Valor, noun [latin valor valeo, to be strong, to be worth]; courage, bravery, prowess. So why give that name to a silly old AODD pump, you might ask? The answer is two-fold.
The pump is built of the stuff of legends. Willing to go where most pumps simply can’t because of the harsh environments and chemicals it may encounter. Like the brave men and women to charge forth into battle, this pump won’t shy away in the face of danger. But the other side of that coin is that it will make its operators life a heck of a lot easier and will make your budget happy as well.
The battlefield for AODD pumps looks quite different than you might expect, but the parallels are uncanny. A pump in these types of environments must stand up to immensely difficult jobs, encountering the stuff that quite literally have the potential to eat away pumps made of other materials.
In the game of chemical transfer, Valor has all the right stuff. Having a Valor in your arsenal in these challenging situations is like having a good machine gunner in your squad. It’s basically fool proof. Every good grunt wants one at their side.
Valor is made of high-quality plastic and of bolted construction for external chemical resistance and toughness. The internal components are all made to withstand harsh corrosive and abrasive fluids without fail. The air side leads its class in efficiency and overall, the pump boasts the greatest flow rate of any other 1” AODD pump on the market.
Our engineers accomplished this by revolutionizing the way we look at the air side of the pump. They put their heads together and built a totally unique air cartridge that can easily replace all the air components in one fell swoop, making air side maintenance a breeze. They also reimagined the way a pump is held together, reducing the overall number of bolts needed as well as standardizing the size and length of bolt used. This means you need one tool and less time to get access to the wet side of the pump for maintenance.
This translates to a pump valves that can be fully serviced in as little as 5 minutes, compared to the average repair time of 45 minutes for most other AODD pumps in its class. You’ll get longer ball and diaphragm life than other pumps you may have used, and you’ll save the big man some dough because of its incredible air efficiency. We call that a win-win.
Valor is also flexible in its installation. We offer end porting and center porting manifolds to fit your specific needs. The feet can also be repositioned giving you the footprint you need to fit your space. No wonder so many manufacturing plants that deal with harsh chemicals have brought Valor into their spaces. It’s a no bull, common sense, AODD pumping solution. At this point, we don’t really need to say more, but we will.
We’ve hyped you up enough that now we must give you some real-world examples, just to drive home the point. A leading manufacturer of cleaning and disinfecting products has heavily invested in Valor as part of an improvement project within their manufacturing facilities. All of the features we laid out above were considered against other pump options, and, in the end, they had no choice.
Valor was installed to handle chemical transfer from bulk storage tanks to mix tanks in their blending area. The base chemicals used in Cleaners and disinfectants of all sorts, get pumped through Valor pumps in these operations. Now Valor is a trusted team member they know they can count on.
The harsh chemicals inside the holding tanks can cause major problems to not only the liquid side of pumps but the air side in this environment. These chemicals must be blended, to the right ratio in a consistent and timely manner, to avoid costly downtime. Using unreliable equipment can frustrate the end result and make a nightmare scenario from a quality control perspective. Other pumps would erode from the outside, risking chemical spills and environmental hazards for the manufacturer, employees, and local community. Costly repairs and high-volume inventory of replacement parts on hand to keep the operation running were just too cumbersome.
Valor solved all these problems. This cleaner and disinfectant manufacturer can now rest easy, knowing they have the right pump on the job. Maintenance personnel can be freed up to do other necessary tasks in the facility. Money saved on air consumption can be dedicated to other efforts. Space required for parts inventory to repair pumps can now be utilized for other things. All told, it’s a tremendous achievement, all because Valor is ready and willing to get in the trenches and get to work.
Valor is one of those solutions that, once you try it, you realize you can’t live without it. There has never been a better time to improve the quality and reliability of the AODD pumps in your facility. Trust us, you can’t afford not to. Learn more and get in touch with the Versamatic team or your local AODD pump distributor today.