Michael Smith Engineers
Sealless leak-free pumps and more, with experienced support
Michael Smith Engineers Ltd was formed in 1971 as a specialist pump distributor. The four senior managers have each been with of the company for over twenty years and the average length of service in the organisation is over 15 years, allowing us to call on broad experience to solve difficult applications and pumping problems.
The company has been accredited to ISO 9000 by NQA Ltd since 1994. The main markets serviced are the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and process sector with the larger pumps, and laboratories, research and development institutions and OEMs with the smaller pumps. Michael Smith Engineers only promotes products for which it has been appointed as distributors and currently holds around £200,000 in stock of pumps and parts.
The company tends to specialise in sealless leak-free products and offer ranges of magnetically driven gear pumps, magnetically driven centrifugal pumps (including metal, plastic and lined centrifugals), canned motor centrifugal pumps, peristaltic pumps, tubular diaphragm pumps, metering pumps, valveless piston pumps, turbine pumps, high pressure diaphragm pumps, vane pumps and barrel emptying pumps.
Pumps can be supplied in a wide choice of wetted materials for liquids between 0.2 cP and 500,000 cP, temperatures between -50C and +400C, capacities from nanolitres per hour to m3 per minute, and for high system pressures up to 350bar and high discharge pressures up to 500bar. The company has products which are also able to pump liquids with up to 60% solid content, depending on the nature of the solids and the specific duty details. Self-priming pumps are available for suction lifts up to 7.5 metres. Depending on the duty requirements, there are pumps which have a low shear action or have a smooth flow or which can be run dry. Corrosion resistant materials are available for many ranges including metallic options of stainless steel and high nickel alloys or plastic options of PVC, polypropylene, PVDF and ETFE.
Michael Smith Engineers have experience of pumping many hard to handle liquids including acids, bases, organic liquids, solvents, inorganic liquids, slurries, volatile liquids, corrosives, abrasive liquids, non-lubricating liquids, liquids with entrained gases and flammable liquids.
The manufacturers who represented include Nikkiso Non-Seal metallic canned motor centrifugal pumps; Nikiso Magpon magnet drive centrifugal pumps; Nikkiso metering pumps; Dickow magnet drive metallic centrifugal pumps; Dickow magnet drive metallic side channel pumps; Codip air operated PTFE tubular diaphragm pumps; 3M magnet drive metallic and plastic vane pumps; 3M magnet drive metallic and plastic peripheral turbine pumps; Ismatec peristaltic tubing pumps; HNP micro-annular gear pumps; Micropump magnet drive gear pumps; Liquiflo magnet drive and conventionally sealed gear pumps; FMI valveless rotating reciprocating piston pumps; Viking magnet drive and conventionally sealed internal gear pumps; Viking metallic external gear, vane and lobe pumps; Wanner Hydra-Cell high pressure diaphragm pumps; Wanner Hydra-Cell P Series metering solutions; Finish Thompson barrel emptying pumps and mixers; Finish Thompson magnet drive polypropylene and PVDF centrifugal pumps; and Finish Thompson magnet drive ETFE lined centrifugal pumps.
Michael Smith Engineers is able to provide a wide range of drive options for the various ranges we represent including single phase and three phase motors, inverter control, DC motors, air motors, ATEX approved drives and manual and automatic variable speed units. As well as supplying a complete range of specialist pumps and drives, the company also offers a comprehensive range of accessories including filters, relief and loading valves, flow meters and tubing to complement the different types of pumps.
The Michael Smith Engineers workshops in Woking are fully equipped for assembly, repair and testing of our pump ranges and the company also offers on-site consultancy, trouble-shooting, commissioning and service.
