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Business news
WORLD PUMPS
February 2015
SPP awarded £1.12mn grant for UK R&D facility
Graco to buy White Knight Fluid Handling
Centrifugal pump manufacturer SPP Pumps has secured £1.12 million in regional growth funding to build a new R&D facility at its pump manufacturing centre in Coleford, UK.
dispatch area with two 25ft cranes will free up 60% of existing floor space to build more pumps. A paint spray booth is also planned for the facility, along with a higher capacity test well.
Graco Inc has agreed to acquire White Knight Fluid Handling, a Kamas, Utah, USA-based manufacturer of air-operated double-bellows, air-operated double-diaphragm and metering pumps.
The new facility will provide SPP Pumps with a higher rated power supply, removing the need for generator hire. A new packing and
SPP Pumps is a subsidiary of India’s Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. www.spppumps.com
Wanner completes major Russian delivery Wanner International has supplied 44 Hydra-Cell metering and dosing pumps to a leading Russian oil refinery.
Seven different pump models were required for flows up to 4600 litres per hour and pressures up to 63 bar.
The order comprised ATEX approved pump and motor sets along with mechanical speed variators, pressure relief valves and pulsation dampeners.
All of the Hydra-Cell pumps are driven by GOST certified motors. www.hydra-cell.eu
KETO Pumps expands in North America KETO Pumps has acquired three pump businesses in North America: Bakersfield Machine Co Inc (BMC); RPM Services Inc and Arizona Pump & Machine Inc (APM). “KETO have an excellent track record of reducing our customers’ cost of business in our core markets of Africa and Australia. We wanted to bring this same ethos to the market across the Americas and couldn’t have found better partners than RPM, BMC and APM,” said KETO Pumps CEO Chris Neil. “The mines as well as chemical and oil &
www.worldpumps.com
gas plants of the SW states require suppliers who can react quickly. That’s only possible by being local to our customers and these three facilities allow us to offer the best service in the industry.” KETO Pumps was formed in 2012, when Clyde Blowers Capital acquired KETO Pumps Australia, First Africa Pumps and Tri-Invest. This was followed by the acquisition of Pump Technology Services Australia in 2013. www.ketopumps.com
White Knight Fluid Handling’s high purity, metal-free pumps are used to deliver, circulate, reclaim and transport chemical fluids and
slurries that are used in the production of semiconductors, solar panels, LED flat panel displays, and other electronics. The company’s pumping solutions are also used in chemical applications such as dosing, spiking, photoresist, etching, cleaning and blending. www.graco.com https://wkfluidhandling.com
Sulzer ships 1000th pump to Enbridge Pipelines Sulzer has delivered its 1000th pump to Enbridge Pipelines Inc.
has also provided pipeline booster vertical pumps.
The pump is now installed at Enbridge Pipelines’ Vesper, Wisconsin location in the USA.
The Swiss company has recently made major investments at its Portland, Oregon facility, adding machining centres and increasing testing capacity for large pumps.
Sulzer has been supplying mainline pumps to Enbridge Pipelines since 1953. In recent years, Sulzer
www.sulzer.com
Xylem secures Flygt order in Norway Xylem Inc has won a US$1 million contract to provide a range of water treatment technologies, including Flygt pumps, for two new wastewater plants in Bergen, Norway.
Purac is overseeing the development of the two new wastewater treatment facilities which will have a combined capacity of 208 000 population equivalents (PE).
Xylem will supply Flygt N3000 submersible pumps, Flygt 4600 series mixers, a Sanitaire Silver Series II aeration system and high efficiency screw blowers as part of a project to improve the quality of wastewater treatment in the Norwegian city.
Plant construction is underway following the delivery of products in September 2014. The new plants are due to start operating in autumn 2015. www.xylem.com
0262 1762/15 © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Business news
WORLD PUMPS
February 2015
SPP awarded £1.12mn grant for UK R&D facility
Graco to buy White Knight Fluid Handling
Centrifugal pump manufacturer SPP Pumps has secured £1.12 million in regional growth funding to build a new R&D facility at its pump manufacturing centre in Coleford, UK.
dispatch area with two 25ft cranes will free up 60% of existing floor space to build more pumps. A paint spray booth is also planned for the facility, along with a higher capacity test well.
Graco Inc has agreed to acquire White Knight Fluid Handling, a Kamas, Utah, USA-based manufacturer of air-operated double-bellows, air-operated double-diaphragm and metering pumps.
The new facility will provide SPP Pumps with a higher rated power supply, removing the need for generator hire. A new packing and
SPP Pumps is a subsidiary of India’s Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. www.spppumps.com
Wanner completes major Russian delivery Wanner International has supplied 44 Hydra-Cell metering and dosing pumps to a leading Russian oil refinery.
Seven different pump models were required for flows up to 4600 litres per hour and pressures up to 63 bar.
The order comprised ATEX approved pump and motor sets along with mechanical speed variators, pressure relief valves and pulsation dampeners.
All of the Hydra-Cell pumps are driven by GOST certified motors. www.hydra-cell.eu
KETO Pumps expands in North America KETO Pumps has acquired three pump businesses in North America: Bakersfield Machine Co Inc (BMC); RPM Services Inc and Arizona Pump & Machine Inc (APM). “KETO have an excellent track record of reducing our customers’ cost of business in our core markets of Africa and Australia. We wanted to bring this same ethos to the market across the Americas and couldn’t have found better partners than RPM, BMC and APM,” said KETO Pumps CEO Chris Neil. “The mines as well as chemical and oil &
www.worldpumps.com
gas plants of the SW states require suppliers who can react quickly. That’s only possible by being local to our customers and these three facilities allow us to offer the best service in the industry.” KETO Pumps was formed in 2012, when Clyde Blowers Capital acquired KETO Pumps Australia, First Africa Pumps and Tri-Invest. This was followed by the acquisition of Pump Technology Services Australia in 2013. www.ketopumps.com
White Knight Fluid Handling’s high purity, metal-free pumps are used to deliver, circulate, reclaim and transport chemical fluids and
slurries that are used in the production of semiconductors, solar panels, LED flat panel displays, and other electronics. The company’s pumping solutions are also used in chemical applications such as dosing, spiking, photoresist, etching, cleaning and blending. www.graco.com https://wkfluidhandling.com
Sulzer ships 1000th pump to Enbridge Pipelines Sulzer has delivered its 1000th pump to Enbridge Pipelines Inc.
has also provided pipeline booster vertical pumps.
The pump is now installed at Enbridge Pipelines’ Vesper, Wisconsin location in the USA.
The Swiss company has recently made major investments at its Portland, Oregon facility, adding machining centres and increasing testing capacity for large pumps.
Sulzer has been supplying mainline pumps to Enbridge Pipelines since 1953. In recent years, Sulzer
www.sulzer.com
Xylem secures Flygt order in Norway Xylem Inc has won a US$1 million contract to provide a range of water treatment technologies, including Flygt pumps, for two new wastewater plants in Bergen, Norway.
Purac is overseeing the development of the two new wastewater treatment facilities which will have a combined capacity of 208 000 population equivalents (PE).
Xylem will supply Flygt N3000 submersible pumps, Flygt 4600 series mixers, a Sanitaire Silver Series II aeration system and high efficiency screw blowers as part of a project to improve the quality of wastewater treatment in the Norwegian city.
Plant construction is underway following the delivery of products in September 2014. The new plants are due to start operating in autumn 2015. www.xylem.com
0262 1762/15 © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved