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WORLD PUMPS February 2013

Sulzer delivers dewatering pumps for Zambian mine

ITT expands Industrial Process business

Sulzer Pumps has secured a

contract to supply 12 large

dewatering pump sets for a

copper mine in Zambia.

The contract covers the design,

manufacture, testing, packaging,

installation supervision and

commissioning of ten large high

pressure HPH pumps with

3000 KW motors for continuous

dewatering of the main shaft,

and two small medium pressure

HPH pumps with 800 KW

motors for emergency pumping

situations.

www.sulzer.com

ITT Corp is adding a 75 000 sq ft

manufacturing facility and

expanding its current R&D labora-

tory at its Seneca Falls campus in

upstate New York to support the

company’s growth in the oil & gas

market.

The company will invest

US$22 million at the Seneca Falls

site, which is the global

headquarters of ITT’s Industrial

Process business and the largest

Goulds Pumps manufacturing

operation.

Construction work on the new

manufacturing facility is set to

start this spring and should be

completed by the end of the year.

Work on the R&D laboratory is

already underway and targeted for

completion by the second quarter

of 2013.

www.itt.com

Hamilton Sundstrand Industrial rebranded

Weir signs £1.3mn contract with Boliden

Private equity fi rm BC Partners and

asset manager The Carlyle Group

have completed the US$3.46

billion acquisition of Milton Roy Co,

Sullair Corp and Sundyne Corp

from United Technologies Corp

and rebranded the stand-alone

Hamilton Sundstrand Industrial

business as Neodyne Industries.

“The Neodyne brand refl ects our

renewed emphasis on product

innovation, engineering and manu-

facturing excellence. We will focus

on our core industrial products

businesses while we better posi-

tion our company for sustained

global growth,” said John Doucette,

Neodyne president and CEO.

Neodyne has three global indus-

trial businesses – Milton Roy,

Sullair and Sundyne – and two

platforms – Flow Control and

Industrial Air Compressors.

www.miltonroy.com

www.sundyne.com

Weir Minerals is to supply pumps

and equipment for a new mineral

processing plant in Garpenberg,

Sweden.

The new plant is being built by

Swedish mining company Boliden

and replaces an existing facility,

doubling capacity from 1.3 million

to 2.5 million tonnes of metal ores

per year.

Under a £1.3 million contract, Weir

Minerals will supply the majority

of the pumps for the plant,

including a number of diff erent

types and sizes to handle a wide

range of fl ow rates, pressure

requirements and slurry

consistencies.

Pump delivery will begin

immediately, with installation and

commissioning work scheduled to

take place between spring and

autumn 2013.

www.weirminerals.com

First orders for Franklin's new artifi cial lift productsFranklin Electric has received two

signifi cant orders for its recently

launched artifi cial lift pumping

solutions.

Exxaro, a South Africa-based

mining group that provided

several test sites for the products,

has placed an inaugural order for

seven complete pumping systems

for its Botswana Coal project, while

a strategic customer in the north-

western United States has also

placed an order for 14 systems.

Over the last two years, Franklin

Electric has been fi eld testing

artifi cial lift products in coalbed

methane, shale gas and oil-stripper

fi elds throughout the US, sub-

Saharan Africa and Australia. Origi-

nally developed for the coalbed

methane extraction market, Frank-

lin’s artifi cial lift systems use

submersible water pumping tech-

nology to de-liquefy gas wells.

www.franklin-energy.com

www.franklin-electric.com

DESMI opens offi ce in IndiaDenmark’s DESMI Pumping

Technology A/S has opened a

branch offi ce in Mumbai, India.

"India is a very important market

for DESMI. By setting up our own

representation in India we will be

able to off er optimal service to

our customers and in this way

increase our market share in the

coming period," said DESMI

Pumping Technology managing

director Henrik Mørkholt.

DESMI equipment is sold to more

than 100 countries through a

network of subsidiaries and

distributors on six continents.

www.desmi.com

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