Milling & Refining

Mackay is a rapidly growing industrial centre and home to a vast range of specialist small to large scale business offering a diverse range of products, manufacturing, services and technically skilled personnel. The regions development has seen many of these businesses grow to be market leaders in innovative solutions catering to the Central and Northern Queensland region. It would come as no surprise that Dowdens Pumping as a company highly skilled in many aspects of the pumping industry would have its head office located in Mackay.

The surrounding Central and Northern Queensland districts is also the host for many secondary and tertiary refining and milling processes associated with mining and sugar. Mackay is the heart of one of the biggest sugar cane growing regions in Australia. The region has a number of sugar mills; a sugar refinery and an ethanol distillery. Dowden’s Pumping - Brisbane branch has supplied products into some of Australia’s most famous breweries & distilleries.

• Dry Material Feeders
• Slurry Pumps - Rubber lined and Hard Metal
• Valving and Actuation
• Chemical and Process Pumps
• Magnetic Drive Pumps
• Metering
• Chemical Transfer
• Positive Displacement
• Liquid Filtration
• Boiler Feed Pumps
• Cooling tower water filtration and treatment systems
• Hygienic pumps
• Spray jet systems
• Instrumentation for fluid monitoring and control
• Dust Suppression
• Mixers - Submersible, Agitators, Static & Eductors
• Specialised Spray Nozzles
• Screening, separation, dewatering and thickening processes and systems
• Piping Systems
• Hoses and fittings
• Pneumatic Valving and Controls

Dowden’s sales engineers and service technicians have been servicing the milling & refining processors for in excess of twenty years. During this time the company and its personnel have acquired familiarity, experience and a wealth of knowledge from direct industry experience.

Dowdens Pumping carries a large range of spare parts and our service personnel pride themselves on providing comprehensive and professional after sales service. Our Mackay service centre has in excess of thirty mobile service personnel travelling to most areas throughout Central Queensland. Dowdens Pumping Brisbane office was established in 2004 with the aim of extending our coverage further throughout the State.