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• Whale Tankers has supplied combined jetting and gully emptiers to two large French companies: water cleansing operatives Compagnie Generale des Eaux, and vehicle hire specialist Via Environnement. The orders follow a sustained sales drive which included opening an office in northern France, and establishing continental service support.
Both cmptiers are mounted on Renault chassis and have 4,000-litre sludge and 5,000litre clean water, dualcompartment tanks. Each tank has a plunger-type jetting pump capable of delivering up to 2631it/min at 155 bar, and of clearing sewers in excess of a metre in diameter.
Whale Mistral 650
exhausters with swept volumes of 650m3/hr operate via 125mm-diameter gully arms.
Whale has recently expanded its manufacturing capacity by 20% with the addition of new production and service bays in a move which is expected to cut lead times to six weeks.
The enlarged plant is on a 56.6ha green-field site which it shares with the company's wildlife conservation area.