TRUSTED SINCE 1937

Company Profile and History

Profile

Vita Motivator Company (VM) manufactures Eductors, Ejectors and jet pumps for general industrial pumping, petrochemical, refining, chemical process industry, shipbuilding and ship maintenance, water treatment, dredging, fire fighting, wastewater, oil rigs and offshore oil platforms. We make special eductors and proportioners for precise metering of fluids and for mixing AFFF foam for firefighting systems aboard marine vessels. We provide customized eductors fitted with ceramic or stainless steel linings for corrosive and erosive applications. Most standard eductors are supplied in bronze, however we provide construction in Stainless Steel, Carbon Steel, Aluminum and Cast Iron to meet customer requirements. Eductors range in size from ½" through 18" with suction capacities from 1 GPM through 5000 GPM.

Vita Motivator was founded in 1937. Incorporated in New York in 1980, we now occupy offices in Englewood, N.J. Vita Motivator is dedicated exclusively to the design and manufacture of eductor devices. Vita Motivator manufactures and sells its own proprietary line of eductors worldwide through a system of sales representatives. All our products are built completely in the United States. We maintain a dedicated test laboratory for design, development and testing of eductors.

History

In the early 1930’s, the founder of VM held some of the original patents applying eductor principles for converting shallow well pumps into deep well installations. This has become the widely used jet pump that can now be bought at any Sears Store.

Then the eductor was applied to process hot water systems as a motorless circulating pump, using the pressure of the incoming cold water to create circulation in the tank and to draw on return lines. This was the general nature of our business until World War II. During the war, VM supplied thousands of eductors for Merchant and Navy vessels for use in Bilge, Ballast and damage control.

After the war we returned to the Hot Water Circulator, as well as eductors for the Navy and other Government agencies. We also produced special eductor mixers for agitating soap, starch and chemical solutions using steam or water as the inlet fluid. It was at this time (1947-1948) that we also were supplying eductors in small quantities to firms experimenting with injecting air into sewage solutions. They were used for aeration by using bubbles to float the coagulated solids to the top of the skimmer tanks to reduce the BOD before discharge into streams, etc.

The newest development soon after was the around-the-pump and Inline proportioning eductors for use in the Fire Fighting industry. We originally developed and supplied them to Rockwood, Pyrene, American Le-France, Mack and Union Carbide.

VM continued to supply special proportioning eductors to some of the sprinkler manufacturers and for installations like Saudi Arabian Oil, and branched into special proportioning eductors for introducing acids or other chemicals into a process.

During this period there was a market for eductors for various naval vessels. The peripheral jet eductor was developed for the wooden Minesweeper program, and we supplied hundreds after we were awarded the contract because we were able to supply the best eductor at the best price. The use of a one piece “Monel” nozzle has also proved to be an attraction because of its long life as well as simplicity. To date, VM continues to supply Bilgemate eductors for many new US Navy ships

VM continues to supply the Navy for the various Aircraft carriers, (CVN’s), LPD’s, CG’s We have also been concentrating on tankers, and other commercial vessels and oil rigs for the last 50 years.

Instead of supplying a standard eductor we have been supplying the best model to suit the conditions of each application. We concentrated on this policy when we discovered that many firms had given up on eductors since they could not get them to work properly. This was mainly because they had the wrong eductor for the conditions of suction lift, discharge head, etc.

The VM Deck Eductor was developed during a trip on a Sinclair Tanker in 1957. Instead of the usual method of using men with coffee cans, buckets and rags to dry out the tanks before loading jet fuel or other clean products, we developed the V.M. Deck Eductor, This unit is supplied with the suction hose, which is the only part that goes into the tank, to vacuum the tank dry on lifts up to 70 feet.

Other types of special eductors have been made for the construction industry. Thousands have been supplied to Wellpoint Dewatering Co. for use in ground water removal systems. The eductors were put into the ground at depths up to 100 – 120 feet to keep water out of construction sites.

Various other models are used for dredging, sand handling, unloading carbon granules from trucks or railroad cars, circulating carbon and water mixtures for drinking or process water purification. Power plants use eductors to suction fly ash from incinerators and transfer to loading bins.

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