PUMPS & VALVES
Upscaling plants leads to bigger orders
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HE MARKET FOR chemical transfer pumps is shrinking in terms of small orders, but growing for larger orders. This is due to smaller plants in many industries being closed and replaced with larger plants, taking advantage of economies of scale to deliver a lower cost of production per unit. This is according to Adrien Hourlier, Someflu’s international sales manager, who recently visited the company’s local exclusive distributor, Ecochem Pumps. Ecochem distributes Someflu’s range of chemical transfer pumps throughout South Africa and neighbouring countries. Ecochem has, for many years, supplied the market with Milton Roy’s range of chemical dosing pumps. The Someflu chemical transfer pump is complementary to the Milton Roy chemical dosing pump in process operations. Ecochem Pumps made use of the installed Milton Roy product base during
Hourlier’s visit to introduce him to existing customers, where he made presentations on the Someflu product range. Ecochem Pumps recently received a significant order for Someflu pumps from a leading platinum mine in North West province. These pumps, which have already been supplied and installed, are expected to be commissioned soon. Someflu also recently received a very large order for a fertiliser super-plant to be
built in Morocco. Hourlier says that such multi-national projects would always present an opportunity for sales of the Someflu product, provided that the local supplier could provide on-site fault diagnosis. “Ecochem Pumps is particularly strong in fault diagnosis, which is one of the main reasons that we selected them as our authorised distributor.”
About the Someflu pump Someflu centrifugal pumps are designed for transferring corrosive, abrasive and hazardous fluids in mining, chemical, petrochemical, water treatment and other applications, managing the bulk transfer of chemicals from one point to another. The pumps, machined from a block of raw material, can handle a flow rate up to 1 500 m3/h and a 100 m head pressure. SOMEFLU’s international distribution manager Adrien Hourlier
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