Jason Perry, Thordon Bearings’ regional supervisor: “CPE has established relationships with many of our existing and potential customers across the region.”
Rochester, N.Y., based mostly Corrosion Products & Equipment (CPE) has been appointed as a certified distributor and repair supplier for Thordon Bearings’ marine, clear power and industrial seals and bearings portfolio.
The settlement follows an elevated market demand for Thordon merchandise within the northeast U.S. through the COVID-19 pandemic.
CPE will serve the business maritime, workboat, pump and hydropower markets in New York State, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
“CPE has established relationships with many of our existing and potential customers across the region and is well situated to represent Thordon in this growing area.” mentioned Jason Perry, Thordon Bearings’ regional supervisor.
Founded in 1988, CPE represents a number of the most trusted names in industrial engineering, having carved a distinct segment as a distributor, fabricator, installer, and repair supplier of engineered options throughout a broad vary of business sectors.
“We are delighted that Thordon Bearings has the confidence in us to represent the company in this far-reaching area,” mentioned Robert Metz, common supervisor, Corrosion Products & Equipment. “It is a huge honor to be part of the Thordon global distributor network and represent products I know to be reliable, improve performance and reduce operational expenditure. Thordon’s reputation in all the markets it serves is second to none.”
CPE is already embedded within the marine, industrial and clear energy markets and can begin actively offering Thordon options instantly. As with all the businesses working inside the Thordon world distributor community, CPE will obtain full and ongoing engineering, technical and gross sales help.
“There is a small learning curve with Thordon’s proprietary polymer materials and seals, but Thordon is providing experts from each segment to quickly get us trained and informed,” mentioned Metz. “This on-going training will be supported by Thordon’s engineering department in Burlington, Canada.”
CPE would be the regional contact throughout Thordon’s merchandise vary together with however not restricted to its water lubricated COMPAC and RiverTough propeller shaft bearings, BlueWater, SeaThigor, and TG100 shaft seals, SXL and XL polymer bearings and engineered thermoplastics – ThorPlas-Blue and ThorPlas-White.
In addition to the regional marine industries, an early focus will probably be on growing Thordon’s market share within the clear power and vertical pump sectors.
CPE will supply a full scope of technical providers, together with machining and calculations, installations, commissioning, and servicing. The firm has already secured marine and industrial gross sales and at present quoting on hydro initiatives.
