About Saladin Pump & Equipment
Good people, good products, and great service.
A division of Tencarva Machinery Company
Serving southeast Texas & southwest Louisiana
Saladin Pump, a division of Tencarva Machinery Company, has something to offer for just about any pumping application. See the Products page for a list of manufacturers that we represent. We stock over $650,000 in inventory in Beaumont, Texas with 24-hour availability just a phone call (or e-mail) away. Our staff has over 225 years of combined pump experience.
Founded in 1985 by John Saladin Sr., Saladin Pump & Equipment is an industrial pump distributor based in Beaumont, TX, with a satellite office in Lake Charles, LA. The company serves the southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana markets, catering to industrial plants. Saladin Pump is a long-time Goulds distributor and, in addition to the ITT companies, it represents Xylem, John Crane, Warren-Rupp, Roper, Liquiflo and Prominent, as well as many other manufacturers.
Tencarva is an industrial distributor specializing in pumps, liquid process and custom-designed systems for the industrial and municipal marketplace. The core territory for Saladin Pump & Equipment includes the following five counties in Texas: Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton and Orange; and the following five parishes in Louisiana: Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and Jefferson Davis. The Saladin Pump & Equipment facility includes a shop for repair of pumps and other rotating equipment.
Company news: Tencarva acquires Tri-State Coating & Machine.
The people behind our service
Our Team
Gary Deese
Repair Engineer
Chris Benson
Application Engineer
Ryan Roberts
Application Engineer
Kale Cox
Sales Support Specialist
Tommy Sparks
Service and Repair Supervisor
Veronica Messina
Accounts Receivable
Our story
Our History
Saladin Pump & Equipment was incorporated in December of 1985 by John Saladin, Sr. and Frances Saladin. In the beginning there were 5 employees including John and Frances. Starting with one product line, a small territory, and just over $1 million in annual sales, the company has grown and now has 18 product lines, 15 employees, and over $11 million in sales.
We have our main location in Beaumont, Texas and one satellite office in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The company serves southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana, an area rich in industrial plants. As an industrial pump distributor we strive to cover our sales area with exceptional products, service, and expertise.
Our mission
Saladin Pump & Equipment’s mission statement is: “Our mission is to meet and exceed customer expectations by providing value with quality products, quality service, and quality people. We will provide pumping solutions and reliability for our customers at competitive prices, while maintaining high standards of integrity and ethics.” For us, it is about local service, expertise, and taking care of our customers.
Experience & capabilities
While we have very strong product lines, the true strength of our company is in our people. Our employees average over 10 years of service with Saladin Pump and over 18 years in the pump business. The expertise of our people allows us to offer our customers more than just selling a product. We do applications engineering, field trouble-shooting, and we offer local shop repair and fabrication capabilities.
Saladin Pump is a member of the Better Business Bureau, the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce, the Texas Association of Business, and the National Federation of Independent Business. We also support numerous charities, both local and national, throughout each year.
Building on our founding principles
Our business was well established by John and Frances Saladin 30 years ago with the guiding principles of customer service, integrity, ethics, and taking exceptional care of our customers. Over the years we have adapted to grow and expand our business. We have added product lines, as well as equipment and personnel to fill the needs in our marketplace. This has been a win/win situation for our company and for our customers. This increased capability has made us a stronger and better company. We plan to continue our growth by listening to our customers and adapting as necessary to support them.
Good people, good products, and great service have been the key to Saladin Pump’s success, and we hope to continue on the positive path established by our founders.
ITT Goulds Pumps · 2014
North America Distributor of the Year
Saladin received the Blue Diamond Award naming them 2014 North America Distributor of the Year from ITT Goulds Pumps.
Remembering our founder
Our Legacy
John Saladin, Sr.
April 2, 1940 – July 21, 2005
President
John Saladin, Sr. founded Saladin Pump & Equipment in January of 1986 along with his wife, Frances Saladin. Prior to this, John worked for Goulds Pumps, our largest vendor, from 1966 to 1982 in various capacities in field sales in Baton Rouge and Houston, and was the Southwest Regional Sales Manager. Then, for 3 years he was Vice-President of Sales for Flexibox, Inc. before founding Saladin Pump. John always wanted to run his own business, and in 1985 he found out that Goulds Pumps was closing their Beaumont branch office. He then put a business plan together to form Saladin Pump to be the Goulds Pumps distributor for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. Over the years, other product lines and capabilities were added to help our company to grow into what it is today.
John was a remarkable man – a loving and generous husband and family man; as well as a successful businessman. In June of 1993, he was the recipient of the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce Small Business Person of the Year Award. He was a member of the Rotary Club of Beaumont. He was awarded the Golden Eagle award by ITT Goulds Pumps his former employer, capping a career of excellence of 16 years as an employee and 18 years as a distributor. He was a colleague and a friend to his employees, his business associates, and his customers. John was a 1962 graduate of LSU, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Saladin Pump has grown and flourished since John’s death, but the success can be greatly attributed to the founding principles established by John and Frances Saladin. He would be proud of our company, and he is sorely missed. John and Frances were true partners in both the business and in life. It took both of them to get the business off the ground with Frances acting as the bookkeeper, and they shared in those early struggles and in the success of the business. They were high school sweethearts, married in 1961, and had celebrated 44 years of marriage before John passed away in 2005.
Frances is retired, but still attends the annual company Open House each spring and is proud to keep up with the company’s progress.