A large chunk of the former Snyder Tank Corp. property in Hamburg has been sold for $750,000 to a tenant company that supplies “activated” carbon for water filtration systems.

An ownership group called 3773 Lake Shore Road that consists of members of the Snyder family sold part of the property at 3774 Lake Shore Road to Allen- Perera LLC, a legal entity named for Chris Allen and Lionel Perera, the owners of Carbon Activated Corp., a 12-yearold firm based in Compton, Calif.

The private company, which has had its East Coast operations in Western New York since 2004, makes and distributes granular, pelletized and powdered activated carbon for water and air purification. It sells in all 50 states, as well as internationally in Canada and some Caribbean countries, Allen said.

Its customers include drinking- water plants, distributors of commercial water filtration systems such as Culligan, and many smaller private companies that buy and sell activated carbon for filter systems. One of its biggest clients locally is Aqua Science in the City of Tonawanda, which does water filtration for dialysis machines.

The company originally set up shop locally on the former Bethlehem Steel site in 2004, but moved to its current site two years ago, Allen said. It employs 15 now, but he said, hopes to “get up” to 30 to 35 employees within the next two years.

“We’re looking to employ more people and expand the business here,” said Allen, who is based here and lives in Orchard Park. “There’s a lot of opportunities that we’re looking at.”

The property, located in the Athol Springs neighborhood just south of the Ford Stamping Plant, had been an active industrial site for nearly seven decades, dating back to the founding of Snyder Tank in 1939.

The family-owned maker of fuel tanks for trucks, which was based on Lake Shore Road, employed about 150, generated annual revenues of $45 million and operated plants in Springfield, Ohio, and Chester, S. C., when it was sold in 1998 to Savannah, Ga.-based Kuhlman Corp.’s Schwitzer division.

After passing through several ownerships, the plant, then owned by Fuel Systems, closed in March 2003, laying off 80 workers.