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 supported by an excellent service to customers in terms of technical consultancy and after sales service ensuring the availability of engineers on site. Spares delivery and product replacement can be guaranteed in very short time thanks to the huge capacity of the warehouse, one of the best strength’s points of the company.

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 feed; 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
• Vertically suspended line-shaft pumps (VS)
• Recessed impeller torque-flow pumps (MCA)
• Multistage high pressure pumps (G/GH)
• Side channel pumps (BT)
• Portable diesel engine fire pumps (MU-MPF)
• Fire fighting split-casing naval pumps (MMI)

Positive displacement pumps

Gear (IN) and hollow oscillating disk (P) pumps are also produced 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 Bronze (Ni-Al-Bz), Stainless steel, Duplex, Superduplex, 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, ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004.

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
• Moroccan Navy
• UAE Navy
• Peruvian Navy
• Venezuelan Navy
• Royal Malaysian Navy
• Royal Thai Navy
• Ecuadorian Navy
• Mexican Navy
• Nigerian Navy
• South African Navy

In the last years 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 (an aircraft carrier and six frigates built at Fincantieri), the Iraqi Navy (four patrol boats built at Fincantieri), the Finnish Navy (three mine-hunters built at Intermarine), the Indian Coast Guard (three offshore patrol vessels built at Goa Shipyard) and the Moroccan Navy (three frigates built at Schelde Naval Shipbuilding), the UAE Navy (a corvette and two patrol vessels built at Fincantieri) and the Royal Netherlands Navy (a joint support ship built at Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding).