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Mitigating raw material price volatility in the pump industry The pump industry, like many manufacturing sectors, faces significant challenges due to fluctuations in raw material prices, notably for materials like stainless steel and nickel. These price swings directly impact production costs and can squeeze profit margins. However, pump manufacturers are actively implementing strategies to mitigate […]

The KSB Group has supplied 39 API 610 standard pumps for a new two-way pipeline in Oman. The KSB process pumps are operated in injection and gas oil return as well as in pipeline and collecting tank drainage service. The pumps, which are API types OH2, VS1 and VS4, have cast steel casings and their

AxFlow Germany is strengthening its service offering with the acquisition of Pumpen Karrer, a family-owned company that specialises in industrial equipment repair and maintenance, especially pumps, for the chemicals, food & beverage and building & construction markets.The acquired operations will become a regional base for AxFlow Germany service in the Allgau region west of Munich.  Pumpen

Bedford Pumps Ltd is supplying its fish friendly pumps for a Belgian pumping station. The vertical suspended pumpset from Bedford’s DAF (Direct Drive Axial Flow) range will discharge below floor level at a duty of 400 litres per second at 3m head.As the pump will be used in brackish water, it is manufactured entirely from

John Crane Asset Management Solutions has secured a major contract to provide condition-based maintenance (CBM) services for an oil refinery in Texas, USA.   Under the contract, John Crane Asset Management Solutions personnel will be deployed to the Texas refinery from the company’s operational offices in Aberdeen, UK and Pasadena, Texas.John Crane will also help train the refinery’s

Germany’s HOMA Pumpenfabrik GmbH and India’s EKKI Pumps have signed an agreement to set up a wastewater focused joint venture pump company in India to serve the domestic and neighbouring markets.As part of the joint venture, HOMA and EKKI are also looking at setting up a new manufacturing facility in India.The new partnership will enable HOMA to significantly

Grundfos has officially opened a new manufacturing facility in Dantali, Gujarat, India.  The new facility, which will be run by Grundfos Pumps India Pvt Ltd (Grundfos India), will supply stainless steel products, boosters and box products to India’s western and northern regions.Using a ‘Make in India’ model, the new plant will also export stainless steel components

Ebara Vietnam Pump Co Ltd (EVPC) has delivered nine energy saving pumps (three intake and six distribution) to a filtration plant operated by a public water supply company in Da Nang, Vietnam.The pumps were produced in the new EVPC plant which opened in May last year.The new plant provides integrated production systems from casting production to

Jain Irrigation Systems has bagged Bhusawal (Maharashtra) Water Supply project of USD 845 M (INR 84.50 Cr.) from Bhusawal Municipal Council Maharashtra through national competitive bidding. This project has received funding under the AMRUT scheme of the Central Government. The work involved in this project is intake structures, water treatment plant, 220 km pipe line which