Mather + Platt

18th March 2016 By: Zandile Mavuso - Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Features

Mather + Platt

Established in 1952, pumps manufacturer and distributor Mather+Platt is a manufacturer of several pump models used in various applications across industries.

The company provides a full spectrum of services, as it also installs, commissions and refurbishes pumps to industrial standard requirements, such as ISO 9002, ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18001.

Being a Level 3 BEE status company, Mather+Platt’s engineered pumps division offering comprises horizontal split casing, multistage, end section and vertical pumps to handle duties up to 30 000 m³/h and heads up to 1 800 m duties required for industrial, municipal bulk water, mining and power stations applications.

The division is the only supplier in South Africa of genuine Mather+Platt pumps spare parts and undertakes repairs and refurbishment to its wide range of existing Mather+Platt pumps.

In its standard pumps division, the company provides the Viking Internal gear pumps and strainers from Viking USA, which is part of the Idex Corporation. The pump is used in niche markets, pumping oils, bitumen, tars, gases, molasses, paints and adhesives.

Also, the company provides EIM, submersible, drainage and slurry pumps from Japan for mining and industrial applications.
The Tianjin range of centrifugal pumps from China comprises submersible drainage pumps, vertical multistage pumps, jet pumps, cast iron end suction pumps and many more to suit all clear water industrial applications.

Moreover, Mather+Platt has a large population of pumps installed in Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. Mather+Platt also represents US-based pumps company Vanton Pumps & Equipment, which manufactures a range of engineered thermoplastic pumps for handling corrosive, abrasive and hazardous fluids in the chemicals industry.

Already working on its new range of pumps which was launched last year, Mather+Platt will manufacture horizontal and vertical multistage to axially split case pumps together, giving flows of up to 30 000 m³/h and heads of up to 1 800 m.