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Submersible pumps
Submersible pumps are centrifugal, typically vertical, and can operate when immersed in the liquid to be pumped. The motor and pump are made from a single block. As the motor has to work while immersed in the liquid to be pumped, it is made to be perfectly waterproof. A submersible pump, however, is different from […]
Ken Hall, Honorary Life Council Member of Europump
Ken Hall the Managing Director of our UK subsidiary and now Regional Manager of our Sub-Saharan Africa operations stood down as the UK representative on Europump Council (The European Association of Pump Manufacturers) at the last Europump General Assembly held in Bodrum, Turkey. Both Ken and his wife Serena were honoured by the outgoing President, […]
The Big 5 Dubai 2017
UAE are ready to host the 38th edition of The Big 5 Dubai, The main building and construction trade show for the whole of the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia region. The event will take place in the 100.000 square metres of Dubai World Trade Centre from the 26th to the 29th of […]
100% Hydraulic Test
A characteristic that has always marked Calpeda production is the test phase, which is extended to all our products. It is important to highlight that when we speak about testing we do not just mean the different control protocols relative to design, the assembly procedures and the compliance of the individual parts. What guarantees the […]
Flexibility and efficiency
Calpeda production covers all types of pressure boosting sets: fixed speed, variable speed, and groups with one variable speed pump and the rest fixed speed pumps. If the main quality of a pressure boosting system is reliability when supplying water, even with great differences in consumption, the application of inverter technology has made it possible […]
Peripheral Pumps
Peripheral electric pumps may generally be regarded as an intermediate category between centrifugal pumps and volumetric pumps. While in the first category, an increase in the head implies a decrease in the flow rate, in the latter the flow rate is not affected by pressure. Instead, the curve of the peripheral pumps follows a trend […]
Training in Moscow: focus on variable speed systems
Last month a training session was held in Moscow for our distributors who operate in the Russian and Ukraine market. It was an instructive meeting to present the characteristics of the products and demonstrate how they work, but it was also an occasion for acknowledging possible demands and specific requests from the market. A consistent […]
A lifetime at Calpeda
How would you expect an interview with a person who is about to retire after 52 years and six months of work in the same company to start? Certainly without hearing the word apprentice, decidedly more natural coming from a young boy who is starting his first job. Instead, Antonio Battanoli, who spent a lifetime […]
What companies are looking for: Calpeda meets students
The Istituto Superiore Silvio Ceccato (Silvio Ceccato High School) organised a cycle of meetings entitled “Quello che le imprese cercano” (What companies are looking for) in collaboration with the international work agency Synergie Italia and the most important territorial companies. Over four days the students, divided according to their study programme (mechatronics, computing, technical maintenance, […]
Technology and solidarity
This is a story that tells about solidarity, friendship, and how technology can help improve life. We are in Kenya, in the district of Kwale. It is here that the no-profit organization “GROW with HOPE Foundation”, of which Dr. Giorgio Morini is one of the founders, operates. It is also here that, with the help […]
