Business View Magazine | December 2020

105 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 HOLLAND PUMP COMPANY displacement rotary lobe pumps and has dealers all over the U.S., as well as internationally. Holland Pump buys their products and packages them with a diesel engine on a skid, fuel tank, or trailer fuel tank, for example. Win Blodgett took over leadership of Holland Pump in 2007, but his father and LobePro remain an active partner. “As LobePro’s exclusive OEM distributor for construction dewatering we have a strong relationship that gives Holland a strategic advantage in wellpointing applications against our competitors,” says Blodgett. Today, Holland Pump specializes in temporary mobile dewatering. “Those are jobs where customers typically rent pumps from us for as short as one or two days or as long as a couple of years,” Blodgett reports. “And we are dewatering primarily groundwater for the utility industry – for utility work or site work for the municipal infrastructure that goes into neighborhoods and subdivisions and commercial developments, the underground sewer work or the retention ponds or lakes. We work on golf families, because we ask a lot of the employees in terms of what they give to the company to step up to the plate but we give back a lot of loyalty and support,” Blodgett explains. Holland Pump was formed in 1978 by a former pump salesman named Charlie Cuningham. The business was going strong when Cuningham learned he had cancer. Looking to sell the company, he struck a deal with Win Blodgett’s dad, Bill, who Cuningham knew from church. Bill Blodgett had a successful business career and was teaching entrepreneurship at a local university when he bought the company in May of 1999. Win joined the company shortly after that. His background in construction and sitework was beneficial, but there was still a lot to learn and he rotated through several different positions at Holland Pump over the years to get a better understanding of operations. During the Great Recession, the business was split into two separate companies. The new company, LobePro, manufactures positive