Dear Sirs,

The Russian Pump Manufacturers Association (RPMA) was established in 1991 to promote pump manufacture development and protect the interests of Russian pump manufacturers. The key objective of RPMA is to unite and coordinate the efforts of its members and of all operators on the pump market along the following key lines: the technological level and methodology, standardization, marketing, publications and public relations. Today RPMA unites over 50 enterprises of Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. Since 1992 it has been a member of the European Pump Manufacturers Association (Europump), which is very important to us in the era of world economic globalization.

In today’s world pumps provide for virtually every vitally important sphere of human activity, from a heartlung machine to a navigation canal. The pump is one of the more diversified and knowledge-intensive engineering products that largely determine industrial development and world progress generally. Thousands of companies across the world are engaged in pump design, production, marketing and service. Hundreds of new kinds of pumps meeting ever new requirements of customers are developed every year.

Vladimir Karakhanyan
President of RPMA, Member of Europump Executive Committee,
Doctor of Science (Technology),
Member of the Russian Engineering Academy
and the International Engineering Academy