Expanded dredge pump range on show at Seawork
Italdraghe manufactures its own range of dredge pumps in-house, as well as designing and building dredgers.
Italdraghe, with its UK agent Andrew Scott, will once again be exhibiting at Seawork and this year will be showcasing its newly expanded range of dredging pumps.
With its takeover of Draghe Lario Srl, Italy’s only other dredging pump manufacturer, the Italdraghe Group further extended its range of purpose designed dredge pumps and booster stations.
Both Draghe Lario and Italdraghe had been designing and manufacturing their own lines of hard wearing high performance pumps for over forty years, and while the products of both producers had certain features, such as easy disassembly and simple maintenance, in common, they differed from one another in terms of impeller diameter and low-high pressure output.
The new joint range, now entirely manufactured on the Italdraghe premises in San Giovanni, includes recently geometrically re-designed pumps with three, four and five-blade impellers as well as open impellers able to handle dredged material with a high concentration of cut vegetation.
By combining the two product lines of both single and double walled pumps, the Italdraghe Group is now in a position to be able to supply dredge pumps for all types of cutter suction dredgers excavating materials through suction pipe diameters of up to 400 mm. Furthermore, given that its pumps are manufactured entirely in-house in Italy, it is able to guarantee the immediate availability of key spare parts at all times.
Interestingly, a large number of both Italdraghe and Draghe Lario pumps are also used outside of the dredging sector, including in the South American precious metal mining field, while the spin-off range of vertical slurry pumps is proving particularly popular with foundries and heavy mining industries.
Italdraghe believes that Seawork provides a good platform from which to promote its expanded range of dredging pumps. Although many know the company as a dredger designer and builder, not all are aware that Italdraghe is among one of the few dredger builders that actually manufactures its own range of pumps in-house.
Over the last year Italdraghe dredging pumps and booster stations have been supplied to West Europe, Asia, North and West Africa and South America. Within the month ahead, two specially designed booster stations are due to be delivered for an Italian lake dredging project and a Nigerian aggregates extraction project.
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