INDUSTRIAL
FILTER & PUMP MFG. CO. is now in its
7th decade of service to American and overseas industries.
We were founded in 1927 as a proprietorship, and
since then have designed and manufactured thousands
of filtration and pumping equipment stations for
the metal finishing, food, and chemical processing
industries. As a natural outgrowth of this service,
techniques were developed for the formulation and
application of (vulcanized) rubber coatings and
linings for the highly corrosive chemicals encountered
in metal finishing and chemical processing. A series
of environmental testing cabinets were designed
in accordance with ASTM specifications to provide
accelerated corrosion conditions on metallic, painted
and coated parts as a further service.
INDUSTRIAL was incorporated and continues as a privately
owned corporation. We currently employ 100 people
at our office and manufacturing facility, including
a staff of engineers with degrees in chemical, mechanical
and electrical disciplines. In addition to engineering
and manufacturing facilities, we have chemical and
physical laboratories as part of our research and
development department. Over the years, some 100
U.S. patents have been issued to INDUSTRIAL, many
of which are in use today.
INDUSTRIAL is, by definition, a small business,
and produces a large variety of products. The self-sufficiency
of our operation is the most frequent comment from
visitors to our facility. Filters and pumps are
implied in our name; in addition, we manufacture
ion exchange systems, carbon contacting columns,
accelerated corrosion testing chambers, heat exchangers,
and both standard and custom waste treatment systems.
In the last decade, INDUSTRIAL has introduced the
use of porous ceramics for the filtration of hot
gases at temperatures up to 2000° F. These filters
have proven to be an effective means of removing
particulate without gas cooling, and are viewed
as "cutting-edge" technology for coal
utilization, incineration and other applications.
As previously mentioned, INDUSTRIAL maintains
a large rubber compounding facility featuring
three large vulcanizers. In addition to applying
elastomers to our own products, we also line the
products of clients.
INDUSTRIAL's production facilities include a
large welding shop with 15 A.S.M.E. stations,
a fully equipped machine shop, a filter element
manufacturing department (which fabricates both
metal and polypropylene elements for our own filters
as well as others), a filter bag department which
produces high quality bags for filter leaves,
plates, tubes, anodes, etc., out of a large variety
of fabrics to our designs or to the customer's
specifications, and an automation panel department
which designs and constructs control stations
for all the equipment systems we produce from
semi-automatic to fully automatic process operations.
With such a variety of products and associated
parts, an inventory control and processing system
could be a problem; however, INDUSTRIAL's computer
network and self-designed production and inventory
control system has simplified these procedures.
We also retain a service department which has
been schooled in the installation, maintenance
and problem solving of all of our equipment and
most major brands of instruments.
INDUSTRIAL also has a pilot rental program for
in-process testing applications of most of the
equipment we market. This service is part of our
marketing tools and an extension of our research
and development department. Because we have dealt
with such a large number of industrial processes,
we have developed a unique record maintenance
procedure -- our Process Code books which categorize
industries into more than 500 separate specialities.
From these books we can draw on our many years
of experience in any field, noting recent developments,
current procedures, and good engineering practices
used to provide the most effective equipment design
available today.
Finally, INDUSTRIAL has a network of sales representatives
serving our marketing needs in all 50 states.
Internationally, we have licensees in seven industrialized
countries, and to effectively function in these
markets, maintain an in-house experienced staff
specifically addressing foreign sales matters.
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