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In 1927,
just 24 months before what was to be known as “The
Great Depression”, Industrial
Filter & Pump Mfg. Co. was founded in a small
factory on the west side of Chicago. With just a handful
of employees and a filter mounted onto a service truck,
the new company offered a simple but practical service
for the local metal finishing shops in the area, who
needed to keep their plating baths and rinse tanks clean.
The idea was so effective that, in addition to offering
filter and pump services, the new company decided to
fabricate and sell filter systems that these local customers
could purchase and use, on a permanent basis. Word quickly
spread about the Company’s commitments to customer
satisfaction and quality, and the firm further expanded
its product line by manufacturing additional types of
equipment for the metal finishing industry, including
environmental testing chambers and ion exchange equipment.
Despite the Depression and World War II, the Company
continued to prosper. In 1946, Industrial Filter &
Pump Mfg. Co. was incorporated in the State of Illinois,
and continues today as a privately owned corporation.
Further increases in demand for the Company’s
products meant that additional space for manufacturing
was needed, and in 1950 it relocated to its current
location, a 103,000 square foot facility in suburban
Cicero, Illinois.
In the years that followed, Industrial began compounding
and vulcanizing rubber for use as a corrosion resistant
lining material in the steel pressure filters for which
it was famous. Because of the durability of the vulcanized
linings, application expertise, and experience in all
types of corrosion resistant materials, Industrial’s
product line expanded into a variety of different markets,
including the chemical, sugar beet, cane, vegetable
oil, pharmaceutical, brewery and wine industries. Further
product advances in water softeners, activated carbon
filters, ceramic filters, etc. resulted in the Company’s
successes in still other filter applications, including
potable and make-up water applications, and hot gas
filtration.
To date, Industrial has furnished literally thousands
of filters in a variety of sizes and materials of construction,
as well as centrifugal pumps, deionization equipment,
inclined plate clarifiers, filter presses, corrosion
test chambers, and completely automated process filtration
and waste treatment systems throughout the world. With
over seven decades of experience to offer, Industrial
is considered both a leader and a pioneer in the filtration
industry.
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