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| 1901 |  Blacksmith Peter Alfred Stenberg moves to the southern Swedish village of Lindås, where he buys a shut-down foundry and establishes Lindås Glasformfabrik (Lindås Glass Mould Factory). The factory produces iron moulds and equipment for the many glassworks in the area. | |
| 1912 | The company is restructured with the new name Lindås Gjuteri & Formfabriks AB (Lindås Foundry & Mould Factory). | |
| 1917 | Peter Alfred Stenberg transfers responsibility for operation of the factory to his children. | |
| 1922 |  Hilding Flygt, an engineer from Stockholm, starts a sales company marketing pumps and fans. | |
| 1929 | With an advertisement in the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Hilding Flygt seeks contact with a factory able to manufacture pumps. This is the beginning of his co-operation with the Stenberg brothers in Lindås. The pumps are designed by Professor Hjalmar O. Dahl of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. | |
| 1930 |  The company's first pump - the "universal pump" - is manufactured in Lindås. | |
| 1933 | Professor Dahl designs the vertical heating pipe pump, based on Hilding Flygt's ideas. Offering a number of advantages over traditional pumps, the new design becomes a sales success. | |
| 1947 |  Sixten Englesson, a master of engineering employed by Flygt, develops a prototype for the first submersible drainage pump, which comes to be known as the "parrot cage". This pump, also called the B-pump, brings about a revolution in the mining and construction industries.
Hilding Flygt retires at the age of 82. The Stockholm company, AB Flygts Pumpar, is sold to the Stenberg brothers in Lindås. | |
| 1951 | An export company - Stenberg Corporation AB - is founded to handle steadily increasing foreign sales of submersible pumps. | |
| 1954 | The first foreign sales company, Flygt Pompen NV, is established in the Netherlands. | |
| 1955 | Sales company established in Canada. | |
| 1956 | Sixten Englesson develops the submersible sewage pump, called the C-pump, with a discharge connection and level regulator. The C-pump is soon selling as well as the B-pump. | |
| 1957 | Sales company established in West Germany. | |
| 1959 | Sales company established in USA.
Production company, Flygt Werk opens in Langenhagen, West Germany. | |
| 1960 | Sales company established in France. | |
| 1961 | Lindås Gjuteri & Formfabriks AB changes name to Stenberg-Flygt AB. The name of the Stenberg Corporation is changed to Flygt International AB.
Sales company established in Denmark. | |
| 1963 | Sales company established in Italy.
Flygt Werk relocates to Pforzheim, West Germany. | |
| 1964 | Sales company established in Belgium. | |
| 1966 | Sales company established in Norway and Sweden (Grindex). | |
| 1968 | Through an exchange of shares, the ownership of Stenberg-Flygt AB is transferred to the American multinational enterprise ITT (International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation). Prior to this transfer, Stenberg-Flygt AB, AB Flygts Pumpar and Flygt International AB are consolidated as a single company. | |
| 1969 | Sales company established in Australia. | |
| 1970 | Sales company established in Great Britain. | |
| 1975 | Sales company founded in Austria. | |
| 1976 | The first submersible mixer is manufactured. | |
| 1977 | The company changes name to Flygt AB.
The first propeller pump is launched. | |
| 1983 | The first submersible hydroturbine generator is produced. | |
| 1984 | Organization of manufacturing changes creating independent workshops each specializing in the complete manufacture of its own specific part of the product range.
Sales company in Poland is established. | |
| 1989 | Flygt AB acquires MacTec Control AB, a Swedish company designing, assembling and selling computerised systems for monitoring and control of pump stations, sewage treatment plants and waterworks. | |
| 1991 | The company changes name to ITT Flygt AB.
The company is one of the founders of the international water and environmental prize, The Stockholm Water Prize.
The product range is expanded with the addition of two series of abrasion resistant pumps and new large pumps. | |
| 1992 | Our English subsidiary is the first company within the ITT Flygt Group to get its quality system approved according to the ISO 9001 standard.
A new generation of mixers is launched on the market. | |
| 1994 | A joint venture company is established in China, manufacturing small and medium sized sewage pumps.
The CP 3800 - the largest manufactured sewage pump in the world is launched.
Under the name Ready, a new series of small modern drainage pumps is launched.
Our pumps and mixers are being CE marked according to EU's machine directives. A comprehensive environmental, safety and health program (ESH) starts, based on ITT Corporation's and ITT Flygt's environmental and safety policies. | |
| 1995 | The one millionth sewage pump is sold.
The company starts its own education and training center, called ITT Flygt School.
Our Swedish sales organization, ITT Flygt Pumpar, founds a Water Supply and Sewerage System Academy.
Our owner, ITT Corporation, is split up into three separate exchange quoted companies: ITT Corporation, ITT Hartford and ITT Industries. The last mentioned company consists of ITT Fluid Technology Corporation, of which Flygt is part, ITT Automotive and ITT Defence & Electronics. | |
| 1996 | The company receives its biggest order to date, comprising 61 x CP 3800 pumps for irrigation in Turkmenistan.
The joint venture company established in China becomes wholly owned by ITT Flygt. | |
| 1997 | The Lindås plant becomes environmentally certified according to the international standardisation system ISO 14001 and registered according to the EU directive EMAS. | |
| 1998 | All ITT Flygt's units in Sweden became certified according to ISO 14001.
The two millionth pump was produced.
The introduction of the N pump with its unique self-cleaning impeller started. | |
| 1999 | ITT Flygt acquired the US company Water Pollution Control Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer and supplier of aerators and aeration systems for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment. The company, which ITT Flygt had been the distributor for since the beginning of the nineties, later changed its company name to Sanitaire Corporation.
Two new supply and distribution centers were inaugurated, one in Ennery, France, and one in Lindås. | |
| 2000 | New Generation N-pumps launched.
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| 2001 |  The company celebrates 100 years.
A company museum is inaugurated in Lindås. | |
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