Cornell Pump School 2025 Kicks Off Tonight!
Pump professionals are gathering tonight at the reception in Portland, marking the exciting beginning of Cornell Pump School 2025! A heartfelt welcome to all attendees and their spouses joining us at the Benson Hotel.
Return Activated Sludge vs. Waste Activated Sludge: Where Cornell Pumps Make the Difference
In modern wastewater treatment plants, activated sludge systems are the backbone of biological treatment. Two essential processes — Return Activated Sludge (RAS) and Waste Activated Sludge (WAS) — ensure that plants operate efficiently, remove contaminants, and maintain healthy microbial populations.
Tuesday Tip: Advantages of Double Volutes
When it comes to centrifugal pump design, efficiency and reliability often come down to details inside the casing. One such feature is the double volute—a design choice that offers significant advantages over single volute configurations, particularly in larger pumps.
Meet the Municipal Inside Sales Team
Behind every successful project is a knowledgeable engineer who helps ensure the right solution is delivered. At Cornell Pump, our municipal inside sales engineers play a critical role in guiding distributors, end users, and partners through technical questions, project validation, and application support.
Life on the Bench: Cornell Pump Assemblers in Action
Every day is busy at Cornell Pump—but we certainly feel it more towards month end. This assembler has two pumps on his bench, working on builds simultaneously.
Tuesday Tip: Understanding Mounting Options
Choosing a mounting style isn’t cosmetic—it determines footprint, ease of maintenance, alignment, and total installed cost. Cornell offers multiple configurations (close-coupled, frame-mounted, vertical variants, engine-mounted, and Redi-Prime packages), each optimized for different site constraints and duty points. This Tuesday Tip gives you a quick, plain-English rundown so you can match your application to the right build the first time—whether you need compact simplicity, heavy-duty serviceability, a vertical footprint, mobile power, or automatic priming. Keep this quick, practical guide to Cornell’s frame/mounting configurations and when to use each one handy.
Celebrating 50 Years of Reyco Systems
Cornell Pump was honored to join Reyco Systems in celebrating its 50th anniversary, on Saturday, August 23, 2025 . Together with sister companies Idaho Steel and Kiremko, Reyco Systems marked a half-century of innovation in oil and water recovery for food processing. Memorable giveaways, heartfelt remarks, great food, and stronger friendships made it a special occasion for Reyco’s leadership, employees, partners, and end users. Here’s to the next 50 years of partnership with Reyco Systems.
Troubleshooting Agricultural Centrifugal Pumps
Cornell Pump started as an agricultural company, and a good portion of pumps manufactured every year still go into the Agricultural market, for applications in irrigation, dewatering, and manure transfer. As many of the farms and ranches are at their halfway point in production for this season (or beyond) we offer this article as a quick reminder of things to check and ways to troubleshoot an agricultural pump.
Food Truck Fridays: a Summer Perk Fueling our Team
Food Truck Fridays have become a Cornell Pump summer tradition—a simple, tangible way we to show appreciation in our people. As this season wraps up in the next couple of weeks, we’re celebrating another summer of great meals and even better lunch conversations across our sites.
Celebrating National Potato Day–Tuesday, August 19th
Cornell Pump helps keep the world’s most popular tuber moving—literally. From harvest to processing, our pumps play a vital role in how potatoes become the chips, fries, and hashbrowns enjoyed around the globe.