A Global Success Story
Founded in Los Angeles, California in 1993, Carbon Activated Corporation has grown to become one of the largest privately-owned activated carbon companies in North America serving customers worldwide.
We are one of the global forerunners in providing an extensive range of activated carbon which carries NSF-61 certification and manufacturing to AWWA standards. Throughout the years, CAC has shown tremendous growth by specializing in options such as technical design & consultation, rental and sale of adsorption filtration systems and turnkey change out services. CAC has multiple laboratories with advanced Research, Development and testing capabilities which are staffed by specialists in the field. This gives us the competitive edge and the unique capability to provide professional and exhaustive advice to our clients - wherever they are.
Our corporate headquarters based in Los Angeles holds the largest activated carbon warehouse facility on the West Coast. We also supply and service our North and South American clients from our facilities based in Texas, New York, Florida, Arizona and Canada. We have over 15 years of expertise in manufacturing carbon and have manufacturing plants based in Sri Lanka, China and West Virginia USA. Carbon Activated Europe, based in the UK, serves European, Middle Eastern and African clients. Carbon Activated Corp Australia, based in Melbourne serves Australia-Pacific region.
We pride ourselves on our high quality and great value products and services. Our large warehouse facilities allow us to keep most grades in stock for immediate shipping. Our extensive network of manufacturing plants and suppliers allows us to get you the desired product in a short time. We are dedicated to finding the most efficient and cost-effective solution for our clients. We look forward to hearing from you about your activated carbon needs - wherever you are based!
President's Bio
Lionel Perera was born in Sri Lanka. At the age of 18, he joined one of the largest carbon factories in the world as a lab technician. during his 17 year career there, Lionel worked in various divisions and learned about how to manufacture carbon, eventually rising to the the ranks of production executive. In 1990 he migrated to the U.S. and started his own business in 1993, calling it Carbon Activated Corporation (CAC) and basing it in Los Angeles, California.
Today CAC is generally ranked as the 4th or 5th most successful activated carbon company in the world. CAC has branches in 6 U.S. locations, as well as 5 locations internationally, including its own coconut carbon manufacturing plant in Sri Lanka.
His latest endeavor is to build a U.S. activated carbon manufacturing facility to produce carbon from U.S. mined coal.
