Pompe Garbarino - Naval Centrifugal and Positive Displacement Pumps

Pompe Garbarino, an Italian company founded in 1932, is a leading manufacturer of centrifugal and positive displacement navy pumps, and pumps for the shipbuilding industry.

The company has two factories in Acqui Terme, a sales branch in Milan and a worldwide network of agents.

Pompe Garbarino focuses on the constant improvement of its products (horizontal, vertical in-line and multistage centrifugal pumps, side-channel pumps, submerged pumps, and positive displacement and hollow oscillating disk and gear pumps), and services are supported by a spare-parts department and an after-sale service that provides engineers 'on-site' everywhere to ensure customer satisfaction.

NAVAL PUMP APPLICATIONS

Pompe Garbarino's centrifugal and positive displacement pumps' naval applications include seawater main cooling systems; ballast and bilge services; fire fighting and general services; water circulation; A/C chilled water circulation; boiler feeding; lube oil or fuel oil transfer applications; and waste oil transfer.

They can be located on aircraft carriers, submarines, frigates, corvettes, mine-hunters, destroyers, patrol boats and oceanographic vessels.

CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS

Pompe Garbarino's range of centrifugal pumps includes:

• Pumps according to EN 733 standards (MU)
• Vertical in-line (MU-L) and vertical in line double suction (MU-LDS) pumps
• Vertical submerged (MU-VS) and torque flow submerged (MCA-VS) pumps
• Multistage and side-channel pumps (G and BT)
• Torque flow pumps (MCA)
• Portable diesel engine fire pumps (MPF)
• Fire fighting split casing naval pumps (MMI)

POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT PUMPS

Gear (IN) and hollow oscillating disk (P) pumps are also supplied by Pompe Garbarino.

CUSTOMISED SHIPBUILDING PUMPS

Pompe Garbarino's flexibility allows it to develop naval and shipbuilding pumps according to its clients' needs and high quality-standards. A selection of material – such as cast iron, Nickel-Aluminium (Ni-Al) bronze, stainless steel, Duplex SAF 2507, Hastelloy, Monel or any other alloy or super alloy – is available to be used, depending on the customer's specifications and the particular duties the product is required to perform.

A QUALIFIED PUMP-SUPPLIER

Since 1983, Pompe Garbarino operations have applied and maintained the quality assurance standards set by NATO AQAP and UNI EN 29000 directives. The operations adopted by Pompe Garbarino, and the suitability thereof, have been certified by the Italian naval Ministry of Defence.

Presently, Pompe Garbarino is granted with the certifications NATO AQAP 2110 and ISO 9001:2000.

Pumps meet the requirements of following standards:

• MIL STD 167-1 (mechanical vibrations)
• MIL STD 740-1 (airborne sound)
• MIL STD 740-2 (structure borne vibrations)
• MIL S 901-D (shock test)
• Non-magnetic pump executions

A SUCCESSFUL NAVAL-PUMP SUPPLIER

Pompe Garbarino, official supplier of the Italian Navy since 1950, also supplies the following foreign navies:

• French Navy
• Spanish Navy
• Norwegian Navy
• Finnish Navy
• Indonesian Navy
• Iraqi Navy
• Royal Netherlands Navy
• Greek Navy
• Peruvian Navy
• Venezuelan Navy
• Royal Malaysian Navy
• Royal Thai Navy
• Ecuadorian Navy
• Mexican Navy
• Nigerian Navy
• South African Navy

In 2006 and 2007 the company confirmed its leadership in the cruise-vessel industry and also in the naval field, getting important orders for the Spanish Navy (four submarines built at Navantia Shipyard), the Norwegian Navy (five mine-hunters built at Umoe Mandal Shipyard), the Italian Navy (two frigates built at Fincantieri), the Iraqi Navy (four patrol boats built at Fincantieri), the Finnish Navy (three mine-hunters built at Intermarine) and for the Indian Coast Guard (three offshore patrol vessels built at Goa Shipyard).