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MeasuredAI Visibility Index: Industrial Pumps in Virginia
When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a industrial pumps supplier in Virginia, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.
- 65 companies tracked
- Last measured September 30, 2026
- Next measurement October 30, 2026
The headline numbers
Never named by AI
51 of 65
companies never appeared in a single buying question
They were asked the same 5 buying questions as everyone else in this cell and were not named once.
- 14 named at least once
- 51 never named
- Cell average
- 0.95of 15
Across all 65 tracked companies.
- Top ten average
- 5.9of 15
The ten most visible companies in the cell.
A company's score is how many of the 15 measured answers named it.
The top ten in Virginia
These are the companies AI assistants named most often when Virginia buyers went looking for a supplier in this category.
| Rank | Company | Location | AI visibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cummins-Wagner Co., Inc. 13 employeesAshland, Virginia 4 name variants
| Ashland, Virginia | 13 of 15 answers |
| 2 | Engineered Systems & Products 14 employeesSouth Chesterfield, Virginia 2 name variants
| South Chesterfield, Virginia | 11 of 15 answers |
| 3 | Tencarva Machinery Company 6 employeesSalem, Virginia | Salem, Virginia | 8 of 15 answers |
| 4 | Atlantic Pump & Equipment 9 employeesRichmond, Virginia 2 name variants
| Richmond, Virginia | 7 of 15 answers |
| 5 | Wood Equipment Company 16 employeesAshland, Virginia | Ashland, Virginia | 6 of 15 answers |
| 6 | Carotek Inc - Virginia 6 employeesNorth Chesterfield, Virginia | North Chesterfield, Virginia | 3 of 15 answers |
| 7 | Ferguson Waterworks 70 employeesChesapeake, Virginia | Chesapeake, Virginia | 3 of 15 answers |
| 8 | Industrial Process Technologies Inc 6 employeesRoanoke, Virginia 2 name variants
| Roanoke, Virginia | 3 of 15 answers |
| 9 | Winschel Environmental Virginia 2 name variants
| Virginia | 3 of 15 answers |
| 10 | Ferebee-Johnson Co., Inc. 19 employeesLynchburg, Virginia | Lynchburg, Virginia | 2 of 15 answers |
13 more companies were named at least once. Companies outside the top ten are counted in the averages but not named here.
Also named, based in another state
AI assistants named these companies too, but MacRAE'S lists them in a different state, not Virginia. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.
| Company | State | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Brown & Morrison, Ltd. | North Carolina | 7 of 15 |
| Geiger Pump & Equipment | Pennsylvania | 6 of 15 |
| E.W. Process | South Carolina | 2 of 15 |
| Alfa Laval Inc. (US) | New York | 1 of 15 |
| C.H. Reed | Pennsylvania | 1 of 15 |
| Industrial Pump & Equipment Corporation (IPEC) | Ohio | 1 of 15 |
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The five questions we asked
Every company in this cell is measured on the same questions, written the way a buyer would type them. That is what makes the ranking a comparison rather than a collection of anecdotes.
- 1“Best suppliers of industrial pumps in Virginia”
- 2“Who supplies chemical-resistant centrifugal process pumps in Virginia”
- 3“I need a Virginia pump supplier for a continuous-duty wastewater treatment line, who should I talk to”
- 4“Top industrial pumps suppliers in Virginia for plant maintenance and reliability buyers”
- 5“Which Virginia industrial pump suppliers can handle high-viscosity fluids at high temperature”
- 6“List 20 industrial pumps companies in Virginia with their specialties.”the roster question
Each question is asked more than once, which is why a company's score is out of 15 answers rather than out of the number of questions.
Where AI drew its answers from
These are the sources the answers in this cell leaned on most, ranked by how many of the named companies each one stands behind.
- thomasnet.comDirectory5 companies
- cummins-wagner.com4 companies
- geigerinc.com2 companies
- esp-richmond.com2 companies
- atlanticpump.net2 companies
- iptva.com2 companies
- ksb.com2 companies
- tate.com2 companies
- winenv.com2 companies
- tencarva.com1 company
- carotek.com1 company
- woodequip.com1 company
37 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 27 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.
Virginia in context
Virginia ranks 1st of 22 measured states in this category. Each bar is the share of that state's tracked companies that AI assistants named at least once; across every measured state in this category the share is 10%.
- Virginia22%
- Missouri21%
- North Carolina19%
- Tennessee19%
- Washington17%
- Louisiana16%
- Oklahoma16%
- Georgia14%
- Massachusetts14%
- Connecticut13%
- Wisconsin12%
- Minnesota11%
- Indiana11%
- Pennsylvania10%
- Illinois10%
- Ohio9%
- New York8%
- Michigan7%
- Florida6%
- New Jersey6%
- California5%
- Texas5%
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