In the wake of the flooding and landslides that happened in KwaZulu-Natal in April and May 2022, 448 people had been left lifeless and more than 40 000 displaced, with damage to roads, colleges, water infrastructure and companies.
On 18 April, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a nationwide state of catastrophe. As repairs received underway, one of the first issues many flooded businesses faced was to get rid of the water and particles of their factories or warehouse premises. The Werner Pumps rental unit, a mixture jetting and vacuum truck, was put to good use to assist with the clean-up operations.
“We rented our unit to two companies for several weeks at a time to assist them in servicing their clients’ in Durban and the encircling areas after the horrific flooding,” says Sebastian Werner, Managing Director at Werner Pumps. “It’s ร้านซ่อมเครื่องวัดความดันโลหิต that the unit has been used for catastrophe recovery efforts after flooding. It was good to find a way to help in some way by sending the combination truck from our head offices in Springs down to our KwaZulu-Natal shoppers to help. It must have accomplished a good job as a result of one of the companies has now ordered one from us to help with their ongoing air pollution control and industrial clean-up operations.”
The rental unit is a mixture truck that provides state-of-the-art hydraulically operated jetting and vacuum performance. It’s obtainable via Werner Water Recycling, the rental division (founded in 2013) of Werner Pumps, the leading producer of high-pressure jetting gear in South Africa.
Known as the Impi Unit, it offers a tilting 12.500 litre, 304 chrome steel tank, with a hydraulically-driven high-pressure pump capacity of 295L/Min at 135bar, and a vacuum pump with 1700 m3/hr suction capability. The high-pressure pump is fitted with a pneumatically operated regulating valve, making infinite pressure adjustment possible, thus increasing the security of the operator throughout use.
“It’s best for every thing from sewer and stormwater cleaning and upkeep, to sludge and slurry removal, separator cleansing, contaminated liquid restoration, recovering solids, and cleansing surfaces,” says Werner. “In the wake of a catastrophe, it could be used to clean up standing water or to clean smoke-damaged services. We’ve discovered there’s demand for the unit from municipalities and contractors to bridge a gap when they’re waiting on a unit, or for finances to turn into out there, and for people who want it for a selected time-bound software.”
Ultimately, Werner says, the corporate wish to build up its rental fleet to service the growing demand. “When something occurs and somebody urgently needs a truck, as was the case with the flooding, we want to have the flexibility to ship them one instantly,” he says. “Our aim has at all times to be a one-stop shop, and to ensure our customers are able hold operating always, so we’re discovering ways to help them try this.”
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