Exploring Viking Pump's Foundry: A Leader in Manufacturing Gear Pumps
04-14-2025
Welcome to the Viking Pump foundry in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where we’ve been at the forefront of manufacturing gear pumps for decades. Our foundry is a cornerstone of our vertical integration capabilitie...
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Robyn Watson
Sr. Marketing Coordinator
NPSH Visualized
02-11-2025
If you’ve ever fallen asleep reading pump texts about NPSH, you’re not alone. But here’s an easy-to-understand, graphical approach to ensuring your calculations.
John Hall
Pump Consultant
U.S. EPA Bans Natural Gas-Driven Pumps
02-23-2024
A new EPA rule (Dec 2, 2023) mandates zero-emissions pumps for oil & gas ops, replacing natural gas-driven pumps. It also limits other gas-powered equipment, curbs fugitive emissions, and reduces flar...
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John Hall
Pump Consultant
7 Essential Tools for Pump Repair
10-09-2023
Like any job, you need the proper tools to do it well – and the same is true for repairing or servicing positive displacement gear pumps. Below are helpful hand tools that Viking's pump experts recomm...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager
Viking Pump Energy Commits to Planting 10,000 Trees in 2023
04-06-2023
The Viking Pump® Energy Segment has partnered with global non-profit One Tree Planted with a goal of planting 10,000 trees annually. Every tree planted makes a positive impact for nature, wildlife, an...
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Robyn Watson
Sr. Marketing Coordinator
Viscosity Through Thick and Thin
03-10-2022
Viscosity is a measure of a liquid’s resistance to flow. And you don’t need to work in a laboratory to observe this. Anyone who’s spent any time in the kitchen has observed a variety of liquids with a...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager
7 Things You Want to Know about Flanged Ports, but are Too Afraid to Ask
01-05-2023
Flange standards used on Viking pumps have been in place for over a century so EVERYONE should be experts on this now…right? It turns out not so much. There are various standards and various design di...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager
PUMP CAVITATION: THE SYMPTOMS, CAUSE, DIAGNOSIS, AND CURE
09-14-2022
Customers don’t ask me to listen to quiet pumps. This is symptom #1 of a cavitating pump. The pump is loud. Descriptors like “growly”, “rumbling”, or “gravelly” are used to describe the atypically lou...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager
Low-Cost Insurance Policy: how a strainer will save you time and money
07-20-2021
It’s typically impossible to see inside pipes and tanks.
Industrial pipes are usually steel or stainless. Even the occasionally used PVC is typically opaque.
But on the day of this customer visit, t...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager
Current and Flow: An electrical engineer’s guide to the concepts of fluid systems
02-17-2021
Unlike most of my colleagues I didn’t start out with a mechanical background. While they were studying kinetics and machine design, I was studying digital electronics and industrial power. When I st...
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Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager