TRUSTED WORLDWIDE SINCE 1908 Fall/Winter 2016
Volume 26, Number 2
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President’s Message Page 2 Darley FD Customer Spotlight: Darley Welcomes New Pump Customers Page 2 Featured Product: EM 2000 Two-Stage Pump Page 3 Darley Unique Product Applications: FDNY Fire Boat Fleet Standardizes on Darley Pumps, Darley Pumps Selected for Unmanned Patrol Boats Page 3 Darley Divisions - ODIN® Foam, PolyBilt®, Ohler Pumps, and Defense Page 4 Just Ask Engineering: What Metals Do You Recommend on Pump Components That Come in Contact with Water, and Why? Page 5 West-Mark Awarded Trailer Contract for U.S. Air Force Page 5 From the Office of Jeff Darley Page 6 Darley Employees Participate in Local Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup Page 6 Employee Profile: Paul Nelson Page 6 Darley Pump School & CAFS Academy Page 7 A Look at a Next Generation Darley: James William Bayer Page 7 Darley International Pump Sales Team Page 7 Vendor Spotlight: Super Vac Page 8 Check Your Mail for Darley’s New Firefighting Equipment Catalog Page 8 Industry Calendar Page 8
CONTACT DARLEY Pump Sales Phone: 1.800.4DARLEY • 630.735.3500 Ohler Pump Co. / ODIN® Foam Phone: 319.987.2121 Parts & Engineering Phone: 1.800.634.7812 • 715.726.2650 On the Web www.darley.com • www.edarley.com The Darley Times is published by Darley U.S.A. Headquarters: 325 Spring Lake Dr. Itasca, IL 60143-2072
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Major Contracts Fuel Darley’s Growth Over the past 90 years, Darley has received major contracts from fire and defense customers around the world which catapulted our business to new heights. This year has been no exception. During World War II, Darley delivered thousands of pumps and hundreds of fire engines to the U.S. Military, earning us the Army/Navy E Award three times for our excellence in performance of war production. After the war, those vehicles where left in countries around the Darley provided hundreds of trucks and world and this became the catalyst thousands of pumps during WW II, earning us the Army/Navy E Award three times. for our international business. Over the past 25 years, Darley has provided over ten thousand pumps to our U.S. Department of Defense, from the P100 firefighting pump for U.S. Navy to the LE 600 fuel transfer pump to the U.S. Marine Corps. Today, larger cities’ fire departments are making the shift to Darley pumps more than ever before. These include cities like Boston, Charlotte, and Miami-Dade just to name a few. The entire FDNY fleet of boats now has Darley at the heart of their vessels. While our history has been mostly filled with orders for firefighting equipment, we’ve recently expanded our product line extensively. In 2016 alone, we shipped over 250 pumps to West-Mark for the U.S. Air Force to be used in dust control at remote airports. (See West-Mark article on page 5.) After rigorous testing at Aberdeen Proving Ground in September 2016, Darley was awarded a multimillion dollar contract through FEMA to provide residential fire sprinkler systems for mobile housing units to assist displaced residents in Baton Rouge and other disaster hit areas. In 2016, Darley Defense was FEMA is receiving hundreds of NFPA 13D residential fire systems awarded contracts to supply two critical for their mobile housing units. safety items to the U.S. Army for Project Manager Soldier Protective Equipment (PM SPE). The first contract, valued up to $48 million, is for Ultra Low Visible Concealable Body Armor (ULV CBA). This system consists of concealable vests and both hard and soft armor that can be used interchangeably. Darley developed the system in conjunction with our suppliers to combat specific threats seen by our troops overseas. The second contract is for Generation Two Advanced Bomb Suits (GEN II ABS). In the Phase I program of the contract, Darley is delivering lighter weight bomb suits with better visibility and an integrated cooling system for testing by EOD soldiers and the U.S. Army. In both cases, we are using our extensive supply chain and internal quality management to We were recently awarded a multi-year deliver state-of-the art systems in response to requests from the contract to provide bomb suits government. and body armor to the U.S. Army.