Businessweek

Gardner Denver, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets engineered industrial machinery and related parts and services. The company also supplies pumps and compressors for original equipment manufacturer (OEM) applications, such as medical equipment, vapor recovery, printing, packaging, and laboratory equipment. Additionally, the company designs, manufactures, markets, and services a group of pumps, water jetting systems, and related aftermarket parts used in oil and natural gas well drilling, servicing, and production; and in industrial cleaning and maintenance. The company also manufactures reciprocating pumps used in oil and natural gas well drilling, servicing, and production; and in loading arms used in the transfer of petrochemical products. The company operates in the United States; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; the Asia Pacific; Canada; Brazil; and other regions. Segments The company operates through two segments, Industrial Products Group and Engineered Products Group. Industrial Products Group This segment designs, manufactures, markets, and services various products and related aftermarket parts for industrial and commercial applications, such as rotary screw, reciprocating, and sliding vane air and gas compressors; positive displacement, centrifugal, and side channel blowers; and vacuum pumps, primarily serving manufacturing, transportation, and general industry and selected OEM and engineered system applications. The company also markets and services complementary ancillary products. Compressors are used to increase the pressure of gas, including air. The company’s reciprocating compressors range from fractional to 1,500 horsepower and are sold under the Gardner Denver, Champion, Bottarini, CompAir, Mako, Reavell, and Belliss & Morcom trademarks. The company’s lubricated rotary screw compressors range from 5 to 680 horsepower and are sold under the Gardner Denver, Bottarini, Electra-Screw, Electra-Saver, Electra-Saver II, Enduro, RotorChamp, Tamrotor, compare, and Tempest trademarks. The company’s oil-free rotary screw compressors range from 5 to 150 horsepower and are sold under the Gardner Denver, compare, and Dryclon trademarks. The company’s oil-free centrifugal compressors range from 200 to 400 horsepower and are sold under the Quantima trademark. The company also has a range of portable compressors that are sold under the CompAir and Bottarini trademarks. Blowers are used to produce a high volume of air at low pressure or vacuum. The company’s positive displacement blowers range from 0 to 36 PSIG discharge pressure and 0 to 29.9 inches of mercury (in Hg) vacuum and capacity range of 0 to 17,000 cubic feet per minute (CFM) and are sold under the trademarks, such as Sutorbilt, DuroFlow, CycloBlower, HeliFlow, Robuschi, TriFlow, Drum, Wittig, and Elmo Rietschle. The company’s side channel blowers range from 0 to 15 PSIG discharge pressure and 20 inches Hg vacuum and capacity range of 0 to 1,500 CFM and are sold under the Elmo Rietschle, and Airgen trademarks. The company’s sliding vane compressors and vacuum pumps range from 0 to 150 PSIG discharge pressure and 29.9 inches Hg vacuum and capacity range of 0 to 3,000 CFM and are sold under the Gardner Denver, Hydrovane, Elmo Rietschle, Drum, and Wittig trademarks. The company’s engineered vacuum systems are used in industrial cleaning, hospitals, dental offices, general industrial applications, and the chemical industry and are sold under the Gardner Denver and Elmo Rietschle trademarks. The company’s engineered systems range from 0 to 32 per square inch gauge discharge pressure and 29.9 inches Hg vacuum and capacity range of 50 to 3,000 CFM and are sold under the Elmo Rietschle trademark. The major customers for the company’s compressor and vacuum products are durable and non-durable goods manufacturers; process industries (petroleum, primary metals, pharmaceutical, food, and paper); OEMs; manufacturers of printing equipment, pneumatic conveying equipment, and dry and liquid bulk transports; wastewater treatment facilities; and automotive service centers and niche applications, such as PET bottle blowing, breathing air equi