Pump History
| Year | Events |
| 2000 BC | The Shadoof consists of an upright frame on which is suspended a long pole or branch, at a distance of about one-fifth of its length from one end. … |
| 200 BC | Ctesibus invents the reciprocating pump Archimedean screw pump described by Archimedes. … |
| 1580 | Sliding vane pump invented by Ramelli. … |
| 1593 | Service invents the gear pump… |
| 1650 | Otto van Guericke invents his piston vacuum pump… |
| 1674 | Sir Samuel Morland patents the packed pluger pump… |
| 1790 | Plenty Ltd established – Thomas Simpson establishes his pump business in London |
| 1815 | Hayward Tyler established establishes his pump business in London |
| 1830 | Screw pump invented by Revillion |
| 1834 | Sulzer Brothers founded |
| 1840 | Henry R Worthington invents the first direct-acting stream pump |
| 1848 | Goulds Pumps founded |
| 1851 | John Gwynne patents his centrifugal pump improvements |
| 1853 | Boremann Pumpen founded |
| 1857 | Roper Pump Company founded |
| 1859 | Jacob Edson invents the first reciprocating stream pump |
| 1860 | Allweiler founded – A.S. Cameron invents the first reciprocating stream pump |
| 1862 | Lawrence Pumps established – Philipp Hilge founded |
| 1866 | Lederle founded |
| 1868 | Sigma Lutin founded |
| 1871 | KSB established, Southern Cros established in Australia – George and James Weir set up the partnership that will become the Weir Group |
| 1875 | Hodgkin and Neuhaus, forerunner of SPP founded |
| 1877 | Ritz Pumpenfabrik established |
| 1881 | Halberg MA schienbau founded |
| 1883 | Holden & Brooke founded |
| 1884 | A W Chesterton founded |
| 1888 | Kirloskar Brothers Ltd founded |
| 1890 | Salmson starts making pumps in Paris |
| 1893 | Uraca Pumpenfabric founded |
| 1894 | Sero Pumpenfabric founded |
| 1896 | KSB opens UK subsidiary |
| 1897 | Worthington Pump Company and Thomos Simpson amalgamate to from Worthington Simpson Ltd. |
| 1901 | Flygts forerunner Stenberg founded |
| 1905 | Leistriz Company established |
| 1906 | Stuart Turner Ltd founded |
| 1907 | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries produced its first pump |
| 1909 | Fristam Pumpen and Ernst Vogel founded – Ingersoll Rand enters the pump business by acquiring the Cameron Steam Pump Works |
| 1910 | Dickow Pumpen and Hitachi founded |
| 1911 | Jeans Nielsen builds the first Viking internal gear pump, founded the Viking Pump Compan |
| 1912 | Ebara Corporation founded |
| 1916 | Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation acquire Worthington Simpson Ltd |
| 1917 | John Crane founded – Louis Berqeron 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 Co established |
| 1920 | Bombas Itur Werner Pumpen and SIHI established |
| 1921 | Labour founded |
| 1923 | Peerless founded |
| 1924 | Leistritz starts making screw pumps – Rheinhuette starts pump production |
| 1927 | EdurPumpenfabrikfounded |
| 1928 | Girdlestone Pumps founded |
| 1929 | Pleuger pioneers the submersible turbine pump motor – Stenberg and Flygt commence their cooperation |
| 1930 | Rene Moineau receives a dectorate for his thesis which will lead to the invention of the progressing cavity pump Ensival starts selling centrifugal pumps |
| 1932 | Sarlin Pumps founded – Bran + Luebbe founded |
| 1933 | Bush pump invented Gormann-Rupp established |
| 1936 | Robbins & Myers acquires North American license for the Moineau progressing cavity pump Mono Pump Ltd formed to manufacture and distribute Moinequ’s pump design in the UK |
| 1937 | Sigmund Pump Warman International founded |
| 1940 | Grindex founded |
| 1941 | Britsh Pump Manufacturers Association founded |
| 1945 | Grundfos Pumps, Caprari and Flexibox founded |
| 1946 | Cornell Pump, Klaus Union, Totton Pumps founded |
| 1947 | HMD Seal/Less Pumps established Hyundai founded |
| 1948 | Stenberg Flygt AB design the first submersible drainage pump, Varisco commences pump production |
| 1949 | HMD supplies its first production magnet-drive pump |
| 1951 | Tsurumi and Netzsch Mohnopumpen founded |
| 1952 | Lewa and Rovatti founded |
| 1953 | Nikkiso established |
| 1955 | Wilden and DMW Corporation established Borg-Warner acquires Byron Jackson |
| 1956 | Flygt introduces the submersible sewage pump |
| 1957 | Richter Chemie-Technik founded |
| 1959 | ABS and Calped FOUNDED |
| 1960 | David Brown Pump division formed |
| 1961 | Ingersoll-Rand acquires the Aldrich Pump Company |
| 1962 | Acromet commences operations |
| 1965 | Warren Rupp founded Sulzer acquires majority interest in Weise & Monski |
| 1966 | ITT acquires Jabsco |
| 1967 | Scienco founded |
| 1968 | Johnson Pump International founded Weir acquires Harland Engineering and ITT Corporation acquires Flygt |
| 1970 | Weir buys Drysdate ; Ingersoll-Rand buys Sigmund Pump Ltd (GB) in Gateshead, UK |
| 1971 | Sihi takes over Halberg Turbonsan founded |
| 1972 | Seepex Seeberger founded |
| 1973 | Crest Pumps Ltd founded |
| 1976 | Worthington acquires Sier-Bath Pump Division from Gilbarco |
| 1977 | Ingersoll-Rand buys Western Land Roller Irrigation Pumps Sterling Fluid System (TBG) buys Peerless Pump |
| 1979 | SPP acquires Godiva Fire pumps |
| 1981 | Red Jacket and Hydromatic merge to form Marley Pump. Sterling Fluid Systems takes a half share in SIHI |
| 1982 | Pump Pompes Pumpen is relaunched as World Pumps Magazine Biwater acquires W Allwin Pump |
| 1984 | Sihi buys the canned motor programme of Bran & Lubbe |
| 1985 | Dresser Industries acquires Worthington Simpson Ltd. |
| 1986 | KSB acquires Pompes Guinard Pentair acquires FE Myers Goulds Pumps acquires Lowara |
| 1987 | Weir buys Mather and Platt Machinery Sihi France buys Schabaver |
| 1988 | Idex Corporation founded Braithwaite acquires SPP and sells off Godiva Fire Pumps |
| 1989 | Scanpump acquires ABS TBG acquires SPP Ltd part of Sterling Fluid Systems |
| 1990 | Dresser Industries acquires Mono Pumps Ltd Ingersoll=Rand acquires Scienco Ltd; Watson-Marlow bought by Spirax-Sarco |
| 1991 | Index acquires Corken;Baker Hughes acquires Geho |
| 1992 | Ingersoll-Rand and Dresser Industries merge their pump business to form Ingersoll Dresser Pumps Warman acquires Girdlestone Pumps; Idex acquires Pulsafeeder and Johnson Pump (UK) Ltd ; weir busy Floway; BW/IP busy ACEC |
| 1993 | United Dominion acquires Marley Pump; Vogel acquires Ochsner; Sterling Fluid Systems acquires Labour |
| 1994 | Weir acquires Enviro Tech Pumpsystem, Warman acquires Barrett Haentjens; Idex acquires HAle Products; Goulds acquires Vogel; ITT buys Richter Chemie-Technik; Sundstrand acquires HMD Seal/less Pumps |
| 1995 | 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 System, which buys the remaining half share in SIHI Grundfos acquires Interdab Pump Industry Analyst launched |
| 1997 | BW/IP acquires Stork Pump’s engineered pumps business; Johnson Pumps Durco and BW/IP merge to form Flowserve ITT Industries acquires Goulds; Index acquires Blagdon Pumps; Textron acquires Magg Pump System; Spirax-Sarco acquires Bredel Pentair acquires General Signal’s Pump Group; Constellation Capital acquires Imo; |
| 1998 | 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. |
| 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 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) |
| 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) DEX acquires Richter Chemie-Technik. |
