HOUSTON (Dec. 17, 2012) – Total Lubrication Management, the lubrication systems equipment and services arm of Colfax Fluid Handling, announced the appointment of Terry Ross as Senior Vice President-General Manager and the opening of a new West Coast Operations Center in Long Beach, Calif.
“Terry’s proven track record will enhance our critical Total Lubrication Management business as it grows to become the premier provider of innovative lubrication system reliability solutions,” stated William Roller, Executive Vice President, Colfax Fluid Handling. “His leadership will help combine our equipment and service offerings to provide a single-source for our customers with a complete solution in one place.
Ross has served as President of both American Welding and Tank and Crane Co. Crane Energy Solutions, and as General Manager, Danaher. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University.
He will lead the west coast expansion, Total Lubrication Management’s first new property since December 2011, when the company acquired COT-Puritech, the largest U.S. provider of high velocity oil flush, oil reclamation and on-site lubrication services. The new Long Beach operations center and staff of lubrication specialists increases the company’s ability to support refineries, petrochemical operations, power generation and manufacturing sites across the western U.S. The new Long Beach operation joins existing Total Lubrication Management facilities in Houston, Texas and Canton, Ohio.
This is Colfax TLM’s first major expansion since December 2011, when the company added COT-Puritech, the largest U.S. provider of high velocity oil flush, oil reclamation and on-site lubrication services.
Total Lubrication Management, formed in December 2010, is a North American provider of lubrication reliability service and related equipment. The business develops and establishes lubrication programs for the oil & gas, hydrocarbon processing, chemical processing, power generation and manufacturing industries, offering site-specific lubrication programs that focus on areas that may provide the greatest opportunities to minimize repairs, lower operating costs, increase uptime and production and provide a cleaner, greener facility.
Colfax Fluid Handling, a business of Colfax Corporation, is a critical fluid-handling and transfer solutions company for the commercial marine, defense, oil & gas, power and industry and total lubrication management markets. With a broad portfolio of technologies, products, systems and services and a deep base of application and engineering expertise, Colfax specialists work with customers to understand and focus on their toughest business challenges. As a result, Colfax can find and deliver the best customer solutions that provide the highest levels of reliability, efficiency and longevity with the lowest total cost of ownership. Colfax Fluid Handling encompasses the trusted product brands Allweiler®, COT-PURITECHSM, Houttuin™, Imo®, LSCSM, Rosscor®, Tushaco®, and Warren®.
Colfax Corporation is a global manufacturing and engineering company that provides gas- and fluid-handling and fabrication technology products and services to commercial and governmental customers around the world under the Howden, Colfax Fluid Handling and ESAB brands.