Amerex establishes full line capability

Amerex Corporation, founded in 1971, has long been a major competitor in hand portable fire extinguisher and kitchen system business. The company was built over the years, account-by-account - product line by product line.For anyone who has ever attended a NAFED meeting, who can forget the sight of founder Ned Paine standing in the aisle by the Amerex booth talking with distributors large and small, working to understand his market and the needs of the fire equipment distributor. Ned Paine is the classic example of the owner/operator/entrepreneur who knew how to build a business and never took his eye off the ball.

Ned Paine sold his interest in Amerex  in 1999, but it seems that his spirit of entrepreneurship lives on. Bill Beyer took over the reigns as President of Amerex in 1999, and continues to serve as Amerex's President. Over the past 5 years, Amerex, along with its parent company McWane Inc., have quietly, but aggressively, moved intonew areas of the fire protection business, including total flooding clean agent systems. In 2008, Janus Fire Systems was established along with former, long time Chemetron executives Steve Dmitrovich (General Manager), Dan Hubert (VP Product Development), Fred Hildebrant (Director of Sales) and Tim Pope (Director of Operations).Janus rolled out its product line of clean agent systems in 2009.

In 2010, Amerex continued building its staff when they were joined by former Ansul executives Tom Kennedy, Dave Pelton and Steve Hanson. As 2010 drew to a close, Mark Pillow, former sales executive at both Mini Max and Ansul, joined the Amerex team. Amerex has not yet announced the role of this new team of executives, but it is rumored that there is a new foam division in the company's near future.