Business flows in for GAP
1 December 2022
GAP Group has agreed to buy the existing fleet of 200mm high-head and high-flow sewage pump sets of DXB Integrate Ltd (DXBi), the Suffolk-based specialist hirer and supplier.
The move comes as GAP reports demand for Stage V pumps outstripping supplies from European manufacturers as business grows from customers of the hirer’s Pump Services Division which was launched just a year ago.
The 200mm diameter sewage pump sets are identical to the machines that GAP bought from DXBi earlier this year and will instantly increase the size of the Division’s fleet by 40 per cent. This will allow it to support the demands for clean engine pumps on major projects stipulating Stage V equipment.
The machines have been designed and manufactured by DXB Pump & Power, the manufacturing division of the DXB Group that has supplied almost 150 Stage V pump sets to GAP over the last 12 months.
Mark Anderson, GAP’s Managing Director for the North commented, “We have seen a good deal of trouble-free success with these 200mm pump sets powered by Stage V engines and, by purchasing the existing DXBi 200mm fleet, it allows us to quickly fill the growing demand that may have been impacted by engine deliveries, which have always been challenging.
“DXB have done well to supply us around 150 pump sets this year whilst building their new factory at the same time, which we know was a major challenge in these economic conditions. This purchase enables us to keep driving forward aggressively whilst we wait for the next round of pump sets which we should have in Q1 2023.”
Simon Ruffles, Managing Director of DXB Integrate said: “GAP Pump Services is now a major player in the UK pump industry, having only started in 2021, and this is great credit to Mark and his business for having the vision to see the environmental opportunity of Stage V, or electric dry-prime pump sets and committing to it so aggressively.”
He added that the sale of the 200mm fleet to GAP would allow DXBi to focus on more niche market applications, such as high pressure quarrying or oil and gas applications.
● Read about GAP’s impressive new Glasgow HQ as reported recently on the blog.
