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CONSTRUCTION WORLD
JULY
2016
WATER ENGINEERING
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Sykes pumps are purpose designed and built for the mining,
construction, municipal and rental markets. Integrated
Pump Rental will also be marketing and selling the range
to its customers.
“By becoming the official distributor of the Sykes range of pumps
in April, we have significantly boosted our abilities as a pump project
rental specialist. By having quality diesel mobile units in our range, we
can now offer our customers mobile units that can be used in areas
where there is no available electrical power,” Lee Vine, Integrated Pump
Rental’s managing director, says.
The company decided to partner with Sykes because of the original
equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) more than 40 years of experience
manufacturing quality high performance pumps.
“Sykes is a well-known and respected player in the international
pumping industry, while Integrated Pump Rental has built up a solid
reputation for being able to supply quality pumping solutions for a
range of projects. These synergies mean that both companies will
benefit significantly from this partnership,” says Vine.
The Sykes pumps feature cleverly designed automatic priming
capabilities based on a Venturi system that can deliver suction lifts of up
to 9 metres. The pumps offer market leading efficiency, are extremely
robust and built with a 316SS impeller and wear plates as standard
construction, ensuring reliability coupled with versatility.
Vine also notes that the dry running, oil lubricated mechanical
seals fitted to the Sykes range allows the pumps to operate under snore
conditions and reprime automatically without incurring damage.
Integrated Pump Rental will be offering the OEM’s full range of
pumps, including the Low Head (LH), Medium Head (MH), High Head
(HH) & Extra High Head (XH) series for handling solids.
NEW DISTRIBUTORSHIP
Integrated Pump Rental has secured the
distributorship for the Sykes range of
pumps, complementing the company’s
existing rental offering by adding this line-
up of reliable, proven diesel driven units.
The Sykes Contractor pump is a true self-priming pump,
and does not require manual priming of a suction line or
filling of a priming tank to begin its normal operation.
The Sykes Xtra High Head pump range caters to the arduous demands
of the mining industry and all models have the ability to operate
unattended at high discharge heads.
The robust heavy duty Sykes Contractor range is designed to meet the
demands of the construction, mining and rental industries.
Vine says Integrated Pump Rental will focus on growing the Sykes pump
range in the South African market which is still fairly new to the offering,
compared to other countries on the continent where the pump range
has been operating successfully for many years. These pumps are used
in a host of applications ranging from water transfer and pit dewatering
through to site cleaning.
Vine reports that the response to the Sykes launch by South African
pump users has been phenomenal with many Integrated Pump Rental
customers expressing a keen interest in the technology.
Significantly, in order to increase the local content value Integrated
Pump Rental will be packaging some of the Sykes range in Johannes-
burg, Gauteng. This will include local fuel pods, skids and trailers, and
Vine says the final package will be very competitive and also ensure
excellent flexibility in meeting customer specific requests and lead
times. The combination of quality pumps and a revered name in the
local pump rental market can only mean success for both companies in
South Africa.