The company offers pumps, motors, drives, and controls for use in a variety of residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, and municipal applications.

Headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana,[1] the company also operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, China, and Japan.

Schaefer and Kehoe began designing and manufacturing fractional horsepower motors to pump water into homes or out of flooded basements to adjust to the peacetime economy.

The Submatic was sealed in a unique stainless-steel casing designed to automatically sense when water was rising and turn on the motor.

With the Submatic, an external float switch was no longer needed, and the motor could be mounted out of sight beneath the floor level.

Franklin offers pumps, motors, drives, and controls for use in a variety of residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, and municipal installations, for both clean and grey water applications.