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BPMA WRAPS UP A HECTIC YEAR ALONGSIDE THE DAY-TO-DAY SUPPORT OF ITS MEMBERS, the British Pump Manufacturers’ Association reported on an extremely busy year at its AGM held in November. Representatives of the Association have held or attended over 160 meetings – mostly virtually for obvious reasons. For the BPMA, this has included Technical and Marketing Committees sharing updates, best practices and ideas, training sessions on a wide range of pump related topics and governance meetings of the Association’s Council. In addition, the activity has included meetings with European counterparts through its membership of Europump and representation of the pump manufacturing sector at meetings held by standards bodies including the British Standards Institution (BSI), The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Seven standards within the scope of CEN, ISO and the American Petroleum Institute (API) are currently in the process of review or development, and the Association closely monitors their progress and, where appropriate, inputs on behalf of its membership. A further 24 European Directives are also active and are monitored and contributed to by Association representatives. All this is on top of a whole raft of other activities, including the organisation of networking events such as the Association’s golf day, building relationships with other trade associations, aligning training sessions with the Continuing Professional Development organisation (CPD), working with Oxford Economics on the production of the World Pumps report and of course, publishing Flow magazine. The AGM saw the existing members of its Council reelected, with Dale Croker from KSB confirmed as the Association’s new Vice President. In addition, Dr Evgeny Polyakov, representing Hayward Tyler Pumps, was elected to
his first term on the Council. At the AGM it was also reported that the Association had attracted 15 new members in the previous 12 months, resulting in the highest ever membership at 115. Among the most recent to recognise the benefits of joining the Association were a number of Associate Members. The Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades (AEMT), which is working with the BPMA to develop and deliver pump repair courses, took up membership. Also joining was Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) specialist, Kiwa Watertec, which tests and certifies products for compliance against UK Water Regulations, UK Building Regulations, European water labelling and many BS/EN standards. Rustek, which provides specialist Eurasian Conformity mark (EAC) certification services to the oil and gas, energy and industrial sectors has also become an associate member, as has Conexiom Europe, which has developed a document platform for automating its customers’ most critical and complex B2B document transactions.
UPCOMING TRAINING FROM THE BPMA Date
Course title
Duration Location
19-20 January 2022
Virtual Pump Selection
2 x half day
Online
19-20 January 2022
Virtual Pumping Fundamentals
2 x half day
Online
1-2 February 2022
Virtual Pump Systems
2 x half day
Online
1-2 February 2022
Virtual Hydraulic Design of Centrifugal Pumps
2 x half day
Online
7 March 2022
Pumping Fundamentals
1 day
West Bromwich
8-9 March 2022
BPMA Pump Repair & Maintenance
2 days
West Bromwich
16-19 May 2022
Certified Pump Systems Auditor (CPSA)
4 days
West Bromwich
For more information or to book any of the courses listed please visit www.bpma.org.uk/lectures *All classroom-based training is scheduled subject to the COVID-19 restrictions in place at the time.
Quarter 4 2021
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