Oklahoma: A Story Through Her People
A full-color photography book showcasing Oklahoma paired with the histories of companies, institutions, and organizations that have made the state great.
A full-color photography book showcasing Oklahoma paired with the histories of companies, institutions, and organizations that have made the state great.
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ZEECO, INC.<br />
Zeeco is trusted worldwide for the design<br />
and manufacture of combustion and environmental<br />
solutions for the petroleum refining,<br />
petrochemical, production, LNG, biogas,<br />
power, and pharmaceutical industries. When<br />
founded by John “Jack” Smith Zink on<br />
March 22, 1979, as a machine shop, Zeeco<br />
focused on the ideals of expertise, innovation,<br />
and reliability, which remain the company’s<br />
foundation of success.<br />
After his departure from the John Zink<br />
Company (which was originally founded by<br />
Jack’s father, John Steele Zink, in 1929 and<br />
eventually sold by the family in 1972), Jack<br />
purchased a small manufacturing company,<br />
known then as Product Manufacturing, which<br />
made replacement aircraft parts and component<br />
parts for oilfield equipment. When<br />
his non-compete clause ran out in the<br />
early 1980s, the company, renamed “Zeeco,”<br />
entered the combustion equipment market,<br />
continuing the Zink family tradition that has<br />
now lasted for over eighty-five years.<br />
Over thirty-five years and more than twenty<br />
global locations later, Zeeco employs over 500<br />
people in its Broken Arrow corporate headquarters<br />
alone. The site covers 250 plus acres<br />
near Tulsa in a modern facility that includes<br />
73,000 square feet of manufacturing space and<br />
the industry’s largest research, development<br />
and test facilities. Such historic growth has<br />
also resulted in a staff of over 1,000 worldwide,<br />
with combustion systems and products<br />
installed in more than seventy-five countries.<br />
International manufacturing capabilities, an<br />
engineering brain trust, and next-generation<br />
technologies make Zeeco a name trusted by<br />
industrial customers worldwide.<br />
<strong>Through</strong> the years, many of Jack’s business<br />
and technical acquaintances followed him to<br />
Zeeco. Jack hired a broadly talented man<br />
named David Surbey who ran the company<br />
for many years until his untimely death in<br />
2000, after which Jack named his youngest<br />
son, Darton J. Zink, president. The company<br />
has grown at an extraordinarily rapid pace<br />
under Darton’s leadership and direction.<br />
Privately owned, the company remains<br />
focused on combustion and environmental<br />
systems, by engineering reliable, world-class<br />
equipment to meet the strictest emission<br />
requirements and survive the harshest operating<br />
environments. With its “better by design”<br />
philosophy, Zeeco’s product development<br />
continues to lead the combustion industry.<br />
ZEECO ® product lines include ultra-low<br />
emission burners, gas and liquid flaring<br />
systems, hazardous and non-hazardous waste<br />
incinerators, and vapor control solutions.<br />
Zeeco has supplied some of the world’s most<br />
significant combustion systems, including the<br />
world’s largest multi-point ground flare, largest<br />
enclosed flare system, largest elevated flare,<br />
and largest acid gas thermal oxidizer. Zeeco<br />
has also developed the industry’s best performing<br />
low and ultra-low NOx burners,<br />
installations of which now reduce global pollutants<br />
by more than 500,000 tons each year.<br />
Moreover, Zeeco designs vapor recovery and<br />
control systems that help industrial customers<br />
conserve fuel, operate more cleanly and more<br />
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