AxFlow introduce the Wemco WSP
Company launches new heavy-duty self-priming pump for fluid handling across a range of industries
AXFLOW, specialists in the provision of fluid-handling equipment, have announced the addition of the Wemco WSP self-priming pump to their product range.
According to AxFlow, the Wemco WSP is a heavy-duty pump that is equally at ease with clean and solids-laden liquids. Suitable for applications across a broad spectrum of industries, the pump has a differential head capability ranging from 3m to 42m, is available in port sizes ranging between 50mm (2in) and 250mm (10in), and can deliver flow rates from 10 to 700 cubic metres per hour.
AxFlow say self-priming pumps are well suited to any duty with a suction lift where ease of access to the pump is necessary for maintenance purposes. Whereas submersible pumps have the benefit of being primed by the liquid in which they are submerged, access can be difficult when maintenance is required.
Cantilever pumps, on the other hand, are inherently self-priming but are generally more expensive and fall somewhere between self-priming and submersible pumps in terms of ease of maintenance and accessibility.
The Wemco WSP pump contains an open-type, two-vane impeller manufactured in a choice of cast iron or CD4MCu. In addition, the wear plate is made from cast iron while the casings are in ductile iron.
According to AxFlow, it is this build quality that allows the Wemco WSP pump to handle both clean and aggressive fluids. The 50mm pump can handle a solid sphere of up to 38mm, while the 250mm pump can cope with a solid sphere of up to 75mm.
Commenting on the introduction of this new pump, Mark Redgrove, Wemco product manger with AxFlow Huddersfield, said: ‘We have been selling other types of self-priming pumps but not to the same heavy-duty specification as the Wemco WSP.
‘With this new pump, AxFlow are offering a cost-competitive self-priming pump as a core product alternative into the water and waste-treatment market, as well as industries where submersible and cantilever pumps have always been seen as the easiest choice.’
