Who We Are

Extending Equipment Life Since 1983

Des-Case serves its customers with leading, innovative products and services that enhance equipment reliability and increase profitability.

Our products extend the life of industrial lubricants by preventing contamination with desiccant breathers, removing contaminants with filtration systems, and detecting lubricant problems with condition monitoring and visual oil analysis to keep lubricants healthy and clean for maximum performance.

Our portfolio includes a variety of Des-Case and RMF Systems branded products to benefit diverse industries and applications worldwide, providing comprehensive solutions for lubrication management.

Our Story

Des-Case Corporation was founded in 1983 to provide the lubricant industry with innovative solutions to extend oil and equipment life. The original breather was the brainchild of the Company founder, Jim Waller, who responded to the request of an engineer at a major oil company looking for a way to enhance the performance and longevity of his products. As a filtration engineer by trade, Jim’s entrepreneurial spirit took hold with this opportunity and the breather was created and put into production.

In 1996, further expansion was necessary and Des-Case moved into a manufacturing and distribution center in White House, Tennessee. Sales growth warranted a second expansion in 1997 and the Company doubled its capacity. One year later, Des-Case Europe was founded in 1998 to manage growing distribution partners in the EU. With both a growing international presence as well as the addition of subsequent product lines, the business continued to flourish, eventually warranting another move in 2007 to a larger facility in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The Company’s initial product offerings have been steadily enhanced throughout the years, as well as expanded upon by complementary product and service offerings.

In late 2013, Pfingsten Partners, a private equity firm, invested in Des-Case Corporation. A highly successful partnership ensued between both entities for almost three years. Mid-year 2016, Industrial Growth Partners (IGP), also a private equity firm, invested in Des-Case, bringing the organization into its portfolio of companies operating in the middle market manufacturing sector.

For more than 40 years, the Company has enjoyed an excellent reputation for its products and service quality, dependability, and business integrity. Des-Case holds patents in the airflow design of breathers with technology that has yet to be surpassed in the marketplace. With a growing international presence and additional product lines, the company continues to flourish with the acquisition of RMF Systems in Holland and new locations in China and India to further solidify our global footprint and commitment to our customers. Des-Case is additionally proud of being named a Top Workplace by the Tenneseean for 10 years straight.

Since 2023, Des-Case is now part of the Timken Company.

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Improve reliability, sustainability and operational efficiency by solving our customers’ lubricant contamination challenges with leading and innovative products and services.

Mission

Vision

Be essential to our customers as the most trusted provider of lubrication reliability solutions

Core Values

Teamwork means working together, winning together

Integrity being ethical, trustworthy and compassionate

Excellence in service, quality and safety through continuous improvements

Responsibility for our words, actions ands results

Organization

We are a global company with 120 total employees, 40+ person technical salesforce with presence in all major regions alongside 600 distribution partners worldwide.

Parent Company

Identity

Product Brands

Seal & Protect Filter & Purify View & Assess

Monitor & Diagnose Store & Transfer Services

Seal & Protect Filter & Purify

Timken^® Lubrication Systems for Greater
Reliability and Uptime

The Timken Company, a leader in advanced motion technology, designs and manufactures highly engineered systems and components for customers in strategic end markets, including aerospace and defense, power and electrification, and automation and industrial solutions. One of Timken’s platforms is Timken Lubrication Systems, and Des-Case is proud to be a part of its portfolio.

Timken® Lubrication Systems delivers a complete lubrication reliability ecosystem — combining automatic lubrication, contamination control, lubricant health management, to maximize uptime, extend asset life, and reduce total maintenance costs.

Our Groeneveld-Beka & Bijur Delimon automated lubricator systems and centralized lubrication solutions, and Des-Case contamination control and fluid-handling products work together to protect assets, improve reliability, and enable safer, more sustainable maintenance

Lubrications Systems Portfolio

Meet the Des-Case Leadership Team

Jacques Cartier

President

Beth Onderdonk

VP Sales and Services Americas

Audrey Raines

Director of Operations & Supply Chain

Jay Cooper

Sr. Director of Global Product

Franziska Martin

Head of Marketing/S&OP Director

As of October 2023, Jacques Cartier leads the Des-Case organization as President. Prior to that time, Jacques served as Chief Financial Officer from 2018 to 2023, guiding it in all financial aspects through three post merger integrations and Covid. Before joining Des-Case, Jacques had over 20 years’ experience in leading the finance and accounting function and organizations on senior management teams.
More recently, he was CFO of a fast-growing, privately held engineering, procurement and construction firm in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to that, he spent 17 years at the Mars company holding various divisional CFO roles, specifically Wrigley Spain, Wrigley US, and Mars Petcare Private Label Division. Jacques holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Northern Illinois University, earned an MBA with a concentration in International Business and IT from DePaul’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Management, and a CPA (inactive).
Jacques is a board member of the Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee, the non-profit Conexion Americas, as well as the CFO Leadership Council of Nashville. In 2022, he won the small business CFO of the Year Award from the Business Journal. He enjoys the outdoors as an accomplished competitive cyclist and a runners.

Stephanie Leslie

Gloabl Finance Director

Amanda Sutton

Human Resources Manager

Gijs van Schaik

Director of Sales - EMEA

Gavin Blyth