Success
Success is a team sport.
The Impel family seeks to empower its people and enrich their lives through better communication, support, and opportunities — and to invite others to join in ways that are achievable together.
What success looks like
Partnership, not absorption.
Our model is somewhat unique in that Impel does not aspire to just acquire and absorb companies. Rather, we strive to partner with like-minded companies that recognize the opportunities to serve customers at a greater level when joining forces, while still maintaining the autonomy that preserves the assets each company brings to bear. Together we empower each other to succeed in new and fulfilling ways.
- High co-worker retention/growth
- Individual growth in knowledge & income
- Customer recognition
- Company success — full offerings, cross-selling, improved efficiency, enhanced culture
- Broadened value proposition across the platform
- Profitable growing organically/inorganically
Acquisition strategy
Six pillars that guide every partnership.
Discover the array of companies we proudly partner with — each embodying excellence, innovation, and quality. With a commitment to authenticity and customer satisfaction, we curate brands that resonate with organizations seeking service, performance, and reliability.
01
Culture
- •Committed to serving the customer
- •Retain key people
- •Maintain small business feel
- •Apply big business principles
02
Contiguous Geography
- •Allow value propositions to travel easier
- •Promotes sharing of resources
03
Targeted Value Propositions
- •Pumps / Valves / Instruments / Seals / Motors / Controls
- •Allows for common customers and bundling
04
Owner / Partner
- •Flexible funding allows owner to partner
- •Aligns our future interests
- •Keeps owners engaged
05
Integrate
- •Enhance the front of house
- •Merge the back house, i.e., benefits, etc.
06
Serve Customers
- •Clear understanding of customer needs that make us successful
- •Strive to offer customers broader solutions
Case studies
What it looks like in the field.
A sample of recent work across our service lines. Every project was scoped, built, and tested by the same team that picks up when you call.
EngineeringMunicipal Water · Snohomish County, WA
Cutting downtime 78% on a regional booster station.
Re-engineered a 1980s pressure booster station with variable-frequency drives and twin lead/lag pumps.
78%
Downtime reduction
32%
Energy savings
21
Days to commission
ShopFood & Beverage · Yakima Valley, WA
48-hour emergency rebuild kept a food plant running.
A failed sanitary process pump threatened a $400K/day production line. Shop techs delivered a rebuilt unit in 48 hours.
48 hrs
Turnaround
$1.2M
Production saved
100%
Wear-life regained
SupplyAgriculture · Eastern Washington
Standardizing 40+ pumps across an irrigation district.
Replaced a chaotic mix of legacy pumps with a single standardized fleet — and a 24/7 parts pipeline.
42
Pumps standardized
63%
Spare-part SKUs cut
−51%
Average MTTR
EngineeringWastewater · Western Oregon
VFD retrofit slashes a wastewater plant's energy bill.
Smart drives, hydraulic re-tuning, and operator coaching pulled $180K/year out of the energy line item.
$180K
Annual savings
27%
kWh reduction
2.3 yrs
Payback
EngineeringAgriculture · Skagit Valley, WA
Ground-up pump house build for a new ag operation.
From site survey through commissioning — a turnkey 1,200 GPM irrigation pump house in 14 weeks.
1,200 GPM
Capacity
14 wks
Schedule
0
Punch-list items
FieldHealthcare · Tacoma, WA
Fire pump rebuild brings a hospital back to code.
An overdue NFPA-25 inspection turned into a same-week rebuild. No work-around, no closure.
100%
Compliance regained
Zero
Patient impact
5 days
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