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How AxFlow and Viking Pump Helped an Adhesives Manufacturer Stick to Success

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Discover how AxFlow and Viking Pump partnered to solve a high-viscosity adhesive pumping challenge with innovative solutions like the QS1127A pump and O-Pro® Cartridge Seal—boosting performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

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When it comes to manufacturing adhesives like PVA wood glue, precision and reliability in pumping systems are essential. One adhesives manufacturer recently faced a challenge with their existing pump setup and turned to AxFlow, a trusted Viking Pump distributor, for a solution. What followed was a story of collaboration, technical innovation, and superior customer service.

 

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Pumping Up Performance: How Viking Pump Helped Modernize Molasses Operations in Ireland Facility

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Discover how Viking Pump and Thomson Process modernised molasses operations in Ireland with high-performance RS324A and QS1124A pumps—boosting efficiency, reliability, and space-saving design in a demanding environment.

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When you think of molasses, you might picture a sticky, sweet syrup used in baking. But in the agricultural world, molasses plays a much bigger role. It’s a by-product of sugar refining and is prized for its high energy content and palatability—making it a key ingredient in animal feed.

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Pumping Ink: PD Gear Pump Solutions

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Discover how Viking Pump addresses the unique challenges of ink pumping with innovative solutions and a range of specialized pumps.

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If you’ve ever stopped to think about it, ink is everywhere. If it’s written down, stamped, or colorized, chances are ink helped make that happen. But pumping ink isn’t without its challenges. Luckily, Viking Pump has the right solutions for your industrial ink pumping needs.

 

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Grease Transfer Pumps: Solutions for Efficient Grease Handling

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Grease is an essential component in various industries, ensuring that machinery and equipment operate smoothly. A grease transfer pump plays a crucial role in the efficient handling of grease, whether for automotive, industrial, or other applications. Here we will explore the characteristics of grease, the challenges associated with pumping it, and the grease transfer pump solutions offered by Viking Pump.

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Grease is an essential component in various industries, ensuring that machinery and equipment operate smoothly. A grease transfer pump plays a crucial role in the efficient handling of grease, whether for automotive, industrial, or other applications.

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Exploring Viking Pump's Foundry: A Leader in Manufacturing Gear Pumps

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by Robyn Watson - Sr. Marketing Coordinator
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Welcome to the Viking Pump foundry in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where we’ve been at the forefront of manufacturing gear pumps for decades. Our foundry is a cornerstone of our vertical integration capabilities, allowing us to produce castings and parts at speed.

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50 States / 50 Pumping Applications: Nebraska, Arizona, Virginia, Louisiana, Michigan

In Nebraska, soybean oil is just one edible oil that's produced. Soybean oil is used not only for cooking but also in the manufacture of personal care products and as a feedstock in the manufacture of biodiesel. And just down the road, you’ll find pumps for corn oil, sunflower oil, even walnut oil. And expanding that search globally you’ll find Viking pumps for palm oil, olive oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil, grapeseed oil, and dozens of others. Next is Arizona. Seal coat is an asphalt emulsion used in the repair of paved surfaces.

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Bitumen vs Asphalt: Key Differences and Gear Pump Selection

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by John Hall - Pump Consultant
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The terms bitumen and asphalt are often used interchangeably, but they are two completely different materials, causing confusion inside and outside the industry. Throw in regional differences in meaning and language, and it’s time to set the record straight, along with tips on bitumen pump selection.

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50 States / 50 Pumping Applications: Ohio, New Jersey, Georgia, South Dakota, and Montana

In Ohio, like the rest of North America, the most common roofing material for homes is shingles. Ohio, and many other states, utilize Viking pumps to produce and deliver filled roofing asphalt to the felt backing for making roofing shingles in a variety of colors and styles. This application is hot, viscous, and highly abrasive requiring hardened Viking pumps to handle this tough application. In New Jersey, Viking ammonia pumps are used mostly for refrigeration, but you’ll also find Viking ammonia pumps with a different purpose.

50 States / 50 Pumping Applications: Texas, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Maine, Indiana

Let's start with Texas. Whether you’re in Houston, or Dallas, or West Texas, it’s impossible to get away from Viking pumps used in the petroleum industry. Certainly you’ll find Viking pumps for crude oil here, but also at the finished end of the process helping to manufacture a variety of lube oil blends from conventional motor oil to full synthetics, to special blends for colder environments, high mileage engines, marine, aviation, and dozens of other specialty applications. South Carolina’s textile industry is older than the US itself.

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