Medina, MN – Jasper Engineering and FLW Southeast (Marietta, GA) announce merger. Both firms are leading manufacturers representatives and distributors, with a combined geographic footprint that spans the Midwest and Southeast regions of the U.S.
“Jasper Engineering and FLW Southeast share a number of key product technologies and vendor partnerships that will provide a strong basis for collaboration and enhanced service offerings for our customers and opportunities for our employees,” said Jasper Engineering CEO, Matt Gallagher.
Established in 1981 by Bill & Carol Calbert, FLW Southeast has grown from a small, three-person manufacturer’s representative company to a leading provider of Instrumentation Solutions for manufacturers in a wide range of industries in the Southeastern U.S. By combining world-class products, application expertise, and unsurpassed customer service, FLW Southeast enables its clients to increase manufacturing efficiencies, reduce production costs, and improve product quality and value. FLW Southeast supports customers with direct sales engineers capable of working closely with clients to support product sales and application assistance. Additionally, FLW Southeast offers one of the broadest ranges of instrumentation start-up and calibration services in the industry.
FLW Southeast will continue to operate under the leadership of Michael and Steve Calbert, who have run and owned the business for the last 14 years. The company will also continue to operate under the “FLW Southeast” brand and will maintain their HQ in Marietta, GA. Customers and vendor partners will continue to receive the high level of technical competency, service and sales support they’ve become are accustomed to when working with FLW Southeast.
“We are very excited about the partnership between Jasper Engineering and FLW Southeast. Bringing these organizations together as sister companies provides a greatly expanded footprint for our overall organization. The enhanced market diversity opens new opportunities to our vendor partners and team members and improves our ability to support customers across a broader region. The competencies of the two teams will provide a springboard for future growth in our current and future markets”, said Jasper Engineering CEO, Matt Gallagher.
About Jasper Engineering
Founded in 1958, Jasper is a leading manufacturer’s representative and value-added industrial distributor in the upper Midwest, with primary offices in Hibbing MN, Medina MN and Ishpeming MI. Jasper specializes in the sale of pumps, mechanical equipment, instrumentation, analytical instruments, heat trace, industrial heating, spare parts, and value-added engineering services. Throughout its history, the company has supplied a growing number of products and services to the mining, water, dairy, sugar, food processing, pharmaceuticals, energy production, biofuels and general manufacturing industries. Jasper’s products and services are critical to their customers’ operations.