Stallion Equipment in Tauranga is the New Zealand agent for three overseas companies, selling a wide variety of internationally-recognised top quality water pump products.

Des Cook of Stallion Equipment, which is agents for three quality water pump products.

The 15th Ave business is now the NZ agent for American company Franklin Electric, which is well known for electric bore pump motors. Franklin Electric also offers a range of water pumps, variable speed drives, bore hole pump motors, controls and protection devices.

Owners Des and Mark Cook say Franklin Electric has earned the reputation as a technical leader in all of its specialties, with products being used in residential, industrial, agricultural, municipal, commercial applications.

They say securing the agency means customers are offered a full range of water pump products, which haven't been marketed here before.

Franklin Electric gives warranties up to five years on sub drives in a package including the bore hole pump and controls.

'We can supply four inch bore hole pumps that we will warranty for the first 12 months for sand locking, which no other pump firm will do.”

They also offer Franklin Electric's own solar water set-up for pumping water out of bore holes and rivers etc. The Tauranga business also has the agency for Crusader Hose – an Australian manufacturer and supplier of heavy duty layflat hose products, designed to put submersible pumps down bores.

The benefits of the hose are the speed in which a pump can be installed and removed – and little specialised equipment is needed, says Des.

Stallion Equipment is also NZ agents for Spanish company Azud, which sells a range of top quality affordable screen and disc filters from three-quarter inch to 20 inch. Stallion equipment is looking for agents NZ wide and will be at site D76 at the Mystery Creek Fieldays in June.