Alcan Jamaica Company
Port Esquivel, Jamaica
1991 E\-One 1500/750/75F
This rig has an interesting story. Port Esquivel is an industrial port where we handled a lot of Bunker C and gasoline off-loaded from ships into storage tanks and then transferred to tank cars. We wanted a foam pumper and had purchased three engines from E\-One in 1981 for Alcan Jamaica so we approached them again. We did not want around-the-pump foam systems again but rather a balanced proportioning system. At the time E\-One did not have anything to offer so approached National Foam, National refused to supply them a system, which is understandable as why would they want to supply a potential competitor. This rebuff by National was the catalyst for E\-One to approach Williams and ultimately develop their on line of foam pumpers. This took some time and we could not wait. So we decided to use Hydrachem nozzles and keep many barrels of foam on site. This unit was the first time we used 5 in. hose. It was another first for E\-One as it was the first right hand drive custom they built.
An identical engine was acquired in 1996 for another Alcan plant in Jamaica and Alcoa Jamaica bought a similar engine in the late 1990's for their port which was across the bay from Alcan.
Port Esquivel, Jamaica
1991 E\-One 1500/750/75F
This rig has an interesting story. Port Esquivel is an industrial port where we handled a lot of Bunker C and gasoline off-loaded from ships into storage tanks and then transferred to tank cars. We wanted a foam pumper and had purchased three engines from E\-One in 1981 for Alcan Jamaica so we approached them again. We did not want around-the-pump foam systems again but rather a balanced proportioning system. At the time E\-One did not have anything to offer so approached National Foam, National refused to supply them a system, which is understandable as why would they want to supply a potential competitor. This rebuff by National was the catalyst for E\-One to approach Williams and ultimately develop their on line of foam pumpers. This took some time and we could not wait. So we decided to use Hydrachem nozzles and keep many barrels of foam on site. This unit was the first time we used 5 in. hose. It was another first for E\-One as it was the first right hand drive custom they built.
An identical engine was acquired in 1996 for another Alcan plant in Jamaica and Alcoa Jamaica bought a similar engine in the late 1990's for their port which was across the bay from Alcan.
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