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Having earned its reputation in the mining sector as leading dewatering specialists, the IPR team today boasts the engineering capacity to build customised, diesel-driven pump solutions for the market. Managing director Lee Vine says it is not enough to offer off-the-shelf products, as dewatering is not a one-size-fits-all challenge.

Response time is of the essence in many dewatering and pumping applications, and so it was with one of Integrated Pump Rental’s customers when their pump station failed recently. Two bypass water lines were urgently needed to keep the water flowing at 200 m3/h flow per pump – so the right specifications were also crucial.

Heavy unseasonal rains around South African have inundated many opencast mining and quarrying operations – calling for rapid-response dewatering solutions. Integrated Pump Rental is one of the best equipped in the business, having almost tripled its pumping fleet to meet rising demand.

Custom engineering its solutions for specific pumping requirements, Integrated Pump Rental is producing complete stainless steel pump sets. This innovative concept, never before readily available in the local market, is ideal for highly corrosive conditions.

In addition to renting pumps, the in-house capability of Integrated Pump Rental allows it to design and build reliable, high performance diesel driven pumps locally. This gives customers a fit-for-purpose pump within a short lead time, according to the company’s rental development manager, Steve du Toit.

Demonstrating its depth of in-house expertise and technical capability, Jet Park-based Integrated Pump Rental recently delivered its largest pump ever - a Sykes MH300 auto-prime unit. This giant’s ability to pump 500 litres per second means that it can empty an Olympic-sized swimming pool – containing 2,5 million litres – in just 1,3 hours.

As the rainy season approaches, Integrated Pump Rental has issued a warning to operators of water storage and process dams to desilt these as soon as possible. Progressive build-up of silt over time would have caused many of these facilities to reach close to critical volume and excessive rainwater could have major implications.

Integrated Pump Rental provided a cost effective solution for a customer in the petrochemical sector with the complete refurbishment of a water pump including the fitting of a new Sykes CP250i wet-end.

A Sykes XH150 high head diesel driven pump recently removed 103 million litres of water from an open pit in northern Botswana in just 30 days to enable exploratory drilling to take place. Engineered for reliable performance with low fuel consumption, the pump is able to work in dewatering applications for extended periods of time.

An innovative solution was provided by Integrated Pump Rental for the dredging of an Eswatini sugar producer’s sewerage facilities. A SlurrySucker Mini mobile dredging unit was deployed to empty the pond.