March 2017 | Business View Magazine

60 61 T he Netzsch Group is a family-owned, in- ternational business that was founded by Thomas and Christian Netzsch, in Selb, Germany, in 1873. The company is engaged in the production of machinery and instru- mentation and is comprised of three business units: Analyzing & Testing, Grinding & Dispersing, and Pumps & Systems. The Netzsch Group has approximately 3,500 employees across 35 countries and 210 lo- cations on every continent on the planet. It has factories in Germany, Brazil, China, and India. The Pumps & Systems unit, head- quartered in Waldkraiburg, Upper Bavaria, Germany, is where Netzsch has developed, man- ufactured, and marketed positive displacement pumps, designed specifically for difficult pumping sit- uations, for more than 60 years. “We were established in 1951, when the patent for Progressing Cavity Pump technology was granted,” says John Dean, Project Manager and Business Field Manager for the Chemical, Pulp & Paper Division of Netzsch Pumps North America, LLC, a whol- ly-owned subsidiary of the Netzsch Group, found- ed in Exton, Pennsylva- nia in 1969. Netzsch Pumps North America, LLC Netzsch Pumps North America, LLC Aworld market leader