New Heavy-Duty Submersible Slurry Pump Line

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EBARA Fluid Handling, a leading provider of water and wastewater pumps, pump products and services, has added a new line of heavy duty submersible slurry pumps designed to handle corrosive and abrasive slurries in the harshest conditions.

Several unique design features are built in to the EBARA model ENZX slurry pumps that increase the efficient and effective pumping of slurries and lowers operating cost and wear on the pump. Durable construction extends wear life in corrosive environments with the ability to handle concentration of solids up to 30 percent. The pump stand and inlet screen are constructed of heavy-duty 304 stainless steel. High chrome components on the model ENZX carry a 56.8 hardness on the Rockwell scale and are extremely abrasion and corrosion resistant including the complete wet end, enclosed impeller, (upper and lower) wear liners, agitator, casing and ANSI flanged elbow.

The high chrome agitator fitted on the end of main impeller mixes the settled solid material with liquid into a highly concentrated slurry allowing the pump to lift the liquid and solid together, and eliminates pump clogging and suspends solids for cleaner sumps. The enclosed, high chrome impeller also provides higher efficiencies and extended wear life. Double mechanical seals with silicon carbide faces safely operate in oil chamber away from pumped slurry providing for extended wear life. High chrome iron replaceable wear liners are located above and below the impeller, avoiding costly casing replacement due to excessive wear.

High efficiency motors are three phase, 460 volt with integral thermal overload and seal leak protection and ship with standard 40’ length UL listed and CSA approved cables. Standard (UL listed/CSA approved) control panels, built specifically for the ENZX models, are available and designed to operate and control all protection devices on the pump.

The ENZX is available from 2 to 6 inches and with horsepower ranges from 7.5 to 30 HP, flows up to 1200 GPM and head to 140 feet, including a two stage, high head model that incorporates a dual impeller. EBARA’s model ENZX pumps are designed to easily retrofit into existing installations and for easy maintenance. ENZX slurry pumps are engineered for the toughest conditions and ideal for applications with abrasive and caustic slurries including mining, wastewater, industrial, mineral processing, power utilities, clean-up sumps and dewatering applications.

For product information and specifications, please see the ENZX product page.

Oil Smart® Pump System is now available!

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EBARA Fluid Handling, a leading provider of water and wastewater pumps, pump products and services, has added the Oil Smart® Pump System to its packaged pump system line.

The Oil Smart® is a complete pump system that incorporates the best selling EBARA sump models EPD and Optima with controls and alarm sensors that differentiate between water and oil, allowing for the responsible discharge of water without harmful contamination from oily substances. The systems are ideal for elevator sumps, parking garages, underground vaults, power plants, industrial sumps, transformer containment areas and substations where oily substances can generally occur.

The Oil Smart® systems are available in both single and three phase configurations with pumps from 1/3 up to 1-1/2 HP, flows up to 86 GPM and head to 61 feet. With three models from basic corded plug-in to hard-wired upgrade NEMA 4X simplex control panels, the system components include the Oil Smart® Pump Switch that provides the built-in on/off to pump and the Liquid Smart Alarm Switch that differentiates between water and oil with alarm. The operation of the sensor probe detects high oil levels or oily substances when present in a sump or vault. The system switch is adjusted to on/off and is triggered when oil is detected, activating the alarm and indicator lights. The alarm will sound with oil detection, high water occurrences and in the event of power loss.

The system is compliant with state and federal regulations and local building and safety codes including in accordance with ASME A17.1, reducing the risk of expensive cleanup costs and fines. The EBARA Oil Smart® Systems come standard with local, lockable disconnect on the single and three phase panels, providing safety and saving time and money during installation as it meets most local code requirements. The Oil Smart® system is UL listed and CSA certified, tested prior to shipment and carries an industry standard three-year (limited) warranty.

For product information and specifications, please see the Oil Smart product page.

New Verderflex High Pressure Low Volume (HPLV) hose pump

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Dosing liquids of less than 1 litre per hour at 8 bar is no longer a problem!
Thanks to the introduction of the New Dura 5 and Dura 7 HPLV dosing hose pumps with re-enforced hoses. 


Verderflex Dura 5 & Dura 7 are the most compact peristaltic hose pumps on the market and are ideal for High Pressure Low Volume Dosing applications, including water treatment, brewing, mining, and automotive. 

These two new peristaltic hose pumps solve many pumping problems, such as:

- Off gassing when pumping hypo

- Abrasive wear when pumping lime

- Clogging because of viscosity fluctuations

For all technical specifications just download the techno sheet:

Industrial Vendor Rides Memphis' Factory Surge

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March 24--That kitchen oven plant in Memphis?

Yes, Electrolux is a customer.

So is Toyota Blue Springs, Unilever Covington and KTG Memphis.

Despite the nation's slow economic recovery, Process & Power Inc. reported sales nearly doubled in six years.

The company, a vendor of Ingersoll Rand air compressor machinery, supplies the array of factories expanding and opening in and near Memphis.

Riding the industrial surge, the firm recently diversified, by acquiring Jack Tyler Engineering Co. of Memphis.

Stuart Bassett, Process & Power president, noted the industrial boom here seems to have peaked for now, though he figures there's pent-up demand.

"We saw a lot of projects and plans last year," Bassett said. "But much of it people sat on because they were nervous about the economy and the situation with the job market."

In 2013's final three months, the nation's output of goods and services rose only 2.4 percent compared to the same 2012 period, the U.S. Commerce Department said in February.

That's a large reason why only 508,000 people in Greater Memphis were employed in December, compared to 531,000 a year earlier. For the country's jobs engine to rev up, economists say, 4-percent national growth is needed.

Gross domestic product sped up in last year's third quarter, registering 4.1 percent growth, but quickly subsided. Business was curbed nationwide by bitter cold, expired jobless benefits and food stamps and the government shut down, analysts say. As unsold inventories piled up, factory orders declined in U.S. plants. Slowing economies in China, Brazil and India also tugged at U.S. sales.

Growth averaged 1.9 percent for all of 2013 after expanding 2.8 percent in 2012. Forecasts call for first-quarter GDP growth of less than 2 percent.

Despite the hard patch for the nation, Bassett's firm prospered.

A former Ingersoll Rand salesman in Indianapolis, Bassett teamed in 2006 with partners Bruce Davis in Jackson, Tenn., and Lee Majors in Little Rock to buy Process & Power, a business founded in the late 1960s by Gaskell Co., a Memphis crane-leasing firm run by brothers Milton and Bailey Ross.

Although the 2007 Wall Street crash pushed the nation into a deep recession, Process & Power' didn't falter. Its sales, $10.6 million in 2006, peaked at $20 million in 2012, Bassett said.

Over those same years, an array of foreign manufacturers opened Memphis-area plants or expanded existing factories, including Electrolux appliances, GreenTech Automotive, KTG paper, Mitsubishi transformers, Rockwool insulation, Shulz steel and Unilever ice cream

While the city has not been considered an industrial center for decades, Memphis' inexpensive land, low wages and electrical rates along with its massive logistics hub attracted plants. They helped cushion the city's economy.

Although the region lost factory jobs during the recession, industrial payrolls in Memphis and Shelby County actually rose after the financial crash, climbing to $3.5 billion in 2012 from $2.9 billion in 2009 and $2.7 billion in 2007. The gains, which include salaried manufacturing employees, made up for losses in other sectors.

Between 2007 and 2009, annual payrolls plunged by more than $1 billion in total across other major Memphis industries, including construction, retail, transportation and hospitality.

With the industrial surge, Process & Power added eight employees. The firm employs 52 people and will keep the five from Jack Tyler Engineering, which will form a separate division headed by engineer Jack Tyler Jr.

Although orders in 2014 appear less robust than 2012, Bassett said no layoffs are in sight.

"We're well above where we were in 2006 as far as sales go," Bassett said.

The company is trying to land a $2 million order and although it will probably fall shy of the $20 million sales mark for the year, it won't be hugely under that number.

"I think the opportunity to have more is here," Bassett said.

Top Five Industries

Five sectors account for almost 60 percent of the $36.3 billion in annual compensation paid by employers in Greater Memphis.

Sector Total Compensation

Government $6.1 billion

Transportation $4.5 billion

Health Care $4.2 billion

Manufacturing $4.1 billion

Wholesale $2.6 billion

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2012 report

Copyright 2014 - The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.

New Verderair VA 80 double diaphragm pumps

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The series VA80 double diaphragm pumps is a new series within the Verderair family. Equipped with the proven quick-acting air valve design and available in 3 material options: SS316, Aluminium and Polypropylene. Verderair offers nine materials for ball valves, seats and diaphragms.

The VA80 pump series is equipped with the proven quick-acting air valve, making the Verderair family the most efficient diaphragm pump of the world, without the need of any ancillary equipment to improve its’ efficiency.

The complete air valve consists of only 13 parts, including the housing.

The air valve is fully externally serviceable, requires no lubrication, nor oilers, and can be serviced in only 5 minutes. The VA80 air valve also has the ability to be repaired offline.

Features of the new pump series are:

  • Smooth and rapid change over quick-acting air valve
  • More efficient operation (Higher flow rate but yet less air consumption)
  • Less maintenance; less downtime (cost savings)
  • Leak-free operation (save and reliable)
  • Increased material strength

The rigid 4-bolted construction ensures equal sealing pressure for the total sealing surface and offers therefore absolute leak-proof pumping. The Polypropylene Verderair VA model is provided with an overmolded fluid section frame to have a better relaxation on the joints and to enhance the strength of the fluid section.

Verderair VA 80 pumps are reliable pumps with an excellent corrosive and abrasive resistance.

Technical specifications:

Flow: 300 gpm

Pressure: 125 psi

ANSI Flanged, NPT threaded

Peristaltic Pumps excel in Anaerobic Digestion & Biogas applications

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Biogas is a natural gas also known as biofuel or biomass and is produced by breaking down organic material such as household waste, manure and crops grown specifically for biofuel with temperature-sensitive microbes and capturing the by-products.

In practice, it is difficult to find a pumping system for this application. Why?

  • The pumps needs to handle fluid media as well as gas parts
  • The shear strain needs to be minimal
  • The capacity of the pump needs to be flexible
  • The device needs to have a long service life
  • The pump needs to be reversible as the suction happens both from the top of the  fermentation tank and also from the bottom

The New Verderflex Dura 45 Peristaltic Hose Pump

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  • Compact footprint with class leading performance
  • Rugged design for the real world
  • Patent pending innovative port flange design
  • Stalled rotor protection guards against blockages and chokes
  • Ideal for abrasive slurries, dry running liquid feeds, shear sensitive polymers, high viscosity sludge and dosing applications


The Class Leading Dura 45 Peristaltic Pump

The Verderflex Dura 45 is the pathfinder in a new generation of medium flow, industrial hose pumps.  A product of intensive engineering investigation, with genuine class-leading performance, the Verderflex Dura 45 combines a close-coupled pump’s compactness with a long coupled pump’s easy serviceability.  Additionally, its innovative, patent pending flange design reduces downtime by speeding up hose changes whilst totally containing the pumped liquid inside the pump’s housing eliminating any risk of workplace contamination.

Ideal for medium flow applications up to 12m³/h, the Verderflex Dura 45 solves pumping problems associated with dry running liquid streams, shear sensitive polymers, high viscosity sludge and pastes, variable speed dosing, abrasive solids in suspension and off-gassing fluids.  This makes the Verderflex Dura 45 ideal for use in biogas production, brewing, chemical manufacturing, food processing, mining and water treatment.

Key Features:

Best in-class performance

The Verderflex Dura 45 is the class leader for this peristaltic pump size.  It delivers 25% more flow per revolution than equivalent models, requiring 300 less revolutions to pump 2000 litres, significantly outperforming its competition at all pressures up to 16 Bar.

New patent pending, innovative port flange design

The Verderflex Dura 45 has an innovative quarter turn to lock system for fast and efficient hose changes whilst it still fully encloses the pumped liquid inside the pump casing for optimum pumping safety.  Additionally, the solid cast stainless steel flanges have a vastly superior nozzle load rating than flimsy designs using external brackets.  Normally, supplied in 316 Stainless Steel, the patent pending flange design also has integral PP & PVDF inserts for aggressive chemical duty options.

Stylish, compact design

The Verderflex Dura 45 has a 20% smaller foot print than its nearest competitor and requires less floor space than similar peristaltic pumps but with a higher pumping capacity,

Premium quality Verderflex Hose

The Verderflex Dura 45 uses a premium quality Verderflex hose to maximize fatigue strength, thereby increasing hose life and reducing ownership costs. 

Stalled rotor protection

The Verderflex Dura 45 includes stalled rotor protection eliminating potential rotor, rotor shoe or gearbox damage when the pumped liquid settles out or a line chokes, reducing both maintenance costs and production downtime.  Additionally, the Verderflex Dura 45’s rotor is made from high tensile strength SG iron rather than the lower specification GG iron used by many competing products.

Fully supported rotor shoes

The Verderflex Dura 45 uses shims to adjust its working pressure and each rotor shoe is fully supported by the pump’s rotor eliminating potential stress weakpoints

Premium Quality Verderflex Hose

The Verderflex Dura 45 hose  uses an optimum number of reinforcement fibres for maximum fatigue strength and increased hose life

  • All Verderflex Dura 45 hoses operate at up to 16 Bar or 230 PSI
  • Hoses can be supplied in Natural Rubber, EPDM, Nitrile Buna Rubber (NBR) , Hypalon® and Food Grade Nitrile (NBRF), ensuring excellent chemical compatibility
  • All Verderflex Dura 45 hoses have an external colour code bonded into the hose’s surface during manufacture for easy material identification
  • All Verderflex Dura 45 hoses have precisely controlled wall thickness eliminating secondary machining
  • Consequently, all Verderflex Dura 45 hoses have a textured surface for enhanced lubricant distribution, further improving hose life

LBTEC INDUfinish Relies on Almatec® E-Series AODD Pumps for its Flux-Fluid Systems

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LBTEC INDUfinish utilizes Almatec® E-Series air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps to transfer aggressive, abrasive and dangerous chemicals in its flux-fluid systems used in the pre-treatment of raw steel, also known as hot-dip galvanizing. Almatec E-Series AODD pumps provide LBTEC with safe, leak-free and reliable performance when handling fluids such as hydrochloric acid and ammonium chloride solutions.