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Industry-trusted performance.
Tailor-made.
With more than 50 engineers within It’s no wonder the sprinkler system protecting Europe’s tallest
our application engineering and R&D building, The Shard in London, is fed by SPP pumps. Towering
departments, we offer an exceptional at 309.6m, zoned protection for all 95 floors is achieved without
range of skills and experience across using pressure reducing valves to conform to EU regulations.
major industry sectors.
Manufactured in the UK and USA to the very highest
Whatever the challenge you face, you can be sure we quality, our pumps can meet the requirements of all major
will assemble a project team that not only understands international standards, particularly NFPA 20. FM approved
your technical parameters, but your industry, too. and UL listed for use in many markets including Europe, the
Far East, Middle East and Africa, you can be assured knowing
Water world-class protection technology is at hand. SPP Pumps has
also been selected for the Marmaray Tunnel in Turkey, where
Often operating 24 hours, 365 days a year, water pumping our dedicated expertise really mattered.
applications are highly energy intensive. In fact, pump capital
purchase typically only represents 5% of the total ownership Oil & Gas
cost. To minimise both energy costs and CO2 emissions, in 2004
we launched our Lowest Lifecycle Range. Customers are already Lost oil or gas production, even in a small facility, could
enjoying operating cost savings worth up to 5% a year compared cost an operation millions of pounds per day. SPP Pumps is
to conventional competitive units. South West Water chose SPP’s a world leader in the design and manufacture of pumping
pumps for where energy reduction and operating costs really equipment for both onshore and offshore applications.
mattered, resulting in energy cost savings of £70,000 a year. Superior design, precision manufacturing and high quality
assurance has made SPP Pumps a trusted uptime champion
Running pumps as turbines (PaT) is an efficient method to both upstream in exploration and production, and
generate and recover energy. In the current economic climate, downstream for petrochemical and chemical processes.
where reducing energy costs is a high priority, the use of
reverse running pumps as turbines is a promising and growing SPP Pumps brought the first UK North Sea oil ashore in the
technology for small scale hydropower. 1970s. Today it’s product portfolio includes niche non-
hydrocarbon applications such as seawater lift, intake,
Fire cooling water, ballast water and fire water systems. In
addition, SPP Pumps offers a full API product range for
When lives are at stake, you can’t take chances. As the first hydrocarbon pumping applications. We have many hundreds
company to achieve fire pump approval and listing by the of pumps in a huge number of fields around the world for
internationally recognised Loss Prevention Certification major international oil companies, with an equally impressive
Board, SPP Pumps today has more pumps approved by the history of onshore installations.
LPCB than any other manufacturer.
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