The Ford Engine plant in Dagenham
is using Vaughan chopper pumps to
handle the combination of swarf,
cutting oils and coolants that is
collected from CNC machines
making engines and transmissions.

In the late ’90s when Vaughan
supplied a trial pump to a Michiganbased
filter systems manufacturer,
the pump was to be tested to see how
it would perform against the
conventional method of handling
waste. The design and operational
characteristics of the Vaughan pump
provided an effective combination of
shredder and pump which could
handle all the ingredients of the
machine waste.

After four years of validation
Vaughan was chosen as the preferred
type of pump for the waste handling
application.

Fast forward to 2005 and
Vaughan’s Huntingdon based UK
distributor P&M Pumps became
involved with the supply of 74
bespoke design V3M ‘pump back’
pumping systems for waste handling
applications at Ford’s UK engine
plant sites at Dagenham and Port
Talbot.