Thompson Pump Hosts 2014 Pumpology School

Thompson Pump and Manufacturing Company, Inc. has held its 24^th annual Pumpology^® School at its corporate facilities in Port Orange, Florida, USA.

Thompson Pump hosted 42 attendees from 15 US states, and from Canada and Peru.

Pump workshop

The three-day workshop included training sessions for sales and service-oriented professionals on pumping fundamentals, dewatering and bypass applications, selecting the correct pumping equipment, designing, installing and maintaining pumping systems, troubleshooting, pump maintenance, and more.

Pumpology School offers hands-on demonstrations and classroom training from industry experts. Upon completion of training and successfully passing a comprehensive examination, attendees are recognised as certified Pumpologists.

Thompson Pump

Thompson Pump is respected worldwide for its sophisticated heavy-duty lines of high quality, high performance pumps, ranging in size from 2 - 18 in. Thompson Pump sells and rents its entire line of pumps in the areas of public works, construction, energy, agriculture, dewatering, mining, sewer/lift stations, and water/waste water.

The company achieved ISO 9001-2008 quality certification for its Port Orange manufacturing facility. Thompson Pump is one of only a very few pump companies to have obtained ISO 9001-2008 certification. The globally recognised certification was granted following independent testing and assessment of the company’s quality management systems and manufacturing capabilities.

It is common to see Thompson’s pumps on some of the largest and most challenging projects in the world, whether the job requires cleaning up an oil spill in Alaska or the Gulf of Mexico, dewatering a construction site for a nuclear power plant in Georgia, widening the Panama Canal, or raising a submarine in the Atlantic.

Edited from source by Elizabeth Corner

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