Critical Issues in the Global Pump Industry

The rapid change in global industries is creating new, diverse challenges for the pump industry. The most critical issue facing the pump industry is introducing new design innovations to meet these diverse challenges.
In New Zealand or South America, for example, older engineering consultants tend to specify the same equipment as they specified the revious year, which is essentially the same equipment they’ve specified for the last 20 years. This complicated, ingrained conservatism has killed many new ways of doing business differently and deleted many new product innovations.
This same issue of conservatism obviously opens a huge opportunity for innovations that are driven by thinking “outside the box.”
In highly-populated developing areas that are also experiencing growth, such as China, the competitive value tradeoff between price and quality looms large.
Larger pump manufacturers can successfully meet this tradeoff by producing less quality locally, but a smaller pump manufacturer needs to establish another strategy to compete.

Strong Industry Sectors

As they address concerns about air pollution, hunger, illnesses and power demands, high increases in the standard of living across countries in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America will fuel an estimated growth of 7 percent per year in the wastewater treatment marketplace.
In these same regions, look for the construction industry to drive increasing demand in circulation and dewatering pumps, and advanced in civilization to drive food pumps.

France and some other western countries remain far behind the Scandinavian standard on how to treat wastewater, meaning an enormous
market lies ahead here in the future. The latest environmental conference in Canada will even push this growth to new opportunities, because the politicians have now discovered the problem.

Weak Industry Sectors

The submersible, installed non-clog pumps will eventually be phased-out over a period of time in the most developed countries, because the hygienic conditions under maintenance are extremely disgusting and the first illnesses caused through human wastewater are real.

Henrik Mogensen,
PXPumps A/S

This interview was exclusively bringed in "Pump & Systems", USA, January edition