WorldWide Drilling Resource

39 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® APRIL 2018 Companies Merge to Pump Up the Industry Adapted from News Release by SIMFLO Two of the county’s top providers of industrial, agricultural, and municipal pumps, Simmons Pump LLC and Simflo Pumps Inc. have merged. The combined company will operate under the SIMFLO name and brand. In addition to retaining all employees from both companies, David Pickering, Jay Pickering, Don Pickering, and Gene Alexander of Simmons have been named executive officers of the new company, which will be headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, with offices in Willcox, Arizona (Simflo’s former headquarters) and in Garden City, Kansas. The new company plans to capitalize on the experience and knowledge of cur- rent Simmons and Simflo employees while increasing its workforce by 10% this year. Additional plans include opening new locations in other U.S. markets in the near future. "We are thrilled to join forces and merge with our highly regarded peer, Simmons Pump," said Bob Denton, senior project manager at Simflo. "With Simflo’s renowned engineers, R&D [research and development] labs and testing facilities, combined with the leadership of Simmons’ highly successful management team and industry- leading pump technologies, we are bullish in our ability to seize the greenfield op- portunity ahead and become the market leader in our segment." The company will engineer, manufacture, source, and deliver its pump products and technologies for municipal water services, agriculture, manufacturing, mining, chemicals, hydrocarbons, and saltwater ex- traction customers. The company’s offerings will continue to be made and manufactured in America. “The combination of Simmons and Simflo is a highly strategic, value-enhancing step that brings together the unique strengths of two great companies to deliver best- in-class pump technologies and services to our customers across the U.S.,” said Troy Pickering, vice president of sales and marketing at Simmons. “We are a company built on not just quality, but principle. Our founder, Raymond Pickering, believed that each product we produce should be made stateside by American workers with the utmost attention to detail - and that holds true today. From our involvement with the foundries, to our manufacturing and assembly facilities, virtually every aspect of a SIMFLO pump is created in-house to provide the high- est level of performance in the industry. Simply put, the new SIMFLO exists to keep business flowing .”