Flowserve

The Flowserve Corporation is a publicly held provider of pumps, valves, seals, and services for power producers and the oil and Gasindiustrie based in Irving, Texas. Worldwide, the Group employs 16,000 people in more than 50 countries.

History

Flowserve was created in 1997 by the merger of BW / IP and Durco International; However, the story goes back to the year 1790 with the original founding of Simpson & Thompson (later Worthington Simpson Pumps ), one of the predecessors of the company BW / IP were. Recent acquisitions include, without limitation Invensys Flow Control in 2002, Thompsons Kelly & Lewis in 2004 and Inter Seal in 2005.

Flowserve in Germany

In Germany Flowserve achieved approximately 9 % of its total sales ( approximately U.S. $ 392 in 2011 ). Flowserve has in Germany about 1400 employees and indeed in the sites Ahaus, Bremen, Dortmund, Essen, Ettlingen and Hamburg.

The German subsidiary, Flowserve Hamburg GmbH is a manufacturer of pumps, motors and special motors with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. She is from the companies Pleuger Unterwasserpumpen GmbH (founded in 1929 in Berlin) and German Worthington GmbH (founded in 1880 in Berlin) formed. In Hamburg, about 270 employees.

The Flowserve Hamburg GmbH is manufacturer of:

• Water -filled submersible motor pumps, manufactured by Pleuger, with flow rates up to 90,000 m³ / h Motor power up to 5000 kW.
• Oil -filled submersible motor pumps, manufactured by Byron Jackson, with flow rates up to 4500 m³ / h and engine outputs up to 1500 kW.
• Plunger pumps with three to seven plungers, manufactured by Worthington, with flow rates up to 1140 m³ / h Motor power up to 3450 kW at a temperature range of -40 ° C to 350 ° C at pressures up to max. 2070 bar
• Special drives, make Pleuger, for floating tools (oil drilling, cable laying ships, etc.) in the offshore sector.

In addition to the Flowserve Hamburg also Gestra in Bremen is part of the Flowserve group.