Chemical Technology October 2015

Acquisition could bring new pumps to market Customers in mining, industry and pet- rochemicals are likely to benefit from increased competition in the South African pump market resulting from the acquisi- tion in June 2015 by WPIL of Italian pump company Gruppo Aturia. WPIL is the hold- ing company of local manufacturers APE Pumps and Mather+Platt, both well known in the South African and southern African pump markets.

Gruppo Aturia has as its core product a range of horizontal split-case pumps already covered by Mather+Platt at low duties, and by APE Pumps at the high-volume end of the market. However, there are other product ranges not covered by the South African compa- nies, including submersible vertical turbine pumps and sealless magnetic drive pumps. Gruppo Aturia also manufactures spe- cific models of horizontal and vertical multistage pumps that have the potential to plug gaps in the local ranges. The WPIL acquisition includes subsid- iary companies of Gruppo Aturia. Rutschi Fluid (Switzerland) and Pompes Rutschi (France) focus on nuclear and petrochemi- cal applications, potentially providing new

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product that will allow customers to offload responsibility for pump reliability and up- time onto us. An announcement on the availability of new products, including asset management, would be made soon, the spokesman said.

API 685 products for local petrochemical applications. “We are excited about the potential for new products offered by this acquisition, and will certainly make as many of these pumps as possible available to local cus- tomers,” said a spokesman for the WPIL. “We are also investigating the in- troduction of an asset management

For more information tel Dave Johnson on +27 11 824 4810

Suppliers of pumps and valves to the mining and industrial sectors for over 60 years.

Stockists of Tianjin small submersible, vertical multi-stage and close coupled water pumps.

Suppliers of the following:

M+P Split Casing Pump

Multi-stage Pump

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Viking Gear Pump

Tel: 011 824 4810

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Web: www.matherandplatt.com

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