Cornell Edge End Gun Boosters Flying off the shelf—Take Advantage of Special Pricing and Promotions

Hundreds of Cornell’s new end gun booster pumps, The Cornell Edge, are shipping out of the factory before month end. Many dealers are taking advantage of introductory pricing that gives the best price available to all distributors through December 31, 2012.

The introductory pricing on the Edge can be combined with an Agricultural Sales promotion also on through December 31, 2012. In that promotion, if dealers or customers buy:

• 5 agricultural pumps: receive two Cabela’s jackets 
• 10 agricultural pumps: receive $100 Bass Pro Shop gift card 
• 20 agricultural pumps: receive $250 Bass Pro Shop gift card 

Offered on pumps sold through December 31, 2012. Multiple purchase discounts available; if you purchased 40 pumps, you would receive $500 worth of Bass Pro Shop gift cards.

Most Cornell pump prices are increasing January 1, 2013—orders received by December 31, 2012 qualify for current pricing. Buy before the new price book goes into effect and save.

For more information about the pump promotions, please contact your sales rep, or e-mail Cornell Marketing.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS from ALL OF US at CORNELL PUMP COMPANY

Cornell Pump Company wishes you a joyous holiday season, and a very happy and prosperous new year.

Cornell had a great 2012 because of quality suppliers, diligent distributors, reliable shippers, committed employees, and loyal customers. Wishing you the best for the holidays. We’ll be successful together in 2013!

The office will be close Christmas and New Year’s Day. We will be open with limited staff until 12 p.m. PST on December 24, 2012.

NEW 6819MP PUMP BEING PUT THROUGH ITS PACES

Cornell’s new MP series of pumps are designed to be premium built pump, offering high operating pressures, that tackles coarse abrasive slurry applications. The 6819MP is the first pump in the series to go through the rigors of the test lab, and is anticipated to offer excellent performance for sand-manure applications in the agriculture market.

Sand-manure is quite abrasive and wears out standard solids handling pumps quickly. The 6819MP is designed to last longer and have greater wear resistance than our standard solids handling pumps. It is cast in hardened ductile iron, providing greater strength and resistance to heavy abrasive wear. Cornell offers the pump in high-chrome white iron, which is even more wear resistant. Both materials have larger wall thicknesses to allow for more erosion.

It has replaceable wear parts in critical areas where slurry recirculates back to the suction side of the pump, making repairs less costly. It also has an adjustable wear plate design to regain performance after erosion has occurred. The hydraulic design has the ability to operate at higher pressures than the typical slurry pumps on the market.

More about the MP series can be found here and in our brochure.

SPOKANE, WA. - NW MINE SHOW

Cornell is exhibiting the NW Mining show in Spokane, WA. We're showing off our new SP slurry line, designed for coarse abrasives, plus our reliable Redi-Prime(r) mine dewatering offerings. Stop by and receive a Cornell premium!

NEW RESERVOIRS ARE THE “TOPS”

For those familiar with the fluid reservoirs on Cornell’s Redi-prime® option for pumps, a new system should come as a welcome sight.  Gone is the older, harder to read reservoir gauge on the system. It has been replaced with a High Density Polyethylene Resin (HDPR) vessel that is translucent.

“You can see the fluid level from quite a distance,” said engineer Steve Perry. “Previously, you had to be several inches from the pump to check the level, but now, you can see the fluid easily from 10 feet away.”

This improvement is expected to help operators keep an eye on the fluid level, and run pumps with low fluid levels much less frequently. The reservoir has a minimum and maximum fluid level clearly displayed on the side of the vessel. The HDPR has a long term UV-8 stabilizer in the resin—in tests in hot and sunbaked areas over the last six months, the new design has held up, and was as readable on the last day of the test as the first.

The reservoirs feature yield strength of 3,390 PSI, and have a maximum recommended operating temperature of 225⁰ Fahrenheit. The recommended fluids are oil and antifreeze.

The equipment is installed now on new Cornell Redi-Prime® systems. To learn more about Redi-Prime®, visit HERE.

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UNIQUE PUMPING SOLUTIONS AT UAE

A municipality in the United Arab Emirates had installed twin 700 HP submersible sewage pumping equipment in 2005. Repetitive failures of these pumps occurred due to system mismatches and severe vibrations. Lacking adequate backup and given the systems problems, the client with was concerned. Failures included seal leaks and on some occasions, sewage seeping into the motor windings and burning out the motor, with some shaft shearing as well.

Client’s expenses on emergency maintenance and repairs reached towards than 200 percent of their installation investment. Additionally, the pump station was located in densely populated area of the city, hence any shut down would be an awful situation

CENTEX FP LLC, Cornell’s distributor and technical supports office in Middle East & North Africa (MENA) worked with the municipality to find a solution that would allow them to use a Cornell pump as a complete back up, which would keep the system operational with minimal modifications in piping. Centex conducted a complete site study, including system resistance, average / peak flow situation, and piping design. After the thorough review, they were able to offer suitable pumps that would not only handle this station at peak load but also another master station which has similar issues.

Cornell’s Redi-prime system® was seen as real asset with ability to run dry and be able to lift the sewage from nearly 23 feet (seven meters) deep. In February of 2011, two Cornell 14NGH28 Redi-Prime® pumps were installed, and have been working well ever since. The pumps each operate on a 630 HP Cat engine, each with 9200 GPM (580lps) at 206 feet of head, for a total flow of 18,400 GPM (1160lps.) It just took two of Cornell’s 14” pump to accomplish that flow, while a competing system designed required 6 units of 10” pumps to match. Understandably, the Centex & Cornell team won the contract on merit, offering the best performance and system solution for the client.

In an appraisal letter the client described their experience as:
“We are extremely satisfied with these pumps completely designed, manufactured, tested and commissioned by Centex-Cornell. In fact, the pumps by far exceed our expectations, not only in terms of product quality, pumping capacity and performances, but also in terms of reliability, robustness, solids handling ability (the pumps never clog), suction lift ability (7.56 m), fuel consumption (very low) and maintenance requirements (just basic routine checks).

Furthermore, we are tremendously grateful to Centex-Cornell for the professional services they offered us well ahead of the decision to select their product.”

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WE LAUNCHED A WEBSITE. HE WON A KINDLE.

Website Winner. To celebrate the launch of our new website in June, Cornell ran a contest. Anyone who was signed up to receive our blog newsletter by July 20 was entered into a drawing for a Kindle Fire. The contest was also open to readers of the blog who had subscribed prior to the website re-launch.

Mike Daugerty from Reyco in Idaho was the lucky reader chosen. He was very excited to receive his Kindle Fire from Northwest Regional Manager Dave Young.  Readership of the blog is up more than 210% since the inception of the contest. If you’re not already receiving our electronic updates, you can sign up for the blog under the news section of our website, www.cornellpump.com.

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THE SNOOT OF THE ‘GREEN DRAGON’

Two vertical mount 8H-VC18 units were installed in the Colombian jungle on the river Caucasia, about 400 kilometers (248 miles) South of the coast. Because of some interesting features, the installation earned the nickname the Green Dragon.

The pumps were designed in the vertical position in order to elevate the motors to avoid damage from flooding – a regular occurrence during the rainy season. The pumps replaced a locally manufactured brand, IHM. The pumps were put in series, to overcome a relatively high pressure requirement due to a 1.5 kilometer (~1 mile) distance of piping to a local village. The pumped river water is being used to supply the village with fresh treated water for personal consumption. Due to the Rain-o-flo blue paint color (which actually looks green) and the exotic discharge and suction piping design, the locals named the pump installation the Green Dragon.

The logistics required to get the equipment to the job site was interesting in itself. The crew employed traditional banana boats to transport pumps, motors, pipes, etc., across the river to the pump house. Once the equipment arrived, a system of wooden rails and rollers were used to move the pumps and motors along the ground and in some cases, sloped gradients. Ropes and block and tackle apparatus were used to do a lot of the heavy lifting, as no powered cranes were available.

Pump house modification was also required, as the crew removed a large portion of the roof to accommodate the vertical installation and the discharge piping—the snoot of the Green Dragon. It was an incredible feat of local ingenuity to make this a successful installation; relying solely on manual labor, determination, and brute strength.

The pumps have been successfully in operation since 2010, supplying clean drinking water to the village.

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OUR TOP DISTRIBUTORS FOR 2011

First of all, thank you to all of our distributors around the globe. Cornell recognized the top distributors for 2011 in four distinct categories:


Top Sales – 2011 Agriculture
NEW WAY IRRIGATION
Alberta, Canada

Top Sales – 2011 Municipal
CENTEX FLUID PRODUCTS
Vancouver, WA

Top Sales – 2011 Industrial
PUMPTECH
Bellevue, WA

Top Sales – 2011 Mining
TRU FLO PUMPING SYSTEMS
NSW, Australia

Galvin Allbut and Michael Allbut from Tru Flow visited the Cornell Plant in July, and were awarded their plaque in person by Vice President of Sales, Marcus Davi.

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TOMATOES WAIT FOR NO MACHINE

Cornell Distributor American Industrial Equipment continues to find innovative uses for Cornell pump. In this instance they find a prosperous uses for Cornell’s self-priming pumps.

While displaying Cornell pumps at the Sacramento Food processing show in February, AIE was approached by the maintenance team from a well-known tomato processing facility in Stockton, California. This plant processes thousands of tons of tomatoes during the harvesting season and very rapidly turns them into various table favorites; including two of my favorite pasta sauces.

As part of the wash segment of processing the delicate fruit, a lot of waste is removed and washed away in what is known as a ‘trash wash’. This waste has to be moved away from the now clean tomatoes and processed. The trash wash contains not only dirt, but also pieces of stems, bad peels, leaves, and so forth gleaned from good tomatoes, along with rotten or bruised fruit.

Because of the ripening time of tomatoes, the processing plant runs at capacity around the clock for approximately four months straight. Tomatoes wait for no one or no machine! Speed is needed to keep premium freshness at a maximum and waste at a minimum. The processing company had been employing large electric submersibles to clean out the giant wash trays in the trash wash section of the plant. The electrical submersibles were not performing well, even being described by the plant personnel as “Unreliable, dangerous and cumbersome.”

One of the main complaints was the inability to monitor the electrical submersibles while they were operational. If the pumps weren’t working efficiently, that wasn’t noticed until the trash wash backed up; delays there impeded the line and imperiled the maximum amount of tomatoes being processed. Ultimately those slowdowns made the plant less profitable than it could have been.

American Industrial suggested a self-priming solution from Cornell. With these high quality self-priming pumps, the plant staff can maintain and clean their pumps safely and efficiently. They can tell if there is an issue immediately (and there are very few issues with a Cornell).  This has helped increase the plants overall efficiency percentage—with millions of pounds of tomatoes that extra efficiency translates into more operating revenue for the plant.

The plant is so impressed with the pumps that they are working with Cornell and American Industrial to find other pumps to replace with Cornell’s solids handling, high volume, and high head solutions.

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BAKER PUMPS REACHING NEW HEIGHTS

Cornell 4NNT trailer package featured at a Baker Corp. event held on the 99th Floor of the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in Chicago. The venue is fitting, as Cornell Pumps stand above the competition in so many ways.

Cornell works with numerous rental and package companies across the world. Please contact Mark Jansen at +1(503) 794-0201 or mjansen@cornellpump.com for more information on rental opportunities.

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CORNELL CUTTER PUMP RANKED MOST INNOVATIVE NEW PRODUCT IN INDUSTRY

Cornell Cutter Pump Ranked Most Innovative New Product in Industry

Clackamas-based Cornell Pump Company awarded 2012 Product Innovation of the Year, by Pumps & Systems Magazine, voice of the pump and rotating equipment industry.

The fourth annual Product Innovation of the Year, judged by Pumps & Systems magazine, was hotly contested. Dozens of innovative products vied for the distinction of being Product of the Year, and Clackamas-based Cornell Pump Company’s Cutter Pump was judged to be best of the worldwide entries—the last three contests were won by companies based in Denmark, Ohio, and Germany.

Cornell won for its innovative cutter pump that addresses an issue plaguing every waste water treatment system in North America—fouled impellers. Cornell created an innovative cutter design, using a stationary and rotating element to reduce masses of solids to a size that will pass through the pump. Less impeller fouling means a dramatic increase in up-time for the pump; in tests of the cutters, savings of more than $31,000 per pump installed have been seen. With many municipalities employing dozens or hundreds of pumps in their systems, the savings can be truly dramatic.

Cornell’s Cutter Pump was award the prize because of the innovative design that took minimal energy consumption—many installations still operate at 80 percent efficiency. The review group was also impressed at how effectively the cutters worked at breaking up the clogs. The flexibility of the system was also a key element in the award selection; cutter rings can be added to existing installations, allowing municipalities the benefit of cutters without having to buy all new pumps. Finally, the cutters are not only a great innovate product for municipalities, they are also ideal for manure lagoon pumping. The cutter works with significantly fewer interruptions than a standard pump; saving a farmer the valuable resources of time and money.

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