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Chemical Technology • March 2016
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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
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
Mather + Platt’s
three major brands
service the chemical
industry
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.