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Franklin Electric acquires Brazilian pump maker Franklin Electric has acquired Industrias Schneider SA, a Brazil-based producer of pumps for the residential, agricultural, and light commercial markets. The company is headquartered in Joinville, Brazil and had 2007 net revenues of approximately R71 million. Schneider is the leading Brazilian producer of pumps for the residential, agricultural, and light commercial markets. “The Industrias Schneider acquisition advances our strategy to expand Franklin’s business base in developing regions where the demand for our products is growing most rapidly. […Schneider’s] market position is complementary to Franklin’s strength in submersible well and wastewater-pumping systems
for the same end users,” said R. Scott Trumbull, chairman and CEO of Franklin Electric. “Franklin has been looking for an established local pump manufacturer with a national distribution network in Brazil due to the significant size of the water pumping market in the agricultural, commercial and residential segments in the country,” Franklin Electric’s vice president, Thomas J. Strupp, told World Pumps. “Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile represent significant and growing pump markets in South America due to growing populations and strong growth in the agricultural sector. Franklin’s pump manufacturing presence in Brazil will enable us to properly serve the Brazilian market and facilitate product distribution into neighbouring South American markets.”
US foundry to expand castings for pumps
Oil and gas strategy award for LEWA
Pennsylvania USA-based Benton Foundry, which serves manufacturers of pumps, valves and manifolds, is expanding, due to a number of orders from customers anxious to source castings domestically because of the shifting US currency exchange rates. As dollars become more affordable, buying from US suppliers is a better investment for many manufacturers, the company says.
LEWA GmbH has received the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for its product line strategy for pumps in the European oil and gas industry. According to Frost & Sullivan, Lewa’s line line of pumps for high-pressure (10,000 – 15,000 psi) and high temperature (up to 250ºC) applications, are almost the only ones to be offered in a specific application-oriented form.
Part of this expansion is the installation of a DISA moulding machine, increasing the company’s capability to larger castings weighing up to 350 lbs. The DISA machine, which will be in place in October 2008, will reportedly help boost output from 180 tons per day of castings to as high as 300 tons per day. Benton castings are produced with cores manufactured by the shell, Isocure, and Pepset processes.
ITT opens first technology centre in India ITT Corporation has opened a major technology centre in Gujarat, India. ITT says that the technology centre will develop “deep engineering competencies” in core water and other fluid transport technology areas. It will also focus on localizing ITT’s portfolio of products to meet the region’s needs and help the company’s new product development teams achieve their growth goals in emerging markets. “The new India Technology Center is a centerpiece of ITT’s emerging markets strategy,” said Brenda Reichelderfer, chief technology officer of ITT. “In India, we can take advantage of a large pool of experienced engineers to create a product design resource focused on
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meeting the needs of local customers, while adding unique skills and depth to ITT’s global engineering capability.” Reichelderfer added that, with the opening of the India technology centre and including ITT’s engineering services partnerships, approximately 8% of the company’s product development engineers are employed in Asia to serve current customers in emerging markets, including China, India and the Middle East. She expects that number will rise generally in-line with the growth opportunities in these markets. ITT has named Pradip Bhattacharyya to be the director of the India
Technology Center. Bhattacharyya previously worked for Larsen & Toubro Ltd, India’s largest engineering and construction company, and Voith, a multi-national engineering company headquartered in Germany.
“For LEWA management and the development team, the primary goal of every new development is to increase the dependability, operating reliability and service life of our products – and thus increase customer benefit,” Stefan Glasmeyer, general manager, marketing & sales, told World Pumps. “Another important part of this concept is the strengthening of the development department and the creation of optimal working conditions for qualified employees. LEWA therefore invested extensively in expanding and modernising the facilities of the research and development department in 2007.”
Cleaning is main cause of UK downtime
“A unique aspect of this technology centre is that it brings all of ITT’s commercial businesses under one umbrella,” Bhattacharyya told World Pumps.
Time taken to clean machinery has been revealed as the main cause of downtime within UK production, with 52% of companies citing this as their main problem, says a poll by peristaltic pump manufacturer, Watson-Marlow Bredel.
“The centre will also foster better Indo-US partnership in areas of technology and cultural synergy. This is a positive step towards ITT’s desire to create a culture that embraces and derives value from a diverse and inclusive workplace.”
Besides cleaning, 24% cited faulty machinery as a main cause of production downtime and 13% mentioned human error. Only 7% had issues with contamination and 4% with labour shortages. “Minimising downtime is massively important to production companies, because ultimately it results in lost revenue,” said Ashley Shepherd, UK sales manager at WatsonMarlow Bredel.
WORLD PUMPS March 2008
Franklin Electric acquires Brazilian pump maker Franklin Electric has acquired Industrias Schneider SA, a Brazil-based producer of pumps for the residential, agricultural, and light commercial markets. The company is headquartered in Joinville, Brazil and had 2007 net revenues of approximately R71 million. Schneider is the leading Brazilian producer of pumps for the residential, agricultural, and light commercial markets. “The Industrias Schneider acquisition advances our strategy to expand Franklin’s business base in developing regions where the demand for our products is growing most rapidly. […Schneider’s] market position is complementary to Franklin’s strength in submersible well and wastewater-pumping systems
for the same end users,” said R. Scott Trumbull, chairman and CEO of Franklin Electric. “Franklin has been looking for an established local pump manufacturer with a national distribution network in Brazil due to the significant size of the water pumping market in the agricultural, commercial and residential segments in the country,” Franklin Electric’s vice president, Thomas J. Strupp, told World Pumps. “Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile represent significant and growing pump markets in South America due to growing populations and strong growth in the agricultural sector. Franklin’s pump manufacturing presence in Brazil will enable us to properly serve the Brazilian market and facilitate product distribution into neighbouring South American markets.”
US foundry to expand castings for pumps
Oil and gas strategy award for LEWA
Pennsylvania USA-based Benton Foundry, which serves manufacturers of pumps, valves and manifolds, is expanding, due to a number of orders from customers anxious to source castings domestically because of the shifting US currency exchange rates. As dollars become more affordable, buying from US suppliers is a better investment for many manufacturers, the company says.
LEWA GmbH has received the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for its product line strategy for pumps in the European oil and gas industry. According to Frost & Sullivan, Lewa’s line line of pumps for high-pressure (10,000 – 15,000 psi) and high temperature (up to 250ºC) applications, are almost the only ones to be offered in a specific application-oriented form.
Part of this expansion is the installation of a DISA moulding machine, increasing the company’s capability to larger castings weighing up to 350 lbs. The DISA machine, which will be in place in October 2008, will reportedly help boost output from 180 tons per day of castings to as high as 300 tons per day. Benton castings are produced with cores manufactured by the shell, Isocure, and Pepset processes.
ITT opens first technology centre in India ITT Corporation has opened a major technology centre in Gujarat, India. ITT says that the technology centre will develop “deep engineering competencies” in core water and other fluid transport technology areas. It will also focus on localizing ITT’s portfolio of products to meet the region’s needs and help the company’s new product development teams achieve their growth goals in emerging markets. “The new India Technology Center is a centerpiece of ITT’s emerging markets strategy,” said Brenda Reichelderfer, chief technology officer of ITT. “In India, we can take advantage of a large pool of experienced engineers to create a product design resource focused on
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meeting the needs of local customers, while adding unique skills and depth to ITT’s global engineering capability.” Reichelderfer added that, with the opening of the India technology centre and including ITT’s engineering services partnerships, approximately 8% of the company’s product development engineers are employed in Asia to serve current customers in emerging markets, including China, India and the Middle East. She expects that number will rise generally in-line with the growth opportunities in these markets. ITT has named Pradip Bhattacharyya to be the director of the India
Technology Center. Bhattacharyya previously worked for Larsen & Toubro Ltd, India’s largest engineering and construction company, and Voith, a multi-national engineering company headquartered in Germany.
“For LEWA management and the development team, the primary goal of every new development is to increase the dependability, operating reliability and service life of our products – and thus increase customer benefit,” Stefan Glasmeyer, general manager, marketing & sales, told World Pumps. “Another important part of this concept is the strengthening of the development department and the creation of optimal working conditions for qualified employees. LEWA therefore invested extensively in expanding and modernising the facilities of the research and development department in 2007.”
Cleaning is main cause of UK downtime
“A unique aspect of this technology centre is that it brings all of ITT’s commercial businesses under one umbrella,” Bhattacharyya told World Pumps.
Time taken to clean machinery has been revealed as the main cause of downtime within UK production, with 52% of companies citing this as their main problem, says a poll by peristaltic pump manufacturer, Watson-Marlow Bredel.
“The centre will also foster better Indo-US partnership in areas of technology and cultural synergy. This is a positive step towards ITT’s desire to create a culture that embraces and derives value from a diverse and inclusive workplace.”
Besides cleaning, 24% cited faulty machinery as a main cause of production downtime and 13% mentioned human error. Only 7% had issues with contamination and 4% with labour shortages. “Minimising downtime is massively important to production companies, because ultimately it results in lost revenue,” said Ashley Shepherd, UK sales manager at WatsonMarlow Bredel.
WORLD PUMPS March 2008