated disaster recovery and property restoration services. The company is based in Birmingham, Michigan. Belfor USA Group Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Belfor Europe GmbH.
In 2007 Belfor USA acquired Ductz International, LLC, a professional air duct cleaning and HVAC restoration franchise network with locations in 22 states. It acquired Hawaii Restorative Services of Honolulu and Coach's Catastrophe in 2010. Belfor acquired BAMCOR in 2015.
Belfor opened a Corpus Christi, Texas office and a San Antonio office in 2016. As of that year, Belfor globally had 7000 employees.

Projects

In 2003, the Canadian branch of Belfor worked to recover 100,000 books and manuscripts in the 17th Century Khan Collection at the Urdu Research Library of the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram. The library suffered damage in flooding following record rains in Hyderabad in August 2000.
Belfor worked in Houston after Tropical Storm Allison in 2001. Jones Hall, the Wortham Theater Center and the Alley Theater all suffered damage in the flooding. They lost thousands of musical scores, ballet costumes and irreplaceable musical instruments, including three Steinway concert grand pianos.
In 2004, after Hurricane Ivan, Belfor and Belfor performed thermal vacuum freeze drying to restore more than 4,000 boxes of documents, half of the vital records in the Cayman Islands National Archives.
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Belfor was called to the scene within days for early reconnaissance, as part of Tulane's campus-wide emergency plan. including the “Landmark Undertaking” of the Tulane Libraries Recovery Center.
Chile earthquake – installed more than 753,000 square feet of shrink wrap protection and restored one of South America’s largest data warehouses, including millions of documents and data media.
2012 Super Storm Sandy - BELFOR initially had 1700 crew people onsite in the New York City area for client's losses

Awards