Company type | Public |
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Industry | Diversified machinery |
Founded | 1997 |
Headquarters | Irving, Texas, U.S. |
Key people | Rowe, R. Scott, President and CEO (from April 1, 2017) Lanesha Minnix, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer |
Products | Actuators Ball valves Butterfly valves Control valves Plug valves end face mechanical seals Pumps |
Services | Power industry Oil industry Gas industry Chemical industry |
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Number of employees | 17,000 [4] (2017) |
Website | flowserve |
The Flowserve Corporation is an American multinational corporation and one of the largest suppliers of industrial and environmental machinery such as pumps, valves, end face mechanical seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical and other industries. [5] Headquartered in Irving, Texas, which is in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, Flowserve employs close to 16,000 employees in more than 50 countries. [6] Flowserve sells products and offers aftermarket services to engineering and construction firms, original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and end users. The Flowserve brand name originated in 1997 with a merger of BW/IP (Borg-Warner/IP International) and Durco International.
On August 21, 2007, Flowserve Corporation was recognized by CIO magazine as one of the 2007 CIO 100 Award Honorees. [7]
Flowserve's heritage dates back to the 1790 founding of Simpson & Thompson by Thomas Simpson, later to become Worthington Simpson Pumps, one of the companies that became part of BW/IP. [8] The company was created in 1997 with the merger of two fluid motion and control companies: BW/IP and Durco International.
Acquisitions include HydroTechnik Olomouc in 2006, [9] Sealing Systems in 2007, [10] Calder AG in 2009 [11] and Valbart Srl in 2010. [12] In October 2011 Flowserve acquired Lawrence Pumps Inc. In March 2013 acquired a manufacturing plant from L&T Valves situated in Maraimalainagar, Tamil Nadu. In 2015 Flowserve acquired SIHI.
Flowserve comprises over 48 fluid motion and control products. They are in alphabetical order:
ACEC Centrifugal, Accord, Aldrich, Anchor Darling, Argus, Atomac, Automax, BW Seals, Byron Jackson, Cameron, Calder, DuraClear, Durametallic, Durco, Edward, Five Star Seals, Flowserve, IDP, Innomag, Interseal, Jeumont-Schneider, Kammer, Limitorque, Logix, McCANNA/MARPAC, NAF, NAVAL, Noble Alloy, Norbro, Nordstrom, PMV, Pac-Seal, Pacific, Pacific Wietz, Pleuger, Polyvalve, Schmidt Armaturen, Scienco, Serck Audco, Sier-Bath Rotary, SIHI (Siemen & Hinsch), TKL, United Centrifugal, Valtek, Valtek EMA, Vogt, Western Land Roller, Wilson-Snyder, Worcester Controls, Worthington
Flowserve has grown through mergers and acquisitions.
In July 2005, Flowserve announced a change of senior leadership. The board of directors appointed Lewis M. Kling, then Chief Operating Officer, as the new president, CEO, and member of the board of directors. On May 30, 2007 Kling's employment agreement was extended until February 28, 2010, when he retired. [26]
Mark Blinn succeeded Kling as CEO, having previously served as Chief Financial Officer from 2004 until October 1, 2009, when he officially took over as CEO and vice chairman of the board. [27]
Blinn subsequently also retired and was succeeded by R. Scott Rowe as President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2017.
The members of the Flowserve board of directors is available at https://ir.flowserve.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors: [28]
Flowserve has five training centers, catering for students from around the world, in Irving, Texas; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Houston, Texas, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Desio, Italy. The learning resource center in Irving occupies 24,000 square feet (2,200 m2) with classrooms, static labs, and power labs with complete pumping systems. [29] The LRC in Italy is the most recent, opening on April 20, 2010. [30]
To support the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief, Flowserve donated $50,000 and matched up to $50,000 in employee donations to the Red Cross. [31]
On Feb 3, 2004, Flowserve announced restatement of its financial statements for aggregate estimated pretax adjustments for 2003. The restatement was approximately $11 million. [32]
On Oct 26, 2004, Flowserve determined to restate its previously announced financial results for the second quarter of 2004, including certain post-closing adjustments and recently identified out-of-period expenses. The restatement had no impact on net cash balance. [33]
On Feb 7, 2005, Flowserve confirmed that it would restate its 2000 through first quarter 2004 financial statements, resulting from an ongoing comprehensive review of the company's accounts. The restatement reduced net income for the periods restated. [34]
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