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Although there are a large number of companies manufacturing
pumps for general industries, only a few makers
throughout the world recognized as process pump
manufacturers have survived. In the 1960s, Shin Nippon
Machinery Co., Ltd. (SNM) entered in the process pump
market and established its position as a leading process
pump manufacturer in Japan by delivering large quantities
of pumps to oil-refinery and petrochemical plants in
Japan and abroad. In the late 1990s, however, exports
to those plants overseas dropped sharply. Amid these
circumstances, sensing the crisis of being unable to
respond to environmental changes only by extending
its line of existing products, SNM radically reviewed its
process pump business, and decided to develop a new
series of process pumps as part of the review. This paper
describes SNM's long history of process pump production
and the background to how the original process
pump was developed. |
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