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EWS, Environmental Water Solutions, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 as a subsidiary company for McKenna Engineering to specifically handle the municipal and industrial water and waste water markets in California. EWS has direct and indirect employees. By sharing resources with McKenna Engineering, the Company has extensive sales coverage supported by a full staff of engineering, inside sales, equipment repair and field service support.

McKenna Engineering has been participating in these markets over the past 10 years supplying periphery equipment such as liquid pumps, blowers, and gas compressors, in addition to equipment service and repair. EWS was established to specifically target these markets as a full service representative expanding the product and service offerings to include process equipment.

McKenna Engineering was established in 1978 as a pump distributor. From 1978 to the mid 80’s, the company participated in many industries in California, however, 70% of the business was in oil refining and production. The oil crash of the mid 80’s forced the Company to greatly diversify its sales efforts into other industries with additional products, as well as change the way it operated the business.

The Company has expanded substantially over the past five years, acquiring two companies and creating a third. Today McKenna Engineering operates as a distributor, a manufacturer’s representative, a service company, and as an engineering contractor. It continues to service the industrial marketplace as McKenna Engineering, Pump Systems servicing the sanitary markets, and Environmental Water Solutions serving the municipal water and waste water markets.

The products represented have evolved as well. In 1978 McKenna sold rotating equipment that handled only liquids. The Company now provides application engineering, sales and service for process equipment handling air, gas, liquids and bulk solids. In addition, as an engineering contractor, the Company provides installation and construction services for all products represented. These products and services cater to a wide range of industries within the territory. These include but are not limited to, water and wastewater, environmental, power, pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetics, food processing, milling, pulp & paper, high tech, mining, and general industry, as well as oil refining and production. Customers include end users, OEMs, contractors, and consulting engineers McKenna Engineering is a sales company first and has always sold from a strong technical base. The company has over 150 years of application experience in rotating equipment for the process industries. All the partners, as well as several of the salesmen are seasoned engineers.

There are two offices in California; Carson and Novato, Southern and Northern California respectively. The Carson facility occupies 17,000 square feet and serves as headquarters for the Company. Roughly 12,000 square feet of the facility is dedicated to inventory warehousing, system fabrication, and equipment repair.

McKenna Engineering with Pump Systems and Environmental Water Solutions handles about 20 million in total sales; 11.5 million distributor and 8.5 million representative. The Company employs 42 people; fourteen (14) Field Sales, eleven (11) inside application engineering and sales support positions, five (5) Field Service Mechanics, seven (7) Field Installers, and five (5) Administrative and Accounting positions.

Due to the fact that we are strictly a sales company, not a marketing company, we have always tried to align ourselves with solid companies, typically industry leaders with strong name recognition.