PUMP CASE STUDY UNILEVER Stockton, California Pump Testing CUSTOMER APPLICATION AND KEY CHALLENGES Unilever is one of the world’s leading food, home and personal care product companies with over 100 worldwide locations. They have over 400 brands of products recognizable throughout the globe including Ben & Jerrys, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Popsicle, Ragu, Skippy and Wish-Bone to name only a few in the food industry. Unilever tomatoes are grown in the Sacramento and San Joaquin val- leys with a large processing plant in Stockton, CA. The plant was using rotary lobe pumps in which some had to be rebuilt during the production cycle or totally rebuilt at the end of the production season. Tomatoes can be a very abrasive medium for a pump, causing consid- erable wear that eventua

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