Pump Manufacturer and 24/7 Pump Hire in Hadleigh, Suffolk
Pioneer Pump designs and builds high-efficiency diesel and electric pumpsets in Hadleigh, Suffolk, for quarries, contractors, water companies and industry across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Buy one built to your duty, or hire one from our fleet.
Buying or exporting? Call sales on 01449 736777 or email sales@pioneerpump.co.uk
Buy or Hire
Pioneer is the manufacturer, so hire customers get the people who build the pumps, and buyers get pumps proven on Pioneer’s own fleet.
Tell us the flow, the head and what is in the water. We match the pump end to the smallest engine that will do the job, then build the set in Suffolk.
Diesel and electric pumpsets from 3 to 12 inches, ready to go from the fleet, with flows over 2,500 m³/h and heads to 160 m.
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Duty Point Finder
Set what you are pumping, how much and how far. The finder works out your total head as you go and shows the Pioneer pumpsets built for that duty. Send it to an engineer and they will check it against the real curves before you buy or hire.
How much water you need to move each hour.
From the water’s surface up to the pump.
From the pump up to where the water comes out.
The whole run of hose or pipe.
For fire hoses, jetting or tank cleaning. Leave at 0 to discharge freely.
20.6m
Total Head at 250 m³/h
250 m³/h = 69.4 l/s = 1,101 US gpm. Line speed 3.8 m/s in a 6 inch line.
The water is moving at 3.8 m/s in a 6 inch line. A bigger line would cut the friction and the fuel it costs.
Best Fit: Good Margin
4 Inch Solids-Handling Dry-Prime Set
Up to 320 m³/h, up to 40 m head, solids to 76 mm
Good Margin
6 Inch Solids-Handling Dry-Prime Set
Up to 450 m³/h, up to 32 m head, solids to 76 mm
Plenty in Reserve
6 x 4 Inch Solids-Handling Dry-Prime Set
Up to 400 m³/h, up to 66 m head, solids to 76 mm
Indicative only. Friction uses Hazen-Williams for a smooth layflat or PE line (C 140) plus 10% for fittings and the suction hose, and the pump envelopes are drawn from Pioneer’s published maximum flow and head. An engineer confirms the curve, engine and NPSH before you buy or hire. Distributors and engineers can also size pumps 24/7 in FE Select.
Running Costs
The real price of a pump is the fuel it burns. A pump that runs around the clock burns it every hour of every day, so a few litres an hour soon becomes thousands of pounds a year. That is why Pioneer matches every pump end to the smallest engine that will do the job.
3x
And at a national sand and gravel quarry, a 150SL at 1,500 rpm gave nearly three times the flow per litre of fuel of the pump it replaced, saving up to £11,500 a year on a 40-hour week. Read the case study
Put in your own numbers.
Your Fuel Bill a Year
£72,509
43,680 litres a year
Every litre an hour you save is worth £14,502 a year.
Default price: UK average diesel, 199.22p a litre at the pump on 26 October 2026 (DESNZ weekly road fuel prices), shown here without VAT. Real burn depends on speed and load, which is exactly what a site survey measures.
The Range
Six families from 1.5 to 30 inches, built on the same idea: large impeller eyes and low NPSHr for better suction, and more flow from less horsepower.
Vacuum-assisted priming by the UltraPrime system: rapid, unattended priming and run-dry operation for remote sites, with the stainless PosiValve so nothing spills from the primer.
Up to 84% efficient for the lowest fuel burn. Built for jetting, fire standby, tank cleaning and long, high pipelines.
A vortex impeller with Pioneer priming, for sewage, rags and wipes that choke ordinary pumps. The 100VMB bentonite version grew out of a French infrastructure job.
When the water is more than 8.5 m below the surface, the pump goes down to it. Heavy sludge and slurry, driven by bunded, sound-attenuated power packs.
Electric-driven pump packages with an integrated variable frequency drive: streamlined ordering, quick set-up and proven Pioneer hydraulics wherever there is power.
Prime them once and they reprime themselves. GS, PE and GT series for solids and clear liquids, with external shimless impeller adjustment and cartridge seals.
The emission-compliant line-up, each engine matched to its pump so regeneration looks after itself and the telemetry watches everything else. Ready for HVO.
Proven on Site
Real jobs from Pioneer’s case studies and news, with the pump that did the work.
Quarry, South West England
Half the Fuel
A competitor’s 12-inch lagoon pump was burning 840 litres a week. A Pioneer 150SL moved 20 m³/h more on half the fuel per hour, with float controls and telemetry. Pioneer estimated the saving at over 19,000 litres and £32,000 a year.
150SL With Float Controls and Telemetry
Read the Case Study (opens in a new tab)Quarry, Thames Valley
2 m Lower
High water draws birds, and birds and jets don’t mix. Three 150SL and two 150SM sets, a bespoke reverse float system and telemetry brought the main lagoon down by more than two metres, inside the discharge licence.
150SL and 150SM Sets, Reverse Floats and Telemetry
Read the Case Study (opens in a new tab)Quarry, UK
Next Day
Ordered the week before Christmas 2020 and delivered the next day, a 250SH started dewatering a new sump within 24 hours. The bottom level stayed workable all through January.
250SH High-Head Solids-Handling Set
Read the Case Study (opens in a new tab)Welsh Water, Pembrokeshire
Under 24 Hours
The enquiry came in at 5pm. Two 150CX fleet sets, each delivering 550 m³/h at 160 m head, were mobilised, installed and commissioned in less than 24 hours (2016, with Pump Supplies).
Two 150CX High-Pressure Sets
Read the Story (opens in a new tab)Volcanic Response, Iceland
8 Weeks
After two eruptions at Sundhnúkagígar, Pioneer delivered four high-capacity pumps for lava cooling within eight weeks of the order. When the next eruption came, two ran while two stood by.
Four High-Capacity Self-Priming Pumps
Read the Story (opens in a new tab)Steelworks, Wales
Fire Main Held
Duty and standby 80CH high-pressure sets, started and stopped by pressure transducers and reporting by SMS, kept the fire main up while a blast furnace was out for critical work.
80CH Super-Silenced High-Pressure Sets
Read the Case Study (opens in a new tab)Oil Refinery, Denmark
11 bar
An ATEX-certified 200CH from the hire fleet delivers over 1,000 m³/h at 11 bar to a non-entry tank cleaning system. The client has since used the sets on refineries across Europe.
ATEX-Certified 200CH High-Pressure Set
Read the Case Study (opens in a new tab)Open-Pit Mine, Finland
24/7
A 250SH with a CD4MCu duplex stainless pump end moves acidic bioleaching leachate at a multi-metal mine, with minimal downtime outside servicing. A second set followed.
250SH With Duplex Stainless Pump End
Read the Case Study (opens in a new tab)“I have already witnessed a significant improvement in reliability, and this, coupled with the higher flow rates I am getting from the Pioneer super silent pumpsets, has led to the water level in the main lagoon dropping by over two metres. That is exactly what I was looking for.”
Telemetry
Pioneer’s own telemetry has run since 2017, and every EVO hire build carries it as standard. Check, start and adjust your pumps from your phone, wherever the site is.
Running your own hire fleet? The dashboard can carry your branding. How Pioneer telemetry works
Made in Suffolk
Pioneer Pump started in the US in 1998 and opened its UK division in 2002. From Suffolk the team designs, builds, sells and hires pumpsets for customers from Iceland to Oman, with Franklin Electric’s full range of motors and pumps behind it.
A hands-on training area at Hadleigh for your engineers: centrifugal, self-priming, wet-prime, electric and diesel pumps, maintenance and repair.
Bespoke builds and custom paint for pumps and canopies, so your fleet looks like yours on site.
The move from a 10,000 sq ft yard near Stowmarket reused a brownfield site, with motion-sensing LED lighting and infrared heating, and Pioneer holds Suffolk Carbon Charter Silver.
After the Sale
Mechanical seal, bearing frame and vacuum pump kits for popular models.
Operating manuals for Pioneer Prime, standard centrifugal and GT series pumps.
Franklin Electric’s online sizing and selection tool for distributors, engineers and contractors.
Training at Hadleigh on maintenance, repair and getting the most from your pumps.
Questions
Still stuck? Ring sales on 01449 736777 or the hire line on 0800 707 6011.
Hire when the job has an end date or you need a pump today: you get the set, hoses, telemetry and the engineers behind it. Buy when the pump will run for years, or when you want it built to your duty and in your colours.
Not sure? Send the duty and we’ll price both.
The flow you need, the height from the water up to the pump and from the pump to the outlet, how long the discharge line is, what is in the water, where the site is and how long you need the pump. The duty point finder above collects most of it for you.
A dry-prime pump can pull water up by about 8.5 m at sea level, and less at altitude or with warm water, so above 7.5 m an engineer checks the NPSH first. For deeper sumps, Pioneer’s hydraulic submersibles sit in the water and push it up instead.
Most Pioneer pumpsets can run on HVO instead of diesel, and new sets are built HVO-compatible, subject to each engine maker’s approval. Ask about your model.
Yes. The EVO range has more than 40 Stage V models from 3 to 30 inches, with flows to 10,000 m³/h and heads to 260 m, to buy or hire.
Yes. Pioneer telemetry lets you start, stop and change speed, track location with geofencing, read engine fault codes and get alerts by SMS, app or email. It is fitted to every EVO hire build as standard and can be added to other diesel sets.
Yes. From Hadleigh, Pioneer supplies customers and dealers across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman, and has exported to more than 30 countries.
Yes. Pioneer builds bespoke pumps and canopies to your specification, including custom paint in your brand colours.
Get a Quote
Send the details and Pioneer’s team in Hadleigh will come back with the right pump, to hire or to buy.
