Business Description
The Gorman-Rupp Company was incorporated in Ohio in 1934. The Company designs,
manufactures and globally sells pumps and pump systems for use in water, wastewater,
construction, dewatering, industrial, petroleum, original equipment, agriculture,
fire protection, heating, ventilating and air conditioning (“HVAC”),
military and other liquid-handling applications.
The Company operates in one business segment, the manufacture and international
sale of pumps and pump systems.
The Company’s product line consists of pump models ranging in size from
1/4” to nearly 15 feet and ranging in rated capacity from less than one
gallon per minute to nearly one million gallons per minute. The types of pumps
which the Company produces include self-priming centrifugal, standard centrifugal,
magnetic drive centrifugal, axial and mixed flow, vertical turbine line shaft,
submersible, high pressure booster, rotary gear, diaphragm, bellows and oscillating.
The pumps have drives that range from 1/35 horsepower electric motors up to
much larger electric motors or internal combustion engines capable of producing
several thousand horsepower. Many of the larger units comprise encased, fully
integrated water and wastewater pumping stations. In certain cases, units are
designed for the inclusion of customer-supplied drives.
The Company’s larger pumps are sold principally for use in the construction,
industrial, water and wastewater handling fields; for flood control; for boosting
low residential water pressure; for pumping refined petroleum products, including
the ground refueling of aircraft; for fluid control in HVAC applications; and
for various agricultural purposes.
The Company’s pumps are also utilized for dewatering purposes. Additionally,
pumps manufactured for fire protection are used for sprinkler back-up systems,
fire hydrants, stand pipes, fog systems and deluge systems at hotels, banks,
factories, airports, schools, public buildings and hundreds of other types of
facilities throughout the world.
Many of the Company’s smallest pumps are sold to customers for incorporation
into such products as food processing, chemical processing, photo processing,
medical and other waste treatment, HVAC equipment, appliances and solar heating.
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