A Royal Return

A 1.5in GA-AP080 gear pump was despatched to Spain, for installation on the MV Fortuna, Royal Yacht of His Majesty King Juan Carlos. It replaced a similar unit supplied by Albany in 1978 to pump seawater in the cooling circuit of one of the vessel’s W.H. Allen diesel engines.

Pump Rebuild Helps Get Daphne Back To Dunkirk

Early in 2000, Albany’s Sales Department took an intriguing telephone call, enquiring if anyone knew about a water pump made in the 1930s by a company called Salaman & Handoll. The sales estimator knew his company history; Albany Pumps had been named Salaman & Handoll before being blitzed out of London and moving to Lydney […]

Albany Crown Type Gear Pump Chosen By Re-Tec

Albany GX Crown type gear pumps were selected by Re-Tec Manufacturing of London for a pivotal role in their design of packaged processing unit for production of fuel from waste oils. The waste, a random mix of lubricating oil and kerosene, is heated, centrifuged, filtered and blended to produce a constant viscosity and calorific value […]

Long Life Pumps Have Power To Give Double Service

Adding further to Albany’s reputation for durable products, a series of lube oil pumps are regularly returned to Lydney for overhaul. The type GT-AP120/AP130 pumps have been purchased for lube oil service on power station gas turbines. It is nothing unusual for the units being sent back to have seen 20 years use, with a […]

Swift Silent Delivery

Allen Gears, of Pershore, Worcestershire, were about to deliver a large gearbox when the unit was failed on the grounds of noise by the inspector sent by their French customer. The problem was traced to a lubricating oil pump. An out-of-hours call to Albany Pumps found the Managing Director still at his desk. He made […]

Duplex Pumps Ensure Safety Of Electrical Supply

Albany GN duplex pump units are designed to pump light fuel oils for generators, high rise office air conditioning and day tanks, hospital incinerators, telephone installations and boiler feed. Albany close-coupled pumps make a compact solution for flows up to 300 l/min. Larger sizes are made for specific applications. A duplex filter is often supplied. […]

Power Generation Demands Don’t Phase Albany

Albany GC style pumps continue to be selected by power stations and power station equipment OEM’s as the prime supplier of pumps for critical fuel and lubrication requirement in power generation in all Continents. The specifications are exacting and the pumps have proved themselves in the long life continuous running duties of various units in […]

Direct Replacements For Long-Lived Pumps

Albany’s vertical CA centrifugal pumps have seen many years of duty at airfield locations in the UK and elsewhere after being selected by a number of specialist installers of fuel tanks, pumps, pipe work and associated equipment. When the time has come to finally replace the pumps, Albany have been able to supply drop in […]

Stripped For Action

A major oil company selected an Albany SA twin screw pump as the best solution for oil terminal loading arm stripping duties. The Albany pump unit fully meets all the specifications of the world renowned company. The pump is driven by a variable speed drive linked to a low NPSH programmed control system. Albany’s twin-screw […]

Big, Bigger, Biggest

Since 1999, when Albany purchased the Stothert & Pitt screw pump division we have been supplying spares, engineering modifications and manufacturing new pumps world-wide. An enquiry from a Petro-chemical facility in the UK lead to Albany manufacturing a new duty/standby pump to operate in conjunction with one originally supplied back in 1967.The pump, our SC-SS350 […]