What is the Retirement Age for a Pump? |
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Gardner Denver Nash
9 Trefoil Dr.
Trumbull, CT, 06611
USA
Press release date: August 10, 2010
Like people, most liquid ring vacuum pumps retire after 30 or 40 years. They get tired or their skills become surpassed by the younger generation. The NASH Hytor #6 pump, however, worked for 82 years before being removed for repair!
The NASH #6 pump worked on the pulp dryer machine, on a top felt Uhle box, at Simpson Tacoma Kraft Company. The plant was built in 1928 by the Union Bag Company, and the #6 was there from the start. During its 82 years, the #6 pump has seen the company change hands a number of times, but it kept on doing its job.
Retirement comes eventually of course, and the NASH #6 pump has gracefully given way to a NASH Vectra XL. The former could have kept on working with bearings replacement, but the Vectra will give the same reliability with more efficiency. Its long-time companions remain hard at work at the paper mill - including the pump on an identical Uhle box system.
Do you have an old Nash pump still running?
Nash is running a contest to see what other pumps have been working hard for many years. The person who submits the oldest pump will WIN A GPS NAVIGATOR! Your pump doesn't have to be 82 years old like the one shown; it just has to be older than the other contest entries. For contest details, go to www.GDNash.com/oldestpump.aspx. Entry forms will be accepted until November 1, 2010.
About Nash Gardner Denver Nash manufactures and supports Nash liquid ring vacuum pumps, compressors and engineered systems, serving the chemical, petroleum, power, paper, mining, environmental, food, and wastewater treatment industries.
Nash has manufacturing facilities in the USA, China, Germany and Brazil and Engineered to Order (ETO) centers in the USA, Singapore, Australia and Europe. Our service centers are ISO 9001:2008 certified and can be found in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, Brazil and South Africa. We also have distribution centers worldwide which stock parts and replacement pumps.
nash@gardnerdenver.com www.GDNash.com
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