Cementing a Relationship

The wet cement process offers a challenging set of applications for centrifugal slurry-handling pumps. Solids are crushed in rod mills, then mixed with water and viscosity-controlling chemicals during the initial processing, which results in heavy solids contents of 60 percent and greater.

Top Notch Performance Boost

Mosaic is the world's leading producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrient products. At the company's mining facilities, GIW slurry pumps provide a key component to Mosaic's success. The service agreement between Mosaic and GIW has provided an overall increase in equipment reliability and a dramatic decrease in emergency repairs and downtime.

Coal Company Avoids Start-Up Production Delays

One Friday afternoon, Rob Robertson, manager of coal processing for Massey Coal Services, found himself in a bind. Three days before the start-up of their new coal preparation plant in Pettus, W.Va., he discovered a problem with the correct media pump supplied by a GIW competitor.

GIW Pumps Finish 1st in Canada

The Alberta oil sands occupy a vast area in the boreal forest zone about the size of New Brunswick. It takes approximately two tons of sand to produce one barrel of oil. The oil sand is mixed with hot water to create a slurry.