“SEE YOU AT THE STATION”
“The 1st annual Package Pump Station Report”
The report on the state of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station in America Today is a mixed bag. In a report issued by a wide cross section of Civil Engineers in America the concept of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station is being met with a good amount of acceptance by professional design engineers across most of our nation. The trend of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station as a viable alternate to that of the site built sewer lift station under the standard RFP, request for proposals, has created a the standard capitalistic frenzy of an imbalance between supply and demand dynamics i.e. a plethora of new start-ups. The growth of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station market is demented by the shear number of competitors and many of these are brokers or catalog pump companies.
As BOLI labor costs increase, so will the market for Packaged Sewer lift Stations.
What is going to fuel the Packaged Sewer Lift Station market in America and the World? The biggest effect on growing this specialized market, is the stagnate economic conditions. No matter what the product if it’s related to construction few if any conditions make the negative aspects of a recession less of an effect. Government in recessionary times often attempt to jolt the economy with pay raises to the general populous in the form of raising the minimum wage or increasing public works labor rates. Whether or not you subscribe to this form of government intervention, the end result is an increase in market share for those who can avoid the forced labor cost increases. The good news is if you gain market share in a depressed market the news only gets better as the turnaround is coming and the packaged sewer lift station builder is due for an economic “Lift”!
The growth spike in the Packaged Sewer Lift Station is centered within the micro sewer lift station, i.e. those stations whose horsepower ratings of the motor end of the pump is in the 2HP rating and under.
Companies like E-one and other micro packaged sewer lift station builders like Taylor Made Pump Stations are capitalizing on the utility and ease of shipping of these compact units. This market is primarily driven by low volume commercial units, government living quarters, shower and washing arrangements and smaller residential units. The micro packaged sewer lift station hydraulic flows are commonly determined from fixture unit quantities as derived from the UPC, uniform plumbing code. These smaller models of the municipal and macro Packaged Sewer Lift Station, are duplicates in almost every other way to their larger flow municipal and macro stations.
The Packaged Sewer lift Station builder of America is “Pumped” on their products!
Observing the growth of the Packaged Sewer Lift Station business is nothing less than spectacular over the last 25 years. Driven by the desire to attain a product that is a standard by integrating of all the complex components, i.e. the electrical, mechanical, controls and the wet well structure into one quality operating sewer lift station is vital. The Packaged Sewer lift Station business is positioned for a great amount of growth over the coming decade. The concept of “Packaging” is not new to marketing and has as its best examples, products with “batteries included”. Who has not heard of the packaging concept created by Doughboy Pools? The slogan of “everyone loves a Doughboy Pool” was especially true for Dad. The company made millions out of packaging. Dads, across America were relived to find a supplier of swimming pools who gave as a package the structure and liner as well as the pump, skimmer and access ladder all in one assembly. Who would want to buy a camping tent and then go separately to purchase the hold down stakes or securing clamps? If you said “The good ole creative General Contractor might”, you may very well be right. The market has made the contemporary General Contractor a lean mean fighting machine for that ever fleeting “dollar over cost” goal.
Other sources for the Market on “Packaged Sewer Lift Stations “are our associates at Orenco Systems, Oldcastle Concrete Wilsonville and The Oregon Association of Water Utilities!
The last words of this blog are positive; the Packaged Sewer Lift Station market is on the brink of a huge growth spurt. The link to success in our market is consistency and good service to our design partners. The link to knowing what’s next in the Packaged Sewer lift station business is to continue to read “See you at the Station!
