MechChem Africa March 2017

March 2017

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MechChem Africa

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Pump systems, pipes, valves and seals

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“

ith our newly launched

Curve™ range of slurry

pumps, Pump and Abra-

sion Technologies (PAT)

has proved that we possess the know-how

and the infrastructure to deliver first class

slurry solutions and excellent service,” says

Buitendag.

“One of our main goals in developing the

Curve™ was to offer customer-tailored solu-

tions. Every aspect of the pump’s design is

based on feedback from clients across the

continent, sowe feel that this is currently the

onlypumpon themarket toaddress everyone

of their operational needs,” he explains.

“We successfully launched the Curve into

the South African market at Electra Mining

andtotheworldattheInternationalMINExpo

heldinLasVegas.Wenowfeelthatwearewell

onourway tobecoming renownedworldwide

as the leader in the design, manufacture and

application of heavy duty slurry pumps.”

Buitendag goes on to say that by establish-

ing an extensive network of sales and service

‘hubs’ throughout Africa in order to provide

efficient client service, “we are committed to

being a trusted global partner”.

The Curve pump was three years in the

making and emerged from a clean sheet ap-

proach. The range offers decreased energy

consumption throughout the product life cy-

cle, TOCreduction, longerwear life, increased

efficiency and improved safety for personnel

during both installation and maintenance.

Buitendag contends that the slurry pump-

ing industry was overdue for the launch of a

cutting-edge pumping product saying that no

significant advancements had been made to

products on the market for almost 50 years.

“With the rateof technological advancements

happening in themining industry, we felt that

a new slurry pumping product was desper-

ately needed.We proceeded to allocate a sig-

nificantportionofourdevelopmentresources

tocollectingcustomerfeedbackandpackaged

this into what we feel represents the new

Pump and Abrasion Technologies have developed a new Curve™ slurry pump, which,

according to managing director, Jaco Buitendag, “is the first step towards our goal

of becoming a first choice provider of slurry pump solutions across Africa”.

The Curve S Model from Pump and Abrasion

Technologies.

New Curve

slurry pumps

generation in slurry pumps,” says

Buitendag. “The end result is

a benefit-saturated product

that enablesPAT tostrength-

en our clients’ operations.”

In designing the Curve,

PAT’s expert design and

engineering team relooked

at the traditional internal hy-

draulic layouts found in most

slurry pumps. Leaning on their

knowledge of what the market

requires, they created an innovative

design that was applied to the specific geo-

metric size and the exact profiles of hydraulic

passage through the pump. “When plotting

the specific geometric size against total

lifecycle cost there is a point where capital

and operational costs achieve a combined

optimum. Every model in the Curve range

is sized to hit this optimum and deliver the

lowest ownership cost to the end-user,”

Buitendag explains.

Knowingthatcostisalwaysakeyfactorfor

mining operations, PAT’s designers ensured

that lowenergy consumptionwas prioritised

indesign and that theCurve couldbe retrofit-

ted to legacy pumping systems with minimal

changes to existing piping.

“We are extremely proud of the product

thatwehavebeen able tobring to themarket.

The innovative advancements we havemade

are a result of the combined capabilities of

our entire team. Thanks to their expertise, we

now have a slurry pump that offers a reduc-

tion in downtime by up to 80%, a 40-60% re-

duction in total ownership costs and – thanks

toour strategicdistribution–shorter delivery

lead time,” Buitendag says.

Pump and Abrasion Technologies is a

manufacturer and supplier of heavy-duty

pump solutions to the mining, mineral pro-

cessing, industrial and agricultural segments

with ISO 9001 accreditation. The company

has developed a range of premium quality

pumpsandafter-marketpumpspares,offered

at competitive prices and comprehensive

ongoing service.

The company is based inCenturion, South

Africa but its’ operational footprint extends

to Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia,

Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and other

African territories.

Pump and Abrasion Technologies (PAT) unveils its

Curve™ product range to the African market at

Electra Mining 2016.