McKenna Engineering & Equipment

In 1978 Ed McKenna Sr. left his position as Western Region Manager with Worthington Pump Corporation and established McKenna Engineering & Equipment Company, Inc., which has become of the of premier engineering equipment companies in California. The Company started with Ed in sales, an inside application engineer, and a shared secretary. McKenna Engineering & Equipment Co., Inc. was set up as a pilot program for Goulds Pumps Inc. as their first distributor. From 1978 to the mid 80's the company grew from $890,000 to $4,000,000 in sales with 15 people in two offices: Torrance, CA and Bakersfield, CA. Roughly 70% of the pump business was in oil refining and production. The oil crash of the mid 80s forced the company to greatly diversify its sales and service efforts with both products and industries, as well as change the way it operated the business. McKenna Engineering & Equipment Co., Inc. has evolved over the past 30 years from operating exclusively as a pump equipment distributor to a point today where it operates as a Manufacturer's Representative, a Distributor, a Consulting Engineer, a System Integrator, and an Engineering Contractor. Additionally, McKenna Engineering & Equipment Co., Inc. is now part of a group of companies referred to as McKenna Companies. This group consists of three corporations; McKenna Engineering & Equipment Company, Inc., Process Solutions & Integration, Inc. (PSI), and Environmental Water Solutions, Inc. . PSI and EWS are both subsidiary companies of McKenna Engineering. Gross Sales from the three companies now exceeds $18 Million. PSI, has been, and continues, serving the sanitary industries (food, beverage, dairy, biopharmaceutical, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic/personal care) in California and Western Nevada since 1965. EWS was incorporated in December 2004 and services the industrial and municipal water and wastewater industries in California and Western Nevada. The synergy between the companies is that they all perform nearly the same functions, but in ...