ClydeUnion Pumps has relocated its Canadian works to a new facility in Burlington, Ont., almost doubling its manufacturing footprint. The new site provides increased regional production capacity, allowing larger between bearings style pumps to be manufactured on site.

The operation’s new upgraded pump test facilities means pumps can be proven locally in what is now North America’s highest power test facility for ClydeUnion Pumps. This results in reduced lead times for our customers and the ability to witness tests locally.

The 6,500-square-metre (70,000-square-foot) facility will manufacture single and multi-stage centrifugal pumps to API610 standards and reciprocating power pumps to API674 standards using a range of in-house capabilities such as state of the art machining, equipment balancing, assembly and testing. The location is also well suited to allow use of high capacity overhead crane bridges, in-house painting and machining.

The Burlington facility has come a long way from a small sized service center back in the 1980’s to a full feature manufacturing facility for Original Equipment (OE) and aftermarket services. The new layout offers a wide variety of aftermarket service capabilities including repair, re-rate and upgrade services for all ClydeUnion brand Pumps as well as for pumps manufactured by others.

“The key incentive for relocation was to obtain a larger footprint for our growing Original Equipment business. Another important initiative was commissioning the enhanced pump performance test facility which is capable of testing up to 5,000 HP (3,730 KW), 22,000 US gpm (5,000 m³/hr) flow-rate in order to serve a multitude of customers in oil & gas, mining & minerals, water & industrial and aftermarket segments” said Shakil Ahmed, general manager and plant director of the Burlington facility.
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