Hamworthy Pumps has entered into its first aftersales framework agreement in the Greater China region. The client is a very large offshore company.
American Ship Repair (ASR) is Hamworthy Pumps’ new agent in the US. The company is based in Brooklyn, New York, and was established in 1951.
The pump manufacturer Svanehøj has acquired FORCE Technology’s Marine Equipment Service department. This means that Svanehøj becomes a full-scope cargo system service provider with competencies in servicing and calibrating pumps, compressors, valves and instrumentation.
The technology group Wärtsilä has divested its pumps business to Solix Group, a Scandinavian investment company with offices in Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. Wärtsilä Pumps has belonged to the Wärtsilä Marine Solutions organisation and became part of the company along with the acquisition of Hamworthy in 2012. The Wärtsilä Pumps business recorded sales of approximately 50 MEUR in 2017.
A total of 22 bulk carriers, being built by Yangzhou Guoyu Shipbuilding Co. Ltd in China for Singapore based Pioneer Marine, will feature Wärtsilä Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS). The Wärtsilä systems will enable the vessels to comply fully with the IMO s ballast water convention. The contracts were finalised in August.
Marine vessels are purchasing air and liquid flow control and treatment equipment at an accelerating rate due to new limits on both emissions to the atmosphere and to the water.
Wärtsilä has won a valuable order to supply a series of pumps to be installed on a new floating storage unit (FSU). The FSU is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for Statoil, the Norway based international energy company.
BZ Engineering Briefings has announced that profiles of 55 of the world’s leading pump manufacturers are now available for purchase online.
Hamworthy has won its second order this year to supply a Multi Stage Flash (MSF) evaporation plant to a steel band galvanising plant in China. This is the eighth evaporator of the same type that Hamworthy has produced for steelworks in Europe and China.
From 1 November, Grundfos takes over the rights to part of Danish pump manufacturer Svanehøj’s product range – large in-line pumps, used especially in the district heating sector but also used for air-conditioning. With this acquisition, Grundfos will be able to produce pumps with capacities of up to 4,000 cubic metres per hour equipped with motors of up to 600 kW.
