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High Quality Castings
We have spent hours on a variety of Blogs discussing construction, Diesel engines and products being shipped all over the world. Although Ameriflo has the most diverse and complete hydraulic coverage available in the fire protection industry, we neglect to cover the basics when it comes to standard casing & bowl castings. It is very well known that Ameriflo standardizes on ductile iron casing material throughout the fire protection product line. The casting process for ductile iron is slightly more complicated than cast iron but the advantages are worth the effort. Nearly every other manufacturer in the fire protection industry pours their casing castings out of class 30 cast iron. This class of cast iron has a tensile strength of 30,000 PSI and is the standard for the pump industry globally.
Ductile iron has an additional step of using what is called an inoculation crucible. This second crucible has magnesium placed in it and the original heat is poured into this crucible for inoculation. This process essentially changes the base material into ductile iron. The grade of ductile iron that Ameriflo uses as a standard material in all casings and bowls is class 65 which has a tensile strength of 65,000 PSI, more than double that of standard class 30 cast iron. As the tensile strength is increased, so is the case working pressure. This simple change in base material from cast iron to ductile iron allows Ameriflo to have case working pressures that are nearly doubled of what our competition uses as a standard material.
Ductile iron is used by the competition in applications where the case working pressures needed exceeds class 30 cast iron. Other manufacturers will offer this as an option with an extended lead-time. These lead-times vary, can exceed 20 additional weeks and is a killer to a prospective order, especially when the customer needs the pump yesterday.
Can you say THREE DAY LEAD-TIME!! Another Express Quick Ship package out the door by the end of the week. This is an emergency shipment for a high rise building in NY City. The client was on Fire Watch and paying nearly $3,000 a day while waiting for a competitor pump that was quoted with an 11 week lead-time. They knew this 11 week time-frame would get drawn out to 20 weeks or more.
The pump featured in this short Blog includes a Diesel engine driven split case pump. This medium sized pump produces 2500 GPM @ 135 PSI. Ameriflo has the most efficient and expansive split case product offered in the fire protection market today. The 5030 SC product line has many standard features and benefits that are not offered even as options by the majority of the other players. The Diesel engine version features an Ameriflo AF6-135, 6 cylinder block generating 375 HP at 1760 RPM and has a large 1.500 inch cooling loop.
Ameriflo UL Vertical Inline Pump Listings
Product development continues at Ameriflo with the addition of two new sizes, the 3×4-8 & 3×4-10 SC split case models. These two new models have been designed with the most current computational fluid dynamics software available to ensure the lowest consumed horsepower for this flow range. These models feature double volute casings and Francis designed impellers ensuring the maximum efficiency and the lowest documented horsepower in the industry. These two models continue the Ameriflo dialogue of being market disruptive designed with the end goal of leading the industry into a new direction.
