History
Water-Right is a family-owned water treatment manufacturer which started in 1959 when founder Glenn Gruett started supplying equipment to Wisconsin’s plumbing trade. The company flourished because of its use of man-made zeolite crystals in equipment to treat rural Midwestern water, much of which contained hardness, high amounts of iron and manganese, and in some cases had low pH.
In the 1960s, Water-Right used polystyrene resin for city water applications and a zeolite crystal media manufactured by Arizona Minerals for rural waters where multiple water problems usually existed. Water-Right grew slowly throughout the Midwest to the East Coast in the 1980s. During this time, Gruett’s three sons joined the business to assist in sales and operations.
In 1985, Gruett purchased the zeolite manufacturing rights and equipment from Arizona Minerals and now distributes their Crystal-Right™ zeolite throughout North America, Europe, Russia and the Pacific Rim, specializing in treating problem water that contains hardness, iron, manganese and low pH conditions.
In 2010 Water-Right acquired WaterCare, a third generation family-owned manufacturer with over 46 years of water treatment experience. Under the restructuring the company’s branded products were merged into Water-Right, which continues to manufacture a robust line of WaterCare branded products.
In 2013, Water-Right acquired Custom Care Water Technologies, a company dedicated to providing reliable, competitively priced commercial and industrial water treatment systems. Through the acquisition, the products were merged into Water-Right’s commercial and industrial division under the CustomCare® brand. This new brand has a support staff made up of experienced water treatment professionals ready to assist from application to design, specification writing and costing, submittal preparation and order entry, to construction and shipment of the system.
