28.05.2009
ACHEMA 2009: Highlights
ACHEMA - the most important trade fair for the chemical and processing industries - took place from May 11 to 15 in Frankfurt, Germany. The online pump magazine impeller.net was there to find out about the most important developments of the pump technology.

 

25.10.2011
System One Pumps Offer Reliable Transfer Technology for Multiple Water & Wastewater Applications
Blackmer, a global leader in positive displacement and centrifugal pumps and reciprocating gas compressors, announces that its System One centrifugal pumps are designed for high-volume, severe-duty applications making them ideal for critical applications in the water and wastewater industries.
 

29.07.2011
Improved Compact Diaphragm Pump Delivers Performance Benefits
Machine builder’s requests for a small diaphragm pump for use with water or chemicals have now been answered with the launch of the recently improved Series PB from SMC.
 

11.05.2011
Process Diaphragm Pumps with PTFE Diaphragm for Pressures up to 1.000 bar
On offshore drilling platforms, drilling ships, and FPSO (Floating Production Storage Offloading) space is scarce, and space saved is worth cash money. Operators therefore prefer compact, lightweight system components. But how can a process diaphragm pump, for example, stay compact when the operator needs ever higher process pressures at the same time?
 

15.04.2011
Blackmer System One Centrifugal Pumps for the Storage Terminal Industry
Blackmer announces that its System One centrifugal pumps are designed for high-volume, severe-duty applications making them ideal for critical applications in the terminal industry, including unloading barges, ships, railcars and tank trucks, and transferring liquids from terminal tanks to loading platforms.
 

30.07.2009
PFA Lined Gear Pumps Meet the Challenge at Lower Cost
Safely transferring aggressive liquids, such as inorganic acids, bases and salts, requires a pump with features including non-metallic wetted parts and characteristics such as zero leakage. To meet these challenges, Liquiflo have developed their range of magnetically driven PFA lined gear pumps which avoid the expense associated with pumps made from expensive alloys or exotic metals.
 

23.03.2009
New Process Pumps for Flue Gas Desulphurisation
KWPKC-Monobloc is a new pump series specially designed for use in secondary circuits of flue gas desulphurisation plants. KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, Germany will proudly present their new product at this year’s ACHEMA fair.
 

10.11.2008
Blackmer Provane Pumps Provide Performance Advantages For Ethanol Producers
Blackmer’s ProVane Motor Speed Vane Pump line is ideally suited for ethanol processing, blending and transfer applications.
 

04.05.2009
Trend Report ACHEMA: Rotating Equipment - Availability and Energy Costs Are the Top Priority
Practical experience has shown that there is still considerable potential for reducing the operating costs of existing systems in primary industry. Particularly on continuous-flow machines such as pumps and compressors that operate at partial load, changing to high-efficiency motors and variable-speed drives can reduce energy consumption by as much as 50 %.
 

29.04.2009
ProMinent At the Achema 2009
ProMinent will be presenting intelligent and environmentally friendly fluid feed technology solutions at the ACHEMA 2009 trade fair.
 

21.04.2009
Sulzer Pumps Presents State-Of-The-Art Technology at Achema 2009
Sulzer Pumps is one of the world s leading pump manufacturers. Sulzer Pumps focus is centrifugal pumps, agitators and mixers for the Oil and Gas, Hydrocarbon Processing, Pulp and Paper, Power Generation, Water and Wastewater and Food, Metals and Fertilizer markets.
 

22.09.2010
Steve Rose Named Engineering Manager at EagleBurgmann USA
EagleBurgmann is pleased to announce that Steve Rose has joined the team as Engineering Manager.
 

07.04.2011
Sulzer to Acquire Cardo’s Flow Solutions Business
Sulzer and Assa Abloy, the new majority owner of Cardo AB after a public offer concluded in March 2011, have signed an agreement for the acquisition of Cardo’s Flow Solutions business. The Board and the Executive Committee of Sulzer unanimously support this acquisition.
 

01.07.2010
ITT Acquires Canberra Pumps in Brazil
ITT Corporation announced the acquisition of Canberra Pumps do Brasil, expanding the company s pump manufacturing presence in the Latin America region.
 

15.06.2011
Testing of Process Pumps Also In Compliance with API 675
The investment of around € 500,000 in a new pump test bench enables ProMinent to ensure product quality and undertake further development - even in the highest performance ranges - and test performance profiles adapted to specific applications and customer specifications according to the state of the art.
 

25.03.2011
Flowserve Receives Pump Order for Mississippi Power’s Kemper IGCC Project
Flowserve Corporation announced an order to supply process pumps to be used in the carbon dioxide (CO2) capture process at Mississippi Power s Kemper County integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power station project.
 

22.02.2011
Pumps for Coal Gasification in India
By April 2011, KSB Aktiengesellschaft will deliver a total of 44 process pumps as well as various auxiliary systems and frequency inverters for a coal gasification plant in India.
 

01.12.2010
Pumps for Spanish Particle Accelerator
The Spanish KSB Group company KSB ITUR was awarded a contract for the supply of 57 cooling pumps to be used in a particle accelerator known as “Synchrotron Alba” which is currently under construction.
 

22.10.2010
Special Pumps for Crude Oil Caverns
KSB Group has supplied Scandinavian Tank Storage Sweden, with pumps intended for discharging crude oil from an underground rock cavern.
 

03.03.2009
ITT Wins Contract for Irrigation Systems in India
ITT Corporation, a leading provider of pumps and systems for transporting and treating water, has been awarded a contract to supply a number of high-end water pumps for two irrigation systems to the Andhra Pradesh irrigation project, the largest in India.
 

05.08.2011
Chemical Processing Magazine Rates ITT Goulds Pumps as Top Centrifugal Pump Maker
For the eighth consecutive year, Goulds Pumps, a business of ITT Corporation, has been chosen as the most preferred pump manufacturer by readers of Chemical Processing magazine.
 

26.11.2008
Innovation Prize for KSB
KSB is one of the three prize winners of the “Best Innovator 2008” competition, which management consultants A.T. Kearney organised together with the journal Wirtschaftswoche.
 

30.05.2011
UK Sales Office Opened By Rodelta Pumps International BV
Rodelta Pumps International BV has expanded their operation by opening a new sales office in the UK.
 

11.12.2009
AxFlow Offers Fast Build and Ex-Stock Availability for Its Latest Centrifugal Pumps
AxFlow UK Limited has announced that the latest additions to its centrifugal pumps range will be made available on a fast build and ex-stock basis. The CCC (Close Coupled Centrifugal) and ISO-Process pumps have been introduced in order to meet the requirements of companies that want a fast turn-round delivery service.
 

28.09.2009
Moyno Completes Major Expansion and Upgrade of R&D Lab at Springfield Facility
Moyno, Inc. recently completed major expansion and upgrades to its research and development laboratories located in the Springfield, Ohio facility, including the Polymer Development Test Lab and the Hydraulics Lab.