Colfax to Provide Pumping Solutions for French Navy Nuclear Submarines

(Tours, France, October 27, 2009) -- Colfax Corporation (NYSE: CFX), a global leader in fluid-handling solutions for critical applications, announced its Colfax-Imo Pompes Business Unit in France will provide oil pumps and other fluid-handling systems for Barracuda-class nuclear submarines being built for the French Navy.

"Submarines need to operate as quietly as possible to avoid detection, and the French Navy accordingly specified its pumps should produce low noise levels and vibrations," said Daniel Joslin, managing director of Colfax's business in Tours, France. "Our Colfax Defense Centre of Excellence in Tours has the staff and equipment capable of meeting those demanding requirements to ensure the pumps provide years of quiet, reliable service."


Colfax will deliver the first pumping systems to French naval-defense contractor Direction des Constructions Navales Services (DCNS) between the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011. They will be used aboard the Suffren, the first of six submarines that will enter active service between 2016 and 2027.

Source : Colfax Corp.