Lewis-Goetz

Name

Lewis-Goetz

Website

https://lewis-goetz.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1935

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Lewis-Goetz is a Pittsburgh-based industrial rubber products fabricator and distributor, founded in 1935, that produced industrial hose, sealing products, gaskets, conveyor components, and related supplies for US industrial customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Rubber Products

NAICS

Rubber and Plastics Hoses and Belting Manufacturing (326220), Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use (326291)

SIC

Gaskets, Packg & Sealg Devices & Rubber & Plastics Hose (3050), Fabricated Rubber Products, Nec (3060)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Rubber Products (Hoses, Belts, Seals, Gaskets) (IMANAOAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Industrial Hoses & Tubing (Rubber/Elastomer) (IMANALAA)

Keywords

• Industrial rubber products
• Industrial hose fabrication
• Sealing products
• Rubber gaskets
• Conveyor components

Headquarters

HQ city

Pittsburgh

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Lewis-Goetz fabricates and distributes industrial rubber products, offering complete lines of industrial hose and sealing products for industrial customers. Through a series of acquisitions from 2006 onward, the company expanded its catalog to include rubber gaskets, conveyor components, and pumps and compressors for industrial applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Industrial Hose

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Kuriyama of America: Kuriyama manufactures and distributes industrial rubber and PVC hose products serving similar industrial fluid-handling, transfer, and material-handling applications as Lewis-Goetz. Both operate as mid-market industrial hose specialists supplying distributors and industrial end-users in overlapping North American end-markets.
• Goodall Rubber Company: Goodall Rubber manufactures industrial hose and rubber products for chemical, petroleum, and general industrial service — a near direct overlap with Lewis-Goetz's hose and sealing portfolio. Note: Goodall Rubber was itself an earlier Lewis-Goetz acquisition target (2006), so it illustrates the company's competitive landscape.
• Abbott Rubber Company: Abbott Rubber is a US industrial rubber products distributor and fabricator offering hose, gaskets, sheet rubber, and sealing products to industrial and contractor customers. The product catalog, customer base, and distribution model closely mirror Lewis-Goetz's combined hose-and-sealing platform.
• Marco Rubber & Plastics: Marco Rubber & Plastics distributes and fabricates custom rubber and plastic sealing products, including gaskets, O-rings, and molded components for industrial customers. It is a comparable mid-market sealing-product distributor with overlapping target customers and product mix.
• Smith Industrial Rubber & Plastic: Smith Industrial is a US distributor of rubber, plastic, and sealing products serving industrial maintenance, OEM, and contractor markets. Its hybrid distribution/fabrication model and hose-plus-sealing product mix closely parallel Lewis-Goetz's go-to-market approach.
• ERIKS North America: ERIKS distributes and fabricates industrial rubber products, gaskets, seals, and hose serving chemical, food & beverage, and general industrial customers. Its industrial-sealing-and-hose distribution business is directly comparable to Lewis-Goetz's combined portfolio in North American end-markets.

Broad incumbents

• Gates Corporation: Gates is a global manufacturer of industrial and automotive hose, belt, and sealing products. While broader in scope and globally scaled, Gates competes head-on in the same industrial hose, hydraulic hose, and power-transmission belting categories that Lewis-Goetz fabricates and distributes.
• Trelleborg Sealing Solutions: Trelleborg's sealing solutions division manufactures precision polymer and rubber seals, gaskets, and related engineered components globally. It competes with Lewis-Goetz in the industrial-seal space but operates at substantially larger scale and serves more demanding precision-engineering applications.
• Continental ContiTech: ContiTech (Continental) is a global manufacturer of industrial rubber products, including conveyor belts, hose, and sealing solutions. Its product portfolio overlaps significantly with Lewis-Goetz's belting and hose lines, though ContiTech serves customers at much larger scale across global industrial OEMs.
• Parker Hannifin (Industrial Sealing): Parker Hannifin's Industrial Sealing and Hose Products divisions manufacture elastomeric seals, O-rings, and industrial hose used across process industries. As a large diversified incumbent, Parker competes with Lewis-Goetz in sealing and hose categories while also serving as a major OEM supplier upstream.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A12 records

Investments

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