Jay, who has lived in the Waukesha area for nearly 20 years, is an active volunteer who serves on numerous local boards and committees. He’s married to Colleen with three kids having gone through the Waukesha schools. He is the VP of a local distribution company and currently serves on several area Boards.
The Waukesha area is home to an amazing array of businesses whose impacts extend far beyond WI. ITT Flygt Corporation is a prime example. They are the Country’s largest industrial pump manufacturing company for movement of water and other fluids. And if you like “big” pieces of equipment, ITT Flygt ranks with the biggest for big-boy toys.
Jim Peterson, Manager of Project Engineering, travels the world for ITT Flygt performing inspections, providing technical assistance, and negotiating local partnerships. Jim’s history with the company goes all the way back to when ITT Flygt was known as the Allis Chalmers Pump Company. He related the company’s ongoing work with the New Orleans area in maintaining the critically-needed current pumping capacity while looking to the area’s future needs. ITT pumps currently provide daily fluid control for over 29 billion gallons in the New Orleans area!
And how cool is it to have your own indoor company “pool”? A pool 30 feet deep with over 440,000 gallons of water! The ITT Flygt plant/office on Roundy’s Drive has the Country’s largest water-flow test pit which has a pump capacity of 300,000 gallons a minute. Pumps are final-assembled, tested and certified here, and then shipped to far-flung locations such as Brazil, Korea, China, Chicago, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and Thailand.
NOTE:No ITT pumps are in use in the Milwaukee Deep Tunnel Project!
The pumps themselves are the real stars. They start at a 4”diameter, 50 HP municipal sewage pump. The “big boy” pumps similar to the New Orleans installations have an 11’ diameter, a 3000HP motor, and weigh in excess of 140,00 pounds.
ITT Flygt has a daily worldwide impact on fluid handling. The expertise to engineer and manufacture for the most-demanding fluid-handling environments starts here.
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