Cornell Pump Closed for Labor Day
Cornell Pump will be closed on Monday, September 1, 2025, in observance of Labor Day.
Life on the Bench: Cornell Pump Assemblers in Action
Every day is busy at Cornell Pump—but we certainly feel it more towards month end. This assembler has two pumps on his bench, working on builds simultaneously.
Tuesday Tip: Understanding Mounting Options
Choosing a mounting style isn’t cosmetic—it determines footprint, ease of maintenance, alignment, and total installed cost. Cornell offers multiple configurations (close-coupled, frame-mounted, vertical variants, engine-mounted, and Redi-Prime packages), each optimized for different site constraints and duty points. This Tuesday Tip gives you a quick, plain-English rundown so you can match your application to the right build the first time—whether you need compact simplicity, heavy-duty serviceability, a vertical footprint, mobile power, or automatic priming. Keep this quick, practical guide to Cornell’s frame/mounting configurations and when to use each one handy.
Celebrating 50 Years of Reyco Systems
Cornell Pump was honored to join Reyco Systems in celebrating its 50th anniversary, on Saturday, August 23, 2025 . Together with sister companies Idaho Steel and Kiremko, Reyco Systems marked a half-century of innovation in oil and water recovery for food processing. Memorable giveaways, heartfelt remarks, great food, and stronger friendships made it a special occasion for Reyco’s leadership, employees, partners, and end users. Here’s to the next 50 years of partnership with Reyco Systems.
Food Truck Fridays: a Summer Perk Fueling our Team
Food Truck Fridays have become a Cornell Pump summer tradition—a simple, tangible way we to show appreciation in our people. As this season wraps up in the next couple of weeks, we’re celebrating another summer of great meals and even better lunch conversations across our sites.
Decades of Dependability: Cornell Pumps from the 1950s Still in Service Today
At Cornell Pump, we occasionally receive calls that reach back more than 70 years. A customer might need a wear ring or gasket for a pump they’ve been using since the Eisenhower administration. Many of these inquiries relate to our early Rain-O-Flow irrigation models—pumps that have quietly powered farms and fields for generations here in the Willamette Valley near the factory.
Cornell Pump at the 2025 Tri-State Seminar
We’re proud to be exhibiting this week at the Tri-State Seminar in Las Vegas, hosted at the South Point Hotel & Casino. You’ll find us inside the Gierlich-Mitchell booth, showcasing our municipal pumping solutions designed for reliability, efficiency, and demanding wastewater and water applications.
Celebrating Professional Engineers Day: Honoring Cornell Pump’s Engineering Excellence
At Cornell Pump Company, engineering is more than a discipline—it’s the foundation of our legacy. On this Professional Engineers Day, we proudly celebrate the licensed Professional Engineers (PEs) on our team and recognize their critical contributions to delivering the innovative, reliable, and high-performance pump solutions that have defined our company for nearly 80 years.
Working at Cornell Pump: Innovation, Teamwork, and Community Across Three Locations
At Cornell Pump, we don’t just build world-class pumps—we build a workplace where people thrive. With nearly 80 years of excellence behind us, our success stems from our dedicated employees across three locations: Clackamas, Oregon (our headquarters and primary manufacturing facility), and our growing operations in both Vancouver, Washington and Rockhill, South Caroline.
Precision from Start to Finish: How a Cornell Pump Shaft is Made
At Cornell Pump, shaft production is a critical part of ensuring long-lasting, high-efficiency pump performance. We manufacture shafts in-house—from raw material to finished component—with exceptional accuracy and consistency. This is a strength of our pump series, and benefit of purchasing genuine Cornell replacement parts. Currently, we precisely build more 300 shaft versions to address the reliable and robust use in our pumps, some weighing many 100s of lbs because they are robust and overbuilt to withstand the rigorous of difficult applications.