Iveco Motors of North America Inc., a Fiat Powertrain Technologies (FPT) company, has announced an engine supply agreement with Rainbow Irrigation Systems, Fitzgerald, Ga., to power a line of Rainbow's centrifugal irrigation pumps.
"Our customers are very concerned with their applications' fuel consumption levels," said Jamie Mann, co-owner of Rainbow. "After researching and testing engines, we realized that Iveco's fuel consumption rates are significantly lower."
With Over 200 dealers in North, Central and South America, Rainbow distributes between 250 to 300 irrigation pump sets a year. Rainbow also manufactures construction, dewatering and hard hose traveler applications, as well as a line of Deere-powered irrigation pumping units, a line of irrigation power units, Deutz-powered irrigation generator sets from 5 to 25 kW, and a line of standby gen-sets from 10 to 300 kW.
Rainbow, said Jaime and Terry Mann, is a highly vertically integrated manufacturer which includes manufacturing its own line of centrifugal pumps. Currently, many of the company's pump and gen-sets go to agricultural dealers, as well as into rental applications. While pumps sets for irrigation are the company's primary product range, in recent years Rainbow has begun to expand into a variety of industrial and construction markets for all its product ranges.
Rainbow will be installing Iveco's NEF 4NA, NEF 4TC, NEF 4TAA, NEF 6NA and NEF 6TAA in its centrifugal irrigation pump sets, which will be used for agricultural irrigation, turf irrigation and industrial applications. The centrifugal irrigation pumps will also have the option of being clutch-mounted or direct-drive.
The NEF 4TC has a gross power output of 99 hp at 2300 rpm, the NEF 4TAA is rated 126 hp at 2300 rpm and the NEF 4NA produces 80 hp at 2300 rpm.
The NEF 4TC and NEF 4TAA are both turbocharged, four-cylinder, inline diesel engines, with the NEF 4TAA being aftercooled. The NEF 4NA is naturally aspirated, four-cylinder, inline diesel. All of the NEF engines have a mechanical injection system and a displacement of 4.5 L.
The NEF 6TAA and NEF 6NA are both 6.7 L, six-cylinder, inline diesels. The NEF 6TAA is a turbocharged, aftercooled diesel with a mechanical injection system and is rated 173 hp at 2300 rpm. The NEF 6NA is naturally aspirated with a rotary pump and produces 109 hp at 2500 rpm.
The activities of Iveco Motors of North America, together with all the other activities around the world, converged in March 2005, in the Trucks & Industrial product line of Fiat Power-train Technologies (FPT). The new sector of the Fiat Group integrates all the group's capabilities and expertise in engines and transmissions.
Iveco Motors of North America began official operation in Carol Stream, Ill., in January 2004. Now entering its third year as an engine supplier for the North American markets, Vincenzo Perrone, vice president and general manager said, "since we started, we have developed good and even growth in every sector in which we are present." Perrone said that for 2005, Iveco Motors of North America finished 40% ahead of its target sales in the power generation, industrial and marine markets.
The company has established a network of 22 engine distributors throughout North America and has established a spare parts distribution warehouse, managed by NewStream Enterprises, in Springfield, Mo., to support its engine applications. "This allows us to provide our customers a faster and more efficient delivery of spare parts in the North American marketplace," Perrone said.
Iveco also signed an exclusive agreement with Impco Technologies Inc., to use Impco's Eclipse low-pressure natural gas fuel system on Iveco's NEF gas engines. Production of the NEF 5.9 L natural gas engine began in November 2005 for use in power generation and industrial stationary applications.
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