Another fantastic year at the Facilities Show in ExCel, London! 1,000 bottles of water, a few boxes of mugs, more sweets than we care to admit to our dentists and a bottle of wine or three later, we had a great show. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to speak to us. It was a good opportunity to meet with lots of people we know, as well as to get in touch with many new contacts who we’re looking forward to working with. It was interesting to look round the other stands t

Eventually, a pump fails. If it’s been specified, built and maintained properly the chances are that it’s now obsolete, as pumps tend to last longer than the manufacturers keep any pump model in production. Specifying replacements for these old pumps can be a challenge. It’s rare that there will be a pump available of exactly the same dimensions and performance. How can similar performance characteristics be achieved without having to carry out too much reconfiguration of

An electric pump doesn’t achieve much without a properly working motor. Did you know that the motor as we know it was patented by a Serbian called Nikola Tesla on 1 May 1888? The picture above shows some of his drawings, of a 6-pole motor, that accompanied the patent application, and the motors of today are essentially built according to this pattern (and yes, the Tesla motor car was named after him too). The seals and bearings are important on motor-driven pumps, but the o