In the wake of the flooding and landslides that occurred in KwaZulu-Natal in April and May 2022, 448 people had been left useless and greater than 40 000 displaced, with injury to roads, faculties, water infrastructure and companies.
On 18 April, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a nationwide state of catastrophe. As repairs received underway, one of the first issues many flooded businesses confronted was to get rid of the water and debris in their factories or warehouse premises. The Werner Pumps rental unit, a mix jetting and vacuum truck, was put to good use to assist with the clean-up operations.
“ digital pressure gauge rented our unit to two firms for several weeks at a time to assist them in servicing their clients’ in Durban and the surrounding areas after the horrific flooding,” says Sebastian Werner, Managing Director at Werner Pumps. “It’s the first time that the unit has been used for disaster recovery efforts after flooding. It was good to have the ability to assist in some way by sending the mixture truck from our head offices in Springs right down to our KwaZulu-Natal shoppers to assist. It must have carried out an excellent job as a end result of one of many corporations has now ordered one from us to help with their ongoing air pollution control and industrial clean-up operations.”
The rental unit is a combination truck that offers state-of-the-art hydraulically operated jetting and vacuum performance. It’s out there via Werner Water Recycling, the rental division (founded in 2013) of Werner Pumps, the main manufacturer of high-pressure jetting gear in South Africa.
Known because the Impi Unit, it provides a tilting 12.500 litre, 304 stainless steel tank, with a hydraulically-driven high-pressure pump capacity of 295L/Min at 135bar, and a vacuum pump with 1700 m3/hr suction functionality. The high-pressure pump is fitted with a pneumatically operated regulating valve, making infinite strain adjustment potential, thus increasing the security of the operator during use.
“It’s perfect for everything from sewer and stormwater cleansing and maintenance, to sludge and slurry removing, separator cleansing, contaminated liquid restoration, recovering solids, and cleansing surfaces,” says Werner. “In the wake of a catastrophe, it could be used to scrub up standing water or to clean smoke-damaged services. We’ve found there’s demand for the unit from municipalities and contractors to bridge a gap when they’re ready on a unit, or for finances to turn into out there, and for people who want it for a specific time-bound application.”
Ultimately, Werner says, the corporate wish to construct up its rental fleet to service the growing demand. “When one thing happens and someone urgently wants a truck, as was the case with the flooding, we want to have the ability to ship them one immediately,” he says. “Our goal has at all times to be a one-stop store, and to make sure our clients are in a position keep operating always, so we’re finding ways to assist them do that.”
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