Pump and Compressor Solutions for OEM Customers Worldwide

Experience Combined with Innovation

Compact, quiet and efficient, Thomas compressors are found in the world’s finest home and restaurant coffeemakers.

With compressor experience extending back nearly eight

decades, Thomas boasts a base of air-moving knowledge

few companies in the world can match. Add to this a

multi-disciplinary, internationally grounded engineering

staff nearly 100 strong – averaging 20-plus years of OEM

know-how – and Thomas stands alone. But experience is

of little value if you’re stuck in the past.

That’s why Thomas is committed to remaining in the forefront

of pressure and vacuum technology – not only understanding,

but also anticipating our customers’ requirements. You can

see this in revolutionary developments like our invention of

the WOB-L® Piston pump, today’s dominant pressure/vacuum

technology for OEM applications. And you can see it in the

evolutionary developments happening every day – advances

that extend service-free life, pack more flow into smaller

packages, reduce noise and vibration, or deliver pressure

and vacuum with unprecedented operating efficiencies.

The innovative twin-head Thomas Model 1420 miniature diaphragm

pump produces exceptional air flow from such a compact product,

making it ideally suited to many medical and business equipment

applications. The pump is less than three inches high and weighs

under a half pound.

1928 Electric Sprayit Company is founded in Chicago, manufacturing blowers and air compressors. The company later moves to Milwaukee, then to Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

1948-1960 An investment group headed by Lee B. Thomas acquires Electric Sprayit, spurring a period of rapid post-war growth under the name Thomas Industries.

1961 Thomas Industries launches an OEM-focused compressor product line, which has been continually expanded through the years.

1976Thomas employees Arthur Droege Sr. and Richard Bell patent the WOB-L® Piston pump, setting new standards for performance and value, and opening up vast new opportunities for OEM applications in medical, industrial and consumer products.

1985-1987 Thomas forms a joint venture with, then acquires Germany’s ASF GmbH & Company (both Wuppertal and Memmingen operations), a major player in miniature pressure and vacuum pump technology.

1988Thomas acquires FL Pneumotive of Monroe, Louisiana, a specialist in heavy-duty articulated piston compressors.

1996-1999Thomas acquires Welch Vacuum of Skokie, Illinois, a leader in laboratory pumps, then Oberdorfer Pumps of Syracuse, New York, a centrifugal pump maker.

2005 Gardner Denver, Inc., of Quincy, Illinois, the leading worldwide manufacturer of compressors, blowers and pumps, acquires Thomas Industries. OEM pump technologies are now consolidated in Thomas Products Division. Wuxi, China facility opened.

1990-1992 New market development in Asia and South America supplements traditional strongholds in North America and Europe.

2002Thomas acquires Rietschle GmbH of Germany, a large manufacturer of precision-engineered pumps and compressors.

a focus on helping OEMs Succeed

Thomas sales specialists and application engineers draw on a wealth of both technical and commercial experience to help guide OEMs to the optimum product for their needs.

Simply put, we’re specialists in serving original equipment

manufacturers. In fact, over 90 percent of everything we produce

goes into an OEM product, either at the initial manufacturing

point or as aftermarket pumps and components sold through

distribution. While Thomas customers come from a multitude

of industries with diverse applications, they share a common

characteristic. All are looking for better ways, searching for

solutions that improve performance while offering extreme

value – and very often with accelerated speed to market.

Our investment in the people, processes and equipment to meet

essential OEM needs is unmatched in the industry. We routinely

deliver the fi rst prototypes with two weeks of an order, then

consistently beat production and delivery schedules. But we’re

most proud of providing solutions that are exactly on target,

solutions that help make our customers’ products better and

more successful – time and time again.

Product Line Breadth and Depth

Within the vast engineering database at Thomas are detailed

specifications for thousands upon thousands of standard product

designs using a wide range of pressure and vacuum technologies

including WOB-L® Piston, articulated piston, diaphragm, rotary

vane, linear and peristaltic. It is a resource that’s the envy of every

other company in our business. Yet the majority of the pumps and

compressors we deliver to our OEM customers are not in our

design library – not exactly, anyway.

Instead, our standard designs provide a critical, pre-engineered

head start to the custom products that OEMs require. These

products must meet specific application requirements for

envelope size, mountings, electrical connections, service life,

output characteristics, and more. From our proven platforms,

the ideal custom pressure or vacuum solution can be quickly

and efficiently designed, prototyped and manufactured to meet

the customer’s precise needs.

Thomas pumps like these are found in medical and pharmaceutical

equipment, automobiles, business machines, printing presses,

packaging machines, environmental systems and vending machines,

among other applications. Our six major pump technologies deliver

pressure, vacuum, or both – or move liquids at flows appropriate to a

multitude of OEM applications.

Thomas is a true global manufacturing company with operations

on three continents. All share a management mandate to

continuously examine processes and procedures, continuously

improve performance, continuously delight our customers.

And while our quality certifications such as ISO 9001:2000

and ISO 13485:2003 might be viewed by some as factory-based,

they are in fact deployed systemically across all Thomas

business endeavors worldwide.

Most of all, Thomas has focused its operations on the needs

of OEMs for reduced lead times, unwavering reliability, and

seamless adaptation to changing product requirements.

Today, the buzzword is mass customization – the ability to

produce tailored products in significant quantities, then to

deliver with speed and accuracy. As a company dedicated to

serving OEMs for nearly a half century, Thomas defined mass

customization long before the term came into vogue.

Thomas factories – totaling over 744,000 square feet – blend the latest

in flexible automation with the skills and dedication of experienced

employees. Our Quality Management System is structured within an

ISO framework and draws on elements of lean manufacturing, Six

Sigma, Kaizen and other initiatives. The result is an integrated business

practice that makes quality an ongoing imperative in everything we do.

World-Class Manufacturing

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Gardner Denver, the parent of Thomas Products Division, offers extensive

technological, sales, sourcing, logistics and support synergies benefiting

our customers around the world. Our sister Gardner Denver companies

are widely recognized as international leaders in reciprocating, rotary

and vane compressors, liquid ring pumps and blowers for industrial and

transportation applications, pumps used in the petroleum and industrial

markets, and other fluid transfer equipment serving chemical, petroleum

and food industries.

The Thomas footprint is worldwide. You can see it in our modern

manufacturing operations and major support centers in North

America, Europe and Asia. And you can see it in dozens upon

dozens of countries through the Thomas network of sales and

service locations, as well as through affiliations within Gardner

Denver, Inc., our parent company.

But our global perspective is not built on brick and mortar

locations alone. It also rests on a company-wide drive to

translate the knowledge we’ve gained and capabilities we

offer into exemplary service to our customers the world over.

And at its core is our commitment to engineer, manufacture

and provide customer service that not only meet the needs of a

broad global marketplace, but also the local needs of any given

area within the world.

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