PumpEng Celebrate 20 Years
2021 marks the twentieth year of operation for PumpEng.
PumpEng evolved from a venture between Paul Meneghel and the owners of Galvin Engineering.
With over 100 years experience in foundry processing and manufacturing, they set out to improve the design of mass-produced submersible pump components for Australian operating conditions.
As company founder, Paul drew on his extensive experience with submersible pumps in mining, stretching back to the 1980s. His initial vision was for pump parts tough enough for Australian conditions.
PumpEng has grown well beyond Paul's original 2001 intention to improve pump component design. PumpEng is a manufacturer with its own patents. PumpEng pumps are breaking industry pump performance records. PumpEng is expanding its interstate offices as well as a global network of distributors. It has brought a new standard of quality dewatering systems to the industry.
The PumpEng team collaborated with Australian maintenance and mining staff to become a well-established specialist submersible pump supplier to several industry sectors, with underground mining as the prime focus.
The company quickly gained a reputation for the quality of its dewatering pump parts and later, for its innovative design and manufacturing of a range of dewatering pumps.
The preference for metal components gave the PumpEng pumps an advantage in tough modern mines.
This was particularly true where shotcrete fibre mixed with wastewater. Breakdown events had been leading to expensive delays in production and frustration for mine managers.
The JetGuard® dewatering pump rapidly gained attention as an industry gamechanger for mines with shotcrete in their wastewater. JetGuard has extended the mean time between failure up to 300% in some of the most challenging sump sites.
PumpEng built on this achievement with the design and delivery of a more systematic dewatering system called The PumpEng Way. This approach was based on the right pump for the job; crew training; and colour coding systems to ensure that pumps are placed correctly.
The PumpEng Way leads to less downtime, safer underground environments and frees up maintenance crews. That's a good day at work.