Our Mission: Contribute to the total wellbeing of individuals and society by employing and empowering highly capable people of integrity who are motivated to create solutions of considerable value especially for wastewater, tunneling, plumbing, and pipeline customers.
Our Vision: To be seen as a responsive, beneficial, creative, and trusted solution provider.
Our Quality: Petersen is committed to providing customers with product and service solutions that conform to the ISO 9001 Standard with continuous quality improvement and meet customer, legal, and regulatory requirements. Our ambition is to provide superior craftsmanship with unmatched
responsiveness to achieve the highest level of customer benefit and satisfaction.
Our Specific Quality Objectives
Safety, for Employee and Customer
Zero injuries or incidents
Product Conformity and Service Solutions
Eliminate returns, complaints, and defectives
On Time Delivery
Eliminate late deliveries
Complete Customer Satisfaction
Our Customers: Our overriding obligation is to benefit people and industries who use our products and services. We are committed to the highest degree of integrity and understand that customer safety, satisfaction, and trust defines our reputation and the value of our products and services in the market.
Our Team: Our greatest business resource is loyal, well-informed, competent employees of the highest integrity. We are privileged to be part of the Petersen Team with these character traits and many years of accumulated knowledge, some with over 30 years’ Petersen experience and all still growing in ability to serve customers with energetic work, ingenuity, and cooperation.
Our Vendors: We continue to develop long-term vendor relationships based on trust, competence, and a commitment to work together to serve customers with the best product and service in the market. We provide many quality products and components from quality manufacturers complementing those we produce. Our manufacturing focus is on specialized solutions not available from others.
Our Growing Competencies: The Petersen Team continuously improves skill and capacity as indicated by steady flow of new product and service solutions for customers. Petersen is unique in having equipment and skills for manufacturing a wide variety of mechanical and inflatable specialty products. Capabilities include manual and CNC metal working machinery, CNC woven and non-woven pattern cutting, material tensile testing, extensive stitching equipment, RF and Heat Welding of thermoplastic materials, O-ring and seal vulcanizing, short run and prototype rubber molding, extremely high pressure swaging technology, and many more manufacturing systems. Petersen also provides in-shop and on-site customer installation and operation training and technical support as well as long term wastewater system management. Petersen's unique proprietary products, systems, and manufacturing methods allow the Petersen Team to provide customized products and systems quickly to meet the most demanding requirements.
Our Mechanical Solutions: Through decades of experience we have been providing custom solutions for most size, pressure, and temperature requirements of complex projects. Petersen fabricates many custom mechanical systems for engineers and contractors globally.
Our Inflatable Solutions: Even prior to 1916 Milwaukee asked George Petersen to make inflatable plugs to block small and large diameter sewers. Many years’ refinement allow our engineers and skilled technicians to develop unique systems for use in ever-increasing pipeline configurations, sizes, and pressures. Petersen provides inflatable plugs, tunnel seals, bladders, lift cylinders, and many other inflatable devices across multiple industries.
Our Drain Flusher: The Petersen drain and sewer flusher (Drain-Jet) has been a staple professional drain flushing tool for over 100 years. It was developed to clear drains in a butcher shop and has expanded market to many industrial, swimming pool maintenance, and plumbing professionals.
Our Wastewater Solutions: Petersen provides the latest treatment and dispersal technology to clean wastewater to the most stringent standards. The treated effluent helps prevent drainage field failure and enhances the environmental by recycling treated wastewater back into the aquafer. Ongoing Petersen wastewater system management and monitoring facilitates continuous very high quality wastewater treatment.
Our Materials: Petersen continues to incorporate enormous advancements in materials and technology into products, services, and manufacturing processes. The Petersen team utilizes many advanced materials for specific chemical, temperature, and pressure requirements such as Ferrous and Non Ferrous Metals, Polyurethanes, Polyimides, Polyester, Canvas, Kevlar, Buna-n/Nitrile, EPDM, Viton, SBR, Silicone, Viton, and many others. Wastewater Treatment equipment includes equipment, technical support, and management of treatment systems utilizing anaerobic and aerobic aeration as well as the most advances membrane technology.
Our Family History: Petersen's first patent was issued to George Petersen in 1916, the grandfather of the current CEO Phil Lundman. The company has been in the family over 100 years, producing high quality specialty equipment including pipeline and wastewater systems for contractors and engineers. The third and fourth generation is involved and the fifth on the way.
Our Family Values Inform Everything:
“Why” we do what we do, informs “What” we do, and “How” we do it.
Our primary motivation is thankfulness that our Creator has privileged us with the gift of a meaningful life free to respond to any situation with the understanding that what we think, say and do demonstrates our level of appreciation and our level of maturity of a virtuous moral character.
We are also motivated in gratitude for the opportunity to contribute to a priceless legacy bequeathed to us by the commitment, hard work, and sacrifice of ancestors, employees, vendors, customers, friends, family, and God without which we could do nothing worthwhile.
We strive to make choices that create long term benefits to customers, employees, family, and the common good in recognition that our life on earth is short but has great significance in how we act on our love for God and neighbor influencing how we will live eternally.
Our Family Trust: The Family Trust’s charitable initiatives support local community charities and the Christian Church as it strives to improve the wellbeing of people regardless of ethnicity, religion, phase of life, or ability. We support initiatives that include education, health care, economic and spiritual development, and relief especially in areas of extreme religious hostility and poverty as encouraged by the UN Declaration of Human Rights and our Christian religion. The Family Trust is organized to own and operate investments including the Petersen businesses to help fund these initiatives into perpetuity.
Warning: All pipe plugs must be blocked or anchored adequately against a force equal to the head pressure times the cross-sectional area of the pipe. Debris or protrusions in the pipeline can damage a seal or rupture inflatable plugs. NEVER use an inflatable plug when its failure could cause injury or catastrophic damage or as the only means of protection for personnel working downstream. Use an adequately anchored Mechanical Plug for personnel protection. NEVER use a test pressure greater than the capacity of the weakest pipe or component in the system. Actual conditions vary so user must accept full risk and responsibility for the selection and use of any product. Please review our Warranty, Terms and Conditions.
Note 1: Mechanical and Molded Rubber Plugs are generally used for testing because fabricated Multi-Flex® style plugs may allow some seepage unless customized for a positive seal.
Note 2: We are constantly upgrading our products and while we try to keep the websites up to date it is possible more current specifications may be on a quote or confirming order. Images are typically representative and may not be an exact representation especially of the item size.
Returns: Email “Returned Goods Authorization” request for standard
items in new condition returned within 30 days to: Sales@PetersenProducts.com
Include the original Order Number and Date received. Any credit allowed will
be against future purchases after a 20% handling and restocking charge.
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