CDI Corp

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name: CDI Corp
tags:
- Engineering Services
- Technical Staffing
- Energy
- Chemicals
- Project Services
- Private Equity Portfolio
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cdi-corp.png
access: 3rd-Party
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cdi-corp-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cdiengineeringsolutions.com/
- type: LegacyWebsite
  url: https://www.cdicorp.com/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.cdiengineeringsolutions.com/careers/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.cdiengineeringsolutions.com/contact/
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://www.tce.co.in/
- type: PreviousOwner
  url: https://www.aeroequity.com/investment/cdi-corp/
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDI_Corporation
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cdi-engineering---oil-gas-&-chemicals
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Integrated Engineering Services
    description: Process, mechanical, civil, structural, electrical, instrumentation, and control engineering across the project
      lifecycle.
  - name: Project Support and Procurement
    description: Project management, procurement, and construction management for capital projects in energy and chemicals.
  - name: Technical Resourcing
    description: Short and long-term staff augmentation of skilled engineering and technical professionals for capital project
      requirements.
  - name: Multidisciplinary Delivery Centers
    description: Ten engineering centers delivering downstream and midstream oil and gas, petrochemicals, and infrastructure
      projects.
  - name: Sustainability Engineering
    description: Engineering for battery chemicals, green ammonia, biofuels, advanced recycling, and renewable energy programs.
  - name: Marine and Drone Services
    description: Marine engineering plus drone-based inspection and survey services supporting industrial clients.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Refinery and Petrochemical EPC
    description: Engineering, design, and project services for downstream refining and petrochemical facility owners and operators.
  - name: Capital Project Staff Augmentation
    description: Provision of contract and contract-to-hire engineering and technical talent to fill capital project teams.
  - name: Sustainable Process Engineering
    description: Process and detailed engineering for low-carbon, biofuels, and advanced recycling production facilities.
  - name: Operating Plant Modernization
    description: Brownfield engineering, debottlenecking, and unit revamps for existing process industry assets.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Tata Consulting Engineers Global Network
    description: Integration with TCE's 65+ country delivery network as a wholly owned subsidiary trading as Tata Consulting
      Engineers USA, LLC.
  - name: Owner-Operator Engineering Frameworks
    description: Long-term framework agreements with energy and chemicals owner-operators across North America.
- type: CorporateHistory
  data:
  - name: Founded 1950
    description: Founded in Philadelphia in 1950 as Comprehensive Designers, Inc., providing temporary technical services
      to manufacturing.
  - name: Renamed CDI Corporation 1973
    description: Comprehensive Designers, Inc. changed its name to CDI Corporation in 1973 after diversifying into job placement
      via Management Recruiters International (1972).
  - name: NYSE Listing 1988
    description: CDI went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1988 under ticker CDI.
  - name: Billion-Dollar Revenue 1994
    description: By the end of 1994 the company reported over $1 billion in revenue across three core business areas with
      approximately 3,000 customers.
  - name: CDI Engineering Solutions Formed 1996
    description: CDI Engineering Solutions formed in 1996 through acquisitions of Stubbs, Overbeck & Associates and AWARE
      Engineering.
  - name: L.R. Kimball Acquisition 2010
    description: CDI acquired L. Robert Kimball & Associates, Inc., a 550-person professional services firm, for architecture
      and engineering services.
  - name: Taken Private by AE Industrial Partners 2017
    description: In September 2017 AE Industrial Partners acquired CDI Corp via a cash tender offer at $8.25 per share, taking
      the company private and delisting from NYSE.
  - name: Belcan Divestiture 2017
    description: In December 2017 Belcan Inc., an AE Industrial Partners platform company, acquired CDI's Aerospace and Industrial
      Equipment business line.
  - name: Artech Divestiture 2018
    description: In October 2018 Artech Information Systems acquired CDI's Talent and Technology Solutions business unit.
  - name: Gryphon Combination 2018
    description: In September 2018 AE Industrial Partners acquired Gryphon Technologies and combined it with CDI Government
      Services.
  - name: TranSystems Divestiture 2021
    description: In May 2021 TranSystems acquired L.R. Kimball, the architecture and engineering services subsidiary CDI had
      acquired in 2010.
  - name: Houston Headquarters 2022
    description: CDI relocated its headquarters to Houston, Texas in February 2022 reflecting its post-restructuring focus
      on energy and chemicals engineering.
  - name: AE Industrial Partners Exit December 2024
    description: AE Industrial Partners realized its CDI Corp investment in December 2024 with the sale of CDI Engineering
      Solutions to Tata Consulting Engineers.
  - name: Tata Consulting Engineers Acquisition January 2025
    description: On January 1, 2025, CDI Engineering Solutions, LLC became a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Consulting Engineers,
      now operating as Tata Consulting Engineers USA, LLC.
description: CDI Corp (CDI Corporation) is a multidisciplinary engineering and technical resourcing firm founded in Philadelphia
  in 1950 as Comprehensive Designers, Inc., later listed on the NYSE from 1988 to 2017. After being taken private by AE Industrial
  Partners in September 2017 for approximately $176M ($8.25 per share), AE divested CDI's aerospace business to Belcan (2017),
  talent and technology services to Artech (2018), and architecture/engineering subsidiary L.R. Kimball to TranSystems (2021),
  refocusing the remaining CDI Engineering Solutions on integrated engineering, design, project support, procurement, and
  construction management for the energy and chemicals industries. On January 1, 2025 CDI Engineering Solutions, LLC became
  a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Consulting Engineers and now trades as Tata Consulting Engineers USA, LLC, headquartered
  in Houston, TX with 650+ employees across ten engineering centers. CDI Corp has no public developer APIs; the company delivers
  engineering services and staff augmentation rather than software products. The tagline carried by the operating business
  is "Quality Results. Sustainable Solutions. Safely Delivered."
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
position: Consuming
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com