The History of Pumps

856

• Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon founded

1857

• Roper Pump Company founded
• Jacob Edson invents the diaphragm pump and founds the Edson Corporation

1860

• David Brown commences business as pattern maker
• Allweiler founded
• A.S. Cameron invents the first reciprocating steam pump

1861

• Allis Chalmers Manufacturing. Co, Milwaukee, WI., USA founded

1862

• Lawrence Pumps established
• Philipp Hilge founded

1866

• Lederle founded
• Sigma Lutin founded
• Stork Pumpen founded Scanpump founded

1871

• KSB established
• Southern Cross established in Australia
• George and James Weir set up the partnership that forms the Weir Group

1872

• Weise & Monski, Ochsner, Byron Jackson and Wilo founded

1873

• G & J Weir moves to Glasgow

1874

• Herborner Pumpenfabrik found by J H Hoffman

1875

• Hodgkin and Neuhaus, forerunner of SPP, founded

1877

• Ritz Pumpenfabrik established

1878

• Steimel founded
• Hodgkin and Neuhaus becomes the Pulsometer Engineering Company Ltd

1881

• Halberg Maschinenbau founded

1882

• Mahlon Layne invents the vertical turbine pump.

1883

• Holden & Brooke founded
• A W Chesterton founded

1884

• Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co. builds world’s largest centrifugal pump

1888

• Kirloskar Brothers Ltd founded

1890

• Salmson starts making pumps in Paris
• Osna Pumpen established

1893

• Uraca Pumpenfabrik founded

1894

• Sero Pumpenfabrik founded
• Peroni founded

1896

• KSB opens UK subsidiary; Dia Pumpen founded

1897

• Wirth founded
• Worthington Pump Company and Thomas Simpson amalgamate to form Worthington Simpson Ltd

1901

• Flygt’s forerunner Stenberg founded

1903

• Rateau founded
• Blackmer founded in Petosky MI, USA
• Mahlon Layne and entrepreneur P.D Bowler begin manufacturing vertical turbine pumps as Layne Bowler in MS, USA.

1905

• Leistritz Company established

1906

• Stuart Turner Ltd founded
• André Petit invents the eccentric disc pump, Mouvex founded in Paris, France

1907

• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries produces its first pump

1909

• Tristam Pumpen and Pumpen fabrik Ernst Vogel founded
• Ingersoll-Rand enters the pump business by acquiring the Cameron Steam Pumps Works

1910

• Gilbarco produces its first gasoline pump
• Dickow Pumpen and Hitachi founded
• OSNA established by J. Hartlage

1911

Jens Nielsen builds the first Viking internal gear pump, founding the Viking Pump Company

1912

• Ebara Corporation founded
• Duriron (Durco Pumps) founded

1913

• Myers Gog Gear enables the pump user to retrieve water from the down stroke as well as up stock with 40% less effort

1915

• Gaso (reciprocating pumps) formed in Tulsa, OK, USA

1916

• Hazleton Pumps founded as Barrett Haentjens and Co.
• Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation acquires Worthington Simpson Ltd
• Wheatly (reciprocating pumps) established in Kansas City, Missouri, by Frank Wheatley Sr. and his brother
• Gaso Burner Manufacturing Company formed – designs reciprocating piston pump for oil

1917

• John Crane founded
• Hydraulic Institute established
• Louis Bergeron invented the concrete volute pump and founded Bergeron S.A.

1918

• Scanpump and CCM Sulzer founded

1919

Torishima Pump Mfg Co and Kawamoto Pump Mfg established

1920

• Bombas Itur, Wernert Pumpen and SIHI established

1921

• LaBour founded

1922

• Midland Dairy Machines founded

1923

• Peerless founded
• Pacific Pumps founded

1924

• Jung Pumpen established
• Leistritz starts making screw pumps
• Rheinhuette starts pump production

1926

• Arai Pump Mfg. Co. founded

1927

• Industrial Filter and Pump Mfg Co forerunner founded
• Edur Pumpenfabrik founded

1928

Girdlestone Pumps founded

1929

• Heishin Works, and Houttuin founded
• Pleuger pioneers the submersible turbine pump motor
• Stenberg and Flygt commence their cooperation

1930

• René Moineau receives a doctorate for his thesis which will lead to the invention of the progressing cavity pump
• Ensival starts selling centrifugal pumps
• Reda Pump Company founded

1931

• Imo established by Ingeström and Montelius
• VNII Gidromash research and design organization founded in Moscow

1932

• PCM founded
• Sarlin Pumps founded; Bran+Luebbe founded

1933

• Bush pump invented
• Gormann-Rupp established

1934

Floway Pumps started as Fiese & Firstenberger Munufacturering

1936

• Robbins & Myers acquires North American license for the Moineau progressing cavity pump
• Mono Pumps Ltd formed to manufacture and distribute Moineau’s pump design in the UK

1937

• Sigmund Pumps Ltd (GB) established

1938

• Ebsray and Warman International founded

1940

• Grindex founded
• Dresser acquires Pacific Pumps

1941

• British Pump Manufacturers Association founded
• Smedegaard Pumps founded

1944

• Franklin Electric founded

1945

• Grundfos Pumps, Caprari and Flexibox founded

1946

• Cornell Pumps, Klaus Union, Totton Pumps founded

1947

• HMD Seal/Less Pumps established
• Hyundai founded

1948

• Abel Pumps launched
• Mast Pumpen founded
• Stenberg Flygt AB designs the first submersible drainage pump
• Varisco starts pump production

1949

HMD supplies its first production magnet-drive pump

1950

• Batescrew estabIished
• Delasco founded
• Vanton Pump and Equipment develops all-plastic pump for use in conjunction with the first heart-lung device

1951

• Saer Elettropompe, Tsurumi, Netzsch Mohno pumpen founded

1952

• Lewa and Rovatti founded

1953

• Nikkiso established

1954

• Orlita and Sta-Rite founded
• Bell & Gossett opens its Little Red Schoolhouse training facility

1955

• Wilden and DMW Corporation established
• Borg-Warner acquires Byron Jackson

1956

• Flygt introduces the submersible sewage pump
• Watson-Marlow founded in Marlow, UK, to exploit the peristaltic pumping principle

1957

• Richter Chemie-Technik founded
• Centrilift founded

1958

• Heishin Works becomes Heishin Pump Works Co Ltd
• SSP Pumps founded

1959

• World Pumps is launched as Pumping
• ABS and Calpeda founded

1960

• David Brown Pumps division formed
• Europump established

1961

• Ingersoll-Rand acquires the Aldrich Pump Company
• Pulsometer Engineering joins the Booker McConnel Group, which had already acquired Sigmund Pumps

1962

• Acromet commences operations

1964

• First edition of the Pumping Manual published

1965

• Nigo’s Pumps incorporated in India
• Warren Rupp founded
• Sulzer acquires majority interest in Weise & Monski
• Pumping becomes Pumps, Pompes, Pumpen
• Layne Bowler Pompa Sanayi A.S becomes first vertical turbine pump manufacturer in Turkey.

1966

• Crisafulli Pump Company founded
• ITT acquires Jabsco

1967

• Scienco founded

1968

• Johnson Pump International founded
• ITT Corporation acquires Flygt
• Falcon Seabord acquires Wheatly

1969

• Weir acquires Harland Engineering; Worthington acquires Worthington-Simpson
• Mouvex launches the first seal-less rotary pump not based on magnets

1970

• Alma Pompe founded
• Weir buys Drysdale
• Ingersoll-Rand buys Sigmund Pumps Ltd (GB) in Gateshead, UK
• Allis Chalmers Mfg. Co. designs and builds the first world’s largest high head centrifugal pump

1971

• SIHI takes over Halberg
• Gévelot group acquires Delasco
• Turbosan founded
• Seepex Seeberger founded

1973

• Crest Pumps Ltd founded
• Tesoro acquires Wheatly

1976

• Worthington acquires Sier-Bath Pump Division from Gilbarco
• Valco founded in Marostica (Vicenza) Venice Region, Italy

1977

• Ingersoll-Rand buys Western Land Roller Irrigation Pumps
• Sterling Fluid Systems (TBG) buys Peerless Pump

1978

• Thompsons acquires the pump manufacturing operations of Kelly & Lewis to form Thompsons, Kelly & Lewis

1979

• Totton Pumps bought by Wolseley plc
• SPP acquires Godiva Fire Pumps
• Geosource acquires Wheatly

1981

• Red Jacket and Hydromatic merge to form Marley Pump
• Sterling Fluid Systems takes a half share in SIHI

1982

• Pumps, Pompes, Pumpen is relaunched as World Pumps magazine
• Biwater acquires Wallwin Pumps
• SPP is subject to a management buy-out

1984

• First Texas A&M Pump Users Symposium
• SIHI buys the canned motor programme of Bran+Luebbe
• Moorco Internation acquires Wheatly

1985

• Dresser Industries acquires Worthington Pumps
• KSB acquires Pompes Guinard
• Scanpump acquires Pumpex
• SIHI buys the pump programme of MAN
• Pentair acquires FE Myers
• Goulds Pumps acquires Lowara
• SPP acquires Henry Sykes plc
• Goulds Pumps acquires Gaso Pump and Burner Manufacturing Company

1987

• Bedford Pumps launched
• BW/IP formed by management buy-out of Borg-Warner’s Industrial Products subsidiary
• Weir buys Mather and Platt Machinery
• SIHI France buys Schabaver
• Dresser acquires Pleuger Pumps

1988

• KSB acquires a majority stake in Georgia Iron Works
• Scanpump acquires Pompes Lefi
• Idex Corporation founded
• Weir buys the large pumps business of WH Allen & Gwynnes from NEI
• BW/IP acquires United Centrifugal Pumps
• Braithwaite acquires SPP and sells off Godiva Fire Pumps

1989

• Elsevier acquires World Pumps magazine
• Scanpump acquires ABS
• Pearce Pump Supply founded
• TBG acquires SPP Ltd as part of Sterling Fluid Systems
• Dresser Industries acquires Mono Pumps Ltd
• Ingersoll-Rand acquires Scienco Ltd
• Watson-Marlow bought by Spirax-Sarco
• Formed as Wheatley Pump and Valve, the company acquires Gaso Inc from Goulds Pumps Inc, forming Wheatley Gaso Inc

1991

• Idex acquires Corken;
• Baker Hughes acquires Geho

1992

• Ingersoll-Rand and Dresser Industries merge their pump businesses to form Ingersoll Dresser Pumps (IDP)
• Warman acquires Girdlestone Pumps
• Idex acquires Pulsafeeder and Johnson Pump (UK) Ltd
• Weir buys Floway;
• BW/IP buys ACEC
• Ebara establishes state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Italy

1993

• United Dominion acquires Marley Pump
• Vogel acquires Ochsner
• Sterling Fluid Systems acquires LaBour

1994

• Weir acquires EnviroTech Pumpsys tems
• Warman acquires Barrett Haentjens
• Idex acquires Hale Products
• Goulds acquires Vogel
• ITT buys Richter Chemie-Technik
• Sundstrand acquires HMD Seal/less Pumps
• General Electric enters pump business by acquiring Nuovo Pignone (Italy)
• Dresser Industries acquire Wheatly Gaso Inc

1995

• Idex acquires Micropump
• BW/IP acquires the Wilson-Snyder centrifugal pump business from National Oilwell
• Durametallic acquires Pacseal and then is bought by Duriron

1996

• Hayward Tyler sold by Sterling Fluid Systems, which buys the remaining half share in SIHI
• Grundfos acquires Interdab
• Pump Industry Analyst launched
• BW/IP acquires Stork Pumps’ engineered pumps business
• Johnson Pumps International acquires the modular pumps business
• Durco and BW/IP merge to form Flowserve Corp
• ITT Industries acquires Goulds
• Idex acquires Blagdon Pumps
• Textron acquires Maag Pump Systems
• Spirax-Sarco acquires Bredel
• Pentair acquires General Signal’s Pump Group
• Constellation Capital acquires Imo
• David Brown acquires Union Pump Company
• Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon buys Wallwin Pumps from Biwater
• Textron buys David Brown Union Pumps
• Constellation Capital buys Allweiler
• Glynwed acquires Friatec
• Sundstrand acquires Ansimag and Masco
• Weir buys Schabaver

1997

• Blackmer acquires Mouvex

1999

• Hayward Tyler acquires APV Industrial Pumps
• Ebara acquires Cryostar cryogenic pumps
• Howard Anderson buys Pullen Pumps
• Sterling Fluid Systems acquires QVF Engineering (Germany)
• United Technologies Corp acquires Sundstrand
• Textron buys KSB Annecy (France)
• Weir Group acquires Warman International (including Girdle stone Pumps)
• United Dominion Industries acquires Bran+Luebbe; Ensival merges with Moret 2000 Flowserve acquires IDP
• Halliburton acquires Wheatly Gaso Inc

2000

• ABS acquires CH&E Pumps (USA)
• Cat Pumps (UK) buys Ram Pumps
• Grundfos acquires Myson and Sarlin Pumps
• Sulzer acquires Ahlstrom Pumps
• Watson-Marlow Bredel acquires Alitea (Sweden)
• Roper acquires Abel; Blackmer buys Chesterton’s System One pumps
• Sulzer (temporarily) decides to leave the pump business
• Sundyne acquires Caster (Italy)
• National Oilwell acquires Wheatly Gaso Inc

2001

• SPX acquires United Dominion Industries
• Godwin Pumps of America acquires Godwin Pumps (UK)
• Lightnin (of SPX) acquires Plenty Group
• Metso acquires Svedala
• Idex acquires Versa-Matic

2002

• Gorman-Rupp acquires American Machine and Tool
• Grundfos takes controlling interest in Chung Suk (Korea)
• ITT acquires Svedala Robot (Holland)
• Idex acquires Wrightech (USA)

2003

• National Oilwell acquires Mono and Corlac (Canada)
• Wilo acquires EMU
• Weir Engineering Services acquires Allen Gwynnes pump business
• Kirloskar acquires SPP Pumps
• KSB acquires controlling share in Bombas Itur (Spain)

2004

• Howden pumps merge with Orbit in South Africa
• Flowserve acquire Thompsons, Kelly & Lewis
• Armstrong Pumps buy Holden Brooke Pullen, Baric and RMI
• Grundfos take control of Philipp Hilge
• Dover Resources acquire Almatec

2005

• Grundfos takes over Tesla (Italian submersible motor maker)
• National Oilwell merges with Varco International
• Interpump acquires Hammelmann
• Weir acquires Pompe Gabbioneta (Italy)
• Wilo acquires majority holding in Mather & Platt Pumps and Fire Systems (India)
• Grundfos acquires Brisan Turbo (South Africa)

2006

• SPX acquires Johnson Pump
• Franklin Electric acquires Little Giant Pump
• United Components acquire ASC Industries (USA)
• Wilo acquires Circulating Pumps (UK)
• South Bank UK acquires Hayward Tyler Group
• Sulzer Pumps sells Paco to Grundfos
• Pentair acquires Jung Pumpen (Germany)
• Lowara buys Mercury submersible motors (Italy)

2007

• Sulzer’s proposed acquisition of Weir Pumps falls through
• Clyde Pumps (part of Clyde Blowers) acquires Weir Pumps
• SPX acquires APV
• Grundfos acquires Peerless Pump
• Wilden Pump acquires Griswold Pump
• Franklin Electric acquires Monarch Industries pump division (USA)
• Weir Group acquires Multifl o Australia and SPM Flow Control (USA)

2008

• Weir Group acquires CH Warman Pump Group
• Franklin Electric acquires Industrias Schneider (Brazil)
• Flowserve complete acquisition of Niigata Worthington (Japan)
• Dover Corporation acquires Neptune Chemical Pump to join its Pump Solutions Group (Wilden, Blackmer, Griswold, Almatec)
• Weir Group acquires Mesa Manufacturing (USA)
• Hamilton Sunstrand acquires Marelli Pumps (Spain)
• Clyde Blowers acquires Textron Fluid and Power division (including Maag Pump Systems and Union Pumps)
• IDEX acquires Richter Chemie-Technik.