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AxFlow Group, a leading fluid-handling solutions provider, and Atlas Copco Industrial Vacuum, a global pioneer in vacuum technology announced a strategic cooperation aimed at strengthening positions in the Nordic markets and expanding collaborative efforts across Europe.

AxFlow Norway, a leading provider of fluid handling equipment, is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of VA-Prosjekt Midt-Norge, a renowned provider of turnkey solutions to municipalities in the field of water and wastewater infrastructure. The acquisition marks a significant milestone in AxFlow’s strategic expansion plan, reinforcing its commitment to delivering comprehensive and sustainable solutions to customers in Norway.

AxFlow UK's service business has grown from 20 percent of sales in 2016 to 40 percent in 2022. In 2023, the figure is expected to hit 50 percent as the company transitions from a distribution-based model to an engineering-based approach.

The University of Bozen-Bolzano in Northern Italy initiated a research project on flood prevention. In order to simulate streams and river flows, it needed a supplier for a bespoke laboratory water feed system. The university contacted AxFlow group’s Italian subsidiary for assistance. 

AxFlow’s Induchem Group Ltd. announces the acquisition of Insteco Ltd. - a leading distributor of process instrumentation, representing leading manufacturers and selling to blue-chip customers for over 30 years. Located in Cork and Meath, the company serves customers across Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Dairy, Semiconductor, Food & Beverage, and General Utilities sectors and is viewed as the instrumentation distributor of choice for Irelands indigenous and multinational manufacturing companies.

Representing well-known brands such as Gardner Denver, Robuschi and Ingersoll Rand, AxFlow Denmark has been developing its vacuum pump and compressor business in terms of new sales and customer service since 2012. With the acquisition of Gram Vakuum Teknik, AxFlow further expands its service and repair offerings.

AxFlow’s Induchem Group Ltd. announces the acquisition of Tredwell Electrical Ltd. - a manufacturer of electrical control panels, control assemblies, boxes and associated wiring looms. Headquartered in Limerick, the company serves customers in water and wastewater, machine builders, refrigeration, environmental, materials handling, automotive, food, pharmaceutical, mining and quarrying sectors.

AxFlow Ireland announces the acquisition of Fin Maintenance Ltd. and Flow Technology Services Ltd. - the experts in industrial maintenance, engineering services and flow control to customers in the water, wastewater, energy and manufacturing industries.

AxFlow and our colleagues at AQS South Africa celebrate the International Water Day, today!

AxFlow A/S in Denmark acquires Pumpegruppen, specialists in pump solutions for the chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries as well as for water treatment and general industrial applications.

AxFlow Holding AB announced today that it has acquired majority ownership of Finnish distributor of valves and actuators Starline Valves Oy.

Acquiring Galbraith gives Brown Brothers NZ access to Oceania and strengthens the fire pump position while solidifying the Groups market leadership.

AxFlow GmbH Germany announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Ateliers Ehrismann SA - Geneva-based company active in the service of electric motors, pumps and other electrical and mechanical machinery.

AxFlow Holding AB today announced the acquisition of System Cleaners - a Danish provider of complete open plant cleaning systems and products for the global food and beverage industry.

AxFlow Italy announces completion of an acquisition of RPT S.r.l.  - experts in the complete overhaul and technical revision of centrifugal and volumetric pumps as well as industrial mixers.

Brown Brothers Engineers Australia, part of the AxFlow Group, has announced its acquisition of INCA Control, a manufacturer of control panels for pumps in agricultural, industrial and commercial settings.  With the acquisition of INCA Control, Brown Brothers Engineers will become a full-service provider for water boosting pressure systems in Australia.

A broad strategic perspective enabled business group Fluid Handling Solutions (AxFlow) to take new market shares in 2020.

Axlab is a 48-hour innovation competition for all employees ­within the Axel Johnson Group. This year’s Axlab was tougher than ever, with 781 ideas submitted. Valentina Cristea’s winning entry – a QR code for AxFlow’s industrial pumping equipment – stood out from the rest. It is a sustainable and ingenious idea that will create added value for our customers.

Canteen Girls is a company within a company on the verge of extending its lunch service to external customers. It is part of AQS’s commitment to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment.

Scarcity of water is driving innovation. In South Africa, the pump distributor AQS Liquid Transfer has developed a water ­recovery package that helps ­households to safely reuse up to 80 percent of their total water consumption, through ­greywater storage and treatment.

AxFlow Ltd. Great Britain has acquired Crawley based distributor of fluid handling equipment The Pump Company Limited - effective January 4th. The acquisition will see The Pump Company continuing to operate under its brand.

January 1st 2021, SPX Flow Europe Ltd - Sweden filial transferred its Swedish Industrial Sales Organization with personnel and products to AxFlow AB in Sweden. AxFlow AB now represents the entire industrial program from Johnson Pump with TopGear gear-; TopLobe rotary lobe-; TopWing bi-wing rotor pumps and FIP Industrial impeller pumps.

AxFlow Austria is strengthening its service offering with the acquisition of Tuma Pumpensysteme GmbH, a family-owned pump distribution and service company, specialised in vacuum-, centrifugal- and positive displacement pumps with main customers in engineering, food & beverage, pharma and chemicals.

AxFlow’s subsidiary Brown Brothers Engineers acquired SPX Flow Technology New Zealand Ltd. – a sales and service organization specialized on well-known products branded APV, Waukesha Cherry-Burrell, Bran+Luebbe, Lightnin and more.

WHAT ARE YOU PUMPING?Is it shear sensitive? How syrupy or abrasive is it? Is it combustible? Or aggressive? How are the suction and pressure conditions of your process? 

The first impression counts!The AxFlow European distribution centre in Lelystad therefore takes great care in correct and well-kept deliveries. Sustainable packaging materials are equipped with our logo and the new tape rolls are made up in the recognizable corporate identity. Our distribution center has a service rate of 95%. This means that we can deliver 95% of our products (pumps, valves, parts) directly from stock. What you ordered today you have tomorrow on your premises. 

AxFlow is part of Axel Johnson International and its group-wide sustainability work. Sustainability is one of the group's guiding principles and a fundamental part of the business strategy.

AxFlow Denmark strengthens its position in the country's compressed air provision and service business with the acquisition of Trio Trykluft A/S. Located in Slangerup 30km northwest of Copenhagen and in Vildbjerg in Jutland, Trio Trykluft has forged a strong reputation across many industry sectors over the 24 years since it was established.

AxFlow Ireland has announced its acquisition of Irish Pumps & Valves Limited, a major supplier of valves, actuators, pumps and ancillary equipment to the wastewater, power generation and process industries.

AxFlow Holding AB latest acquisition is the Irish Induchem Group, the specialist provider of fluid handling solutions, which predominately focuses on valves, pipe solutions, mixers, and pneumatics. Headquartered in Cork, the Induchem Group has four sites, located in Ireland and the UK; two service centres and two sales offices. The acquisition will see Induchem continuing to operate as a separate company under its brand.

AxFlow Italy has announced its acquisition of Generalcontrol S.p.a, the Milan-based distributor of positive displacement (PD) pumps, instruments, vacuum pumps, and compressors in Italy.

AxFlow GesmbH Austria, part of the AxFlow Group, has announced its acquisition of VIP Tehnika, the experts in sales and service of pumps for water and waste water applications.

AxFlow AS in Norway has acquired Innva AS, effective 29 April. Innva is a technical distributor of premium valves and piping solutions for the water and wastewater segment in Norway.

Brown Brothers Engineers/Kelair Pumps, is strengthening its service offering with the acquisition of GT Water Technologies (GT Water) a family-owned company specialised in services around fire water tanks to the building and fire safety markets in the Melbourne area.

AxFlow Ltd. Great Britain has acquired Crest Process Engineering Limited – Radstock, effective October 1. The company sells pumps, spares, systems, ancillary equipment and service/repair in South West England and South Wales. Its main markets are Food & Beverage, Chemical, Industrial and Marine.

AxFlow Holding AB, has acquired Brown Brothers/Kelair, the market-leading distributor of positive displacement and centrifugal pumps in Australia and New Zealand. The Group operates through 15 locations across Australia and New Zealand.

AxFlow Italy acquired Cinti S.r.l., a specialist in installation, service and repair of centrifugal pumps based in northern Italy The move aims to strengthen AxFlow Italy's service offering and position it for further growth.

AxFlow Germany is strengthening its service offering with the acquisition of Pumpen Karrer, a family-owned company specialised in industrial equipment repair and maintenance, especially pumps.

AxFlow France has taken a strategic step to greatly strengthen its service capacity with the acquisition of RDC Productions, a 43-person company operating in its own, modern facility west of Paris.

AxFlow extends its business in Norway with the acquisition of Process Partner AS – experts in process instrumentation, calibration and gas detection equipment for offshore and onshore industries.

Grimsby's Freshney pumping station is a key element of the town's flood defences which were first enshrined in statute way back in the Grimsby Haven Act of 1796.

Leading specialist in industrial pumps, fluid handling systems and related services, AxFlow, extends its product portfolio and market coverage in Switzerland with the acquisition of W. Moser AG.

AxFlow, extends its product portfolio and Swedish market coverage with the acquisition of Esspump AB.

Four Viking fully compliant API 676 internal gear pumps including gearboxes and motors have been supplied by AxFlow Spain for a crude oil sampling package designed and constructed by IDESA Industrial Plants.

- Expands its geographic market coverage outside Europe

- Expands its service, maintenance and repair offer.

The impounding pumping system at the UK port of Tilbury in London have been running for almost 50 years.

A vertically mounted Mono E-Range transport coating compound in a very limited space.

Secured fresh water to around 300,000 homes immediately to the west of London.

Effective from December 1st 2013, AxFlow A/S expanded its existing product portfolio of Gardner Denver Elmo Rietschle and Nash pumps and compressors with exclusive distribution of Gardner Denver Industrial air compressors.

Expands its engineering and service offer to oil and offshore market.

AxFlow GB engineers removed an existing electric pump and replacing it with the centrifugal pump Godwin DPC 300

AxFlow DK delivers 8 Mono EZ strip and 16 Mono Compact C range PC pumps for sludge dewatering process at Odense WWTP

AxFlow's Aberdeen system manufacturing plant has supplied a diesel transfer pump package in quick time for new GE Dual Fuel Powered Generators being installed on the Thistle Platform, North Sea.

AxFlow is providing sponsorship for The Coldest Journey by donating three Blackmer sliding vane pumps for the unloading and transfer of jet A1aviation fuel.

30th International Exhibition-Congress on Chemical Engineering, Environmental Protection and Bio technology

It took just nine hours for AxFlow to replace aging water-booster pumps in the Royal Ballet School's Floral Street campus in central London.

AxFlow Limited, in Great Britain, has acquired Thames Valley Pumps in Windsor.

AxFlow Limited has opened a new service and maintenance facility in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.

- Expands it's engineering and service offer and strengthens position.

Blackmer's SMVP magnetically-coupled sealless sliding vane pumps are now being introduced in the UK by AxFlow Limited.

AxFlow Oy in Helsinki Finland, part of the AxFlow Group has announced its acquisition of TM-Palvelu Oy, a well established pump service and piping contractor in Finland.

The acquisition of Chemo-Invest Specialpumpar makes AxFlow AB the largest distributors of positive displacement pumps and fluid handling systems in Sweden.

Against a background of rising energy prices and the greater pressures to reduce CO₂ emissions, it is becoming increasingly important for all sectors of industry to consider the operating efficiency and energy consumption of pump systems.

AxFlow Holding AB has announced that it has taken on the distribution of Warren Rupp's AirVantage compressed air metering device in European countries where it has a distribution agreement with the manufacturer.

AxFlow, distributors of the world renowned and original Waukesha external circumferential piston pump has added the new Waukesha MDL Series pump to its product portfolio

AxFlow in the UK and Sweden is now offering an innovative approach to reducing air consumption for larger size air-operated double diaphragm pumps. Using the MizAir, it is possible to reduce air consumption by up to 50% with minimal loss of fluid flow

Effective May 1, 2010, AxFlow A/S gained exclusive distribution rights for Mono Pumps' full range of progressing cavity (PC) pumps, munchers, screens and spare parts in Denmark.

As from April 1, 2010 the complete business activities of Hendriks Techniek Flevo B.V. in Dronten, the Netherlands will be taken over by AxFlow's new subsidiary AxFlow Systems B.V. and will make AxFlow a systems supplier all over Europe.

Effective February 15, 2010, AxFlow is the official distributor of NASH vacuum pumps and compressors in Sweden.

AxFlow Limited in Dublin Ireland, part of the AxFlow Group has announced its acquisition of liquids handling supplier Combiflow Limited in Ballymount West Dublin.

Few people in the U.K. will have forgotten the massive flooding in the Doncaster area on 25th June 2007 when around 80mm of rain fell in a 16 hour period.

Moving from a maintenance regime involving the replacement of gland packings on vacuum pumps every nine weeks to one where the pumps have run for 18 months without any maintenance is a remarkable achievement.

Wet scrubber FGD plants play a critical role in reducing emissions of sulphur dioxide from coalburning power stations. However, the abrasive and corrosive wet limestone slurry used in this process demands pumps of high levels of reliability.

Pumping cooked syrup through a scraped surface heat exchanger in the production of soft candy demands a pumping solution that ensures a smooth product flow at all times.

AxFlow UK has created a clean room facility at its Huddersfield-based maintenance facility for the service and repair of pumps for hygienic applications.

Selecting the most appropriate positive displacement pump technology for a specific application in the chemical and petro-chemical industries should always involve the pump supplier asking questions about the properties of the pumped media and the production processes in which the pump is to operate, and for the customer to provide a detailed response.

When setting out to buy a new or replacement pump, the chances are that the user will go to a manufacturer with which there has been a satisfactory relationship in the past.

The choice of pump technologies which AxFlow Group companies provide to the chemical and petrochemical industries is comprehensive and encompasses Rotary Lobe, Progressive Cavity, Metering/Dosing, Gear, Vane, Hose and AODD pumps.

Mixing liquids is a complex process and as a result, a vast and impressive array of technologies and products has evolved over the years

With increasing economic pressures on manufacturers to reduce processing costs and maintain strict production control, one solution to this challenge is use online/and or laboratory analysers to gather production stream data in real-time

AxFlow Holding AB is launching a new marketing campaign to assist companies in the chemical processing industry sectors identify and select the most appropriate fluid handling technologies for critical control points where fluids are pumped, mixed, injected and filtered.

August 2008: Transferring bitumen and emulsion from bulk holding tanks to road tankers demands pumps that are not only capable of handing the liquid but are also wholly reliable to ensure that products are readily available on demand.

June 2008: The removal of condensate and water in the processing of LNG involves two stages: mechanical separation and dehydration, an absorption process that involves the use of glycol.

May 2008: Many fluid handling problems arise because the pumps are neither designed nor suitable for applications and/or conditions for which they have been selected. It is the application that will always determine the type of pump to be used.