ITT Flygt is a world leader in the production of submersible pumps and mixers. The company has 4100 employees and a turnover of SEK 6.6 billion. ITT Flygt has operations in more than 130 markets and is now an international conglomerate with Swedish roots.
The company was founded in the 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. But it was not until 1991 that the company's name was changed to ITT Flygt. Today, the company is part of the ITT Industries conglomerate.
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