BURLINGTON, Canada (May 22, 2012) – ClydeUnion Pumps, an SPX Brand, has relocated its Canadian works to a new facility in Burlington, Ontario, 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 6,500m² (70,000ft²) facility will manufacture single and multi-stage centrifugal pumps to API 610 standards and reciprocating power pumps to API 674 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 5000 HP (3730 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. “We will now begin manufacturing complete between bearing pump-sets such as the CUP-BB1, CUP-BB2, CUP-BB3 and CUP-BB5 and their associated packages. The expanded SPX ClydeUnion Pumps Canadian plant is well suited to continue providing leading edge services to the expanding Canadian oil & gas markets.”
The SPX Flow Technology segment designs, manufactures and installs highly engineered solutions used to process, blend, meter and transport fluids, in addition to solutions for air and gas filtration and dehydration. The segment supports global food and beverage, dairy, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, energy, and industrial markets.
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, SPX Corporation) is a global Fortune 500 multi-industry manufacturing leader with nearly $5 billion in annual revenue, operations in more than 35 countries and approximately 15,500 employees. The company's highly-specialized, engineered products and technologies serve customers in three primary strategic growth markets: infrastructure, process equipment and diagnostic tools. Many of SPX's innovative solutions are playing a role in helping to meet rising global demand, particularly in emerging markets, for electricity, processed foods and beverages and vehicle services. The company's products include thermal heat transfer equipment for power plants; power transformers for utility companies; process equipment for the food and beverage industry; and diagnostic tools and equipment for the vehicle service industry.