Wilfley Industrial Pumps Blog
A9 Chemical Pump Hits a Homerun at Nitric Acid Plant
Last year, Wilfley upgraded a legacy AG chemical pump with a new A9 heavy duty chemical pump in a very demanding nitric acid application. Due to the overwhelming success of the upgrade, the customer is now looking to replace all of the remaining AG pumps throughout...
Centrifugal Pump Related Hazards – Part 2
Disclaimer: The incidents outlined in the following article did NOT involve pumps manufactured by A.R. Wilfley and Sons, Inc. The intent of the article is to highlight possible hazards and discuss how they can be prevented. As previously mentioned in this series of...
Wilfley Welcomes Manu Srivastava
Wilfley wasn’t worried about one of the rainiest July’s on record as we welcomed a new member to the winning team. Manu Srivastava has joined us as a new Regional Sales Manager responsible for some US territories, Africa, and some of the Middle East. Manu comes to us...
Wilfley Wins Large Phosphoric Acid Project
Earlier this year, Wilfley won a large project to supply A7 chemical pumps in both Alloy 20 and Alloy G to one of the top phosphoric acid producers in Mexico. In the end, it was Wilfley’s reputation for high quality; heavy duty pumps as well as our dedication and...
Sales Managers Meeting #2 of 2014
A typically stunning Colorado blue sky day was the welcome for our second No Travel Sales week of 2014. Kick-off was at the corporate office where the Sales Team was joined by our stalwart Customer Service team for an initial pep talk by Douglas. The first day of this...
Centrifugal Pump Related Hazards – Part 1
Disclaimer: The incident outlined in the following article did NOT involve pumps manufactured by A.R. Wilfley and Sons, Inc. The intent of the article is to highlight possible hazards and discuss how they can be prevented. Generally-speaking, pumps are not considered...
MAXALLOY® 5A Hard Iron Paper Presented at AIChE Conference
Last month, Wilfley’s metallurgical genius, Dr. George Calboreanu, was given the opportunity to present a paper on our latest metallurgical break-through MAXALLOY® 5A hard iron at this year’s AIChE International Conference. Below is an abstract from the paper and a...
Five Things You Might Not Know About the EMW® Slurry Pump
The EMW® Heavy Duty Slurry Pump has been released for just over a year now and there are several exciting features of this innovative pump that you might not be aware of... Two Wet End Configurations EMW® slurry pumps can be configured with either a hard iron or...
Inlet Design for Lime Slurry Applications
Wilfley Kpro®, K, and HD slurry pumps are very commonly used in lime slurry applications. Their unique design makes them almost perfect for this duty, but care must be taken in the inlet design to ensure proper operation. Kpro®, K, and HD are all designed with their...
Wilfley Welcomes JP Ericsson
The month of May brought a brand new member to the Wilfley team. We are very happy to welcome John P. Ericsson (A.K.A. JP) as the newest Regional Sales Manager taking over recently retired Dave Wheeler’s patch. JP comes to us from beautiful Wisconsin with a huge...
Wilfley Expands the A9 Chemical Pump for Low Flow Capabilities
Wilfley has recently developed and released a new extension of the widely popular and proven A9 product line… the A9LF pump. The A9LF has been specifically designed to handle the unique requirements of low-flow high-head applications. Key benefits include: Lower...
Keeping Temperature in Check in Centrifugal Pumps – Part 2
In Part 1, we discussed the driving factors for increasing fluid temperature as flow is decreased through a centrifugal pump. For convenience, water was considered as the fluid in the examples given. Although water is the world’s most prevalent liquid, it’s also the...