![]() In January 1999, the company acquired the air operated diaphragm (AOD®) pump line from ITT-Marlow. New applications include working in environmental cleanup, and filtering restaurant-cooking oil in deep-fat fryers, as well as, the introduction of several magnetically driven seal-less pump models since 1994. Maintaining its emphasis on providing pumps for the new technologies, Price Pump Company has applied standard pump design to innovative new pump applications and methods of manufacture. New technology and changing markets have continued to prompt the evolution of Price Pump Company’s products and manufacturing facilities. Quality, application support, and service are the value-added cornerstones of our success. Today, Price Pump offers four different deliveries: standard seven to ten-day shipment, two to six working days, VIP (Very Important Pump) – same or next day shipment, and PONY Express parts – same day shipment. In order to have a competitive advantage, Price Pump’s lead times needed to change standard product delivery times were cut to 10 business days for any product listed in its catalog. ![]() The standard delivery time for most pump companies was six to eight weeks. He brought 24 years of pump experience in marketing, operations, engineering, and sales and lead the changes to embrace the SQC / JIT manufacturing efforts which are still in place today. In 1992, Bob Piazza was recruited to be President of the company. The company recognized that its new markets required fast delivery and exceptional service. ![]() Five years later, in 1989, increased sales necessitated the construction of a 32,000 square foot facility two miles further down Eighth Street East – at 1 Pump Way (21775 Eighth Street East). Upon Jack Brown passing in 1984, Gene Webb was appointed General Manager. East and moved to a 10,000 square foot facility on Sonoma’s Eighth Street East. About 80 percent of the liquid-cooled laser manufacturers in the United States use Price Pumps to move ultra-pure water to cool the lasers for medical and industrial use.īy 1979 Price Pump Company had outgrown its 3,600 square foot rented space on 4th St. These markets require both non-metallic and stainless steel pumps for solvents, specialty chemicals and high temperature-high-pressure ultrapure water in the production of their printed circuit boards. By the late 1980s, the agriculture market, once Price Pump Company’s mainstay, had been all but replaced by the finished chemical, industrial laser, and semiconductor manufacturing markets. Under his leadership, the company began to shift from agricultural to industrial and special-purpose pumps. In 1967, Jack Brown was hired as the company’s first general manager. In the early 1960s, Price Pump saw the need for small stainless steel pumps and responded with both 316 SS and Hastalloy models. Paul acquired Price Pump in 1962, he retained the Price brand name because of its well-established reputation for quality and service. Jack Price, the son of E.L Price, headed the firm during the 1950s. The company relocated to Sonoma, California in 1948. During the 1930s and 1940s, the focus was on the manufacture of agricultural pumps. Price established the company in Emeryville, California.
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