Maxpro Technologies currently employs a total staff of 24 – 18 in Pennsylvania, six in the Gulf Coast – and recently underwent a 4,800-square-foot expansion at its Fairview headquarters.
High Pressure is Their Business Maxpro Technologies President Paul Bowser is a successful businessman who believes customer service is priority No. 1.
for such high-growth areas as the Marcellus Shale — one of the United States’ most promising natural gas resources in the Appalachian Basin.
His approach is evident by his team’s commitment to quality and delivery in the high-pressure equipment business — be it for an emergency sameday order or a custom designed system that will be shipped in record time.
“Our company’s success,” explains Bowser, “is strictly related to the markets that we serve and our service to the marketplace.”
“At Maxpro,” Bowser says, “we all share the same philosophy and that is taking care of the customer and getting the job done.”
Maxpro, which began as a two-person operation in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1995, has experienced solid sales growth throughout the last 16 years with equity partner and major supplier Maximator® GmbH, based in Nordhausen, Germany. During its startup days, the company quickly outgrew its EBCO Park location in Erie and within six years moved to its current headquarters on 2.3 acres located at 7728 Klier Drive South in the Fairview
The Maxpro Companies — with operations in Fairview, Pennsylvania and Houston, Texas, and a satellite office in Lafayette, Louisiana — is the distributor of Maximator® liquid pumps, gas boosters, air amplifiers, high-pressure valves, fittings and tubing, for the United States, Canada and Mexico. The company also supplies custom high-pressure systems that are designed and packaged by its engineering team.
Solid Growth and Customer Service
Maxpro products are in demand by a wide variety of industries including the onshore/offshore oil and gas markets; plastics, automotive, aerospace, highpressure water jet and food-processing industries; as well as the components for cold and hot isostatic presses. There also is a great need in the general industrial market where there are many high-pressure applications. Maxpro’s engineered systems are most commonly used for pressure testing of components. The products also are used for the boosting of industrial gases such as nitrogen, helium, hydrogen, and pure oxygen for use in the airline and diving industries. Other applications include gas-assist plastic injection molding, bolt tensioning, gas recovery, gas-strut charging, turbine gear and bearing removal. Maxpro products are even being used to support equipment 8 < www.mbausa.org < May 2011
Maxpro Technologies Engineering staff has years of industry experience. From left, are: Don Nixon, Jim Karle, Ken Hoovler, Jim Dunn, Kevin Wilson and Greg Soltys (seated).