About our company

As a mechanical engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) Rolf Mertens (RM) started his career in process engineering, where he was a project engineer in the field of vacuum technology. During that time he recognized the importance of sealings and focussed on that area at Burgmann, a leading german sealing company, and later in leading position at Durametallic (USA), which is a subsidiary of the Flowserve group nowadays. For this kind of sealings, pumps are the most significant application. Eventually, that lead to an extremely close co-operation with all manufacturers of process pumps globally. After the takeover of Durametally by Flowserve, everything was restructured. RM chose to continue working in the area of pumps. Thus, he started his business, Ingenieurbüro R. Mertens, consulting the appliers of sealings (chemical industry, petrochemistry, oil industry, conventional and nuclear power plant technology).

The business developed well. In 1982 RM got the offer of Adams, UK, to take over their distribution in Germany and Austria. Adams is a leading company for the lubrication of pumps in Europe. Consequently, the company was extended through the distribution of trading goods and the transfer to a limited liability company became necessary. The R. Mertens GmbH was registered in 1984.

The intensifying globalization influenced the formerly purely German business to orient more internationally. This resulted in the offer of Trico, the leading manufacturer from the US, to take over their distribution for Central Europe. Consequently, our company became market leader in Europe.

Since an increasing number of customers started to convey special requirements, which could not be covered by existing devices, RM has started developing own lubrication equipment for the process industry. Operational conditions at offshore or deep sea environments, water desalination etc. require different materials. Stainless steel is favored instead of non-ferrous metal.

Our product range is continually being expanded and supplemented. Please address us directly, if you don’t find the product you are looking for on our home page. Make use of our wealth of experience for your own benefit.

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