Company History:
Pumping Solutions for the Oil Industry - 21773 1875187819011961198619882002 - Present
SPP was founded in 1875 when a British Engineer bought the patent rights of the Pulsometer Pump from an American,Thomas Hall.From this dealcame the birth of the Company as it is known today.The story continues when,in 1878,a new company was formed “The Pulsometer Engineering Company Ltd.”The
pump range was continuallyexpanded and it was as a
pump manufacturer that the Company became best known.With this increase in product range and trade all over theworld,a larger factory was found and set up in Battersea,London.In 1901,the Company moved from London to new premises at a site in Reading,UK.By now Pulsometer was a name well established andrespected across the world as a leading manufacturer of
pump equipment.For the next 50 years Pulsometer maintained its reputation for products of exceptionally high quality and reliability.Then,in 1961,PulsometerEngineering joined the Booker McConnell Group along with another
pump company,Sigmund Pumps of Gateshead.This combination created one ofthe largest
pump companies in Europe,which became known as Sigmund Pulsometer Pumps,or SPP for short.After a number of changes in subsequent years,SPP acquired Henry Sykes plc in 1986.This acquisition further expanded the product range with the addition of vacuum assisted self-priming
pumps.It was around this time that SPP moved it’s manfacturing site from Reading to a more modernfacility in Coleford,in the West of England,where it is today.A significant investment was made in machine tools and buildings to create a state of the art manufacturing facility.The facility doubled in size and was opened in November 1987 by Her Royal Highness,The Princess Royal.With never a dull moment in SPP’s history,1988 saw a takeover with the Braithewaite Group.This was followed by SPP being acquired with the TBGgroup in 1989 and the subsequent incorporation into Sterling Fluid Systems.In 2002,SPP separated from the Sterling Fluid Systems Group and in 2003 were taken over by their current parent company,Kirloskar BrothersLimited (KBL).With the investment and knowledge passed down by KBL,twinned with the experience and expertise of all members of the workforce,SPP continue to go from strength to strength.SPP is now a truly global company with main R&D,manufacturing and test facilities centrally located inthe UK and local sites in the United States,India,France,South Africa,Singapore,Dubai and Abu Dhabi.With a heritage to be proud of and extensive application experience and engineering skills,SPP will continue to maintain its reputation for quality andvalue ensuring that all market and customer needs are met.SPP continues to evolve.
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