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  3. What Is Maximum Allowable Working Pressure (MAWP)?

What is maximum allowable working pressure (MAWP)?

Maximum allowable working pressure (MAWP), is the maximum continuous pressure for which the pump is designed to handle.

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Viking Pump, a Unit of IDEX Corporation, leads the world in the design and manufacture of rotary Positive Displacement Pumps for use in some of the toughest applications. Since 1911, our innovative products have been key contributors to successful operations in virtually every industry—from military, to food and beverage, to chemicals, fuels, and plastics—reliably pumping materials that are thin, thick, hot, cold, liquid, solid, etc.

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