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.

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