Vindum Engineering - Vindum Engineering

Vindum Engineering is the kind of company that has become very hard to find these days. A privately-owned multigenerational company with dedicated and extremely competent staff who really believe in their product and don’t have a short term focus on just maximizing the next quarterly profits. This is very much in alignment with the Core Values of our company ILS-Integrated Lab Solutions and has the effect of not only resulting in extremely pleasant collaborative work but in quickly realizing highly innovative solutions.

Clients come to ILS for the lab- and pilot-plant solutions that they cannot buy off the shelf. It’s the complicated stuff. And for that we need the best possible parts, support and often maximum flexibility. Vindum Engineering provides all these things. They have worked closely with our automation team over the years to help us realize seamless integration of their modern controllers with our Industrial PLC solutions providing our clients maximum operational flexibility as well as a unique ability to reliably input valuable process data which we now use for digital twin development and, increasingly, AI-supported process development. The mechanics of the pumps are unique in their ability to dose difficult liquid gases up to highly viscous and complicated feedstocks like bitumen or biomass based feedstocks, pulsation free at high pressure, temperature and extremely low flowrates. The low-dead volume Vindum valves also are key to making this possible and the newest versions are more compact then ever and extremely easy to maintain.

We would highly recommend Vindum pumps. You get the best bang for your buck and you support a corporate culture that puts people before profits and has a passion for innovation and dedication to customer satisfaction.

Dr. Anton Nagy
CEO
ILS - Integrated Lab Solutions
http://www.integratedlabsolutions.com/

Mark MacKenzie
Vice President – Business Development
Green Imaging
https://www.greenimaging.com

Our organization has been using Vindum Engineering's products for over 30 years. Their pumps and valves are integrated into many of the systems we manufacture, including our AutoLab and BenchLab equipment used throughout the oil and gas industry. Over this time, we have consistently found their products to be reliable, durable, and well-engineered.
The pumps have demonstrated excellent efficiency and dependable operation under demanding conditions. The valves provide precise control with minimal maintenance requirements. Vindum Engineering has also been highly collaborative, working closely with our team to build or modify equipment to meet our specific requirements.
In addition to the product quality, their technical support and customer service have been outstanding. Their team is responsive, knowledgeable, and committed to ensuring that the equipment meets our operational needs. Having worked first with Yogi Vindum and now with his daughter, Christa Vindum, we have seen a consistent commitment to quality and customer service. They have built not only a strong business relationship with us, but also a genuine sense of partnership and trust.
Based on our experience, we confidently recommend Vindum Engineering as a trusted supplier of laboratory pumps and valves for any industrial or commercial application. Should you require any further information, please feel free to contact me.

Greg Martin
Senior VP of Operations
New England Research, Inc.
https://www.ner.com

Sturla Bogen
Senior Design and Development Engineer
RS Systems
https://www.rs-systems.no

ExxonMobil Chemical

Quinton Gill
Research Technologist
An applied research & technology development organization

Karin Petersen

DTU (Technical University of Denmark)
https://www.dtu.dk

Dr. John Leeman
Owner
Leeman Geophysical LLC
https://www.leemangeophysical.com

Marcel Girard
Project Manager, Retired
Alberta Innotech, Alberta, Canada
https://www.innotechalberta.ca

Brad

Leading Canadian Research Institution

Thomas Matuszyk
Technology Manager
hte GmbH - the high throughput experimentation company
https://www.hte-company.com

I run a synchrotron X-ray beamline for microtomography studies at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. As a national user facility, we host researchers from across the country who come for just 2–3 days of beam time, so reliability and ease of use are essential. Many of our studies examine geological materials in triaxial cells at conditions simulating Earth’s shallow crust — temperatures up to 300 °C, confining pressures of 30–50 MPa, and axial loads up to 600 MPa.

The Vindum VP-12 pump we use to drive pore fluids through samples has been extremely reliable, with essentially no problems. Because the Vindum pumps use Modbus, integrating them into our EPICS distributed control system was straightforward, giving us user-friendly displays, logging, and scripted operation. Vindum’s engineers have also been very responsive to our suggestions for new Modbus interface features. By contrast, pumps from a large competitor on the same system suffered from an unreliable Ethernet Modbus interface, and their technical support was unable to resolve the issue. We later added Vindum CV automated valves to replace the manual valves on those competitor pumps — they work great and let us refill remotely without entering the X-ray station.

Vindum technical support has been outstanding, always responding quickly with excellent advice. Based on that experience, when I began building a second tomography system at another beamline, I decided to use only Vindum pumps — two VIPR pumps for axial and confining pressure and a VP-12 for fluid flow. That station also houses a 250-ton hydraulic press. When the very large syringe pump driving that press failed just days before a hands-on workshop with 10 arriving students, I realized the VIPR had the pressure range and fluid capacity to drive the main ram. In a single day, we swapped in the VIPR — and it has outperformed the original pump so well that we plan to use it from now on.

Mark Rivers
CARS Executive Director
Physical Sciences Division, Center for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS), University of Chicago
https://cars.uchicago.edu/

We have been using Vindum pumps since 2015 across a range of Australian Research Council and industry-funded research projects. Our primary use has been in core flooding studies to investigate the flow properties of coal cores for coal seam gas developments in Queensland, as well as more recently for hydrogen injection experiments in sandstone to assess the feasibility of underground hydrogen storage. In addition, Vindum pumps have been integral to our X-ray computed microtomography studies, enabling precise flow control to investigate flow processes involving immiscible fluids in porous rocks. These experiments have been conducted at both the Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne, Australia (Dr. Samuel Jackson at CSIRO https://people.csiro.au/J/S/samuel-jackson ) and the Tyree X-ray facility at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The pumps transported reliably from New South Wales to Victoria (across states) and performed well, providing precise control of fluid injection into mini-core plugs (typically 5 mm in diameter and 10 mm in length). Overall, Vindum pumps have been a critical component of our experimental workflows, offering robustness, accuracy, and flexibility across a wide range of advanced subsurface and imaging applications.

Ryan Armstrong
Professor, Minerals & Energy Resources
University of New South Wales
https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/mutris

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