Pentair increases test capacity at Kansas facility

• Book ID: 104318573
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 48 KB
• Volume: 2010
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(10)70237-6

✦ Synopsis

KSB ITUR's new €1.5 million state-of-the-art automated pump testing plant at its headquarters in Zarautz (Gipuzkoa), Spain has nine test beds and can accommodate up to 75 pumps per day.

Designed by KSB engineers from Germany, Brazil and Spain, the testing plant operates the same process management modules and programmes as KSB's manufacturing plants in Frankenthal and Halle, Germany.

KSB ITUR director general Danilo

Camilo said that the new facility is one of the most comprehensive and advanced in the world and allows KSB ITUR to streamline pump assembly and undertake comprehensive testing procedures in accordance with many international standards and customer specifications. "KSB ITUR is addressing new markets and all of these have high levels of demand and highly specific requirements, " said Camilo.