Flygt is a world leading product brand for submersible pumps and mixers.
It all started in the small town of Lindås in southern Sweden, where Per Alfred Stenberg, a blacksmith and mould maker, established a foundry in 1901. In Stockholm, Hilding Flygt, an engineer, set up a pump and fan sales company in 1922. A newspaper advertisement brought the two companies into contact with one another in 1929, and led to the Stenberg brothers beginning to produce Flygt pumps in Lindås.
Sixten Englesson, an engineer, invented the first submersible drainage pump in 1947 and the first submersible sewage pump in 1956. During the 1970s, the product range was expanded by mixers and other products.
The inventions laid the foundations for the expansion of Flygt onto the international market. This began with a sales company set up in the Netherlands in 1954, which was soon followed by sales companies in West Germany, Canada and the USA. The expansion continued during the 1960s, when seven additional overseas companies were founded.
Throughout the Flygt history spanning more than a century, a large proportion of the production work was retained in Lindås. But Flygt products are currently also made in Germany, China, Italy, Argentina and the Netherlands.
In 1968, the company was taken over by the ITT Corporation.
Throughout the last half century the Flygt brand has continued to lead the submersible industry, with inventions such as the submersible mixer, the submersible sewage pump, and the banana blade mixer. Flygt continues to be the market innovator, with products such as the N-pump, which revolutionized submersible pumping. Below is a brief overview of the Flygt history:
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| Founded in 1901 the company today produces pumps and mixers on the same site where everything began in the district of Lindås in Southern Sweden. | | | | | Pioneering efforts in the 1940's led to the development of the world's first submersible close-coupled motor driven pump. | | | | | In 1968 the ownership of Stenberg-Flygt AB is transferred to the American multinational enterprise ITT (International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation). | | | | | Corporate headquarters based in Stockholm, Sweden. | | | | | Over 4500 employees, of which 3000 are employed outside of Sweden. | | | | | Production plants in Sweden, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, USA, and Argentina, and two distribution centres, one in France and one in Sweden. | | | | | Certified with ISO 14001 and ISO 9001. | | | | | In 2007 ITT Water & Wastewater was created through the merger of ITT Flygt and AWT including the brands Sanitaire, Wedeco and Leopold.
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