Her father is an operations manager there for Thomas Pump and Machinery, which designs and distributes industrial pump systems.
So far, the program, operated by the Florida Economic Gardening Institute, has enrolled 13 companies, including a Jacksonville industrial pump manufacturer that is trying to locate new customers after sales declines forced it to lay off workers.
And shares of industrial pump maker Flowserve lost about 8% in late trading on downside earnings guidance for the year.
ITT Industries, the largest maker of industrial pumps, bought the Pure Water businesses of Waterlink Inc. yesterday, expanding ITT's line of wastewater-handling products.
His father is the president of Nagle Pumps, a manufacturer of industrial pumping equipment in Chicago Heights, Ill.
ITT INDUSTRIES, White Plains, a maker of industrial pumps and electronic components, bought Svedala Robot BV, a maker of submersible pumps to handle wastewater, from Metso Corp., Helsinki.
United Technologies Corp.'s Hamilton Sundstrand unit, Hartford, Conn., agreed to buy Haskel International Inc., Burbank, Calif., a maker of pneumatic pumps and valves, to add to its line of specialty industrial pumps.
He was referring to the ear-bone-rattling roar surrounding him, the sound of 536,000 gallons of water spewing each second through six industrial pumps at the U.S. National Whitewater Center.
ITT INDUSTRIES, White Plains, a maker of industrial pumps, said it acquired the closely held Flowtronex PSI, Dallas, to expand into golf course irrigation systems.
Two private equity firms, the Carlyle Group and BC Partners, have agreed to buy Hamilton Sundstrand Industrial, a maker of industrial pumps and compressors, from United Technologies for $3.46 billion, the companies announced on Wednesday.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, the leveraged buyout company, plans to sell almost half of its stake in the Idex Corporation, a maker of industrial pumps, for an estimated $163 million.
