Saudi Pump Factory (SPF) continues to contribute to the economic growth of Saudi Arabia, with its products being used on a host of significant industrial projects.

Earlier this year SPF was awarded the contract for the supply of pumps for the United Lube Oil Company (Unilube), a SR200 million ($53 million) Saudi-British government offset company for recycling waste lubricants in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Using miniaturised refinery technology, the 75,000 tonnes per year plant will be the most modern recycling centre in the Middle East, and one of the most advanced in the world, when it comes onstream later this year, according to a Unilube official.

The plant will produce high quality base lubricating oil at competitive prices.

The Unilube project is one of a long line of prestigious contracts won by Riyadh-based SPF, which prides itself as being regularly specified by name for pump supplies.

The company is the only pump manufacturer in the Kingdom to be approved by Saudi Aramco, and SPF has also provided its innovative range of pumps to industrial giant Sabic and a large number of satisfied clients throughout the Middle East.

SPF says that it offers cutting edge valve and pump manufacturing technologies through partnerships with its clients, including highly respected contractors and consultants, in the oil, gas, petrochemical and industrial sectors. With excellent build quality and an extensive range of pumps, ISO9002-certified SPF says that it can help reduce plant downtime.

SPF's unrivalled in-house manufacturing capabilities enable the company to introduce new products when market conditions demand them. For example, its range of ANSI pumps were developed less than two years ago for tough applications, such as the erosive, corrosive liquid environments found in the process and chemical industries.

These ANSIPlus Series pumps were developed thanks to SPF's design and application expertise, and feature heavy duty power frames and casing designs, maximum wear life (giving minimum downtime), high shaft and bearing strength, maximum bearing protection, a semi-open impeller design with pressure relief holes and rotodynamic sealing.

They are available in a variety of material, gland sealing and baseplate options and can generate up to 200 HP on 60 Hz or 50 Hz power supplies, have NEMA or European Standard Motors and offer full safety guards around all rotating parts, according to SPF.

The ANSIPlus range complements SPF's reputation for high quality fire, API610 process and vertical turbine pumps designed and manufactured at the company's state-of-the-art plant in Riyadh's Second Industrial City, whose facilities include two- and four-axis CNC machining centres and a computerised pump testing facility with NPSH. End suction and split case pump casings of up to 1.3 tonnes can also be made at the factory.

Technical cooperation agreements with leading international companies such as David Brown Union Pumps of the UK and Aurora Pumps of the US complete the picture of SPF's quality service.

Such agreements, according to the company, strengthen SPF's scope of business opportunity and, together with professional after sales support, add important strings to the company's bow as it gears up for further success in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.