Terminator sees surge in orders

A majority of these orders are from existing users who have seen an enormous increase in cleaning rates since starting to use the HPS2200 pump set and MPI Terminator 9 disc net cleaner.

Originally seen by some as a luxury machine, the HPS2200 has become the pump of choice among net cleaning contractors, providing the first truly reliable way of removing marine growth from aquaculture nets in situ, giving exceptional levels of reliability and maximum productivity with very low levels of maintenance.

There are two versions of the Hughes HPS2200 package available; a conventional stand alone pumpset fitted with an acoustic canopy that is generally used from a workboat deck; a marine engine driven version designed to be installed below deck, that uses seawater to cool the engine, making for a very compact installation.

Terminator uses revolutionary (patent pending) technology that allows the net cleaning system's cleaning discs to be held against the net using only a small amount of the high-pressure seawater pumped to the cleaning heads. Traditional in-situ net cleaning systems are inherently inefficient, because the pumped high-pressure seawater is split between the net cleaning process and holding the cleaning discs in position, which can cut the high-pressure seawater available for net cleaning by around 50%.