Inventors of the Chopper Pump back in 1950, Landia is firmly established in North America, continuing to grow year-on-year as word spreads about the effectiveness and reliability of its products — backed by a company that goes the extra mile to find the best possible solution.

Established in 1933, Landia’s pumps and mixers provide long-term service for numerous applications, including sludge, aeration, eliminating FOG in lift stations and biogas — as well as working with the dairy, food, agriculture and fish processing industries.

“Landia doesn’t try to find an off-the-shelf pump or mixer that is roughly the closest match to solve your problem,” says a company spokesperson. “We dig deep to work with you on finding and then fine-tuning the right product with the right set up to match your specific needs, whether its reducing troublesome odors at a wastewater treatment plant, increasing methane production in biogas plants, dealing with byproducts from food production, or dealing with troublesome dry matter in biomasses.”

Landia’s equipment has proven its durability. The company supplied the first mixers for sewage treatment plants in the late 1980s. Many of these have passed the age of 25 — some even 30 — and are still in operation today.

It was Landia’s founder Christian Oelgaard who invented the Chopper Pump over 70 years ago. Unlike later chopper pumps, the Landia Chopper Pump is uniquely designed with a cutting system at the pump inlet to prevent clogging. It does not use the impeller as part of the chopping action. This significantly reduces wear, maintenance and replacement budgets for the best possible total cost of ownership.