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Yorkshire Water selects SEW
Pipes stop
Eurodrive for key ugrade
village floods
Northumbrian Water has
IWEX exhibitor SEW Eurodrive is in invested £3.7M into an
the process of expanding its service innovative water
centre in Yorkshire and can now management solution that
undertake complete onsite installa- will reduce the risk of
tions. SEW Eurodrive is renowned for flooding in Preston Village,
supplying quality gear units, motors North Shields. The project
and drive electronics, but the ability to is using Weholite, the high
combine these quality components density polyethylene pipe
and install them on site has historical- manufactured by IWEX
ly been left to other companies. exhibitor Asset
The expansion and the introduc- International.
tion of dedicated site teams has Around 200 homes are
resulted in the company being set to benefit from the
awarded major installation projects project, of which 64 have
across the UK. One recently won previously been flooded
contract was for replacement drives during heavy rainfall.
at a Yorkshire Water sewage treat- Weholite pipeline will be
ment site in Rotherham. positioned under a rugby
This extensive site was fitted with pitch, with one pipeline
42 aeration drives that varied in acting as the primary entry
make, age and reliability. The severe Engineers at work at the Rotherham site point for the water. The
flooding in June 2007 resulted in an pipe will release the storm
unacceptable number of gearbox gearboxes with a maximum torque the output couplings had to be re- wastewater into adjacent
and motor failures. Yorkshire Water rating of 4000Nm, fitted with 11kW, worked to the new specification. SEW pipelines that will form
selected SEW Eurodrive as its partner two-speed, energy-efficient motors. Eurodrive dedicated two service engi- storage tanks.
for the £4.5M modernisation of its New bedplates had to be manu- neers to the site for two months.
Rotherham site. The project involved factured so the new drives could Stand G15
supplying 42 flange-mounted helical utilise the existing aerator fixings and Stand G25
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