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When live sports were cancelled or postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost everyone missed them. Because of this, our team decided to host a Facebook live pump packing competition….

Pump packing is always on our minds. However, the last couple months have been, in a word, challenging. Between the economic issues, social distancing, mask-wearing, constant hand washing, and slow…

Vertical turbine pumps (VTPs) are used in a wide range of industries, including pulp and paper as well as water and wastewater. And the shafts on these pumps extend deep…

May has come and gone, and the pulp and paper industry has not missed a beat. In an effort to share knowledge, we’ve gathered some of this month’s top news…

In a recent episode of the Manufacturing Tomorrow’s Workforce podcast, SEPCO’s own seal reliability engineer, Jack Ferguson discussed his transition from student life to that of an industry professional. He…

An upstate New York paper mill partnered with SEPCO while facing an ongoing problem with a leaking pulper that had significant shaft runout caused by uneven distribution when paper bales…

We are several weeks into the current COVID-19 pandemic. While the service and retail industries are beginning to open back up, many manufacturers have remained on the frontlines doing their…

We’ve collected some of the top news stories from this month in an effort to share knowledge and advance the pulp and paper industry. Some of these topics include the…

A stuffing box of a pump houses a gland that compresses the packing used to seal the pumped fluid. It prevents leakage along the shaft that passes through a hole…

On April 20, 2010, a catastrophic blowout of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the release of 210 million gallons of oil into the environment…