CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (June 6, 2012) – IDEX Corporation recently announced the promotion of Fenton Challgren to president of Chemical, Food & Process (CFP) which includes three Business Units, Viking Pump, Wright Flow Technologies, located in Cedar Falls, Iowa and Richter Chemie, located in Kempen, Germany.
Mr. Challgren has been with IDEX Corporation for 6 years and has demonstrated superior leadership and achieved outstanding results and growth. His most recent role has been General Manager of Viking Pump which recently celebrated their 100 years anniversary in 2011.
“The opportunity to lead the CFP group is very exciting,” says Mr. Challgren. “I look forward to
working with the high performing, customer focused teams both in Cedar Falls and in Germany.”
Viking Pump, a unit of IDEX Corporation, designs and manufactures rotary positive displacement pumps for thousands of liquids and applications. Drawing on more than 100 years of experience, an extensive worldwide distributor network, and four manufacturing facilities worldwide, Viking Pump offers comprehensive service and application expertise.
Richter Chemie-Technik is known as the 1st choice in the process industry with its plastic-lined magnetic drive process pumps for conveying corrosive, environmentally critical and high-purity fluids, especially with high pressure and temperature requirements and large flow volumes.
Wright Flow Technologies, part of IDEX Corporation, offers technologies such as Rotary Lobe, Circumferential Piston, AODD, and Magnetic & Turbine Flow Meters. This portfolio provides solutions to applications in the Food, Dairy, Beverages, Personal Care, Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Chemical and other special industries.