01 Water Treatment: Manufacturers of Water Softeners (Industrial)

Manufacturers: Water Softeners (Industrial): past and present

  1. AA Tech / Industrial Water Treatment
  2. Altair
  3. American Water Softener Co (softener division started in the 1920s)
  4. Aqua General (Commercial)
  5. Automatic Pump and Softener Corp (1930s)
  6. Baker: see Serek
  7. Former: Belco (began offering this product in 1950)
  8. Bruner
  9. Cal Filco (California Filter Company) (begun in the 1910s; became part of US Filter in 1969)
  10. Centec (international)
  11. Cochrane / Crane Cochrane [Crane – Warlo]: see Newterra
  12. Culligan (softener division started in the 1920s)
  13. Di-Seps: Smith Loveless
  14. Duro Pump & Mfg Co
  15. EBD Paragon
  16. Ecodyne (Marmon)
  17. Elgin Softener Corp: Refinite
  18. ESLI – Pollet Water Group (international)
  19. Eimco: Dorr-Oliver
  20. EnFab (Daniel)
  21. Envirex: Great Lakes Water (Great Lakes Water purchased the water treatment division of Envirex in 1987)
  22. Eurowater
  23. Franklin Water Treatment
  24. Gaco-Sternson
  25. Glegg (GE Water)
  26. Graver (late 1920s)
  27. Great Lakes (Envirex)
  28. Hellenbrand
  29. Hidro Water (Spain)
  30. Hungerford & Terry
  31. Former: H-O-H Systems (Katy, Texas)
  32. Hydro (softener division started in the 1930s)
  33. Former: Kennicott (England) (late 1920s)
  34. Illinois Water Treatment (Evoque / Xylem)
  35. Industrial Water Solutions
  36. Industrial Water Technologies Inc
  37. Ionics (Cambridge)
  38. L*A Water Treatment [LA Water Conditioning] [L-A Water Softener merged with Water Conditioning Inc]
  39. Lakeside
  40. Marlo
  41. Met-Chem
  42. Miura
  43. Mueller
  44. Neckar
  45. New York Continental Jewell Filtration Company (already in business by 1900) (sold to American Water Softener in 1925)
  46. Newterra
  47. Osmonics
  48. Ovivo
  49. Peerless Inc. (Ceco)
  50. Penfield
  51. Permutit (softener division started in the 1910s) (Permutit USA begun in the 1910s; became part of US Filter in 1993)
  52. Pure Aqua
  53. Puretec
  54. Rayne
  55. Refinite (begun in the 1910s)
  56. Resin Tech (Barnstead; Ion Exchange Products Co (Chicago)) – small units for laboratory and testing labs
  57. Robert Hill Co.: ECI Water
  58. Samco
  59. Former: ServiSoft (began offering this product in 1937); later merged with EcoWater Systems
  60. Smith Loveless: DiSeps
  61. South Bend Softener Co. (1920s)
  62. Suez / Degremont
  63. Tasneem
  64. Tonka: Kurita
  65. US Filter
  66. Veolia
  67. Water King
  68. Wayne Tank and Pump Co (softener division started in the 1920s)
  69. Wigen
  70. Worthington (1940s)
  71. Wynhausen / O & G [Los Angeles Water Softener Co. – late 1920s]
  72. 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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