Gary Fritsch

Aqua-Chem, Inc. manufactures and installs water purification, heat transfer and specialty process equipment. It develop water solutions for the military, pharmaceutical, offshore oil and gas, industrials, bottled water, commercial marine, and micro-utilities markets. The firm’s technologies include pretreatment, electrodeionization, vapor compression distillation, and pure steam generation, high recovery reverse osmosis and other membrane processes. The company was founded by John C. Cleaver and Raymond Brooks in 1929 and is headquartered in Knoxville, TN.