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Interactive Health recently named IDEX Corporation as one of the “Healthiest Companies in America,” recognizing the company’s high workplace wellness program participation rate and low overall health risks.

IDEX is one of just 151 companies in America to make the list. To be included, at least 70 percent of employees must participate in their workplace wellness program, and their workforce’s overall health risk must be low, based on the results of an annual health evaluation.

“A healthy workforce reaps so many benefits for both our company and our employees,” said IDEX Chief Human Resources Officer Jeff Bucklew said. “We place tremendous value on offering a comprehensive health and wellness program to help our employees, partners and families make positive changes to improve their overall well-being.”

Companies with successful employee wellness programs generally have higher productivity, lower medical costs, fewer workers’ compensation and disability claims, and reduced absenteeism, according to Interactive Health.

Read the Interactive Health press release by clicking here.

Available as part of the benefits package for U.S.-based employees, the IDEX Wellness Program empowers employees to take charge of their health, so they can be their best self – at home and at work.

The IDEX wellness resources include:

• One-on-one health coaching
• Weight management guidance
• Nutrition planning
• Fitness tips
• Diabetes prevention tips
• And more!

Sewer inspections are becoming significantly more efficient thanks to a latest innovation in crawler technology from iPEK, a unit of IDEX. Sulzberg, Germany-based iPEK, which manufactures wastewater inspection systems, introduced its new ROVION SAT II inspection system at the ROKATECH tradeshow earlier this month.

In the past, if the sewer pipe diameter of the sewage pipe changed, it would require the inspector to take the crawler out and adjust the setup, making the processes time consuming and tedious. Not anymore.

With three years of product development and tireless focus on their customers, the iPEK team developed the ROVION SAT II inspection system, consisting of an extremely powerful crawler and a revolutionary cable reel.

The new system is designed to resolve three major pain point for end users: limited pipe size range, high downtime and inefficient inspections of house connections, also known as laterals.

To improve the system’s flexibility, the RX140SAT II crawler expands the capabilities of its predecessor, allowing users to inspect sewer pipes ranging from 150mm – 2000mm, compared to 150mm to 600mm in the past. The new crawler also features a push rod and TV-cable, which allows the crawler to conduct lateral launches in a sewer system. With the addition of the 45-meter push rod, end users can now inspect pipe laterals more thoroughly and locate possible hazards in the sewerage system more quickly

To see the ROVION SAT II Field Test, click here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IDEX Corporate office employees partnered with Feed My Starving Children in Libertyville, Illinois, to pack food for children in Haiti last week.

Twenty-eight team members from the Human Resources, Legal and Accounting departments hand-packed bags with rice, soy, dried vegetables and a nutritionally complete blend of vitamins and minerals. After filling bags with food, team members also sealed, boxed and placed packages on pallets for shipping.

With four different groups of employees working together, the hand-packing event quickly turned into a competition to pack as much food as possible.

As a result, in just two hours team members packed a total of 74 boxes, providing almost 16,000 meals for children in Haiti!

Located near the IDEX offices in Lake Forest, Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a non-profit that provides nutritionally complete meals specifically formulated for malnourished children. Founded in 1987, FMSC has shipped more than 137 million meals to 43 countries this year alone.

To learn more about the organization, click here to watch a video.

 

Team members at GODIVA Limited, which manufactures vehicle-mounted fire and safety equipment, participated in an off-road 10K charity run near their Warwickshire, U.K., office last month.

The Wolf Run — which stands for woods, obstacles, lakes and fields — is a wild race that allows people to experience natural, raw running conditions.

Eight Godiva employees ran over and through some of nature’s finest obstacles, including, mud pits, fallen trees, hills and dense foliage, to raise money for an organization of their choice. With close personal connections to prostate cancer, the team raised £145 ($190 USD) in support of Prostate Cancer UK.

Participants included Justin Somanathan, Lewis Maynard, Simon Tudor, Kevin Raybould, Sarah Raybould, Adam Smith, Nipun Patney and Justin Sabharwal.

As part of an ongoing four-year volunteer partnership, IDEX Health & Science (IH&S) employees in Oak Harbor, Washington, have assisted local high school robotics students with several amazing projects, including helping build competition robots, developing a hat with ultrasonic sensors for a visually-impaired student, and designing a prosthetic arm for a 4-year old student.

Recently, IH&S employees helped students develop a Social Progress mobile phone application, which can be used by community organizations to track key metrics such as homeless population, income inequality, subsidized school lunches, crime rates, graduation rates and more.

Located about two hours north of Seattle, IH&S Oak Harbor manufactures fittings, tubing, and high-quality fluid transfer components and accessories for the high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) markets. They recently extended their local partnership to develop STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs for FIRST Washington.

In collaboration with the IDEX Foundation, IH&S Oak Harbor granted the organization $7,500 to continue to develop the schools STEM initiatives.

Located in Washington State, FIRST Washington supports and engages today’s tech-native youth, inspiring them to build on their passions and preparing them to be the STEM leaders of tomorrow. With the mission to inspire all young people in Washington State to be science and technology leaders, the organization provides exciting mentor-based FIRST programs that inspire innovation, and foster self-confidence, communication, and leadership skills

 

 

In recognition for their development of new pumps used in moving oil from production to the pipelines, Viking Pump recently received the Harold Brock Innovation award from the Cedar Valley (Iowa) Alliance & Chamber.

Viking Pump, a unit of IDEX which specializes in pumping solutions for the oil and gas industries, received the award for their innovation on the LACT GP-414 & GP-425 pump models.

Within IDEX, Viking’s innovation has been hailed as an excellent example of Customer Obsession, with our representatives recognizing and understanding the need from being in oil fields with customers. Viking developed and delivered a smaller pump that’s less expensive than competitors’ products.  Its simplistic and robust design allows the product to be more versatile in the field for demanding oil pipeline injection service. Sales have soared over the last few years

Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) is the transfer of oil from a land owner pipeline, which includes metering the output, to determine how much the landowner is owed. Viking Pump LACT Injection Pumps are an engineered solution coupling our pumping technology and electric motor driven units designed for the unattended transfer of liquid hydrocarbons from the producer to a pipeline owner.

To watch a video of how the pumps work, click here.

 

 

 

In support of a local food drive, Quadro received two CANstruction creative design awards in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, this month. Quadro – a unit of IDEX which designs, develops, and manufactures size reduction, mixing, and powder dispersion technologies for the pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetics, food and biotechnology markets — used food it was donating to build a lighthouse display titled “Shine a Light on Hunger.”

With more than 1,500 cans, the display was inspired by Canadian lighthouses that guide sailors safely home. The team received the Judge’s Choice and People’s Choice awards, which were voted by people online and at the local Conestoga Mall. In partnership with the IDEX Foundation, Quadro raised more than $5,500 and provided 19,000 meals to local families.

With the help of Quadro, and 15 other organizations, The Food Bank of the Waterloo Region raised over 120,000 meals and finished 9^th internationally in the food drive campaign. Quadro has a longstanding relationship with the food bank.

Team members involved in design & build of lighthouse included Heather Jacklin, Kathy Cooper, Bryan Felber, Matt Chambers, Awan Jowaheer, Paul Heyden, Sean Botelho, Emma Bruce, Wilf Sanguesa, Jim Luo, Don Zorn, Harshal Kandoi

 

 

BAND-IT employees volunteered to build “test success kits” earlier this month for local children attending nearby Garden Place Elementary, which is in one of the Denver-area’s most underserved communities. In partnership with the Mile High United Way, 27 BAND-IT employees packaged kits to brighten students’ day and help reduce the stress of standardized tests.

The kits included a brightly colored pencil pouch containing personalized notes of encouragement, a homemade stress ball (balloon and flour), a calculator, goldfish crackers, pencils, pencil sharpeners, and a ruler.          

BAND-IT, a unit of IDEX Corporation, has been working with the United Way for four years. It continues to play a critical role in helping address chronic absenteeism, early literacy, and parent engagement and leadership within the local community.

With the mission of addressing the critical needs of community grade schools, BAND-IT was recently awarded $40,000 from the IDEX Foundation to continue to be a positive force for change in their local community.

Building on their impact, BAND-IT employees will help improve transportation services for students and invest in leadership development for school staff in 2019.

 

IDEX teams across the globe celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, recognizing women’s achievements and raising awareness of gender equality issues.

With the support of the various IDEX women’s networks worldwide, over 26 business units engaged in activities designed to promote female successes and role models, making it the largest IDEX International Women’s Day event in history!

Some of the wonderful ways that our business units celebrated the women of the world included:

• • Publishing profiles of famous female pioneers in history
  • Hosting inclusion and diversity breakfast meetings
  • Fundraising and arranging donations for local women’s shelters
  • Inviting local female engineering students to ‘open day’-style events at our Bus
  • A Chinese tradition, handing out flowers to the female employees
  • Sharing stories of inspirational female family members
  • Focusing on STEM topic for women

Members of each business unit also pledged to contribute to gender equality in day-to-day life this year.  The pledges, based around the #BalanceforBetter theme, include forging positive visibility of women, celebrating women’s achievements and challenging stereotypes and bias.  Every activity embraced the spirit of inclusion and diversity, two concepts that make up the foundation of our company ethos.Two new groups were born out of this year’s celebration; WOW, the women of Warren Rupp, in addition to a new Chicagoland group, WII, Women in IDEX in the Chicagoland area. We are excited about our growing inclusion networks (all are welcome to attend their open events). Thank you to everyone who contributed, pledged, baked cakes, organized and supported our celebration and for helping IDEX to achieve #BalanceforBetter.

Business Units Pictured below (Left to Right): FTL Technology, Fast & Fluid Management, IDEX India, IDEX Corporate Lake Forest, Matcon UK, IDEX China, IDEX Corporate Downtown Chicago, Knight, IDEX MPT Canada, Gast UK, Warren Rupp, Akron Brass, Novotema, Hurst USA, Godiva UK & Hurst