A parking-lot attendant's fix for a frozen grease gun turned into a century-long fluid-handling empire. Here is how Graco quietly became the company inside your paint sprayer, your car's assembly line and your factory's pumps.
Pentair began with five engineers and a plan to build high-altitude balloons. Sixty years later, its pumps, filters, ice machines and pool controls reveal the sprawling business hidden inside an ordinary glass of water.