ITT Pumps Provide Complete Solution for Dutch Mussel Farm

11/07/2004

Application: Municipal water supply

Faced with the need to pump a combination of
salt and fresh water to clean, cool and package a range of shellfish, the engineers of Prins & Dingemanse, a Dutch mussel manufacturer, turned to ITT to address all of their needs.
Prins & Dingemanse (P&D) is the largest mussel manufacturer in The Netherlands and market leader in the Benelux market.
P&D brings to market over three million pounds (1.5 million kilos) of mussels, oysters and other shellfish a year.
The process of seed harvesting from the “crop” of mature mussels is currently undergoing significant changes. P&D is experimenting with using a crane to drop an ITT Flygt brand pump into the water next to the ship, to use it like a vacuum cleaner to suck up the mussel “seeds” from 100 meter long nets before the mussels are stripped from the nets and
forwarded to the washing process.
Whatever the water-handling application - water supply, cleaning shellfish, cooling, seed harvesting or packaging - today, all of the approximately 35 pumps used in this P&D facility are supplied by ITT brands including Lowara, Vogel, Flygt and Hydrovar.

Download the Case Story in PDF format

ITT Austria, Stockerau, (www.ittaustria.com) which is part of the ITT Corporation, is a leader in the manufacture of hydraulic pumps and water handling and control systems. It has 297 employees in Austria. The company generated 69 million €, or 98 million $ sales in 2009.
ITT Corporation is a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company operating on all seven continents in three vital markets: water and fluids management, global defense and security, and motion and flow control. With a heritage of innovation, ITT partners with its customers to deliver extraordinary solutions that create more livable environments, provide protection and safety and connect our world. Headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., the company generated 2009 revenue of $10.9 billion. (www.itt.com).