Xylem Marks the Manufacture of 4 Million Flygt Wastewater Pumps

Xylem Inc., leading global water technology company and pump rental specialist, has produced the 4 millionth Flygt wastewater pump at its Emmaboda, Sweden, manufacturing facility.

Michael Roth

Oct. 9, 2015

Xylem Inc., leading global water technology company and pump rental specialist, has produced the 4 millionth Flygt wastewater pump at its Emmaboda, Sweden, manufacturing facility. The 4 millionth Flygt wastewater pump will support the efficient operation of the central pumping station at Azaibah, Muscat, Oman, which pumps wastewater across eight kilometers to the Al-Ansab treatment plant.

Xylem’s Flygt brand has a 100-year legacy in pumping, from developing the first submerged pumps to designing the non-clogging N-impeller, to producing wear-resistant hydraulics. Xylem’s Flygt pumps are also produced at manufacturing sites in China, India, Argentina and the United States. The company applies expertise and technology to solve complex global water challenges including removing flood waters from New York and New Jersey following Hurricane Sandy, providing energy efficient wastewater pumping at Heathrow Airport and preventing flooding in downtown Kuala Lumpur.

The company said that 4 million Flygt wastewater pumps would fill more than 3,000 Olympic-size swimming pools in just one second; would empty the entire Baltic sea in one month. The largest Flygt submersible can pump the equivalent of 214 Olympic-sized swimming pools in 24 hours.

Xylem is based in Bridgeport, N.J.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.