Press Release: GIW Industries Awarded Contract By STX Europe
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
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Pam Welty, Brand Manager
GIW Industries, Inc.
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PWelty@giwindustries.com
GIW Industries Awarded Contract By STX Europe
From a technical and cost-efficiency standpoint, GIW offers
the most effective products and solutions to complete the job
GROVETOWN, Ga. (Feb. 22, 2011) — GIW Industries, the leader in the design, manufacture and application of heavy-duty, centrifugal slurry pumps, in conjunction with its parent company KSB AG of Germany, was recently awarded a contract by French shipbuilding company STX Europe to supply two large pumps for loading and unloading a dredge. GIW was awarded the contract because of its ability to supply pump sets capable of handling slurries with a sand concentration of up to 40 percent while achieving an efficiency in the region of 80 percent.
“Our pumps’ ability to handle a sand concentration of 40 percent and their considerable wear life will directly result in lower operating costs and higher efficiency for the operator,” said Jonathan Samuel, regional manager — global dredge at GIW. “The higher sand concentration helps the operator move the material faster, thus reducing operating costs by reducing the time needed to complete the job. The long wear life of the pumps allows the dredge to work uninterrupted for longer hours thereby increasing production, and reducing downtime.”
GIW’s pumps will be employed on a trailing suction hopper dredge set to operate in the Atlantic near the mouth of the Loire estuary. The hoppers can hold around 2,000 cubic metres of sand and gravel. An articulated suction pipe helps the dredge pump to suck slurry from a depth of up to 45 metres. GIW’s pump for this purpose handles a flow rate of 7,000 cubic metres per hour and develops heads of approximately 30 metres. Its impeller has a diameter of 1.25 metres and is used to pump a sand-gravel-water mixture with a density of up to 1.4 tonnes per cubic metre.
Once the ship’s hopper is filled with sand, it sails to a wharfage where a second GIW pump discharges the sand and gravel mixture onto the shore via a 500 metre discharge pipe. This pump has an impeller diameter of more than 1.5 metres. Its maximum flow rate is around 6.200 cubic metres per hour. The impellers, liners and casings of both pumps are made of corrosion-resistant and abrasion-resistant white cast iron with a chromium content of approximately 27 percent.
“GIW pumps are made of proprietary materials that have the ideal combination of abrasion and corrosion resistance and tensile strength to tackle a challenging job and last in abrasive conditions such as this,” said Samuel. “In addition to our pumps’ ability to resist abrasion and corrosion, the high hydraulic efficiency of GIW pumps helps lower operating and fuel costs, making our pumps ideal for this purpose.”
About GIW Industries
GIW Industries began as a small foundry and machine shop in Augusta,
Ga., in 1891. In 1914, GIW began building slurry pumps. Today, the
company comprises two manufacturing facilities, one in Grovetown, Ga.,
and the other in Thomson, Ga. These foundries and machine shops are used
for manufacturing and assembling pumps and for casting a variety of
abrasion-resistant alloys and urethane elastomers. As a subsidiary of
KSB AG of Germany, a global pump and valve manufacturer, GIW has the
infrastructure to supply pumps worldwide. KSB has presence in 100
countries with sales organizations, offices and 30 manufacturing sites.
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Pumps of KSB Group employed on a suction hopper dredger (KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal)
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