WORLD PUMPS May 2013

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Weir wins £4.4mn deal in Kazakhstan

GE to pay US$3.3bn for Lufkin Industries

A £4.4 million process equipment

contract for the Bozshakol copper

mine sulphide plant in northern

Kazakhstan has gone to Weir

Minerals.

The contract covers a wide range

of process and tailings pumps, as

well as Warman 650 MCR pump

units along with a complete

replacement wet-end assembly.

The pumps will be delivered by

Weir Minerals Europe, assisted by

Weir Minerals Australia’s projects

team. Bozshakol is Kazakhstan’s

biggest single-mine development

both in value and volume terms.

The project, which is being

developed by Kazakhmys PLC, is

expected to output an average of

75 000 tonnes of copper

concentrate per annum across its

40-year lifespan, with production

scheduled to begin in 2015.

Carola Schulz, sales & marketing

director at Weir Minerals Europe,

said: “Bozshakol is a landmark

project not only for Kazakhstan

but globally, being one of the

largest deposits of copper ore to

have been left untapped. It is also

a signifi cant project for Weir

Minerals, demonstrating our ability

to deploy the specialist capabilities

of our companies around the

world to meet the needs of

mining operations of any shape,

size or location.”

www.weirminerals.com

GE is buying artifi cial lift

technology specialist Lufkin

Industries Inc in a deal valued

at US$3.3 billion.

Lufkin will broaden GE Oil & Gas’s

artifi cial lift capabilities beyond

electric submersible pumps (ESPs)

to include rod lift, gas lift, plunger

lift, hydraulic lift and progressive

cavity pumps as well as a range of

well automation and production

optimization controls and software.

“Advanced technologies, combined

with new drilling practices, are

revolutionizing the oil & gas

industry,” explained Daniel

Heintzelman, president and CEO of

GE Oil & Gas. “The artifi cial lift

segment is at the heart of critical

changes that are helping

producers maximize well potential

- which translates into increased

output at lower operational cost.

Lufkin’s world-class people, equip-

ment and services fi t perfectly in

our portfolio and will enable us to

off er a wide range of artifi cial lift

solutions to our customers in this

fast-growing artifi cial lift sector.”

www.ge.com

www.lufkin.com

Flowserve expands Spanish testing facility

New CEO for Sulzer PumpsFlowserve Corp has completed an

upgrade of its open loop test

bench at its manufacturing and

testing facility in Coslada, Spain.

The Flowserve investment is

designed to meet increased

customer needs for larger cooling

water pumps and expanded testing

capabilities. Flowserve customers

in Europe, the Middle East and Asia

can now obtain actual site condition

tests together with run-out fl ow veri-

fi cation at the point of manufacture.

www.fl owserve.com

Scot Smith has been appointed

president of Sulzer Pumps.

Smith, 50, a US citizen, served as

managing director of Weir Minerals

from 2001 to 2012. Before joining

Weir he spent almost 20 years in

the automotive industry.

Kim Jackson, Sulzer Pumps’

president since 2007, has left the

company to pursue other

opportunities. The Sulzer board

and executive committee thanked

Jackson for his part in growing

Sulzer Pumps organically, for his

contributions to the division’s

acquisitions and for broadening

the global presence of the

business.

www.sulzer.com

Allweiler supplies propeller pumps to Saudi Arabia

KSB opens €15mn factory in BrazilKSB has offi cially opened a new

manufacturing plant in Jundiaí,

Brazil, 50 km north of São Paulo.

The €15 million facility, designed to

produce standard pumps and valves,

will initially manufacture ball, gate

and globe valves. Once valve produc-

tion is up and running, the company

will start supplying standard

pumps from the new location.

The new 100 000 sq m factory will

have an initial workforce of 123.

KSB has had a manufacturing pres-

ence in Brazil since 1954. With a

Brazilian workforce of 933, the

company already produces pumps

in Várzea Paulista in the state of

São Paulo, while castings are made

at the company's foundry in

Americana, 80 km from Várzea

Paulista. Customers are mainly in

the chemical, petrochemical,

general industrial, water manage-

ment and the oil & gas sectors.

www.ksb.com

Allweiler is to provide fi ve

propeller pumps for a chemical

plant in Saudi Arabia.

The pumps, which are specially

designed for use during the

production of explosive mate-

rials, are valued at approximately

€900 000.

The fi ve Allweiler propeller pumps

will be used to feed chemical

reactors in one of the world’s

largest chemical-production

complexes. The reactors will be a

major component of the Sadara

chemical complex in Saudi Arabia.

www.allweiler.com

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