A YORKSHIRE manufacturer has secured an £8.6m contract to supply pumps for a major pipeline project in Morocco.
The pumps supplied by Weir Minerals will help move phosphate rock along a new 200km long pipeline from inland mines to the coast.
It is being built by Turkish contractor Tekfen on behalf of OCP, a state-owned company in Morocco.
Weir Minerals sales and marketing director John Davies said: “This is a significant project as it will be one of the longest phosphate slurry transport pipelines ever constructed, with the majority of the distance having a diameter of over 91cm.
“While this is the first contract we have delivered for Tekfen, Weir Minerals is a long-standing supplier for OCP and Warman pumps are used extensively across its operations.
OCP exports around £2.85bn of phosphate rock every year which is used to produce fertilizers and other chemicals.
The pipeline is due to begin operating in 2013.
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