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YOUR PARTNER IN INNOVATION FLUID HANDLING EXPERTS IN INDUSTRY PCM offers versatile, robust and easy to maintain technical pumping solutions, designed to adapt to future needs. We specialise in handling your difficult products and materials: abrasive, fragile, viscous, corrosive, explosive, hot or dense. � LOW LIFE CYCLE COSTS Our use of Life Cycle Costs (LLC) analysis to find the most cost-effective pumping solutions for your industrial processes assures you savings in production costs, reduced maintenance downtime, and lower energy consumption. Today, PCM has unrivalled experience regarding...

PCM ELASTOMER EXPERTISE From selection to manufacturing, PCM controls the complete process of elastomer production for progressing cavity pumps. A key design characteristic of a Progressing Cavity Pump is the tolerance between the stator and the rotor. Stator dimensions and characteristics are ensured by strict control of: • chemicals composition (10 to 20 different components), • casing dimensions, • manufacturing process variation (temperatures, injection pressure, curing…) Elastomer selection requires specific knowledge and experience that few companies in the world possess. PCM has gained...

Environment 10 Mining & minerals 12 Pulp & paper 14 New energies 16 Chemicals 18 Mechanical engineering 20 � PCM TECHNOLOGIES PCM Moineau™ progressing cavity pumps • • • • • PCM EcoMoineau™ MX PCM EcoMoineau™ C PCM EcoMoineau™ MF / CF, floating stator pumps PCM EcoMoineau™ LX PCM EcoMoineau™ MSH / MVA-FF / X-BIO PCM Delasco™ peristaltic pumps • PCM DX / Z / PMA Series PCM Lagoa dosing pumps • PCM Lagoa PCM grinders • PCM X-Guard • PCM Macerator

PCM MARKETS & APPLICATIONS PCM serves six highly demanding industrial markets. While all of them share similar requirements in terms of reliability, cost effectiveness and productivity, each has special needs that PCM meets with perfectly adapted pumping systems. The paper industry is one of the most demanding sectors in terms of productivity, water treatment and dosing. Most production facilities operate non-stop, and any downtime can be costly. In addition, pulp and paper plants use incredible quantities of water, which they must manage and treat in accordance with strict regulations. Product...

� SOME CHALLENGES TAKEN BY PCM A major manufacturer of sodium carbonates and bicarbonates must review its waste rock disposal facility following the extension of its salt extraction zone. The new discharge zone is now more than 6 km away from the storage tanks and requires a pumping system capable of controlling more than 290 psi of pressure due to pressure drop in the pipes and the viscosity of the sludge discharged. A major French company that collects and treats industrial and residential waste water uses lobe pumps to feed filter presses for sludge dewatering. The client complained about...

� SOME CHALLENGES TAKEN BY PCM A French quarry producing gravel, rolled and crushed from a silico-limestone deposit uses a progressing cavity pump to ensure the transfer of its mineral sludge at the outlet of its settling tank. This quarry finds that it must replace too often the wearing parts of this pump (stator, seals and sheaths) and is asking PCM to find a more economically viable solution. One of the world's largest producers of lime and gypsum stones has to transfer lime slurries from a thickener to a heat exchanger at a regulated flow rate of 110 gpm, at a pressure of 116 psi. The transferred...

� SOME CHALLENGES TAKEN BY PCM A paper mill specialized in the manufacturing of highend cigarette papers is developing a very airy paper pulp that is difficult to transfer by traditional centrifugal pump techniques. This plant is looking for pumps capable of transferring such a paste whose texture and rheology evolve throughout the various stages of its manufacturing process, at a minimum flow rate of 396 gpm. In addition, this paste does not tolerate any trace of ferric ions and cannot be brought into contact with conventional materials. One of Europe's largest thermal paper coating sites uses...

� SOME CHALLENGES TAKEN BY PCM A dry methanisation unit wishes to manage the recirculation of its digestates in its digester as well as the return to a post-digester after dilution with water in order to allow the recovery of additional gas and thus increase the overall profitability of the installation. This unit also wants to feed a phase separator to manufacture liquid and solid spreading products. In order to protect its circulation pumps supplying a leachate dispersion unit, taken from the digester bottoms and sprinkled on the surface of the organic substrate, a methane producer wishes to...

� SOME CHALLENGES TAKEN BY PCM Challenge: One of the world leaders in the manufacture of synthetic gemstones has to transfer Alum powder, a highly abrasive product, and initially opts for a peristaltic pump. After a few weeks of use, he cannot tolerate the need to replace the tube of this pump every 2 days, not benefiting from his supplier of a sufficiently resistant material. A chemical production center in the East of France has just acquired 3 lobe pumps but after only a few days of commissioning, the managers of this center realize that these pumps are not working properly; they do not provide...

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING � SOME CHALLENGES TAKEN BY PCM A manufacturer of composite materials for the automotive and aerospace industries is developing a revolutionary material that allows for the most flexible shaping, soundproofing and thermal insulation, at a production cost never equaled. One of the raw materials used for the production of this material is a very low density powder, of the microsphere type, the dosage of which does not tolerate any incorporation of air. The diaphragm pumps traditionally used by this company are reaching their limits and can not ensure a sufficiently precise...