Roper Pump

Roper Pump is an American industrial pump brand whose roots trace to the mid-nineteenth-century manufacturing enterprise founded by George D. Roper. Over more than a century and a half the name has become associated with positive displacement pump technology — particularly gear pumps and progressing cavity pumps — used to move viscous, abrasive, and shear-sensitive fluids across industries such as oil and gas, food and beverage, chemicals, pulp and paper, and general industrial processing. The brand's product range centers on external gear pumps, internal gear pumps, progressing cavity pumps, and related fluid-transfer systems, along with replacement parts and aftermarket service. Roper pumps are commonly specified where reliable, low-pulsation transfer of thick or delicate media is required, and the company has long marketed itself on durable, heavy-duty construction and long service life. Roper Pump operates as part of Roper Technologies, a diversified technology company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker ROP. Within that portfolio the pump business sits among the industrial and fluid-handling operations, and the Roper Pump brand maintains its own engineering, manufacturing, and sales organization serving original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and end users. The company is headquartered in Commerce, Georgia, in the United States, and sells into both domestic and international markets through a network of distributors and representatives. Its positioning is that of a dependable, application-focused industrial pump specialist rather than a mass-market consumer brand.

The Roper name in American manufacturing dates to the nineteenth century, when George D. Roper founded a manufacturing business that produced a range of mechanical products. Over time the enterprise's pump line became its most enduring industrial legacy, and the Roper Pump name developed as a specialist in positive displacement pump technology. Through the twentieth century Roper pumps gained a reputation in fluid transfer applications where ordinary centrifugal pumps were poorly suited — thick, viscous, abrasive, or shear-sensitive liquids. Gear pumps and progressing cavity pumps became the brand's signature technologies, adopted in oil and gas production and transfer, food processing, chemical handling, and pulp and paper operations. The business was eventually absorbed into the diversified industrial group that became Roper Technologies, the company formerly known as Roper Industries, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Under that corporate umbrella the Roper Pump brand continued to operate its own engineering and manufacturing functions while benefiting from the parent's capital and acquisition-driven growth model. Roper Pump's manufacturing and headquarters operations are based in Commerce, Georgia. The brand continues to serve customers through distributors and representatives in the United States and abroad, and it maintains an aftermarket parts and service business alongside new pump sales.

• 1857

  George D. Roper founds the manufacturing enterprise that gives rise to the Roper name in American industry.

• Roper establishes itself as a specialist in positive displacement gear and progressing cavity pump technology.

• The pump business becomes part of the diversified group later known as Roper Technologies, listed on the NYSE.

• Roper Pump operates from its headquarters and manufacturing base in Commerce, Georgia.

Application-focused industrial pump specialist known for durable positive displacement pumps for viscous and shear-sensitive fluids.

• External gear pumps

  Positive displacement pumps for transfer of viscous and lubricating fluids.

• Internal gear pumps

  Smooth, low-shear pumping of thick and delicate liquids.

• Progressing cavity pumps

  Pumps suited to abrasive, viscous, and solids-laden media.

• Replacement parts and service

  Aftermarket parts and repair support for installed Roper pumps.

• 2026.08.18

  Xylem to acquire Cornell Pump and Roper Pump from Indicor for $1.46 billion[3]赛莱默将以14.6亿美元收购Indicor旗下Cornell Pump和Roper Pump业务chemeurope.com

  Xylem Inc. announced an agreement to acquire the Cornell Pump and Roper Pump businesses from Indicor for $1.46 billion, expanding its industrial and municipal pumping portfolio; the businesses will be reported in Xylem's Water Infrastructure segment.

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1. 1Roper Pump official websiteroperpumps.com
2. 2Roper Technologies official websiteropertech.com
3. 3赛莱默将以14.6亿美元收购Indicor旗下Cornell Pump和Roper Pump业务chemeurope.com