Company Profile and History

PM&I Headquarters: Sales & Engineering Office and Warehouse: Richmond, CA, USA

Pacific Marine & Industrial Profile:

Since 1985, Quality Pacific Manufacturing, Inc. under the registered service mark of Pacific Marine and Industrial,
has both manufactured and distributed the highest quality marine, industrial and defense related equipment products
on a world wide basis, for private, commercial and government organizations.

Pacific Marine & Industrial is registered with the US Government:
- Cage Code: 3HP22 and SAM UEI C221PQMU9CN3
- US Department of State: Office of Defense Trade Controls: REG #M37294
- Joint Certification Program: Military Critical Technical Data Agreement REG 0063002
- Certified Veteran Owned Business

Pacific Marine & Industrial has had the pleasure to serve the very top Global Companies, Militaries and Governments
as well as a vast range of companies and organizations such as yours:
  
List of Select PM&I Clients

Pacific Marine & Industrial Founders:

 Mr. Charles M. Walther
Former Director of Engineering at Crowley Maritime
Founder of Walther Engineering Services, Inc.
Co-Founder of Pacific Marine & Industrial (Pacific Concepts)

A graduate of the California Maritime Academy (now Cal Poly Maritime) class of 1967 with a BS in Marine Engineering, Charlie spent his career in the Marine Industry.  His successful early career (1967 to 1989) culminated in his USCG Chief Engineer's License and his position as Director of Engineering at Crowley Maritime.  Upon departing Crowley in 1989, along with founding PM&I (at the time known as Pacific Concepts) Charlie founded Walther Engineering Services, Inc. of San Rafael, California a Marine Engineering Consultancy.  

Mr. Walther's milestone accomplishments while at Walther Engineering Services include: MARAD T1 forward deployed tanker management in Japan, EMD Diesel training courses in many locations including Cal Poly Maritime and US Navy, Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln diesel backup generator overhaul, US Navy representative during construction of X-Craft FSF-1 Sea Fighter an aluminum hull catamaran, expert witness duties, and many other large and small projects nationally and internationally. 

Mr. Walther became very well known in engine room design for ferry boats.  He was a green innovator in Cleaner Diesel, Hybrid and Hydrogen Fuel Cell engine rooms.  He was deeply involved with WETA ferry boat construction as well as the ground breaking SV Mathew Turner the first modern tall ship to design and deploy a fully regenerative eco-hybrid propulsion system.  When under sail, the SV Mathew Turner will generate electricity for its battery pack as the propellers turn backward.

Charles M. Walther
Co-President Pacific Marine & Industrial
Senior Project Engineer
1989 to 2000

Consultant and Mentor

2000 to 2026

AND

Mr. Peter Blaich
Executive / Owners Representative Hapag-Lloyd
Chief Executive Officer NVOCC Topman Express Lines
Co-Founder of Pacific Marine & Industrial (Pacific Concepts)

Mr. Blaich was born in the area of Bremen, Germany and in his early and mid career was a long time executive presence in the container shipping industry.  Working for container carrier Hapag-Lloyd he spent time as the owners representative in Hong Kong (1972 - 1976), Bremen Germany (1977-78), Tokyo (1979-1981) and San Francisco (1982-1985).  Instead of transferring back to Germany, Mr. Blaich and his wife Edith decided to stay in San Francisco and Founded Topman Express Lines a Non Vessel Operating Container Carrier (NVOCC). 

In 1989 Mr. Blaich was asked by his childhood friend to represent a German company, Conver-OSR a container lashing gear manufacturer, on the West Coast of the United States.  Conver-OSR was later purchased by MacGregor a large and well known marine equipment manufacturer.  Mr. Blaich asked his neighbor Mr. Charlie Walter to join the company as the technical expert of the team and Pacific Marine & Industrial (then known as Pacific Concepts) was born.

 
Peter Blaich

Co-President Pacific Marine & Industrial
Business Operations Manager
1989 to 1994

Pacific Marine & Industrial Current Management:

Kent R. Brown

Lieutenant US Navy

Sales Engineer Pacific Marine & Industrial

President, General Manager and Senior Project Engineer Pacific Marine & Industrial

Mr. Brown has a Math degree from the U.S. Naval Academy (Class of 1989), is a Graduate of the US Navy Propulsion Engineering Class (Gas Turbine) and as the Main Propulsion Assistant (MPA) earned his qualification to operate Naval Gas Turbine Propulsion Plants (Spruance type) as well as associated Generators, Waste Heat Boilers, Fuel and Auxiliary systems for the U.S. Navy.  In addition, as a US Navy qualified deck officer, Mr. Brown earned his Surface Warfare Officer's pin and is also a qualified Anti Submarine Warfare Officer (ASWO).  Mr. Brown spent most of his Navy active duty time aboard USS Hewitt DD-966 stationed in Yokosuka, Japan and traveling the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.

Mr. Brown has been in the Marine Industry since July 2, 1985, the date he started at the US Naval Academy and has been associated with Pacific Marine & Industrial since leaving the US Navy in 1993.  From January 1993 to June of 1996 Mr. Brown held the position of Sales Engineer at PM&I. 

In June of 1996 Mr. Brown departed PM&I to purchase Arion Manufacturing, Inc., founded in 1985, a company manufacturing equipment for Marine and other industry.  At purchase Arion Manufacturing was incorporated under the name of Quality Pacific Manufacturing, Inc. 

Upon acquisition of Pacific Marine & Industrial in April of 2000 it was folded into the same corporate structure and Quality Pacific Manufacturing, Inc. continues to be its formal corporate name.

Mr. Brown has been the President, General Manager & Senior Project Engineer of Pacific Marine & Industrial since April of 2000.