WATERAX

Waterax is an American / Canadian fire equipment manufacturer. The company can trace its history back to 1898 with Canadian based Watson Jack & Co. The company provides a variety of firefighting tools and equipment including several small engine driven pumps primarily used for wildland firefighting. The company's Mark 3 and BB4 pumps have become well established with forestry agencies around the world.

History
In 1898 Watson Jack & Co was established in Montreal, Canada. The company developed a portable pump for firefighting in 1925 which it named the Wajax (a contraction of Watson Jack). The company was acquired in 1954, and the company name was changed to Wajax Equipment Ltd in 1959.

Pacific Marine Supply of Seattle, Washington produced a line of portable pumps for marine and forestry use in the late 1930s. During WW2 Pacific Marine would provide more than 40,000 portable pumps to the US Navy.

In 1964 Wajax Ltd acquired Pacific Marine's fire equipment division creating the subsidiary Pacific Pumpers Inc. In the early 1980s Pacific Pumper became Wajax-Pacific Fire Equipment. Then in 1983 Wajax Ltd merged Wajax-Pacific with Montreal based Wajax Manufacturing to create the Wajax Fire Control Division.

In 1995 Wildfire Fire Equipment Inc. purchased the Fire Control Division from Wajax Ltd. In 2000 Tyco Fire and Security Service acquired Wildfire Fire Equipment. In 2010 Wildfire became independent of Tyco following a management buy out. The company announced the current name Waterax in 2015.