01 Water Treatment: Water Softeners (Industrial)

Manufacturers: Water Softeners (Industrial): past and present

  1. AA Tech / Industrial Water Treatment
  2. American Water Softener Co (softener division started in the 1920s)
  3. Aqua General (Commercial)
  4. Automatic Pump and Softener Corp (1930s)
  5. Baker: see Serek
  6. Former: Belco (began offering this product in 1950)
  7. Bruner
  8. Cal Filco (California Filter Company) (begun in the 1910s; became part of US Filter in 1969)
  9. Centec (international)
  10. Cochrane / Crane Cochrane [Crane – Warlo]: see Newterra
  11. Culligan (softener division started in the 1920s)
  12. Di-Seps: Smith Loveless
  13. Duro Pump & Mfg Co
  14. EBD Paragon
  15. Ecodyne (Marmon)
  16. Elgin Softener Corp: Refinite
  17. ESLI – Pollet Water Group (international)
  18. Eimco: Dorr-Oliver
  19. EnFab (Daniel)
  20. Envirex: Great Lakes Water (Great Lakes Water purchased the water treatment division of Envirex in 1987)
  21. Eurowater
  22. Franklin Water Treatment
  23. Gaco-Sternson
  24. Glegg (GE Water)
  25. Graver (late 1920s)
  26. Great Lakes (Envirex)
  27. Hellenbrand
  28. Hidro Water (Spain)
  29. Hungerford & Terry
  30. Former: H-O-H Systems (Katy, Texas)
  31. Hydro (softener division started in the 1930s)
  32. Former: Kennicott (England) (late 1920s)
  33. Illinois Water Treatment (Evoque / Xylem)
  34. Industrial Water Solutions
  35. Industrial Water Technologies Inc
  36. Ionics (Cambridge)
  37. L*A Water Treatment [LA Water Conditioning] [L-A Water Softener merged with Water Conditioning Inc]
  38. Lakeside
  39. Marlo
  40. Met-Chem
  41. Miura
  42. Mueller
  43. Neckar
  44. New York Continental Jewell Filtration Company (already in business by 1900) (sold to American Water Softener in 1925)
  45. Newterra
  46. Osmonics
  47. Ovivo
  48. Peerless Inc. (Ceco)
  49. Penfield
  50. Permutit (softener division started in the 1910s) (Permutit USA begun in the 1910s; became part of US Filter in 1993)
  51. Pure Aqua
  52. Puretec
  53. Rayne
  54. Refinite (begun in the 1910s)
  55. Resin Tech (Barnstead; Ion Exchange Products Co (Chicago)) – small units for laboratory and testing labs
  56. Robert Hill Co.: ECI Water
  57. Samco
  58. Former: ServiSoft (began offering this product in 1937); later merged with EcoWater Systems
  59. Smith Loveless: DiSeps
  60. South Bend Softener Co. (1920s)
  61. Suez / Degremont
  62. Tasneem
  63. Tonka: Kurita
  64. US Filter
  65. Veolia
  66. Water King
  67. Wayne Tank and Pump Co (softener division started in the 1920s)
  68. Wigen
  69. Worthington (1940s)
  70. Wynhausen / O & G [Los Angeles Water Softener Co. – late 1920s]
  71. Yardney / Applied Systems

Note: Permutit Water and Waste Treatment Date Book: (for sale: external link)

Note: There are “Test Kits” or “Analyzers” for Hardness; CHEMetrics and others manufacturer Hardness “Test Kits.”

Whom sold water softeners first in the USA? (internal link)

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