Industrial Plant & Equipment

Pump performance key to treatment

With OFWAT urging water companies to rethink pricing
strategies and with the current AMP 5 spending round and
Water Framework Directive (WFD) on the horizon,Simon
Lambert,general manager for Europe at NOV Mono,
explains w

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Operates valves in an emergency

The Easi-Drive portable valve
actuator from Smith Flow
Control provides wastewater
treatment plants with
operation of valves in the
event of a power failure.

Easi-Drive can open or close
electric actuated valves duri

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Whisky role

Whisky manufacturer Chivas Regal,
part of the Pernod Ricard Group, has
selected Verder’s Verderflex Dura 10
peristaltic hose pump for a lime
dosing application at its Glenlivet
plant in Scotland. The pump was
chosen for

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Green winner

For the fifth
consecutive
year The
Green
Organisation
has awarded
Grundfos
Pumps a
Green Apple
Environment
Award. Entering the Engineering
category with its Pump Audit Tool,
Grundfos demonstrated that pumps
are t

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Energy saving

The new STEVI AS Y-pattern process
valve from ARI-Armaturen delivers
power and tight shut-off for up to
1,000,000 strokes. The self-adjusting
stem sealing system, comprising
spring loaded PTFE-V-ring unit and
burnished

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Speed check for beer as it flows into barrels

The Leeds based Microdat
Company supplies keg and
cask handling machinery in
the brewing industry. Its entry-level
filler is based around a peristaltic
pump that is speed controlled by a
Lenze SMV inverter.With IP65
en

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Quick delivery

AxFlow UK says new additions to its
centrifugal pumps range will be
available on a fast build and ex-stock
basis. The CCC (Close Coupled
Centrifugal) and ISO-Process pumps
are aimed at companies that want a
fast turn-ro

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Three in a row

At the Pump Industry Awards 2009
ABB became the first company to be
awarded ‘Supplier of the Year’ for the
third year in a row.

Steve Ruddell, general manager of
drives and motors, ABB, says “We
now have the broadest

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Golden year

Hayward Tyler Fluid Handling
reports strong growth as it celebrates
50 years in business. Driven by a
number of ‘green’ energy projects,
the company has won or shipped a
wide range of contracts this year.

These includ

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Greater choice

The range of simple, yet reliable
Viking external gear pumps has been
extended and now features 29 models
to provide flows from 0.2 to 760L/min.

Available through Michael Smith
Engineers, the SG range of Viking
positi

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