Chemical Technology March 2016

Mather + Platt’s three major brands service the chemical industry

H olding company, Worthington Pumps India (WPIL), through its international subsidiary WPIL international (Singapore), recently acquired the pump business of PSV South Africa, comprising 100 % shareholding in APE pumps, Mather & Platt SA, PSV Services SA and PSV Zambia. Mather + Platt SA, established here in 1950, is the local supplier for Viking Pump, Vanton Pump and EIM, amongst others. These three brands in particular constitute the major ones for the chemical industry, being associated, respectively, with gear pumps, chemical pumps and submersible pumps. Viking Pump Viking Pump offers one of the industry’s broadest selection of pumping technologies. For example, the Viking range of internal gear pumps is presently selling extremely well into the South African market. This pump uses two rotating gears which un-mesh at the suction side of the pump in order to create a vacuum which pulls fluid into the pump. Viking Pump also provides an excellent combination of application expertise and positive displacement pumping products whose design, manufacture and application of standards have ensured that they have been specified and supplied to many of the most challenging pumping applications in the world. The large range of Viking pumps available is sold not only in South Africa but is also exported to countries such as Canada, the UK, Egypt and most African countries. Split case, multistage and end suction pumps are made Earlier this month, ChemTech visited Dave Johnson, Marketing and Business Development Manager, Mather + Platt SA, at his Wadeville-based office in Johannesburg. He told us about the history of the company both in the UK and in South Africa and explained the range of products, in particular the three major categories of pumps used in the chemical industry.

specifically for water systems and have been installed into local water authorities’ water systems providing water for industry and households throughout South Africa. Dave Johnson explained that Viking pump’s range is popular because of the pumps’ adaptability to many differ- ent applications. Robust, rugged construction assures long life before refurbishment is required as well as trouble-free operation on normal duty installations. These pumps give outstanding performance when handling liquids at greater pressures. Vanton Pump An agreement signed in August 2015 makes Mather + Platt the sole distributor of all Vanton products, including Flex- I-Liner sealless peristaltic pumps, Chem-Gard horizontal centrifugal pumps and Sump-Gard vertical centrifugal pumps, as well as Flex-Plug valves and Gage-Gard instru- ment protectors and systems. Each Vanton thermoplastic pump features wet-end components that are inert to corrosive chemicals across the full spectrum of pH, will not contaminate ultra-pure liquids and are also corrosion- and abrasion-resistant. Applications include liquid transfer, neutralisation, dis- infection, dosing, effluent collection, lift station, odour control and recirculation. Vanton Flex-I-Liner peristaltic type rotary pumps trans- fer, sample or meter acid, caustics, solvents, salts, chlo- rides and ultrapure chemicals, and even viscous fluids to 1 300 centistokes and slurries containing soft solids and

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Chemical Technology • March 2016