Xylem Pumps Provide Complete Solution for Dutch Mussel Farm Faced with the need to pump a combination of salt and fresh water to clean, cool and package a range of shellfish, the engineers of Prins & Dingemanse, a Dutch mussel supplier, turned to Xylem to address all of their needs. Prins & Dingemanse (P&D) is the largest mussel provider in The Netherlands and market leader in the Benelux market. P&D brings to market over three million pounds (1.5 million kilos) of mus- sels, oysters and other shellfish a year. The culturing of mussels and oysters for the company takes place in the Oosterschelde, an almost 100,000 acre (37,000 hectare) tidal wetland that is part of the North Sea. The Oosterschelde is the largest national park in the Netherlands and an important fishing ground for mussels,

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