Pye-Barker Supply was founded in Atlanta, Georgia by Mr. John Pye and Mr. Ben Barker in 1936. Mr. Pye and Mr. Barker were Goodyear Industrial Rubber employees on which the foundations of the company began. Pye-Barker  initially was a general line mill supply company serving Atlanta and North Georgia basing their reputation on quality products, superior service, and fair pricing. By the late forties Pye-Barker Supply was one of three leading industrial suppliers in North Georgia.

In the middle sixties a new era of growth ensued and Pye-Barker Supply set out on a path to develop its engineered products division known as Hydro-Air Engineering. John Lunsford was one of the young engineers who developed the Hydro-Air division and acquired, among others, the Viking Pump Rotary Gear pump line, later Pye-Barker was appointed the distributorship for Joy Air Compressors which was subsequently acquired by Gardner Denver.

In June of 1974 Pye-Barker moved out of downtown Atlanta to our present location in Forest Park which is at the foot of the runways of Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.  We also opened an office in Savannah to serve the pulp and paper industry as well as the growing chemical process plants. John steadily grew the engineered equipment division and in September of 1980 purchased Pye-Barker and is the President and CEO today. We made the decision to focus on engineered equipment in the mid '80s and have specialized in Pump, Compressed Air, and Blower and Vacuum products since then.

We began as the dream of two ambitious entrepreneurs and after 75 years of operation we are blessed to have lived the American Small Business dream and look forward to our next 75 years!